Tourist boat cruises are cancelled and several roads in and around the capital are under water, further dis-rupting travel on top of train strikes this week. Days of heavy rains have caused exceptional delays to the French Open tennis tournament in Paris and may force it into a third week.

The rains that have fallen across

Western Europe this week have al-ready killed five people, including an 86-year-old woman who died in her flooded home in Souppes-sur-Loing southeast of Paris, the French government said in a statement.

In Germany, four people have been confirmed killed in the flood-ing, which swept through the towns of Simbach am Inn and Triftern near

the Austrian border. Others have been reported missing.

The southern German state of Bavaria, which has been badly hit by the rains, has promised quick financial help to residents in areas near the Austrian border hit by flooding this week.

According to comments carried by the dpa news agency, Bavar-ia’s governor, Horst Seehofer, has pledged “quick and unbureaucratic help,” and that his state “won’t aban-don those affected, some of whom have lost their whole homes.”

The waters in Bavaria have receded, and disaster relief crews

were on the scene helping to clear the wreckage, while helping to prepare for more possible flood-ing. However, the respite may be short-lived as there are warnings of more storms.

In France, authorities say that ar-eas along the Loing River, a tributary of the Seine, had seen waters rise to levels unseen since 1910, when a massive flood swamped the French capital. For the second day, emer-gency workers evacuated residents of the town of Nemours, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Paris, the hardest hit site in France.

In the southern Paris suburb of

Longjumeau, fire fighters drove in a Land Rover through flooded streets, telling trapped residents to wait for help. On the town’s main street, Avenue Francois Mitterrand, shops were closed and shopkeepers tried to sweep water out of their shops.

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LONDON - From Darth Vader’s melted helmet to Rey’s lightsaber hilt, “Star Wars” fans can now get their hands on replicas of the props used in the sci-fi franchise’s last movie.

Disney and Lucasfilm have launched the line of made-to-order precisely detailed items seen in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, created by the Propshop team that helped design and make the props for the film at Britain’s Pinewood Studios.

“We’re based in Pinewood Stu-

dios where ‘Star Wars’ is actually filmed and we’ve created for the first time a pipeline to be able to manufacture these products and make them available to the con-sumer,” Propshop director James Enright told Reuters.

“They’re unique because they actually come from the studio it-self...They’re made by artists and film technicians who do this every day, who are very passionate about what they do.”

To ensure the items accurately match the props seen in the film,

Propshop uses digital data collected during the making of the movie and combines it with 3D printing technology.

Once the item is built, the final bits of paint are added and rub-bing down is done to complete the replica.

“Star Wars Collectibles: Ulti-mate Studio Edition” features eight prop replicas, also including Finn’s bloodied Stormtrooper helmet and Chewbacca’s bowcaster, with prices ranging from $1,250 to $3,500. (rtr)

JOHANNESBURG - Action movie star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a real-life adventure in Africa when he was on a safari vehicle that was charged by an elephant.

“Some of us had to change our pants,” he said on his Twitter feed after he posted a 30-second video of the brief encounter.

The elephant appeared in front of the vehicle and then walked off the road, circled the truck and then charged it from behind, ears flapping, as the vehicle picked up speed and pulled away.

The driver can be heard saying: “I think he’s ok now, he’s going to avoid us”, seconds before the charge.

Schwarzenegger did not identify the reserve where the charge took place.

Game drives and safaris are a major tourist attraction in several African countries, including South Africa, where Schwarzenegger had been for a sports festival at the weekend. In some parts of the continent, elephants are being relentlessly poached for their ivory to meet Asian demand for the com-modity.

Schwarzenegger tweeted: “I’m absolutely in awe of these beautiful animals, and I wish people would stop killing them for their ivory.” (rtr)

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DENPASAR - The draft of regional bylaw (Ranperda) on the Implementation of Traffic and Transportation (LLAJ) does not only regulate the vehicle age restrictions, but

also discusses about the weigh-bridge. Moreover, currently a

lot of findings on violations of vehicle tonnage are found due to omission by weighbridge officers. However, this problem in fact does not emerge because of the officers only. But there are dif-ferent road classes between Java, Bali and West Nusa Tenggara.

“Transportation of freight is crossing the prov-ince, namely Java, Bali and NTB. Distribution eastward passes through Bali and as we know the road in Bali belongs to class 2 while in Java class 1,” said Chairman of the LLAJ Bali Special Com-mittee at the Bali House of Representatives, Ida Bagus Gede Udiyana, in the room of Commission III of the Bali House of Representatives.

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Western Europe toils under flooding that’s killed 5 people

Different road class of Java and Bali

The cause of tonnage violation

PARIS — Floods inundating parts of France, Germany and Belgium have killed five people and trapped thousands in homes or cars, as rivers have broken their banks from Paris to Bavaria. And it isn’t over — more rain is forecast for the coming days in some regions, and authorities in the French capital predict the Seine River won’t reach its peak until Friday.

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French police stop to look at flooding on the banks of the Seine River near the Eiffel Tower after days of heavy rainfall in Paris, France, June 2, 2016.

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COVER STORYUdiyana added that the class

distinction certainly brings in a consequence for Bali. Moreover, in Java, the local government provides tolerance to overload up to 25 per-cent. Actually without the tolerance, the vehicles remain to overload when entering the Island of the Gods.

He continued that the committee will immediately consult to Direc-tor General of Regional Autonomy related to this distinction. Actually there are currently several options emerging although they are still premature or require further as-sessment. The first option, if indeed the road in Bali belongs to class 2, it needs to be made a loading and unloading system when the overloaded vehicles arrive at Gili-

manuk. “Maybe there are trucks alerted at Gilimanuk and then their loading and unloading process is in accordance with the allowed tonnage for road class 2 in Bali,” he explained.

However, Udiyana added that this option can bring in other con-sequences like the price increases because there is loading and un-loading process. Another premature option is upgrading the road class into class 1 as in Java. Not much different from the first option, it also results in consequence of land acquisition to widen the road. In essence, his agency underlined that the selected option may not be burdensome to the community.

A member of the LLAJ special committee, I Wayan Adnyana, said that vehicle tonnage should be rig-orously supervised to ensure that the government budgets will not

be spent for road repair whether at weighbridge or the raids by the officers on the street. “If they pass the weighbridge, there should be operations on the streets. If there is a freight tolerance, it will become non-sense, too,” he said.

Previously, the Head of the Bali Transportation and Infocom Agency, Ketut Artika, admitted that the agency still tolerates freight excess up to 25 percent. Actually, when violating five percent of the provision they should have been ticketed. “If they indeed transport with the excess of 25 percent, we take them back to the original journey. To be acknowledged, our road in Bali has different class from the road in Java. The road in Java belongs to class 1 but ours in Bali belongs to class 2. Automatically the carrying capacity of the road is different,” he reasoned. (kmb32)

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dENPASAR - Finalization of the regional bylaw draft (Ranperda) about the age limit of vehicles carried out by road traffic and trans-portation (dLLAJ) special committee at the denpasar House of Representatives reaped a lot of complaints in the community. One of the materials in the draft is that the government of Bali will restrict the age of vehicle up to 25 years.

Vehicle age restriction is considered premature to be implemented in Bali. It is based on consideration that many people are still use vehicles with age far above it.

It was confirmed by one of the residents of Denpasar, I Made Kondra, Wednesday (Jun. 1). Kondra assessed that vehicle age restrictions in Bali is not feasible because a number of transport issues are still unresolved yet. For example, public transport does not reach all the areas, so that it requires people to use private vehicle. In the meantime, due to inadequate revenue, it is not possible for people to buy a new vehicle.

“This condition must be understood by policy makers. Bali is different from Singapore where all the citizens have been already prosperous. In Bali, many people have income less than IDR 5 million per month,” said this resident of Tanjung Bungkak.

He expected the government to provide first public transport facilities and infrastructures. When all the regions are served by public transport, people do not need to use private vehicle. “If old cars are suspected to cause traffic jam, it does not make sense. The old cars are very rarely taken out and at least they are just used for the occasion with family. Traffic jam is caused by new cars,” he said.

Kondra who is also a tourism player assessed that tourist transport is still possible to apply the age restriction because it concerns the comfort of travelers and so is the public transport. “Private vehicles are only used for family needs, why they should be limited. Besides, they rarely come out,” he said.

Similar statement was also expressed by a member of Commission I of the Denpasar House Representatives, I Made Sukarmana. He considered it is not the right time for the application of vehicle age restriction in Bali. Many Balinese people still have low income. So, it should not be equated to other developed regions. (kmb12)

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A truck is stuck on the road due to the over capacity of its cargo.

As for vehicle age restriction

Not feasible yet to be implemented in Bali

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The traffic jam which often happen in Denpasar make the government is trying to find solution for it, one of them is limited the age of vehicles in the city.

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BLENHEIM - It was pouring buckets when editors, clients and the odd celebrity boarded the Dior Blenheim Express (as the train was branded for the occasion) at the Victoria Station in London Tuesday after-noon. The destination: Blenheim Palace, a sprawling estate that still serves as the home of the Dukes of Marlborough, where Dior would later showcase its cruise 2017 collection. It was a homecoming of sorts for the brand — still without a formal creative director since Raf Simons departed in Octo-ber — as both Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent had hosted charity shows there 62 and 58 years ago, respectively.

Guests — including an immaculately dressed and coiffed Kate Beckinsale, Kate Mara, Elizabeth Olsen and Emma Roberts — were treated to a three-course wine-and-champagne lunch once aboard, and the ex-citement was palpable, with British Fashion Council Chairman Natalie Massenet raising a glass and cheering, “J’adore Dior!” to the cabin as London’s ordered streets gave way to mustard-covered (and rain-sodden) fields. (IBP/net)

Dior returns to Blenheim Palace for Cruise 2007 Show

The Head of the Bali Environ-mental Agency, Gede Suarjana, explained that condition of Lake Batur is getting worse within the past few years. Currently, the condition is even considered to be very critical. It is indicated by the decline in water quality due to uncontrolled use of pesticides on agricultural land and non-maximal management of the waste produced by the community. In addition, sedimentation of this largest lake in Bali has also been exaggerated leading to silting.

“Condition of Lake Batur is now very critical. BOD and COD of the water have decreased. Environmen-tal damage has already occurred,” he

said recently.The population of water hyacinth

resulting in the increase of water acidity rate also denotes a serious problem at the Lake Batur.

Responding to the existing prob-lems, he said that provincial govern-ment has brought in an expert from Japan to study about the conditions and will be looked for solutions for the handling without harming the germplasm therein. “The expert has come down to see the condition of the lake. This August, the results may have been issued,” said Suarjana.

He added that a number of issues have already been sent to central government because the lake be-

longs to the national strategic area. Automatically, provincial govern-ment will have a small authority in the handling. He hoped the lake utili-zation can be made a zoning. “Where is fishing zone, buffer zone and core zone must be determined. Otherwise, the arrangement of the lake cannot be done well,” he affirmed.

Apart from a number of things to be done, preservation of Lake Batur, said Suarjana, should become a shared responsibility. It may not be delegated to the Environment Agen-cy only. “This kind of issue should be dealt by interagency,” he said.

He added that lately many buildings are established along the lakeside both of the residential and tourist accommo-dation violating the spatial regulation. This issue needs to get serious attention from the local government. “Regional bylaw on spatial plan has been avail-able and it should be enforced. Do not even allow the violation,” concluded Suarjana. (kmb45)

MANGUPURA - People living in the area of Kerobokan complain about the sidewalk project belonging to the Ba-dung Highways and Irrigation Agency. The project located on Jalan Raya Kerobokan, North Kuta subdistrict, results in congestion because of the slow workmanship.

Besides, the accumulating precast concrete and some holes of the ex-excavated area are only covered with sand so that it is highlighted by local community. “A number of cables are still seen to be ne-glected. Surely it is harmful to passing residents,” complained Wayan Rah, Wednesday (Jun. 1).

He admitted to be disap-pointed with the sidewalk proj-ect taking a long time. Particu-larly at certain hours, the area connecting the road section to Kuta, Canggu and Dalung is experiencing congestion.

“It is very much deplored as the arrangement of sidewalk causes crowdedness. Well ... it does not matter if the workman-ship does not last for three to four days. However, in reality

the sidewalk arrangement has not been worked on for over a week. Thus, it looks increas-ingly chaotic,” he said.

According to him, the gov-ernment should work on the project evenly and not work on the project by halves.

In the meantime, the Divi-sion Head of Roads and Bridg-es at the Badung Highways and Irrigation Agency, Sang Nyoman Oka Permana, did not deny the people’s complaints. He also confirmed that the sidewalk project worth IDR 10 billion is owned by the Badung district.

When asked about the slow workmanship of the project, Oka Permana said that cur-rently the project is being focused on completion in the area of Kerobokan cemetery. It is based on consideration that local community will soon hold a grandiose ceremony at that location. “We give pri-ority to work in the area of Kerobokan cemetery because people will immediately hold a mass cremation. So, please be understood by the public,” he concluded. (kmb27)

As causing congestion, Kerobokan residents complain

about sidewalk project

IBP/eka

The project located on Jalan Raya Kerobokan, North Kuta subdistrict, results in congestion because of the slow workmanship.

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Condition of Lake Batur has been classified to be very critical. It is characterized by the pres-ence of a number of issues ranging from declining water quality, sedimentation to environmental destruction.

To rescue Lake Batur,Central govt needs to

decide utilization zoningBANGLI - Condition of Lake Batur has been classified to be

very critical. It is characterized by the presence of a number of issues ranging from declining water quality, sedimentation to environmental destruction. To prevent from getting worse, the handling should be done by interagency, not only relying on one government agency. Specifically for reducing water pollution, it is necessary to establish the lake utilization zoning.

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DUBAI - A Chinese teenager hid in the cargo hold of an Emir-ates airliner during a nine-hour flight to Dubai where he hoped to make a fortune, describing the journey as “comfortable”, reports said Wednesday.

The 16-year-old stowaway was found after the flight from Shang-hai landed in Dubai on Friday, the English-language daily 7Days reported citing police.

“He told us that the bags section in the plane had been comfortable,” said Dubai’s assistant police chief for ports and airports, General Ahmed bin Thani.

“He planned to come to Dubai after hearing about the lifestyle, and he was looking to make money,” he added.

Speaking through a translator, the stowaway from Bazhong in southwest China said he heard an online rumour that “even beggars” can make good money in Dubai, the paper said citing Chinese media.

