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Climax of ‘Hunger Games’ trilogy to be split in two In this image released by Lionsgate, Jennifer Lawrence portrays Katniss Everdeen in a scene from “The Hunger Games,” opening on Friday, March 23, 2012.
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The final installment of smash hit movie franchise “The Hunger Games,” based on a trilogy by author Suzanne Collins, is to be split into two films, the film’s makers have announced. The decision to release the movies in November 2014 and 2015 -- targeting the lucrative Thanksgiving holiday in the United States -- follows a similar move by producers of the “Harry Potter” films. “The Hunger Games,” about children forced to fight for their lives in a Roman circus-style televised blood sport in a postapocalyptic world, broke US box office records when it was released in March. “Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” the second installment, is due out on November 22, 2013, according to Lionsgate, a studio based in Santa Monica, California. And in an online update this week, the production company said “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” will be released on November 21, 2014, followed a year later by “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2” on November 20, 2015. The last book in JK Rowling’s record-breaking boy wizard story, “Harry Potter and
Tom Cruise attorney threatens National Enquirer with lawsuit
Tom Cruise’s attorney has threatened the parent company of the National Enquirer with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over a new issue asserting it has details of the actor’s recent split with wife Katie Holmes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter on its website posted a letter from Cruise’s Los
Angeles attorney, Bert Fields, in which he blasts American Media Inc, parent of the Enquirer, for what he calls “false and vicious lies” he says will cause “hundreds of millions of dollars” in damages to Cruise. “As you were notified in advance, your current issue of National Enquirer
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Photo dated June 16, 2010 shows US actors Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes on the red carpet as they arrive for the international film premiere of the film “Knight and Day” by US director James Mangold in Sevilla.
makes numerous false and defamatory assertions about our client Tom Cruise,” the three-page letter begins. The letter draws attention to disparaging descriptions of Cruise in the Enquirer’s issue that hit newsstands on Wednesday, with Fields writing, “These are all lies vicious, hurtful, damaging lies.” Fields did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comment late on Wednesday and a representative for American Media could not be reached. Cruise and Holmes have been the subject of hundreds of headlines worldwide since she filed for divorce from the “Mission: Impossible” movie star two weeks ago, seeking sole custody of their 6-year-old daughter, Suri. Earlier this week, the couple agreed to a divorce and custody arrangement, but details were undisclosed. Both have remained publicly silent about the issue, except for one joint statement in which they said they were working together to settle their differences in the best interest of Suri. Speculation about a reason for the split has centered on Cruise’s membership in the Church of Scientology, but that has never been confirmed by either the couple or their representatives.
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Australia to fly terror victims’ families to Bali Associated Press
CANBERRA — Australia plans to fly relatives of tourists killed in the 2002 Bali bombings to the resort island to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks, in a sign that fear of terrorism in Indonesia is waning. Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced Thursday that her government was discussing with families of victims what financial help they need to attend commemorative events. Two bomb blasts triggered by the al-Qaida-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, on Oct. 12, 2002. “A number of the family members of those who lost their lives will want to be in Bali at the commemorative events there, and as a government we will be providing some assistance for family members,” Gillard told reporters. Last year, the government was advising Australians to “reconsider the need to travel” to Indonesia, including Bali, to mark the ninth anniversary. The government downgraded its travel warning in May, although the threat of a terrorist attack is still described as high. Australian visitors to Bali are now advised to “exercise a high degree of caution.” Brian Deegan, an Australian lawyer whose 21-year-old son, Josh, was killed in the blasts, said government help for families to make the journey was “a positive thing,” if security on Bali was going to be tight. Deegan said he planned to go to Bali for the AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, FILE In this Oct. 17, 2002 file photo, flags, from left, of Australia, Indonesia and the United States hang at the explosion site anniversary regardless of whether the governin Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Australia plans to fly relatives of tourists killed in the 2002 Bali bombings to the resort ment offered him help. island to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks, in a sign that fear of terrorism in Indonesia is waning. Continued on page 6
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Passangers walk between terminals at Ngurah Rai International Airport area in Denpasar on the resort island of Bali on July 12, 2012. Indonesia is planning to build a new airport on the resort island of Bali next year to cope with a growing influx of tourists, the stateowned airport operator said on July 12, 2012.
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DENPASAR - Following the breakdown disaster of the underground parking project on Jalan Sulawesi, claiming the life of two project workers, the lineups of Denpasar House questioned about the matter of permit and safety techniques of the project. A member of Commission B of Denpasar House, I Ketut Resmiyasa, said his party proposed in order the project document could be opened to determine the cause why such a large project did not use retaining wall. “Technically, we are suspicious why the project did not use retaining wall. There are several reasons why the safeguard was not used. Firstly, it is expensive, so the contractor chose not to use it. If this happens, of course the error can be imposed on the contractor,” he said. In addition, Resmiyasa also questioned whether the planning consultant had done a soil test to determine the condition of soil around the project. Without carrying out the test, the contractor would not know the rate of soil instability. On that account, it was
natural if the contractor did not use the retaining wall. “If this happens, the negligence lies on the planning consultant. Thirdly, it is also worth exploring whether the committee has set a supervisory consultant. Technically, all these aspects are interrelated and opening the project document is the way to know it,” he said. Related to the absence of building permit (IMB), Resmiyasa said it was an administrative issue having no relation to the incident. “Permit should be constantly processed, but technical problems are also worth exploring,” he said. A member of Commission A of the Denpasar House, Kadek Ari Sucitha, highlighted again the late arrangement of the project permit. His party urged the Denpasar Municipality to become an example of an orderly administration. “It seems to have become a classical problem in the city of Denpasar. Build first, while the permit is handled later. Well, when a disaster occurred as recently, it was just then revealed,” said the politician of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra). (kmb27)
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JAKARTA - Indonesia is planning to build a new airport on the resort island of Bali next year to cope with a growing influx of tourists, the state-owned airport operator said Thursday. Around 13 million tourists passed through Denpasar’s existing Ngurah Rai International Airport in 2011, drawn by Bali’s year-round sunshine and tropical beaches, and numbers are expected to hit 15 million this year. If current growth in passenger numbers continues, the airport, which opened in 1969, will hit its 20 million passenger capacity around 2014 or 2015, said Miduk Situmorang, spokesman for airport operator Angkasa Pura. The proposed new airport would have an annual capacity of 40 million passengers and would be of “world-class standard”,
he said. “We are anticipating more tourists to come to Bali,” Situmorang told AFP. He declined to say how much the new facility was expected to cost. The new airport would be located in the northern coastal district of Buleleng, in a part of the island now covered in rice paddies and farms, but a long way from the popular southern beach resorts in Seminyak and Kuta. “Buleleng is known for its diving spots and dolphins. It’s largely an undeveloped farming area so we hope an airport will boost tourism there, as southern
Bali is becoming too crowded,” Situmorang said. Situmorang said the company hoped to begin drawing up plans for the airport later this year and to begin construction in the second half of 2013, although it still needed approval from the transport ministry and the local government. The mainly Hindu island in the east of the Muslim-majority archipelago is Indonesia’s premier tourist attraction. However, many have warned that its image of tropical tranquility is under threat due to pollution, traffic jams and overdevelopment.
UBUD - Recently, The Elysian staff took some time out to spend a successful day with The Facilitator Indonesia, Bali’s premiere Training and People Development Specialists. The company is well-known for organizing exciting and thought-provoking days where people – from the most junior to the most senior management – are encouraged to look at new ways to improve both their business skills and personal relationships. This annual event took place in the rural area surrounding Ubud. The day started with a motivational game where teams of six went tracking through the local rice fields and river. Each team consisted of staff members from different departments, the aim being to demonstrate how important it is to get to know your colleagues and work with both their strengths and weaknesses. After lunch, the day continued with group discussions where everyone could consider how the challenge would influence their work roles and how some of the ideas used earlier could also improve day-to-day roles at work.
Calendar Event for June 30 through July 25, 2012 30 Jun Tumpek Landep. Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Selatan. Pura Agung Pasek Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Silamadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Sengguan Singapadu. Pura Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana. Pura taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Br, Taro Kaje Tegalalang Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Ida ratu Pande Besakih Mr. Pasek Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba Klungkung Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Desa Tulikup Gianyar. 1 Jul Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar.
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Following the breakdown disaster of the underground parking project on Jalan Sulawesi, claiming the life of two project workers, the lineups of Denpasar House questioned about the matter of permit and safety techniques of the project.
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3 Jul Purnama Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Gunung Kuripan Lombok. Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Cinere Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Nuansa Udayana, Kori Nuansa Jimbaran Pura Tianyar Pikat, Dawan Klungkung 4 Jul Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pasar Agung Besakih
Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Perancak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung. Pura Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi 10 Jul Anggar Kasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang 11 Jul Buda Umanis Kulantir. Pura Pasek Tangkas kaler Tabanan. Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 15 Jul Redite Keliwon Tolu. Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh 16 Jul Soma Umanis Tolu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra, Pasung Grigih Pura Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Banjar Ceningan Kangin Pura Batu Madeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih. 18 Jul Buda Pon Tolu Pura Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring 19 Jul Wraspati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih. 25 Jul Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan Sading Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida
Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc. The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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Comic-Con fans throng to ‘Hobbit,’ ‘Twilight’ tasters Agence France-Presse
LOS ANGELES - Fans descend on San Diego Thursday for the annual Comic-Con festival of pop culture, with highlights including the long-awaited “Hobbit” and last “Twilight” films, in a four-day geekfest. Some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -many dressed up in the costumes of their idols -- will throng into the sold-out Convention Center and myriad events around the southern Californian city through Sunday. Other big draws at the 43rd annual Comic-Con International include Hollywood veterans like Arnold Schwarzenegger -- returning from politics in “The Expend-
ables 2” -- Robert Downey Jr (“Iron Man 3”), Jodie Foster and Matt Damon. “Twilight” fans will be looking out for Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, in town to promote the final installment of the fantasy films, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2,” due out in November. In a sign of the frenzy generated by the movie, they have been lin-
ing up since last weekend for the “Twilight” panel on Thursday. One fan died when crossing the street nearby Tuesday, triggering a tide of grief on Twitter. The other big movie event of Comic-Con 2012 will be the screening of more footage from Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” prequel “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” due for release in December.
Anticipation if particularly intense because a first glimpse of the movie, shot in groundbreaking 48 frames per second format, drew mixed critical reactions when it was screened in Las Vegas in April. In an interview with the the LA Times published Wednesday, director Jackson said he would screen the footage at Comic-Con in the normal 24 frames per second. “With our 48 frames per second presentation, negative bloggers are the ones the mainstream press runs with and quotes from,” he said. Television bosses will also be showcasing their wares in San Diego: small screen highlights
include HBO fantasy hit “Game of Thrones,” a new season of “Glee,” and Britain’s “Dr. Who,” seeking to build on its US fan base. Video games have also played a growing part at Comic-Con. Those presenting new material this year include “Assassin’s Creed III,” “Halo 4” and “Resident Evil.” Many Comic-Con attendees openly embrace the description of them as geeks, or nerds, and there will be a predominance of young men dressed up as superheros, or Middle Earth thronging the San Diego streets over the next few days. But a growing number of women are also joining the party.
