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The exercise involved six heli-copters and tactical vehicles andsaw troops raid the airport to freea group of supposed foreign tour-ists who were being held by ter-rorists, officials said.

Gunfire and explosions rockedthe terminal as soldiers tried to free

Australian SAS incounter-terror drills on Bali

Agence France PresseJAKARTA - Australia’s special forces held anti-terror exer-

cises Tuesday with their Indonesian counterparts on the tour-ist island of Bali, where a massive attack killed 88 Australiansin 2002, officials said. The Australians from the elite SpecialAir Service Regiment (SASR) took part in a hostage scenariowith members of Indonesia’s Kopassus unit at the Bali inter-national airport, commanders and witnesses said.

the hostages, one of whom died inthe mock battle. Kopassus Com-mander Major General LodewijkPaulus said the exercise would im-prove coordination between theunits in the event of another terror-ist attack on the island.

Agence France PresseSEOUL – North Korea has pro-

moted leader Kim Jong-Il’s young-est son to general, state media saidTuesday ahead of a rare party meet-ing widely expected to anoint himas eventual successor to his ailingfather. The announcement that KimJong-Un is now a four-star generalwas the first time official media inthe reclusive communist state hascarried the name of the young man,who remains an enigma overseas.

It came hours before the sched-uled opening of a communist partyconference on Tuesday, the high-est-level political meeting in threedecades.

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AFP PHOTO / Sonny TUMBELAKA

Indonesian soldiers secure the area as hostages (L) are released during an anti-terror drill in Ngurah Rai International airportin Kuta, Denpasar on the island of Bali, on September 28, 2010. The Indonesian Army’s Special Forces Command (Kopasssus)joined a counter-terrorism exercise with Australia’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment. Indonesia has been hit by anumber of deadly bombings including attacks on luxury hotels, the Australian embassy and tourist spots that have killedaround 250 people since 2002.

AFP PHOTO / FILES / KCNA via KNS (L image) AFP PHOTO / YONHAP (R image)

(FILES) This combo shows a file picture released from NorthKorea’s official Korean Central News Agency on October 6,2009 of current North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (L) at thestate guesthouse in Pyongyang on October 5, 2009.

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Singaraja (Bali Post)—Out of 38 tourist objects in Buleleng

Regency, apparently most objects aremanaged carelessly. As consequence,many objects seem unorganized asthere is no toilet or damaged toilet isleft neglected for too long time and theroad to the object is left damaged, whileBuleleng Regency Government lookedindifferent without any intention to re-pair them.

This condition was revealed fromthe complaints of the Indonesia Hoteland Restaurant Association (PHRI) ofBuleleng Chapter during a hearing withthe Commission B in Buleleng Houseon Monday (Sep 27).

Chairman of PHRI Buleleng, DewaKetut Suardipa, said that a number oftourism facilities in North Bali were leftin damaged condition since many yearsago. For instance, the toilet at LovinaBeach had been unusable for manyyears. Moreover, there was no waterconnection to the toilet and no attemptto do so. “This condition disappointedthe tourism businesspeople and localresidents eventually dismantle thebuilding,” he said.

Another example was the road toBanjar Hot Spring that had been in se-rious damaged since long time ago,whereas it was the mainstay of objectsvisited by many tourists. Of course,such damaged road would diminish thecomfort of tourists visiting the object.Moreover, the road to the object wasvery narrow and difficult for vehicles

This initiative was confirmed byDenpasar Mayor I.B. RaiDharmawijaya Mantra when providedguidance in the discussion of thefriendly and fresh traditional marketblueprint in the Praja Madya Room ofDenpasar Mayor’s office, Monday(Sep 27). Discussion on the blueprintfor the friendly and fresh traditionalmarket was also attended by Secretaryof Denpasar Municipality AAN RaiIswara, Assistant of DevelopmentAdministration IGN Eddy Mulya andchief of customary villages.

Rai Mantra said the evolution in theeconomy made community experi-ence a shift in the matter of service.“Now, we can observe that our soci-ety tends to pay more attention to thequality of services given and atmo-sphere of the market itself,” said Rai

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Narcotics Unit of Denpasar Metro

Police (Poltabes) managed to capturea perpetrator of drug abuse. He hasinitial name HGC alias Noby, 55, fromNew Zealand. The arrest of the sus-pect was carried out in a boardinghouse located on Jalan Pulau BatantaGang Dam No. 6, West Denpasar, Sat-urday (Sep 25) early morning. Fromthe hands of the suspect, police seizeddried marijuana weighing 2 grams.

Chief of Narcotics Unit atDenpasar Metro Police, AmbarayadiWijaya, when asked for his confirma-tion on Monday (Sep 27) justified thearrest of the suspect Noby. Now, thesuspect had been arrested at DenpasarMetro Police and the case was stillbeing developed. “Examination of thesuspect is under progress. We are stillgoing into the case,” said ChiefAmbariyadi.

The arrest began from the exist-

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Celebration of the Echoes of

Peace this year is targeted to be at-tended by 5,000 participants. If inthe previous celebrations more cat-egorical groups got involved, inyears to come more spiritual groupswould be involved by the commit-tee. “Except for spiritual groups, theevent will also be participated byother categorical groups, such asfrom the tourism sector, Associationof Jogja Residents, SAKI, Ashramsthroughout Bali and others. We tar-get the presence of 5,000 partici-pants this year. In addition, we alsoinvite the entire community of Balito engage actively in the upcomingcommemoration of peace,” re-vealed Chairman of the Echoes ofPeace 2010 Organizing Committee,Ketut Darmika, Monday (Sep 27).

He explained that the Echoes of

Keeping marijuana, aNew Zealander arrested

ence of information provided by thepublic. Allegedly, the suspect was amarijuana user. Armed with the infor-mation, police then made an investi-gation and targeted the boardinghouse of the suspect. Without any re-sistance, the suspect could be arrestedand evidence of marijuana was alsoseized. “Having made a search, suchdrug was found inside the room of thesuspect,” he explained.

Previously, Chief Ambariyadiadded that his party also carried outan arrest to another suspect chargedwith distributing ecstasy pills. Thesuspect arrested was Purwani, 32, aresident of Jalan Gunung Subur GangMirah Mandiri No. 20, WestDenpasar. The arrest of this womanwas also based on information that thesuspect often brought along drugsbelonging to ecstasy type. From thesuspect, police seized 2 pills allegedto be ecstasy. (kmb21)

PHRI complains toBuleleng House

to pass through. “Frankly speaking, weare ashamed of this condition,” he said.

According to Suardipa, RegencyGovernment paid no attention at all torepair any tourism facilities and infra-structure. On the other hand, RegencyGovernment always required the em-ployers to pay the hotel and restaurantstax (PHR). Actually, the taxes paid bytourism businesspeople could be usedto improve those tourism facilities andinfrastructure. “We do not intend thatsuch taxes should be refunded to PHRI,but it should be used as capital to fi-nance the maintenance and complet-ing the facilities in tourist objects,” hesuggested.

In the meantime, the Division Headof Buleleng Tourist Object Arrange-ment, Dodi, said that improvement ofphysical infrastructure in tourist objectwas not the authority of the Cultureand Tourism Services. For example, re-pairing roads was the authority of thePublic Works. “We just arrange theobject, while responsibility of its physi-cal supporting infrastructure lies in thetechnical institution,” he said.

Dodi said that pursuant to the re-sult of development plan meetingBuleleng Culture and Tourism Ser-vices would get a fund worth morethan IDR 3.3 billion allocated for thearrangement of tourist objects in2011. “Such amount of fund will beused for various activities includingthe maintenance of tourism facilities,”he said. (kmb15)

Echoes of Peace to target 5,000 participantsPeace commemoration this yearwould be centered in the courtyardof the Bajra Sandhi Museum, Renon.This celebration would also be filledwith Padayatra prayers when partici-pants surrounded the Bajra Sandhiand its peak would be marked by thebeating of two gongs, namely inter-national Peace Gong and Bali PeaceGong.

“For the Echoes of Peace com-memoration this year, there are 50spiritual groups stating their confir-mation to participate in the activi-ties,” he said.

Coordinator of the Steering Com-mittee, Made Suryawan, gave appre-ciation to the celebration of this timebecause it would involve moregroups. “We highly appreciate thisevent because more components getinvolved, including the representa-tives from the five religions and cults

recognized in Indonesia,” he ex-plained.

According to Suryawan, the na-ture of these activities was to con-vey a moral message about peace tothe world. Aside from tightening therelationship, the event was also in-tended to spread the peace through-out the world as further describedthrough the Svadharma (one’s vo-cation or calling) in accordance withrespective religion and cult.

More and more components getinvolved in the event, not only fromhome but also from overseas. Onthat account, it is expected sometimein the future this activity will be-come an intriguing attraction fortourists.

“Hopefully, one day this peace-nuanced event can become new tour-ist attraction that can be sold to for-eign tourists,” he added. (par)

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The crowded situation in one of the traditional market in Bali

Municipality prepares blueMunicipality prepares blueMunicipality prepares blueMunicipality prepares blueMunicipality prepares blueprint of traditional marketsprint of traditional marketsprint of traditional marketsprint of traditional marketsprint of traditional marketsDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Amid the rise of the modernmarket developments, theDenpasar Municipality hastaken several strategic mea-sures to strengthen and main-tain the existence of traditionalmarkets. One of them is by set-ting the blue print as a refer-ence in strengthening the tra-ditional market. Later on, thisblueprint is expected tostrengthen the capacity oftraders in developing the socialeconomy.

Mantra.Revitalization of traditional market

was intended to create a friendly andfresh traditional market. To realize theidea Rai Mantra expected to boost theeconomy of community and eliminatethe gap among the small traders.

Other than revitalizing traditionalmarket, the Municipality also put pri-ority on the making of road map so itcould be known how the passage offriendly and fresh traditional marketin years to come was. For that purpose,traditional market needed improve-ments ranging from physical and nonphysical aspects. For physical aspect,the friendly and fresh traditional mar-ket should be clean and supported byhospitality of traders in providing ser-vices. Meanwhile, non-physical as-pect, according to Rai Mantra, the trad-

ers should be provided with trade man-agement upgrading and services fromgovernment.

In the meantime, Eddy Mulyaadded, Denpasar Municipality actu-ally had undertaken the revitalizationto some traditional markets like toSindhu Market and Renon Market.Moreover, the blue print discussed wasexpected to become the reference inimplementing revitalization tofriendly and fresh traditional market,and to serve as guidance for DenpasarMunicipality in establishing policy ontraditional market development. Com-mon problems faced by traditionalmarkets were the image of vileness,shortage of space for traders, low qual-ity of human resources, and lowawareness of traders to develop theirbusiness. (kmb12)

3International Bali News Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Agence France Presse

JAKARTA - A campaign tovaccinate almost 400,000 dogsagainst rabies began Tuesday onthe Indonesian tourist island ofBali, where an outbreak of the dis-ease has killed 93 people since2008, officials said. The WorldSociety for the Protection of Ani-mals (WSPA) is running the massvaccination programme in con-junction with the provincial gov-ernment, which has been trying tostop the outbreak by culling thou-sands of stray dogs.

