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Bali journalistsurge for end toviolence againstthe press

The gunman boarded the bus inManila’s historic tourist district in themorning and then released ninepeople throughout the day as he de-manded that he get his job back andbe allowed to speak to the media.

Armed commandos were sur-rounding the vehicle as the hos-tage drama was aired live on na-tional television, with footageshowing some of the hostagespeering out through the windows.

The gunman, identified asformer senior police inspectorRolando Mendoza, 55, was carry-ing an M-16 assault rifle, but noshooting was heard and there wereno reports of any injuries amongthe hostages.

As negotiators were brought into try to end the standoff, Mendozawrote threatening messages onwhite paper which he stuck to theglass door of the bus.

“Big deal will start after 3.00

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Fifty eightforeigncitizens fromAfghanistan,Iran, and Iraqthat trying toseek asylumto Australiahave beenarrested andbeing put inImmigration’shouse ofdetention onJimbaranbecause theydon’t haveany legaldocuments.

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Four hostaged foreign tourists, three children and theirmother (C), are escorted by negotiators (L and R) after theirrelease from a bus after an ex-policeman armed with a high-powered assault rifle took hostage the tourist bus carryingmore than 20 adults and children from Hong Kong in Manilaon August 23, 2010 while another hostage (top L) looks outfrom the bus window.

Sacked policeman hijackstourist bus in Philippines

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MANILA - A disgruntled ex-policeman armed with an as-sault rifle hijacked a bus carrying more than 20 Hong Kongtourists including children in the Philippine capital on Mon-day, police said.

pm (0700 GMT) today,” one of themessages said, although police didnot say what they thought he meant.

When that deadline expired sixhours into the crisis with no majornew development, the suspectposted a new sign that read “medianow” and demanded that he be ableto speak with reporters on thescene.

Mendoza was honoured by po-lice chiefs in 1986 as one of the top10 officers in the country. But he wasdischarged in 2008 for his allegedinvolvement in drug-related crimesand extortion, according to police.

“He wants to be reinstated in theservice,” Manila district policechief Superintendent RodolfoMagtibay said.

Another message Mendozaposted on the bus read: “Big mis-take for big wrong decision”, appar-ently in reference to his sacking.

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—Fisheries and Maritime Sector

can become an alternative for thealleviation of unemployment. InBali, this productive sector havinggreat potential in 2009 was reportedto have absorbed 72,006 laborforces. Similarly, the revenue gen-erated was very significant. Thehigh potential remaining to havenot been cultivated made the fish-eries sector to become alternativefor the development of prospectivebusiness.

That matter was expressed bythe Head of Bali Fisheries andMaritime Services, Gusti PutuNuriartha, when making a site in-spection together with reporters toa number of catch-fish develop-ment centers and aquaculture toBenoa and Tabanan, last Sunday

However GTZ-IS considered theofficers could not have performed theirduties optimally as revealed by theHead of Bali Office of National Union,Politics and Public Protection(Kesbangpollinmas). To enhance thecommunity’s knowledge, skills andawareness of the problems associatedwith the tsunami early warning sys-tem at the three target villages namelySanur, Tanjung Benoa and Kuta, it hadbeen established facilitator in lastNovember 2009 serving to buildcoastal communities in order theycould get connected to the IndonesianTsunami Early Warning System (Ina-TEWS) and drove them to be alwaysalert and prepared to deal with tsunamihazards in their surroundings.

When opening the “Training ofFacilitator (ToF) on the Developmentof Local Community Capacity in theTsunami Early Warning System,” lastSaturday (Aug 21) at Wisma Nangun

Head of Bali Office of Na-tional Union, Politics and Pub-l ic Protection(Kesbangpollinmas), NyomanSilanawa, admitted to realize asafe condition and free from thethreat of natural and non-natu-ral disasters was not easy, butit should be pursued and main-tained. Moreover, Indonesia asan archipelagic country sur-rounded by volcanic belt wasvery vulnerable to be hit byearthquake and tsunami.

Indonesia ever experiencedthe tsunami disaster as in Acehon last December 26, 2004.This was due to the lack of so-cialization and knowledge ofthe society about the early di-saster warning particularly tsu-nami. Learning from such inci-dent, the Indonesian govern-ment has committed to build anearly warning system as ameans to reduce the impact ofdisasters. As the first step, thegovernment had launched theIndonesian Tsunami EarlyWarning System (Ina-TEWS)consisting of 18 sirens in 3(three) separate areas, namelysix sirens in Aceh, six sirens inPadang and other six sirens inBali on last November 11,2008.

Furthermore, Bali lies veryclose to the collision zone be-tween the India-Australia plateand Eurasian plate. These col-lision zones denote an area be-coming the main source of lo-cal tsunamis being capable ofkindling adverse impact. Balican be little affected by the tsu-nami but also has the chance toexperience the worst tsunami.Therefore, the establishment ofthe Indonesian Tsunami EarlyWarning System consisting ofsix sirens in Bali has shown theGovernment’s endeavor to ini-tiate the better preparedness ac-tivities in the face of future tsu-

Kuta, Sanur andKuta, Sanur andKuta, Sanur andKuta, Sanur andKuta, Sanur andTanjung Benoa areTanjung Benoa areTanjung Benoa areTanjung Benoa areTanjung Benoa aretsunami red zonetsunami red zonetsunami red zonetsunami red zonetsunami red zone

Development of local community capacity poses one of the components of the tsunami earlywarning system development. The aim is to ensure that communities in the tsunami disaster-prone areas will get timely information and they can anticipate quickly and minimize the risk.German Technical Cooperation (GTZ-IS) has made close cooperation with the Bali Governmentto develop an early warning system and preparedness in order to achieve the good level of com-munity awareness and preparedness. In addition, it is also intended to develop the message deliv-ery mechanism of Bali Operational Control Center of Disaster Management to the people livingin tsunami-prone areas, such as at the area of pilot project in Kuta, Sanur and Tanjung Benoa.

Kerti, Bedugul, the Head ofKesbangpollinmas Bali represented bythe Unit Head of Bali Center for Op-erational Control of Disaster Manage-ment, Putu Anom Agustina, remindedthe facilitators to improve the publicknowledge about the dangers of earth-quakes and tsunami, socialize the tsu-nami early warning system, direct thecommunity in designing the evacua-tion plans, and direct the communityin designing the community actionplan against disasters. “Make the taskas an opportunity for self-devotionselflessly and sincerely in the respec-tive environments as a distinctive fea-ture of the humanitarian tasks.”

The ToF training aiming to reviveand updating the ability and knowl-edge of facilitators was followed by30 facilitators coming from the ele-ments of Indonesian Red Cross,IDEP, Bali Center for OperationalControl of Disaster Management,

SIBAD, and the people of Kuta,Sanur and Tanjung Benoa as well asteachers from schools in the area ofthe Red Zone Map of Tsunami Haz-ards, such as SD No. 1 and 2 stateprimary school of Tanjung Benoa,SMP No. 3 South Kuta state second-ary school, SMP Wisata Sanur andSMP/SMU Kertha Pura Kuta seniorhigh school.

According to I Gede Sudiarta(GTZ Local Capacity Building Ad-visor), the meeting needed to beimplemented because the facilitatorsstill lacked for self-confidence in dis-seminating knowledge to the publicso that the target of tasks assigned wasless optimal. Meanwhile, this activ-ity was held until last Sunday (Aug22) performed outdoors or throughcamping method exchanging the ex-periences among the facilitators, bookreview, presentation and group dis-cussion. (sua)

Fishing sector of Bali employee 72,006 labor forces(Aug 22).

Gusti Nuriartha said the potentialof fisheries sector in Bali would kepton developing through a partnershipwith entrepreneurs, including farm-ers in the matter of cultivation. Spe-cifically for catch-fish belonging totuna species, he said, Bali had madeJapan as the major market. Even,from such pre-export process, BaliProvincel in 2009 was able to gainrevenue reaching IDR 1.628 billion.The amount could potentially in-crease considering among the 51existing entrepreneurs running thebusiness in this sector 15 of thembelonged to large-scale companies.

Related to the potential of catchfish, especially tuna, Ivan HansJorgih from PT Itimas Surya saidthat Bali tuna had now become asuperior commodity in Japan. “Un-

fortunately, in keeping with the de-cline in seawater temperature, theamount of tuna catches is now de-clining,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of TabananFisheries and Maritime, NyomanWirna Ariwangsa, accompanied bythe Head of Public Relations of BaliProvincial Government, I KetutTeneng, said that Bali includedTabanan Regency was intensivelyboosting the production level of fishcultivation. Other than being prospec-tive in absorbing the labor forces, itwas also potential to increase thefarmers’ income. “We have obsessionto increase the production at an aver-age of four tons within year. It is inline with the target of the Bali Prov-ince,” he said during the site inspec-tion to the catfish farms at Pitra, Jegu,Penebel. (044)

TRAINING OF FACILITATOR (ToF)In development oflocal communitycapacity on tsunamiearly warning system

namis.One of the strategic moves

made by Bali Provincial Gov-ernment in the management ofdisaster is by the establishmentof the Bali Operational ControlCenter of Disaster Management(Pusdalops PB). This agency isa local control center becominga part of the management sys-tem architecture of the nationalcontrol system, especially inproviding information for theprotection of society that hasbeen granted the authority to dothe activation of the sirens aspart of the Indonesian TsunamiEarly Warning System (Ina-TEWS), where the main com-ponents of this early warningsystem poses a reliable and realtime communication systemused to ensure that people intsunami-prone areas will gettimely information and be ableto anticipate quickly and mini-mize the risk. Therefore, thecommunication system hadbeen built with the most up todate technology including thesatellite technology.

However, no matter how so-phisticated the technology is, itwill not be useful if it is notsupported by capacity and ad-equate public preparedness. Itbecomes a major cornerstone ofthe training for the Ina-TEWSfacilitators. They were trainedas facilitators to help the com-munity be ready to face theearthquake and tsunami. Evalu-ation conducted by the GTZ asgovernment partners in build-ing community capacity, amongothers, encountered that localIna-TEWS facilitators had notbeen able to perform their tasksoptimally. For that purpose, thecurrent training was very im-portant and refreshing the fa-cilitators in the effort to updatethe information on the earlywarning system.

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Gianyar (Bali Post) –A construction worker, Tuki (25)

from Jember, who works at BanjarMedahan, Medahan Village,Blahbatuh Sub district, Gianyar lastSunday (22/8) was very unlucky. Theman who just worked for 20 days inMade Eko Yudayana’s house wasdragged by Masceti Beach flow andstill not found until Sunday afternoon.

The victim was dragged around12.30 pm wita and at that time he waswith his two friends Ibnu (25) andDayat (25) who were also from Jemberand working as bathing place construc-tion workers in Masceti Beach.Komang, in law from victim’s boss

Just like Indonesia Ku Kini Exhibi-tion Head of Committee, Ngakan PutuAAW, mentioned, “In this exhibitionthere are 22 candidates with 38 art-works.” This is quite a huge numberand something special coming fromthese students who are still in their earlysteps in ISI Denpasar and as a painter.

