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Agence France-Presse

TORONTO - Jake Gyllenhaal becomes a blood-thirsty crime pho-tographer who rushes to scenes of gruesome murders, home invasions and robberies in order to sell the footage to local television stations in “Nightcrawler.”

The American actor who shot to fame in Ang Lee’s epic film “Broke-back Mountain,” about two men in love, and reaffirmed his acting chops in last year’s “Prisoners” is back at the Toronto International Film Festival this year to promote Dan Gilroy’s directorial debut, appearing leaner and meaner.

He plays Lou Bloom, a loner and petty thief who trolls the Los Angeles night before happening upon so-called nightcrawlers in action.

He buys himself a cheap video camera and a police radio scanner and joins in, going head-to-head with seasoned professionals such as Joe Loder (Bill Paxton).

He thrives in this new line of work, with some help from televi-sion producer Nina, played by Rene Russo (“The Thomas Crown Affair,” “Thor”).

If a crime scene doesn’t quite tell the story Nina wants, he moves bodies around to enhance the photo.

Screenwriter-turned-director Dan Gilroy (“Freejack,” “The Bourne Legacy”) received a warm reception

from the audience at the world premiere of his film.

“I didn’t know when I wrote the script that I would direct it later,” he told the audience.

But after working for a long time in the film industry, he added, “I thought I was ready for that.” In the end, “We all made the film we wanted to make -- something rare and special,” he said.

The film’s com-pletely twisted pro-tagonist does not ap-pear to have a past, a family or even friends. He is chatty and does not like to be contradicted.

“He is a chilling metaphor for film-makers,” said Toron-to film festival artis-tic director Cameron Bailey.

Commenting on the role, Gyllenhaal said he used to cross paths with coyotes growing up in Los Angeles.

“Lou is like the coy-otes in the streets. Los Angeles at night, the wilderness begins, all the animals come out,” he said.

The comedian detailed in her 2012 book “I Hate Everyone ... Starting With Me” that she hoped for “a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action” and “Hollywood all the way.” Instead of a rabbi talking, Rivers asked for “Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents” and “a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyonce’s.”

The actual event Sunday may be slightly more muted. Funeral services at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan will be private and neither the temple nor Rivers’ personal publicist would give further details or divulge a guest list. It was not even known what time the funeral would start. But cameras and a media presence was very likely.

Rivers, who died Thursday at 81, was a trailblazer for all comics, but

especially for women. The raspy-voiced blonde with the brash New York accent was a TV talk show host, actress, a fashion critic, and she sold a line of jewelry.

The cause of death was being investigated. Rivers had been hospitalized since Aug. 28 when she went into cardiac arrest during a routine procedure at a doctor’s office. The New York state health department is investigating the circumstances.

In her book, Rivers joked that dying of natu-ral causes was boring. “It’s the grand finale, act three, the eleven o’clock number — make it count. If you’re going to die, die interesting! Is there anything worse than a boring death? I think not.”

Her publicist said that in lieu of flowers, dona-tions can be made to God’s Love, We Deliver; Guide Dogs for the Blind; or Our House.

Joan Rivers funeral set for Sunday

AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Joan Rivers’ plans for an elaborate, over-the-top funeral may not be exactly what she will get, but it may be close.

Gyllenhaal chases crime shots in ‘Nightcrawler’

Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Scholars (ICPI) of Bali Chapter, I Putu Anom, argued that the government and stakeholders should create a new breakthrough by educating farmers not only on how to grow crops, but also how to educate them to be entrepreneurs. On that account, this sector could be improved and demanded again by the public.

“It’s time to educate farmers in order they can become agricul-tural entrepreneur whose products are ready to compete in terms of quantity and quality. As a result, more and more people will pursue the agricultural sector,” said Putu Anom.

According to him, this time farmers are learning how to produce a quality product to meet the market

demand, particularly in the tourism sector. However, they do not have the ability to manage the abundant post-harvest product.

“Indeed the government needs to make regulation to require tourism industry in Bali so that it serves local fruits and teaches them how to market their products. As a re-sult, the price of products will not slump freely when the harvest is

abundant,” he explained.He said that central and local

government should continue to work with universities to conduct a research and assessment on local products. The effort was made to improve the quantity and quality of local products, so that they could compete in international market. “The government should keep an eye on the products imported and local product in order to still comply with the quality standard, product validity, licensing, health standard and others,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Panusunan Siregar, explained that based on the results of the Ag-ricultural Census 2013, the average income of each farming household

sourcing from the agricultural sector in Bali amounted to IDR 11.97 million each year or about IDR 997,420 per month. From the income, in terms of the agricultural sector, the largest average income sourced from livestock namely at IDR 3.60 million each year or about 30.04 percent. Then, it was followed by plantation business at IDR 2.54 million (21.26 percent), rice crop at IDR 2.32 million (19.41 percent), horticulture at IDR 2.03 million (16.99 percent), marine fishing at IDR 409,000 (3.42 percent), crops at IDR 315,000 (2.63 percent), forestry crops at IDR 291,000 (2.43 percent), marine fish cultivation at IDR 151,000 (1.26 percent) and fish cultivation in ponds or freshwater at IDR 133,000. (kmb27)

Bali agriculture slumps

Farmers must be educated to be entrepreneurBali Post

DENPASAR - Rapid land conversion in Bali has adverse impact on the sustainability of the agricultural sector. Unsurprisingly the sector absorbing much labor turns obsolete. Such dark portrait was seen in the Agricultural Census 2013 where the number of farming household in Bali last year reached 408,233, a decline of 17.09 percent or with the average reduction of 1.70 percent per year since 2003 that was originally recorded to reach 492,394 households. Not only that, of the 404,507 farming households that were formerly cultivating their land in Bali Province, a total of 63.58 percent or 257,181 farming households were categorized into smallholder.

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Rapid land conversion in Bali has adverse impact on the sustainability of the agricultural sector. The government and stakeholders should create a new breakthrough by educating farmers not only on how to grow crops, but also how to educate them to be entrepreneurs.

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014

9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap BesakihPura Dangkahyangan TabananPura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem

13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku BangliPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal MengwiPura Taman Limut Mas Ubud

14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri 19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang BangliPura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan BulelengPura Gunung Pengsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Tengah TegalalangPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan TabananPira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan DenpasarPura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala BesakihPura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Batu Sari UbudPura Penataran Dalem Guliang BangliPura Pasek Dangka Guwang SukawatiPura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem

20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak SiringPura Rambut Siwi JembranaPura Batu Bolong Canggu KutaPura Pasek Marga Klaci TabananPura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru NegaraPura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan BulelengPira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede TabananPura Desa Banyuning BulelengPura Srijong TabananPura Pucak Mundi Nusa PenidaPura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod GianyarPura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud

21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng

3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan BangliPura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba TabananPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah BulelengPura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang

9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTBPura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu KarangasemPura Padharman Arya Telabah BesakihPura Bukit Mentik Batur KintamaniPura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar

10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaBhatara Ratu Gede Celuk GianyarPura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Sesetan DenpasarBhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klung-kungPura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya

17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Cemenggaon GianyarPura Penataran Ped Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa AbiansemalPura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah BulelengPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa PenidaPura Jati Ubud GianyarPura Melanting Ubud GianyarPura Dalem Ped Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Karangasem

19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri 23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

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In Bali, at least in 2014, there were 17 cases of corruption coming into the Corruption Court of Den-pasar. Meanwhile, in 2013, there were 25 cases of corruption in Bali coming into the Corruption Court. Responding to such condition, it was considered important to give emphasis on younger generation to habituate the anti-corruption, hating corruption and having the sense of shame because after committing corruption, it will not only give moral burden to the corrupters. But the family especially those remain-ing to belong to the perpetrator’s family will also bear a disgrace and even it becomes a social sanc-tion in the community. Those who have been corrupting have labeled as corrupter.