Victims and the Klungkung Gov-ernment also Disaster Helpers (Tagana)worked very extra to evacuate rubbish,mud and collapse walls remains. Atleast some units of fire brigades alsoasked to spray away the mud hit thevillage also residents houses includingpublic facilities such as schools, offices,temple and more.

Although, this step hasn’t beenmaximal as at some points there arestill rubbishes piled up, piles of dam-aged items like shelves, wardrobe, andother house items. What’s worse, wereremains of walls. Besides falling downthe drainage around the houses, it’s alsomessed the river’s body. “It’s very wor-rying. The remains covered the wholeriver’s body and blocked the water cur-rent when rain comes,” a resident,

Mangupura (Bali Post) –Alliance for Financial Inclusion

(AFI) Executive Director statedthere has been around 2,5 Billionpeople or 90 percent of the popula-tion of the world don’t have accessto finance services. To manage thisproblem, it is needed an increase inspeed, size and scale on the solutionimplementation to give such poten-tial.

“Innovation, implementation, re-lations and innovative technologyfrom all finance industries neededto be added so all the people awareof finance,” stated by the ExecutiveDirector, Alfred Hanig in AFI forumat Ayana Resort and Spa, Jimbaran,Bali, last Monday (27/9).

Hannig also stated this forum isto support knowledge sharing be-tween developing countries aboutfinancial inclusion policies whichcan realized an access of standardfinance services to those 50 millionpeople who lived under the disad-vantaged line by 2012.

Indonesian Republic President,Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at hiswelcome speech also pushed to re-alize these policies to ease disadvan-taged people access to banking suchas leadership, accountability and co-ordination, religious, innovation,culture and strong regulation con-struction, “Financial access is toavoid such disadvantaged condi-tions as most Indonesian disadvan-taged people don’t have access tofinancial services such as savings,loans, payment transfers, andcheaper assurance.”

It is worsening their life if we stillnot letting them use the services anda financial inclusion will connect thepeople also give contribution to theeconomy growth, “I hope they canget a manageable financial services.This will open every opportunity toincrease their prosperity and narrowsocial gaps.”

Mangupura (Bali Post) –From five unpermitted

minimarkets caught by BadungGovernment yustisi rading team notlong ago, turns out only one that justhad Trading Business Permit that’sbeen signed.

Head of Badung Cooperative,Businesses, Industries and TradingAgency, Luh Putu Murniathi, lastMonday (27/9) said until now theagency just only signed a permitfrom Circle K located in DalungPermai estate meanwhile the resthasn’t come in at all.

According to her, before givingin SIUP, the minimarket has tocomplete other permits first such asSITU-HO and Building Permit. Forthat, she will coordinate with otherinstitutions, “What I know as whatthe agreement that came to asks we

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The soya bean crops which was destroyed by the flood which happened on Friday, September24th 2010.

Post Flood, RemainsPost Flood, RemainsPost Flood, RemainsPost Flood, RemainsPost Flood, Remainsof Buildings Worryingof Buildings Worryingof Buildings Worryingof Buildings Worryingof Buildings WorryingSoya Beans Harvest FailedBali Post

Klungkung - Three days after the flood still cause big worries in Gunaksa Village, Dawan,Klungkung as until Monday (27/9) the cleaning was not done yet especially on collapse buildingremains that were hit by the flood on Friday (24/9).

Winata, explained. So first things firstthat has to be done was cleaning upthose remains, rubbishes and mud.

Besides material helps such asclothes and kitchen items that weremostly gone dragged by the flood, Gov-ernment Water Supply (PDAM) alsoprovided a water tank for clean waterwhich is needed by the residents.“Thank God, Social Agency has dis-tributed helps such as clothes andkitchen items to the village. Hopefullytomorrow (28/9) these helps can be dis-tributed to the residents,” Gunaksa Vil-lage Head, Ketut Budiarta, was thank-ful of the helps. He also hoped therewill be bed donations also other itemsneeded. He admitted the rubbishes andremains are dangerous for the future sohe had been coordinating with Clean

and Garden Agency to tackle a new di-saster coming.

Soya Bean Failed HarvestNot only leaving rubbishes and

building remains behind, the flood alsoleft a very sad situation as at least 4hectares of soya planting of the subak(irrigation). “We’re suppose to harvestnow but because of water over flowand covered by mud, it caused it to failharvesting,” some farmers explained,Nengah Warta and Nengah Sukari.

Warta admitted have loss hundredmillions rupiahs 18 are of the plantsfailed harvest while Sukari admittedhave lost 6 are of the Subak TempekDen Yeh, “Usually there will be 100harvested and each piece cost 11 thou-sand.” (bal)

Mass rabies vaccinations underway on Indonesia tourist isle

“Rabies remains a threat to bothhuman and animal populations andstill kills 55,000 people annually,”WSPA Chief Executive OfficerMike Baker said in a statement.“Bali’s multi-stakeholder approachwill prove once again that the onlyeffective solution to the rabiesproblem is one that combines com-passion with scientific knowl-edge.”

He said the vaccination agree-ment would save the lives of tensof thousands of dogs on the Hindu-majority island and “create a his-toric reference in the global fight

against rabies”. Experts say cull-ing is not the most effective orhumane way to deal with rabiesoutbreaks.

Bali animal husbandry agencychief Putu Sumantra said it wouldtake up to four months to carry outthe vaccinations. The project hasbeen supported by the Australiangovernment, which donated370,000 doses of the dog rabiesvaccine, WSPA said.

Bali is one of the most populardestinations for Australian tour-ists, who are drawn to its Hinduculture, surf beaches and nightlife.

Unpermitted Minimarkets,Just One Had Completed Permits

will coordinate to know how far thepermit will be. For sure there willbe lots of minimarkets in Badunghaven’t completed their permits.”

As told before, Circle K inDalung Permai is one of the fiveunpermitted minimarkets that wasfound by yustisi raid team atBadung government at 16th Sep-tember 2010. the other fourminimarkets were Alfa Midi inRaya Lukluk Street, Indomart inSibang Kaja, Alfa Midi in By PassMambal Street and Indomart inBlahkiuh Street. at this time the fiveoperated without any permits soyustisi teams gave first warning let-ters to those minimarkets.

It is expected there will be moreunpermitted minimarkets as from the74 minimarkets noted in the agencyonly 34 which has permits. (ded)

2,5 Billion People in the World Don’tHave Access to Finance ServicePresident Push Policies to Ease Banking Access

President also revealed since year2007 government itself has intro-duced some schemes to those whoare disadvantaged so that they willhave access to banking, “The nameof the credit is People Effort Credit(KUR). This system is to get guar-antee from government to financeunsuitable guaranteed sectors to beguaranteed. 70 percent guaranteedby the government and 30 percentby their own banks.”

The guarantee given in KUR hadtotaled up to 2 Trillion with a schemeof borrowing suh as middle microcredit that can get access to bankingreaching IDR 20 Trillion.

Meanwhile, Indonesian Bank (BI)Governor, Darmin Nasution, statedhis side is working on Financial Iden-tity Number (FIN) program to giveunique identification numbers to eachmembers of the public, “For thosecountries who are forward, its iden-tity number will be sort of the samewith the other social guarantee num-bers and more. But in a country likeIndonesia that has 200 million peoplespread in more than 13.000 islands,FIN will give a plus to increase bank-ing users.”

Giving FIN to the people withoutany acknowledgement and socializa-tion in managing and being respon-sible on private finances will not givethe maximum result as hoped, “So BIhas made an banking education pro-gram as big as possible which in-cludes financing, transpiration stan-dards banking products and bankingmediation completion mechanism.”

The opening of 2010 AFI GlobalPolicy Form was attended by 111policies receivers from 42 develop-ing countries. Meanwhile Presidentwas accompanied by wife, Mrs. AniYudhoyono, Economy Minister HattaRadjasa, Trading Minister MariePangestu, Cooperative MinisterSyarifuddin Hasan and Culture andTourism Minister Jero Wacik. par

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If conditions for such a meet-ing are met, the Foreign Ministrywill “explore” the possibility ofhaving bilateral talks on the side-lines of the ASEM summit, orAsia-Europe Meeting, to be heldin Brussels on Oct. 4-5.

“But it is unclear whether wecan have such conditions withinone week,” Sengoku said. “As Isaid yesterday, the ball is alreadyin China’s court.”

No Japan-China meetingNo Japan-China meetingNo Japan-China meetingNo Japan-China meetingNo Japan-China meetingplanned at Europe summitplanned at Europe summitplanned at Europe summitplanned at Europe summitplanned at Europe summit

Conditions had not been met for a meeting between Prime Minis-ter Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Chief Cabinet Sec-retary Yoshito Sengoku told reporters Tuesday, repeating that it wasup to China to repair relations.

Wen and Kan did not meet in NewYork last week when they were bothattending a U.N. gathering.

Kan’s government has come underfire at home for Japan’s decision Fri-day to release the fishing boat captainamid intense Chinese pressure. Theskipper was arrested earlier this monthafter colliding with two Japanese pa-trol boats near islands in the EastChina Sea that the Chinese call Diaoyuand Japanese call Senkaku. Japan con-

trols the islands but China and Tai-wan also claim them.

The captain’s release on Fridayfailed to ease tensions after China de-manded an apology for his detentionand compensation over the weekend.Tokyo countered Monday by de-manding that Beijing pay for dam-age to the patrol boats.

Beijing has not yet responded toTokyo’s demand for compensa-tion, but has cut off ministeriallevel contacts with Japan andcalled Tokyo’s ambassador in atleast five times over the incident.

Finance Minister YoshihikoNoda said it was important for Ja-

BANGKOK – Thailand saidTuesday that it was consideringlifting a state of emergency inthree northeastern provinces butnot Bangkok, where there havebeen a series of minor blasts inrecent weeks.

Security officials are evaluat-ing the situation in NakhonRatchasima, Khon Kaen, andUdon Thani — strongholds of theopposition “Red Shirts” — togauge whether to revoke the de-cree, said Deputy Prime MinisterSuthep Thaugsuban.

“It’s possible that the emer-gency rule will be lifted in north-eastern provinces but we have toassess the situation,” he told re-porters.

Seven areas, includingBangkok, are still under the de-cree, which was introduced in the

MOSCOW (Reuters) – RussianPresident Dmitry Medvedev hassacked Moscow Mayor YuriLuzhkov, a Kremlin spokespersonsaid on Tuesday.

Medvedev’s decree strippedLuzhkov of his post “because he haslost the trust of the president of theRussian Federation,” Itar-Tass news

pan for appeal to the internationalcommunity over Japan’s positionat meetings like ASEM.

Foreign Minister Seij iMaehara, meanwhile, repeatedTokyo’s clear claim over the is-lands, which are located 120miles (190 kilometers) east ofTaiwan.

“Territorial problems do notexist in the East China Sea,”Maehara told parliamentary com-mittee Monday. “The Senkaku is-lands are an inherent part of ourterritory, and protecting our sov-ereignty is a natural thing to do.”

Video of the Sept. 7 encounter

has not been released, butMaehara said it was “clear that theChinese fishing boat steered (to-ward the coast guard vessels) andslammed into the boats.”