It was unclear how the teenager, who remains in custody in the Gulf emirate, got into the cargo hold, which is usually pressurised and temperature-controlled, unlike wheel wells where stowaways risk death due to freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen. (afp)

The unofficial Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) is the last chance for the two powers to drum up support before a decision from the Perma-nent Court of Arbitration in a case brought by the Philippines. Manila is contesting Beijing’s claim to an area shown on its maps as nine-dash line stretching deep into the maritime heart of Southeast Asia, covering hundreds disputed islands and reefs.

Security experts expect the United States will try to convince Southeast Asian coun-tries, as well as other big powers such as India and Japan, to publicly support any positive decision for the Philippines, who asked the court to recognise its right to exploit waters in the South China Sea.

China, which rejects the court’s authority, will try to sway the countries to abstain from taking a public position, which should make it easier to stave off criticism from the West.

“The value of the case is the long term reputational damage and the pressure ... on the Chinese. That only works if you have a big coalition that can keep this in the public eye,” said Greg Poling, director the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at Wash-ington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.

“But if the Chinese ... get a ton of coun-tries to abstain that deflects a lot of that criticism.”

Among the 20-odd delegations, much at-tention will be on the positions of Southeast Asian countries. Regional players haven’t al-ways agreed on how to tackle China’s claims in the South China Sea, struggling to balance their security interests with their deep ties to the world’s second largest economy.

As well as China and Taiwan, the Philip-pines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei have

rival claims in the increasingly militarized area. The United States has also stepped up patrols and exercises, stressing the need to keep international sea-lanes open.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s keynote opening speech in a rare international appearance will be closely scrutinised for hints on Thailand’s strategic positioning.

“Thai policies reflect the predicament of the region,” said Tim Huxley, a security expert with the event’s organiser, the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies.

“Regional states want to have positive relations with China yet at the same time ... strategically they are aligned with the West

and they have reasons for being cautious about China’s behaviour in the region.”

The three-day summit offers a rare chance for regional military brass and intelligence of-ficers, and their civilian leaders, to openly de-bate regional defence trends and tensions.

The summit comes amid other significant strategic shifts in the region, particularly the recent election of tough-talking Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and the recent lifting of the U.S. arms embargo on former enemy Vietnam.

The agenda also includes the rising tensions surrounding North Korea, which conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and followed

that with a satellite launch and test launches of various missiles, which brought new sanc-tions. The isolated country attempted to fire a missile from its east coast this week but the launch appears to have failed.

Other topics of discussion include the threat of radical militants in Southeast Asia, as well as cyber-security, which has become a hot topic after major bank heists from Ban-gladesh to Ecuador.

“Only a meeting of minds can solve or miti-gate these challenges and as host, we will make sure that leaders get full opportunities to engage each other,” Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said on his Facebook page. (rtr)

South China Sea set to dominate Singapore security summit

SINGAPORE - Roiling tensions in the South China Sea are set to dominate Asia’s biggest security sum-mit starting in Singapore on Friday, exposing a deepening rivalry between the United States and China ahead of a landmark legal ruling in the Hague.

Chinese teen hides in hold for nine-hour flight to Dubai

A Chinese teenager hid in the cargo hold of an Emir-ates airliner enduring a nine-hour flight from Shanghai to Dubai.AFP Photo/Karim Sahib

REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo

A member of the Special Operations Command patrols outside the venue of the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore May 29, 2015.

“In addition, there have been no clear rules. The farmland conversion also occurred because the govern-ment is inconsistent. For example, there is prohibition to build in green belt, but in fact there are many buildings standing in the area,” said Sujastra, Wednesday (Jun. 1).

Besides, the government offi-cials are also looking for additional income in the issuance of building permit (IMB). “The building permit is often coupled with extortion, maybe they want to earn extra in-come. The land that should be built 30 percent, but in fact the entire area is filled with buildings. This widely occurs in South Kuta,” he said.

On that account, he hoped the program of the government of Badung to protect the agricultural sector is not only in the level of discourse without any real action. It also includes in the making of data collection on the land conversion occurred in the field.

“Necessarily they involve peka-seh or the chief of subak in making the data collection on farmland con-version happening, so that the data are valid. When they come down to the field, we never know,” he said while adding that he was once in-volved in the meeting to overcome

agricultural problems in Badung. “Many promises are delivered in the meeting, but only a few can be realized,” he said.

Similar opinion was said by Sec-retary of the HKTI Badung, Ketut Sugiana, where the local govern-ment did not attempt optimally to suppress the farmland conversion. Moreover, there is an impression if the government does omission, so that it kindles the emergence of other violations. For example, the area of Darmasaba village belonging to green belt has now almost run out.

“In the past, there were two build-ings. Since there is an impression of omission, now more and more build-ings are established. People will see if the buildings seem to be allowed, why I do not do it as well. Such thing happens,” he said.

Sugiana highlighted that similar cases do not only occur at Darma-saba, but almost evenly occur in other places in Badung. “I think it requires the firmness of the gov-ernment. When this happens, does the government dare to enforce the rules?” he asked.

This man from Abiansemal asked the government to be deci-sive. Never tolerate any small viola-tion. If a violation is allowed it will

result in a bad precedent, and trigger similar violations in the future. He suggested the government to take a normative approach, one of which is by discussion with the relevant agencies.

“It is meant to read the existing condition in the green belt. After that, look for the best solution to-gether. By that way, there will be a real effort taken by the govern-ment,” he said.

In the meantime, the Division Head of Facilities and Infrastruc-ture at the Badung Agriculture and Forestry Agency, Ni Luh Wayan Suparmi, admitted that farmland conversion happened due to con-struction of hotel accommodation. On average, the farmland conver-sion in Badung within the past five years reached 45 hectares per year. “Occurrence of the farmland con-version is fluctuating,” he said.

Other than land conversion from paddy fields to non-paddy fields, she said there is also the addition of paddy fields followed by the availability of irrigation facilities, so that it shows the development of paddy field area. “With the addition, the agricultural land in Badung until 2015 reaches 10,006 hectares,” she concluded.

As is known, the area of farm-land in Badung in 2011 reached 10,243 hectares and then decreased to 10,195 hectares in 2012. Similar depreciation also occurred in 2013, amounting to 51 hectares. Thus, the remaining land area reaches 10,144 hectares, while in 2014 remained 9,984 hectares. (kmb27)

SEMARAPURA - In the mooring trial at Gunaksa crossing harbor, the Nusa Jaya Abadi vessel or Roro vessel could maneuver in and out of the mooring area smoothly, Wednesday (Jun. 1) at 13:30. However, a small incident occurred to the ramp door when the Roro vessel was trying to enter the mooring area.

Due to quite big waves in the mooring area, the vessel was rock-ing and hitting harbor fender for several times. As a result, the Roro vessel failed to perform mooring trial as it was unable to lower the ramp door.

Harbor master of Nusa Penida, I Gede Putrawan, who is also the Chief of UPP Nusa Penida, revealed that the mooring trial of Roro ves-sel at the Gunaksa harbor did not go smoothly. It happened because the ramp door could not be lowered as the waves rocked the Roro vessel blindly. Gede Putrawan stated the mooring trial should be done until the ramp door could be lowered. After the vessel attached the front and rear mooring lines to the harbor bollard, the vessel hit the fender for several times when it was in the mooring area for 30 minutes. This condition made the Roro vessel impossible to lower its ramp door.

Captain of the Roro vessel, Abdul Manan, said that he could not open the ramp door because the waves were rocking the vessel. On the other hand, the entrance of vessel is narrower than that of Nusa Penida entrance. Besides, position of the entrance does not protect when the vessel docks. “It is very risky for the safety of the vessel when going in and out. It is proved in the trial where the ramp door cannot be lowered,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head of the Klungkung Transportation and Infocom Agency explained that despite disturbing waves, the moor-ing could have been done. Such disturbance is a commonplace in the harbor when docking. Although the Roro vessel could enter and exit the mooring area smoothly, he recognized that it needs a number of improvements, like there is no bollard on the western side of the harbor to attach mooring ropes.

Similar thing was also delivered by the Head of the Bali Trans-portation and Infocom Agency, I Ketut Artika. He said that the vessel wandered blindly due to the waves in the mooring area. Related to the results of the trial on Wednesday, he said that it needs an assessment from the analysis team. So far, the Roro vessel has successfully gone in and out of the Gunaksa crossing harbor.

At the mooring trial, it is the first time for the vessel to enter the mooring area of the harbor having worked on for eight years since 2008. For information, construction work of the Gunaksa crossing harbor project in the eighth stage was conducted in 2015. It was financed by state budget amounting to IDR 40.11 billion and during the period of 2008-2014 it has been disbursed the budget worth IDR 118.3 billion. (dwa)

Roro vessel rocks, mooring trial fails to lower ramp door

Govt inconsistent to repress farmland conversion

MANGUPURA - Farmland conversion occurred in Badung draws the attention of many parties. It is without exception for the former Chairman of the Indonesian Farmers Associa-tion (HKTI) of Badung, I Nyoman Sujastra. According to him, hectares of farmland conversion from paddy fields to tourist accommodation and housing are inseparable from the attitude of the government that does not consistently maintain the farmland.

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Farmland conversion occurred in Badung draws the attention of many parties.

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Due to quite big waves in the mooring area, the vessel was rocking and hitting harbor fender for several times. As a result, the Roro vessel failed to perform mooring trial as it was unable to lower the ramp door.

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For decades, the 13-nation cartel was able to regulate prices by throt-tling or increasing production. But with some members not sticking to the limits and outside players increas-ing their market share, recent meet-ings have failed to re-impose unity.

Saudi oil minister Khalid A. Al Falih suggested that the Organiza-tion of the Petroleum Exporting Countries nonetheless remained a strong market force. “We will come up with a consensus,” he told report-ers ahead of the meeting in Vienna. “OPEC has always managed to come up with a consensus.”

In fact, though, attempts to impose production ceilings have foundered over recent years, with countries ig-noring them and producing as much they wanted or could.

The final statement at the last meeting, in December, didn’t even mention an output target, signal-ing the cartel’s eroding ability to influence supply, demand — and prices.

One way out would be abandon-ing attempts to set a firm produc-tion target. Ministers at Thursday’s

meeting could instead agree on a sliding ceiling that could shift be-tween two benchmarks, both above 30 million barrels a day. That would be a first.

“The group is under a lot of pressure to reassert itself as a vi-able entity,” said Jason Schenker of Prestige Economic. “To achieve that, they are likely to achieve a production target of sorts.”

A flexible ceiling also could address Iranian resistance to curb-ing its output. Since the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions this year, Iranian production has roared back to nearly four million barrels a day, around the same level as before the imposition of the sanctions.

Reflecting its stance, Iran did not even show up at a meeting in April between OPEC members and outside producers attempting to agree on a joint output freeze to push prices higher. The Saudis then said they would not cap output if Iran didn’t do the same, dooming the gathering to failure.

Suggesting the organization’s credibility was on the line in Vienna

after that abortive meeting, Schen-ker declared: “This is a make or break moment for OPEC.”

The ministerial gathering comes amid a recovery in the price of oil. Since touching a 13-year low early this year, it has rallied almost 90 percent to around $50 a barrel. On Thursday, the international bench-mark, Brent, was up 22 cents on the day at $49.93.

While that’s still only half of what crude fetched as late as two years ago, the increase is easing some of the pain for poorer mem-bers such as Algeria, Venezuela and Nigeria that depend on crude as their main income. And there are promises of further increases.

U.S. shale production is in de-cline as it needs higher prices to be economical. At the same time, the world economy is showing signs of some improvement, meaning that the appetite for petroleum may increase.

Ironically, part of the credit for OPEC’s improving fortunes is due to its inability to act in unity in re-cent years. Instead, many individual members produced what they could, driving down prices to the point where shale producers are increas-ingly unable to compete. Some have gone out of business, reducing the glut of global supply.(ap)

DETROIT — U.S. car buyers are tapping the brakes. May is usually one of the strongest months of the year for the U.S. auto industry, as Americans buy cars ahead of summer road trips. But last month, U.S. auto sales were expected to drop 7 percent to 1.5 million cars and trucks, according to car shopping site Kelley Blue Book. That’s the biggest monthly sales decline since the Cash for Clunkers hangover in August 2010.

Most major automakers reported lower sales in May compared to the same month a year ago. General Motors’ sales fell 18 per-cent, Ford’s were down 6 percent and Toyota’s sales dropped 10 percent. Volkswagen’s sales were down 17 percent. Honda’s sales dropped 5 percent and Nissan’s fell 1 percent. Fiat Chrysler and Subaru bucked the trend, with sales up 1 percent each.

The declines could be a sign that U.S. auto sales are finally reaching a plateau after six straight years of growth — a streak not seen since the 1920s. Sales rose 6 percent between 2014 and 2015 but are only up around 1 percent so far this year, and KBB expects them to remain flat this summer.

Flattening sales could be good for consumers, at least in the short term. Automakers are offering more discounts in order to keep growing their U.S. market share. Car-buying site TrueCar.com estimated that incentive spending rose 7 percent in May to average of $3,034 per vehicle.

But those discounts can hurt resale values and automakers’ profits, so companies have to be careful as they deal with a dip in demand.

GM and Ford shares both fell 3 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday, reflecting investors’ fears that the companies can no longer count on easy U.S. sales increases. GM’s shares dropped to $30.37 while Ford’s shares fell to $13.09.

Results from early in May were enough for LMC Automotive, a forecasting firm, to lower its forecast for the full year. LMC said it now expects total U.S. sales of 17.7 million vehicles this year, down from its previous target of 17.8 million.

But even 17.7 million vehicles would break the record of 17.5 million that was set last year. So even if sales plateau, they remain at very high levels. “The sky is not falling,” said Michelle Krebs, a senior analyst with Autotrader.com. “Sales remain at very lofty levels.”(ap)

Khalid Al-Falih Minister of Energy. Indus-try and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia speaks to jour-nalists prior to the start of a meeting of the Organization of the Petro-leum Export-ing Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, June 2, 2016.

US auto sales fall in May as growth slows

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FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, file photo, salesperson Andrew Montalvo, left, talks to a customer checking out the interior of a Grand Cherokee Limited in Doral, Fla. On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, major automakers report sales for May.

OPEC ponders ways to show its oil clout at Vienna meeting

VIENNA — With higher crude prices bringing some relief, OPEC officials meeting Thursday focused on trying to find com-mon ground on how much to produce in an attempt to re-impose the image of the organization as a major player in determining supplies and prices.