Besides the Head of Committee, theexhibition was also opened by Deanof the Art

And Design Faculty ISI Denpasar,Dra. Ni Made Rinu, MSi and son ofDewa Nyoman Batuan also the man-ager of the place now, PutrayasaBatuan. Yet Rector Helper III of ISIDenpasar, Drs. I Made Subrata, M.Sn,who also represents Rector Prof. Drs.I Wayan Rai S, MA, gave his openingspeech in a quite unique place. He stoodbesides a poster on elements of a paint-ing that was placed there. His reasonwas simple, “We always start from thelittlest things,” and so is in creating anartwork. Lines, shapes and symbols arebases to create an artwork which so amessage can be said.

Amlapura (Bali Post) –Unpredictable weather always hit

the mid ocean. With the strandedEka Jaya I leakage and stranded onSaturday (22/8) afternoon,Padangbai Harbor AdministratorMade Sudiarta, on Sunday (22/8)stated even though the weather onthe land seems good but ship cap-tains should always be aware. Me-teorology and Geophysical Office(BMG) forecasted not really highwaves, yet there will be unexpectedunfriendly ones in the mid ocean.

Semarapura (Bali Post) –As many dog bites cases

feared rabies positive, it’s notrare to see Klungkung resi-dents protested the Husbandry,Fishery and Sea (PPK) Agencyon dest roying (El iminate)dogs. Even there’s a residentprotested a worker with a ma-chete as his dog is being elimi-nated as well. This was con-firmed by Head of Prevention,Illness Control and MedicationSection of Klungkung PPKAgency, IB Juanida duringdogs’ elimination, more impor-tant on s t reet dogs inSemarapura Klod Kangin areanot long ago.

Although sometimes resi-dents protest, IB Juanida men-tioned, his agency will alwaysdo the elimination activity re-membering to the dog bite casesin Klungkung Region keeps in-creasing. In one month, around100 residents are bitten and it’sbeen hard to get anti rabies vac-cination (VAR) as the stockbeen empty since three monthsago in Klungkung. Also rabiesspreads very quickly and almostall in Klungkung was bitten byrabies posit ive dogs and

Semarapura (Bali Post) –Klungkung Region is the small-

est region in Bali and has four subdistricts and they are Klungkung,Dawan, Banjarangkan and NusaPenida. This Region is known for itstourist objects such as Gili KertagosaGarden, Wayang Kamasan painting,Goa Lawah and more. YetKlungkung has another side, povertyand disabled people, as the existenceof Semaraputa Orpahanage at DewiSartika Street 5 Klungkung.

Built in 1984 by Klungkung Re-gent that time, dr. Cokorda GedeAgung, to his awareness of disabledpeople. Until now the orphanagebuilt on a 40 acres land accommo-dates 90 disabled kids and normalkids from disadvantaged families.They are accommodated here in ahope that they can finish until HighSchool (SMA).

To fulfill its operational fee, it’sdone by themselves by giving outproposals to government related in-stitutions such as Klungkung RegionGovernment and Social Department.“The children taken care in SocialDepartment are only 70 childrenwith IDR 3.000/kid/day. FromDarmais Foundation was helped

For Independence

Reminding “My IndonesiaReminding “My IndonesiaReminding “My IndonesiaReminding “My IndonesiaReminding “My IndonesiaNow” Through ArtworksNow” Through ArtworksNow” Through ArtworksNow” Through ArtworksNow” Through Artworks

Cagar Budaya Community, who are 2nd semester students of Fine Art Painting from IndonesianInstitute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar held an exhibition themed “Indonesia Ku Kini” (My IndonesiaNow) at Dewa Nyoman Batuan Community of Artists, Pengosekan, Gianyar. The exhibition openedat 14th August 2010 reminded us by creating an artwork we can show our opinions, impressionsand suggestions in celebrating Indonesia Independence Day on 17th August 2010.

There’s also an art performancefrom the community, a short drama onthe people’s voices. It started with twocharacters covered its face with moneyand sunglasses, a security and a cap-tive just wearing a sarong. First one ofthose money covered face took a girlfrom the side of the stage. The girl wasasked for a deal all the time by thosetwo money covered face men. The cap-tive then started to get up and read apoem about people’s voices. The cap-tive went out of control and approachedthose money covered people. They pan-icked and called the security to take careof him. After all done, the security wasthen paid. To simplify, in the end it’smoney. That is “My Indonesia Now”,seems like it.

After the performance, it was con-tinued by seeing the paintings and threeinstallations in the main exhibitionspace. It’s so nice to enjoy the messagesand suggestions through paintings. Thisis always one different experience es-pecially coming from the younger gen-eration. Many used the corruption as a

theme by symbolising it by a mouse(equals one corruptor) and also the 3kg gas tubes. Like what’s painted byPande Wayan Sugiarta, the gas tubewas painted next to a time bomb. Thepainter seemed to equalised both thingsas these gas tubes seemed like bombsbeing sent to each resident’s houses.

There’s also a painting titled“Tolong” which means “Help” byNgakan Putu AAW, which shows thecountry’s symbol Garuda Pancasila (thegaruda/hawk bird with the country’sideology symbols from Pancasila’sstatements in its body) falling and at-tacked by mice and also demons or somekind of reptiles. It seems the country hasbeen calling for help to all of us to stopour inappropriate attitudes and no longerlook over to Garuda and Pancasila asour ideology anymore.

There are also competitions goingon such as an Independence Day Cel-ebration Competition on the 17/8 andalso Model Drawing on the 19/8. Allopened for public. The exhibitionopens until 21/8/2010.(Savitri)

Construction Worker Sank in Masceti Beach(Eko Yudayana) said that victim andhis friends were not working on Sun-day. The three said they are going tothe beach at 10 am wita by walking,“All of a sudden there was news vic-tim was dragged to the sea.”

Information collected from loca-tion, at incident time there were lotsof people looking for brushing stonebut none of them knows victim wasdragged. Head of Balawista, MadeBebas, mentioned even though he wasthere during the incident he was toldthere were two victims. Looking at theincident, Bebas then tried to go nearthe victims. Before the incident, thewave was okay. Victim itself was bath-

ing in the east of the Pura (temple),next to where previous incident vic-timizing three Bangli residents tookplace. When attacked by the wave,victim still seen half body and duringthat the second wave they did wavedtheir hands and was gone after thethird quite big wave.

Head of Blahbatuh Police, AdjunctPolice Commissioner WayanBudayasa, mentioned after the inci-dent the police coordinated with wa-ter Police to help its finidng. It is notknown yet when victim will get outfrom the mid ocean. Workers are stilllooking at shores and also swimmingdown the sea. (kmb16)

Tourist Ship Cast Ashore, HarborAdministrator Inquires Awareness

Sudiarta gave example, the cause toEka Jaya I leakage is being hit byquite a high wave so around 5 milesfrom Padangbai, ship captain Sulitoknew the 34 foreign tourist carrierto Gili terawangan tourist object inLombok was leaking.

Sulito was lucky to act quickly,took care of it and cast ashore in thenearest beach. This has caused 34foreign tourists passengers of the un-lucky ship saved in the east of LepraBeach, Bugbug, a beach with deepcanyon. From there they were then

evacuated with a Gili-Gili ship andWahana Candidasa ship.

Sudiarta mentioned, the earlyBMG information said the wave atBali Strait reaches 0,5 to 1 meterhigh with a wind speed of 5-10 knotso the Harbor Administrator permit-ted the unlucky shop to depart. Al-though, in the mid ocean the 1 meterwave reached 2 meter and hit theship yet not known it was leaking.Then after being hit by severalwaves, ship captain knows the shipis leaking. (013)

Minimize Rabies Spreading

Destroying Dogs,Resident Protested

through beach route, “Since 1st

April 2010, at least eleven vil-lages are rabies positive (basedon lab tests). They are Takmung,Gelgel, Kamasan, SemarapuraKlod, Tengah, Kauh, Selisihan,Pesinggahan, Pikat, Tangkas,and Tegak.”

According to Juanida, thequickly spreading rabies wascaused by residents not obeyingfully on Bali Governor’s (MadeMangku Pastika) instruction ondog distribution between re-gions.

With residents protesting,and threatening with machete,Task Implementer (Plt)Klungkung PPK Agency, Drh.Gusti Ngurah Badiwangsa con-firmed it happened. Althoughthe antipathy has been decreas-ing and residents started to re-alize the threatening rabiesspreading is getting more dan-gerous, “Actually, then was aprotest, now it’s the opposite.They are the ones that ask theirarea to have elimination.”

Meanwhile, until now at least4.000 dogs in Klungkung withpositive rabies has been de-stroyed including some dogs atSemarapura Klod. (kmb20)

Semaraputra Klungkung Orphanage

Accommodate 90Children, Needed Help

IDR 1.500/day for 30 kids. Also fromthe Klungkung Government isaround IDR 30 million through Re-gion Budget and Expenses Year2010. Also Incidental helps fromRegional Development Bank (BPD)Year 2010 IDR 15 Million. Theshortage is then covered by our-selves like selling our garden andhusbandry products also canang (of-fering). That’s also if the result isgood,” Head of Semaraputra Or-phanage, Ni Made Gunasih, ex-plained last Saturday (21/8).

Gunasih admitted is hoping theresidents’ participation to continuethe orphanage operational that isnow almost schooling all the or-phan children from Elementary,Junior High to High School.Semaraputra usually finishes atleast IDR 12 Million per month forthe orphans consumption needs,electricity and water, “We don’thave permanent budget, either adeposit or others. For that, we hopefor everyone’s participation.” Alsoin its limitation, the orphanagekeeps giving its best to the orphanchildren such as giving special En-glish language lesson and computersessions in the afternoon. (kmb20)

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AFP PHOTO/William WEST

Officials at the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) sort through voting papers as they recheck votescast during Australia’s general elections, in Melbourne on August 23, 2010.


PESHAWAR - A landmineexploded at a meeting of Pa-kistani tribal elders on Mon-day, killing seven people in thecountry’s northwestern bad-lands bordering Afghanistan,officials said.

The blast took place inKhumas village about 10kilometres (six miles) east ofParachinar, the capital of vola-tile Kurram tribal district, ad-ministrator Syed MusaddiqShah told AFP.

“Seven people were killedin a landmine blast,” Shahsaid.

He said it was unclearwhether the blast was an in-tended attack or whether theordinance had exploded acci-dentally.

Another administration of-ficial said seven people wereinjured in the blast, which oc-curred during a jirga, or meet-ing, between two tribes over adispute about an office boy’sjob at a public school built oncommon land.

Kurram has for three yearsbeen a flashpoint for violencebetween Shiite and SunniMuslims.

Shiites account for some 20percent of Pakistan’s mostlySunni Muslim population of160 million.

More than 4,000 peoplehave died in outbreaks of sec-tarian violence between thegroups since the late 1980s.

The inauguration of the produc-tion lines for the Seraj and Zolfaqarspeedboats comes a day after Presi-dent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad un-veiled Iran’s home-built bomberdrone, which he said would deliver“death” to Iran’s enemies.

State news agency IRNA reportedthat Seraj (Lamp) and Zolfaqar(named after Shiite Imam Ali’ssword) speedboats would be manu-factured at the marine industriescomplex of the ministry of defence.

Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidiopened the assembly lines, saying


SYDNEY - Australia’s politicalleaders Monday began horse-trad-ing with a handful of independentMPs in a bid to form governmentafter a cliffhanger poll that deliveredthe first hung parliament in 70 years.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard, whosuffered a fierce voter backlash, andopposition leader Tony Abbott bothlaunched talks on a coalition admin-istration with three key independentlawmakers who will likely hold thebalance of power.