Demonstrating Washington’ssupport of Japan, U.S. AssistantSecretary of State Kurt Campbellon Monday praised Kan’s han-dling of the dispute.

“Prime Minister Kan has dealtwith this issue — it’s a very dif-ficult issue — in a very states-manlike fashion. And it showshow important it is for peacefuldiplomatic process to be con-ducted on issues like this.”

Thailand may end emergencyrule in provinces: govt

capital in early April in response tothe Red rallies that later left 91 peopledead in clashes between protesters andthe army.

In recent weeks a series of grenadeblasts have hit the Thai capital, stir-ring doubts over the speed at whichemergency rule can be lifted inBangkok.

In the latest case, a grenade wasthrown into the compound of the At-torney General’s office in Bangkok onMonday evening, police said. Nobodywas hurt in the explosion.

On Friday three people werewounded when a small bomb in a rub-bish bin exploded in a residential area.

The Red Shirts deny any involve-ment in the blasts and have accusedthe government of a conspiracy to jus-tify greater powers for authorities.

The emergency rule bans publicgatherings of over five people and

gives security forces the right to de-tain suspects for 30 days withoutcharge.

Suthep, who oversees national se-curity affairs, brushed aside sugges-tions that the government was usingthe powers to suppress political op-ponents.

“I can assure you that the govern-ment has never abused its power,” hesaid.

The protests by the Reds, many ofwhom back fugitive ex-premierThaksin Shinawatra, attracted up to100,000 people demanding immedi-ate elections but were dispersed byan army crackdown on May 19.

After the crackdown, enraged pro-testers set fire to dozens of majorbuildings, including a shopping malland the stock exchange.

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Russian presidentfires Moscow mayor

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Moscow’s Mayor Yuri Luzhkov

agency reported.Russia’s constitution allows the

president to sack the Moscow mayorand regional governors for such areason. Medvedev, currently on avisit to China, has appointedVladimir Resin as acting mayor ofMoscow, the agencies quoted theKremlin as saying.AFP/File

Armed Thai soldiers cross a road in downtown Bangkok on September 15, 2010.

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Temple CeremonyCalendar of Event (Sep 24- Oct 7, 2010)

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annualCeremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Ba-linese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine whicheach family possesses. Because of this practically every fewdays a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in someVillage in Bali. There are also times when the entire islandcelebrated 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 consid-ered its birth day and celebration always takes place on thesame day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When newmoon is used then the celebration always happens on new moonor full moon. The day of course can differ the religious cel-ebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some templecelebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakihtemple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and mostof the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importanceof the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed withpieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, deco-rations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold andChinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the fourcorners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, whiteor black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped inthe shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrel-las soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, longflags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. Infront of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles,decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, riceand other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are thegirls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangementsof all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Everyvisitor admires the grace with which the carry their load ontheir heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

25st – “Saraswati” holiday, the day devoted toSanghyang Aji Saraswati symbolized as a beau-tiful goddess of knowledge, sciences and arts,when blessing ceremony is given to holy scrip-tures of science and arts, held at every familycompound.

Temple Festival at:- Pr. Watugunung, Bima, NTB.- Pr. Agung Jagat Kerana, Surabaya- Pr. Aditya Jaya Rawamangun, Jakarta- Pr. Agung Wiraloka Natha, Cimahi, Jabar- Pr. Giri Jaya Natha,Balikpapan, Berneo.- Pr. Bhuwana Suci Saraswati, Ds. Ngaru-

aru, Kec. Banyudono, Boyolali,Solo, Jawa Tengah.- Pr. Pasek Tangkas Gempinis, Dalang,

Tabanan- Pr. Pasek Gelgel Sayan Bongkasa

Abiansemal- Pr. Dadya Agung Bendesa Tangkas

Koriagung, Ds Gerih, Abiansemal- Mr.Pulasari/Sentana Dalem Tarukan, Ds.

Penida Kelod, Bangli.- Mr.Pasek Kubakal, Ds. Kapal.- Mr.Pasek, Ds. Dalung.- Pr. Pasek Dukuh Ambengan, Ds. Sebudi.- Pr. Pemaksan , Ds. Bandalem, Buleleng.

26th –“Banyu Pinaruh” day, when the Balinesemostly go to the beaches, river and spring to pu-rify them selves and pray for wisdom with earlyin the morning

Pr. Gaduh, Ds. Sesetan, Denpasar.

27th .Temple Festival at:- Pr. Jati, Jembrana.- Pr. Kawitan Batu Gaing, Bangli.- Pr. Tirta Wening, Tambaksari, Surabaya.

- Pr. Desa Linggawana Kertha Mandala,Ds. Abang, Karangasem.

29th – “Pagerwesi”, holiday, the word literallymeans “iron fence” when Hindu followers wor-ship “Sanghyang Pramesti Guru” as lord of uni-verse and pray for strong mental defence againstany negative temptations. Held at every familytemple and holy place throughout Bali.

Temple Festival at:- Pr. Labaan Sindhu Jiwa, Ds. Kedewatan,

Ubud.- Pr. Kahen, Bangli- Pr. Wirabuana, Magelang, Jateng- Pr. Padangsakti Tangtu, Kesiman- Pr. Jogan Agung, Ketewel, Sukawati- Pr. Gaduh Pengiasan, Dauh Puri,

Denpasar- Pr. Siwa/Pasek Tohjiwa, Penebel- Pr. Pasek Ketewel, Sempidi, Mengwi- Pr. Pasek Gelgel, Buruan Kaja, Tabanan- Pr. Pasek Gobleg, Kerambitan- Pr. Pasek Gelgel, Meliling, Tabanan- Pr. Masceti Selasih, Sanding,

Tampaksiring- Pr. Dalem Ularan, Br. Tatasan Kaja,

Denpasar- Mr. Pasek Gaduh, Buduk- Mr.Pasek Gelgel, Ds. Kelabang Moding.- Pr. Pasek Gelgel, Sekalan Marga- Pr. Sada Br. Gaduh Desa Kaba kaba,

Kediri, Tabanan- Mr.Pasek Gelgel , Depaha, Ds. Depaha,

Kubutambahan, Buleleng.- Pr. Desa Linggawana, Kertamandala,

Abang, Karangasem- Pr. Lebah Ubud

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Wednesday, September 29, 20106 News

Michoacan state Attorney General Jesus Montejanosaid the bodies of Tancitaro Mayor Gustavo Sanchez andcity adviser Rafael Equihua were discovered in a pickuptruck abandoned on a dirt road near the city of Uruapan.

Montejano’s spokesman, Jonathan Arredondo, saidinitially that the victims were hacked to death with a ma-chete, but the attorney general said they were killed withstones.

Arredondo said police were trying to determine a pos-sible motive.

Tancitaro, a town of 26,000 people, is in a region wheresoldiers have destroyed more than 20 meth labs in thelast year and several police officers have been killed bysuspected drug gang members.

Last year the city council chief, Gonzalo Paz, was kid-napped, tortured and killed. Then in December, the mayorand seven other town officials resigned saying they hadbeen threatened by drug traffickers and local police werenot showing up to work.

Soon after, the department’s entire 60-officer force wasfired for failing to stop a series of killings and other crimes,and Michoacan state police and soldiers took over secu-rity in the town. Sanchez was named mayor in January.

Also Monday in Michoacan, five gunmen and a ma-rine were killed in a shootout in Coahuayana on the Pa-cific coast, the navy said in a statement. A second marinewas wounded, and authorities were searching for moregunmen.

Coahuayana authorities canceled school and warnedpeople to stay indoors.

The navy said another gunbattle across the country inthe Gulf coast state of Tamaulipas left eight gunmen andone marine dead in the border city of Reynosa.

Meanwhile, the Defense Department said soldiers ar-rested a man suspected in the kidnapping and killing ofthe mayor of Santiago in the border state of Nuevo Leon.It said in a statement that Miguel Cervantes was arrestedMonday.

In the border state of Chihuahua, gunmen broke into apolice complex, subdued the guards and stole at least 40automatic rifles and 23 handguns, police spokesman Fi-del Banuelos said.

Banuelos said 10 officers who were in the building atthe time were being questioned. He said it was not clear

AP

AMMAN, Jordan – Jordan’sRoyal Palace says Queen Rania hasundergone a non-surgical procedurein New York to correct an irregularheartbeat.

The 40-year-old Rania accompa-nied her husband, King Abdullah II,who attended the U.N. General As-sembly meetings in New York. Shealso attended separate functions, in-cluding a panel on empowering girls.

A spokesman for the queen said

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In this photo taken Dec. 13, 2009, GustavoSanchez, mayor of the small town of Tancitaro,Mexico.

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MORELIA, Mexico – A small-town mayor andan aide were found stoned to death Monday in adrug-plagued western state, the fifth city leaderto be slain in Mexico since mid-August.

whether the assailants were members of a drug cartel.In Ciudad Juarez, a border city in Chihuahua, the Pub-

lic Safety Department announced the capture of a druggang member who allegedly helped set up a car bombthat killed three people.

Suspect Jose Contreras allegedly killed a man anddressed him in a police uniform to lure federal agents tothe area where the car bomb exploded, killing a federalpolice officer and a doctor who was helping the shootingvictim.

Contreras is a member of La Linea gang, which worksfor the Juarez drug cartel, the department said in a state-ment.

Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas,has become one of the world’s most dangerous cities amida turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels.

Jordan’s Queen Rania has heartprocedure in US

AP –

FILE - Queen Rania

Monday that Rania had a procedureknown as catheter ablation, in whichdoctors inserted a catheter into ablood vessel and used an electriccurrent to restore a normal heartrhythm.

A palace statement said the pro-cedure went smoothly and thatRania is “well” and in “good spir-its.”

Rania is to remain in a New Yorkhospital for two nights to recuper-ate and will return home later in theweek.

Which hundreds of thousandsof Australians visit each year. “Wehave chosen Bali as a place to holda joint exercise with the SAS as itis the main destination for Austra-lian tourists and we are very con-cerned about security stabilityhere,” he told reporters invited towatch the exercise.

Islamist militants have twicetargeted Western tourists in Bali.In 2002 more than 200 peoplewere killed when bars and night-clubs were bombed, and in 2005attacks on restaurants packed withtourists killed 20.

Indonesian police have said re-cent raids and arrests of terroristsuspects have revealed a change intactics away from indiscriminate

Analysts said the promotionmakes it virtually certain theSwiss-educated son, believed to beaged about 27, will one day stepinto his ailing father’s shoes asruler of the impoverished nuclear-armed nation.

Also appointed four-star gener-als were the leader’s sister KimKyong-Hui and Choe Ryong-Hae,a longtime aide to the Kim dynastywhich has ruled with an iron fistsince the country was founded in1948. As of mid-morning therewas no official word that theWorkers’ Party conference hadbegun as scheduled. But media hascarried photos of crowds of del-egates — in suit and tie or mili-tary uniform — arriving for theevent.

“Long live the revolutionaryideology of the great leader, com-rade Kim Il-Sung!” read one ban-ner in reference to founding leaderKim Il-Sung, who died in 1994 buthas been declared president foreternity. At the last major rulingparty meeting in 1980, Kim Jong-Il was confirmed as eventual suc-cessor to his father Kim Il-Sung.