AP Photo/Ronald Zak

PuRA Taman Ayun is a beautifully apointed temple, with its own surrounding moat, in the village at Mengwi, Badung Re-gency, 18 Km. West of Denpasar. The his-tory of this temple is closely associated with the begining of the Rajadom of Mengwi, in 1627 B.C. it was built in 163-1AD. at the time at the rule of the first Raja of Mengwi. I Gusti Agung Ngurah Made Agung, who later become known as Ida Cokorda Sakti Belambangan. As the Royal Family temple of the Raja of Mengwi. This temple is a place to worship the Royal ancestors, who find their rest in a special shrine known as the “Gedong Paibon”.

Following the Pattern of most Balinese temples, Pura Taman Ayun has three con-necting temple yards. The innermost sanc-tum is knows- as “Utama Mandala” (the highest circle), the middle yard as. “Madia Mandala” (the circle in between) and the

outer as “Nista Mandala” (the humblest circle). The enter the main sanctum one must pass through a raised Gate- way, known as the Kori Agung (Paduraksa), and the gate- way between the outer and middle connect in a split gate, known as “Candi Bentar”.

Apart from the “Gedong Paibon”, dedicated to one ancestor, the middle courtyard are other shrines dedicated to the various main temples of Bali. These shrines were built by the 5 Raja to ensure that his Kingdom and people would be able to share in the prosperity and fertility of the nation, and also to enable all the people at Mengwi; to conduct the religious ceremo-nies at the temple, such as “meajar-ajar”, memendak sang Pitara” and to request holy water to protect the rice fields from pestilence, etc.

There is also another shrine on the

middle courtyard dedicated to the “Pasek Badak” famous here of by gone days from the Raja’s troops. The extensive temple grounds of Taman Ayun also function as a resting place for the Royal family. Cover-ing 4 Hectares of land. The temple is sur-rounded by a large most, which used to be full of loins and lily flowers of all color, and around the edges of the moat can be found frangipani, cempaka, kenanga & other pcrftiined flowering trees, as well as mango stein, durian, manggo rambutan fruit trees.

The temple has always been strongly influenced by the ups and downs at the Raja dom of Mengwi. ln l890 here was a war between the Rajas of Badung and Mengwi, and the I0 th. Raja Mengwi “I Gusti Made Agung” lost the battle, and had to retreat to escape with life in to the bordering eastern district. During the

rule of the victorious Raja of Badung the temple was never looked after properly, and the temple buildings deteriorated due to lack of care.

ln the year 1911 AD, part of the Royal Family returned to their family seat at Mengwi, and Pura Taman Ayun was re-stored. However on 20 th, January 1917 a violent earth-quake damaged many of the existing buildings. Repairs have been done in stages to return the temple to its original condition.

The odalan at Pura Taman Ayun falls every 2l0 days on a day known as “Selasa Kliwon Wuku Mendangsia”. Many tourists used to visit the temple, even, before the Second world War. The family of Puri Gede Mengwi still maintain the temple. Assisted by a committee made up of the lokal tradi-tional leaders, such as the village officials from the Mengwi District.(kmb)

SINGARAJA - Monotonous teaching method in the classroom is changed by the students of elementary school teaching education (PGSD) department of the Undiksha Singaraja by cre-ating project-based learning props made from used materials.

The concept is designed by the students of PGSD started by collecting waste materials commonly found amid the community. At the same time, the prospective elementary school teachers learn to make the learning atmosphere more lively and inspiring the students to find new discoveries.

“The process is made simpler by using the concept of electricity, pressure and force. We design it in such a way to be used by prospective teachers prior to working in the world of education. It means that at the primary level teachers are not just teaching the materials but also giving examples of active movement and enabling the students to find out something new,” said counselor and teacher at the natural sciences at the PGSD Department of Undiksha Singaraja, I Gede Marguna Yasa, at the Buleleng Education Expo (BEE), Wednesday (May 1).

Made from used materials such as CD and mini elec-tric motor, the props are then powered by battery. Such teaching method makes students excited about designing project-based learning props from used materials. “We make a series of experiments by using used materials in the form of bottle caps and tin cans plus syringe, pieces of wooden slab and a new battery. Various circuits like cars, robots and miniature of movable heavy equipment have been made almost for a week,” he said.

The learning props are designed more attractive to make students think critically and creatively make mod-eling from simple materials. During the development process, a total of 20 designs are created and some of them have been donated to schools in Buleleng. “The concept and idea of props making have been initiated since 2009 with the aim of driving the students to have a life skills. In other words, when going practice in the field they can apply their practical skills and will no longer be dominated by educational lectures,” said Marguna Yasa. (kmb34)

Create learning props from used materials

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The students of elementary school teaching education (PGSD) department of the Undiksha Singaraja is ma-kong prop from used materials.

Taman Ayun Temple at Central Badung

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France’s meteorological service said Thursday that severe flood watches are in effect in two Paris-area departments: Loiret and Seine-et-Marne. Eight more departments, including three on the German, bor-

der, face flood warnings as well.Belgium also endured a fourth day

of heavy rain, with flooding reported in several areas across the country.

After widespread flooding hit northern Antwerp and the west of Flanders early in the week, waters kept rising in eastern areas around Limburg and Liege. Several neighborhoods

have had to be evacuated as cellars flooded and streets were submerged in overflowing creeks and rivers.

One major train line linking east-ern Limburg to the capital had to be temporarily suspended early Thurs-day. No deaths or injuries have been reported so far in Belgium. More rain is expected later.(ap)

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The speech in San Diego comes as the former secretary of state seeks to shift her attention to the Nov. 8 presidential election against likely rival Trump, and away from Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Ver-mont who is continuing his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination.

Trump has said he would sit down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear program and has criticized the decades-old NATO alliance with mainly European nations as obsolete and too costly for the United States.

“It’s important that people under-stand this is not just about Republi-can versus Democrat, that Trump is unlike any presidential candidate we have seen and he is fundamentally unfit to be our commander in chief,” Clinton aide Jake Sullivan said in an interview ahead of Clinton’s speech.

California, the most populous U.S. state, is among six states that

are to hold Democratic nominating contests next Tuesday.

Clinton already has a nearly in-surmountable lead over Sanders in the delegate count, but is hoping a decisive win in California can help her clinch the party nomination early and quell concerns about divisions in the party ahead of the general elec-tion against Trump.

Clinton has already delivered several speeches on foreign policy and national security. Her address in San Diego will not break new policy ground, but will mainly respond to Trump’s recent comments, her campaign said.

Clinton will argue that Trump’s statement that he was prepared to talk to Kim Jong Un, made in a Reu-ters interview last month, has only emboldened him and invited him to be more provocative, Sullivan said.

A column this week in DPRK Today, one of North Korea’s state mouthpieces, described Trump as

a “wise politician” and Clinton as “thick-headed Hillary.”

“Donald Trump’s statements about North Korea show that he has more interest in making Kim Jong Un like him than backing up our friends and allies in the region,” Sul-livan said, noting that South Korea has worked with the United States on missile defense.

Trump’s remarks on the decades-old NATO alliance of 28 nations will also elicit a response from Clin-ton, Sullivan said. The New York businessman has said that member nations should pay for their own defense to ease the U.S. burden and that the alliance itself needs recon-figuring.

Sullivan, who worked with Clin-ton at the U.S. State Department, said burden-sharing is “not a novel point” within NATO and that Clinton will highlight her record of getting allies to “step up” and share defense costs.

Clinton, however, would not walk away from the alliance, which coordinates with the United States on counter-terrorism, nuclear pro-liferation and other issues, Sullivan said. (rtr)

ANKARA - A resolution by German lawmakers to declare the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces a “genocide” has seriously damaged relations between Berlin and Ankara, a spokesman for Turkey’s ruling party said on Thursday.

Yasin Aktay made the com-ment on live television after Germany’s Bundestag lower house of parliament voted over-whelmingly on Thursday in favour of a symbolic resolution. Turkey’s ruling AKP planned to present to the Turkish parliament a declaration against the vote, a party source said.

Germany’s Bundestag lower house of parliament voted over-whelmingly in favour of a sym-bolic resolution that declares the killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces in 1915 a “genocide”.

The resolution is likely to anger Turkey, a crucial partner for Ger-many and its European partners in slowing the flow of migrants to western Europe under a new EU-Turkey pact championed by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

While Ankara accepts that many Christian Armenians were massacred in clashes with Otto-man forces, it denies that hun-dreds of thousands were killed, that there was an organised campaign to wipe them out or that there were any such orders from Ottoman authorities.

Turkey rejects the idea that the killings of Christian Armenians during World War One amounted to a genocide and has warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Bundestag vote would damage bilateral ties.

The timing could not be worse for Merkel, who has championed a deal with Turkey under which Ankara has agreed to stem the

flow of refugees to Europe in return for cash, visa-free travel rights and accelerated talks on European Union membership.

Merkel is powerless to stop the symbolic resolution, which was initiated by the opposition Greens and is also backed by law-makers in her conservative bloc and the Social Democrats.

In a sign of the sensitivities, Merkel will not take part in the vote due to public appointments, although she did back it in an in-ternal party straw poll this week. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Vice Chancel-lor Sigmar Gabriel, both Social Democrats, will also be absent.

Berlin has already had a taste of the expected backlash from Ankara. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said lawmakers’ approval would be “irrational” and that the vote would be a test of friendship between the allies.

Yildirim said he had person-ally urged Merkel to work against the vote and that she had prom-ised to do all she could.

“We wish Germany would not allow such an irrational issue,” Yildirim told ruling party mem-bers in comments broadcast live, adding the vote “was a real test of Germany’s friendship”.

On Wednesday he said the vote was “ridiculous”. “It was an ordinary event that occurred dur-ing wartime conditions in 1915,” he said at a news conference.

The nature and scale of the killings remain highly conten-tious. Turkey accepts that many Armenians died in partisan fight-ing beginning in 1915, but denies that up to 1.5 million were killed and that this constituted an act of genocide, a term used by many Western historians and foreign parliaments. (rtr)

AP Photo/Julio Cortez

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Newark, N.J.

Clinton to blast Trump on North Korea, NATO

in foreign policy speechWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary

Clinton will slam Republican Donald Trump for being too friendly with North Korea and too harsh on European allies during a for-eign policy speech in California on Thursday, designed to paint the billionaire businessman as unfit for the White House.

German resolution on Armenian genocide damages

relations with Turkey

REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Supporters holds Armenian flags in front of the Reichstag, the seat of the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, June 2, 2016, as they protest in favour of approval of a symbolic resolution by Germany’s parliament that declares the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a “genocide”.

The president, however, said the country still have many alter-natives to generate power such as geothermal with potential to pro-duce 9,000 megawatts of power. He said the MPP unit in Bangka will have a capacity of 2x25 MW and the one in Belitung has the capacity of 1x25 MW.

The construction would not take too long that power shortage

on the two islands could soon be coped with , he said, adding con-struction could be finished in six months as against 4 years to build a coal-fired power plant. He said there is no problem in gas supply to feed the two units of MPPs.

The government has said In-donesia will not resort to nuclear energy to meet its target of 136.7 gigawatt of power capacity by

2025 and 430 gigawatt by 2050.“We have arrived at the conclu-

sion that we do not need nuclear energy to produce power. We still have many alternatives,” Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said was quoted as saying .

A previous plan to build larger-scale plants on Central Javas Muria peninsula and in Bangka-Belitung met with resistance from local residents.

Nuclear power plant has also been suggested in Kalimantan as it has no volcano and has always been safe from the threat of earth-quake. (ant)

KUALA LUMPUR - Indo-nesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla and Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Najib have discussed Indonesian migrant workers prob-lems and the issue of the arrest of Malaysian fishermen.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the World Economic Fo-rum on ASEAN here on Wednesday. “Indeed, there are several issues that are being discussed, including the problems faced by the Indonesian community in Malaysia and our plan to reduce the number of workers, es-pecially house maids, going to Malay-sia. Other issues were related to border and fishermen. We also discussed the matter of schools and or how to estab-lish Indonesian schools in Serawak,” Kalla said after the meeting .

Regarding the plan to reduce the number of workers next year, he reminded that he had already made that clear about two or three years ago. Next year, Kalla added, domestic workers going to Malaysia would be temporarily stopped.

“We will only send professional workers who are well trained so that

they can work as household assis-tants, drawing better pay and a more formal status rather than remain informal laborers or undocumented (illegal) ones,” he emphasized.

He observed that it is actually the Malaysian citizens who would determine whether the Indonesian migrant workers worked legally or illegally. “In Malaysia, the regula-tion is implemented strictly. Those found employing undocumented workers would be punished. Also, such workers would be punished as well,” he stressed.

Kalla informed that during the meeting with the Malaysian prime minister, he had also discussed the case of Malaysian fishermen who were arrested last month for entering the Indonesian waters illegally.

In this connection, Malaysia has sought their release. In exchange, Malaysia will extradite two Indo-nesian police officers arrested in Kuching for allegedly misusing narcotic drugs in 2014.

“He (PM Najib) has asked for a cordial settlement of such prob-lems. Well, we will settle them in a

friendly spirit,” Kallas assured while responding to the offer.

Regarding exports and imports, both Indonesia and Malaysia saw these declining as both countries produce same commodities, includ-ing palm oil and rubber.

“But we also export medical herbs, cosmetics and garments while Malaysia exports electronic components to Indonesia,” Kalla stated. He was accompanied by Education Minister Anis Baswedan and Indonesias Ambassador to Ma-laysia, Herman Prayitno.

With regard to tourism, Indone-sia has so far been receiving more visitors from Malaysia who visit Bandung, Jakarta and Batam.

“Right now, we have Garuda, Lion, Air Asia and others. Perhaps, special air transportation service would be needed to facilitate more tourism,” he argued. The WEF on ASEAN 2016 in Kuala Lumpur being held from June 1-2 was also attended by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Timor Leste Prime Minister Araujo and Vietnams Deputy Prime Minister Dinh Dong. (ant)

JAKARTA — A strong undersea earthquake hit western Indonesia early Thursday, the U.S. Geologi-cal Survey reported, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

The magnitude 6.5 quake was centered 91 kilometers (56 miles) west of Sungaipenuh, a district town in Jambi province in Sumatra, or 141 kilometers (88 miles) south of

Padang, provincial capital of West Sumatra, the USGS said. It said the quake had a depth of 50.8 kilometers (31.5 miles).

Indonesia’ Meteorology, Clima-tology and Geophysics Agency, said the earthquake which struck at 5:56 a.m. (2256 GMT) had no potential to trigger tsunami.

But the quake still caused initial panic among residents in Painan,

the capital of Pesisirselatan district, which is 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of the epicenter.