Afterwards, the question aris-ing is that has the ‘culture’ of shame and or the ‘culture’ of anti-corruption already been extinct in our society? What about the hopes to younger generation? And how is the response to law enforcement of-ficers to combat the corruption?

One of the legal practitioners, Maya Arsanti, has a lot of views when talking about the matter of corruption as well as the prevention. The graduate of the law department said that it was very important to implement the education on corrup-tion in the family. Even, it was also needed to be provided at schools to enlighten the teens if corruption was very embarrassing. Then, she argued that before becoming an im-portant person or any other official,

the national generation should be educated with moral education to form the mental of the nation.

“We need a counseling or edu-cation that corruption is not com-mendable because it has something to do with moral,” said the woman who is active in a legal organiza-tion.

On that account, in addition to giving emphasis on the culture of shame, the prevention of corruption could also be made by providing religious teachings, Pancasila moral education, and character building. “From that point, they must also be provided with the attitude of anti-corruption,” she explained.

In the future, the government was expected to always supervise those who were entrusted for the tasks of

governing the country. Another task of the government was to make the society of Indonesia prosperous, so that all the need aspects could be fulfilled in the community, such as free education, free healthcare, flats and the others.

Meanwhile, the media such as television should not only air a series of advertising, but also air the laws regarding the cause and effect of their actions. She pointed out that people should understand about the law. If they had known the risks of the law, people should do their best to avoid any things that could go up against the laws. On that account, she said that any transactions related to ex-penditure and revenue could be made online so as to facilitate the supervision.

Another legal practitioner, Ha-soloan Sianturi, had not much dif-ferent opinion from that of Maya Arsanti. The key was honesty. According to the man doubling as one of the judges in the Denpasar Corruption Court, corruption had actually appeared in the smallest environment or at home. “For ex-

ample, when we are given money as much as IDR 10,000, spent at IDR 8,000, the remaining IDR 2,000 was not returned. Yeah, it is also called corruption,” said the man of Batak descent. Sianturi added that to prevent the ‘culture’ of corruption could be made through education from an early age. “One of them is by instilling honesty,” he explained.

On that account, he hoped that the corruption with bad connotation should be avoided by society and authorities. One of the measures that could be performed, in ad-dition to honesty, was living the life orderly, timely and must act in accordance with the prevailing norms. “Do not reduce the authority given,” he said.

Responding to corruption in Bali that so far had reached 17 cas-es, Hasoloan Sianturi argued that they indicated if the investigators, both the prosecutors and police, had been getting better. However, it was necessary to upgrade the insight and human resources in order to control, so there would be no deviation. (asa)

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Forest fires on Mendee Hill, Tejakula subdistrict, Buleleng, were alleged to have frequently happened and the surrounding communities have been ready to anticipate the fires in the hill areas. It was revealed by the head of Tejakula subdistrict, Nyoman Widiartha, when met by Bali Post, Saturday (Sep 6). He admitted the fire frequently happened in the forest located on the steep and dry land condition, especially when entering dry season. However, from a series of fires, his party remained to supervise and monitor so that people would not become the victims of the forest fires.

“We continue to monitor the fire situation and hope there will be govern-ment assistance to extinguish the fire. The forest fire has often occurred due to drought in the forest of Mendee Hill. Even, the forest fire regularly happens almost every year,” he said.

He explained that the efforts to extinguish the fire would continue to be done if the fire condition began to

spread closer to residential areas. Loca-tion of the fire was quite challenging and the land condition was filled with dry weeds and plants. “Since the forest fire frequently happens, the community has made an effort through anticipation and alertness. When the fire approaches human settlement, precisely in particular radius, without direct command people will attempt to extinguish the fire,” he explained.

Location of the forest fires in the region of Mendee Hill, expected Wid-iartha, could get the attention of the Bali Forestry Agency because the forest areas needed reforestation and the cultivation of plants according to the type of local environment. To that end, the residents in the vicinity would stay comfortably without the fear of fire.

In the meantime, the hot spots began to spread to Bangli County. “From the information obtained, the hot spots originally originated from Mendee Hill, and now I see the fire heading for the south towards Bangli,” said Widiartha. (kmb34)

Decline in the ‘culture’ of anti-corruption

Moral degradation, weak monitoring systemBali Post

DENPASAR - In the first week of September 2014, the public was shocked by the determina-tion of Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jero Wacik, as the suspect on the allegation of corruption and blackmail. As stated by the Commission of Corruption Eradication (KPK), the modus committed was possibly by ordering his subordinates to raise additional funds to be used as imaging and his own interests. Definitely, many parties stunned on hearing the deter-mination of the minister of the ‘wet’ department originating from yeh Mampeh, Batur village, Kintamani. Many people did not believe it because he diligently came home.

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

A fire happen in the forest of Tejakula subdistrict, Buleleng.

Dry land condition, people accustomed to alerting fires

314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTraveling Monday, September 8, 2014Monday, September 8, 2014

Michelin-starred chefs have come to the restaurant for tutelage in the art of traditional wok cooking over intensely hot charcoal braziers. Bangkok’s well-heeled park their luxury cars outside, which is a good clue for first-timers who have trou-ble finding the small eatery since it lacks an English-language sign.

The owner presides over two flaming street-side woks and is revered by regulars for her rendi-tions of ordinary Thai dishes. She is known and celebrated for her pad kee mao, or “drunken noodles,” a steaming plate of chewy, seared rice noodles with crunchy hearts of coconut palm, hulking fresh shrimp and just the right amount of throat-warming spice. To eat it once is to be haunted by it and need to return.

Other favorites are Jay Fai’s rad na, an unspicy cousin of pad kee mao, and her $25 crab omelet — which is packed with half a kilogram (1 pound) of fresh crab chunks and wrapped in a delicate

egg binding.The prices defy the belief that all

street food is cheap. Noodle dishes at Raan Jay Fai (raan simply means restaurant) cost about $12 a plate, compared to roughly a dollar at most roadside venues. But devotees will tell you to eat at Jay Fai first, and judge later.