With both leaders claiming tohave the mandate to lead a minoritygovernment, experts warned thenation’s future could hang in thebalance for weeks or months, leav-ing stock and currency markets flatbut cautious.

“The results on the market showthe market understands that stablegovernment is continuing,” Gillardsaid, adding her Labor Party wasbest placed to form an effective andlasting coalition because it had wonthe popular vote.

“What that means is that the ma-jority of Australians wanted a La-bor government,” she told reportersin Canberra ahead of face-to-facetalks with the independents and theGreens party.

Voters on Saturday turned onGillard, who came to power in aparty coup just two months ago, af-ter a trouble-strewn campaign, strip-ping her of her strong majority.

Abbott, who says Gillard’s gov-ernment has lost its legitimacy, alsoarrived in Canberra to meet the three“kingmakers” — Bob Katter, TonyWindsor and Rob Oakeshott — whoare likely to decide who runs thenation.

Labor and the opposition Liberal/National coalition were each pro-jected to take 73 seats in the 150-

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TEHRAN - Iran kicked off mass production of two high-speed mis-sile-launching assault boats on Monday, warning its enemies not to“play with fire” as it boosts security along its coastline.

the vessels would help strengthenIran’s defence forces, IRNA said.

“Today, the Islamic Republic ofIran is relying on a great defence in-dustry and the powerful forces ofSepah (Revolutionary Guards) andthe army, with their utmost strength,can provide security to the PersianGulf, the Sea of Oman and Strait ofHormuz,” Vahidi said.

He issued a stern warning toIran’s foes.

“The enemy must be careful ofits adventurous behaviour and notplay with fire because the Islamic

Republic of Iran’s response wouldbe unpredictable,” IRNA quotedhim as saying.

“If enemies attack Iran, the Is-lamic Republic of Iran’s reactionwill not be restricted to one area.The truth of our defence doctrine isthat we will not attack any countryand that we extend our hand to alllegitimate countries.”

Iran’s arch-foes, the UnitedStates and Israel, have not ruled outtaking military action over Tehran’scontroversial nuclear programme.

Iran has in the past threatened toclose the Strait of Hormuz, chok-ing off some 40 percent of tanker-shipped oil worldwide, in the eventof a military attack.

IRNA said Zolfaqar was a newgeneration missile-launching vessel

which can be used for patrol as wellas for attack operations.

“It is designed for quick assaultson ships and is equipped with twomissile launchers, two machine gunsand a computer system to control themissiles,” the report said.

IRNA said Seraj, designed for atropical climate, was also a swiftassault vessel for use in the Caspiansea, the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman,adding that it can fire rockets andalso be used in stormy seas.

“Seraj is a fast moving assaultrocket launcher using sophisticatedand modern technology,” Vahidi wascited as saying by IRNA.

The launch of the productionlines comes as Iran marks its annual“government week”, a period whenit traditionally shows off its latest

technological achievements.State media said the drone, Karar

(Assailant), can carry four stealthcruise missiles, two bombs of 250pounds (115 kilos) each or a precisionmissile of 500 pounds (230 kilos).Tehran kicked off its week of militaryclaims on Friday when it fired a sur-face-to-surface missile, named Qiam(Rising), with some more announce-ments expected over the next few days.

The Islamic republic is also ex-pected to test fire a third generationFateh (Conqueror) 110 missile, af-ter having already paraded a versionwith a range of 150 to 200 kilometres(90 to 125 miles). Iran recently tookdelivery of four domestically builtGhadir mini-submarines, a “stealth”vessel designed to operate in shal-low waters such as the Gulf.

Landminekills sevenin Pakistan

Australian leaders haggle to form government after pollsseat parliament, short of the 76needed to rule in their own right,state broadcaster ABC said.

The independents — who allhave past ties with Abbott’s party— vowed to stand “shoulder-to-shoulder” to produce a stable gov-ernment but kept their alliance op-tions open as vote counting fromSaturday’s poll continued.

“I don’t have to pick a red teamor a blue team, I don’t have to pickJulia or Tony,” said independentRob Oakeshott, adding that he hadspoken to both Gillard and Abbottby phone on Monday.

“What I do have to do is find away to work together to get a pro-cess in place where we can haveconfident parliament with a clear

majority.”The extraordinary weekend elec-

tion has triggered unusual politicalturmoil in Australia.

The vote heightens the surrealnature of the campaign afterGillard’s Labor deposed electedprime minister Kevin Rudd in Juneand then bungled a range of policyinitiatives. The latest AustralianElectoral Commission (AEC) tallygave her Labor Party 72 seatsagainst 70 for Abbott’s conservativeLiberal/National bloc, but the tallieskept shifting due to outstandingseats being too close to call.

Labor suffered a negative swingof about 5.4 percent while theGreens enjoyed their best ever re-sult as voters vented their frustra-

tion at the major parties’ lack of lead-ership on issues such as climatechange, experts said.

The environment-focused Greensparty won one seat — and the newMP indicated a preference to supportLabor in a coalition — while theAEC listed four seats as “doubtful”.

Officials are counting two millionpostal and absentee votes, a processwhich could take 10 days to twoweeks, but some experts warned itcould be up to three months before anew government is formed.

An expected fall in share pricesfailed to materialise but mining stocksgained ground on expectations thatGillard’s controversial resources tax —vehemently opposed by Abbott — willnot proceed if he takes power.

Hotel Activities Tuesday, August 24, 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

JAKARTA – Aston International launched itsfirst affordable life-style 3 star Quest Hotel in thecentral Javanese City of Semarang.

Strategically located in Semarang’s bustlingSimpang Lima area, the Quest Semarang offers155 meticulously designed rooms and suites, stateof the art meeting facilities and a grand ballroomthat suitable for large conferences or weddings. Itis within minutes from Ahmad Yani airport as wellas the Semarang’s central Tawang train station.

Norbert Vas, VP Sales & Marketing Aston In-ternational commented, “The Quest Semarang isa unique hotel and a perfect ambassador productfor the Quest brand as it combines the value ofpremium budget hotel with inspiring designs, cre-ative hospitality concepts and state-of-the-art tech-nology for travelers seeking a stylish yet unpre-tentious environment.”.

Aston entered the Indonesian market in the latenineties and has an underlying portfolio consist-ing of 38 properties including hotels, condotels,resorts, serviced apartments and boutique villaresorts, of which 28 are operational and 10 underdevelopment due to open between now and 2011.

Aston properties currently operate under the 5star Grand Aston, 4 star Aston, 3 star Aston Cityand Quest and 2 star fave Hotel brands but the com-pany is also developing Luxury Villa resorts un-der the Royal Kamuela and Kamuela labels as wellas an eclectic selection of non standardized andunique boutique properties.

With a proven track record of success, Astonhas a very definitive vision of the future - to beuniversally recognized as the preferred hospital-ity management company in Asia Pacific.

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Tuesday, August 24, 20106 News


ISLAMABAD - Pakistan haslaunched a probe into the brutallynching of two young brothers bya mob which was captured in graphicvideo footage, triggering a publicoutcry.

Local television broadcast thevideo last week showing a mob inthe eastern city of Sialkot beatingtwo teenage boys with sticks andclubs as several policemen stood byand watched without taking any ac-tion.

The badly-damaged bodies of thetwo youths were dragged on to a

Eleven churches and two Muslimprayer halls were pelted with Molotovcocktails, stones and paint in January,as a row raged over non-Muslims us-ing the word “Allah” as a translationfor “God”.

In Monday’s incident, red paint washurled on to the wall and window of anew prayer hall in the central state ofNegri Sembilan, state police chiefOsman Salleh told AFP.

“We are still investigating the mo-tive behind the incident,” he said, add-ing that it may merely have been a caseof vandalism by “naughty kids”.

“It might not be religiously or po-litically linked. I want the people to re-main calm and not to over-react to this,”Osman said.

Opposition lawmakers who visitedthe scene of incident condemned theattack, and said they hoped it did notcause problems in the area, which hasa mix of Muslim Malays as well as eth-nic Chinese and Indian minorities.

“We hope it will not create any ten-sion among the communities. This issomething that we are worried about,”said state opposition chief AnthonyLoke from the Democratic ActionParty.

“We hope the attack can be con-tained immediately,” Loke added.

Religion and language are sensitiveissues in multiracial Malaysia, whichwas hit by deadly race riots in 1969.

Some 60 percent of the 28 millionpopulation are Muslim Malays, livingalongside large ethnic Chinese and In-dian communities.

Two Muslim brothers were earlierthis month sentenced to five years in


BEIJING - China may elimi-nate capital punishment for someeconomic crimes as it moves tocurb use of the death penalty in acountry believed to execute morepeople than the rest of the worldcombined.

China’s National People’s Con-gress will this week consider anamendment to the nation’s crimi-nal law that will take 13 offencesoff the list of 68 crimes now pun-ishable by death, state-run Xinhuanews agency said Monday.

According to Amnesty Interna-t ional , China executes morepeople each year than the rest ofthe world put together, but theexact number remains a closelyguarded state secret.

China has taken measures in re-cent years to rein in the use ofcapital punishment, including re-quiring the country’s supremecourt to review all such sentencesbefore they are carried out.

Most executions are carried outfor violent crimes such as murderand robbery, the China Daily re-ported last month, but drug traf-ficking and some corruption casesalso are punishable by death.

Xinhua said crimes that maybecome exempt from capital pun-ishment include tax fraud and“fraudulent activities involving fi-nancial bills”.

Other offences including smug-gling of cultural relics, precious

AFP PHOTO/ Saeed Khan

Shoppers browse the sales in connection with the upcomingMuslim Eid aL-Fitr festival in downtown Kuala Lumpur on Au-gust 23, 2010. A Malaysian Muslim prayer hall was vandalisedMonday, police said, in the first incident since a spate of as-saults on places of worship earlier this year that heightened eth-nic tensions.

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KUALA LUMPUR - A Ma-laysian Muslim prayer hall wasvandalised Monday, policesaid, in the first incident sincea spate of assaults on places ofworship earlier this year thatheightened ethnic tensions.

prison for firebombing a church in sub-urban Kuala Lumpur, which was thefirst targeted in the spate of attacks thatshocked the nation in January.

The trouble broke out after a courtoverturned a ban on non-Muslim Ma-laysians using the term “Allah” for

“God”.The government argued that the use

of the word by Christians, who makeup nine percent of the population, couldcause confusion and encourage reli-gious conversion, which is illegal forMalaysian Muslims.

Pakistan probes mob lynchingof young brothers

trailer and then thrown on to theground before being strung up on anearby building, according to thefootage which was apparently madeon cell phone cameras.

“The government learnt about thisincident after the broadcast of thefootage. We have ordered an inquiryinto it,” Pervez Rasheed, spokesmanfor Pakistan’s Punjab province, toldAFP.

Rasheed said the two teenagershad quarrelled over a game of cricketwith some people in the crowd whowere chasing a gang of robbers andwho then branded the “innocent”boys the thieves.

“The Punjab government has or-dered an inquiry report within sevendays and the Supreme Court has alsoordered a separate investigation ofthe incident,” Rasheed said.

“The culprits will be tried underterrorism laws and we will fulfill theduty of providing justice,” he said.

Provincial law minister RanaSanaullah said that all people iden-tified in the mob would be treatedas murderers.