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DENPASAR - After the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) was at risk of being empty and implementation of the third phase mass vaccination was stagnating, Bali could finally breathe a little easier with the vaccine assistance from FAO. Then, the third phase mass vaccination could be resumed immediately. It was conveyed by the Head of the Bali Livestock Agency, I Putu Sumantra, after the plenary session at the Parliament Hall on Wednesday (Jul 11). Sumantra explained that VAR support from the food and agriculture organization amounted to 130,000 doses. Such amount of assistance would be enough to cover the temporary vaccine shortfall while waiting for the 375,000 doses obtained from the procurement through the government budget. Currently, the government procurement was still in the bidding process. According to him, the vaccine assistance from the FAO had arrived earlier this month. Along with the coming of the assistance, the suspended third phase vaccination would be resumed. “We get the vaccine support from the FAO. It has arrived early this July so that the third phase mass vaccination has set to be under progress throughout the regency/ municipality. Thus, there is no longer a vaccination problem. Even,
when coupled with the government procurement, the vaccine stocks will be surplus,” he said. Sumantra denied the accusations if his party did not have initiative to cover the vaccine shortfall occurred within the past few months. The news about the vaccine shortage was known by FAO so that it decided to lend a hand. Related to rabies cases coming into view, he confessed that based on the result of evaluation, it was known that five villages were affected by the case among the 275 villages surveyed. Two cases occurred in Jimbaran, a case in Kuta, a case in Jembrana and another case in Karangasem. “It was the result of our evaluation within two months. So far, the third phase vaccination has reached 180,000 dogs, or about 70 percent of the estimated total dog population reaching 302,000,” he explained. (kmb29)
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A dog get shot of VAR. After the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) was at risk of being empty and implementation of the third phase mass vaccination was stagnating, Bali could finally breathe a little easier with the vaccine assistance from FAO. Then, the third phase mass vaccination could be resumed immediately.
Bali-Japan Expo strengthens brotherhood IBP
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Close relationships between Bali and Japan should be improved in the future, not only in the field of cultural cooperation and education, but also in other fields. To that end, it is required a mutual cultural understanding and attitude among the young generation of both countries.
DENPASAR - Close relationships between Bali and Japan should be improved in the future, not only in the field of cultural cooperation and education, but also in other fields. To that end, it is required a mutual cultural understanding and attitude among the young generation of both countries. It was revealed by the Consul General of Japan in Denpasar, Minoru Shirota, amidst the implementation of BaliJapan Expo, in Denpasar, last days. With the growth of love, the first step to create a more solid cooperation had been achieved. Minoru Shirota highly appreciated the happening of Bali-Japan Expo initiated by Bali Genki, a community loving for Japanese culture. They belonged originated in various groups of community such as school students, college students and workers. Such an event was graced with various activities, ranging from speech contest in Japanese language, magazine exhibition, robot, culinary as well as some typical Japanese games winning the applause from hundreds of enthusiastic visitors. Likewise, it was jazzed up with the presenta-
tion of Balinese dance performed as a symbol of friendship between both regions. Even, the atmosphere was reinforced by the attraction of participants dressed in traditional Japanese and the use of attributes of famous comic characters in the Sakura Country. In the meantime, Chairman of the Denpasar-Fukuoka Brotherhood, AA Ngurah Widiada, accompanied by I Gusti Intan Wulandari truly appreciated the positive activity. Such activity was expected to draw more participants in the future so as to improve the cooperation of Bali and Japan. Meanwhile, one of the senior figures of the Denpasar-Fukuoka Brotherhood, Nagaoka Sensei, thoroughly welcomed the activity. According to him, it was a good first step to know, understand and love each other. Moreover, Bali and Japan respectively had similarities and interactions of the citizens of both countries were very intense. As consequence, it would not be an unusual thing if the agreement and understanding between the two countries could be quickly realized. (055)
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LONDON - Getting around London will become trickier from this weekend, when thousands of athletes arrive for the Olympics, and further disruption is expected a week later as the torch relay enters the capital.
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DENPASAR - Bali constancy is a reform effort that should be made on an ongoing basis in order to maintain the cultural identity of Bali. A social and legal analyst, Fahmi Yanuar Siregar, Wednesday (Jul 11) said that Bali constancy was not only interpreted as how to keep the elements of culture and identity, but also how to create the order of government social life to be secure and equitable and how to achieve a good governance. Furthermore, the man of Balinese-Sumatran descendant said that to realize good governance, the order of justice was the most vital instrument that should receive attention from the government. Lack of control and attention of the government in the realm of justice had resulted in discretion in the justice realm, so that it often caused distortion in the enforcement of the justice itself. Expected, the future control could create a realm of the really fair justice. The lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Mahendradatta University, added the most prominent criminal threat in Bali was drug trafficking. To that end, it should be designed a master plan and an ongoing effort to prevent any attempt to make Bali a fertile land to commit a crime. In the future, Bali should have a master plan and concrete measure
in maintaining the security and enforcing the laws. It was also important to draw a line that could differentiate between the entrepreneurs and the authorities, so that the implementation of the laws would not be ridiculed by investors. The man from Pidpid Abang added that solution to customary issues should get more serious attention because it involved fundamental rights. On that account, it was required a firm legal basis, not only a jargon of government working programs. Fahmi also added there should be a moral commitment and social contract of the future leaders of Bali in relation to the reform implementation of the Bali order and the master plan agreed. However, in many ways the commitment was still low so far. (kmb29)
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ProFauna protested wild animals consumption Bali Post
Protesters hold posters to protest the use of wild animals in restaurants.
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DENPASAR - The action of wild animals trade done by a number of restaurants in Indonesia got a strong threat from ProFauna Activists as based on their survey, wild animals processed meat trade seemed to be increasing such as in Jakarta, Surabaya, Malang, Yogyakarta, Palembang, Medan and Denpasar. Coordinator of it, Jatmiko, stated the trend in Denpasar was seen the past two years yet it can’t be predicted yet how many animals are betrayed every day or every month. “But the trend can be seen on the number of small restaurants in Bali sells their meat such as monkey, pangolin, turtles, lutung, snakes, biawak lizard and hedgehogs. Some were even sold at Puputan Badung Field,” Jatmiko clarified on Wednesday (11/7). From the investigation done, a number of restaurants actually stated they sold these meats where biawak meat sold at Legian, Canggu, Dalung and Penatih while snake meat at Tabanan. It was said compared to other areas, Bali wild animals’ meat trade is small yet even so it’s worrying that it could increase as many kind of things were used to promote it such as for health and beauty when actually it is not medically proven. “It also puts the animal to extinct!” Jatmiko clarified. In Bali the most sold were biawak meat, not only they capture the animal in Bali but also from East Java where 100 of them can be sent moreover already in a meat form. For that a clear step needs to be taken by Bali Government to stop it before it goes to extinct. In this action they protested by bringing posters such as one of them stating ‘Don’t Eat Wild Animals!’. (kmb27)
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Workers put up advertising at a shopping mall near the London 2012 Olympic Park, as work continues to ready the site for the summer games which begin July 27, in east London, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Getting around London will become trickier from this weekend, when thousands of athletes arrive for the Olympics, and further disruption is expected a week later as the torch relay enters the capital.
Commuters and businesses, already used to congestion on the city’s narrow streets, were warned by London’s public transport authority on Thursday to plan ahead to avoid getting caught up in travel hotspots. Although the opening ceremony is not until July 27, large numbers of athletes, officials and the world’s media are due to arrive this weekend to coincide with the opening of the Olympic Village in east London on Monday. “This will lead to a significant increase in the number of vehicles on the roads in central London, around the Olympic Route Network (ORN) and Games venues,” Transport for London said in a statement. It advised motorists to avoid driving in these areas from mid-July. About 30 miles of specially designated Games Lanes will be reserved to whisk the 82,000 members of the “Olympic family” to stadiums on time. The Olympic rings and white lines have begun to be painted on these lanes, though they will not come into operation until July 25. However, Games Lanes on the M4, the main route between Heathrow airport and the centre of London, will come into operation on Monday, July 16. Transport bosses hope that structural repairs to a crack on an M4 bridge will be completed shortly. Work to adjust the 1,300 traffic lights on the larger 109-mile ORN has also started. The Olympic torch relay, which has attracted more than four million people during its tour of the country, begins its week-long journey through the city on July 21. Experience from other host cities shows that people often adopt a “wait and see” approach during the first few days of the Games, TfL said. “Don’t get caught out.”
US, China square off over South China Sea Associated Press
PHNOM PENH — The Obama administration pressed Beijing on Thursday to accept a code of conduct for resolving territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, a difficult U.S. mediation effort that has faced resistance from the communist government. It has endeared the U.S., however, to once-hostile countries in Southeast Asia. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ annual conference. Sitting across from each other at a long table in a grand hall with chandeliers, Clinton stressed the
different ways Washington and Beijing are cooperating. Yang spoke of building an even closer U.S.-Chinese relationship. Neither side spoke about the South China Sea while reporters were allowed in the room. Several Asian governments have expressed worry about China’s expansive maritime claims. Tensions have threatened to boil over in recent months, with a standoff between Chinese and Philippine ships and sharp disagreements between China and Vietnam. China claims virtually the entire area and has created an entirely new city to administer it, sparking deep concern from rival claimants. The sea hosts about a third of the world’s cargo traffic, has rich fish-
ing grounds and is believed to store vast oil and gas reserves. “The United States has no territorial claims there and we do not take sides in disputes about territorial or maritime boundaries,” Clinton told foreign ministers gathered in Cambodia’s capital. “But we do have an interest in freedom of navigation, the maintenance of peace and stability, respect for international law and unimpeded lawful commerce in the South China Sea.” Asian countries should “work collaboratively and diplomatically to resolve disputes without coercion, without intimidation, without threats and without use of force,” Clinton added. The ASEAN countries are presenting their proposal to China at
this week’s conference in Cambodia’s capital, though Beijing will probably want to water down any language that ties its hands. A senior administration official said Yang, in his discussion with Clinton, cautiously signaled China’s willingness to negotiate with other Asian nations on the code. The talks could start as early as September, said the official, who briefed reporters on the meeting in condition of anonymity. Meanwhile, disagreements among ASEAN’s members on Thursday were still holding up a concluding document for this year’s meeting. How to address the Philippines’ and Vietnam’s disputes with China remained issues of contention, U.S. officials said.
For the United States, the difficult diplomacy ahead could be a major test of the Obama administration’s efforts to “pivot” American power toward the world’s most populous continent. Just speaking out on the subject already has helped the U.S. deepen ties with Vietnam, and relations are warming with other governments in the region. But countless meetings between American and Chinese officials have not led to progress on a lasting solution. Various longstanding disputes among China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei involve the area’s busy sea lanes, and many observers fear the complicated web of disputes could spark a violent conflict.
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BUSINESS ADB cuts growth forecast for developing Asia
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NEGARA - The extending road project of Denpasar-Gilimanuk route now cause complains from road users it seems contractors of the projects weren’t professional and have caused traffic such as hardly any signage was placed plus the work they’ve done was half there half somewhere else.
MANILA — The Asian Development Bank has cut growth forecasts for developing Asia. It says Europe’s worsening financial crisis, sluggish recovery in the U.S. and slower growth in China and India have dampened the region’s growth prospects. in 2013. The report says economic growth in developing Asia moderated during the first half of 2012 as slower growth in the U.S. and the eurozone reduced demand for the region’s exports.
China’s slowdown spreads pain despite stimulus
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In this Feb.19, 2008 file photo Citroen cars park outside the Aulnay sous Bois factory, near Paris, France. French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen unveils Thursday July, 12, 2012, cost-cutting measures that includes several thousand job-cuts.