For a cheaper option, Jay Fai’s neighbor down the street is Thip Samai, a noodle joint touted to have the best pad thai in Bangkok.

Whether that’s true or not, there’s no dispute about its popularity. A line forms outside at 5 p.m., when it opens, as a station of cooks churn out huge wok-loads of pad thai from a sidewalk kitchen.

Thip Samai’s menu consists of eight types of pad thai. The tradi-tional version costs 50 baht ($1.50). A variety called “superb pad thai,” which has a reddish color from shrimp oil and comes wrapped in a thin egg omelet, is 80 baht ($2.50). For the carb-conscious there’s “pad thai without noodles,” with extra

shrimp and tofu, also for 80 baht.Thip Samai started as a food stall,

then moved indoors in 1966. Its wood-paneled walls are decorated with vintage posters and pictures of its now-deceased founder who used to cook the dish for the late Queen Mother of Thailand. The Queen Mother suggested that a fresh co-conut slush would pair nicely with the pad thai, the restaurant says. It’s a delicious combination, as is its trademark fresh orange juice, served with an extra-thick straw to suck up the pulp.

A note for finding Raan Jay Fai or Thip Samai: Take a taxi. They’re on a non-descript street in one of Bangkok’s old neighborhoods, where skyscrapers and subways don’t yet exist. Mahachai Road — or Thanon Mahachai in Thai — is near Chinatown and the Golden Mount, a Buddhist temple also known as Wat Saket. Neither is open for lunch or takes credit cards. It’s best to go for an early dinner to avoid lines.

“The significant increase puts China in the second place in the list of countries contributing the largest number of tourists to Bali, after Australia, which is at the top,” Panasunan Siregar, the head of the Bali Bureau of Statistic Center, said on Sunday.

The number of Chinese tourists in Bali has surpassed the number of those from Malaysia and Japan.

China contributed 15.80 per-cent of the total number of foreign tourists visiting Bali, which is 2.06 million in the first seven months of this years.

The total number of foreign tourists visiting Bali in the first seven months this year was also

up by 16.66 percent, reaching 2.08 million people from 1.79 million in the same period last year.

Bali, one of the world’s most famous tourist destinations, has set a target of attracting at least 3.5 mil-lion foreign tourists, or a 10 percent increase, in 2014 from last year’s target of 3.18 million.

The total number of foreign travelers who visited Bali in 2012 was around 2.89 million, or 96.4 percent of the target set.

In 2013, Bali exceeded its target of attracting 3.1 million foreign tourists, as the number of direct foreign tourist arrivals to the island reached 3,278,697, or up by 13.37 percent from last year’s figure.

In January-June period this year, the number of foreign visitors to Bali totaled 1,727,875, a hike of 15.73 percent from 1,493,020 in the same period last year.

Australia supplied the highest number, with 446,406 visitors, in the same period, followed by visi-tors from China reaching 264,840 and Malaysia 109,298.

The number of Russian holiday makers visiting Bali, however, has declined lately due to escalation of conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.

The number of Russians visiting Bali shrank 12 percent to 29,783 in the first half of this year from 45,216 in the same period in 2013.

Agence France-Presse

NAPLES - Nowhere does pizza quite like Naples, and the Italian city is determined to maintain its reputation as the spiritual home of one of the world’s favourite foods.

For the last week, the gritty southern port has been playing host to “Napoli Pizza Village” -- an extra-large celebration of the art of combining bread and tomato sauce with cheese and just about anything else that comes to hand into a plate-ful of calorific yumminess.

More than 50 pizza joints from the city and much further afield joined forces to create the world’s largest open-air “pizzeria” as chefs from all over the world congregated to swap notes and pass on tips along the seafront.

Some of them were also vying for the prestigious title of champion “pizzaiolo”, as the Italians refer to the cooks trusted with whisking the national dish in and out of fiery ovens.

Naples certainly didn’t invent the idea of bread with a savoury topping. Such dishes were common across the Middle East long before the late 19th Century, when Nea-politan baker Raffaele Esposito is credited with giving birth to what we now think of as pizza with his creation of the Margherita.

The celebrated mix of tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and basil was inspired by the red, white and green colours of the Italian flag.

“Raffaele created it in honour of Queen Margherita,” who was Italy’s queen from 1878-1900, local Lello Magnetti told AFP-TV.

“But pizza’s origins are much older. Let’s just say that they have even found Chinese roots for it!”

Organisers of this week’s festivities were anticipating feeding half a million people by the time the festivities wrapped up on Sunday.

“Through an event intended to defend a product, we have managed to promote a whole city and its region,” said Sergio Miccu, the chair of the organisation “Pizzaiuoli Napolitani”, which put on the show.

Among the chefs willing to put their pizza to the ultimate test of judgement by their peers was South Korean Joo Young, who had travelled from Seoul in search of fresh insight into his chosen profession.

“Real Neapolitan pizza is still not very well known in Korea, but, little by little, people are beginning to hear about it,” Joo told AFP as he showed off his creation of a pizza in the form of a bowler hat of the kind favoured by Toto, a famous comic actor often considered to have been Italy’s Charlie Chaplin.

Joo’s creation was not enough to win him the top prize, which went to 28-year-old local Valentino Libro di Quarto, who succeeds his compatriot Davide Civitiello and a long line of overseas winners of the “Caputo” trophy.

Among those dishing out lessons was 70-year-old Gennaro Cervone, a born-and-bred Neapolitan who put together his first pizza at the age of seven. Among those on the receiving end of his wisdom was Loredana, who told AFP-TV she had come in search of “the secrets of the pizzaoilo”.

To which Cervone’s reply is: “There are no secrets! Water, flour, yeast and salt: that is the secret!”

Not quite, it would seem. Seconds later this veteran of the ovens is whispering that “a little spoon of sugar in the dough -- that helps to bring out the colour during the cooking”.

Famous for producing a pizza with a base that is es-sentially well-proven bread -- as distinct from the crispy wafer-thin crust favoured up the coast in Rome -- Naples wants its signature dish included on the list of foodstuffs considered by the UN’s cultural arm UNESCO to form part of the heritage of humanity.

In its spiritual home, a celebration of all things pizza

AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

This Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 photo showsvPad Thai, cooking at Thip Samai restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand. Thip Samai’s menu consists of eight types of Pad Thai. The traditional version costs 50 baht ($1.50).

Famous noodles in BangkokAssociated Press

BANGKOK — With its fluorescent bulbs and cafeteria-style tables, the Bangkok restaurant Raan Jay Fai wouldn’t win any awards for interior decorating. But that hasn’t deterred Martha Stewart, one of the restaurant’s many fans. After a visit and memorable meal, the decor guru called the restaurant’s 70-year-old owner and sole chef — who is named Jay Fai — “the best cook in Thailand.”

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DENPASAR - Star-rated hotels in the Indonesian resort island of Bali witnessed an average 0.70 percent decline in their oc-cupancy rate to 61.40 percent in July 2014 from 62.10 percent a month earlier.