“All those who beat them andthose who encouraged them willalso be considered as the murder-ers,” Sanaullah told private Geotelevision.

China may scrap death penaltyfor some economic crimes

metals and rare animals may alsobe wiped off the list.

“Considering China’s currenteconomic and social developmentreality, appropriately removingthe death penalty from someeconomy-related non-violent of-fences will not negatively affectsocial stability nor public secu-rity,” legislator Li Shishi wasquoted as saying by Xinhua.

The move would “better protecthuman rights”, the report said.

Of the 68 current capital crimesin China, 44 do not involve vio-lent acts.

The draft amendment will alsoaim to forbid the death penaltyagainst convicted criminals aged75 years or more, the China NewsService said.

In a report earlier this year,Amnesty said the number ex-ecuted in China was “believed tobe in the thousands”, comparedwith 2009’s second-ranked execu-tioner Iran, which the rights groupsaid carried out at least 388 lastyear.

Firing squads have traditionallybeen used in Chinese executions,however in recent years the statehas increasingly adopted lethal in-jections.

The amendment will be readduring this week’s session of theparliament’s standing committee,its key law-making body.

Draft laws are typically readseveral t imes before beingadopted.

Philippine authorities said 22tourists from Hong Kong wereoriginally on board the bus, alongwith the local driver and two otherFilipinos.

Seven of the tourists, includingthree children and an elderly man,as well two Filipinos, were re-leased in various stages through-out the day.

It was not immediately clearwhy they were released, but thepolice spokesman on the scene,chief inspector Erwin Margarejo,said it showed the talks were hav-ing results.

“It is a sign that the negotia-tions resulted in something good,”he said adding that Mendoza’s at-titude was “courteous”.

Mendoza also allowed police tobring in food — fried chicken andother meals from a local fast foodchain — to the hostages.

Joseph Tung, executive direc-tor of the Travel Industry Councilof Hong Kong, said the tourists onthe bus were aged between fourand 72. They were on a three-daytour and were scheduled to returnto Hong Kong late Monday.

“We have never had anythinglike this before — we are verymuch concerned,” Tung said inHong Kong.

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I t was not clear whetherMendoza had released all the chil-dren on board, or whether therewere still others being held hos-tage.

Television footage showedsome of the adult hostages look-ing tensely out from behind thebus curtains, but showing no signsof being injured.

The bus was parked in front ofa grandstand at Rizal Park, apopular tourist destination just afew blocks from police headquar-ters.

As the crisis dragged on, policecalled in Mendoza’s brother, whois also a police officer, to help inthe negotiations.

Monday’s bus hijack recalled asimilar hostage-taking in 2007,when a troubled civil engineerarmed with a grenade took over abus and held 30 children but freedthem after a 10-hour standoff withpolice.

The 2007 drama took placenear Manila city hall, just offRizal Park.

Monday’s hostage-taking camehours after a South Korean manwas killed in a separate attack ona vehicle by gunmen elsewhere inManila. Police said the incidentswere not related.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

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BANDUNG – The Australian embassy is holding a photo-graphic exhibition retracing Australia’s role in support ofIndonesia’s long and difficult struggle for independence at theMuseum of the Asian-African Conference in Bandung.

The exhibition, Indonesia’s struggle for Independence: TheAustralian Connection was officially opened on 5 August 2010and will run until 31 August 2010.

As part of this exhibition, the Embassy hosted a screeningof the documentary Indonesia Calling produced by Dutch film-maker Joris Ivens in 1946. This film tells the story of blockadeled by Australian workers of Dutch ships.

The exhibition will also feature a discussion of the life ofAustralian Molly Bondan detailed in her books ‘’In Love witha Nation” and ‘’Spanning a Revolution”. In Love with a Nationis a collection of Molly;s writings in which she reflects on a

The foreign ministry had taken theinitiative after receiving a presidentialdirective on Sunday on the need tospeed up the settlement of pendingborder issues with Malaysia and otherneighboring countries, Marty saidhere Monday. Speaking to reportersafter launching a program titled YouthEnvoys 2010, the minister said lastweek he had contacted his Malaysiancounterpart on the planned establish-ment of an Indonesian-MalaysianJoint Ministerial Commission in Sep-tember or November.

But after receiving the presidential

RI propose date for border talks with MalaysiaRI propose date for border talks with MalaysiaRI propose date for border talks with MalaysiaRI propose date for border talks with MalaysiaRI propose date for border talks with Malaysia

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JAKARTA - Tens of journalists staged a rally at the Hotel Indonesiaroundabout here on Sunday in a show of sympathy with their colleaguekilled in a clash between two warring groups in Tual, Southeast Maluku,the day before.

They urged the police to thoroughly investigate the killing of RidwanSalamun, a news contributor for SUN TV, in the clash.

Ridwan died on his way to hospital after one of the conflicting groupsattacked him. He suffered from hack wounds on his neck and back.

“The police must have the guts to look into the case thoroughly bybringing the culprits to justice,” chairman of the Indonesian TelevisionJournalists Association (IJTI) Imam Wahyudi said on Sunday.

The killing of Ridwan was an attempt to deprive the public of truth,he said.

During the rally, the journalists from both print and electronic mediaunfurled banners which among others read “The Death of Freedom ofthe Press”, “Investigate Ridwan’s Death Thoroughly” and “JournalistsWin.”

They later placed flowers on a bier as a gesture of their concern aboutthe killing of Ridwan and encircled the welcome monument.

They concluded their rally by saying prayers for late Ridwan.

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

An Indonesian rice vendor takes a nap at his shop in Jakarta on August 22, 2010. Indonesia’s presidentsaid earlier this week that he wants Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to stop being a “caged tiger” andunleash annual growth of nearly eight percent by 2014.


JAKARTA - Eight people died after drinking moon-shine alcohol in Indonesia’s capital, police said Mon-day.

The victims, all men, succumbed to poisoning afterdrinking the toxic beverage they had bought from a shopin South Jakarta on Saturday night, police spokesmanBoy Rafli said.

“The last victim died today in hospital,” he said.The shopkeeper who made the “lethal” brew had

been arrested, he added.Twenty-five people including four foreigners died

from methanol-laced palm wine last year on the Indo-nesian resort island of Bali, while 13 were killed insimilar fashion in Yogyakarta earlier this year.

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

Journalists rally toshow sympathy overkilled colleague

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JAKARTA - Indonesia has proposed a date for talks on border is-sues with Malaysia and is waiting for a response from Kuala Lumpur,Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa said.

directive on Sunday night, he had senta message to Malaysia proposing adate for talks to resolve pending bor-der demarcation issues, Marty saidwithout mentioning the date. Now In-donesia was waiting for Malaysia’sresponse on the proposed date.

Marty said Indonesia was alsoscheduled to hold meetings on borderissues with other neighboring coun-tries such as The Philippines, Vietnam,Singapore, Thailand and Palau.

“We will exchange ratification in-struments on border issue withSingapore on August 30, Thailand on

September 1-2, and with Vietnam, thePhilippines and Palau in the next fewmonths,” the foreign minister said.

President Susilo BambangYudhoyono had renewed his requestfor immediate sea border talks withMalaysia to prevent the recurrence ofrecent border incidents.

“There is a need for an agreementon the demarcation lines between In-donesia and Malaysia,” the Presidentsaid at a gathering to break the fast withDemocrat Party cadres at his PuriCikeas Indah residence in Bogor, WestJava, on Sunday (Aug 22).

Yudhoyono said the geographicallocation of Indonesian waters washighly vulnerable to claims by othercountries as Indonesia bordered onseven countries and thus, Indonesiamust continue to prioritize diplomacy

in settling border problems with itsneighbors. Last August 13, three In-donesian fisheries officers were ar-rested and later taken to Malaysia bya Malaysian police boat crew who hadintercepted their boat on their way toBatam Island while escorting a Ma-laysian fishing boat that had beencaught poaching in Indonesian waters.

The Malaysian police later freedthe Indonesian fisheries officers inexchange for the release of the Ma-laysian fishermen.

Indonesian protesters step onMalaysian flag posters during an

anti-Malaysia protest in Jakarta onAugust 23, 2010 following the

arrest of three Indonesian mari-time officers over an apparent

border dispute.

Alcoholic brewkills eight inIndonesia: police

Photographic exhibition on Australiansupport for Indonesia’s Independence

number of remarkable events in contemporary Indonesian his-tory. Meanwhile Spanning a Revolution tells the story of herIndonesian husband, Mohammad Bondan’s achievement in theservice of his nation.

The photographic exhibition retracing Australia’s role in andsupport for Indonesia’s are divided into four parts; Australiantroop support for Indonesia’s independence, defence of inde-pendence by Indonesians in Australia, popular support in Aus-tralia, and Australian government support.

These photographs of Indonesians and Australians work-ing together in a common cause are a reminder of the solidfoundation on which the Indonesia-Australia relationship wasestablished. Memories and friendships from this period haveendured.

The bilateral relationship between the two nations is at anhistoric high, where Australia has taken their strategic coop-eration to a new level. (kmb18)

8 InternationaTuesday, August 24, 2010

Bali Today

Subikshu said that the awardwill be given on September 10th

2010 in Conrad Hotel in HongKong. “We wanted the Governor togo to Hong Kong and receive theaward on the behalf of Bali. Thegovernor can speak Mandarin flu-ently and he also can promote Balithere,” Subhiksu explained.

The award is the secondone received by Bali this year.Subhiksu said that Bali also re-

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TABANAN - The Tabanan re-gency administration will raise its fishfarming sector to 2,880 tons in the nextfour years.

“We will try to increase our fishfarming by 353 percent in the 2010-2014 period, or from 1,095 tons to3,975 tons,” Head of Tabanan regencymarine and fishery affairs agency INyoman Wirna Ariwangsa said.

In the meantime, this year’s produc-tion would be raised by 20 percent,Ariwangsa said.

In addition, Ariwangsa added, theincome of the fish farmers and fisher-men, and employment in the fisheryand marine sectors were also expectedto increase.

With regard to the vision of theMinistry of Marine and Fishery Affairs,

Antara

DENPASAR - Tens of journalistsin Bali staged a rally on Sunday in ashow of solidarity with their colleaguewho was killed in a clash between twowarring groups in the eastern Indone-sian area of Tual the day before.

They put their signatures on a ban-ner as a gesture of their support for cam-paigns against the attack on journalists.

“We will send the signatures andrefusal of violence against journalistsand request for probe into the killing ofSun TV news contributor RidwanSalamun to the National Police chiefand the Press Council for a follow-up,”Rofiqi Hasan, chairman of theDenpasar chapter of the Alliance ofIndependent Journalists (AJI), said.

The banner was later put up on the

Bali Post

NEGARA - As in the previousyears, on entering the homecomingseason the Gilimanuk Harbor wouldbe crowded by long queues caused byprivate vehicles. Peak of the queueswaiting for the entry into the ships isestimated to occur during seven daysbefore the holiday. Means of sea trans-portation becomes an important aspectto support the smoothness of the trans-portation services.

Harbor master of Gilimanuk,Dewa Nyoman Kari, when contactedrecently said that the shipping author-ity from the beginning had anticipatedthe flows of homecoming especiallyvigilance. A number of shipping busi-nessmen providing services in theGilimanuk-Ketapang crossing wererequired to repair their ships before thecrossing route would be crowded bypassengers on the period of seven daysbefore and after the Idul Fitri holiday.“Hopefully, seven days before theholiday all ships should be ready andno single ship is under docking pro-cess anymore,” he said.