Kim, 68, reportedly has kidneyproblems and had a stroke twoyears ago, making a successionprocess more urgent. But untilTuesday Jong-Un’s name hadnever been carried by official me-dia. No adult photo of him hasbeen seen outside the secretivecountry.

Kim Kyong-Hui, 64, is marriedto Jang Song-Thaek, who is widelyseen as the nation’s second mostpowerful man. She and her husbandare thought likely to act as guard-ians for the young and inexperi-enced son if the leader dies or isforced to step down due to illhealth.

The conference will take placeamid high regional tensionssparked by the deadly sinking of aSouth Korean warship in March,and a deadlock in six-nationnuclear disarmament talks. TheSouth, the United States and other

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bombings in favour of more tar-geted attacks involving well-trained squads of suicide gunmen.Australia’s cooperation withKopassus has drawn protests fromhuman rights campaigners whosay the unit is involved in seriousabuses in restive areas like Papua,and has not atoned for past crimesin places like East Timor.

But SAS commander MajorGeneral Tim McOwen said Aus-tralia was “very pleased to worktogether with Kopassus”, whichhe described as “very profes-sional”.

“There were no obstacles duringthe operation. They are very pro-fessional. We expect to see morecooperation in the future,” he said.

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nations accuse the North of torpe-doing the ship, a charge it denies.

“Kim Jong-Un’s promotion (togeneral) means he is definitely go-ing to be the successor,” YangMoo-Jin of Seoul’s University ofNorth Korean Studies told AFP.The party conference will serve asa stage to announce his official sta-tus as successor, Yang said, add-ing the son is likely to be made amember of the party’s top body thepolitburo presidium, party secre-tary in charge of personnelchanges and a member of its cen-tral military commission.

“There could be some strifewithin the ruling elite but a mili-tary coup or any other major up-heaval is hardly likely because theelite think they and the Kims arein the same boat,” Yang said.“Such conflicts might become la-tent or rise to the surface depend-ing on how well Kim Jong-Un’sguardians back him up.”

Paik Hak-Soon of SouthKorea’s Sejong Institute think-tank also said Jong-Un was likelyto join the presidium and the cen-tral military commission thisweek. “Considering he was nowgiven a general’s position, it wouldlook very strange if he did not jointhe central military commission,”Paik told AFP. “This (promotion)is clearly aimed to boost the moodahead of the meeting.”

Paik said the speed of the pro-cess “apparently signals that KimJong-Il’s health is failing fast. Oth-erwise he would have never pro-moted the son so quickly, worry-ing he himself would become alame duck.”

He said Jang and Kang Sok-Ju,who was promoted last week to avice premier, would likely becomethe key men to assist the son —with Jang taking care of domesticaffairs and Kang overseeing inter-national diplomacy. Paik saidsome 1,500-2,000 delegates wouldconvene for the conference, whichwas likely to last more than oneday at least.

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He said tens of wild elephantsattacked five houses last Sunday(Sept 26). Most of the villagers wereat the time attending a weddingparty in another neighborhoodwhen they heard somebody screamthose houses had been ruined bywild elephants. The elephants alsodestroyed four hectares of paddyfield which were to be be harvestedsoon.

Elephants’ attacking localhousing complexes often happen inBangkeh village. However, the lo-cal people’s efforts to expel the el-ephants by firing bamboo cannondid not scare the animals anymore.

Local people have urged thegovernment and the regional Natu-ral Resources Conservation Agency(BKSDA) to do something regard-ing the elephant attacks.

Last July, Salehuddin (30), aresident of Gampong Koto, CentralKluet sub district, South Aceh Dis-trict, Aceh, was trampled to death

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BANDA ACEH - Tens of wild elephants ruined five houses andfour hectares of ready-to-harvest paddy field in Bangkeh village, Pidiedistrict, Aceh, during the past three days, village chief SyarifuddinAji said on Tuesday.

by a herd of elephants. The victim was a farmer who

was guarding his garden at AlueKeujereun village, around 50 kmeast of Tapaktuan, South Aceh,when he was attacked by Sumatranelephants (Elephas maximussumatranus), Muhammad Hasbi,Central Kluet Sub district head,said.

In the same month, an el-ephant attack also happened inBengkalis district, Riau province,where a senior citizen aged 63 yearsold, Marsini, was found dead.

“According to informationwe` received, Marsini was attackedby more than one elephant,” chiefof Riau province`s Conservationand Natural Resources AgencyTrisnu Danisworo said. The tragicaccident happened when Marsiniwho was walking around a palm oilplantation near her house met agroup of wild elephants which werecrossing the area.

Antara SERANG - A flash flood killeda woman and left the woman’s childmissing in Serang District, BantenProvince, Monday evening (Sept.27). “The body of my wife is stillmissing, while my 2.5-year oldchild was found dead in the estuaryof Pulo Kali River by local resi-dents,” Edi Mulyani, the floodvictim’s husband, said here Tues-day. The tragedy occurred when Edi,his wife, Mutahorah, and child werein their garden to harvest bananas,on Monday.

Flash flood kills one, leavesone missing in Serang

“But because it was raining, mywife and child went home ahead ofme by taking a long a stem of ba-nanas,” he explained. But the flood swept them awaywhile they were crossing Pulo KaliRiver on the way home. In Serang District, floods reach-ing a height of around 50 cm alsoinundated tens of houses and roads. Indonesia which normally hastwo seasons in a year, namely thedry season and rainy season, wassupposed to experience a dry sea-son during April-October. But dueto the climate change impacts, LaNina has been developing in the

country and caused the rainy seasonto persist. In Mukomuko and NorthBengkulu districts, Bengkulu Prov-ince, Sumatra Island, Monday (Sept27), floods triggered by incessantheavy rains, caused a number of riv-ers to overflow. Due to the over-flowing of Ketahun River, at least20 houses were inundated at MulyaMakmur village, XIV Koto sub dis-trict, Mukomuko district, he said.The inundations also flooded 10houses at Cakra village, Ketahunsub district, and 25 others at BatikNau village, Lais Sub district, NorthBengkulu District.

Antara JAKARTA -President

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saidthat 6 billion dollars annually weresent back to Indonesia by millionsof Indonesian migrant workersthrough the formal banking sys-tem.

“Many of those Indonesianwere not accustomed to the bank-ing services when they were in In-donesia. This shows that tradi-tional mindset can be changed andthe migrant workers are in factgoing to the bank,” the head ofstate in his opening address at theSecond Alliance Financial Inclu-sion (AFI) Global Policy Forum,here, Monday.

According to Yudhoyono,developing people’s financial lit-eracy is as important as develop-ing their financial capability. Itwas important that people weretaught about the importance andbenefit of accessing financial ser-vices.

“In 2008, we introduced a na-tional campaign called ‘Ayo keBank’ or in English ‘Let’s go tothe bank’. Last year, we launchedanother campaign in 2009 with theslogan of ‘whatever the product,ensure the benefits, understand therisks and consider the costs’,” hesaid.

People living with a low in-come must be given access to af-fordable financial services, whichlater could unlock many financialopportunities to improve theirwell-being, and close the eco-

Antara BANDUNG - Bandung’s

Sheraton Hotel located on JalanDago received a bomb threat at 5.30am Tuesday morning, Bandung po-lice chief Senior CommissionerJaya Subriyanto said.

The hotel’s managementcalled the police, and at 8 am ortwo- and-a-half hours after thethreatening telephone call, the po-lice arrived.

When this report was filed, apolice team led by Jaya Subriyantowas still investigating the locationwhere the mysterious caller had said

RI’s migrant workers sendhome US$ 6 billion annually

nomic and social gap. “This will ultimately reduce

poverty and inequality,” he said.According to the World Bank,

some 1.4 billion people still livewith an income of less than 1.25dollars a day, therefore povertyeradication is crucial,” he said.

“For Indonesia, poverty al-leviation is a top priority. It is atthe heart of our four-track devel-opment strategy, which is pro-growth, pro-job, pro-poor, and pro-environment,” he said.

Fighting poverty required sys-tematic, sustained and coordinatedpolicy measures supported by nec-essary resources. Indonesia’s anti-poverty efforts have shown encour-aging result, as the number of In-donesians living below the povertyline has decreased from 16.7 per-cent of the population in 2004 to14.1 percent in 2009.

“Even during the crisis we canreduce poverty to 13.3 percent inMarch 2010,” the president said.

The Second Annual AFI Glo-bal Policy Forum (GPF) dubbed“Taking Financial Inclusion to theNext Level” is being organized byAFI and Bank of Indonesia, inJimbaran, Bali, from September 27to 29, 2010.

Some 350 senior financialpolicymakers from over 60 devel-oping countries are participating inthe Forum to discuss efforts to in-crease access to financial servicesfor the poor through innovativepolicymaking. The first Forum wasorganized in Nairobi last year.

Antara JAKARTA - Minister of Cul-

ture and Tourism Jero Wacik saidhe was considering an incentive tomuseum owners. “I have instructedmy senor staff to formulate a policythat will enable us to give an incen-tive to museum owners, in thegovernment’s appreciation forpeople for their contribution to thecountry,” the minister said here onTuesday. The government wouldgive a tax exemption on buildingswhich had been converted into amuseum, for example.

Bandung’s Sheraton hotelreceives bomb threat

the bomb would explode. “We are still trying to find the

caller, and cover all spots and cor-ners of the hotel,” Jaya said.

“In the meantime, we are stillwaiting for a bomb squad from theMobile Brigade. Now, the sweep-ing is being conducted by membersof the Criminal Investigation De-partment using metal detectors,” headded.

The bomb threat, however, didnot cause panic among the hotelquests said Edi Soenarno, thehotel’s marketing and communica-tion officer.

Governmentconsidering

incentive

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An Indonesian woman tends to her toddler in a makeshift tent where they live on the edge of a railroad inJakarta on September 28, 2010.

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Bali Today

Putu Bagiada, the head of exportdivision in Bali Industrial and TradeDepartment, said “the clothing fromBali is still of the most product ex-ported abroad.” He explained thatin addition to the clothing, woodenhandicrafts, tuna, and vanilla are theother main export from Bali.

The clothing export from Balireached its peak on the 80’s but thenumber decreased along with the

Bali Post

Jegog Bali and musician fromBali Belawan will contribute to theNational Bamboo Music Festivalin Bandung, 2-3 October 2010 withtheme Re-Invention Bamboo Mu-sic and Culture, this festival is heldfor the fourth time and will be hav-ing anklung parade, indeginousbamboo such as nation’s flute,classic bamboo, bamboo rhythm/string, contemporaty bamboo andother kind of activities such asworkshop and exhibitions, semi-nars, and cooking from bamboos.