“The occupancy rate is quite good, as normally an occupancy rate of above 50 percent is sufficient to cover operating costs, including employees’ salaries,” head of the Central Statistics Agency office in Bali Province Panusunan Siregar stated on Saturday.

Bali received 361,066 interna-tional visitors in July 2014, up 21.21 percent from the same month last year or 9.28 percent from the previ-ous month, he said.

The international visitors mostly stayed at star-rated hotels, which are located in six of nine districts/

municipality in the province, he noted.

Panusunan said the highest room occupancy rate in July 2014 was recorded in Tabanan District at 83.20 percent, down 3.91 percent from 87.11 percent in the previous month.

This was followed by Gianyar District at 62.03 percent, up 6.47 percent from 55.56 percent the previous month.

Meanwhile, the room occupancy rate in Denpasar municipality in July 2014 was recorded at 61.08 percent, Badung 60.98 percent, Buleleng 60.56 percent.

The three districts of Jembrana, Bangli, and Klungkung have no star-rated hotels.

In total, Bali has 2,260 star-rated and non-star hotels with 56,971 rooms, according to the Indonesian Association of Hotels and Restau-rants of Bali chapter.

Star-rated hotels record 61.40 percent

occupancy rate

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Tourists watched sunset at Dreamland Beach, Bali Island, recently. Star-rated hotels in the Indonesian resort island of Bali witnessed an average 0.70 percent decline in their occu-pancy rate to 61.40 percent in July 2014 from 62.10 percent a month earlier.

Number of Chinese tourists up

IBP/File Photo

Chinese tourists bought Balinese local products at Sukawati Art Market, Gianyar Regency. The number of Chinese tourists visiting Bali Island reached 330,172 people, or an increase of 45.78 percent during January-July 2014, from 226,494 people in last year’s same period.

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DENPASAR - The number of Chinese tourists visiting Bali Island reached 330,172 people, or an increase of 45.78 percent during January-July 2014, from 226,494 people in last year’s same period.

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Ahmad Kamal, a spokesman for Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority, said at least 69 people have died in the eastern Punjab province since Thursday. He said another 48 people died in the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir and 11 died in northern Gilgit Bal-tistan province. Kamal said officials believe most were killed when the roofs of their homes collapsed. He said the deluge has injured 261 people across the country.

“We are dispatching tents and other relief items for those who have been affected because of rains and floods,” he said. He said the army was using helicopters and boats to evacuate people from affected areas and had set up nearly 50 re-lief camps to shelter them. Kamal said more than 4,000 homes across the country collapsed partially or completely, rendering thousands homeless. Homes in Pakistani vil-lages are often built with mud bricks and without concrete foundations, making them vulnerable to collapse under heavy rains.

In India, authorities put the death toll at 108 people, including some 30 people killed when a bus filled with a wedding party washed away in a flooded stream. Four passengers managed to swim away, but others remain unaccounted for, officials said. At least 300 federal rescue workers have joined thousands of state police and soldiers to rescue tens of thousands of people stranded across the region. “The government will leave no stone unturned to help the people in distress,” Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in a statement.

Dozens of bridges have been dam-aged or washed away, and authorities fear the death toll may rise in the region as more flooding and rain is forecast for the coming days.

State-run Pakistan television showed inundated villages, sub-merged roads and damaged homes across Pakistan and Kashmir. Paki-stan and India suffer widespread flooding during the annual monsoon season. In 2010, flash floods killed 1,700 people in Pakistan.

Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea — Detained American Matthew Miller will be tried next Sunday, North Korean state media said, less than a week after the detainee made a rare foreign media appearance to plead for help.

Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch Sunday that the Supreme Court decided to “judge” Miller on Sept. 14. It did not elaborate on specific charges against him, although past reports have accused him of hostile acts.

Miller, 24, was detained after entering the country April 10, when he tore up his tourist visa at the airport and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum, KCNA has reported.

In a brief interview with The Associated Press in Pyongyang last week, Miller and two other Americans held by North Korea, Jeffrey Fowle and Kenneth Bae, called for Washington to send a high-ranking U.S. representative to make a direct appeal for their freedom.

North Korea has often used detained Americans as bargaining chips with Washington in the past. Senior statesmen

including former President Bill Clinton have made trips to Pyongyang to secure the release of detainees.

Bae, a Korean-American missionary who is accused of plotting to overthrow Pyongyang regime, has been sentenced to a 15-year term. He said last week that his health has deteriorated at the labor camp where he works eight hours a day.

Fowle arrived in the country on April 29. He is suspected of leaving a Bible in a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin. Christian evangelism is consid-ered a crime in North Korea. Fowle lives in Miamisburg, Ohio, and has a wife and three children.

National Security Council spokesman Patrick Ventrell said White House has “closely” followed their cases and that it is doing all it can to win their “earliest possible release.”

The U.S. has repeatedly offered to send its envoy for North Korean human rights issues, Robert King, to Pyongyang to seek a pardon for Bae and other U.S. detainees, but without success. Washington has no diplomatic ties with North Korea and no embassy in Pyongyang. Instead, the Swed-ish Embassy takes responsibility for U.S. consular affairs.

Monsoon rains kill 128 in Pakistan, 108 in IndiaAssociated Press Writer

ISLAMABAD — Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods have killed 128 people in Pakistan and 108 people in India, officials said Saturday, as forecasters warned of more rain in the coming days and troops raced to evacuate people from deluged areas. The annual monsoon season has struck hard across the region, leav-ing people to wade through rushing water in towns and villages across Pakistan and in Indian-controlled areas of Kashmir, where authorities say they are seeing some of the worst flooding in decades.

AP Photo/Channi Anand

A man looks at the damaged bridge over the swelling Tawi River in Jammu, India, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. Heavy monsoon rains have caused flash floods and landslides that left more than 100 people dead in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir and in eastern Pakistan, officials said Friday.

Detained American in North Korea gets trial date

AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, FileFILE - In this Sept. 1, 2014 file photo, Jeffrey Fowle, an American detained in North Korea, speaks to the Associated Press, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Fishermen hav-ing boats at Fish Landing Base (PPI) of Sangsit have begun to lack of diesel supply over the past few days. This complaint was submitted by fishermen considering formerly they could usually buy ten drums of diesel containing 220 liters per drum, but lately they could only buy maximally five drums. Definitely, this condition will disrupt the deliv-ery and departure schedule of fish. As a result, many fish tend to rot.

At the PPI Sangsit, fishermen regularly send fish from Sapeken Island (Madura) to PPI Sangsit and vice versa. The economy hav-ing been running smoothly and supporting most fishermen so far faced the problem in the matter of diesel supply. Their fish tend to rot because fishermen can only send fish every three days instead of every two days by sea. “We complain about the restriction on the purchase of diesel. Our depar-ture schedule to send fresh fish is ultimately delayed, so that many fish are rotting. Being unable to send it immediately, many fish rot, reaching 30 percent of the fish catch in the high seas,” said Napang, 37, a fisherman at PPI Sangsit, Friday afternoon (Sep 5).