At the moment, Dewa Kariadded, out of 28 ships operated therewere five ships under docking pro-cess, such as Marina Pratama, NusaMakmur, Darma Rucita, LabitaSafina and Peri I. His party expectedthat all the docking ships could havebeen operated in the upcoming peakseason of the homecoming. Apartfrom the factor of water transport,

Bali receive an award

As “The Best LeisureDestination in Asia Pacific”

Bali journalists urge for endto violence against the press

Antara

DENPASAR – The head of Bali Tourism Department, Ida Bagus Subhiksu, said that Balionce again receive an award as “The Best Leisure Destination in Asia Pacific”. “The award isgiven by a tourism magazine based in Hong Kong, Business Travelers Asia Pasific,” he added.

ceived an award as the “World BestIsland in Asia 2010” by Travel andLeisure Magazine based in NewYork.

The similar award was alsogiven to Bali in 2007 but on the nextyear, the predicate was given toGalapagos Island in Ecuador.

Subhiksu said that FourSeason Hotel in Jimbaran was alsoreceived an award as the “World BestHotel Spa in Asia 2010”. The vari-

ous awards received by Bali and itstourism could develop the tourismindustry in the island.

“The Eat, Pray, Love (EPL)movie starred by Julia Roberts alsoaffected Bali’s tourism. The moviepromotes Bali to anyone whowatches it,” Subhiksu said.

However, many things need to beimproved in Bali to support tourismsuch as the road which often causedtraffic jam.

By homecoming season,Bali Strait to be alert

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The Gilimanuk harbor that located on Jembrana regency, BaliIsland. As in the previous years, on entering the homecomingseason the Gilimanuk Harbor would be crowded by long queuescaused by private vehicles.

Bali Post/Eka Adhyasa

Journalists in Bali put their signatures on a banner as a ges-ture of their support for campaigns against the attack on jour-nalists. Tens of journalists in Bali staged a rally on Sunday in ashow of solidarity with their colleague who was killed in a clashbetween two warring groups in the eastern Indonesian area ofTual the day before.

another factor being difficult to bepredicted was the weather. Althoughthe span of Bali Strait was not too farbut the weather in the sea dividing theisland of Java and Bali was difficultto predict. All the times theharbormaster made coordination withthe Meteorology, Climatology andGeophysics Agency (BMKG) to an-ticipate the adverse weather condi-tion. “We emphasize to the helmsmanto be vigilant and give priority to pas-senger safety. Coordination of

weather with BMKG was very im-portant to estimate and anticipatewhen the weather is bad,” he said.

On the other hand, Chief ofGilimanuk Harbor Police (KP3), PutuSuartha, said to anticipate the increas-ing passengers during the homecom-ing season of this year his party planedto immediately coordinate with otherrelevant agencies at the harbour so thathomecomers could feel more comfort-able and the services provided wouldbe maximal, too. (sur)

front corner of the Sun TV bureau onJl. Diponegoro in Denpasar.

The journalists denounced the kill-ing of Ridwan Salamun.

Ridwan died on his way to hospi-tal after one of the conflicting groupsattacked him. He suffered from hackwounds on his neck and back.

In related developments, tens ofjournalists also staged a rally at theHotel Indonesia roundabout in Jakartaon Sunday in a show of sympathy withlate Ridwan Salamun.

They urged the police to thor-oughly investigate the case and bringthe culprits to justice.

The killing of Ridwan was an at-tempt to deprive the public of truth,chairman of the Indonesian TelevisionJournalists Association (IJTI) ImamWahyudi said on Sunday.

Fish production may reach2,880 tons in next 4 year

in making Indonesia the world’s big-gest marine and fishery producer by2015, the government had made a firmcommitment.

“The Tabanan regency administra-tion by way of the Marine and FisheryAffairs Agency had made a commit-ment to support the vision by making aproduction contract which had beensigned by the Tabanan Regency, Baligovernor, and the Ministry of Marineand Fishery Affairs,” he said, addingthat the fresh water fish farming com-modities which will be developed in-clude nila fish, carps, lele, and guramifish.

In addition, as an area bordering withthe Indonesian Ocean, Tabanan regencyhas a 35 kilometers long coast line ex-tending from Nyanyi Coast in Kediriregency, in the east to the west in YehLeh coast in Selemadeg Barat regency.

Balinese Culture

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9al

C.045 ibp

Overview:

This probably the most delicious satay you will ever

encounter. The delicate flavors of the shrimp and fish

are greatly improved if you can find spears of fresh

lemongrass to use as skewers, and if you can cook

them over a fire of coconut husks rather than charcoal.

Nonetheless, even with wooden skewers and a standard

charcoal grill, you will have people coming back more.

Ingredients:

600 gr skinned boneless snapper fillet

1 cup freshly grated coconut or

1½ cups moistened desiccated coconut

½ cup seafood spice paste

5 fragrant lime leaves, chopped

1 tsp black peppercorns, finely crushed

1 tsp salt

3-5 bird’s eye chilies, very finely chopped

2 tbsp palm sugar

Lemon grass or satay skewers

Preparation:

1. Mince fish fillet very finely in a food processor or

with a chopper.

2. Add all other ingredients & mix well.

3. Mould a heaped tablespoon full of this mixture

around a wooden skewer or over trimmed stalks of

lemon grass and grill over charcoal until golden brown.

Note: This recipe won’t work with frozen fish.

(www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Bali is a bijou island, but thecontent of traditional values, arts,history and culture is not as smallas the area. Artistic heritage, his-tory and culture almost spreadthroughout the nine regencies andcity existing on the Island of theGods. The search on the heritage,arts and cultural relics of this timeis to Yeh Pulu Relief.

Relief of the ancient rockstone is located at the Bedulu(Bedahulu) Village, BlahbatuhSubdistrict, Gianyar Regency. Lo-cation to Tampaksiring andKintamani is only about 40 min-utes drive from Denpasar City. Theentrance to the tourist attraction ofholy water is not far from the mainroad east of Goa Gajah Temple, tothe right, into the village street.Visitors should be careful becausethere are many road junctionswithout a clue heading for the ob-ject of Yeh Pulu Relief, or ask theway to local residents.

The monument in the form ofrelief becoming the main attractionto tourists, especially foreign tour-ists, was discovered in 1925 by acourtier or Ubud Royal family. Thename was taken from the barrel (or

Yeh Pulu Relief:

Description of Life inBali Ancient Kingdom

container of rice in the past) locatedat the central axis of purified waternestling in the west of the relief. Theword yeh in Balinese languagemeans water and pulu means a bar-rel.

The appeal of this monumentis not only because of the unique-ness of relief sculpture immortal-ized on the rock stone wall of thehill, but also due to the spread ofrice field view along the two-hun-dred-meters and the sound of clink-ing water on the left-right path tolocation is always neatly trimmedand maintained sustainably, ema-nating a natural beauty.

With such a natural atmo-sphere, the clear and the sharpnessof splashing water are always flow-ing along the trench making theambience around this object reallypeaceful and enchanting. On thataccount, it is not mistaken if theniches (caves) in southern reliefsuspected as the hermitage of thelast Balinese ancient King beforethe collapse of Bali to Majapahit ad-ministration in 1343.

Relief with magical nuanceand meaningful is 25 meters longand 2 meters high. Many researches

conducted by experts from homeand overseas to recognize the im-plicit meaning behind the wall re-lief of the rock cliffs on the hills.As consequence, it drove manycommentaries and analysis to un-cover the mystery behind the veilof the true meaning of the relief.Overall, the theme of this story re-counts the life in the forest atmo-sphere and daily life in the ancientkingdom of Bali. In addition to theBalinese classical carvings, thismonument also has niches ofBedahulu Royal Hermitage beforehis death against the army of theMajapahit kingdom in 1343 AD.

Yeh Pulu Relief poses one ofthe many historical classical monu-ments of Bali originating in ancientBali (14th century AD) retainingfull knowledge of art, which untilnow is still sustainable and be caredby the members of Subak, as oneof the classical organizations that inparticular organizes farmers andmanage all aspects of rice field cul-tivation. For tourists who wouldlike to visit this object first shouldpurchase admission ticket of theobject, at IDR 6,000 for adult andIDR 3,000 for child. (BTN/014)

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Bali is famous with its beaches.One of the beach that located onKlungkung regency is KusambaBeach. Kusamba Beach is one of thefavorite places of interest in Baliwhich is famous with the beautifulbeach. The boat line with theoutrigger belong to the fishermanfrom countryside are decorating theblack sand unfolding along thecoastal. Nusa Penida Island is acrossview which is only occupied by40.000 people. Kusamba own themarvelous view with the splashingwave from the ocean and it is sur-rounded the tropical atmospherewith soft sea breeze.

Name of Kusamba is factuallynot far from the struggle history ofBalinese in fight against the Dutchcolonist. During the war against theDutch in Kusamba on 23-24 May1849, the Balinese hero had suc-ceeds to make afraid the Dutch sol-dier and had killed the Dutch keyman - Letnan General Michiel.

We can see the fisherman arelooking after the prawn seed, sendthe rice, legume, fruits and other

Kusamba Beachmaterials to Nusa Penida twice a day.The fisherman from Kusamba withthe big boat and five crews can squirethe material heavy as of 1,5 cargoton to Nusa Penida. They can acrossthe sea from Banjar Tri Buana,Banjar Bias Coastal and KampungIsland Coastal with 30 minutes until2 hours time differences and it isdepend to the type and transporta-tion medium speed utilized. Besideof that, this boat can also squire thepassengers who wish to enjoy thebeautiful coral and the white sandcoastal in the island cross of Bali .Segara Beach in Kusamba is espe-cially for the Hindu ritual activitieswhich are often conducted the activ-ity of Nganyut in line with NgabenCeremony (Cremation Ceremony).We can also meet a fish market inthis place which is usually held be-tween 10 am until 4 pm. The straitbetween Bali and Nusa Penida Islandis dwelt by a lot of fish, hence it iscrowded by the white sail of fisher-man boat decorates the sea aroundthe Kusamba beach. At the west sideof this coastal, especially in BanjarBatur, there are 40 families of fish-erman as the traditional salt maker.http://static.panoramio.com

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SINGAPORE - Smartphones willmake up over half of Asian mobilephone sales by 2015, with 477 millionunits likely to be sold, an industry re-port said Monday.

Consultancy Frost and Sullivan saidsmartphones would account for 54 per-cent of the Asia-Pacific mobile marketin five years, up sharply from five per-cent in 2009.

The sharp take-up rate forsmartphones will be a huge revenueboost for telecom operators as it meansa surge in demand for data services, theconsultancy said.

Smartphones are high-end mobiledevices providing faster access to dataconnections such as e-mail and Internetbrowsing than so-called feature phones,which have less computing ability.

Subscribers usually pay more formobile data services, translating into

Speculation had mounted over thepast week that the pair would meet todiscuss the recent strength of the yen,as government officials attempted totalk the currency’s strength downthrough so-called “verbal” interven-tion.

However on Monday, Kan andShirakawa “exchanged views on theeconomic and financial situation in-cluding foreign exchange moves,”chief cabinet secretary YoshitoSengoku told reporters.