Indonesia is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. In December 2004, a massive earth-quake off Sumatra island triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. (ap)

Benefit of developing nuclear power still is calculated: President

Kalla, Najib discuss workers` and fishermen`s issues

Strong earthquake hits western Indonesia

PANGKALPINANG - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said the government is still calculating the benefit or losses from building nuclear power plant in the country. “I have given an order to calculate its plus and minus,” the President said when inspecting a mobile power plant project in Bangka Belitung, on Wednesday.

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CLEVELAND - LeBron James and Cleveland get a chance for revenge against the Stephen Curry-led Golden State in the NBA Finals starting on Thursday, but the underdog Cavaliers have the misfortune to face a Warriors team seemingly peaking again at the right time.

Had they met while Curry was nursing an injury several weeks ago, the Cavaliers might have started as favorites for the best-of-seven series but instead they will be big betting underdogs against a rejuvenated and largely healthy Warriors line-up.

But at least it will be a fair fight this year.The Cavs were not quite a one-man team in last year’s champion-

ship series, but without two of their “Big Three” in injured forward Kevin Love and guard Kyrie Irving, they did well in some respects to take the series to six games.

With Love and Irving healthy this time around, many basketball fans are salivating at the prospect of a classic series but the history of sport is replete with examples of events that promised much, only to fail to live up to expectations.

But on paper at least it does have the potential to be a compelling se-ries as James, in his sixth consecutive NBA Finals (including four with the Miami Heat) tries to lift the Cavs to their first championship.

And the fact the Cavs are about a 2-1 underdog means nothing to James.

“Not my concern,” he said Tuesday. “I don’t get involved in all of that -- underdog, overdog, whatever the case may be. It’s stupidity. We’re better built to start the Finals than we were last year.”

As for the Warriors, their path to the Finals appeared to be straight-forward after they won 73 regular season games, an NBA record.

But a right ankle injury forced reigning NBA most valuable player Curry out of the lineup for two games in the first round against Hous-ton, and a right knee sprain in his first game back against the Rockets caused him to miss another four games.

Still, the Warriors had enough depth without Curry to account for Houston and then the Portland Trail Blazers, but the Oklahoma City Thunder proved a much sterner test in the Western Conference Finals.

Down 3-1, the Warriors did what great teams do, overcoming adversity to win the last three games and set up what, Thunder fans excepted, most of the basketball world wanted to see.

“This whole playoff run has kind of been a roller coaster ride for me specifically, but also for our team,” Curry said recently.

“We never lost confidence, and every game just played with fearless-ness and that confidence that we could get back to the Finals, however we had to get it done.

“So it was just a roller coaster from the time I got hurt to coming back and dealing with injuries and what-not, and now we’re four wins away from our goal, and that’s a pretty special accomplishment.” (rtr)

After relentless rain washed out all but two hours of play over the previous two days, under-fire Roland Garros organisers said such conditions had not been seen since 1873 as they frantically tried to play catch-up by staging 12 singles matches -- instead of just four quar-ter-finals as is the norm -- on day 11 of the sodden championships.

That allowed world number one Djokovic to become the first tennis player to bank $100 million in prize money after his 3-6 6-4 6-1 7-5 win over Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut tipped him over the magic number.

Having won a match that was originally scheduled for Monday,

begun on Tuesday and completed on Wednesday, the 29-year-old Serb will have to play four days in suc-cession if he is to reach Sunday’s title showdown.

“I have the feeling I played three matches against him,” a grinning Djokovic told the crowd after don-ning a yellow rain hat during his victory speech.

“Yesterday the match was inter-rupted three times and it wasn’t easy coming here at 9 am and leaving at 7.30 or 8:00 pm.

“So that’s the reason why we should have the roof here,” added the Serb, who joined the likes of golfer Tiger Woods and boxer Lennox Lewis in the $100 million club.

However, rather than getting worked up about the French Open not having any court cover like the other three majors, it was the organisers’ decision to make the players compete in misty rain on Tuesday that overshadowed Wednesday’s on-court action.

Serena Williams, who like Djok-ovic was bogged down in the fourth round for more than 48 hours, booked her place in the quarter-finals by walloping Ukrainian 18th seed Elina Svitolina 6-1 6-1. She will next face Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva.

In the bottom half of the men’s draw, Andy Murray doused some early fireworks from Frenchman Richard Gasquet to win 5-7 7-6(3) 6-0 6-2 to set up a blockbuster semi-final against holder Stan Wawrinka. The Swiss beat Albert Ramos (Spain) 6-2 6-1 7-6(7). (rtr)

Cavaliers underdogs again as Warriors go for repeat

Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (6) and guard Kyrie Irving (2) talk during NBA Finals media day at Oracle Arena.

Djokovic enters $100 million dollar club, Serena plays catch-up

PARIS - Novak Djokovic had 100 million reasons to celebrate reaching the French Open quarter-finals on Wednesday -- albeit two days later than expected -- as players finally cleared the fourth-round backlog created by the fickle Parisian weather.

REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Novak Djokovic returns the ball v Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain.

DENPASAR - Taman Budaya or Bali Art Center is the culture build-ing complex with the best style of Balinese traditional architecture. It is featuring the good lay-out building of amphitheater to be a place/hall of show performance purpose. It is symbolizing the twiddling of Mandara Giri mount in the milk ocean and spattering the Amerta holy water for the life of endless as according to nature of dynamic culture and stayed alive during the human being still dwell the earth planet. This amphitheater can accommodate up to 6.000 audiences for the show of colossal both for modern and also traditional. This Taman Budaya (Cultural Park) is opened in the year 1973 with the Bali Artistry Party (Pesta Kesenian Bali) within one month. On that month, there are full of entertainment amuse-ment traditional dance, exhibition, and other cultural activities. At the opening ceremony enlivened by artistic parade started from Puputan Park and finish at the Art Center. Its distance is about 2 Km and this parade is followed by entire regencies and towns in Bali by delivering their artistry mission. This event is often followed by other provinces in Indonesia as well as from outside country like Japan, Korea, Europe, America etc. In this culture parade is presented in so many forms those are from the sacral until contemporary traditional. There are also type of marry and custom clothes from each area, instrument of music or gamelan, forms Sesajen (offering) and others. (IBP/net)

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BaYER LEVERkuSEn striker Javier Hernandez says he was not given enough chances to shine during his spells at Manchester united and Real Madrid.

The 28-year-old Mexico international left United for Leverkusen last August and racked up 17 goals in 28 league appearances to help guide the German club to third place in the Bundesliga and secure a spot in next season’s Champions League.

“The difference is that Leverkusen want me on the pitch. The others didn’t,” Hernandez said in an interview for the July edition of football magazine FourFourTwo.

Hernandez scored 59 goals in 85 starts in all competitions after joining United in 2010, but was farmed out to Spanish giants Real Madrid for the 2014-15 season by former United manager Louis van Gaal.

He scored nine goals during his spell in Spain, but once again found it tough to get an extended run of games and ended up mak-ing 12 starts in all competitions for the La Liga club.

“If I’d had more chances at United or Real, I’d probably have been ‘the star’ there as well - we’ll never know. I didn’t have the chance,” he added.

“I never had the chance to play 20 games in a row so people could say: ‘He’s a good player who should stay’ or ‘He can’t be the star - he’s not a good player.’”

Hernandez scored the winner in Mexico’s 1-0 friendly win over Chile in the team’s final warm-up game ahead of the Copa America Centenario, which starts on Friday. (rtr)

GEnEVa — The departure of FIFA audit panel chairman Domenico Scala in a dispute with President Gianni Infantino will hurt efforts to reform the scandal-hit soccer body, former anti-corruption adviser Michael Hershman said Thursday.

Hershman helped bring Scala to FIFA in 2012 and said his exit is “the worst thing that could have happened.”

“One of the few shining lights we had was Domenico,” Hersh-man, the American co-founder of Transparency International, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “Now that he has gone, my skepticism is even greater.”

Hershman spoke from Doha ahead of being announced as CEO of the Qatar-funded International Centre for Sport Security.

Scala resigned last month after his working relationship with Infantino broke down, including disputes over the presidential sal-ary and the FIFA Council taking powers to fire elected independent officials.

Last year, Scala proposed a slate of reforms amid FIFA’s corruption-fueled crisis that was the basis of modernizing changes drafted by a panel which included Infantino.

Their work picked up on a pre-vious round of reforms steered by a FIFA-invited expert group which included Hershman and was led by Swiss law professor Mark Pieth. That panel was left frustrated by FIFA blocking outsiders from key positions.

“I remain convinced now more than ever that FIFA, if it is to sur-vive, there must be independent oversight because they have no credibility,” Hershman said.

In 2012, Hershman was in-volved in talks that led FIFA to appoint prosecutor Michael Garcia and judge Joachim Eckert to lead its ethics committee in an investi-gation of World Cup bidding that

included Qatar’s victory in the 2022 hosting contest.

The investigation concluded that wrongdoing linked to most of the nine bid candidates did not jus-tify reviewing the status of Qatar and 2018 World Cup host Russia. Now, Hershman is working for the Qatar-based center which advises governments and sports bodies on event security and integrity of competitions.

“I want to kind of do what I did at Transparency International, creating chapters around the world to promote values,” he told the AP. “I am not naive. It is going to take a long time.”

Hershman noted ongoing issues with “match-fixing, doping, FIFA integrity crisis, Tokyo crisis — everywhere you look,” referring to current scrutiny of how Japan won the 2020 Olympic bid contest.

Another World Cup scandal, over Germany’s bidding and orga-nizing of the 2006 tournament, has

affected the ICSS. Hershman con-firmed that one of his former ICSS colleagues, Horst Schmidt, is no longer on its advisory board.

Schmidt is among four Ger-man World Cup officials, includ-ing Franz Beckenbauer, who are under investigation by the FIFA ethics committee for links to suspected bribery. Two more officials, including current FIFA Council member Wolfgang Niers-bach, are being investigated for not reporting suspected unethical conduct.

Hershman said one task in his new job is to find new fund-ing for the ICSS, which gets 70 percent of its annual budget of ablout $30 million from Qatar’s government.

“I will take clean money from anyone but with no strings at-tached,” Hershman said, insisting that Qatar gives its “funding with-out any conditions. No one has ever told me to shut up.” (ap)

BaRCELOna- Soccer’s five-times World Player of the Year Lionel Messi arrived at a court in Barcelona on Thursday to testify against charges

of tax evasion. A few bypassers applauded the arrival of the Argentina and FC Bar- celona player while several people

shouted at him, but in contrast to when he appeared at a local court in 2013 to give evidence, there were no Barcelona supporters present.

Messi and his father, Jorge Hora- cio Messi, entered the court im-

mediately without speaking to reporters.The trial began on Tuesday although Messi missed the first and

second day, which he was not obliged to attend, citing a back injury sus-tained in Argentina’s international friendly with Honduras last Friday.

Lionel and Jorge Horacio Messi are accused by the Spanish tax of-fice of defrauding the government of 4.2 million euros ($4.7 million) between 2007 and 2009.

They could face jail terms of up to 22 months if found guilty, al-though it is customary in Spain that offenders of non-violent crime with a sentence of under two years do not serve time in jail.

The case centres on the player’s image rights and a web of shell companies allegedly used to evade taxes on income from those rights. Tuesday’s hearing showed that Spain’s tax office made 20 inspections of Messi during its three-year investigation.

According to the prosecutors’ office, revenue was hidden using shell companies in Uruguay, Belize, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Messi and his father paid five million euros to the tax authorities as a “corrective” measure after being formally investi-gated in June 2013.

Spain’s tax office has also begun investigating the finances of Messi’s Barcelona team-mates Neymar Jr, Javier Mascherano and Adriano. Mascherano accepted a one-year prison sentence for tax evasion as part of a plea bargain in January, although is not expected to serve time in jail.

Messi moved to Barcelona from his birth place of Rosario, Argentina in 2000, becoming a Spanish citizen in 2005. He is 10th on Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s highest-earning athletes over the past decade, with an estimated income of $350 million. Messi has scored 453 goals in 531 appearances for Barca in all competitions.

He has also won eight La Liga titles, four King’s Cups and four Champions League crowns with Barca, leading them to a

league and cup double last season.Messi is also captain of Argentina and will rejoin the team immedi-

ately after his court appearance to prepare for the Copa America in the USA, playing their first game against holders Chile on Jun. 7. (rtr)

ZuRICH — Argentina will kick off the Copa America as the world’s top-ranked team, and No. 2 Belgium goes to the European Championship as the best on its continent. Co-lombia, which opens the Copa America on Friday against

host United States, moved up one place to No. 3. Germany is No. 4.

Defending Copa America champion Chile dropped two places to No. 5 before playing Argentina on Monday. Mexico is the top-ranked CONCACAF

team at No. 16. The United States dropped two to No. 31.

Euro 2016 host France climbed four to No. 17 after beating Cam-eroon in a warm-up friendly this week. Algeria is the top African nation at No. 32, and No. 39 Iran is Asia’s best. (ap)

Hernandez rues lack of opportunities at United and Real Madrid

Lionel Messi testifies in tax fraud trial

REUTERS/Alberto Estevez/POOL

Barcelona’s Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi sits in court with his father Jorge Horacio Messi during their trial for tax fraud in Barcelona, Spain, June 2, 2016.

Argentina, Belgium lead ahead of Copa America, Euro 2016

Ex-FIFA adviser: Scala exit damages reform at soccer body

AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 file photo, FIFA chairman of audit and compliance Domenico Scala attends a press conference in Marrakech, Morocco. FIFA audit and compli-ance chairman Domenico Scala has resigned in protest against a power grab by President Gianni Infantino over control of independent panels that monitor the scandal-hit soccer body. Scala’s walkout on Saturday May 14, 2016 comes amid claims of tension between the two men over Infantino’s salary.

ManCHESTER — Manchester City has signed midfielder Ilkay Gundogan from Borussia Dortmund, the first addition to the squad since Pep Guardiola took charge. The 25-year-old Germany international, who signed a four-year contract, has been ruled out of the European Championship with a knee injury.

Gundogan says after five years at Dortmund “the opportunity to work with a coach like Pep Guardiola is something I am really looking forward to and I am flattered to be the first signing the club has made this summer.”

City director of football Txiki Begiristain says he hopes fans enjoy the “work ethic and technical ability” of Gundogan, who he describes as “intelligent and versatile.”

City won the League Cup last season and has to contest a playoff to reach the group stage of the Champions League. (ap)

FILE - In this April 6, 2016 file picture Dort-mund’s Ilkay Gundogan plays the ball during

the last training session prior the Europa League quarterfinal first leg soccer match

between Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool FC in Dortmund, Germany.