A number of fishing boats were forced to spend the night in order to get fuel before leaving. For once departure, fishermen required up to five drums of diesel. Due to limited

supply of diesel, fishermen should be patient for being unable to send fish immediately. “Yes, we must stay for one night, sir, because we cannot be back to send fish. We’ve

waited for diesel here for almost six hours, but it is not available. In normal condition, we can arrive last night around 24:00 local time for the voyage from the PPI Sangsit

06:00 a.m. to Sapeken Island. So, we have to wait for the diesel supply until it comes,” he said.

An officer of the SPDN Sangsit justified a number of complaints of fishermen regarding the restriction of diesel at Pertamina Depot at Mang-gis, Karangasem. As a result, the delivery was disrupted and fishermen were advised to tolerate. “Every two weeks, we are regularly sent eight tons of diesel fuel from Manggis. Now, almost more than two weeks, we have not received any delivery yet. This happens due to restriction at Pertamina Depot at Manggis, Karan-gasem,” said the officer asking not to publish the name.

Meanwhile, the Head of Bule-leng Cooperatives, Industry and Trade Agency, Ni Made Arnika, explained that Pertamina had nor-malized the fuel supply since a week ago, where one of them was by adding 5 to 10 percent of quota in Buleleng. “It is true that Pertamina has normalized the fuel supply in Buleleng. If the price will be increased, the condition is indeed like this (supply limited—Ed). Moreover, some time ago, local people were busy buying fuel in bulk. It also triggers crowdedness, but the condition has now returned to normal at every petrol station,” said Arnika. (kmb34)

At least there are 14 units of landscap-ing becoming the attention and authority for maintenance by Gianyar government through the Gianyar Sanitation and Land-scaping Agency (DKP). Of the dozens of landscaping spreading across some points, they have a total area of 213,060 square meters. For that purpose, the Sanitation and Landscaping Agency only has totally 77 workers divided into four groups.

Additionally, it still faces obstacles in the matter of restricted maintenance cost compared to the making of new landscap-ing program which can amount to billions of rupiahs. In terms of maintenance, the allocation of fund remains incorporated in the budget of the Sanitation and Landscap-ing Agency where it has the allocation of IDR 2 billion in 2014.

The Division Head of Sanitation and Landscaping Agency, DKP Gianyar, Dewa Ngakan Manuaba, did not dismiss such con-

dition. However, in terms of comparison of the total area of landscaping to the existing maintenance workers, it was still less compa-rable. Ideally, each group of the landscaping maintenance consisted of 50 workers.

Nevertheless, the existing workers were empowered so that the landscaping under the authority of the Sanitation and Land-scaping Agency could still be maintained so far. Similarly, in response to the budget constraint, the agency in this case should make adjustments to the existing funds.

In 2014, in addition to making a pond in the area of Ciung Wanara Park, the agency would also arrange the border at the entrance to Gianyar, install decorative light-ing at the Astina Square and plant sidewalk shade trees. “In addition to making minor maintenance, his party will also arrange the garden along the boulevard and paint of the sculptures in the garden,” he said. (kmb16)

Landscaping maintenance still lacks of labor and budget Bali Post

GIANYAR - The arrangement and maintenance for a number of landscaping units in Gianyar County stays sober. As the region of the art and culture becoming a tour-ist destination, the government still faces a number of obstacles in the maintenance of the aesthetic values along the Gianyar County. Some of them are related to labor and minimal maintenance costs for the landscaping.

IBP/gungdarThe landscaping officers in Gianyar are working to imporve the condition of the garden in the city

Fishermen send fish late due to lacking of diesel supply

IBP/Dewa KusumaThe boat is waiting for diesel fuel supply before moving

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — China’s Alibaba Group is seeking to raise up to $24.3 billion in its upcoming IPO — an amount that would be the most raised by a company in a stock market debut.

The e-commerce company and its early investors are hoping to sell up to 368 million shares for $60 to $66 apiece, according to a regula-tory filing late Friday that sets the stage for Alibaba Group Ltd. to make its long-awaited debut on the New York Stock Exchange later this month.

The documents didn’t spell out when trading would begin. The debut is likely to come somewhere from Sept. 18 through Sept. 26. The timing hinges on how many issues regulators raise with the IPO.

The company’s management will begin to travel around the world next week to meet with money man-agers and other investors interested in investing in Alibaba’s IPO. If in-terest increases, the IPO price could be higher than $66 per share.

Alibaba has emerged as a hot commodity because of its e-com-merce bazaar, a shopping magnet for businesses and consumers alike as China’s economy steadily grows. The company’s network of sites includes Taobao, Tmall, and AliEx-

press, as well as Alibaba.Most of Alibaba’s 279 million

active buyers visit the sites at least once a month on smartphones and other mobile devices, making the company attractive to investors as computing shifts away from laptop and desktop machines.

At $66 per share, Alibaba would debut with a market value of $163 bil-lion. That would be more than all but a handful of technology companies, a testament to Alibaba’s stunning growth since former schoolteacher Jack Ma started the company in his apartment 15 years ago.

Alibaba plans to sell 123 million of the shares, with the rest being offered by the company’s early investors, including Yahoo Inc., which is parting with some of its 22-percent stake.

The fundraising target eclipses the $16 billion Facebook raised in 2012, the most for a technology IPO. It also would top the all-time IPO fundraising record of $22.1 billion set by the Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. in 2010, according to the research firm Dealogic.

Even at $60 per share, Alibaba’s IPO would come close to matching the record set by the Agricultural Bank of China.

Still, it’s possible investors won’t like what they hear during Alibaba’s upcoming management presenta-

tions, dropping the IPO price.In its last fiscal year ending

March 31, Alibaba earned $3.7 bil-lion, making it more profitable than eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. combined. Amazon ended Friday

with a market value of about $160 billion while eBay’s market value stood at $67 billion.

Like China’s consumer and In-ternet market, Alibaba is still grow-ing rapidly. The company’s revenue

in its latest quarter ending in June surged 46 percent from last year to $2.54 billion while its earnings climbed 60 percent to nearly $1.2 billion, after subtracting a one-time gain and certain other items.

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On Wednesday, Abe gave key jobs -- including the justice minis-try and oversight of the embattled nuclear power sector -- to women, who now make up more than a quar-ter of the 18-strong cabinet.

“Creating a society where women can shine is a big challenge that the Abe cabinet is taking on,” said the conservative premier, who swept to power in late 2012 on a ticket to kickstart the lumbering economy.

The move followed growing calls for Japan to make better use of its highly-educated but underemployed

women as a rapidly ageing popula-tion strains the public purse.

Tokyo wants to boost the ratio of women in senior positions to 30 percent by 2020, up from 11 percent now, one of the lowest rates in the world.

Dozens of Japan’s biggest firms -- including Toyota, Panasonic and All Nippon Airways -- recently announced targets for boosting the number of executive women.

