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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Oprah sorry for Switzerland incident over purse Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey says she’s “sorry” about the media frenzy that emerged after she said she experienced racism during a trip to Switzerland. “I think that incident in Switzerland was just an incident in Switzerland. I’m really sorry that it got blown up. I purposefully did not mention the name of the store. I’m sorry that I said it was Switzerland,” Winfrey said, speaking at the premier of “Lee Daniels’ “The Butler.” In a recent interview with “Entertainment Tonight,” Winfrey recalled a clerk at an upscale Zurich boutique refusing to show her a handbag. Winfrey said she was told she could not afford the $38,000 purse. “I’m in a store and the person doesn’t obviously know that I carry the black card, and so they make an assessment
based upon the way I look and who I am,” said Winfrey, who earned $77 million in the year ending in June, according to Forbes magazine. “I didn’t have anything that said ‘I have money’: I wasn’t wearing a diamond stud. I didn’t have a pocketbook. I didn’t wear Louboutin shoes. I didn’t have anything,” said Winfrey on the red carpet. “You should be able to go in a store looking like whatever you look like and say ‘I’d like to see this.’ That didn’t happen.” Swiss tourism officials and the boutique owner apologized for the incident last week, but Winfrey insists there’s no need.
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Egypt police storm 2 proMorsi camps in Cairo
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“It’s not an indictment against the country or even that store,” she said. “It was just one person who didn’t want to offer me the opportunity to see the bag. So no apologies necessary from the country of Switzerland. If somebody makes a mistake in the United States do we apologize in front of the whole country? No!” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” which opens Friday, documents the civil rights movement through the story of a butler who served in the White House for seven presidents.
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
English Premier League begins post-Ferguson era
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Typhoon lands in China after Hong Kong shuts down
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Bali visited by 275,667 foreign tourists
Oprah Winfrey arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” at the Regal Cinemas L.A. Live Stadium 14 on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013.
Chris Brown sued over recording studio altercation
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — A man who claims he was punched and kicked by a member of Chris Brown’s entourage during a fight at a recording studio sued the R&B singer on Tuesday for assault and battery. Sha’keir Duarte sued Brown for unspecified damages in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming he suffered a concussion as well as humiliation and mental anguish as a result of the attack. Brown’s attorney Mark Geragos called the case frivolous and said it amounted to an attempted shakedown. “This is what gives lawyers and lawsuits a bad name is garbage like this,” Geragos said, adding that he will seek to have the lawsuit dismissed and will countersue Duarte. Duarte claims he was beaten by a member of Brown’s entourage identified in the suit only as “Hood” during a fight over a parking spot. The fight at Westlake Recording Studios erupted on Jan. 27 between the entourages of Brown and fellow singer Frank Ocean. Brown taunted Duarte and threatened that the fight could escalate into a shooting, the lawsuit claims. Charges were never pursued after Ocean, who said his finger was injured in the fight, stated online that he wouldn’t seek criminal or civil penalties. The fight started after Brown parked in Ocean’s spot at the studio. R&B singer Chris Brown appears during a court hearing at Los Angeles Superior court in Los Angeles Monday, July 15, 2013.
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The number of foreign tourist arrival in Bali in June 2013 reached 275,667 people. This figure has increased by 12.94 percent compared to the same month a year ago. If compared to the condition of May 2013, the number of tourist arrival increased by 11.17 percent. Bali Post
DENPASAR - The number of foreign tourist arrival in Bali in June 2013 reached 275,667 people. This figure has increased by 12.94 percent compared to the same month a year ago. If compared to the condition of May 2013, the number of tourist arrival increased by 11.17 percent.
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“Most of the foreign tourists came to Bali through the airport namely 275,452 people (99.92 percent), while through seaport was only 215 people (0.08 percent). Compared to the same month in the previous year, the number of tourist arrival through Ngurah Rai Airport increased by 14.24 percent,” said Head of the Central Statistics
Agency (BPS) of Bali, Gde Suarsa, in Denpasar. Foreign tourist arrivals to Bali through the main entrance, said Suarsa, compared to the situation in May 2013 also increased by 12.49 percent. Meanwhile, foreign tourist arrival through the seaport in June 2013 totaled 215, down 93.06 percent compared to May 2013 and
fell by 92.77 percent compared to June 2012. “Most tourists coming to Bali were from Australia and then followed by the countries like the PRC, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan,” he said. He said the cumulative foreign tourists coming to Bali in the period from January to June of 2013 reached 1,493,021 people, where the most nationality coming to Bali were respectively Australia, the PRC, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, with a percentage of 25.68 percent, 12.57 percent, 6.43 percent, 6.19 percent and 4.21 percent. “The country showing the largest increase in the number of foreign
tourists in that period compared to the previous year was Japan amounting to 17.83 percent, while the largest decline of 5.43 percent was England,” he explained. Meanwhile, the room occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali in June 2013, mentioned Suarsa, achieved an average 61.05 percent, up 0.74 points from occupancy rate in May 2013 which amounted to 60.31 percent. The highest occupancy rate was in Badung County namely 67.79 percent and the lowest was in Denpasar at 46.51 percent. “According to hotel classification, the room occupancy rate of one-star hotel reached 70.25 per-
cent, denoting the highest among the other star hotels. The lowest occupancy rate occurred in twostar hotel reaching 55.30 percent,” he said. He added the average length of stay of foreigners and Indonesian in star hotels in Bali in June 2013 reached 2.99 days. The figure was down 0.13 points compared to the average length of stay in May 2013 which reached 3.12 days. “Overall, the average length of stay of foreigners in June 2013 reached 3.01 days, much longer than the length of stay of the Indonesian guests reaching 2.96 days,” he affirmed. (kmb27)