Peugeot cuts 8,000 jobs to end losses, shuts plant
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PARIS - French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen announced 8,000 job cuts and the closure of an assembly plant as it struggles with mounting losses at the core automotive division. The Aulnay plant near Paris, which employs more than 3,000 workers, will halt in 2014 as part of a drive to reorganize Peugeot’s under-used domestic production capacity, the company said on Thursday. A second factory in Rennes, western France, will shed 1,400 of its 5,600 jobs as it downsizes in response to shrinking demand for larger cars such as the Peugeot 508 and Citroen C5. Some 3,600 non-assembly jobs will also be scrapped across the company. “I am fully aware of the seriousness of today’s announcements,” Chief Executive Philippe Varin said in the company’s statement. “The depth and persistence of the crisis impacting our business in Europe have now made this reorganization project
indispensable.” Peugeot said it would post a net loss in the first half and a 700 million-euro ($857.5 million) operating loss for the core car-making division. Operating cash flow is expected to remain negative until late 2014, the company said. Peugeot said it plans to convert the Aulnay site for other activities and seek new positions within the group for around half its workforce. The latest measures are in addition to 6,000 job cuts announced last year, which included 2,500 external positions at subcontractors and service providers. Peugeot’s core auto division swung to a loss last year and has deteriorated since, as the Peugeot and Citroen brands lose ground to competitors in a shrinking European market. Unlike Volkswagen, the French automaker is heavily exposed to southern markets worst hit by the region’s debt crisis, and lacks its German rival’s export success as well as the support of a low-cost brand like Renault’s Dacia.
BEIJING — China’s economic slowdown slammed into Li Fangliang, cutting sales at his Shanghai auto parts store by half. “There are just fewer and fewer customers,” said Li, who has avoided layoffs among his four employees. “I plan to start a shop online to find new markets.” From shopkeepers to shipbuilders, China’s deepest slowdown since the 2008 global crisis is inflicting more pain in some areas than still-robust headline growth of about 8 percent might suggest. Higher spending by state industry and government-directed investment is pumping up the world’s second-largest economy, but that is masking the fact that the private sector is cutting jobs and scrambling to prop up plunging sales. Data due out Friday are expected to show growth in the three months ending in June fell as low as 7.3 percent, down from the previous quarter’s nearly three-year low of 8.1 percent. That is in line with this year’s official 7.5 percent target. But revenues for companies in construction, shipbuilding and export manufacturing are down by up to half compared with a year ago. The slowdown is a setback for economies around the world that were looking to China to drive demand for exports and support global growth. “Domestic demand remains weak,” said JP Morgan economist Francis Fu in a report. “Corporate profits have continued to decline and incentive for
business investment is low.” Other industries including cargo handling and manufacturers of shoes, clothing, optical fiber and wind turbines are suffering lower profits or losses and cutting jobs, according to Chinese news reports. Job losses could fuel political tensions, eroding economic gains that underpin the Communist Party’s claim to power. The party is trying to enforce calm ahead of a handover of power to a younger generation of leaders this year. Though China’s growth even now is higher than those of developed economies, many industries depend on a much faster expansion to propel demand for new factories, cargo ships and other goods. Construction, which supports millions of jobs, was plunged into a deep freeze by limits imposed on home purchases to cool surging prices. Demand fell further as companies facing weak sales put off building new facilities. Beijing has cut interest rates twice since early June but economists say companies are reluctant to take on more debt. Authorities have reduced fuel prices and are injecting money into the economy through higher spending on low-cost housing and other public works. That will channel money into governmentowned construction companies. Some economists suggest the decline might be more severe than reported, citing rumors that utility companies have been told to make the economy look healthy by inflating electricity consumption data — a key indicator of industrial activity.
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Denpasar – Gilimanuk Project complained, cause traffic jam
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A report released Thursday predicts the region’s economies will expand by 6.6 percent this year and 7.1 percent next year. The figures are lower than the bank’s earlier growth outlook of 6.9 percent this year and 7.3 percent
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The extending road project of Denpasar-Gilimanuk route now cause complains from road users it seems contractors of the projects weren’t professional and have caused traffic such as hardly any signage was placed plus the work they’ve done was half there half somewhere else.
For example at Tegal Cangkring Street until Pohsanten Village, it started with a road digging on the left side yet it was then left ignored without any road signs which actually could put road users to danger. Even though now it has been covered with little stones, it is still dangerous especially for motorcycle users. Then they start on the right side and resulted traffic from both ways. “Due to the project the road narrowed and cause further traffic jam. There should’ve been an arrangement so none of this would happen,” driver Udin from Pohsanten, Mendoyo, stated last Wednesday (11/7). Wayan Karma (46) a mini bus driver for Gilimanuk-Denpasar route admitted not curious that the project was done with no professionalism. According to Jembrana Traffic Police Data, there have been four traffic accidents going on here, most took place at night, with one casualty died since the project
began. Commission C member of Jembrana House of Representatives, Putu Kamawijaya, stated project constructor should be working professionally and know how to manage a disturbance to a public in this case the road users. There should be coordination with the Police or the Transportation Agency where at least a police line can be placed or two people managing the roads to avoid any long traffic queues. It is not the Representatives right to direct these projects knowing them using a central budget yet the Representatives have the right to supervise if the work is not within what it’s hoped. “At least please do try not to disturb the public knowing this is a main route. We know workers are chased within the time but public order needs to be understood too. What’s more confusing was there hasn’t been anyone directed to supervise the project knowing its being complained,” Karmawijaya stated. (kmb26)
PPDB announced
Wrong choice of school caused disappointment Bali Post
DENPASAR - The New Students Acceptance (PPDB) Notice for year 2012/2013 based on Academic Potential Test (TPA) or National Examination Grades have been announced in all Junior High (SMP), High (SMA), and Vocational (SMK), state or international schools in Denpasar last Wednesday (11/7). Even though it has been announce online, most of them went to their dream schools to find out. Various expression were seen on their faces in seeing their name, some very happy and shrieked while others seemed sad even cried. At SMPN 1 Denpasar and SMAN 7 Denpasar, those accepted by TPA and Examination Grade were divided to two boards in avoiding any crowds. Since 8 am local time, hundreds of children and parents went to see it. “To make sure of it, me and my son came here to see if he gets in to this school. Thankfully he is accepted at SMPN 1 Denpasar through TPA,” a happy parent explained. Same as the previous years’ PPDB, this year many of them have to be disappointed due to the wrong strategy they used in applying themselves to a school which so they have to run to a nonstate school such as Gede Adnyana who comes
from a non-state junior high who got 36,45 as his National Examination grade. When he got to SMAN 7 Denpasar to see the announcement, the lowest grade accepted was 37,80, while his other choices SMAN 2 (lowest grade 36,90) and SMAN 8 Denpasar (36,85) will also not accept him. Turns out SMAN 6 accepted 36,40 as lowest, but it’s too late now. “Maybe if I chose SMAN 6 I would get in, but I wanted to go to SMAN 7 or SMAN 2 Denpasar only. Now that I fail going to state schools, I will go and fine nonstate schools, hopefully they still accept pupils,” Adnyana gave up. Meamwhile, Head of Education, Youth and Sports of Denpasar City, IGN Eddy Mulya, clarified that the ranking system online was already settled and has elements of transparency, accountability, responsibility and objectivity. The officer made sure no high grades achiever left out except if they chose not to go to state schools or a wrong choice. He added the registration for new students will be accepted from Thursday (12/7) up to Saturday (14/7) while orientation will take place on Monday (16/7). “Those who did not get it shouldn’t give up and still can choose non-state schools. At this time there are many non-state schools with good quality and able to compete with state schools,” Mulya explained. (ian)
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The New Students Acceptance (PPDB) Notice for year 2012/2013 based on Academic Potential Test (TPA) or National Examination Grades have been announced in all Junior High (SMP), High (SMA), and Vocational (SMK), state or international schools in Denpasar last Wednesday (11/7).
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W RLD Ozawa launches new Japan political party Agence France-Presse
TOKYO - Japanese political kingmaker Ichiro Ozawa on Wednesday launched a new party along with some 50 ruling party defectors, vowing to fight a plan to double the nation’s sales tax. Ozawa, known as the “Shadow Shogun”, also promised to battle Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s unpopular move to restart two nuclear reactors, and instead focus on “developing new energy sources in place of nuclear power plants”. Ozawa and his supporters quit the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) last week, storming out of parliament in protest at the sales tax hike in a dramatic move that shook up Japan’s normally staid political scene. Seventy-year-old Ozawa, a major powerbroker who was a driving force behind the DPJ’s rise to power in the 2009 general election, named the new party “Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi”, which translates as People’s Lives First. The DPJ, a loose alliance of conservative, centrist and liberal politicians, had promised to put more emphasis on the lives of regular people and wrestle national politics from the control of powerful bureaucrats. The victory ended the Liberal Democrats’ nearly unbroken half-century reign. “I am determined to take action in order to help revoke the bill for the consumption tax hike,” Ozawa told the inaugural meeting of his new party, comprised of 49 lawmakers from both upper and lower houses of parliament. “The tax increase bill has been forced through the lower house following a scenario written by bureaucrats and reneging on promises to the people,” he added. Ozawa’s party base -- 37 lawmakers from the lower house of parliament and a dozen others from the upper chamber -- quit the DPJ after voting against a bill to double Japan’s consumption tax to 10 percent by 2015. The bill, which already cleared Japan’s lower house, was also expected to pass the upper chamber and become law. Noda had insisted the hike was crucial to chopping Japan’s massive public debt, the biggest debt pile among industrialised nations. The DPJ still retains a lower-house majority, but Ozawa’s new party comes ahead of a general election expected next year with the ruling party set to suffer at the polls over its tax hike and reactor restarts. Ozawa, who formerly led the DPJ before its rise to power, had been hurt by a political funding scandal that forced him from the front line. But he was cleared in April of charges of illegal use of political funds and has since tried to stage a comeback.
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Ichiro Ozawa, center, punches the air with other lawmakers as he launches his new political group “Put People’s Lives First” in Tokyo Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Ozawa and 48 other lawmakers had quit the ruling Democratic Party of Japan last month in opposition to a sales tax hike pushed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s government.
LONDON - Britain on Thursday released an archive of “X-Files” detailing government UFO briefings and probes into unexplained sightings, including one above Chelsea football club. officers which speculated on why aliens would visit earth. Despite having no hard evidence for alien craft, the officer explained that any visit would most likely be motivated by military reconnaissance, scientific development or tourism. In a briefing prepared for the MoD in 1979, a UFO intelligence officer noted that no radio tracking systems had ever picked up any alien transmissions. The release of the documents came after an FOI request by David Clarke, author of the book ‘The UFO files’ and a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. “These records allow us to look behind the scenes of what
must have been one of the strangest jobs in Whitehall” (shorthand for Britain’s civil service), said Clarke. “We now have a fascinating insight into some of the extraordi-
nary reports and briefings which passed over the UFO Desk on a daily basis and how its officers used logic and science in their attempts to explain ‘the unexplained’,” he added.
Australia ... From page 1 He said he had visited Bali only once, in 2003, to see one of the terrorists, Amrozi Nurhasyim, face court. Nurhasyim was one of three ringleaders executed in 2008 for the crime. Deegan said he thought he would never return to Bali, but the approaching anniversary had changed his mind. “He was almost 22 years alive and now he’s 10 years dead — it’s an awkward, revolting feeling and it’s come about so quickly,” Deegan said of his son. “It’s 10 years since I saw him alive; it’s a long time, but it’s also a short time,” he said.
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INDONESIA Indonesia holds benchmark rate at 5.75% JAKARTA - Indonesia’s central bank left its overnight benchmark rate unchanged on Thursday at 5.75 percent amid rising inflation and a weak rupiah.