But the task is a daunting one in a country where sexist attitudes are still prevalent and men dominate

politics and business.Long working hours, boozy

after-work sessions with the boss, and not enough childcare facilities are also among the reasons why many working Japanese women opt to stay at home or give up hopes of promotion after having children.

“The corporate gender gap in Japan is thought to be a result of indirect discrimination against women,” said Kazuo Yamaguchi, a sociology professor at the Univer-sity of Chicago.

“For example, willingness to work long hours seems to be a condition for promotion for women, but not for men.

“Another example is a corporate practice of placing women in posi-tions that have fewer opportunities for promotion despite high job-

performance evaluations.”Chie Kobayashi, a mother of

two, transferred to Nissan’s Brazil office in 2005, becoming the first working mother at the Japanese automaker to work overseas.

“I had been hoping to work in a foreign country since I was young and single,” said Kobayashi, 46, now the Tokyo-based head of Nis-san’s diversity development office.

Kobayashi, who joined Nissan straight out of university, credits a tie-up with France’s Renault in 1999 for boosting her job choices.

“Compared with other Japanese companies, Nissan is probably ad-vanced in terms of diversity in person-nel, as it was forced to change when it joined with Renault,” she told AFP.

But Kobayashi cast doubt on the government targets.

“If you try to achieve numerical targets by any means, it could bring about a skewed situation such as lenient performance assessments for women,” she said.

Meaningful change in company demographics will only come if more Japanese women want to work and the environment welcomes them, added French sociologist Muriel Jol-ivet, who has been living and teaching in Japan for years and has written several books on Japanese society. “These kind of (numerical) goals don’t mean anything,” she said.

Old attitudes can be another bar-rier, an issue highlighted this sum-mer when a member of Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) admitted he hurled sexist taunts at a Tokyo assemblywoman during a council debate on motherhood.

Japan’s bid for economy driven by women faces big hurdlesAgence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appointment of a record number of women to his cabinet highlights efforts to power the economy by boosting the female workforce -- but he faces myriad challenges turning that vision into reality.

Alibaba seeks to raise up to $24.3 billion in IPO record

AP Photo/FileIn this March 17, 2014 file photo, people walk past a company logo at the headquarters of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province.

“We are still searching for the missing Australian tourist, and we still have not found any signs of him,” Nusa Penida Police Chief Police Commissioner Nyoman Suarsika stated on Friday.

Peter James Alexander Maynard, the missing tourist from Noosa, Queensland, Australia, was last seen having breakfast in his bun-galow in Nusa Penida on Tuesday (Aug. 26).

Maynard was scheduled to check out from the bungalow on Thursday (Aug. 28), but he was not traceable and had left his belongings, includ-ing his surfboard, in the bungalow, Suarsika revealed.

The police have been trying to trace the whereabouts of Maynard by contacting local shops providing diving and surfing gear, in case he shows up or had been there since he was reported missing.

“We are still unsure what can possibly be the cause of Mr May-nard’s disappearance, and we are still trying to find him,” Suarsika noted.

Peter Maynard’s wife, Kylie Maynard, is also assisting the lo-cal police in the search for her husband.

During the stay in Bali, the victim happened to spend holidays alone by surfing at Lembongan. His wife was unable to accompany because she was busy working in Australia. So, the victim traveled alone to Bali for a holiday.

Before known to disappear, the victim could send a short message to his wife on August 22 that he would holiday to Lembongan for surfing. After sending the last mes-sage, there was no information from the victim.

Meanwhile, having checked at

the bungalow where he stayed, the victim’s wife and another family recognized if the items at the bun-galow belonged to the victim. They included a wallet, passport, camera, mobile phone and another cloth. However, in the checking, the vic-tim’s wife admitted not to find one of the three surfboards. The victim brought along three surfboards from Australia to Bali.

When checked last Saturday, the victim’s surfboard only remained two pieces. In addition, one of the victim’s surfing shirts was not found, either.

However, Suarsika could not ascertain if the victim disappeared while surfing on Jungutbatu Beach. Based on testimony of one of the witnesses at the bungalow, the victim who checked in on August 23 was seen to only carry two surf-boards. In addition, the victim was also known to surf once in front of the bungalow on August 26 as the wave condition was not good. “From testimony of a witness at the bungalow, the victim only surfed once, while the victim lazed at the

bungalow on the remaining days,” said Suarsika

Suarsika also added that there was no special agent from Australia to assist the victim’s family coming to check the victim’s property at the bungalow where he stayed. Family of the victim that came to Lembon-gan included his wife, in-laws and parents. After checking in room in room number 205 on the second floor where the victim stayed, the family immediately took all the victim’s properties to the Consul-ate in Denpasar. “We do not know where the victim’s family stayed in Denpasar. Before going to hotel, he said the victim’s family wanted to make a report first to the consul-ate,” he said.

To note, Peter came to Lembon-gan on Saturday (Aug 23) around 1:30 p.m. To get to Lembongan, he rode the Bali Brio boat from Sanur. Arriving at Lembongan, Peter then headed to Nusa Indah Bungalow and occupied room number 205 on second floor at Lembongan. Dur-ing at Lembongan, Peter planned to stay for five days. He would

check out on August 28 from the bungalow. However, after five days went by the existence of Peter was unknown.

The missing of Peter at Lem-bongan was just known after the bungalow owner named Kadek Maryanta aka Tomo checked the room condition occupied by Peter because the victim would incidentally check out on August 28.

However, after checking the victim’s room it was apparently still locked. The key to the vic-tim’s room was known to have been commended at receptionist. Being suspicious if something bad happened, the bungalow owner then checked the victim’s room.

However, to date the victim did not go back to the bungalow. Ultimately the bungalow owner reported the incident to Nusa Penida Police. Even, the officer getting the report directly listed the victim in the missing person search list (DPO). Moreover, the victim had not been found so far. (119)

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DENPASAR - Bali’s exports in the first seven months of 2014 rose 4.16 percent to US$300.95 million from US$288.93 million in the same period last year.

The export hike was chiefly fueled by home industry, which contributed US$104.68 million or 34.78 percent of the overall exports, according to data from the Bali provincial industry and trade of-fice on Friday.

The exports from home industry represented a 2.29 percent increase compared with US$102.34 million in the same period last year.

Household handicraft industry contributed US$133.15 million to the overall exports, up 11.48 percent from US$119.44 million in the January-July 2013 period. Handicraft industry, which comprises 14 different commodities, made up 44.24 percent of the total non-oil/non-gas exports.

The export of plantation products was recorded at US$1.34 million in the January-July 2014 period, a 138.25 percent surge compared with US$563,924.56 million in the same period last year.

Meanwhile, fisheries and maritime sector con-tributed US$61.14 million or 20.32 percent of the overall exports.

However, the export of other commodities declined to US$ 625,597.79 from US$1.80 million.

Head of the Central Statistics Agency office in Bali Province Panusunan Siregar said part of the exports was shipped through Benoa Port in Denpasar, while the rest through other ports in Indonesia.