Kan and Shirakawa “agreedthat it is extremely important to main-tain close communication between thegovernment and the Bank of Japan,”said Sengoku.

But the pair did not address for-eign exchange intervention, he added.

Many investors anticipatedstronger government pressure on thecentral bank to do more to lift theeconomy, such as further monetaryeasing, dealers said.

The yen rose after the meeting,which was taken as a signal that To-


BANGKOK - The Thai economygrew 9.1 percent year-on-year in thesecond quarter of 2010 as strong ex-ports cushioned the blow from vio-lent street protests that hit the keytourism sector, data showed Monday.

The strong performance was seenas raising the odds of Thailand’s cen-tral bank increasing interest ratesagain when it meets later this week,following its first hike in almost twoyears in July.

Gross domestic product (GDP)expanded for a third straight quartercompared with a year earlier, but at aslower pace than the breakneckgrowth of 12.0 percent seen in Janu-ary-March, a government agencysaid.

On a seasonally adjusted ba-

A Chinese con-struction engi-neer surperviseswork at a sectionof the road underconstruction inKigali on August11, 2010 .Rwanda’s capitalis changing froma sleepy backwa-ter where mostthings closed at9:00 pm to afuture Singaporewith gleamingoffice blocks andall-night shop-ping.

Japan PM, centralJapan PM, centralJapan PM, centralJapan PM, centralJapan PM, centralbank governorbank governorbank governorbank governorbank governordiscuss economydiscuss economydiscuss economydiscuss economydiscuss economyAgence France-Presse

TOKYO - Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Bank of Japangovernor Masaaki Shirakawa spoke by phone to discuss the eco-nomic impact of a strong yen, officials said Monday, but did notaddress possible intervention.

kyo will refrain from monetary eas-ing for now. The dollar stood at 85.32yen during Tokyo afternoon trade, fall-ing from 85.63 in New York Friday.

The safe-haven yen hasstrengthened beyond the levels as-sumed earlier by many exporters, whoare anxious about its rise.

For every one-yen rise in thecurrency’s value against the dollar,companies can lose tens of billionsof yen earned overseas when repatri-ated, threatening a sector that Japandepends on to offset its weak domes-tic picture.

Monday’s meeting followedthe dollar’s recent fall to a 15-year lowof 84.72 yen, stoking concerns overthe domestic currency’s strength andits negative impact on an export-ledrecovery.

Sengoku said the governmenthas not yet seen any reason to com-ment on recent foreign exchange rates,while hinting that Kan was ready tohold a meeting with Shirakawa againif necessary.

Smartphones to make up overhalf of Asian sales by 2015

higher average revenue per user(ARPU) for operators keen to make upfor flat or declining earnings growthfrom feature phones.

“Smartphones are critical to everyoperator’s mobile broadband busi-ness case, as a smartphone user’sARPU typically increased by 25 to100 percent after adoption depend-ing on the market,” said MarcEinstein, the consultancy’s industrymanager.

“The Asia-Pacific market is particu-larly interesting for smartphones asthere has been significant uptake inemerging markets like China, India andIndonesia, even among prepaid users,”he said in the report.

Apple’s phenomenally populariPhone and Research in Motion’sBlackBerry, a favourite with corporateusers, are largely credited with spark-ing consumer interest in smartphonesin the last few years.

AFP PHOTO/Christophe ARCHAMBAULT

In this picture taken on August 17, 2010, Thai commuters walk along the construction site of awalkway linking a metro line to a new bus mass transportation system.

Thai economy posts 9.1 percent second-quarter growthsis, GDP expanded 0.2 percent inApril-June from the previous quar-ter, after a 3.3 percent rise in Janu-ary-March, according to the NationalEconomic and Social DevelopmentBoard.

The Thai economy has remainedrelatively resilient following twomonths of mass opposition protests,which paralysed parts of Bangkokand sparked violence that left 91people dead, ending in a bloody armycrackdown in May.

The better-than-expected second-quarter result was largely thanks torobust overseas demand for Thai-made goods, such as cars.

The country is striving to becomea regional hub for automobile pro-duction, with foreign makers such asToyota operating factories in thekingdom.

Exports soared 41.8 percent in thesecond quarter of 2010 in dollar terms,on the back of a global economic re-covery, the figures showed.

Household spending expanded bya robust 6.5 percent as consumerssplurged on cars and electrical goods.

But growth in the hotel and restau-rant industry slowed to just 0.2 percentas the political unrest scared off for-eign tourists.

Speculation is now growing that theBank of Thailand may lift official bor-rowing costs for a second straightmonth when policymakers meet onWednesday.

In July the central bank raised in-terest rates for the first time since 2008— by 25 basis points to 1.5 percent —saying that the economic impact of the“Red Shirt” anti-government protestshad been relatively limited.

AFP PHOTO/ SIMON MAINA

Entertainment InternationalTuesday, August 24, 201012

“Vampire Suck,” a send-up of the“Twilight” series of heart throb-meets-horror films, debuted at 12.2million dollars in ticket sales.

Third place went to “Eat, Pray,Love,” Ryan Murphy’s adaptation ofElizabeth Gilbert’s novel about adivorcee’s jaunt to Italy, Indonesia andIndia starring Julia Roberts. It earned12 million dollars in its second weekof release, according to industry track-ing firm Exhibitor Relations.

In fourth place was the debut ofthe urban comedy “Lottery Ticket”starring rappers Ice Cube and BowWow, about a recent high school

Agence France Presse

SARAJEVO – Hollywood starAngelina Jolie has announced sheis to star in a romantic film to beshot in the Balkans, as she made asurprise visit to Sarajevo. “Uponleaving Bosnia and Herzegovina onSaturday, Angelina Jolie stated thatshe will be in the region workingon a film this fall,” said theUNHCR, the United Nations refu-gee agency, for whom Jolie worksas a goodwill ambassador.

“The film is a love story set dur-ing the Bosnian war of 1992-1995,focusing on a couple who meet onthe eve of the war and the effect thewar has on their relationship,” itsaid.

Jolie stressed that the film wouldnot carry any political messages andadded that the cast would be drawnfrom the different ethnic groups ofthe former Yugoslavia.

According to national radio,Jolie will act in the film and directit as well. Earlier the star called onBosnian leaders to speed up the re-turn of thousands of refugees fromthe brutal 1990s civil war. “I hope


ROME – US film director Woody Allen praisedFrench first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s acting af-ter working with her on a movie he is shooting inParis. “She was very professional, she interpretedthe role... so well that each and every frame shotwill appear in the movie, nothing will be cut,” Allentold Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera in an inter-view posted on its website Saturday.

Bruni-Sarkozy plays a tour guide at the RodinMuseum in “Midnight in Paris”, a romantic com-edy starring French actress Marion Cotillard andUS actor Owen Wilson that is set to be released in2011. Allen, who is still shooting the movie in Paris,said Bruni-Sarkozy’s husband, French PresidentNicolas Sarkozy, showed up on the set to see andhear his wife act.

“Like all other non-staff he had to settle for stay-ing at the side of the set,” Allen said. “We gave hima headset to hear the lines Carla was saying... hewas very satisfied,” Allen added.

Agence France Preese

SANTA MONICA, Calif. –James Cameron is inviting movie-goers to take an extended tour ofPandora. The writer-director of“Avatar” is hoping fans will comeback to the fictional planet to see9 minutes of new footage when“Avatar: Special Edition” arrives

Cast mem-bers of “The

Expendables”Jason

Statham,right, Dolph

Lundgren,center, and

SylvesterStallone wait

to be inter-viewed on the

floor of theNew YorkStock Ex-change inNew York,Thursday,

Aug. 19, 2010.

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Stallone’s ‘Expendables’Stallone’s ‘Expendables’Stallone’s ‘Expendables’Stallone’s ‘Expendables’Stallone’s ‘Expendables’stays at box office topstays at box office topstays at box office topstays at box office topstays at box office topAgence France Presse

LOS ANGELES - Old school action flick “The Expendables” beat back a challenge from horror-parody “Vam-pires Suck” to claim the top spot for a second week at North America’s weekend box office, industry estimatesshowed Sunday. Sylvester Stallone’s film about a group of weathered mercenaries out to topple a South Americandictator was the most popular movie, adding about 16.5 million dollars in ticket sales to last week’s 35.5 million.

graduate who wins a massive jack-pot but can’t immediately cash theticket. It earned 11.1 million dollars.

Fifth place went to “The OtherGuys,” the latest Will Ferrell slapstickcomedy, about two mismatched policeofficers paired on a high-profile crimeinvestigation. It earned an estimated10.1 million dollars in ticket sales.Another summer horror spoof “Pira-nha 3D,” grossed a touch over 10 mil-lion dollars in its debut, for sixth place.

The debut film “Nanny McPheeReturns” the sequel to a popularkid’s film starring British actressEmma Thompson in the title role,

earned the seventh place spot with8.3 million dollars in ticket sales.

Eighth place went to the debutromantic comedy “The Switch”starring Jennifer Aniston, about awoman who stumbles upon lovedespite her plans to become a singlemom via artificial insemination. Itsold 8.1 million dollars in tickets.

Sci-fi blockbuster “Inception”was ninth with 7.7 million dollars,while “Scott Pilgrim vs. TheWorld,” fell five places in its sec-ond week and took tenth place, withabout five million dollars in movietickets sold.

Woody Allen praises Carla Bruni’s acting

AFP/File/Bertrand Langlois

US director Woody Allen (L) talks with French first ladyCarla Bruni-Sarkozy and US actor Owen Wilson (C) inJuly 2010 in Paris during the shooting of Allen’s latestmovie “Midnight in Paris”.

Jolie to star in romantic filmset in Bosnian war: UNHCR

that there?ll soon be practical stepsto improve these people?s lives,”Jolie was quoted as saying in theUNHCR statement.

Jolie — whose visit coincideswith the release in Europe of hernew spy thriller “Salt” — last vis-ited Bosnia Hercegovina in Aprilwith her husband, movie heartthrobBrad Pitt. She hailed the adoptionby the Bosnian parliament in Juneof a new strategy for returning allinternally displaced people in thecountry by 2014, the UNHCR said.“The political leaders have showna spirit of compromise in gettingthis far. Now it needs a little moreurgency,” added Jolie.

Jolie also met the Muslim andCroat representatives of Bosnia’stripartite presidency, Haris Silajdzicand Zeljko Komsic, to discuss therefugee issue, Silajdzic’s cabinetsaid in a statement.

The 1992-1995 war left 100,000people dead and 2.2 million refu-gees and displaced persons inBosnia. Some 113,000 people arestill displaced or unable to returnto their homes, according to theUNHCR.

In this photoissued by theBosnianPresidencyPress Office,U.S. actressAngelinaJolie, center,shakeshands withHarisSilajdzic, left,a Muslimmember ofthe BosniantripartitePresidency.AP Photo/Bosnian Presidency Press Office, HO

‘Avatar’ returning to theaters Fridayin 3-D theaters on Friday.

Cameron says the new footageis sprinkled throughout the film andincludes a dramatic action sceneshowing a hunt for one of Pandora’sfantastical animals. A special-edi-tion DVD with the new footage willbe released in November. “Avatar”has earned $2.7 billion in box-of-fice revenue worldwide.

AP Photo/20th Century Fox

In this film publicity image released by 20th Century Fox, the char-acter Neytiri, voiced by Zoe Saldana, and the character Jake, voicedby Sam Worthington are shown in a scene from, ‘Avatar.’