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of Information requests (FOIs) and managing UFOlogists (UFO “experts”). Among the stranger investigations included one into a UFO sighting by a police officer at Chelsea football club and another into a visit by three “men in black” to a person who reported a UFO encounter in Lincolnshire, east England. According to the files, a hotel owner in Wales once complained to her MP after a UFO landed in a field “from which two tall silver-suited ‘faceless humanoids’ emerged and began “making measurements’.” Also included in the files are details of a 1995 briefing by one of the MoD’s UFO intelligence
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UK ‘X-Files’ reveal UFO sighting over Chelsea stadium The 25 files released by The National Archives include “a lengthy briefing on UFO policy to then prime minister Tony Blair’s office” along with a job description for the post of UFO desk officer, described as the “weirdest job in Whitehall.” According to an employee of the UFO desk, which closed in 2009, the perception that it consisted of “top secret teams of specialist scientists scurrying around the country in a real life version of the X-Files” was “total fiction.” Instead, daily duties included providing briefings on the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) position on UFOs, undertaking UFO investigations, handling Freedom
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Inflation rose to 4.53 percent in June year-on-year from 4.45 percent in May, but remained within the target range set by Bank Indonesia (BI) of 3.5 percent and 5.5 percent. “BI decided to keep its rate at 5.75 percent. In our view, this rate is consistent with current low inflation, which is still within our range,” said governor Darmin Nasution. Despite concerns that the global slowdown would further weaken demand for Indonesian exports, the bank chose not to slash the rate as the rupiah is weak, having fallen more than nine percent in the last 12 months. BI said the slowdown had already begun to affect Indonesian trade.
“The weaker global economy is starting to have an impact on Indonesia, with external growth lower than expected,” Nasution said, adding that imports remained high in line with strong domestic demand. “We are also affected by a slowdown in Asian countries, such as China and India, which are trading partners with Indonesia.” The bank forecast economic growth at 6.1 to 6.5 percent for 2012, and 6.3 to 6.7 percent in 2013. But the World Bank, in its economic quarterly report released Thursday, made more conservative forecasts of six percent in 2012 and 6.4 percent in 2013 in the absence of another severe global downturn.
Merkel pushes EU, Southeast Asia free trade pact Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday said Europe must step up its efforts to establish a free trade pact with booming Southeast Asia. “I am deeply convinced that Europe has to hurry up in setting up a free trade agreement with this region if it wants to be able to compete,” she said during a visit to Jakarta. As European nations are struggling to climb out of debt, Southeast Asian nations are experiencing strong growth. Indonesia grew 6.5 percent in 2011 and is forecast to grow at the same pace this year. On Tuesday, Merkel and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged to boost trade, which now stands at around $7 billion, and Indonesian officials forecast it to reach $12 billion by 2014. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union in May 2007 agreed to start free trade agreement talks after years of wrangling over human rights abuses in Myanmar. The EU has begun negotiating agreements with individual
ASEAN states, including Malaysia and Singapore. Myanmar in April pushed for an EU-ASEAN agreement, citing major reforms in the country. ASEAN as a whole represents the EU’s third-largest trading partner outside Europe, with more than 206 billion euros ($253 billion) of trade in goods and services in 2011, according to the European Commission. The EU is ASEAN’s secondlargest trading partner after China, accounting for around 11 percent of ASEAN trade. ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Merkel, who arrived for her first official visit to Southeast Asia’s largest economy on Tuesday, was due to depart for Berlin later Wednesday. She also visited a tsunami early warning centre in Jakarta, built with help from German experts and 53 million euros of German funding after a tsunami in 2004 killed 170,000 people in Indonesia’s Aceh province The system consists of a network of tidal gauges, buoys and seismic monitors.
Bandung Air Show 2012 to be held late September Antara
BANDUNG - Bandung Air show (BAS) 2012 will be held at Husein Sastranegara Airfield located in Bandung city, West Java province, on 27 to 30 September, the commander of Husein Sastranegara Air Force Base Colonel (Pilot) Umar Sugeng Haryono said. “Bandung Air show will again be held at Husein Sastranegara Airfield with various national aerospace activities in an effort to establish Bandung as an aerospace city,” the commander said. BAS 2012 will be conducted during four days as well as a biennial agenda to commemorate the 202nd anniversary of Bandung city on 25 September. Several aerospace activities which will be performed among others static show, dynamic show, fly pass and aerobatic and other
attractive shows. According to Col.Umar as many as 30 airplanes will be displayed on static show as well as the Indonesian aerosports which will show attractions with airplanes and parachuting. Meanwhile the Jupiter Aerobic Team and Pegasus helicopter will also perform. “The Jupiter Aerobatic Team and Pegasus helicopter will perform every day to entertain the visitors,” he noted. The commander added the foreign participants joining the show are Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore and others. The BAS 2012 will be more featuring aerospace acrobatic than fighter aircraft aerobatic. “We are targeting 50,000 visitors or more than the one in BAS 2010,” Col. Umar said. Meanwhile the director of
Greenlite Kreasi Indonesia Susi Nurliah said BAS 2012 is an educative event for the people in particular for the young generation to understand the aerospace. “Besides entertaining, BAS also educates the people,” she said. In addition to the main performance the event also provides handicrafts from small-medium scale industries and West Java culinary to enliven the big show. Bandung has its own story on aerospace development in Indonesia where PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) located in the city has been producing worldclass airplanes such as CN-235 carrier. “Therefore through Bandung Air Show 2012 we expect to re-establish Bandung as an aerospace city,” Col Umar said.
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In this photograph taken on July 11, 2012 a group of 26 suspected illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan are detained at the Indonesian immigration office in Malang city after they were caught by police while traveling on a vehicle in Malang in Java island. Australian opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison claimed people-smugglers have begun using the Australian navy as a collection service with asylum-seeker boats issuing distress calls even when they are not in trouble.
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Nusa Dua Bali IBP
Nusa Dua is an elite resort area with international five star hotels and resorts existing on the costal side in south part of Bali. It is located in Badung Regency and about 25 minutes drive from Bali’s International airport. Nusa Dua with 350 ha size is the sample luxury resort area and one of best tourism places in the world. In fact, the name of Nusa Dua is coming from two small islands located in the south part of Bali Island (Nusa mean the island and Dua mean two) that is dissociated with the white sand. Nusa Dua Area is start built in year 1974,as a result from study of French consultant, SCETO ( Societe Centrale pour l’equpeent Touristique Ouetre-Mer) in the year 1970 and also feasibility study conducted by PCI (Pacific Consultants International) year 19711973 for financing of World Bank aid. The Indonesian Government has delivered this area management to PT. BTDC (Bali Tourism Development Corporation) which existing under the law and regulation of Republic Indonesia Government no.27 year 1972, on 12 November 1972. This area owns the most complete tourism facilities in Bali and Indonesia like five star hotels, luxury accommodations, villas, convention hall, shopping center and beautiful beaches. There are also the sports activities are available in this are like tennis court, squash and golf course. Each hotel is completed by five star restaurant facilities, bar, pub and beach activities.
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FIFA names Havelange, Teixeira in kickbacks case
Associated Press
GENEVA — Former FIFA president Joao Havelange and one-time Brazilian soccer leader Ricardo Teixeira received millions of dollars in a World Cup kickbacks scandal, soccer’s world governing body confirmed on Wednesday. FIFA finally published a Swiss court dossier which detailed that Teixeira received at $13 million from 1992-97 in payments from World Cup marketing partner ISL. The Swiss-based agency’s collapse into bankruptcy in 2001 sparked a criminal probe and exposed the routine practice of buying influence from top sports officials. The 41-page document showed Havelange received a payment of about $1 million in 1997, one year before he was succeeded as FIFA president by Sepp Blatter. Payments “attributed” to accounts connected to the two Brazilians totaled almost $22 million from 1992-2000. The scale of kickbacks tied
to World Cup broadcasting and marketing deals was revealed in a report by a prosecutor in the Swiss canton (state) of Zug who investigated Havelange and Teixeira for “embezzlement, or alternatively disloyal management.” The document had been blocked from publication since June 2010, soon after prosecutors, FIFA and two of the most powerful men in world soccer reached a settlement deal to close the criminal investigation. FIFA, Havelange and Teixeira repaid $6.1 million to end prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand’s probe on condition that their identities remain secret. Teixeira, who repaid $2.5 mil-
lion, denied criminal conduct. Havelange, who paid $500,000, “did not comment on the accusation of criminal conduct,” the report said. Before agreeing to repay $2.5 million, FIFA made its “consent conditional” upon dropping proceedings against its former president and then-serving member of its executive committee, the report showed. “FIFA is pleased that the ISL non-prosecution order can now be made public,” soccer’s world governing body said in a statement. Still, Hildbrand’s report criticized FIFA as “a deficient organization in its enterprise” prior to ISL’s collapse. Havelange and his former sonin-law Teixeira “unlawfully used assets entrusted to (them) for (their) own enrichment several times. FIFA suffered an equivalent loss.” After helping broker the anonymity deal, FIFA was also a party to earlier appeals to block publica-
tion until dropping out of the case last December. Calls Wednesday to the Brazilian Football Confederation, which Teixeira headed for 23 years until March, rang unanswered. Blatter — who was Havelange’s secretary general for 17 years — said in October that he wanted to release the ISL dossier despite his organization seeking to deny reporters access to its contents at the same time. Though Blatter has not been accused of accepting unethical payments, the ISL affair has clouded much of his 14-year FIFA presidency. Seeking closure has become central in his promised mission to improve FIFA’s image and governance. Blatter was not specifically named in the redacted document, though he appeared to be represented several times as “P1”. Hildbrand’s report said it was “not questioned” that FIFA personnel knew about kickback pay-
ments. Havelange was FIFA president for 24 years and remains honorary president. The 96-year-old Brazilian has been treated extensively in a Rio de Janeiro hospital this year for a bacterial infection. He resigned his 48-year IOC membership in December, citing health reasons, days before the Olympic body was due to sanction him following its own investigation into wrongdoing connected to ISL. Teixeira resigned this year as head of Brazil’s soccer federation and the 2014 World Cup organizing committee, and gave up his FIFA executive committee seat after 18 years, citing unspecified health and personal reasons. The ISL scandal stemmed from alleged payments of tens of millions of dollars to sports officials made by the agency before its collapse with debts of $300 million. Commercial bribery was not a crime in Switzerland at the time.
Howard stays with Magic as signings start
Agence France-Presse
Dwight Howard will not be leaving the Orlando Magic for the Brooklyn Nets but Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis joined the NBA champion Miami Heat on Wednesday as a signing moratorium ended. After days of reports and rumors, clubs could finally make official moves and many of them did, but the biggest talent on the potential dealing block, All-Star center Howard, stayed with the Magic. Talks of a four-team trade deal collapsed when Magic general manager Rob Hennigan ruled out a transfer to the Nets, Howard’s preferred destination. “Anything is possible, but with the talks that we have had up to this point there is probably not a whole lot there,” Hennigan said of reviving a Nets deal for Howard. Hennigan said such a trade would not be in the Magic’s best interest, even though Howard could play out a final season and leave on his own terms in another year. Hennigan said that when he told Howard about his decision, the star big man was “conversational, respectful, professional and business-like.” The Magic are still looking for a new coach, with Hennigan saying a hire could come as quickly as next week. Hennigan said he has spoken with other clubs about obtaining Howard, a list that reportedly includes the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers. “The priorities that we have are sort of fluid,” he said. “I really don’t have an answer for X, Y and Z because it’s not that simple. It’s a mixture of the things based on the variables and the things that exist out there.” This Jan. 31, 2011 file photo shows Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard, center, dunking over Memphis Grizzlies teammates Darrell Arthur, left, and Rudy Gay, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Memphis, Tenn.