Mexico forward Javier Hernan-dez reacts after scoring during

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BaYER LEVERkuSEn striker Javier Hernandez says he was not given enough chances to shine during his spells at Manchester united and Real Madrid.

The 28-year-old Mexico international left United for Leverkusen last August and racked up 17 goals in 28 league appearances to help guide the German club to third place in the Bundesliga and secure a spot in next season’s Champions League.

“The difference is that Leverkusen want me on the pitch. The others didn’t,” Hernandez said in an interview for the July edition of football magazine FourFourTwo.

Hernandez scored 59 goals in 85 starts in all competitions after joining United in 2010, but was farmed out to Spanish giants Real Madrid for the 2014-15 season by former United manager Louis van Gaal.

He scored nine goals during his spell in Spain, but once again found it tough to get an extended run of games and ended up mak-ing 12 starts in all competitions for the La Liga club.

“If I’d had more chances at United or Real, I’d probably have been ‘the star’ there as well - we’ll never know. I didn’t have the chance,” he added.

“I never had the chance to play 20 games in a row so people could say: ‘He’s a good player who should stay’ or ‘He can’t be the star - he’s not a good player.’”

Hernandez scored the winner in Mexico’s 1-0 friendly win over Chile in the team’s final warm-up game ahead of the Copa America Centenario, which starts on Friday. (rtr)

GEnEVa — The departure of FIFA audit panel chairman Domenico Scala in a dispute with President Gianni Infantino will hurt efforts to reform the scandal-hit soccer body, former anti-corruption adviser Michael Hershman said Thursday.

Hershman helped bring Scala to FIFA in 2012 and said his exit is “the worst thing that could have happened.”

“One of the few shining lights we had was Domenico,” Hersh-man, the American co-founder of Transparency International, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “Now that he has gone, my skepticism is even greater.”

Hershman spoke from Doha ahead of being announced as CEO of the Qatar-funded International Centre for Sport Security.

Scala resigned last month after his working relationship with Infantino broke down, including disputes over the presidential sal-ary and the FIFA Council taking powers to fire elected independent officials.

Last year, Scala proposed a slate of reforms amid FIFA’s corruption-fueled crisis that was the basis of modernizing changes drafted by a panel which included Infantino.

Their work picked up on a pre-vious round of reforms steered by a FIFA-invited expert group which included Hershman and was led by Swiss law professor Mark Pieth. That panel was left frustrated by FIFA blocking outsiders from key positions.

“I remain convinced now more than ever that FIFA, if it is to sur-vive, there must be independent oversight because they have no credibility,” Hershman said.

In 2012, Hershman was in-volved in talks that led FIFA to appoint prosecutor Michael Garcia and judge Joachim Eckert to lead its ethics committee in an investi-gation of World Cup bidding that

included Qatar’s victory in the 2022 hosting contest.

The investigation concluded that wrongdoing linked to most of the nine bid candidates did not jus-tify reviewing the status of Qatar and 2018 World Cup host Russia. Now, Hershman is working for the Qatar-based center which advises governments and sports bodies on event security and integrity of competitions.

“I want to kind of do what I did at Transparency International, creating chapters around the world to promote values,” he told the AP. “I am not naive. It is going to take a long time.”

Hershman noted ongoing issues with “match-fixing, doping, FIFA integrity crisis, Tokyo crisis — everywhere you look,” referring to current scrutiny of how Japan won the 2020 Olympic bid contest.

Another World Cup scandal, over Germany’s bidding and orga-nizing of the 2006 tournament, has

affected the ICSS. Hershman con-firmed that one of his former ICSS colleagues, Horst Schmidt, is no longer on its advisory board.

Schmidt is among four Ger-man World Cup officials, includ-ing Franz Beckenbauer, who are under investigation by the FIFA ethics committee for links to suspected bribery. Two more officials, including current FIFA Council member Wolfgang Niers-bach, are being investigated for not reporting suspected unethical conduct.

Hershman said one task in his new job is to find new fund-ing for the ICSS, which gets 70 percent of its annual budget of ablout $30 million from Qatar’s government.

“I will take clean money from anyone but with no strings at-tached,” Hershman said, insisting that Qatar gives its “funding with-out any conditions. No one has ever told me to shut up.” (ap)

BaRCELOna- Soccer’s five-times World Player of the Year Lionel Messi arrived at a court in Barcelona on Thursday to testify against charges

of tax evasion. A few bypassers applauded the arrival of the Argentina and FC Bar- celona player while several people

shouted at him, but in contrast to when he appeared at a local court in 2013 to give evidence, there were no Barcelona supporters present.

Messi and his father, Jorge Hora- cio Messi, entered the court im-

mediately without speaking to reporters.The trial began on Tuesday although Messi missed the first and

second day, which he was not obliged to attend, citing a back injury sus-tained in Argentina’s international friendly with Honduras last Friday.

Lionel and Jorge Horacio Messi are accused by the Spanish tax of-fice of defrauding the government of 4.2 million euros ($4.7 million) between 2007 and 2009.

They could face jail terms of up to 22 months if found guilty, al-though it is customary in Spain that offenders of non-violent crime with a sentence of under two years do not serve time in jail.

The case centres on the player’s image rights and a web of shell companies allegedly used to evade taxes on income from those rights. Tuesday’s hearing showed that Spain’s tax office made 20 inspections of Messi during its three-year investigation.

According to the prosecutors’ office, revenue was hidden using shell companies in Uruguay, Belize, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Messi and his father paid five million euros to the tax authorities as a “corrective” measure after being formally investi-gated in June 2013.

Spain’s tax office has also begun investigating the finances of Messi’s Barcelona team-mates Neymar Jr, Javier Mascherano and Adriano. Mascherano accepted a one-year prison sentence for tax evasion as part of a plea bargain in January, although is not expected to serve time in jail.

Messi moved to Barcelona from his birth place of Rosario, Argentina in 2000, becoming a Spanish citizen in 2005. He is 10th on Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s highest-earning athletes over the past decade, with an estimated income of $350 million. Messi has scored 453 goals in 531 appearances for Barca in all competitions.

He has also won eight La Liga titles, four King’s Cups and four Champions League crowns with Barca, leading them to a

league and cup double last season.Messi is also captain of Argentina and will rejoin the team immedi-

ately after his court appearance to prepare for the Copa America in the USA, playing their first game against holders Chile on Jun. 7. (rtr)

ZuRICH — Argentina will kick off the Copa America as the world’s top-ranked team, and No. 2 Belgium goes to the European Championship as the best on its continent. Co-lombia, which opens the Copa America on Friday against

host United States, moved up one place to No. 3. Germany is No. 4.

Defending Copa America champion Chile dropped two places to No. 5 before playing Argentina on Monday. Mexico is the top-ranked CONCACAF

team at No. 16. The United States dropped two to No. 31.

Euro 2016 host France climbed four to No. 17 after beating Cam-eroon in a warm-up friendly this week. Algeria is the top African nation at No. 32, and No. 39 Iran is Asia’s best. (ap)

Hernandez rues lack of opportunities at United and Real Madrid

Lionel Messi testifies in tax fraud trial

REUTERS/Alberto Estevez/POOL

Barcelona’s Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi sits in court with his father Jorge Horacio Messi during their trial for tax fraud in Barcelona, Spain, June 2, 2016.

Argentina, Belgium lead ahead of Copa America, Euro 2016

Ex-FIFA adviser: Scala exit damages reform at soccer body

AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 file photo, FIFA chairman of audit and compliance Domenico Scala attends a press conference in Marrakech, Morocco. FIFA audit and compli-ance chairman Domenico Scala has resigned in protest against a power grab by President Gianni Infantino over control of independent panels that monitor the scandal-hit soccer body. Scala’s walkout on Saturday May 14, 2016 comes amid claims of tension between the two men over Infantino’s salary.

ManCHESTER — Manchester City has signed midfielder Ilkay Gundogan from Borussia Dortmund, the first addition to the squad since Pep Guardiola took charge. The 25-year-old Germany international, who signed a four-year contract, has been ruled out of the European Championship with a knee injury.

Gundogan says after five years at Dortmund “the opportunity to work with a coach like Pep Guardiola is something I am really looking forward to and I am flattered to be the first signing the club has made this summer.”

City director of football Txiki Begiristain says he hopes fans enjoy the “work ethic and technical ability” of Gundogan, who he describes as “intelligent and versatile.”

City won the League Cup last season and has to contest a playoff to reach the group stage of the Champions League. (ap)

FILE - In this April 6, 2016 file picture Dort-mund’s Ilkay Gundogan plays the ball during

the last training session prior the Europa League quarterfinal first leg soccer match

between Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool FC in Dortmund, Germany.

Mexico forward Javier Hernan-dez reacts after scoring during

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CLEVELAND - LeBron James and Cleveland get a chance for revenge against the Stephen Curry-led Golden State in the NBA Finals starting on Thursday, but the underdog Cavaliers have the misfortune to face a Warriors team seemingly peaking again at the right time.

Had they met while Curry was nursing an injury several weeks ago, the Cavaliers might have started as favorites for the best-of-seven series but instead they will be big betting underdogs against a rejuvenated and largely healthy Warriors line-up.

But at least it will be a fair fight this year.The Cavs were not quite a one-man team in last year’s champion-

ship series, but without two of their “Big Three” in injured forward Kevin Love and guard Kyrie Irving, they did well in some respects to take the series to six games.

With Love and Irving healthy this time around, many basketball fans are salivating at the prospect of a classic series but the history of sport is replete with examples of events that promised much, only to fail to live up to expectations.

But on paper at least it does have the potential to be a compelling se-ries as James, in his sixth consecutive NBA Finals (including four with the Miami Heat) tries to lift the Cavs to their first championship.

And the fact the Cavs are about a 2-1 underdog means nothing to James.

“Not my concern,” he said Tuesday. “I don’t get involved in all of that -- underdog, overdog, whatever the case may be. It’s stupidity. We’re better built to start the Finals than we were last year.”

As for the Warriors, their path to the Finals appeared to be straight-forward after they won 73 regular season games, an NBA record.

But a right ankle injury forced reigning NBA most valuable player Curry out of the lineup for two games in the first round against Hous-ton, and a right knee sprain in his first game back against the Rockets caused him to miss another four games.

Still, the Warriors had enough depth without Curry to account for Houston and then the Portland Trail Blazers, but the Oklahoma City Thunder proved a much sterner test in the Western Conference Finals.

Down 3-1, the Warriors did what great teams do, overcoming adversity to win the last three games and set up what, Thunder fans excepted, most of the basketball world wanted to see.

“This whole playoff run has kind of been a roller coaster ride for me specifically, but also for our team,” Curry said recently.

“We never lost confidence, and every game just played with fearless-ness and that confidence that we could get back to the Finals, however we had to get it done.

“So it was just a roller coaster from the time I got hurt to coming back and dealing with injuries and what-not, and now we’re four wins away from our goal, and that’s a pretty special accomplishment.” (rtr)

After relentless rain washed out all but two hours of play over the previous two days, under-fire Roland Garros organisers said such conditions had not been seen since 1873 as they frantically tried to play catch-up by staging 12 singles matches -- instead of just four quar-ter-finals as is the norm -- on day 11 of the sodden championships.

That allowed world number one Djokovic to become the first tennis player to bank $100 million in prize money after his 3-6 6-4 6-1 7-5 win over Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut tipped him over the magic number.

Having won a match that was originally scheduled for Monday,

begun on Tuesday and completed on Wednesday, the 29-year-old Serb will have to play four days in suc-cession if he is to reach Sunday’s title showdown.

“I have the feeling I played three matches against him,” a grinning Djokovic told the crowd after don-ning a yellow rain hat during his victory speech.

“Yesterday the match was inter-rupted three times and it wasn’t easy coming here at 9 am and leaving at 7.30 or 8:00 pm.

“So that’s the reason why we should have the roof here,” added the Serb, who joined the likes of golfer Tiger Woods and boxer Lennox Lewis in the $100 million club.

However, rather than getting worked up about the French Open not having any court cover like the other three majors, it was the organisers’ decision to make the players compete in misty rain on Tuesday that overshadowed Wednesday’s on-court action.

Serena Williams, who like Djok-ovic was bogged down in the fourth round for more than 48 hours, booked her place in the quarter-finals by walloping Ukrainian 18th seed Elina Svitolina 6-1 6-1. She will next face Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva.

In the bottom half of the men’s draw, Andy Murray doused some early fireworks from Frenchman Richard Gasquet to win 5-7 7-6(3) 6-0 6-2 to set up a blockbuster semi-final against holder Stan Wawrinka. The Swiss beat Albert Ramos (Spain) 6-2 6-1 7-6(7). (rtr)

Cavaliers underdogs again as Warriors go for repeat

Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (6) and guard Kyrie Irving (2) talk during NBA Finals media day at Oracle Arena.

Djokovic enters $100 million dollar club, Serena plays catch-up

PARIS - Novak Djokovic had 100 million reasons to celebrate reaching the French Open quarter-finals on Wednesday -- albeit two days later than expected -- as players finally cleared the fourth-round backlog created by the fickle Parisian weather.

REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Novak Djokovic returns the ball v Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain.

DENPASAR - Taman Budaya or Bali Art Center is the culture build-ing complex with the best style of Balinese traditional architecture. It is featuring the good lay-out building of amphitheater to be a place/hall of show performance purpose. It is symbolizing the twiddling of Mandara Giri mount in the milk ocean and spattering the Amerta holy water for the life of endless as according to nature of dynamic culture and stayed alive during the human being still dwell the earth planet. This amphitheater can accommodate up to 6.000 audiences for the show of colossal both for modern and also traditional. This Taman Budaya (Cultural Park) is opened in the year 1973 with the Bali Artistry Party (Pesta Kesenian Bali) within one month. On that month, there are full of entertainment amuse-ment traditional dance, exhibition, and other cultural activities. At the opening ceremony enlivened by artistic parade started from Puputan Park and finish at the Art Center. Its distance is about 2 Km and this parade is followed by entire regencies and towns in Bali by delivering their artistry mission. This event is often followed by other provinces in Indonesia as well as from outside country like Japan, Korea, Europe, America etc. In this culture parade is presented in so many forms those are from the sacral until contemporary traditional. There are also type of marry and custom clothes from each area, instrument of music or gamelan, forms Sesajen (offering) and others. (IBP/net)

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France’s meteorological service said Thursday that severe flood watches are in effect in two Paris-area departments: Loiret and Seine-et-Marne. Eight more departments, including three on the German, bor-

der, face flood warnings as well.Belgium also endured a fourth day

of heavy rain, with flooding reported in several areas across the country.