International Tuesday, August 24, 2010 13Life Style

Tourists generally skip old Ma-nila in their rush to Boracay andsome of the the Philippines’ othertropical islands, but the new gov-ernment of President BenignoAquino is hoping to entice them tolinger a little longer.

“Intramuros should be the toptourist attraction in Manila,” Tour-ism Secretary Alberto Lim, who hasbeen in the post since June, told AFPin a recent interview.

“We should build museums, wehave so many beautiful artefacts thatare sitting in warehouses, it’s almostcriminal that they’re going to wasteand that they’re deteriorating.” TheSoutheast Asian archipelago’s cul-tural history includes three centu-ries as a Spanish colony that ended


MONTREAL - A high-tech ex-pedition sets out from Canada Sun-day to create a detailed map of thewreckage of the Titanic, nearly ahundred years after the fabled shipsank in the Atlantic killing 1,500people. Organizers said the expe-dition would use sonar technologyand high-resolution optical videoand imaging to document thewreck site, in what arguably willbe the most technologically-ad-vanced scientific expedition to Ti-tanic ever mounted.

Christopher Davino, presidentof RMS Titanic, said in a statementthat the goal is to “create the mostdetailed portrait of Titanic’s wrecksite to date.”

The team of experts, he said,“will be using some of the mostadvanced technology available to

Expedition aims tocreate high-tech mapof ‘Titanic’ wreck

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The wreck of Titanic is seen on the picture. A high-tech expedition setsout from Canada to create a detailed map of the wreckage of the Titanic

create a portrait of the ship unlikeany that has been created before— virtually raising Titanic andsealing her current state forever inthe minds and hearts of humanity.”

The mission was to set out fromSt John’s, Newfoundland, and willprovide real-time video and photoupdates on Facebook and Twitterduring a more than 20-day expe-dition.

Other images and information willbe found on the mission’s website,www.expeditiontitanic.com. The Ti-tanic, a luxury passenger ship oncethought to be unsinkable, hit an ice-berg on April 14, 1912 and sank inthe early morning of April 15, 1912,killing 1,500 people.

After decades of searching, thewreckage of the Titanic was dis-covered in 1985 some four kilo-meters (2.5 miles) from the surfaceof the sea.

Tourists on ahorse drawncarriage pass adamagedbuilding inIntramuros inManila onAugust 22, 2010.Much of thearchitecture thatmade it one ofAsia’s mostintriguing citieswas destroyedduring WorldWar II, when USbombs raineddown to oustthe occupyingJapaneseforces.


BEIJING – Chinese telecomsequipment maker ZTE has won a254-million-dollar contract to builda mobile network in Hungary, reflect-ing the company’s growing strengthin Europe, a report said Monday. ZTEhad made a breakthrough in Europethis year, chief executive Shi Lirongtold the Financial Times, even as theUnited States tries to limit marketaccess by Chinese telecom firms onnational security grounds.

Under the agreement expected tobe formally announced Monday,ZTE will build a mobile network foras many as 4.5 million customers ofNorway-based telecom services pro-vider Telenor in Hungary, the news-

AFP/File/Lluis Gene

File photo shows a ZTE low-cost solar-powered mobile phone. Chi-nese telecoms equipment maker ZTE has won a 254-million-dollarcontract to build a mobile network in Hungary, reflecting the company’sgrowing strength in Europe, a report said Monday.

China’s ZTE wins European mobile network contractpaper said.

“Virtually all European operatorshave shortlisted us now.... That hashappened over the course of this year,”Shi said. ZTE said it expected severalother large contracts from Europeanoperators to come through over thenext couple of months.

The deal comes after ZTE rolled outa Wimax network for Telefonica inSpain and built and upgraded mobilenetworks for Dutch operator KPN andother Telenor affiliates, the report said.

ZTE and its Chinese rival Huaweihave been trying to boost their pres-ence in the United States, despite op-position from US lawmakers con-cerned about possible threats to na-tional security. Huawei is currentlybidding to sell equipment needed for

the expansion of Sprint Nextel’swireless broadband network.

If approved, it would mark thefirst time Huawei has sold equip-ment to a large US telecommuni-cations operator, though it hasmade sales to smaller US compa-nies, the newspaper said previ-ously. US lawmakers have report-edly asked the White House toscrutinise the bid due to concernsincluding the company’s possibleclose ties to the Chinese army andthe Revolutionary Guards in Iran.

Huawei, founded by a formerPeople’s Liberation Army engi-neer, was forced in 2008 to aban-don a joint 2.2-billion-dollar bidfor US technology firm 3Com dueto security concerns.

Historic Manila seeksHistoric Manila seeksHistoric Manila seeksHistoric Manila seeksHistoric Manila seeksto tempt touriststo tempt touriststo tempt touriststo tempt touriststo tempt touristsAgence France Presse

MANILA – In the shadows of an ancient cathedral in the Philippine capital, wilting horses attached to car-riages shelter from the tropical sun as their drivers try to interest the few tourists milling around. Hawkersexhibit sombreros, fans and rosaries on the pavement nearby but few buyers are in sight — a depressinglyfamiliar scenario for Manila’s historic tourist district centred on the colonial Spanish walled city of Intramuros.

in 1898, followed by nearly half acentury under US rule.

But Manila, which was oncedubbed the “Pearl of the Orient”, isnow better known for its sprawlingslums and widespread poverty thanits architectural and cultural riches.

Much of the architecture thatmade it one of Asia’s most intrigu-ing cities was destroyed duringWorld War II, when US bombsrained down to oust the occupyingJapanese forces. Efforts by post-wararchitects to rebuild Manila’s ruinedchurches were not a success becausethey lacked experience and technol-ogy, according to Paulo Alcazaren,architect and founder of the HeritageConservation Society.

“The conservation during that pe-

riod was pretty primitive. They triedto replicate the original stone withconcrete blocks and cement,” he said.

Nevertheless, nuggets of histori-cal gold can still be found in oldManila. Among them is the shell ofIntramuros, built by the Spanish rul-ers as their walled enclave and wherethey executed Philippine revolution-ary hero Jose Rizal.

Another is the Romanesque-Byz-antine Manila Cathedral, which wasoriginally constructed in 1581 andthen rebuilt six times after being de-stroyed by earthquakes, fires andbombing. Nearby the Spanish-eraSan Augustin Cathedral is guardedat the entrance by Chinese lion stat-ues, a legacy of the Philippines’ longhistory of immigrants from China.

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United manager Ferguson admit-ted his side hardly deserved to claimall three points after failing to buildon Paul Scholes’s low drive thatgave the visitors a 12th minute leadand paid credit to Fulham’s resil-ience in fighting back.

But Ferguson believes Nani’spenalty, which was saved byFulham keeper David Stockdale,proved to be the turning point andexpressed his surprise the Portu-gal winger had taken the kickwhen Ryan Giggs was on thepitch.

And, with Chelsea already infine form after winning their firsttwo matches 6-0, Ferguson knowslosing touch with the championsat this early stage could be costly.“You don’t want to be droppingsilly points and we dropped sillypoints here,” he said.

“We can’t escape that. Therewas an opportunity to go 3-1ahead with three minutes left andwe didn’t take it. “I don’t think wedeserved to be in front at 2-1 butwhen you get the opportunity toseal the game with that penaltyyou should be taking it.

“It was a missed opportunity Ifeel and it galvanised them, got thecrowd up and they scored theequaliser in the end. In fairness to


BERLIN – Midfield starMichael Ballack made his return tothe Bundesliga on Sunday to helpBayer Leverkusen open their sea-son with a 2-0 win at Dortmund, butadmitted he is playing for his Ger-many place. The 33-year-old is backin the Bundesliga after four yearsin the Premier League with Chelseaafter an ankle injury ruled him outof last month’s World Cup, whereGermany finished third.

Having lost the captaincy toPhilipp Lahm, Ballack admits he isnot sure he will be included in theGermany squad for next month’sEuro 2012 qualifiers with nationalcoach Joachim Loew set to namehis squad on Friday.

“I’m still not 100 percent, but Ithink I will be part of the team,” saidBallack after his Bundesliga return.Despite running Leverkusen’smidfield, he played no hand in thetwo goals by Swiss midfielderTranquillo Barnetta and Brazil’sRenato Augusto.


ROME - AC Milan coachMassimiliano Allegri believes thefuture is bright for the club’s de-fence. The back four has alwaysbeen a traditional strength amongMilan teams over the last 20 years,dating back to the days of FrancoBaresi, Paolo Maldini andAlessandro Costacurta but in the lastcouple of seasons, Milan havestruggled, not least due to the ofteninjury-induced inavailability ofAlessandro Nesta.

However, following the penaltydefeat after a 0-0 draw with Juventusin the Berlusconi Trophy at the SanSiro on Sunday night, Allegri paidtribute to Thiago Silva, 25, and newGreek signing from Genoa Soktratis

ManchesterUnited’s Nani(R) andFulham’sJohnathanGreening (L) vieduring theirPremiershipmatch at hometo Fulham atCraven Cottagefootball stadium,London onAugust 22, 2010.The matchended 2-2.

Fergie fears United couldFergie fears United couldFergie fears United couldFergie fears United couldFergie fears United couldregret Fulham frustrationregret Fulham frustrationregret Fulham frustrationregret Fulham frustrationregret Fulham frustrationAgence France Presse

LONDON - Sir Alex Ferguson conceded Manchester United could live to regret their frustrat-ing 2-2 draw against Fulham at Craven Cottage. Nani’s late penalty miss denied Ferguson’s sidethe opportunity to establish a 3-1 lead with six minutes remaining and was punished when Fulhamdefender Brede Hangeland headed home an equaliser in the 89th minute.

them they were the better team in thesecond half.

“When we got that second goal Ithought we’ve escaped here. To missa penalty kick to make it 3-1, you’rethrowing two points away there I’mafraid.

“I thought Ryan should havetaken it. In the last game we playedagainst Tottenham at home Ryanscored two penalty kicks and Naniwas on the pitch the same day.”

Wayne Rooney missed the gamebecause of illness but Ferguson ex-pects the England striker to returnnext week when West Ham visit OldTrafford.

“Wayne has a virus,” he said. “Theproblem is he turned up on Saturdaywith it and he had no chance in 24hours. “If it has been a Thursday orFriday we may have been able to patchhim up. Sometimes these viruses are24 hour things and that could havebeen the case but there was no attemptto see if he could recover from this.”

In Rooney’s absence, JavierHernandez was partnered with DimitarBerbatov and the United manager be-lieves the Mexican will make a biggerimpact when his team-matesfamiliarise themselves with his styleof play.

Ferguson said: “Javier was brightand had two great strikes in the first

half. He threatened with his pace andwe have used his pace a bit better.

“There were moments when wecould have threaded a pass through buttook the option of passing out wide.We’ll have to use that part of himmore.”

Stockdale’s penalty save capped anexcellent all round performance fromthe reserve keeper who was once againincluded after regular number oneMark Schwarzer was ruled out be-cause of injury. Schwarzer remains atarget for Arsenal, although the Gun-ners failure to increase their initial twomillion pounds offer for the Australianwhen they lodged a second bid for theplayer last week incensed the CravenCottage club.

Fulham manager Mark Hughes in-sists Schwarzer’s departure is by nomeans assured. “It’s not a foregoneconclusion,” Hughes said.”The boy’snot fit at the moment. He trained onSaturday, went out with the physiosand felt discomfort, so he was neveran option.