According to the Culture andTourism Ministry’s MarketingGeneral Director, Dr. SaptaNirwandar, this music festival willshow potential of culture bamboomusician in the country such asGiring Giring dancers of LamadauRegence, Central Borneo, SasandoGong Rote Island East LesserSunades, Rampak KentonganPurbalingga Central Java,Angklung Carub Banyuwangi,Bambu Wukir Yogyakarta, andcontemporary gamelan musicialnshockbreaker Indonesia-Norwegia, “In this even we alsoinviteed arumba Plumeria Japan,

As a world tourist destination, Baliis not only visited as a convenient holi-day resort, but also as a good place togain cultural knowledge. It was provenby foreign students studying in Bali’suniversity through the years. For in-stance, many of them are interested tostudy in the Indonesia Institute of Arts(ISI) Denpasar. This year, the institutereceived 40 foreign students in the oddsemester. They came from 17 coun-tries around the world obtaining ascholarship program from the RI’sgovernment for the 2010/2011 aca-demic year.

Each student chose department astheir favorite such as Department ofDance, Gamelan Music, Fine Arts,Kriya Arts and Photography. The sev-enteen countries are Japan, Poland, the

Jegog Bali participatedin National BambooMusic Festival

Enrekang bamboo, Bali jegog,calung Purbalingga, CarubBanyuwangi and more.”

According to Sapta, the WorldMusic Festival event themed bam-boo with great creative artists andmusicians of Indonesia and over-seas, will be an effective media topromote Indonesian great culturearts to the world. Bamboo musicas universal music will be the softpower to promote Indonesia’s tour-ism to the world.

Besides showing dances andbamboo music, there will be bam-boo talks such as seminars and in-viting lecturers of bamboo expertssuch as Marc Peeters and ChamimMarka with their research institu-tion Bambu Nusa Verde (BNV) inYogyakarta. BNV has transferredbamboo technology through cul-ture network technology devel-oped by a Belgian Company,OPRINS Plant Company.

At the peak of the event therewill be a performance to remind usof a Nation Bamboo creator,Wawan Juanda, by some musicianssuch as Dwiki Darmawan, GitaGartina, Yuki TendoStar and AndyRif accompanied by Bamboo Or-chestra. (010)

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Tourists buying balinese garments. The garment export from Bali begin to increase recently. Thevolume of the exports and value of it increase 25.7 percent compare to the same period last year.

Clothing from Bali enterinternational marketAntara

Denpasar – Textile and clothing from Bali is increasingly entering the international market.This is because the designs are always up to date and the price is quite reasonable.

global economics recession. Thenumber of clothing export duringJanuary through July 2010 was 30.5million pieces worth $73 million.

The number increased 25% com-pare to the same period last yearwhich was only $58 million.

Ni Ketut Suarni, a marketing of-ficer in clothing factory in Kuta, said“the industry in Bali is now creatingexclusives clothing for the upper

class customers in Europe andUSA.” She also said that the com-panies are taking part in many exhi-bitions in order to gain input fromtheir costumers so they can producethe clothing suitable with customersdemand.

“The unique product in our com-pany is painted cloth with special de-sign. Many tourists are attracted tobuy it,” Suarni added.

40 Foreign Students LearnBalinese Art and Culture

United States, Australia, Czech Repub-lic, Russia, Slovenia, England, Hun-gary, Serbia Montenegro, South Africa,Argentina, Mexico, Romania, Greece,Estonia and Ukraine. Dozens of foreignstudents were received directly by theRector of ISI Denpasar Prof. Dr. IWayan Rai at rectorate office of the ISIDenpasar.

According to Prof. Dr. I Wayan Rai,the presence of ISI Denpasar was auniversity going international throughthe admission of foreign students. “It isthe program based on the local excel-lence. What they get in campus is notonly intended for the interests of thecampus itself, but should also be actu-alized to the wider community,” he ex-plained.

It was said that foreign students

chose the ISI because they were at-tracted to the existing cultural content.Besides, they also got the learning taskfrom the campus in their home coun-try. In terms of capability and improve-ment of teaching staff, Wayan Rai saidthat currently the lecturers of ISI hadbeen encouraged and motivated to bemore active, especially in the masteryof English language.

Meanwhile, the number of foreignstudents since 2000 up to now was ap-proximately 300 students. Currently theISI Denpasar has opened the networkto a number of countries. One of themwas by establishing cooperation withuniversity in Russia. “To make thiscampus go international in the future,the development of the network is themost important,” he said. (BTN/015)

Balinese Culture

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Among thedelicacy ofBalinese foodwith hot spices,in fact, Balinesecommunity alsoretains easy-peasy snack butsometimes a bitharder. One ofthem is the beanof teep. Its treeresembles to thatof breadfruit.However, itsbeans are farsmallercompared to thatof breadfruit. When its fruits have turned ripe, theyusually attract the presence of civet. Actually, thisnocturnal cat is only interested to eat the flesh of fruit.Similar thing also happens to coffee beans. Since theskin of beans is hard it cannot digest them so civetcould only enjoy the flesh. On the next day, thoseseeds could be found at the feces of civet. All seedsremain intact. However, if people see the ripe fruitsfirst, they will not need to wait the coming of civet topick them.

To process the beans, they are first cleansedthoroughly and dry under the sun. Afterward, theyshould be fried without oil but sand. When they havebeen finely cooked they can be enjoyed while relaxingor lazing. As the shell and beans are slightly hard, itmay take a bit long time to open and chew them.However, if they are indeed dry enough and cookedwell they must be easy to open and crispy. They aregood to consume as slow snack while chatting orwatching TV. (BTN/punia)

When penjors paraphernalia areerected throughout the island, theyepitomize that Galungan festivityhas come. Every single devotee isin blooming heart welcoming itwith joy. This six monthly celebra-tion in Balinese calendar encour-ages people to make earnest prepa-ration whole day and night. It’stime to glorify God and ancestors.

Based on the mythology,Galungan delineates the triumph ofdharma (truth) against adharma(untruth). According to TatwaMayadanawa transliterated byMade Gambar said that Bedaulukingdom in Bali was once ruled byMayadanawa. He was very pow-erful and proud of his power andfeels to have more sovereignpower than that of gods.

This arrogance until forbids allsubjects to worship God togetherwith the celebration to glorify allGod’s manifestations. The non-ex-istence of freedom to worship andother religious activities causedmany subjects greatly sufferedwhere diseases spread and harvestsfailed. Seeing this condition, LordMahadeva in heaven feels disap-pointed. Having organized an as-sembly session with other gods, itis decided to attack Mayadanawa.Under the leadership of Lord Indra,the target can be timely destroyed.In short, the troops of the gods wonthe battle. This does not only stand

Villages located at mountainous area in Bali are richin various vegetables. One of them growing well in thearea is kacang kara or green-streaked bean. Mostpeople prefer to pick it when mature and they just takeits bean. This bean is usually cultivated in backyard andlet twist on fence plant or high trees in the garden.

Common way to enjoy this green-streaked bean is byfrying. However, if people wish to taste differently, it canbe added with yellow sauce. In essence, it is a goodside dish to accompany your meals on cooler area.

Ingredient: 250g young green-streaked beanSpices: 6 cloves shallot, 3 cloves garlic, 2 large

chilies, 2 small chilies, 2 candlenuts, 1 slice aromaticginger (kencur), 1 slice turmeric, 1 slice ginger, and ½tsp salt

Others: ½ tsp salt, 1 cup palm oil and 250 ml waterMethod:· Cleanse the green bean and drain thoroughly.

Bruise them on stone mortar and then fry them half-done.

· All spices are ground and stir-fry by 2 tbsp ofpalm oil taken from the oil used for frying the bean. Putthe bean into the spices on the frying pan. Add the waterand salt while stirring until the water runs somewhat dry.When it has been cooked and tender, take out andserve. (BTN/punia)

Mayadanawa:Feeling SuperiorityResults in Destruction

for the triumph of the gods, but alsoof the whole mankind on earth.

Afterwards, Galungan then canbe re-celebrated after the triumphof Indra. Many subjects felt to re-gain their enlightenment as theywere able to practice their religiouslife. This festivity lasts for ten daysand ends in the day calledKuningan. Aside from payinghomage at village temple, it is alsointended to appreciate the ances-tors at family shrine. Similarly,devotees thank for the prosperitybestowed and maintain the rela-tionship with their ancestors.Though they have left for the be-yond, hopefully they could illumi-nate their descendants.

Another version about Galunganis mentioned by the manuscriptJaya Kasunu. It is said that the kingJaya Kasunu (AD 1204), meditated(held dewa sraya) to invoke guid-ance. His problem was that not oneof his predecessors could rulelonger. Through his solemn medi-tation he was inspired that heshould re-organize religious activi-ties, such as Galungan.

No matter what the version is,the essence of these mythologiesimplies that a devotee or creationshould maintain their persistentcontact to his Creator. The âtmandwelling within the human selfshould maintain his contact toBrahman, the Creator. By doing so,

humans can continuously obtain theillumination to walk in the path ofdharma.

As manifestation of gratitude,devotees express it through worshipat temples, garden, rice field and soforth. Everything that has givenprosperity is also offered an obla-tion, including the means of trans-portation. If you happen to take anexcursion on that day you of coursewill rub up against many cars af-fixed with young coconut parapher-nalia.

Hopefully, the festivity does notcome to an end at the vibrant fiestamarked with grandiose oblation, as-sorted delicious food or luxuriousparaphernalia. All the times itshould help the spiritual develop-ment. Anything achieved in this lifeeither tangible or intangible entities,should not make us arrogant. Some-times, when having abundance ofwealth or higher educational back-ground, a human feels superior ormore powerful than others. Even, itis not employed as a milestone toimprove his devotion to God. It’shere where the achievement dragshuman to sluggish condition orgorge of destruction. LikeMayadanawa, he forgot that thereis a vast sky above him. His powerhas led him to his dissolution. If wedo not want to become the nextMayadanawa, consistent devotionmust be established. (BTN/punia)

Teep Beans:Lazing while Enjoying Slow Snack

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BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US authori-ties on Monday signaled their in-tention to monitor almost all banktransactions to and from theUnited States, part of an anti-ter-ror drive that is rekindling privacyconcerns.

The Treasury Department’s Fi-nancial Crimes Enforcement Net-work has asked that banks “reportinternational transactions equal toor in excess of 1,000 dollars,” ac-cording to a statement.

At present transactions of under10,000 dollars are not reported tothe US authorities, a practice thathas raised concern among anti-ter-rorism officials who say financingcan be unbundled to easily passunder the radar.

“This regulatory plan willgreatly assist law enforcement indetecting and ferret ing outtransnational organized crime,multinational drug cartels, terror-ist financing, and international taxevasion,” said the network’s di-rector James Freis.

The proposed rules would be-come law from 2012, after pass-ing various legislative hurdles, butalready they face fierce opposition.

The economies would expand 8.2percent in 2010, up from the bank’s7.5 percent forecast earlier this year,as the trade-driven region “recoveredfrom the global (financial) crisis withremarkable speed and vigour,” theADB said in its twice-yearly economicforecast.

Growth would slow to 7.3 percentin 2011, while inflation would remainwithin the central banks’ “comfortzones” of an average 4.1 percent thisyear and 3.9 percent in 2011, the re-port said.

“Developing Asia’s recoveryseems to have taken a firm hold,” ADBchief economist Jong-Wha Lee told apress briefing in Hong Kong Tuesday.

“But we should not be complacent.There are still a lot of challenges tolong-term, sustained growth.”

The latest forecast remained belowthe region’s record 9.6 percent expan-sion in 2007.