Police search Australian tourist missing for 10 days Bali Post

DENPASAR - Bali Police is still searching for an Australian tourist who reportedly went missing ten days ago, and there were no signs hinting to his disappearance.

Export up 4.16 percent

IBP/File PhotoBali’s exports in the first seven months of 2014 rose 4.16 percent to US$300.95 million from US$288.93 million in the same period last year.

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Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s en-ergy minister s tepped down Friday, a presidential spokesman said, after anti-corruption offi-cials named him a suspect in the latest graft case to embarrass the president’s fractured Democratic Party.

Jero Wacik resigned as minis-ter for energy and natural mineral resources after officials accused him of raking in almost 10 bil-lion rupiah ($850,000) for his ministry’s budget through illegal means.

Corruption Eradication Com-mission (KPK) officials named Wacik a suspect Wednesday, saying he had collected kickbacks and claimed money for arranging fictitious meetings. They accused Wacik of extorting state funds and abuse of power.

“The letter of resignation was received by the president this morning. Perhaps he will appoint someone to fill in as an interim energy minister,” Yudhoyono’s spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha told reporters.

Wacik has neither admitted nor denied the accusations, saying only that he would respect the legal process.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party and his Cabinet have been rocked by a series of graft scandals that have undermined the leader’s promises to clamp down corrup-tion in one of the world’s most graft-ridden nations.

The scandals have devastated the party that has headed a coali-

tion government for 10 years, its popularity diving in April’s legislative elections.

The KPK had been eyeing Wacik since last year, when the chief of the country’s main oil and gas regulator, Rudi Rubi-andini, was caught red-handed being given stacks of US and Singapore dollars.

Rubiandini was found guilty in April of accepting more than $1 million in bribes from several companies and jailed for seven years.

Wacik had recommended Ru-biandini as head of the oil and gas agency, which comes under the authority of the energy ministry.

Wacik has not yet been de-tained -- the KPK typically ar-rests suspects weeks or months after they are named.

Indonesia’s former sports minister, from the president’s party and Cabinet, was jailed for four years in July in a corruption case linked to the construction of a sports stadium.

Yudhoyono must step down in October after serving the maxi-mum two terms, and will hand the presidency to Joko Widodo, who won July’s election.

Millions of Indonesians disil-lusioned with Yudhoyono and his government have pegged high hopes for clean governance and reform on Widodo, seen as a new-generation leader.

Indonesia ranks 114th out of 177 countries and territories in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. A number one ranking means the least corrupt.

“Maryam” won the award after being selected into one of the 12 nominees, out of 2,500 films partici-pating in the festival, the Indonesian embassy in Rome said in a press statement on Sunday.

Saleh, 35, hoped that “Maryam” could be nominated in the Ozu Film Festival to be held in Italy next November. In 2013, Sidi Saleh’s film entitled “Fitri” was nominated in Clermon-fd International Film Festival in Paris, Nindarsari Utomo,

diplomat in the embassy, said.Quoting Variety, Yahoo News

reported that Swedish director Roy Andersson’s “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” an absurdist pic consisting of intersect-ing beautifully composed vignettes won the 71st Venice Golden Lion.

Adam Driver took the best actor award for his role as a young father in New York worried about his young child¿s nutritional regime in Italian director Saverio Costanzo¿s dark and

topical “Hungry Hearts.”The Silver Lion went to Russian

maestro Andrei Konchalovsky’s “The Postman’s White Nights,” a drama rooted in the reality of a remote lakeside Russian village about a char-ismatic postman who is the locals’ sole connection to the outside world, feauturing a largely non-pro cast.

The Venice festival is an interna-tional competition dedicated to films that represent the latest aesthetic and expressive trends.

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SURABAYA - The Education and Culture Ministry has awarded a medal to the Surabaya city gov-ernment for its efforts in caring for culture preserves.

Secretary of the Surabaya city administration Hendro Gunawan said on Saturday that he was representing Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini in receiving the medal from Deputy Education and Culture Minister Wie-ndu Nuryanti at the National Museum in Jakarta on Friday night, Sept 5.

“Besides Surabaya, similar med-als were also given to the Semarang, Surakarta, Yogyakarta and Sawah Lunto city governments,” he said.

Hendro said the Surabaya city government had been committed to

protecting culture preserves by pro-viding assistance, compensation, licensing privileges and incentives to the owners of buildings declared culture preserves.

Under regulation of the Sura-baya mayor number 59 of 2007 on the conservation of buildings and environments declared culture pre-serves, the assistance could come in the form of periodical maintenance and consultations, he said.

Additionally, the compensation could cover tax relief or reduced levies, he said.

The regulation also controlled the mechanism of reward and fines.

The regulation stipulates that owners of buildings declared cul-ture preserves who have consis-

tently cared for their buildings deserve to receive awards from the Surabaya mayor. On the other hand, if they renovate or demolish buildings without abiding by proper procedures, owners will be subject to sanctions, he said.

Hendro, who is former chief of the Surabaya city development planning agency (Bappeko), said the city administration has inten-sively encouraged the private sector to become involved in the conserva-tion of culture preserves.

“Thank God the public, particu-larly the private sector, have posi-tively responded to the call. This means that awareness of the need to care about culture preserves has really been instilled in the people of Surabaya,” he said.

A man holds a poster as police offi-cers stand watch dur-ing a rally against the Is-lamic State group, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014.

Associated Press

BANDA ACEH — Authorities in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province have caned five men for gambling.

Saabaruddin, chief of security guards in the Pidie district capital of Sigli, said Saturday that the men were caught playing dominos for money at a coffee stall in February. He said the men were detained at a city penitentiary and were convicted by a Shariah court last week.

Saabaruddin, who uses one name, said hundreds of onlookers watched as the men were caned after Friday prayer at Sigli’s main mosque.

He said one of the men was caned eight times, while the other four were caned seven times.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, has a policy of secularism but allows Aceh, located on Sumatra island, to imple-ment a version of Shariah, or Islamic law.

Energy minister resigns in corruption scandal

5 gamblers caned in Aceh province

“Maryam” wins prize in Venice Film Festival

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LONDON - An Indonesian film entitled “Maryam” directed by Sidi Saleh won Horizons Prize for the Best Short Film in the 71st Venice International Film Festival.

Surabaya receives award for maintaining culture preserves

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

The developments have helped push Hollande’s popularity to new record lows. Three polls released in recent days show that he has lower approval ratings than every other French president in modern times. This week, ex-partner Valerie Tri-erweiler described Hollande as a mean liar in a book released seven months after they broke up, amid reports that he was having an affair with French actress Julie Gayet.

Not only did Trierweiler spread intimate details of Hollande’s infi-delities, but she also depicted the Socialist leader as someone who despises the poor — a grave politi-cal sin for a left-wing leader who won election in 2012 on promises of social justice. According to Trier-weiler, Hollande once disdainfully referred to the poor as those with “no teeth” — a reference to people who can’t afford dental care.