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Nusa Dua Bali IBP
Nusa Dua is an elite resort area with international five star hotels and resorts existing on the costal side in south part of Bali. It is located in Badung Regency and about 25 minutes drive from Bali’s International airport. Nusa Dua with 350 ha size is the sample luxury resort area and one of best tourism places in the world. In fact, the name of Nusa Dua is coming from two small islands located in the south part of Bali Island (Nusa mean the island and Dua mean two) that is dissociated with the white sand. Nusa Dua Area is start built in year 1974,as a result from study of French consultant, SCETO ( Societe Centrale pour l’equpeent Touristique Ouetre-Mer) in the year 1970 and also feasibility study conducted by PCI (Pacific Consultants International) year 19711973 for financing of World Bank aid. The Indonesian Government has delivered this area management to PT. BTDC (Bali Tourism Development Corporation) which existing under the law and regulation of Republic Indonesia Government no.27 year 1972, on 12 November 1972. This area owns the most complete tourism facilities in Bali and Indonesia like five star hotels, luxury accommodations, villas, convention hall, shopping center and beautiful beaches. There are also the sports activities are available in this are like tennis court, squash and golf course. Each hotel is completed by five star restaurant facilities, bar, pub and beach activities.
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FIFA names Havelange, Teixeira in kickbacks case
Associated Press
GENEVA — Former FIFA president Joao Havelange and one-time Brazilian soccer leader Ricardo Teixeira received millions of dollars in a World Cup kickbacks scandal, soccer’s world governing body confirmed on Wednesday. FIFA finally published a Swiss court dossier which detailed that Teixeira received at $13 million from 1992-97 in payments from World Cup marketing partner ISL. The Swiss-based agency’s collapse into bankruptcy in 2001 sparked a criminal probe and exposed the routine practice of buying influence from top sports officials. The 41-page document showed Havelange received a payment of about $1 million in 1997, one year before he was succeeded as FIFA president by Sepp Blatter. Payments “attributed” to accounts connected to the two Brazilians totaled almost $22 million from 1992-2000. The scale of kickbacks tied
to World Cup broadcasting and marketing deals was revealed in a report by a prosecutor in the Swiss canton (state) of Zug who investigated Havelange and Teixeira for “embezzlement, or alternatively disloyal management.” The document had been blocked from publication since June 2010, soon after prosecutors, FIFA and two of the most powerful men in world soccer reached a settlement deal to close the criminal investigation. FIFA, Havelange and Teixeira repaid $6.1 million to end prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand’s probe on condition that their identities remain secret. Teixeira, who repaid $2.5 mil-
lion, denied criminal conduct. Havelange, who paid $500,000, “did not comment on the accusation of criminal conduct,” the report said. Before agreeing to repay $2.5 million, FIFA made its “consent conditional” upon dropping proceedings against its former president and then-serving member of its executive committee, the report showed. “FIFA is pleased that the ISL non-prosecution order can now be made public,” soccer’s world governing body said in a statement. Still, Hildbrand’s report criticized FIFA as “a deficient organization in its enterprise” prior to ISL’s collapse. Havelange and his former sonin-law Teixeira “unlawfully used assets entrusted to (them) for (their) own enrichment several times. FIFA suffered an equivalent loss.” After helping broker the anonymity deal, FIFA was also a party to earlier appeals to block publica-
tion until dropping out of the case last December. Calls Wednesday to the Brazilian Football Confederation, which Teixeira headed for 23 years until March, rang unanswered. Blatter — who was Havelange’s secretary general for 17 years — said in October that he wanted to release the ISL dossier despite his organization seeking to deny reporters access to its contents at the same time. Though Blatter has not been accused of accepting unethical payments, the ISL affair has clouded much of his 14-year FIFA presidency. Seeking closure has become central in his promised mission to improve FIFA’s image and governance. Blatter was not specifically named in the redacted document, though he appeared to be represented several times as “P1”. Hildbrand’s report said it was “not questioned” that FIFA personnel knew about kickback pay-
ments. Havelange was FIFA president for 24 years and remains honorary president. The 96-year-old Brazilian has been treated extensively in a Rio de Janeiro hospital this year for a bacterial infection. He resigned his 48-year IOC membership in December, citing health reasons, days before the Olympic body was due to sanction him following its own investigation into wrongdoing connected to ISL. Teixeira resigned this year as head of Brazil’s soccer federation and the 2014 World Cup organizing committee, and gave up his FIFA executive committee seat after 18 years, citing unspecified health and personal reasons. The ISL scandal stemmed from alleged payments of tens of millions of dollars to sports officials made by the agency before its collapse with debts of $300 million. Commercial bribery was not a crime in Switzerland at the time.
Howard stays with Magic as signings start
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Dwight Howard will not be leaving the Orlando Magic for the Brooklyn Nets but Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis joined the NBA champion Miami Heat on Wednesday as a signing moratorium ended. After days of reports and rumors, clubs could finally make official moves and many of them did, but the biggest talent on the potential dealing block, All-Star center Howard, stayed with the Magic. Talks of a four-team trade deal collapsed when Magic general manager Rob Hennigan ruled out a transfer to the Nets, Howard’s preferred destination. “Anything is possible, but with the talks that we have had up to this point there is probably not a whole lot there,” Hennigan said of reviving a Nets deal for Howard. Hennigan said such a trade would not be in the Magic’s best interest, even though Howard could play out a final season and leave on his own terms in another year. Hennigan said that when he told Howard about his decision, the star big man was “conversational, respectful, professional and business-like.” The Magic are still looking for a new coach, with Hennigan saying a hire could come as quickly as next week. Hennigan said he has spoken with other clubs about obtaining Howard, a list that reportedly includes the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers. “The priorities that we have are sort of fluid,” he said. “I really don’t have an answer for X, Y and Z because it’s not that simple. It’s a mixture of the things based on the variables and the things that exist out there.” This Jan. 31, 2011 file photo shows Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard, center, dunking over Memphis Grizzlies teammates Darrell Arthur, left, and Rudy Gay, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Memphis, Tenn.
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TOKYO - Japanese political kingmaker Ichiro Ozawa on Wednesday launched a new party along with some 50 ruling party defectors, vowing to fight a plan to double the nation’s sales tax. Ozawa, known as the “Shadow Shogun”, also promised to battle Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s unpopular move to restart two nuclear reactors, and instead focus on “developing new energy sources in place of nuclear power plants”. Ozawa and his supporters quit the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) last week, storming out of parliament in protest at the sales tax hike in a dramatic move that shook up Japan’s normally staid political scene. Seventy-year-old Ozawa, a major powerbroker who was a driving force behind the DPJ’s rise to power in the 2009 general election, named the new party “Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi”, which translates as People’s Lives First. The DPJ, a loose alliance of conservative, centrist and liberal politicians, had promised to put more emphasis on the lives of regular people and wrestle national politics from the control of powerful bureaucrats. The victory ended the Liberal Democrats’ nearly unbroken half-century reign. “I am determined to take action in order to help revoke the bill for the consumption tax hike,” Ozawa told the inaugural meeting of his new party, comprised of 49 lawmakers from both upper and lower houses of parliament. “The tax increase bill has been forced through the lower house following a scenario written by bureaucrats and reneging on promises to the people,” he added. Ozawa’s party base -- 37 lawmakers from the lower house of parliament and a dozen others from the upper chamber -- quit the DPJ after voting against a bill to double Japan’s consumption tax to 10 percent by 2015. The bill, which already cleared Japan’s lower house, was also expected to pass the upper chamber and become law. Noda had insisted the hike was crucial to chopping Japan’s massive public debt, the biggest debt pile among industrialised nations. The DPJ still retains a lower-house majority, but Ozawa’s new party comes ahead of a general election expected next year with the ruling party set to suffer at the polls over its tax hike and reactor restarts. Ozawa, who formerly led the DPJ before its rise to power, had been hurt by a political funding scandal that forced him from the front line. But he was cleared in April of charges of illegal use of political funds and has since tried to stage a comeback.
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Ichiro Ozawa, center, punches the air with other lawmakers as he launches his new political group “Put People’s Lives First” in Tokyo Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Ozawa and 48 other lawmakers had quit the ruling Democratic Party of Japan last month in opposition to a sales tax hike pushed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s government.
LONDON - Britain on Thursday released an archive of “X-Files” detailing government UFO briefings and probes into unexplained sightings, including one above Chelsea football club. officers which speculated on why aliens would visit earth. Despite having no hard evidence for alien craft, the officer explained that any visit would most likely be motivated by military reconnaissance, scientific development or tourism. In a briefing prepared for the MoD in 1979, a UFO intelligence officer noted that no radio tracking systems had ever picked up any alien transmissions. The release of the documents came after an FOI request by David Clarke, author of the book ‘The UFO files’ and a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. “These records allow us to look behind the scenes of what
must have been one of the strangest jobs in Whitehall” (shorthand for Britain’s civil service), said Clarke. “We now have a fascinating insight into some of the extraordi-
nary reports and briefings which passed over the UFO Desk on a daily basis and how its officers used logic and science in their attempts to explain ‘the unexplained’,” he added.
Australia ... From page 1 He said he had visited Bali only once, in 2003, to see one of the terrorists, Amrozi Nurhasyim, face court. Nurhasyim was one of three ringleaders executed in 2008 for the crime. Deegan said he thought he would never return to Bali, but the approaching anniversary had changed his mind. “He was almost 22 years alive and now he’s 10 years dead — it’s an awkward, revolting feeling and it’s come about so quickly,” Deegan said of his son. “It’s 10 years since I saw him alive; it’s a long time, but it’s also a short time,” he said.
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INDONESIA Indonesia holds benchmark rate at 5.75% JAKARTA - Indonesia’s central bank left its overnight benchmark rate unchanged on Thursday at 5.75 percent amid rising inflation and a weak rupiah.
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of Information requests (FOIs) and managing UFOlogists (UFO “experts”). Among the stranger investigations included one into a UFO sighting by a police officer at Chelsea football club and another into a visit by three “men in black” to a person who reported a UFO encounter in Lincolnshire, east England. According to the files, a hotel owner in Wales once complained to her MP after a UFO landed in a field “from which two tall silver-suited ‘faceless humanoids’ emerged and began “making measurements’.” Also included in the files are details of a 1995 briefing by one of the MoD’s UFO intelligence
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UK ‘X-Files’ reveal UFO sighting over Chelsea stadium The 25 files released by The National Archives include “a lengthy briefing on UFO policy to then prime minister Tony Blair’s office” along with a job description for the post of UFO desk officer, described as the “weirdest job in Whitehall.” According to an employee of the UFO desk, which closed in 2009, the perception that it consisted of “top secret teams of specialist scientists scurrying around the country in a real life version of the X-Files” was “total fiction.” Instead, daily duties included providing briefings on the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) position on UFOs, undertaking UFO investigations, handling Freedom
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Inflation rose to 4.53 percent in June year-on-year from 4.45 percent in May, but remained within the target range set by Bank Indonesia (BI) of 3.5 percent and 5.5 percent. “BI decided to keep its rate at 5.75 percent. In our view, this rate is consistent with current low inflation, which is still within our range,” said governor Darmin Nasution. Despite concerns that the global slowdown would further weaken demand for Indonesian exports, the bank chose not to slash the rate as the rupiah is weak, having fallen more than nine percent in the last 12 months. BI said the slowdown had already begun to affect Indonesian trade.