After widespread flooding hit northern Antwerp and the west of Flanders early in the week, waters kept rising in eastern areas around Limburg and Liege. Several neighborhoods

have had to be evacuated as cellars flooded and streets were submerged in overflowing creeks and rivers.

One major train line linking east-ern Limburg to the capital had to be temporarily suspended early Thurs-day. No deaths or injuries have been reported so far in Belgium. More rain is expected later.(ap)

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The speech in San Diego comes as the former secretary of state seeks to shift her attention to the Nov. 8 presidential election against likely rival Trump, and away from Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Ver-mont who is continuing his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination.

Trump has said he would sit down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear program and has criticized the decades-old NATO alliance with mainly European nations as obsolete and too costly for the United States.

“It’s important that people under-stand this is not just about Republi-can versus Democrat, that Trump is unlike any presidential candidate we have seen and he is fundamentally unfit to be our commander in chief,” Clinton aide Jake Sullivan said in an interview ahead of Clinton’s speech.

California, the most populous U.S. state, is among six states that

are to hold Democratic nominating contests next Tuesday.

Clinton already has a nearly in-surmountable lead over Sanders in the delegate count, but is hoping a decisive win in California can help her clinch the party nomination early and quell concerns about divisions in the party ahead of the general elec-tion against Trump.

Clinton has already delivered several speeches on foreign policy and national security. Her address in San Diego will not break new policy ground, but will mainly respond to Trump’s recent comments, her campaign said.

Clinton will argue that Trump’s statement that he was prepared to talk to Kim Jong Un, made in a Reu-ters interview last month, has only emboldened him and invited him to be more provocative, Sullivan said.

A column this week in DPRK Today, one of North Korea’s state mouthpieces, described Trump as

a “wise politician” and Clinton as “thick-headed Hillary.”

“Donald Trump’s statements about North Korea show that he has more interest in making Kim Jong Un like him than backing up our friends and allies in the region,” Sul-livan said, noting that South Korea has worked with the United States on missile defense.

Trump’s remarks on the decades-old NATO alliance of 28 nations will also elicit a response from Clin-ton, Sullivan said. The New York businessman has said that member nations should pay for their own defense to ease the U.S. burden and that the alliance itself needs recon-figuring.

Sullivan, who worked with Clin-ton at the U.S. State Department, said burden-sharing is “not a novel point” within NATO and that Clinton will highlight her record of getting allies to “step up” and share defense costs.

Clinton, however, would not walk away from the alliance, which coordinates with the United States on counter-terrorism, nuclear pro-liferation and other issues, Sullivan said. (rtr)

ANKARA - A resolution by German lawmakers to declare the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces a “genocide” has seriously damaged relations between Berlin and Ankara, a spokesman for Turkey’s ruling party said on Thursday.

Yasin Aktay made the com-ment on live television after Germany’s Bundestag lower house of parliament voted over-whelmingly on Thursday in favour of a symbolic resolution. Turkey’s ruling AKP planned to present to the Turkish parliament a declaration against the vote, a party source said.

Germany’s Bundestag lower house of parliament voted over-whelmingly in favour of a sym-bolic resolution that declares the killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces in 1915 a “genocide”.

The resolution is likely to anger Turkey, a crucial partner for Ger-many and its European partners in slowing the flow of migrants to western Europe under a new EU-Turkey pact championed by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

While Ankara accepts that many Christian Armenians were massacred in clashes with Otto-man forces, it denies that hun-dreds of thousands were killed, that there was an organised campaign to wipe them out or that there were any such orders from Ottoman authorities.

Turkey rejects the idea that the killings of Christian Armenians during World War One amounted to a genocide and has warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Bundestag vote would damage bilateral ties.

The timing could not be worse for Merkel, who has championed a deal with Turkey under which Ankara has agreed to stem the

flow of refugees to Europe in return for cash, visa-free travel rights and accelerated talks on European Union membership.

Merkel is powerless to stop the symbolic resolution, which was initiated by the opposition Greens and is also backed by law-makers in her conservative bloc and the Social Democrats.

In a sign of the sensitivities, Merkel will not take part in the vote due to public appointments, although she did back it in an in-ternal party straw poll this week. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Vice Chancel-lor Sigmar Gabriel, both Social Democrats, will also be absent.

Berlin has already had a taste of the expected backlash from Ankara. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said lawmakers’ approval would be “irrational” and that the vote would be a test of friendship between the allies.

Yildirim said he had person-ally urged Merkel to work against the vote and that she had prom-ised to do all she could.

“We wish Germany would not allow such an irrational issue,” Yildirim told ruling party mem-bers in comments broadcast live, adding the vote “was a real test of Germany’s friendship”.

On Wednesday he said the vote was “ridiculous”. “It was an ordinary event that occurred dur-ing wartime conditions in 1915,” he said at a news conference.

The nature and scale of the killings remain highly conten-tious. Turkey accepts that many Armenians died in partisan fight-ing beginning in 1915, but denies that up to 1.5 million were killed and that this constituted an act of genocide, a term used by many Western historians and foreign parliaments. (rtr)

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Newark, N.J.

Clinton to blast Trump on North Korea, NATO

in foreign policy speechWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary

Clinton will slam Republican Donald Trump for being too friendly with North Korea and too harsh on European allies during a for-eign policy speech in California on Thursday, designed to paint the billionaire businessman as unfit for the White House.

German resolution on Armenian genocide damages

relations with Turkey

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Supporters holds Armenian flags in front of the Reichstag, the seat of the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, June 2, 2016, as they protest in favour of approval of a symbolic resolution by Germany’s parliament that declares the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a “genocide”.

The president, however, said the country still have many alter-natives to generate power such as geothermal with potential to pro-duce 9,000 megawatts of power. He said the MPP unit in Bangka will have a capacity of 2x25 MW and the one in Belitung has the capacity of 1x25 MW.

The construction would not take too long that power shortage

on the two islands could soon be coped with , he said, adding con-struction could be finished in six months as against 4 years to build a coal-fired power plant. He said there is no problem in gas supply to feed the two units of MPPs.

The government has said In-donesia will not resort to nuclear energy to meet its target of 136.7 gigawatt of power capacity by

2025 and 430 gigawatt by 2050.“We have arrived at the conclu-

sion that we do not need nuclear energy to produce power. We still have many alternatives,” Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said was quoted as saying .

A previous plan to build larger-scale plants on Central Javas Muria peninsula and in Bangka-Belitung met with resistance from local residents.

Nuclear power plant has also been suggested in Kalimantan as it has no volcano and has always been safe from the threat of earth-quake. (ant)

KUALA LUMPUR - Indo-nesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla and Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Najib have discussed Indonesian migrant workers prob-lems and the issue of the arrest of Malaysian fishermen.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the World Economic Fo-rum on ASEAN here on Wednesday. “Indeed, there are several issues that are being discussed, including the problems faced by the Indonesian community in Malaysia and our plan to reduce the number of workers, es-pecially house maids, going to Malay-sia. Other issues were related to border and fishermen. We also discussed the matter of schools and or how to estab-lish Indonesian schools in Serawak,” Kalla said after the meeting .

Regarding the plan to reduce the number of workers next year, he reminded that he had already made that clear about two or three years ago. Next year, Kalla added, domestic workers going to Malaysia would be temporarily stopped.

“We will only send professional workers who are well trained so that

they can work as household assis-tants, drawing better pay and a more formal status rather than remain informal laborers or undocumented (illegal) ones,” he emphasized.

He observed that it is actually the Malaysian citizens who would determine whether the Indonesian migrant workers worked legally or illegally. “In Malaysia, the regula-tion is implemented strictly. Those found employing undocumented workers would be punished. Also, such workers would be punished as well,” he stressed.

Kalla informed that during the meeting with the Malaysian prime minister, he had also discussed the case of Malaysian fishermen who were arrested last month for entering the Indonesian waters illegally.

In this connection, Malaysia has sought their release. In exchange, Malaysia will extradite two Indo-nesian police officers arrested in Kuching for allegedly misusing narcotic drugs in 2014.

“He (PM Najib) has asked for a cordial settlement of such prob-lems. Well, we will settle them in a

friendly spirit,” Kallas assured while responding to the offer.

Regarding exports and imports, both Indonesia and Malaysia saw these declining as both countries produce same commodities, includ-ing palm oil and rubber.

“But we also export medical herbs, cosmetics and garments while Malaysia exports electronic components to Indonesia,” Kalla stated. He was accompanied by Education Minister Anis Baswedan and Indonesias Ambassador to Ma-laysia, Herman Prayitno.

With regard to tourism, Indone-sia has so far been receiving more visitors from Malaysia who visit Bandung, Jakarta and Batam.

“Right now, we have Garuda, Lion, Air Asia and others. Perhaps, special air transportation service would be needed to facilitate more tourism,” he argued. The WEF on ASEAN 2016 in Kuala Lumpur being held from June 1-2 was also attended by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Timor Leste Prime Minister Araujo and Vietnams Deputy Prime Minister Dinh Dong. (ant)

JAKARTA — A strong undersea earthquake hit western Indonesia early Thursday, the U.S. Geologi-cal Survey reported, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

The magnitude 6.5 quake was centered 91 kilometers (56 miles) west of Sungaipenuh, a district town in Jambi province in Sumatra, or 141 kilometers (88 miles) south of

Padang, provincial capital of West Sumatra, the USGS said. It said the quake had a depth of 50.8 kilometers (31.5 miles).

Indonesia’ Meteorology, Clima-tology and Geophysics Agency, said the earthquake which struck at 5:56 a.m. (2256 GMT) had no potential to trigger tsunami.

But the quake still caused initial panic among residents in Painan,

the capital of Pesisirselatan district, which is 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of the epicenter.

Indonesia is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. In December 2004, a massive earth-quake off Sumatra island triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. (ap)

Benefit of developing nuclear power still is calculated: President

Kalla, Najib discuss workers` and fishermen`s issues

Strong earthquake hits western Indonesia

PANGKALPINANG - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said the government is still calculating the benefit or losses from building nuclear power plant in the country. “I have given an order to calculate its plus and minus,” the President said when inspecting a mobile power plant project in Bangka Belitung, on Wednesday.

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A dancer wears traditional costume during a parade in Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, June 2, 2016.

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For decades, the 13-nation cartel was able to regulate prices by throt-tling or increasing production. But with some members not sticking to the limits and outside players increas-ing their market share, recent meet-ings have failed to re-impose unity.

Saudi oil minister Khalid A. Al Falih suggested that the Organiza-tion of the Petroleum Exporting Countries nonetheless remained a strong market force. “We will come up with a consensus,” he told report-ers ahead of the meeting in Vienna. “OPEC has always managed to come up with a consensus.”

In fact, though, attempts to impose production ceilings have foundered over recent years, with countries ig-noring them and producing as much they wanted or could.

The final statement at the last meeting, in December, didn’t even mention an output target, signal-ing the cartel’s eroding ability to influence supply, demand — and prices.

One way out would be abandon-ing attempts to set a firm produc-tion target. Ministers at Thursday’s

meeting could instead agree on a sliding ceiling that could shift be-tween two benchmarks, both above 30 million barrels a day. That would be a first.

“The group is under a lot of pressure to reassert itself as a vi-able entity,” said Jason Schenker of Prestige Economic. “To achieve that, they are likely to achieve a production target of sorts.”

A flexible ceiling also could address Iranian resistance to curb-ing its output. Since the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions this year, Iranian production has roared back to nearly four million barrels a day, around the same level as before the imposition of the sanctions.

Reflecting its stance, Iran did not even show up at a meeting in April between OPEC members and outside producers attempting to agree on a joint output freeze to push prices higher. The Saudis then said they would not cap output if Iran didn’t do the same, dooming the gathering to failure.

Suggesting the organization’s credibility was on the line in Vienna

after that abortive meeting, Schen-ker declared: “This is a make or break moment for OPEC.”

The ministerial gathering comes amid a recovery in the price of oil. Since touching a 13-year low early this year, it has rallied almost 90 percent to around $50 a barrel. On Thursday, the international bench-mark, Brent, was up 22 cents on the day at $49.93.

While that’s still only half of what crude fetched as late as two years ago, the increase is easing some of the pain for poorer mem-bers such as Algeria, Venezuela and Nigeria that depend on crude as their main income. And there are promises of further increases.

U.S. shale production is in de-cline as it needs higher prices to be economical. At the same time, the world economy is showing signs of some improvement, meaning that the appetite for petroleum may increase.

Ironically, part of the credit for OPEC’s improving fortunes is due to its inability to act in unity in re-cent years. Instead, many individual members produced what they could, driving down prices to the point where shale producers are increas-ingly unable to compete. Some have gone out of business, reducing the glut of global supply.(ap)

DETROIT — U.S. car buyers are tapping the brakes. May is usually one of the strongest months of the year for the U.S. auto industry, as Americans buy cars ahead of summer road trips. But last month, U.S. auto sales were expected to drop 7 percent to 1.5 million cars and trucks, according to car shopping site Kelley Blue Book. That’s the biggest monthly sales decline since the Cash for Clunkers hangover in August 2010.

Most major automakers reported lower sales in May compared to the same month a year ago. General Motors’ sales fell 18 per-cent, Ford’s were down 6 percent and Toyota’s sales dropped 10 percent. Volkswagen’s sales were down 17 percent. Honda’s sales dropped 5 percent and Nissan’s fell 1 percent. Fiat Chrysler and Subaru bucked the trend, with sales up 1 percent each.

The declines could be a sign that U.S. auto sales are finally reaching a plateau after six straight years of growth — a streak not seen since the 1920s. Sales rose 6 percent between 2014 and 2015 but are only up around 1 percent so far this year, and KBB expects them to remain flat this summer.

Flattening sales could be good for consumers, at least in the short term. Automakers are offering more discounts in order to keep growing their U.S. market share. Car-buying site TrueCar.com estimated that incentive spending rose 7 percent in May to average of $3,034 per vehicle.

But those discounts can hurt resale values and automakers’ profits, so companies have to be careful as they deal with a dip in demand.

GM and Ford shares both fell 3 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday, reflecting investors’ fears that the companies can no longer count on easy U.S. sales increases. GM’s shares dropped to $30.37 while Ford’s shares fell to $13.09.

Results from early in May were enough for LMC Automotive, a forecasting firm, to lower its forecast for the full year. LMC said it now expects total U.S. sales of 17.7 million vehicles this year, down from its previous target of 17.8 million.