Asia’s developing economies stilllag far behind industrial economies inper capita income and the region re-mains home to two-thirds of theworld’s poor, Lee said.

Officials would also have to focuson efforts to “broaden and deepen”their financial markets and tightenregulatory enforcement, Lee added.

The Manila-based bank’s reportlooked at 44 jurisdictions stretching

Agence France-Presse

SINGAPORE - Singapore stateinvestment agency GIC has recov-ered most of its losses caused by the2008 financial crisis after the glo-bal economy rebounded last year, of-ficials said.

The Government of SingaporeInvestment Corporation (GIC) saidlate Monday that the average rate ofreturn on its investments rose to 7.1percent in US dollar terms in theyear ending March, up from 5.7 per-cent the previous year.

In the year to March 2008, be-fore the financial crisis broke out inthe United States as a result of ahousing mortgage meltdown, GIChad reported an average rate of re-turn of 7.8 percent.

GIC, which was set up in 1981,is one of the city-state’s two sover-eign wealth funds — along withTemasek Holdings — and investsSingapore’s foreign reserves of wellover 100 billion dollars with a 20-year horizon in mind.

“Global stock markets recoveredstrongly in 2009. This was a reboundfrom the devastation in the financialcrisis of 2008,” group chief invest-ment officer Ng Kok Song said in

AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS

A man tosses a pumpkin to his fellow worker at Divisoria market in Manila on September 27, 2010.Asia’s developing economies should make long-term growth their top priority, the Asian Devel-opment Bank said Tuesday as it lifted its 2010 growth forecast for the region.

ADB says long-term growthADB says long-term growthADB says long-term growthADB says long-term growthADB says long-term growthtop priority for developing Asiatop priority for developing Asiatop priority for developing Asiatop priority for developing Asiatop priority for developing AsiaAgence France-Presse

HONG KONG - Asia’s developing economies should make long-term growth their top priority,the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday as it lifted its 2010 growth forecast for the region.

from the former Soviet states ofCentral Asia to some Pacific islands,but excluded developed countriessuch as Japan, Australia and NewZealand.

The region’s shifting economiesnow reflect a “middle-income, capi-tal-abundant Asia,” signalling the needto rejig policies that worked when theregion was “low income and capitalscarce,” the report said.

“It’s time to improve Asia’s long-term productive capacity,” Lee added.

Trade with the West would con-tinue to be a major economic driver,but countries should diversify theirexport base and focus on inter-regionaltrade, the report said, amid worriesabout a faltering recovery inindustrialised nations.

Paul Heytens, the ADB’s Chinacountry director, urged Chinesepolicymakers to boost domestic con-sumption and reduce the country’sover-reliance on investment and ex-ports to drive the economy.

“Failure to decisively implementthe agenda to rebalance the Chineseeconomy risks jeopardising thesustainability of growth,” he told re-porters in Beijing.

Heytens said the bank “very muchwelcomed” China’s announcement inJune that it would move to a more flex-ible exchange rate, amid cries from

critics that Beijing was undervaluing itsyuan currency to boost exports.

A changing labour market wouldrequire better educated workers, whileurban congestion and environmentalproblems threatened to curb develop-ing Asia’s growth, the report said.

Lee acknowledged there were some“striking differences” in the quality ofregional infrastructure development,especially between East and South Asia.

East Asia — including Hong Kong,China, South Korea, and Taiwan — isforecast to lead the region with an 8.6percent rise in gross domestic productin 2010, up from the bank’s earlier 8.3percent forecast, the report said.

Southeast Asian economies willgrow 7.4 percent in 2010, from an ear-lier 5.1 percent estimate, as countriesincluding Thailand, Malaysia and Viet-nam see an upswing in their exports,the bank said.

India will lead South Asia’s 7.8 per-cent GDP increase this year, the banksaid, from its previous 7.4 percent fore-cast.

Central Asia, including Kazakhstanand Azerbaijan, will see 5.1 percentgrowth compared with the earlier 4.7percent estimate.

Pacific island nations are are seengrowing 4.3 percent in 2010, outpac-ing a 3.7 percent rise forecast earlier,the report said.

Singapore’s GIC says it hasregained most losses from crisis

GIC’s annual report.“The increase in value of the

government’s portfolio in the finan-cial year to 31 March 2010 largelyoffset the loss in the previous year,”he said.

GIC did not put a value on itsportfolio but said public equities,mostly in the developed markets,made up 51 percent of its overall as-sets followed by fixed income in-vestments at 20 percent.

The rest of its portfolio comprisedreal estate, natural resources andprivate equity, GIC said.

“GIC started to selectively takeon more risk from the second quar-ter of 2009, amidst growing confi-dence in the economic recovery,”said deputy chairman and executivedirector Tony Tan.

“I am pleased that the 20-yearreturn of the portfolio has im-proved,” he said.

GIC’s invests in a wide widerange of asset classes including pub-lic equities, real estate in leadingworld capitals and private equities.

Temasek invests mostly inSingapore and Asia and has stakesin leading companies includingStandard Chartered bank and flagcarrier Singapore Airlines.

US to toughen banktransfer monitoring

“It is a tremendous overreachby the US government,” saidMarc Rotenberg, director of theWashington-based Electronic Pri-vacy Information Center.

Rotenberg said it was “alsolikely renew a long-going battlebetween the US and Europeangovernments over the disclosureof financial transactions by Euro-pean customers to US federalagencies.”

Europeans and Americans havebeen locked in acrimonious nego-tiations on the use of informationprovided via the Society forWorldwide Interbank FinancialTelecommunication (SWIFT) sys-tem, which deals with trillions ofdollars in global transactionsdaily involving 8,000 banks.

In 2006, Belgium’s commis-sion on privacy protection discov-ered that SWIFT had violatedBelgian privacy rules, transfer-ring bank records to the US au-thorities for use in anti-terrorisminvestigations.

SWIFT admitted it had pro-vided US authorities with a “lim-ited” amount of data in the wakeof the September 11 attacks in2001 for the purpose of fightingextremists.

Entertainment InternationalWednesday, September 29, 201012

“Wall Street” was followed byanother shining premiere: “Legendof the Guardians,” an animated owldrama, that brought in 16.1 milliondollars out of the gate, box officetracker Exhibitor Relations said.

In third place was “The Town,”Ben Affleck’s fast-paced bank heistflick set in his hometown of Bos-ton. The movie, in its second weekout, had a very solid 15.6-million-dollar take.

Teen comedy “Easy A” about ahigh school girl who lies about los-ing her virginity to improve her so-cial standing, netted 10.6 million.Another new film “You Again” burston the scene in fifth place for theweekend. The family comedy star-ring Jamie Lee Curtis and SigourneyWeaver, earned 8.4 million.

In sixth place was “Devil,” M.

Greed is good: ‘Wall Street’ scores across USGreed is good: ‘Wall Street’ scores across USGreed is good: ‘Wall Street’ scores across USGreed is good: ‘Wall Street’ scores across USGreed is good: ‘Wall Street’ scores across USAgence France Presse

LOS ANGELES - “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” proved worthits weight in box office gold, netting a whopping 19 million dollars inits first weekend out, a final tally showed Monday. Director OliverStone’s sequel to his 1987 hit “Wall Street” sees Michael Douglas re-prising his role as investment shark Gordon Gekko, famous for say-ing that “greed is good.” The movie co-stars Josh Brolin and the up-and-coming Shia LaBeouf.

Night Shyamalan’s thriller aboutSatan trapping victims in a Phila-delphia high-rise. It earned 6.6 mil-lion dollars in its second week out.“Resident Evil,” the latest in a long-running science fiction series,trailed in the seventh spot with fivemillion dollars.

“Alpha and Omega,” an ani-mated movie about a wolf pack inthe wilds of a Canadian nature re-serve, was in eighth place with 4.7million dollars in tickets sold. “Tak-ers,” the bank-robbery thriller star-ring Hayden Christensen, Idris Elbaand singers Chris Brown and T.I.,was trailing in the ninth spot. Itearned 1.6 million dollars. “Incep-tion,” Leonardo DiCaprio’s sci-fithriller, was in the 10th spot with1.25 million dollars. It has earned astunning 287 million dollars so far.

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One of the scene in the movie “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”. The movie is netting a whopping 19million dollars in its first weekend out.

Agence France PresseJERUSALEM - British rocker Ozzy

Osbourne, the “Prince of Darkness,” was to per-form in Israel on Tuesday despite a string ofrecent cancellations by other artists protestingits occupation of Palestinian lands. When askedon Sunday whether he had any hesitation aboutperforming in Israel on account of the conflict,Osbourne said he avoided politics because “Iwouldn’t know what I was talking about,” ac-cording to the Ynet news service.

His wife and manager Sharon Osbourneadded that “Britain has the IRA and no one can-cels concerts there,” referring to the Irish Re-publican Army, which fought British rule innorthern Ireland until the 1990s. When askedwhy he hadn’t visited Israel before, Osbournereplied: “I don’t know, I was drunk for years.”Osbourne shot to stardom in the 1970s as thelead singer of heavy metal band Black Sabbathbefore embarking on a solo career.

The performance in the seaside city of TelAviv on Tuesday is the latest instalment of theOzzfest heavy metal concert series launchedin the 1990s. Several international artists can-celled performances in Israel this summer fol-lowing the deadly May 31 seizure of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in which Israeli commandoskilled nine Turkish activists.

The no-shows included the US alternativerock group The Pixies, London-based indiepunk band Klaxons, and the Gorillaz, a hiphopgroup.

Britain’s Elvis Costello, rock guitarist CarlosSantana and rap forefather Gil Scott-Heron alsobacked out of scheduled visits after they cameunder pressure from opponents of Israel’s poli-cies towards the Palestinians.

Other artists have ignored such calls, includ-ing US R&B star Missy Elliott and Britain’sElton John, who performed in Israel earlier thisyear.

‘Prince of Darkness’ OzzyOsbourne to rock Holy Land

Agence France PresseLOS ANGELES - Gloria Stuart,

who earned an Oscar nomination forplaying an older version of KateWinslet’s character in the block-buster “Titanic,” has died at the ageof 100, her family said Monday.Stuart, who played centenarian OldRose recalling her youthful amorousadventures depicted by Winslet andLeonard DiCaprio in JamesCameron’s 1997 movie, died Sun-day at her Los Angeles home.

As a glamorous young blond shehad been a leading lady in the 1930s,but took a long break from moviesafter the early 1940s and became anaccomplished painter, according tothe IMDb industry database, in anonline obituary.

She returned to TV and the thesilver screen in the 1970s and 1980s,

Titanic’ actress GloriaStuart dies at 100

but it was her role in the epic filmversion of Titanic’s final hourswhich shot her to global fame. Atthe age of 87 she was nominated forBest Supporting Actress for her roleas the 101-year-old Rose Calvert,remembering her torrid below-stairslove affair with DiCaprio’s JackDawson as the stricken ship wentdown. “I knew the role I had wantedand waited for all these many yearshad arrived! I could taste the role ofOld Rose!” she said in her 1999 au-tobiography, “Gloria Stuart: I JustKept Hoping.”