“The weaker global economy is starting to have an impact on Indonesia, with external growth lower than expected,” Nasution said, adding that imports remained high in line with strong domestic demand. “We are also affected by a slowdown in Asian countries, such as China and India, which are trading partners with Indonesia.” The bank forecast economic growth at 6.1 to 6.5 percent for 2012, and 6.3 to 6.7 percent in 2013. But the World Bank, in its economic quarterly report released Thursday, made more conservative forecasts of six percent in 2012 and 6.4 percent in 2013 in the absence of another severe global downturn.
Merkel pushes EU, Southeast Asia free trade pact Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday said Europe must step up its efforts to establish a free trade pact with booming Southeast Asia. “I am deeply convinced that Europe has to hurry up in setting up a free trade agreement with this region if it wants to be able to compete,” she said during a visit to Jakarta. As European nations are struggling to climb out of debt, Southeast Asian nations are experiencing strong growth. Indonesia grew 6.5 percent in 2011 and is forecast to grow at the same pace this year. On Tuesday, Merkel and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged to boost trade, which now stands at around $7 billion, and Indonesian officials forecast it to reach $12 billion by 2014. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union in May 2007 agreed to start free trade agreement talks after years of wrangling over human rights abuses in Myanmar. The EU has begun negotiating agreements with individual
ASEAN states, including Malaysia and Singapore. Myanmar in April pushed for an EU-ASEAN agreement, citing major reforms in the country. ASEAN as a whole represents the EU’s third-largest trading partner outside Europe, with more than 206 billion euros ($253 billion) of trade in goods and services in 2011, according to the European Commission. The EU is ASEAN’s secondlargest trading partner after China, accounting for around 11 percent of ASEAN trade. ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Merkel, who arrived for her first official visit to Southeast Asia’s largest economy on Tuesday, was due to depart for Berlin later Wednesday. She also visited a tsunami early warning centre in Jakarta, built with help from German experts and 53 million euros of German funding after a tsunami in 2004 killed 170,000 people in Indonesia’s Aceh province The system consists of a network of tidal gauges, buoys and seismic monitors.
Bandung Air Show 2012 to be held late September Antara
BANDUNG - Bandung Air show (BAS) 2012 will be held at Husein Sastranegara Airfield located in Bandung city, West Java province, on 27 to 30 September, the commander of Husein Sastranegara Air Force Base Colonel (Pilot) Umar Sugeng Haryono said. “Bandung Air show will again be held at Husein Sastranegara Airfield with various national aerospace activities in an effort to establish Bandung as an aerospace city,” the commander said. BAS 2012 will be conducted during four days as well as a biennial agenda to commemorate the 202nd anniversary of Bandung city on 25 September. Several aerospace activities which will be performed among others static show, dynamic show, fly pass and aerobatic and other
attractive shows. According to Col.Umar as many as 30 airplanes will be displayed on static show as well as the Indonesian aerosports which will show attractions with airplanes and parachuting. Meanwhile the Jupiter Aerobic Team and Pegasus helicopter will also perform. “The Jupiter Aerobatic Team and Pegasus helicopter will perform every day to entertain the visitors,” he noted. The commander added the foreign participants joining the show are Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore and others. The BAS 2012 will be more featuring aerospace acrobatic than fighter aircraft aerobatic. “We are targeting 50,000 visitors or more than the one in BAS 2010,” Col. Umar said. Meanwhile the director of
Greenlite Kreasi Indonesia Susi Nurliah said BAS 2012 is an educative event for the people in particular for the young generation to understand the aerospace. “Besides entertaining, BAS also educates the people,” she said. In addition to the main performance the event also provides handicrafts from small-medium scale industries and West Java culinary to enliven the big show. Bandung has its own story on aerospace development in Indonesia where PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) located in the city has been producing worldclass airplanes such as CN-235 carrier. “Therefore through Bandung Air Show 2012 we expect to re-establish Bandung as an aerospace city,” Col Umar said.
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In this photograph taken on July 11, 2012 a group of 26 suspected illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan are detained at the Indonesian immigration office in Malang city after they were caught by police while traveling on a vehicle in Malang in Java island. Australian opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison claimed people-smugglers have begun using the Australian navy as a collection service with asylum-seeker boats issuing distress calls even when they are not in trouble.
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BUSINESS ADB cuts growth forecast for developing Asia
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NEGARA - The extending road project of Denpasar-Gilimanuk route now cause complains from road users it seems contractors of the projects weren’t professional and have caused traffic such as hardly any signage was placed plus the work they’ve done was half there half somewhere else.
MANILA — The Asian Development Bank has cut growth forecasts for developing Asia. It says Europe’s worsening financial crisis, sluggish recovery in the U.S. and slower growth in China and India have dampened the region’s growth prospects. in 2013. The report says economic growth in developing Asia moderated during the first half of 2012 as slower growth in the U.S. and the eurozone reduced demand for the region’s exports.
China’s slowdown spreads pain despite stimulus
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In this Feb.19, 2008 file photo Citroen cars park outside the Aulnay sous Bois factory, near Paris, France. French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen unveils Thursday July, 12, 2012, cost-cutting measures that includes several thousand job-cuts.
Peugeot cuts 8,000 jobs to end losses, shuts plant
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PARIS - French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen announced 8,000 job cuts and the closure of an assembly plant as it struggles with mounting losses at the core automotive division. The Aulnay plant near Paris, which employs more than 3,000 workers, will halt in 2014 as part of a drive to reorganize Peugeot’s under-used domestic production capacity, the company said on Thursday. A second factory in Rennes, western France, will shed 1,400 of its 5,600 jobs as it downsizes in response to shrinking demand for larger cars such as the Peugeot 508 and Citroen C5. Some 3,600 non-assembly jobs will also be scrapped across the company. “I am fully aware of the seriousness of today’s announcements,” Chief Executive Philippe Varin said in the company’s statement. “The depth and persistence of the crisis impacting our business in Europe have now made this reorganization project
indispensable.” Peugeot said it would post a net loss in the first half and a 700 million-euro ($857.5 million) operating loss for the core car-making division. Operating cash flow is expected to remain negative until late 2014, the company said. Peugeot said it plans to convert the Aulnay site for other activities and seek new positions within the group for around half its workforce. The latest measures are in addition to 6,000 job cuts announced last year, which included 2,500 external positions at subcontractors and service providers. Peugeot’s core auto division swung to a loss last year and has deteriorated since, as the Peugeot and Citroen brands lose ground to competitors in a shrinking European market. Unlike Volkswagen, the French automaker is heavily exposed to southern markets worst hit by the region’s debt crisis, and lacks its German rival’s export success as well as the support of a low-cost brand like Renault’s Dacia.
BEIJING — China’s economic slowdown slammed into Li Fangliang, cutting sales at his Shanghai auto parts store by half. “There are just fewer and fewer customers,” said Li, who has avoided layoffs among his four employees. “I plan to start a shop online to find new markets.” From shopkeepers to shipbuilders, China’s deepest slowdown since the 2008 global crisis is inflicting more pain in some areas than still-robust headline growth of about 8 percent might suggest. Higher spending by state industry and government-directed investment is pumping up the world’s second-largest economy, but that is masking the fact that the private sector is cutting jobs and scrambling to prop up plunging sales. Data due out Friday are expected to show growth in the three months ending in June fell as low as 7.3 percent, down from the previous quarter’s nearly three-year low of 8.1 percent. That is in line with this year’s official 7.5 percent target. But revenues for companies in construction, shipbuilding and export manufacturing are down by up to half compared with a year ago. The slowdown is a setback for economies around the world that were looking to China to drive demand for exports and support global growth. “Domestic demand remains weak,” said JP Morgan economist Francis Fu in a report. “Corporate profits have continued to decline and incentive for
business investment is low.” Other industries including cargo handling and manufacturers of shoes, clothing, optical fiber and wind turbines are suffering lower profits or losses and cutting jobs, according to Chinese news reports. Job losses could fuel political tensions, eroding economic gains that underpin the Communist Party’s claim to power. The party is trying to enforce calm ahead of a handover of power to a younger generation of leaders this year. Though China’s growth even now is higher than those of developed economies, many industries depend on a much faster expansion to propel demand for new factories, cargo ships and other goods. Construction, which supports millions of jobs, was plunged into a deep freeze by limits imposed on home purchases to cool surging prices. Demand fell further as companies facing weak sales put off building new facilities. Beijing has cut interest rates twice since early June but economists say companies are reluctant to take on more debt. Authorities have reduced fuel prices and are injecting money into the economy through higher spending on low-cost housing and other public works. That will channel money into governmentowned construction companies. Some economists suggest the decline might be more severe than reported, citing rumors that utility companies have been told to make the economy look healthy by inflating electricity consumption data — a key indicator of industrial activity.
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Denpasar – Gilimanuk Project complained, cause traffic jam
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A report released Thursday predicts the region’s economies will expand by 6.6 percent this year and 7.1 percent next year. The figures are lower than the bank’s earlier growth outlook of 6.9 percent this year and 7.3 percent
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The extending road project of Denpasar-Gilimanuk route now cause complains from road users it seems contractors of the projects weren’t professional and have caused traffic such as hardly any signage was placed plus the work they’ve done was half there half somewhere else.
For example at Tegal Cangkring Street until Pohsanten Village, it started with a road digging on the left side yet it was then left ignored without any road signs which actually could put road users to danger. Even though now it has been covered with little stones, it is still dangerous especially for motorcycle users. Then they start on the right side and resulted traffic from both ways. “Due to the project the road narrowed and cause further traffic jam. There should’ve been an arrangement so none of this would happen,” driver Udin from Pohsanten, Mendoyo, stated last Wednesday (11/7). Wayan Karma (46) a mini bus driver for Gilimanuk-Denpasar route admitted not curious that the project was done with no professionalism. According to Jembrana Traffic Police Data, there have been four traffic accidents going on here, most took place at night, with one casualty died since the project
began. Commission C member of Jembrana House of Representatives, Putu Kamawijaya, stated project constructor should be working professionally and know how to manage a disturbance to a public in this case the road users. There should be coordination with the Police or the Transportation Agency where at least a police line can be placed or two people managing the roads to avoid any long traffic queues. It is not the Representatives right to direct these projects knowing them using a central budget yet the Representatives have the right to supervise if the work is not within what it’s hoped. “At least please do try not to disturb the public knowing this is a main route. We know workers are chased within the time but public order needs to be understood too. What’s more confusing was there hasn’t been anyone directed to supervise the project knowing its being complained,” Karmawijaya stated. (kmb26)
PPDB announced
Wrong choice of school caused disappointment Bali Post
DENPASAR - The New Students Acceptance (PPDB) Notice for year 2012/2013 based on Academic Potential Test (TPA) or National Examination Grades have been announced in all Junior High (SMP), High (SMA), and Vocational (SMK), state or international schools in Denpasar last Wednesday (11/7). Even though it has been announce online, most of them went to their dream schools to find out. Various expression were seen on their faces in seeing their name, some very happy and shrieked while others seemed sad even cried. At SMPN 1 Denpasar and SMAN 7 Denpasar, those accepted by TPA and Examination Grade were divided to two boards in avoiding any crowds. Since 8 am local time, hundreds of children and parents went to see it. “To make sure of it, me and my son came here to see if he gets in to this school. Thankfully he is accepted at SMPN 1 Denpasar through TPA,” a happy parent explained. Same as the previous years’ PPDB, this year many of them have to be disappointed due to the wrong strategy they used in applying themselves to a school which so they have to run to a nonstate school such as Gede Adnyana who comes
from a non-state junior high who got 36,45 as his National Examination grade. When he got to SMAN 7 Denpasar to see the announcement, the lowest grade accepted was 37,80, while his other choices SMAN 2 (lowest grade 36,90) and SMAN 8 Denpasar (36,85) will also not accept him. Turns out SMAN 6 accepted 36,40 as lowest, but it’s too late now. “Maybe if I chose SMAN 6 I would get in, but I wanted to go to SMAN 7 or SMAN 2 Denpasar only. Now that I fail going to state schools, I will go and fine nonstate schools, hopefully they still accept pupils,” Adnyana gave up. Meamwhile, Head of Education, Youth and Sports of Denpasar City, IGN Eddy Mulya, clarified that the ranking system online was already settled and has elements of transparency, accountability, responsibility and objectivity. The officer made sure no high grades achiever left out except if they chose not to go to state schools or a wrong choice. He added the registration for new students will be accepted from Thursday (12/7) up to Saturday (14/7) while orientation will take place on Monday (16/7). “Those who did not get it shouldn’t give up and still can choose non-state schools. At this time there are many non-state schools with good quality and able to compete with state schools,” Mulya explained. (ian)
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The New Students Acceptance (PPDB) Notice for year 2012/2013 based on Academic Potential Test (TPA) or National Examination Grades have been announced in all Junior High (SMP), High (SMA), and Vocational (SMK), state or international schools in Denpasar last Wednesday (11/7).