But even 17.7 million vehicles would break the record of 17.5 million that was set last year. So even if sales plateau, they remain at very high levels. “The sky is not falling,” said Michelle Krebs, a senior analyst with Autotrader.com. “Sales remain at very lofty levels.”(ap)

Khalid Al-Falih Minister of Energy. Indus-try and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia speaks to jour-nalists prior to the start of a meeting of the Organization of the Petro-leum Export-ing Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, June 2, 2016.

US auto sales fall in May as growth slows

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FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, file photo, salesperson Andrew Montalvo, left, talks to a customer checking out the interior of a Grand Cherokee Limited in Doral, Fla. On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, major automakers report sales for May.

OPEC ponders ways to show its oil clout at Vienna meeting

VIENNA — With higher crude prices bringing some relief, OPEC officials meeting Thursday focused on trying to find com-mon ground on how much to produce in an attempt to re-impose the image of the organization as a major player in determining supplies and prices.

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PuRA Taman Ayun is a beautifully apointed temple, with its own surrounding moat, in the village at Mengwi, Badung Re-gency, 18 Km. West of Denpasar. The his-tory of this temple is closely associated with the begining of the Rajadom of Mengwi, in 1627 B.C. it was built in 163-1AD. at the time at the rule of the first Raja of Mengwi. I Gusti Agung Ngurah Made Agung, who later become known as Ida Cokorda Sakti Belambangan. As the Royal Family temple of the Raja of Mengwi. This temple is a place to worship the Royal ancestors, who find their rest in a special shrine known as the “Gedong Paibon”.

Following the Pattern of most Balinese temples, Pura Taman Ayun has three con-necting temple yards. The innermost sanc-tum is knows- as “Utama Mandala” (the highest circle), the middle yard as. “Madia Mandala” (the circle in between) and the

outer as “Nista Mandala” (the humblest circle). The enter the main sanctum one must pass through a raised Gate- way, known as the Kori Agung (Paduraksa), and the gate- way between the outer and middle connect in a split gate, known as “Candi Bentar”.

Apart from the “Gedong Paibon”, dedicated to one ancestor, the middle courtyard are other shrines dedicated to the various main temples of Bali. These shrines were built by the 5 Raja to ensure that his Kingdom and people would be able to share in the prosperity and fertility of the nation, and also to enable all the people at Mengwi; to conduct the religious ceremo-nies at the temple, such as “meajar-ajar”, memendak sang Pitara” and to request holy water to protect the rice fields from pestilence, etc.

There is also another shrine on the

middle courtyard dedicated to the “Pasek Badak” famous here of by gone days from the Raja’s troops. The extensive temple grounds of Taman Ayun also function as a resting place for the Royal family. Cover-ing 4 Hectares of land. The temple is sur-rounded by a large most, which used to be full of loins and lily flowers of all color, and around the edges of the moat can be found frangipani, cempaka, kenanga & other pcrftiined flowering trees, as well as mango stein, durian, manggo rambutan fruit trees.

The temple has always been strongly influenced by the ups and downs at the Raja dom of Mengwi. ln l890 here was a war between the Rajas of Badung and Mengwi, and the I0 th. Raja Mengwi “I Gusti Made Agung” lost the battle, and had to retreat to escape with life in to the bordering eastern district. During the

rule of the victorious Raja of Badung the temple was never looked after properly, and the temple buildings deteriorated due to lack of care.

ln the year 1911 AD, part of the Royal Family returned to their family seat at Mengwi, and Pura Taman Ayun was re-stored. However on 20 th, January 1917 a violent earth-quake damaged many of the existing buildings. Repairs have been done in stages to return the temple to its original condition.

The odalan at Pura Taman Ayun falls every 2l0 days on a day known as “Selasa Kliwon Wuku Mendangsia”. Many tourists used to visit the temple, even, before the Second world War. The family of Puri Gede Mengwi still maintain the temple. Assisted by a committee made up of the lokal tradi-tional leaders, such as the village officials from the Mengwi District.(kmb)

SINGARAJA - Monotonous teaching method in the classroom is changed by the students of elementary school teaching education (PGSD) department of the Undiksha Singaraja by cre-ating project-based learning props made from used materials.

The concept is designed by the students of PGSD started by collecting waste materials commonly found amid the community. At the same time, the prospective elementary school teachers learn to make the learning atmosphere more lively and inspiring the students to find new discoveries.

“The process is made simpler by using the concept of electricity, pressure and force. We design it in such a way to be used by prospective teachers prior to working in the world of education. It means that at the primary level teachers are not just teaching the materials but also giving examples of active movement and enabling the students to find out something new,” said counselor and teacher at the natural sciences at the PGSD Department of Undiksha Singaraja, I Gede Marguna Yasa, at the Buleleng Education Expo (BEE), Wednesday (May 1).

Made from used materials such as CD and mini elec-tric motor, the props are then powered by battery. Such teaching method makes students excited about designing project-based learning props from used materials. “We make a series of experiments by using used materials in the form of bottle caps and tin cans plus syringe, pieces of wooden slab and a new battery. Various circuits like cars, robots and miniature of movable heavy equipment have been made almost for a week,” he said.

The learning props are designed more attractive to make students think critically and creatively make mod-eling from simple materials. During the development process, a total of 20 designs are created and some of them have been donated to schools in Buleleng. “The concept and idea of props making have been initiated since 2009 with the aim of driving the students to have a life skills. In other words, when going practice in the field they can apply their practical skills and will no longer be dominated by educational lectures,” said Marguna Yasa. (kmb34)

Create learning props from used materials

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The students of elementary school teaching education (PGSD) department of the Undiksha Singaraja is ma-kong prop from used materials.

Taman Ayun Temple at Central Badung

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DUBAI - A Chinese teenager hid in the cargo hold of an Emir-ates airliner during a nine-hour flight to Dubai where he hoped to make a fortune, describing the journey as “comfortable”, reports said Wednesday.

The 16-year-old stowaway was found after the flight from Shang-hai landed in Dubai on Friday, the English-language daily 7Days reported citing police.

“He told us that the bags section in the plane had been comfortable,” said Dubai’s assistant police chief for ports and airports, General Ahmed bin Thani.

“He planned to come to Dubai after hearing about the lifestyle, and he was looking to make money,” he added.

Speaking through a translator, the stowaway from Bazhong in southwest China said he heard an online rumour that “even beggars” can make good money in Dubai, the paper said citing Chinese media.

It was unclear how the teenager, who remains in custody in the Gulf emirate, got into the cargo hold, which is usually pressurised and temperature-controlled, unlike wheel wells where stowaways risk death due to freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen. (afp)

The unofficial Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) is the last chance for the two powers to drum up support before a decision from the Perma-nent Court of Arbitration in a case brought by the Philippines. Manila is contesting Beijing’s claim to an area shown on its maps as nine-dash line stretching deep into the maritime heart of Southeast Asia, covering hundreds disputed islands and reefs.

Security experts expect the United States will try to convince Southeast Asian coun-tries, as well as other big powers such as India and Japan, to publicly support any positive decision for the Philippines, who asked the court to recognise its right to exploit waters in the South China Sea.

China, which rejects the court’s authority, will try to sway the countries to abstain from taking a public position, which should make it easier to stave off criticism from the West.

“The value of the case is the long term reputational damage and the pressure ... on the Chinese. That only works if you have a big coalition that can keep this in the public eye,” said Greg Poling, director the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at Wash-ington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.

“But if the Chinese ... get a ton of coun-tries to abstain that deflects a lot of that criticism.”

Among the 20-odd delegations, much at-tention will be on the positions of Southeast Asian countries. Regional players haven’t al-ways agreed on how to tackle China’s claims in the South China Sea, struggling to balance their security interests with their deep ties to the world’s second largest economy.

As well as China and Taiwan, the Philip-pines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei have

rival claims in the increasingly militarized area. The United States has also stepped up patrols and exercises, stressing the need to keep international sea-lanes open.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s keynote opening speech in a rare international appearance will be closely scrutinised for hints on Thailand’s strategic positioning.

“Thai policies reflect the predicament of the region,” said Tim Huxley, a security expert with the event’s organiser, the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies.

“Regional states want to have positive relations with China yet at the same time ... strategically they are aligned with the West

and they have reasons for being cautious about China’s behaviour in the region.”

The three-day summit offers a rare chance for regional military brass and intelligence of-ficers, and their civilian leaders, to openly de-bate regional defence trends and tensions.

The summit comes amid other significant strategic shifts in the region, particularly the recent election of tough-talking Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and the recent lifting of the U.S. arms embargo on former enemy Vietnam.

The agenda also includes the rising tensions surrounding North Korea, which conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and followed

that with a satellite launch and test launches of various missiles, which brought new sanc-tions. The isolated country attempted to fire a missile from its east coast this week but the launch appears to have failed.

Other topics of discussion include the threat of radical militants in Southeast Asia, as well as cyber-security, which has become a hot topic after major bank heists from Ban-gladesh to Ecuador.

“Only a meeting of minds can solve or miti-gate these challenges and as host, we will make sure that leaders get full opportunities to engage each other,” Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said on his Facebook page. (rtr)

South China Sea set to dominate Singapore security summit

SINGAPORE - Roiling tensions in the South China Sea are set to dominate Asia’s biggest security sum-mit starting in Singapore on Friday, exposing a deepening rivalry between the United States and China ahead of a landmark legal ruling in the Hague.

Chinese teen hides in hold for nine-hour flight to Dubai

A Chinese teenager hid in the cargo hold of an Emir-ates airliner enduring a nine-hour flight from Shanghai to Dubai.AFP Photo/Karim Sahib

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A member of the Special Operations Command patrols outside the venue of the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore May 29, 2015.

“In addition, there have been no clear rules. The farmland conversion also occurred because the govern-ment is inconsistent. For example, there is prohibition to build in green belt, but in fact there are many buildings standing in the area,” said Sujastra, Wednesday (Jun. 1).

Besides, the government offi-cials are also looking for additional income in the issuance of building permit (IMB). “The building permit is often coupled with extortion, maybe they want to earn extra in-come. The land that should be built 30 percent, but in fact the entire area is filled with buildings. This widely occurs in South Kuta,” he said.

On that account, he hoped the program of the government of Badung to protect the agricultural sector is not only in the level of discourse without any real action. It also includes in the making of data collection on the land conversion occurred in the field.

“Necessarily they involve peka-seh or the chief of subak in making the data collection on farmland con-version happening, so that the data are valid. When they come down to the field, we never know,” he said while adding that he was once in-volved in the meeting to overcome

agricultural problems in Badung. “Many promises are delivered in the meeting, but only a few can be realized,” he said.

Similar opinion was said by Sec-retary of the HKTI Badung, Ketut Sugiana, where the local govern-ment did not attempt optimally to suppress the farmland conversion. Moreover, there is an impression if the government does omission, so that it kindles the emergence of other violations. For example, the area of Darmasaba village belonging to green belt has now almost run out.

“In the past, there were two build-ings. Since there is an impression of omission, now more and more build-ings are established. People will see if the buildings seem to be allowed, why I do not do it as well. Such thing happens,” he said.

Sugiana highlighted that similar cases do not only occur at Darma-saba, but almost evenly occur in other places in Badung. “I think it requires the firmness of the gov-ernment. When this happens, does the government dare to enforce the rules?” he asked.

This man from Abiansemal asked the government to be deci-sive. Never tolerate any small viola-tion. If a violation is allowed it will

result in a bad precedent, and trigger similar violations in the future. He suggested the government to take a normative approach, one of which is by discussion with the relevant agencies.

“It is meant to read the existing condition in the green belt. After that, look for the best solution to-gether. By that way, there will be a real effort taken by the govern-ment,” he said.

In the meantime, the Division Head of Facilities and Infrastruc-ture at the Badung Agriculture and Forestry Agency, Ni Luh Wayan Suparmi, admitted that farmland conversion happened due to con-struction of hotel accommodation. On average, the farmland conver-sion in Badung within the past five years reached 45 hectares per year. “Occurrence of the farmland con-version is fluctuating,” he said.

Other than land conversion from paddy fields to non-paddy fields, she said there is also the addition of paddy fields followed by the availability of irrigation facilities, so that it shows the development of paddy field area. “With the addition, the agricultural land in Badung until 2015 reaches 10,006 hectares,” she concluded.

As is known, the area of farm-land in Badung in 2011 reached 10,243 hectares and then decreased to 10,195 hectares in 2012. Similar depreciation also occurred in 2013, amounting to 51 hectares. Thus, the remaining land area reaches 10,144 hectares, while in 2014 remained 9,984 hectares. (kmb27)

SEMARAPURA - In the mooring trial at Gunaksa crossing harbor, the Nusa Jaya Abadi vessel or Roro vessel could maneuver in and out of the mooring area smoothly, Wednesday (Jun. 1) at 13:30. However, a small incident occurred to the ramp door when the Roro vessel was trying to enter the mooring area.

Due to quite big waves in the mooring area, the vessel was rock-ing and hitting harbor fender for several times. As a result, the Roro vessel failed to perform mooring trial as it was unable to lower the ramp door.

Harbor master of Nusa Penida, I Gede Putrawan, who is also the Chief of UPP Nusa Penida, revealed that the mooring trial of Roro ves-sel at the Gunaksa harbor did not go smoothly. It happened because the ramp door could not be lowered as the waves rocked the Roro vessel blindly. Gede Putrawan stated the mooring trial should be done until the ramp door could be lowered. After the vessel attached the front and rear mooring lines to the harbor bollard, the vessel hit the fender for several times when it was in the mooring area for 30 minutes. This condition made the Roro vessel impossible to lower its ramp door.

Captain of the Roro vessel, Abdul Manan, said that he could not open the ramp door because the waves were rocking the vessel. On the other hand, the entrance of vessel is narrower than that of Nusa Penida entrance. Besides, position of the entrance does not protect when the vessel docks. “It is very risky for the safety of the vessel when going in and out. It is proved in the trial where the ramp door cannot be lowered,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head of the Klungkung Transportation and Infocom Agency explained that despite disturbing waves, the moor-ing could have been done. Such disturbance is a commonplace in the harbor when docking. Although the Roro vessel could enter and exit the mooring area smoothly, he recognized that it needs a number of improvements, like there is no bollard on the western side of the harbor to attach mooring ropes.

Similar thing was also delivered by the Head of the Bali Trans-portation and Infocom Agency, I Ketut Artika. He said that the vessel wandered blindly due to the waves in the mooring area. Related to the results of the trial on Wednesday, he said that it needs an assessment from the analysis team. So far, the Roro vessel has successfully gone in and out of the Gunaksa crossing harbor.