Stuart was diagnosed with lungcancer five years ago, and had sur-vived breast cancer, her daughterSylvia Thompson was cited by theLos Angeles Times as saying, add-ing: “She was a very strongwoman.”

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file

FILE - In this March 23, 1998 file photo, actress Gloria Stuart arrivesat the 70th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Stuart was nomi-nated for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in thefilm “Titanic.”

AP Photo/Charles Sykes

FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file photo Ozzy Osbourneattends a listening party for his new album “Scream”at the Sirius XM studios in New York. Ozzy Osbournesays alcohol, not politics, has stopped him fromplaying in Israel until now. Osbourne’s scheduledperformance on Tuesday will be his first ever in theHoly Land.

International Wednesday, September 29, 2010 13Life Style

The PlayBook is one of a num-ber of tablet computers slated forrelease in a bid to challenge Apple’spopular iPad and is the first forayoutside the mobile phone realm forthe Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM.“They are kind of positioning it asthe iPad for the suits,” Gartner ana-lyst Van Baker said of thePlayBook announcement.

The PlayBook has a seven-inch(17.8-centimeter) touchscreen,smaller than the 9.7 inches ofApple’s iPad, and also plays AdobeFlash video software, which isbanned from the Apple device.“You are going to be able to get thefull Web experience,” Lazaridissaid, stressing its integration withRIM’s BlackBerry smartphone, afavorite among many profession-als.

BlackBerry smartphone userscan pair their handset with thePlayBook using a Bluetooth con-nection to view their email, calen-dar, documents or other content.The PlayBook also features front-

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SAN FRANCISCO - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion istaking on iPad in the table computer game with a “PlayBook” aimedto capitalize on its strength — the trust of business users keen onsecure communications. “It is the world’s first professional tablet,”RIM president and co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis said as heshowed off the device in San Francisco.

and rear-facing cameras to supportvideo conferencing and allowsmulti-tasking between programs.

RIM expects to begin sellingPlayBooks in the United States inearly 2011 and rolling the tabletsout to other countries by the middleof the year. Lazaridis did not revealhow much RIM plans to charge forthe PlayBook. “RIM set out to en-gineer the best professional-gradetablet in the industry with cutting-edge hardware features and one ofthe world’s most robust and flex-ible operating systems,” Lazaridissaid. Positioning PlayBook as abusiness person’s tablet could sty-mie its popularity in the sizzlingconsumer market dominated byiPad, according to Baker.

“RIM has a bit of a split per-sonality; they struggle withwhether they are a consumer orenterprise device company,” Bakersaid. “Enterprise is their bread andbutter, but consumer is the big mar-ket right now.” The fact PlayBookusers can route data through

BlackBerry smartphones insteadof paying for separate telecomservice should prove a sellingpoint in the business and personalmarkets.

PlayBook tablets also promisehelp RIM challenge the increas-ing use of iPads in workplaces.RIM said that in the comingweeks it would release a softwarekit so third-party developers canbegin tailoring applications, or“apps,” for PlayBook.

PlayBook debuted atBlackBerry DEVCON, a com-bined boot camp and pep rally foroutside developers crafting pro-grams for the Canadian firm’s de-vices. RIM introduced tools thatmake it easier to build applica-tions for BlackBerry handsets andmake money with ads or “in-app”purchases.

RIM is also launching a freeanalytics service that provides ap-plications makers with feedbackregarding how, when and whereBlackBerry owners are using pro-grams. “We are enabling devel-opers to better monetize their ser-vices and drive deeper engage-ment to create richer, more inter-esting social apps forBlackBerry,” said Alan Brenner,senior vice president of theBlackBerry platform.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP

A BlackBerry DevCon attendee takes a photograph of the new BlackBerryPlayBook during the Blackberry DevCon 2010 on September 27, 2010 inSan Francisco, California. RIM President and Co-Chief Executive OfficerMike Lazaridis announced the new BlackBerry PlayBook, a touchscreentablet, during his keynote address.

Agence France PresseSINGAPORE - A Singapore charity on

Tuesday announced the winners of an in-ternational art competition to design“happy coffins” to encourage the elderlyand dying to celebrate life. Six winning de-signs out of 733 entries from 37 countrieswere made into personalised coffins in co-operation with a local funeral home.

The first prize of 3,000 US dollars wentto a 27-year-old Belgian woman, Ines van

Singapore charity uses ‘happycoffins’ to celebrate life

Gucht, whose design showed a furry blackcreature whom she described as a friendthat would take care of her after her death.A message on the figure read: “Hello cof-fin. You seem to be nice. One day we willmeet again. To the rest of you I saygoodbye. I hope it was a blast.” Other en-tries included a coffin designed to resemblechocolate bars and another depicting thedishes of a “last supper” served on the top.

Agence France PresseVIENNA - The United Nations Office for

Outer Space Affairs on Tuesday dismissed as“nonsense” a newspaper report which said ithad appointed a new ambassador as a point ofcontact for extra-terrestrials. “The article in theSunday Times is nonsense,” UNOOSA said ina statement, referring to a report this weekendwhich said the UN was to appoint Malaysianastrophysicist, Mazlan Othman, to be the firstcontact for any aliens.

Othman heads UNOOSA, a little-knowndepartment of the UN based in Vienna with astaff of 27. Under a mandate defined by theUN General Assembly, UNOOSA’s task is topromote international cooperation in the peace-ful uses of outer space and strengthen the useof space science and technology applications.

“There are no plans to change the currentmandate,” the statement said. According to theSunday Times article, Othman was set to de-scribe her potential new role as chief alienambassador next week at a scientific confer-ence at the Royal Society’s Kavli conferencecentre in Buckinghamshire, England. ButUNOOSA also rejected this. Othman would usethe conference to “raise awareness” about top-ics such as space debris, asteroids, “as well asthe annual World Space Week celebrations fromOctober 4-10.” In an interview with AFP a yearago, Othman had joked that the UN SecretaryGeneral would be the one to “represent man-kind ... if we do make contact with aliens.”

UN denies naming ‘pointof contact’ for aliens

AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN

St Joseph’s Home resident Kitty Gogh, 80, sits on a wheelchair next to her “HappyCoffin” in Singapore on September 28, 2010. “Happy Coffins”, designed in con-junction with the customer, is a component of the Lien Foundation’s Life BeforeDeath initiative to dismantle the taboos surrounding Death & Dying by encourag-ing “die-logues” about this often-sensitive subject. IBP/ist

UN headquater

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They will have their work cutout against an unbeaten Valenciaside who have won four out oftheir first five league matches totop the Spanish top flight. Unitedcoach Sir Alex Fergusonwatched his side labour to a 0-0draw against Rangers in theirGroup C opener and will hopefor more attacking bite atValencia, as well as more defen-sive stability than they haveshown of late.

The three-time Europeanchampions have conceded sevengoals in their last three leaguematches and will be well awarethat Valencia trouncedBursaspor 4-0 in Turkey in theirgroup opener. “Yes, we’re con-cerned about the number ofgoals we have let in,” said de-fender Nemanja Vidic.

“Over the last few years wehaven’t conceded many goals.We always looked strong and wedidn’t give teams many chances.

Agence France Presse

MILAN - Inter Milan and WerderBremen are suffering from injuryproblems ahead of their ChampionsLeague Group G clash at the SanSiro on Wednesday. Hosts Inter, thereigning champions, have poten-tially the bigger problems with bothDiego Milito and Goran Pandevrated as doubtful.

That’s two of Inter’s attacking tri-umvirate and should coach RafaelBenitez be forced to look for otheroptions, he may need to change hissystem with only FrenchmanJonathan Biabiany and teenage Bra-zilian Coutinho available as back-up.Pandev still has the ankle problemhe suffered against Palermo a coupleof weeks ago while Milito picked upa thigh strain against AS Roma onSaturday.

What’s more, Inter are alreadywithout captain Javier Zanetti, fellowmidfielder Thaigo Motta and centre-backs Walter Samuel and MarcoMaterazzi. Things are not much bet-ter for Werder Bremen, though, withthe Germans having to do withouttheir captain Torsten Frings, Perustriker Claudio Pizarro and Germanydefender Clemens Fritz.

And according to coach ThomasSchaaf, that’s making an already dif-ficult task even harder against thechampions. “These injuries will re-ally hurt us,” he said. “We’re losinga lot of quality given the challengethat faces us. “I hope we can get

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Manchester United’s Dimitar Berbatov, right, keeps the ball from Bolton Wanderers’ MatthewTaylor during their English Premier League soccer match at The Reebok Stadium, Bolton, En-gland, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010.

Agence France Presse

MADRID - Manchester United look to end their miserable European record in Spain onWednesday as they search for their first Champions League win of the season at Spanishleague leaders Valencia. United have won just once in 18 matches in Spain against Spanishopposition, with their only win coming in the 2001-02 Champions League quarter-final firstleg at Deportivo La Coruna.

But in the last few away games wehaven’t kept clean sheets, which isvery disappointing.” At the otherend of the pitch, United will bemissing both Welsh winger RyanGiggs and England striker WayneRooney, after both players sus-tained injuries in the 2-2 draw atBolton Wanderers on Sunday.

Giggs succumbed to a hamstringproblem, while Rooney was with-drawn in the 61st minute after pick-ing up a knock to his ankle.Ferguson watched Valencia live intheir 1-1 home draw with AtleticoMadrid five days ago and admits itis a key game for his side, know-ing Valencia could go five pointsahead of them with victory.

“Drawing with Rangers makesthe Valencia match far more impor-tant than it would have been,” saidFerguson. Former England interna-tional striker Michael Owen scoredthe equaliser in the draw at Boltonand he could be called upon to part-ner in-form Dimitar Berbatov in

Rooney’s absence.Valencia are unbeaten in 11 Eu-

ropean home matches and havestarted the season in fine form with13 points from a possible 15 to topLa Liga ahead of championsBarcelona. Valencia, ChampionsLeague finalists in 2000 and 2001,sold Spanish World Cup starsDavid Silva and David Villa for 70million euros in the summer buttheir new signings have adaptedwell and given the club five winsfrom six in all competitions.

“The players are grasping thatthe most important thing is theteam and not the individuals andthat is the key to the good start,”said Valencia coach Unai Emery.

Valencia have conceded onlythree goals in their six games so farand part of that is down to 39-year-old goalkeeper Cesar Sanchez, whostarted the 2002 ChampionsLeague final for Real Madrid be-fore getting injured and being re-placed by Iker Casillas.

Injuries blight Inter,Werder build-up

them back soon but they might alsomiss the next two games.” Their ab-sences add to those of defendersNaldo, Petri Pasanen and SebastianBoenisch.

According to Marko Marin,Werder’s star from their 2-2 drawagainst Tottenham in their openingmatch, there’s no doubt about whoare the favourites. “It’s always dif-ficult playing against a team that isstrong and experienced like Inter,”he told Italy’s SkySport24.

“But the win against Hamburg (3-2 on Saturday) has given us beliefalthough Inter at home in their sta-dium are still favourites. “We’ll tryto get a result but the nerazzurri havemany great players in every depart-ment, a top defence, a solid midfieldand class strikers. They’re one of thebest teams and against those it’snever easy.”