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LONDON - Getting around London will become trickier from this weekend, when thousands of athletes arrive for the Olympics, and further disruption is expected a week later as the torch relay enters the capital.
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DENPASAR - Bali constancy is a reform effort that should be made on an ongoing basis in order to maintain the cultural identity of Bali. A social and legal analyst, Fahmi Yanuar Siregar, Wednesday (Jul 11) said that Bali constancy was not only interpreted as how to keep the elements of culture and identity, but also how to create the order of government social life to be secure and equitable and how to achieve a good governance. Furthermore, the man of Balinese-Sumatran descendant said that to realize good governance, the order of justice was the most vital instrument that should receive attention from the government. Lack of control and attention of the government in the realm of justice had resulted in discretion in the justice realm, so that it often caused distortion in the enforcement of the justice itself. Expected, the future control could create a realm of the really fair justice. The lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Mahendradatta University, added the most prominent criminal threat in Bali was drug trafficking. To that end, it should be designed a master plan and an ongoing effort to prevent any attempt to make Bali a fertile land to commit a crime. In the future, Bali should have a master plan and concrete measure
in maintaining the security and enforcing the laws. It was also important to draw a line that could differentiate between the entrepreneurs and the authorities, so that the implementation of the laws would not be ridiculed by investors. The man from Pidpid Abang added that solution to customary issues should get more serious attention because it involved fundamental rights. On that account, it was required a firm legal basis, not only a jargon of government working programs. Fahmi also added there should be a moral commitment and social contract of the future leaders of Bali in relation to the reform implementation of the Bali order and the master plan agreed. However, in many ways the commitment was still low so far. (kmb29)
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ProFauna protested wild animals consumption Bali Post
Protesters hold posters to protest the use of wild animals in restaurants.
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DENPASAR - The action of wild animals trade done by a number of restaurants in Indonesia got a strong threat from ProFauna Activists as based on their survey, wild animals processed meat trade seemed to be increasing such as in Jakarta, Surabaya, Malang, Yogyakarta, Palembang, Medan and Denpasar. Coordinator of it, Jatmiko, stated the trend in Denpasar was seen the past two years yet it can’t be predicted yet how many animals are betrayed every day or every month. “But the trend can be seen on the number of small restaurants in Bali sells their meat such as monkey, pangolin, turtles, lutung, snakes, biawak lizard and hedgehogs. Some were even sold at Puputan Badung Field,” Jatmiko clarified on Wednesday (11/7). From the investigation done, a number of restaurants actually stated they sold these meats where biawak meat sold at Legian, Canggu, Dalung and Penatih while snake meat at Tabanan. It was said compared to other areas, Bali wild animals’ meat trade is small yet even so it’s worrying that it could increase as many kind of things were used to promote it such as for health and beauty when actually it is not medically proven. “It also puts the animal to extinct!” Jatmiko clarified. In Bali the most sold were biawak meat, not only they capture the animal in Bali but also from East Java where 100 of them can be sent moreover already in a meat form. For that a clear step needs to be taken by Bali Government to stop it before it goes to extinct. In this action they protested by bringing posters such as one of them stating ‘Don’t Eat Wild Animals!’. (kmb27)
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Workers put up advertising at a shopping mall near the London 2012 Olympic Park, as work continues to ready the site for the summer games which begin July 27, in east London, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Getting around London will become trickier from this weekend, when thousands of athletes arrive for the Olympics, and further disruption is expected a week later as the torch relay enters the capital.
Commuters and businesses, already used to congestion on the city’s narrow streets, were warned by London’s public transport authority on Thursday to plan ahead to avoid getting caught up in travel hotspots. Although the opening ceremony is not until July 27, large numbers of athletes, officials and the world’s media are due to arrive this weekend to coincide with the opening of the Olympic Village in east London on Monday. “This will lead to a significant increase in the number of vehicles on the roads in central London, around the Olympic Route Network (ORN) and Games venues,” Transport for London said in a statement. It advised motorists to avoid driving in these areas from mid-July. About 30 miles of specially designated Games Lanes will be reserved to whisk the 82,000 members of the “Olympic family” to stadiums on time. The Olympic rings and white lines have begun to be painted on these lanes, though they will not come into operation until July 25. However, Games Lanes on the M4, the main route between Heathrow airport and the centre of London, will come into operation on Monday, July 16. Transport bosses hope that structural repairs to a crack on an M4 bridge will be completed shortly. Work to adjust the 1,300 traffic lights on the larger 109-mile ORN has also started. The Olympic torch relay, which has attracted more than four million people during its tour of the country, begins its week-long journey through the city on July 21. Experience from other host cities shows that people often adopt a “wait and see” approach during the first few days of the Games, TfL said. “Don’t get caught out.”
US, China square off over South China Sea Associated Press
PHNOM PENH — The Obama administration pressed Beijing on Thursday to accept a code of conduct for resolving territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, a difficult U.S. mediation effort that has faced resistance from the communist government. It has endeared the U.S., however, to once-hostile countries in Southeast Asia. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ annual conference. Sitting across from each other at a long table in a grand hall with chandeliers, Clinton stressed the
different ways Washington and Beijing are cooperating. Yang spoke of building an even closer U.S.-Chinese relationship. Neither side spoke about the South China Sea while reporters were allowed in the room. Several Asian governments have expressed worry about China’s expansive maritime claims. Tensions have threatened to boil over in recent months, with a standoff between Chinese and Philippine ships and sharp disagreements between China and Vietnam. China claims virtually the entire area and has created an entirely new city to administer it, sparking deep concern from rival claimants. The sea hosts about a third of the world’s cargo traffic, has rich fish-
ing grounds and is believed to store vast oil and gas reserves. “The United States has no territorial claims there and we do not take sides in disputes about territorial or maritime boundaries,” Clinton told foreign ministers gathered in Cambodia’s capital. “But we do have an interest in freedom of navigation, the maintenance of peace and stability, respect for international law and unimpeded lawful commerce in the South China Sea.” Asian countries should “work collaboratively and diplomatically to resolve disputes without coercion, without intimidation, without threats and without use of force,” Clinton added. The ASEAN countries are presenting their proposal to China at
this week’s conference in Cambodia’s capital, though Beijing will probably want to water down any language that ties its hands. A senior administration official said Yang, in his discussion with Clinton, cautiously signaled China’s willingness to negotiate with other Asian nations on the code. The talks could start as early as September, said the official, who briefed reporters on the meeting in condition of anonymity. Meanwhile, disagreements among ASEAN’s members on Thursday were still holding up a concluding document for this year’s meeting. How to address the Philippines’ and Vietnam’s disputes with China remained issues of contention, U.S. officials said.
For the United States, the difficult diplomacy ahead could be a major test of the Obama administration’s efforts to “pivot” American power toward the world’s most populous continent. Just speaking out on the subject already has helped the U.S. deepen ties with Vietnam, and relations are warming with other governments in the region. But countless meetings between American and Chinese officials have not led to progress on a lasting solution. Various longstanding disputes among China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei involve the area’s busy sea lanes, and many observers fear the complicated web of disputes could spark a violent conflict.
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Comic-Con fans throng to ‘Hobbit,’ ‘Twilight’ tasters Agence France-Presse
LOS ANGELES - Fans descend on San Diego Thursday for the annual Comic-Con festival of pop culture, with highlights including the long-awaited “Hobbit” and last “Twilight” films, in a four-day geekfest. Some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -many dressed up in the costumes of their idols -- will throng into the sold-out Convention Center and myriad events around the southern Californian city through Sunday. Other big draws at the 43rd annual Comic-Con International include Hollywood veterans like Arnold Schwarzenegger -- returning from politics in “The Expend-
ables 2” -- Robert Downey Jr (“Iron Man 3”), Jodie Foster and Matt Damon. “Twilight” fans will be looking out for Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, in town to promote the final installment of the fantasy films, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2,” due out in November. In a sign of the frenzy generated by the movie, they have been lin-
ing up since last weekend for the “Twilight” panel on Thursday. One fan died when crossing the street nearby Tuesday, triggering a tide of grief on Twitter. The other big movie event of Comic-Con 2012 will be the screening of more footage from Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” prequel “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” due for release in December.
Anticipation if particularly intense because a first glimpse of the movie, shot in groundbreaking 48 frames per second format, drew mixed critical reactions when it was screened in Las Vegas in April. In an interview with the the LA Times published Wednesday, director Jackson said he would screen the footage at Comic-Con in the normal 24 frames per second. “With our 48 frames per second presentation, negative bloggers are the ones the mainstream press runs with and quotes from,” he said. Television bosses will also be showcasing their wares in San Diego: small screen highlights
include HBO fantasy hit “Game of Thrones,” a new season of “Glee,” and Britain’s “Dr. Who,” seeking to build on its US fan base. Video games have also played a growing part at Comic-Con. Those presenting new material this year include “Assassin’s Creed III,” “Halo 4” and “Resident Evil.” Many Comic-Con attendees openly embrace the description of them as geeks, or nerds, and there will be a predominance of young men dressed up as superheros, or Middle Earth thronging the San Diego streets over the next few days. But a growing number of women are also joining the party.
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DENPASAR - After the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) was at risk of being empty and implementation of the third phase mass vaccination was stagnating, Bali could finally breathe a little easier with the vaccine assistance from FAO. Then, the third phase mass vaccination could be resumed immediately. It was conveyed by the Head of the Bali Livestock Agency, I Putu Sumantra, after the plenary session at the Parliament Hall on Wednesday (Jul 11). Sumantra explained that VAR support from the food and agriculture organization amounted to 130,000 doses. Such amount of assistance would be enough to cover the temporary vaccine shortfall while waiting for the 375,000 doses obtained from the procurement through the government budget. Currently, the government procurement was still in the bidding process. According to him, the vaccine assistance from the FAO had arrived earlier this month. Along with the coming of the assistance, the suspended third phase vaccination would be resumed. “We get the vaccine support from the FAO. It has arrived early this July so that the third phase mass vaccination has set to be under progress throughout the regency/ municipality. Thus, there is no longer a vaccination problem. Even,
when coupled with the government procurement, the vaccine stocks will be surplus,” he said. Sumantra denied the accusations if his party did not have initiative to cover the vaccine shortfall occurred within the past few months. The news about the vaccine shortage was known by FAO so that it decided to lend a hand. Related to rabies cases coming into view, he confessed that based on the result of evaluation, it was known that five villages were affected by the case among the 275 villages surveyed. Two cases occurred in Jimbaran, a case in Kuta, a case in Jembrana and another case in Karangasem. “It was the result of our evaluation within two months. So far, the third phase vaccination has reached 180,000 dogs, or about 70 percent of the estimated total dog population reaching 302,000,” he explained. (kmb29)
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A dog get shot of VAR. After the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) was at risk of being empty and implementation of the third phase mass vaccination was stagnating, Bali could finally breathe a little easier with the vaccine assistance from FAO. Then, the third phase mass vaccination could be resumed immediately.