At the mooring trial, it is the first time for the vessel to enter the mooring area of the harbor having worked on for eight years since 2008. For information, construction work of the Gunaksa crossing harbor project in the eighth stage was conducted in 2015. It was financed by state budget amounting to IDR 40.11 billion and during the period of 2008-2014 it has been disbursed the budget worth IDR 118.3 billion. (dwa)

Roro vessel rocks, mooring trial fails to lower ramp door

Govt inconsistent to repress farmland conversion

MANGUPURA - Farmland conversion occurred in Badung draws the attention of many parties. It is without exception for the former Chairman of the Indonesian Farmers Associa-tion (HKTI) of Badung, I Nyoman Sujastra. According to him, hectares of farmland conversion from paddy fields to tourist accommodation and housing are inseparable from the attitude of the government that does not consistently maintain the farmland.

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Farmland conversion occurred in Badung draws the attention of many parties.

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Due to quite big waves in the mooring area, the vessel was rocking and hitting harbor fender for several times. As a result, the Roro vessel failed to perform mooring trial as it was unable to lower the ramp door.

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BLENHEIM - It was pouring buckets when editors, clients and the odd celebrity boarded the Dior Blenheim Express (as the train was branded for the occasion) at the Victoria Station in London Tuesday after-noon. The destination: Blenheim Palace, a sprawling estate that still serves as the home of the Dukes of Marlborough, where Dior would later showcase its cruise 2017 collection. It was a homecoming of sorts for the brand — still without a formal creative director since Raf Simons departed in Octo-ber — as both Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent had hosted charity shows there 62 and 58 years ago, respectively.

Guests — including an immaculately dressed and coiffed Kate Beckinsale, Kate Mara, Elizabeth Olsen and Emma Roberts — were treated to a three-course wine-and-champagne lunch once aboard, and the ex-citement was palpable, with British Fashion Council Chairman Natalie Massenet raising a glass and cheering, “J’adore Dior!” to the cabin as London’s ordered streets gave way to mustard-covered (and rain-sodden) fields. (IBP/net)

Dior returns to Blenheim Palace for Cruise 2007 Show

The Head of the Bali Environ-mental Agency, Gede Suarjana, explained that condition of Lake Batur is getting worse within the past few years. Currently, the condition is even considered to be very critical. It is indicated by the decline in water quality due to uncontrolled use of pesticides on agricultural land and non-maximal management of the waste produced by the community. In addition, sedimentation of this largest lake in Bali has also been exaggerated leading to silting.

“Condition of Lake Batur is now very critical. BOD and COD of the water have decreased. Environmen-tal damage has already occurred,” he

said recently.The population of water hyacinth

resulting in the increase of water acidity rate also denotes a serious problem at the Lake Batur.

Responding to the existing prob-lems, he said that provincial govern-ment has brought in an expert from Japan to study about the conditions and will be looked for solutions for the handling without harming the germplasm therein. “The expert has come down to see the condition of the lake. This August, the results may have been issued,” said Suarjana.

He added that a number of issues have already been sent to central government because the lake be-

longs to the national strategic area. Automatically, provincial govern-ment will have a small authority in the handling. He hoped the lake utili-zation can be made a zoning. “Where is fishing zone, buffer zone and core zone must be determined. Otherwise, the arrangement of the lake cannot be done well,” he affirmed.

Apart from a number of things to be done, preservation of Lake Batur, said Suarjana, should become a shared responsibility. It may not be delegated to the Environment Agen-cy only. “This kind of issue should be dealt by interagency,” he said.

He added that lately many buildings are established along the lakeside both of the residential and tourist accommo-dation violating the spatial regulation. This issue needs to get serious attention from the local government. “Regional bylaw on spatial plan has been avail-able and it should be enforced. Do not even allow the violation,” concluded Suarjana. (kmb45)

MANGUPURA - People living in the area of Kerobokan complain about the sidewalk project belonging to the Ba-dung Highways and Irrigation Agency. The project located on Jalan Raya Kerobokan, North Kuta subdistrict, results in congestion because of the slow workmanship.

Besides, the accumulating precast concrete and some holes of the ex-excavated area are only covered with sand so that it is highlighted by local community. “A number of cables are still seen to be ne-glected. Surely it is harmful to passing residents,” complained Wayan Rah, Wednesday (Jun. 1).

He admitted to be disap-pointed with the sidewalk proj-ect taking a long time. Particu-larly at certain hours, the area connecting the road section to Kuta, Canggu and Dalung is experiencing congestion.

“It is very much deplored as the arrangement of sidewalk causes crowdedness. Well ... it does not matter if the workman-ship does not last for three to four days. However, in reality

the sidewalk arrangement has not been worked on for over a week. Thus, it looks increas-ingly chaotic,” he said.

According to him, the gov-ernment should work on the project evenly and not work on the project by halves.

In the meantime, the Divi-sion Head of Roads and Bridg-es at the Badung Highways and Irrigation Agency, Sang Nyoman Oka Permana, did not deny the people’s complaints. He also confirmed that the sidewalk project worth IDR 10 billion is owned by the Badung district.

When asked about the slow workmanship of the project, Oka Permana said that cur-rently the project is being focused on completion in the area of Kerobokan cemetery. It is based on consideration that local community will soon hold a grandiose ceremony at that location. “We give pri-ority to work in the area of Kerobokan cemetery because people will immediately hold a mass cremation. So, please be understood by the public,” he concluded. (kmb27)

As causing congestion, Kerobokan residents complain

about sidewalk project

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The project located on Jalan Raya Kerobokan, North Kuta subdistrict, results in congestion because of the slow workmanship.

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Condition of Lake Batur has been classified to be very critical. It is characterized by the pres-ence of a number of issues ranging from declining water quality, sedimentation to environmental destruction.

To rescue Lake Batur,Central govt needs to

decide utilization zoningBANGLI - Condition of Lake Batur has been classified to be

very critical. It is characterized by the presence of a number of issues ranging from declining water quality, sedimentation to environmental destruction. To prevent from getting worse, the handling should be done by interagency, not only relying on one government agency. Specifically for reducing water pollution, it is necessary to establish the lake utilization zoning.

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COVER STORYUdiyana added that the class

distinction certainly brings in a consequence for Bali. Moreover, in Java, the local government provides tolerance to overload up to 25 per-cent. Actually without the tolerance, the vehicles remain to overload when entering the Island of the Gods.

He continued that the committee will immediately consult to Direc-tor General of Regional Autonomy related to this distinction. Actually there are currently several options emerging although they are still premature or require further as-sessment. The first option, if indeed the road in Bali belongs to class 2, it needs to be made a loading and unloading system when the overloaded vehicles arrive at Gili-

manuk. “Maybe there are trucks alerted at Gilimanuk and then their loading and unloading process is in accordance with the allowed tonnage for road class 2 in Bali,” he explained.

However, Udiyana added that this option can bring in other con-sequences like the price increases because there is loading and un-loading process. Another premature option is upgrading the road class into class 1 as in Java. Not much different from the first option, it also results in consequence of land acquisition to widen the road. In essence, his agency underlined that the selected option may not be burdensome to the community.

A member of the LLAJ special committee, I Wayan Adnyana, said that vehicle tonnage should be rig-orously supervised to ensure that the government budgets will not

be spent for road repair whether at weighbridge or the raids by the officers on the street. “If they pass the weighbridge, there should be operations on the streets. If there is a freight tolerance, it will become non-sense, too,” he said.

Previously, the Head of the Bali Transportation and Infocom Agency, Ketut Artika, admitted that the agency still tolerates freight excess up to 25 percent. Actually, when violating five percent of the provision they should have been ticketed. “If they indeed transport with the excess of 25 percent, we take them back to the original journey. To be acknowledged, our road in Bali has different class from the road in Java. The road in Java belongs to class 1 but ours in Bali belongs to class 2. Automatically the carrying capacity of the road is different,” he reasoned. (kmb32)

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dENPASAR - Finalization of the regional bylaw draft (Ranperda) about the age limit of vehicles carried out by road traffic and trans-portation (dLLAJ) special committee at the denpasar House of Representatives reaped a lot of complaints in the community. One of the materials in the draft is that the government of Bali will restrict the age of vehicle up to 25 years.

Vehicle age restriction is considered premature to be implemented in Bali. It is based on consideration that many people are still use vehicles with age far above it.

It was confirmed by one of the residents of Denpasar, I Made Kondra, Wednesday (Jun. 1). Kondra assessed that vehicle age restrictions in Bali is not feasible because a number of transport issues are still unresolved yet. For example, public transport does not reach all the areas, so that it requires people to use private vehicle. In the meantime, due to inadequate revenue, it is not possible for people to buy a new vehicle.

“This condition must be understood by policy makers. Bali is different from Singapore where all the citizens have been already prosperous. In Bali, many people have income less than IDR 5 million per month,” said this resident of Tanjung Bungkak.

He expected the government to provide first public transport facilities and infrastructures. When all the regions are served by public transport, people do not need to use private vehicle. “If old cars are suspected to cause traffic jam, it does not make sense. The old cars are very rarely taken out and at least they are just used for the occasion with family. Traffic jam is caused by new cars,” he said.

Kondra who is also a tourism player assessed that tourist transport is still possible to apply the age restriction because it concerns the comfort of travelers and so is the public transport. “Private vehicles are only used for family needs, why they should be limited. Besides, they rarely come out,” he said.

Similar statement was also expressed by a member of Commission I of the Denpasar House Representatives, I Made Sukarmana. He considered it is not the right time for the application of vehicle age restriction in Bali. Many Balinese people still have low income. So, it should not be equated to other developed regions. (kmb12)

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A truck is stuck on the road due to the over capacity of its cargo.

As for vehicle age restriction

Not feasible yet to be implemented in Bali

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The traffic jam which often happen in Denpasar make the government is trying to find solution for it, one of them is limited the age of vehicles in the city.

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Tourist boat cruises are cancelled and several roads in and around the capital are under water, further dis-rupting travel on top of train strikes this week. Days of heavy rains have caused exceptional delays to the French Open tennis tournament in Paris and may force it into a third week.

The rains that have fallen across

Western Europe this week have al-ready killed five people, including an 86-year-old woman who died in her flooded home in Souppes-sur-Loing southeast of Paris, the French government said in a statement.

In Germany, four people have been confirmed killed in the flood-ing, which swept through the towns of Simbach am Inn and Triftern near

the Austrian border. Others have been reported missing.

The southern German state of Bavaria, which has been badly hit by the rains, has promised quick financial help to residents in areas near the Austrian border hit by flooding this week.

According to comments carried by the dpa news agency, Bavar-ia’s governor, Horst Seehofer, has pledged “quick and unbureaucratic help,” and that his state “won’t aban-don those affected, some of whom have lost their whole homes.”

The waters in Bavaria have receded, and disaster relief crews

were on the scene helping to clear the wreckage, while helping to prepare for more possible flood-ing. However, the respite may be short-lived as there are warnings of more storms.

In France, authorities say that ar-eas along the Loing River, a tributary of the Seine, had seen waters rise to levels unseen since 1910, when a massive flood swamped the French capital. For the second day, emer-gency workers evacuated residents of the town of Nemours, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Paris, the hardest hit site in France.

In the southern Paris suburb of

Longjumeau, fire fighters drove in a Land Rover through flooded streets, telling trapped residents to wait for help. On the town’s main street, Avenue Francois Mitterrand, shops were closed and shopkeepers tried to sweep water out of their shops.

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LONDON - From Darth Vader’s melted helmet to Rey’s lightsaber hilt, “Star Wars” fans can now get their hands on replicas of the props used in the sci-fi franchise’s last movie.

Disney and Lucasfilm have launched the line of made-to-order precisely detailed items seen in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, created by the Propshop team that helped design and make the props for the film at Britain’s Pinewood Studios.

“We’re based in Pinewood Stu-

dios where ‘Star Wars’ is actually filmed and we’ve created for the first time a pipeline to be able to manufacture these products and make them available to the con-sumer,” Propshop director James Enright told Reuters.

“They’re unique because they actually come from the studio it-self...They’re made by artists and film technicians who do this every day, who are very passionate about what they do.”

To ensure the items accurately match the props seen in the film,

Propshop uses digital data collected during the making of the movie and combines it with 3D printing technology.

Once the item is built, the final bits of paint are added and rub-bing down is done to complete the replica.

“Star Wars Collectibles: Ulti-mate Studio Edition” features eight prop replicas, also including Finn’s bloodied Stormtrooper helmet and Chewbacca’s bowcaster, with prices ranging from $1,250 to $3,500. (rtr)

JOHANNESBURG - Action movie star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a real-life adventure in Africa when he was on a safari vehicle that was charged by an elephant.

“Some of us had to change our pants,” he said on his Twitter feed after he posted a 30-second video of the brief encounter.

The elephant appeared in front of the vehicle and then walked off the road, circled the truck and then charged it from behind, ears flapping, as the vehicle picked up speed and pulled away.

The driver can be heard saying: “I think he’s ok now, he’s going to avoid us”, seconds before the charge.

Schwarzenegger did not identify the reserve where the charge took place.

Game drives and safaris are a major tourist attraction in several African countries, including South Africa, where Schwarzenegger had been for a sports festival at the weekend. In some parts of the continent, elephants are being relentlessly poached for their ivory to meet Asian demand for the com-modity.

Schwarzenegger tweeted: “I’m absolutely in awe of these beautiful animals, and I wish people would stop killing them for their ivory.” (rtr)

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DENPASAR - The draft of regional bylaw (Ranperda) on the Implementation of Traffic and Transportation (LLAJ) does not only regulate the vehicle age restrictions, but

also discusses about the weigh-bridge. Moreover, currently a

lot of findings on violations of vehicle tonnage are found due to omission by weighbridge officers. However, this problem in fact does not emerge because of the officers only. But there are dif-ferent road classes between Java, Bali and West Nusa Tenggara.

“Transportation of freight is crossing the prov-ince, namely Java, Bali and NTB. Distribution eastward passes through Bali and as we know the road in Bali belongs to class 2 while in Java class 1,” said Chairman of the LLAJ Bali Special Com-mittee at the Bali House of Representatives, Ida Bagus Gede Udiyana, in the room of Commission III of the Bali House of Representatives.

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Western Europe toils under flooding that’s killed 5 people

Different road class of Java and Bali

The cause of tonnage violation

PARIS — Floods inundating parts of France, Germany and Belgium have killed five people and trapped thousands in homes or cars, as rivers have broken their banks from Paris to Bavaria. And it isn’t over — more rain is forecast for the coming days in some regions, and authorities in the French capital predict the Seine River won’t reach its peak until Friday.

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French police stop to look at flooding on the banks of the Seine River near the Eiffel Tower after days of heavy rainfall in Paris, France, June 2, 2016.