Inter come into the game off theback of their first defeat of the sea-son, a 1-0 reverse against Roma. Butthey still top the Serie A table whileWerder have had a tough start to theirBundesliga campaign, winningtwice, drawing once and losing threetimes to sit 12th in the table.

And Marin doesn’t believe thatInter will be adversely affected bytheir defeat. “Their loss againstRoma isn’t important, the Champi-ons League is different,” he added.“When you play in (the ChampionsLeague) you think only about win-ning without looking at what you’vedone in the league.”

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

Inter Milan Argentine forward Diego Milito, right, celebrates af-ter scoring with his teammate Goran Pandev, of Macedonia,during a Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Bari atthe San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept.22, 2010.

Champions League group stage fixtures on Wednesday (kick-off 1845GMT):

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“Not bust. But it is champion-ship,” corrected James. Wade,James and Bosh donned their Mi-ami uniforms for the annual mediaday Monday before heading off withtheir teammates to begin trainingcamp Tuesday in the nearby FloridaPanhandle.

“I don’t want to keep harpingabout what people have said aboutme,” James said. “But personally,I’m motivated by what has gone onthis summer.” The two-time reign-ing NBA MVP has heard plenty ofcriticism from people in the basket-ball world since he made his deci-sion to leave Cleveland to join theHeat in an unprecedented free agenthaul.

Dallas Mavericks owner MarkCuban said James made a bad busi-ness decision and Cleveland ownerDan Gilbert called him a quitter.

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TOKYO - Second seed VeraZvonareva maintained her goodrun of form to beat Sara Errani ofItaly for a place in the third roundat the Pan Pacific Open women’stennis tournament on Tuesday.The Russian, who reached a ca-reer-high fourth in the world af-ter finishing runner-up at the USOpen, struggled to hold her serve,losing three games and needed torepeat deuces seven times beforeserving out for 6-3, 6-3 win.

Seventh seed ElenaDementieva of Russia, a goldmedallist at the Beijing Olympicsin 2008, was an easy 6-0, 6-1 win-ner over Yaroslava Shvedova ofKazakhstan, while eighth seedVictoria Azarenka breezed pastCzech Lucie Safarova 6-1, 6-3. “Iknew Sara is a very tough oppo-nent, so I had to concentrate. It’sthe first match after a couple ofweeks off, so of course it was dif-ficult to play your best tennis,”said Zvonareva.

“I was playing indoors (withthe roof closed due to rain) for thefirst time since last year’s Krem-lin Cup. It was a year ago, so itwas quite different conditions. “Iwas just trying my best — I hadups and downs — but I’m stillhappy with the way I handled thesituation and won this match,” sheadded.

Azarenka, of Belarus, who hada first-round bye with Zvonareva

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MELBOURNE, Australia –Disgraced cyclist Floyd Landissays he waited almost four yearsto reveal his doping because heknew once he’d admitted lying,he would not be believed aboutthe widespread use of perfor-mance enhancing drugs in thesport.

After years of denials, Landis— stripped of the 2006 Tour deFrance title because of doping —admitted in May to using perfor-mance-enhancing drugs and ac-cused others, including formerteammate and seven-time Tourwinner Lance Armstrong, of dop-ing. Armstrong has vehementlydenied the accusations and his at-torney has described Landis as a“serial liar.”

Landis, speaking at an Austra-lian conference on the eve of theroad cycling world champion-ships, said Tuesday that untilmore people come forward, cy-cling will continue to have a prob-lem with drug cheats.

“Until I can sit here, and a lotof other people can sit down andtalk about how it came to be thatway, it’s going to be hard to finda solution,” he said. “If I can be acatalyst for that, so be it. I don’tcare to take any credit for it be-cause part of why I’m doing whatI’m doing is for my own con-

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Miami Heat players LeBron James (6) Dwyane Wade (3) and ChrisBosh (1) arrive for interviews during Media Day, Monday, Sept.27, 2010 in Coral Gables, Fla. The Heat will begin NBA basket-ball training camp Tuesday at Hurlburt Field, a U.S. Air Forceinstallation in Florida’s Panhandle.

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MIAMI - No mountain is too high to climb for these Miami Heat. LeBron James began a newMiami chapter in his NBA career and flanked by fellow stars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh thepower trio fielded questions Monday about the high expectations in what some are calling achampionship or bust season for the Heat.

“It’s funny how things happen inlife and how people react,” Jamessaid. “It seems like a lot of peopletry to tell you what to do with yourlife and most of the time they don’teven have their own life in order.“That was just funny to me. So I’mreally excited for this opportunity forthis franchise, getting an opportunityto bring my game to this city.”

James signed a 109.8 million dol-lar, six-year deal with Miami on July9, one day after his PR people con-vinced American sports broadcasterESPN to air an hour long special toannounce he was leaving the Cava-liers. There were 275 credentialedmedia and more than two dozen TVcameras there for media day onMonday.

But unlike Super Bowl media daythere were no audacious questionsor oddball outfits. Just plenty of

questions. “This team is not built forus to go below the radar,” coach ErikSpoelstra said. “That’s a good thing.The expectations are there. We won’trun away from it.”

James, Bosh and Wade have morethan in common than just being all-stars. They were among the top fivepicks in the 2003 draft.

“There are so many things beingdifferent, even this media day,” Boshsaid. “Everything is different fromwhat we all have either expected orexperienced.” The Heat season startsOctober 26 at Boston.

“You can’t hide from it,”Spoelstra said. “You have to em-brace it. It’s not a distraction, as longas it doesn’t get in the way of ourdaily activities and practice and fo-cus and preparing. That’s part of thisteam. This team is different fromwhat we had last year.”

Floyd Landis at-tends a pressconference inGeelong, Australia,Tuesday, Sept. 28,2010 ahead of theroad cycling worldchampionships.Disgraced U.S.cyclist Landis sayshe waited almostfour years to revealhis doping becausehe knew once he’dadmitted lying, hewould not be be-lieved about thewidespread use ofperformance en-hancing drugs in thesport.

Landis says he waited toolong to own up to doping

science and my own well being.“As much as it hurts to sit and tellmy mom I lied, and to tell otherpeople that I lied, it’s better thanthe alternative.”

The American acknowledgedhe waited too long before comingclean. “I knew that having de-fended myself in the beginning,and having lied about never hav-ing doped, that no matter when Ichanged the story and no matterwhen I I decided to tell the detailsof what I’d done, the argument

was always going to be the same.It was going to be that I shouldn’tbe believed now,” Landis said.

“It took me longer than it prob-ably should have.” Landis’ alle-gations prompted an ongoing andwide-ranging U.S. federal probecentering on Armstrong and hisassociates. The investigation isbeing pursued by U.S. prosecutorsand Food and Drug Administra-tion agent Jeff Novitzky. Landissaid doping was endemic in cy-cling when he was caught.

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Zvonareva beats Erraniin Pan Pacific Open

and Dementieva, was too strongfor Safarova, dropping only fourgames in a 6-1, 6-3 victory. Itmarked a strong recoveryAzarenka, who just four weeksearlier had keeled over in the sear-ing heat during the US Open atFlushing Meadows before beingrevived and pushed off court in awheelchair.

“Sometimes things happen un-fortunately in this way,” Azarenkasaid, of the second round tie in theseason’s final Grand Slam againstGisela Dulko of Argentina. “I can-not look back. I try to forget aboutit as much as I can, but people stillremind me. For me, it’s importantto move forward,” she added.

Azarenka, ranked 11th in theworld, showed no i l l-effectsagainst her 30th-ranked opponent,achieving a service break in theopening game in the 77-minutematch.

“I think it was a very good startfor me. I hadn’t played for threeweeks, so I was a little bit nervousto get into the match and see whatI could do,” said Azarenka, 21.

“I did pretty well and I’mhappy with my game and with theway I moved. My serve was a littlebit inconsistent but still I think Iput on a lot of pressure, winninga lot of points,” she said.

In the third round, Azarenkawill take on the winner of thematch between Ana Ivanovic ofSerbia and 11th seed MarionBartoli of France.

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The retirement has leftHamilton 20 points adrift of cham-pionship leader Webber with justfour races remaining. Hamilton’sMcLaren boss Martin Whitmarshis confident, however, that the titlesetback will not dwell much on hisdrivers’ mind - and he is sure hewill be back to his best in Japan.

“He will be bitterly disap-pointed after this race, but that willbe out of his mind when he gets toSuzuka,” Whitmarsh toldAUTOSPORT. “And if we givehim a quick car he can win thatrace. That is what he will focuson.”

Just as he had done after theMonza race, Whitmarsh spoke pri-vately to Hamilton in his room af-ter the race in Singapore on Sun-day – and assured him that heshould not be too hard on himselffor what happened.

“I went to speak to Lewis,” saidWhitmarsh. “He is disappointedand he is a passionate individual. Itold him that people will havecheap shots at you, but you haveto look at the facts. You didn’t take

McLaren:

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Lewis Hamilton will immediately bounce back from hisSingapore Grand Prix disappointment despite seeing his worldtitle hopes suffer another big blow, according to his McLarenteam. Just one race on from his lap one exit at the Italian GrandPrix, Hamilton retired from the Singapore event on Sunday fol-lowing a clash with Mark Webber as they battled for third place.

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McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain walks down the F1 paddock after crash-ing out of the Singapore Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore, Sunday, Sept.26, 2010.

a risky overtaking move, you didn’tmake mistakes. You were unluckyand that is motor racing, and youhave to focus now on the racesahead.

“He knows that, but it doesn’t takeaway the disappointment fromknowing he should have been on thepodium and should have been lead-ing the championship at this momentand he isn’t. After two races like that,it is a bit bruising. But he is a toughcompetitor; he will bounce back andwill be strong at Suzuka.”

Whitmarsh admitted that ifHamilton was going to get back torace-winning form in Japan, thenMcLaren had to bring important up-dates to its cars.

“We have a fantastic champion-ship,” said Whitmarsh. “We havefive drivers who are capable of win-ning races and winning this year’schampionship, and I am not tryingto rate them.

“We have to look at our perfor-mance, we have got to make our carquicker and develop our package topush as hard as we can, eliminatemistakes and do the best job we can.”

Valentino Rossi is expecting adifficult weekend for his body atthe Japanese Grand Prix given thenature of the circuit. The Yamaharider struggled with his shoulder in

Rossi expects tough weekend in Japanthe previous race in Aragon, and islikely to face an even harder time atMotegi this weekend.

“Aragon was a hard weekend,both because we couldn’t find the

right setting for our M1 and becauseI had a lot of trouble with my shoul-der,” said Rossi in a team preview.

“The leg is now almost back tonormal again - I have even startedrunning - but the shoulder is a prob-lem and we know now that this isnot going to change until we havetime to treat it properly.

“I have some great memoriesfrom Motegi, especially winning thechampionship in 2008, but I am ex-pecting this weekend to be quite dif-ficult on my body. We have a hardthree weeks ahead but after this racetwo of my best tracks are coming up,and I am hoping for some good re-sults. We will do our best and seewhat happens.”

Team-mate Jorge Lorenzo said heis eager to return to the podium aftermissing out on a top-three finish inthe previous race for the first timethis year.

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Valentino Rossi