“We’re all aware of Arsenal’s in-terest. He’s an outstanding goalkeeperand they obviously feel they have anissue with their goalkeeper.

“I just want to protect my footballclub and make sure that we don’tweaken or lessen our squad with anydepartures.”

AFP PHOTO/Carl de Souza

Ballack back for Bayer, butunsure of Germany spot

(AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Leverkusen’s Michael Ballack, left, and Dortmund’s PatrickOwomoyela challenge during the German first divisionBundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund andBayer Leverkusen in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010.

Leverkusen struck early asBarnetta netted in the 19th-minutebefore Renato Augusto struck thesecond just three minutes later togive Leverkusen the three points.

Earlier, VfB Stuttgart suffered ashock defeat by Mainz when theirTunisia striker Sami Allagui, whowas making his debut, opened thescoring in the 26th-minute as heplanted his shot in the left corner tostun Stuttgart.

Fellow debutant and strikerMorten Rasmussen of Denmarkthen scored the second just twominutes after the half-time break asthe home side took the three points.On Saturday, Hoffenheim got theirseason off to a flying start whenthey destroyed Werder Bremen 4-1to set the early pace.

A late goal by ex-ManchesterUnited striker Ruud van Nistelrooygave Hamburg three points andsealed a 2-1 win over ten-manSchalke 04 on Saturday night afterRoyal Blues defender BenediktHoewedes was sent off after anhour.

Allegri praises young centre-backsPapastathopoulos, 22.

“In central defence Thaigo Silvaand Papastathopoulos did well butalso the rest of the defence playedwell,” he said before also expressinghis satisfaction with Ronaldinho’scondition. “Ronaldinho is a playerwho has all the physical qualities todo well and (Sunday night) heshowed he can have a positive effecton our season.”

The 43-year-old coach also ex-pressed his pleasure at thedeveloppment of Nigerian forwardNnamdi Oduamadi. “In attackOduamadi worked hard. It wasn’t easyfor him to play his first match at theSan Siro (but) I’m happy and satisfiedwith what he did on the pitch.” Milanbegin their campaign on Sunday athome to newly promoted Lecce.

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Sharapova captured her firstWTA singles and doubles titles atthe 2003 Japan Open, and alsowon her first professional title onthe ITF Circuit series in Gunma,north of Tokyo, a year earlier.

The Russian heart-throb haswon four titles in Tokyo out of her22 WTA titles, including the Ja-pan Open twice and the 2005 PanPacific. Last year, Sharapova putan end to a long lay-off caused bya shoulder injury by winning herfirst title since Amelia Island inApril 2008, beating Jelena

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SINGAPORE – The InternationalOlympic Committee says up to 17countries have expressed interest inhosting future Youth Olympics, includ-ing the United States and others fromAfrica and Latin America.

The inaugural youth winter gameswill be held in Innsbruck, Austria, in2012 and the summer games inNanjing, China in 2014. Lillehammer,Norway, which hosted the 1994 Win-ter Olympics, is the only city that hasexpressed an interest in hosting the2016 winter games, and has until No-vember to submit a formal bid, the IOCsaid.

The IOC’s Olympic Games Execu-tive Director Gilbert Felli said Satur-day that an African and Latin Ameri-can country as well as “some cities inthe United States” have expressed in-terest in hosting the event in 2018 andbeyond, but would not name them.

“We have had discussions with the


BERLIN - Russian giant andformer WBA heavyweight championNikolai Valuev will take six monthsoff boxing to recover from a boneproblem which could threaten hiscareer, his doctor said on Sunday.

The 37-year-old, who lost hisWBA title to Britain’s David Hayelast November, will have an opera-tion on his left shoulder and righthand next month which will keephim out of boxing for at least sixmonths. Valuev boxes out of the

Maria Sharapova of Russiacelebrates match point in her

semifinal match againstAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova of

Russia on day six of theWestern & Southern Finan-

cial Group Women’s Open onAugust 14, 2010 at the

Lindner Family Tennis Centerin Cincinnati, Ohio.

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TOKYO - Defending champion Maria Sharapova will return to Tokyo next month, spear-heading the star-studded Pan Pacific Open women’s tennis tournament, organisers said on Mon-day. Twenty-seven players out of the current world top 30 will take part in the two-million-dollarhard court tournament from September 26 to October 2, with only Kim Clijsters, Venus Will-iams and Justine Henin missing.

Jankovic of Serbia in the final.Along side world number one

Serena Williams, the singles fieldincludes former Pan Pacific cham-pions Elena Dementieva of Russia,the Beijing Olympic gold medal-list who won here in 2006. Otherformer champions are Japan’sKimiko Date Krumm, the winnerin 1995, and Dinara Safina of Rus-sia, the winner in 2008. Bothpicked up a wild card.

Petra Kvitova of the Czech Re-public and Tsvetana Pironkova ofBulgaria, who caused a sensation

by reaching the semi-finals atWimbledon, will make their Japandebuts.

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IOC: Many countries interested in youth games

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Robin Reynolds of the United States celebrates after winningthe gold medal at the Women’s 400-Meter Run Finals at the YouthOlympic Games held on Saturday Aug. 21, 2010 in Singapore.

USOC (U.S. Olympic Committee) andsome cities in the U.S. who have theidea for the winter or summer games,”Felli said. “One day, they would like tocome with a bid.”

IOC spokesman Mark Adams saidthe IOC is emphasizing the use of ex-isting facilities to make the youth eventmore attractive to cities with smallerbudgets.

“It gives them a chance to partici-pate, to take part in the whole Olympicideal,” Adams said. “That is why thereis interest from cities which wouldprobably never have thought of gettinginvolved and could never see them-selves as serious contenders for stag-ing an Olympic event.”

IOC President Jacques Roggepraised the Singapore games as itreached the halfway point of the 12-day event. Education programs, includ-ing talks with elite athletes, have beenpopular with the youngsters. Fans havetaken to the new sports like 3-on-3 bas-ketball.

“So far everything is going smoothlyand we’ve been very pleased with theorganization, the competition and thenon-sport activities,” Rogge said in astatement. “While it is impossible toprovide a full assessment of the gamesuntil after they’re over, so far we arevery satisfied.” American athletes hadtheir best day of the games Saturday,winning two golds, a silver and abronze.

China leads the games with 20 goldsand 33 medals overall. Russia is sec-ond with 15 golds and 32 overall, whileSouth Korea has seven golds. Tang Yiof China has been the star of the gamesso far. The 17-year-old has won six ofher country’s 11 swimming golds.

The IOC said the popularity of thegames is reaching well beyondSingapore. The Youth Olympics’YouTube channel, part of a broad so-cial media campaign, has had 2.8 mil-lion hits. That’s higher than the trafficfor the 2010 Vancouver Games. TheYouth Olympics has 3,500 followerson Twitter and a popular Facebookpage.

Organizers from Innsbruck, whoplan to host the 2012 winter YouthOlympic with 1,050 athletes from 70countries, said the Singapore gameshave given them confidence. “It’s takensome pressure off us because now weknow it can work,” said Peter Bayer,chief executive of Innsbruck 2012. Fellisaid the IOC had concerns that manyvenues this week were far from full —despite all tickets having been sold.

“You have some sessions wherepeople are coming in the morning andwatching for a while and then leavingand they don’t come for the afternoonand evening session. That is somethingof a disappointment,” Felli said. “But itwas much fuller last night than the be-ginning of the week, so they are work-ing on that to bring more people in.”

Valuev out for sixmonths with injury

German Sauerland stable and lastfought in Nuremberg against Haye.

“He can’t train for half a year,Nikolai’s joints and bones are al-ready damaged,” boxing doctorWalter Wagner told Sunday’s editionof German daily Bild.

When asked about a possible re-turn to the ring, the doctor was cau-tious. “We will see in 2011, hishealth is what counts,” he said.Valuev, who weighs 150kgs andmeasures 2.13m tall, has won 50of his 53 fights, including 34knock-outs.

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LEWIS Hamilton says he isready to restart his bid for a secondF1 title following the summer shut-down. Hamilton lost his champion-ship lead to Mark Webber in theHungarian Grand Prix, whileMcLaren has also slipped behindRed Bull in the race for the con-structors’ championship.

Following the summer shut-down, McLaren has worked hard onimproving its car ahead of thisweekend’s Belgian Grand Prix andHamilton admitted that the breakhad given the team time to reflecton where it needs to improve.

“Although it’s been great for thewhole team to have had the factoryshutdown and a well-deserved holi-day, I think we’re all really lookingforward to getting back into the titlefight,” he said. “The break gave ussome valuable thinking time to con-sider how to improve our car for theremainder of the season – and wehead into these two races not onlyoptimistic of some better results, butalso of stronger pace for the rest ofthe year.”

Hamilton added that the team

“It was a perfect weekend for Citroen in a place that is very importantfor us,” said team boss Olivier Quesnel. “To win eight times here is incred-ible.”

The victory was Loeb’s fifth this season and 59th in his rallying career,and nudges him closer to a seventh consecutive world title. “It is a rallywhere we have always enjoyed success,” said Loeb. “I was very comfort-able with the car, everything worked well and so another one in Germany.It’s brilliant.

In a rally Loeb led from beginning to end, Ford works team driver Jari-Matti Latvala finished fourth while Citroen privateer Petter Solberg com-pleted the top five places.

Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena now have 191 points in the drivers’championship, 58 points clear of their closest rival, Ogier. Sordo had pressedLoeb hard on the opening day but on Saturday’s stage 11 admitted that hewould settle for second which he duly achieved, securing an impressivepodium for Citroen.

“Everyone is impressed with what Seb has done, he is going to be cham-pion for the seventh time and he won here for the eighth time,” said Sordo.“I can see that he is going quickly, that he takes risks, that he brakes hardand that he always has a little something extra.

“If we can win the constructors’ title in France that would be fantasticfor Citroen.” The next rally will be held in Japan on September 10-12followed by Loeb’s home rally in Alsace, France at the start of October.

“Another two victories would be great because the end of the champi-onship is beginning to close in on us,” said Loeb. “But the key thing is towin the title before the end of the season. I am not too greedy but if I canwin the Alsace rally as well, then that would be even better.”

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French driver Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena celebrate victory in the the ADAC Rally inTrier,southern Germany on August 22, 2010.

Loeb takes step towardsseventh world title


TRIER, Germany - France’s Sebastien Loeb, the defendingand six-time world champion, on Sunday won the Rally of Ger-many for the eighth time. Loeb finished 51.3 seconds ahead ofSpain’s Dani Sordo, with fellow Frenchman Sebastien Ogier inthird, in a podium cleansweep for the Citroen C4 car.

Hamilton ready to renew challengewas confident that it wouldn’t suffera repeat of the problems it encoun-tered at the Hungaroring when rac-ing resumes.

“For this year, too, I head to Spa offthe back of a disappointing non-finishin Hungary,” he said. “We’ve investi-gated the causes, and think we’ve iden-tified the reason and are confident that

it shouldn’t happen again.“Personally, I think Spa is one

of the ‘great’ Formula 1 tracks, andone I’d really love to win. I’ll begoing flat-out to try and get us backinto the hunt again in Belgium, andit would be fantastic if we couldtake home another win at the endof the weekend.”

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