Bali-Japan Expo strengthens brotherhood IBP
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Close relationships between Bali and Japan should be improved in the future, not only in the field of cultural cooperation and education, but also in other fields. To that end, it is required a mutual cultural understanding and attitude among the young generation of both countries.
DENPASAR - Close relationships between Bali and Japan should be improved in the future, not only in the field of cultural cooperation and education, but also in other fields. To that end, it is required a mutual cultural understanding and attitude among the young generation of both countries. It was revealed by the Consul General of Japan in Denpasar, Minoru Shirota, amidst the implementation of BaliJapan Expo, in Denpasar, last days. With the growth of love, the first step to create a more solid cooperation had been achieved. Minoru Shirota highly appreciated the happening of Bali-Japan Expo initiated by Bali Genki, a community loving for Japanese culture. They belonged originated in various groups of community such as school students, college students and workers. Such an event was graced with various activities, ranging from speech contest in Japanese language, magazine exhibition, robot, culinary as well as some typical Japanese games winning the applause from hundreds of enthusiastic visitors. Likewise, it was jazzed up with the presenta-
tion of Balinese dance performed as a symbol of friendship between both regions. Even, the atmosphere was reinforced by the attraction of participants dressed in traditional Japanese and the use of attributes of famous comic characters in the Sakura Country. In the meantime, Chairman of the Denpasar-Fukuoka Brotherhood, AA Ngurah Widiada, accompanied by I Gusti Intan Wulandari truly appreciated the positive activity. Such activity was expected to draw more participants in the future so as to improve the cooperation of Bali and Japan. Meanwhile, one of the senior figures of the Denpasar-Fukuoka Brotherhood, Nagaoka Sensei, thoroughly welcomed the activity. According to him, it was a good first step to know, understand and love each other. Moreover, Bali and Japan respectively had similarities and interactions of the citizens of both countries were very intense. As consequence, it would not be an unusual thing if the agreement and understanding between the two countries could be quickly realized. (055)
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Passangers walk between terminals at Ngurah Rai International Airport area in Denpasar on the resort island of Bali on July 12, 2012. Indonesia is planning to build a new airport on the resort island of Bali next year to cope with a growing influx of tourists, the stateowned airport operator said on July 12, 2012.
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DENPASAR - Following the breakdown disaster of the underground parking project on Jalan Sulawesi, claiming the life of two project workers, the lineups of Denpasar House questioned about the matter of permit and safety techniques of the project. A member of Commission B of Denpasar House, I Ketut Resmiyasa, said his party proposed in order the project document could be opened to determine the cause why such a large project did not use retaining wall. “Technically, we are suspicious why the project did not use retaining wall. There are several reasons why the safeguard was not used. Firstly, it is expensive, so the contractor chose not to use it. If this happens, of course the error can be imposed on the contractor,” he said. In addition, Resmiyasa also questioned whether the planning consultant had done a soil test to determine the condition of soil around the project. Without carrying out the test, the contractor would not know the rate of soil instability. On that account, it was
natural if the contractor did not use the retaining wall. “If this happens, the negligence lies on the planning consultant. Thirdly, it is also worth exploring whether the committee has set a supervisory consultant. Technically, all these aspects are interrelated and opening the project document is the way to know it,” he said. Related to the absence of building permit (IMB), Resmiyasa said it was an administrative issue having no relation to the incident. “Permit should be constantly processed, but technical problems are also worth exploring,” he said. A member of Commission A of the Denpasar House, Kadek Ari Sucitha, highlighted again the late arrangement of the project permit. His party urged the Denpasar Municipality to become an example of an orderly administration. “It seems to have become a classical problem in the city of Denpasar. Build first, while the permit is handled later. Well, when a disaster occurred as recently, it was just then revealed,” said the politician of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra). (kmb27)
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JAKARTA - Indonesia is planning to build a new airport on the resort island of Bali next year to cope with a growing influx of tourists, the state-owned airport operator said Thursday. Around 13 million tourists passed through Denpasar’s existing Ngurah Rai International Airport in 2011, drawn by Bali’s year-round sunshine and tropical beaches, and numbers are expected to hit 15 million this year. If current growth in passenger numbers continues, the airport, which opened in 1969, will hit its 20 million passenger capacity around 2014 or 2015, said Miduk Situmorang, spokesman for airport operator Angkasa Pura. The proposed new airport would have an annual capacity of 40 million passengers and would be of “world-class standard”,
he said. “We are anticipating more tourists to come to Bali,” Situmorang told AFP. He declined to say how much the new facility was expected to cost. The new airport would be located in the northern coastal district of Buleleng, in a part of the island now covered in rice paddies and farms, but a long way from the popular southern beach resorts in Seminyak and Kuta. “Buleleng is known for its diving spots and dolphins. It’s largely an undeveloped farming area so we hope an airport will boost tourism there, as southern
Bali is becoming too crowded,” Situmorang said. Situmorang said the company hoped to begin drawing up plans for the airport later this year and to begin construction in the second half of 2013, although it still needed approval from the transport ministry and the local government. The mainly Hindu island in the east of the Muslim-majority archipelago is Indonesia’s premier tourist attraction. However, many have warned that its image of tropical tranquility is under threat due to pollution, traffic jams and overdevelopment.
UBUD - Recently, The Elysian staff took some time out to spend a successful day with The Facilitator Indonesia, Bali’s premiere Training and People Development Specialists. The company is well-known for organizing exciting and thought-provoking days where people – from the most junior to the most senior management – are encouraged to look at new ways to improve both their business skills and personal relationships. This annual event took place in the rural area surrounding Ubud. The day started with a motivational game where teams of six went tracking through the local rice fields and river. Each team consisted of staff members from different departments, the aim being to demonstrate how important it is to get to know your colleagues and work with both their strengths and weaknesses. After lunch, the day continued with group discussions where everyone could consider how the challenge would influence their work roles and how some of the ideas used earlier could also improve day-to-day roles at work.
Calendar Event for June 30 through July 25, 2012 30 Jun Tumpek Landep. Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Selatan. Pura Agung Pasek Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Silamadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Sengguan Singapadu. Pura Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana. Pura taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Br, Taro Kaje Tegalalang Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Ida ratu Pande Besakih Mr. Pasek Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba Klungkung Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Desa Tulikup Gianyar. 1 Jul Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar.
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Following the breakdown disaster of the underground parking project on Jalan Sulawesi, claiming the life of two project workers, the lineups of Denpasar House questioned about the matter of permit and safety techniques of the project.
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3 Jul Purnama Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Gunung Kuripan Lombok. Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Cinere Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Nuansa Udayana, Kori Nuansa Jimbaran Pura Tianyar Pikat, Dawan Klungkung 4 Jul Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pasar Agung Besakih
Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Perancak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung. Pura Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi 10 Jul Anggar Kasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang 11 Jul Buda Umanis Kulantir. Pura Pasek Tangkas kaler Tabanan. Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 15 Jul Redite Keliwon Tolu. Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh 16 Jul Soma Umanis Tolu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra, Pasung Grigih Pura Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Banjar Ceningan Kangin Pura Batu Madeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih. 18 Jul Buda Pon Tolu Pura Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring 19 Jul Wraspati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih. 25 Jul Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan Sading Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida
Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc. The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion. The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines. In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
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Climax of ‘Hunger Games’ trilogy to be split in two In this image released by Lionsgate, Jennifer Lawrence portrays Katniss Everdeen in a scene from “The Hunger Games,” opening on Friday, March 23, 2012.
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The final installment of smash hit movie franchise “The Hunger Games,” based on a trilogy by author Suzanne Collins, is to be split into two films, the film’s makers have announced. The decision to release the movies in November 2014 and 2015 -- targeting the lucrative Thanksgiving holiday in the United States -- follows a similar move by producers of the “Harry Potter” films. “The Hunger Games,” about children forced to fight for their lives in a Roman circus-style televised blood sport in a postapocalyptic world, broke US box office records when it was released in March. “Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” the second installment, is due out on November 22, 2013, according to Lionsgate, a studio based in Santa Monica, California. And in an online update this week, the production company said “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” will be released on November 21, 2014, followed a year later by “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2” on November 20, 2015. The last book in JK Rowling’s record-breaking boy wizard story, “Harry Potter and
Tom Cruise attorney threatens National Enquirer with lawsuit
Tom Cruise’s attorney has threatened the parent company of the National Enquirer with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over a new issue asserting it has details of the actor’s recent split with wife Katie Holmes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter on its website posted a letter from Cruise’s Los
Angeles attorney, Bert Fields, in which he blasts American Media Inc, parent of the Enquirer, for what he calls “false and vicious lies” he says will cause “hundreds of millions of dollars” in damages to Cruise. “As you were notified in advance, your current issue of National Enquirer
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Photo dated June 16, 2010 shows US actors Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes on the red carpet as they arrive for the international film premiere of the film “Knight and Day” by US director James Mangold in Sevilla.
makes numerous false and defamatory assertions about our client Tom Cruise,” the three-page letter begins. The letter draws attention to disparaging descriptions of Cruise in the Enquirer’s issue that hit newsstands on Wednesday, with Fields writing, “These are all lies vicious, hurtful, damaging lies.” Fields did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comment late on Wednesday and a representative for American Media could not be reached. Cruise and Holmes have been the subject of hundreds of headlines worldwide since she filed for divorce from the “Mission: Impossible” movie star two weeks ago, seeking sole custody of their 6-year-old daughter, Suri. Earlier this week, the couple agreed to a divorce and custody arrangement, but details were undisclosed. Both have remained publicly silent about the issue, except for one joint statement in which they said they were working together to settle their differences in the best interest of Suri. Speculation about a reason for the split has centered on Cruise’s membership in the Church of Scientology, but that has never been confirmed by either the couple or their representatives.
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Australia to fly terror victims’ families to Bali Associated Press
CANBERRA — Australia plans to fly relatives of tourists killed in the 2002 Bali bombings to the resort island to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks, in a sign that fear of terrorism in Indonesia is waning. Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced Thursday that her government was discussing with families of victims what financial help they need to attend commemorative events. Two bomb blasts triggered by the al-Qaida-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, on Oct. 12, 2002. “A number of the family members of those who lost their lives will want to be in Bali at the commemorative events there, and as a government we will be providing some assistance for family members,” Gillard told reporters. Last year, the government was advising Australians to “reconsider the need to travel” to Indonesia, including Bali, to mark the ninth anniversary. The government downgraded its travel warning in May, although the threat of a terrorist attack is still described as high. Australian visitors to Bali are now advised to “exercise a high degree of caution.” Brian Deegan, an Australian lawyer whose 21-year-old son, Josh, was killed in the blasts, said government help for families to make the journey was “a positive thing,” if security on Bali was going to be tight. Deegan said he planned to go to Bali for the AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, FILE In this Oct. 17, 2002 file photo, flags, from left, of Australia, Indonesia and the United States hang at the explosion site anniversary regardless of whether the governin Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Australia plans to fly relatives of tourists killed in the 2002 Bali bombings to the resort ment offered him help. island to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks, in a sign that fear of terrorism in Indonesia is waning. Continued on page 6