The expression shocked many and immediately became the top hashtag on Twitter in France, seized upon by Hollande’s critics. Some right-wing activists dubbing them-selves the “no teeth” movement

held a small protest near the Elysee Palace on Friday evening. A visibly indignant Hollande defended him-self at a news conference, insisting that serving the poor is his “reason for being.”

This new political storm comes just days after Hollande appointed a new Cabinet to silence ministers who had openly criticized his economic policy, and to send a pro-business signal to the European Union. But with unemployment over 10 percent and no economic growth, the new government had no grace period.

A remark by new Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron that he would be open to rethinking France’s 35-hour workweek caused big uproar in the French left. A few days later, Labor Minister Francois Rebsamen said he wanted the coun-try’s unemployment services to bet-ter monitor jobseekers — causing uproar among unions.

And then Thursday, a junior minister of the new Cabinet, Thom-as Thevenoud, was forced to quit because of problems with tax

authorities, according to the prime minister’s office.

Even once-popular Prime Min-ister Manuel Valls has seen his approval rating plummet to around 30 percent in recent weeks. He faces a confidence vote Sept. 16 at which dozens of Socialist parlia-ment members who disapprove of Hollande’s spending cuts could try to spread rebellion among leftist ranks. Far right leader Marine Le Pen asked for dissolution of Parlia-ment to organize new elections.

Another threat may come from the mainstream conservatives, meeting this weekend in Nice after a couple of years of division and tumult. Many are hoping that Sarkozy announces his candidacy for the party’s top job, a first step toward a potential bid to regain the presidency in 2017 after losing it to Hollande in 2012.

Hollande insisted Friday he wouldn’t let the avalanche of bad news get him down. “I’ve been elected for 5 years by the French people. There is no poll... that may interrupt (my) term.”

Associated Press

LONDON — The British gov-ernment plans to offer Scotland more financial autonomy in the coming days as polls predict a very close vote in the upcoming referendum on Scottish indepen-dence.

Chancellor George Osborne told BBC Sunday that the govern-ment is finalizing plans to give Scotland “much greater” fiscal and tax autonomy and will unveil the proposals in the coming days.

He spoke after polls showed a tightening of the vote ahead of the September 18 referendum on whether Scotland should become independent from Britain.

Osborne said the polls show how important every vote will be and reiterated that an indepen-dent Scotland would not be able to use the British pound.

He said Britain’s three main political parties understand Scot-tish voters want more autonomy and that the new proposals would be substantive.

Associated Press

BEIJING — Chinese authorities killed almost 5,000 dogs in one city after blaming five human deaths on rabies, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.

The city of Baoshan in southwestern Yunnan province killed 4,900 dogs and vaccinated another 100,000 in its anti-rabies campaign, Xinhua said. The city issued an urgent order calling for authorities to tightly regulate dogs and kill stray ones.

Chinese governments often order such widespread dog culls or ban dog ownership to control the spread of rabies. That has sparked outcry from some dog owners and animal rights activ-ists who call for sterilizing and vaccinating dogs rather than killing them.

In 2009, authorities in the northern city of Hanzhong report-edly killed about 37,000 dogs after a rabies outbreak, including clubbing some of the animals to death.

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

French President Francois Hollande gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the end of the NATO summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014.

French president in trouble, in public and private

Associated Press

PARIS — Things can’t get much worse for French President Francois Hollande: The economy is lagging; his new government is already under fire; and his private life has just been exposed in a ravaging book by the former first lady. Adding to his concerns is the possibility that his chief rival — conservative Nicolas Sarkozy — will launch a political comeback this weekend.

China kills nearly 5,000 dogs

to control rabies

UK offers Scotland more autonomy ahead of vote

AP Photo/Danny Lawson, PA Wire

SNP leader Alex Salmond visits Brownings Bakers bakery where he was presented with ‘Aye’ branded cakes, as the Scottish independence referendum campaign continues, in Kilmarnock, Scotland, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.

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“Definitely, it was so amazing,” Ma-karova said. “I’m just so happy. It was a great two weeks for me.”

Hingis and Pennetta thought they had broken to get the final set back on serve at 3-3, but the Russians challenged a shot that had been called a winner and the ball was shown to be out by a millimeter.

Makarova and Vesnina saved three break points to hold and then won the next two games to clinch the championship.

Playing doubles in her latest comeback from retirement, the 33-year-old Hingis was in her first major final since the 2002 Australian Open. She has won nine Grand Slam doubles titles to go with her five major singles championships. “It was an incredible journey,” she said.

Hingis returned to competition last year but lost in the first round of the 2013 U.S. Open with Daniela Hantuchova and this summer’s Wimbledon with Vera Zvonareva. She and Pennetta had played in three tournaments together leading up to the U.S. Open. Makarova and Vesnina

also won the 2013 French Open.Makarova was routed by No. 1 Serena

Williams 6-1, 6-3 on Friday in her first major singles semifinal. She and Vesnina beat Williams and her sister Venus in the quarterfinals in doubles.

Vesnina said she ran into Serena Williams in the locker room Saturday morning and the 13-time major doubles champion asked if she was playing in the final that day. “She looked straight at me in my eyes — she’s like, ‘Go for it, because you really deserve it,’” Vesnina said, still a bit in awe.

Elena Vesnina, right, and Ekaterina Makarova, of Russia, kiss the cham-

pionship trophy after winning the women’s doubles final over Flavia

Pennetta, of Italy, and Martina Hingis, of Switzerland, at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Sept. 6,

2014, in New York.

Associated Press Writer

PHOENIX — After a dominating WNBA season, the Phoenix Mercury would seem to be a lock to win the league championship over the Chicago Sky. Not so fast. Phoenix knows the Sky’s 15-19 regular season record is deceiving given how many players were out with injuries and other medical problems.

The Mercury’s Diana Taurasi calls Chicago “probably one of top two or three teams in the league.”

The Sky better be good, because Phoenix enters Sunday’s Game 1 with an 18-game home winning streak. The Mercury haven’t lost in Phoenix since May 23, to San Antonio in the third game of the season.

Phoenix beat Chicago twice in the regular season, but the Sky were missing star forward Elena Delle Donne and point guard Courtney Vandersloot for both of those games.

“We’re all going to have to play our best basketball in order to compete and get some wins out of this,” Delle Donne said.

Delle Donne and Vandersloot each missed 17 regular season games, Delle Donne because of a recurrence of Lyme disease, Vandersloot with a knee injury. The list goes on. Center Sylvia Fowles missed the first 14 games due to hip surgery, and guard Epiphanny Prince was out the first seven games due to physical and mental exhaustion. “We’ve faced so much adversity,” Delle Donne said. “I think that carries us through.” Chicago isn’t completely healthy — Delle Donne is nursing a sore back.

“It’s not fun having a sore back, but I’ll be able to work through it, to push through,” she said.

Phoenix rolled to a 29-5 regular-season record, the best mark in league history. The Mercury swept Los Angeles in two games in the first round of the playoffs, then pulled out a 2-1 triumph over Minnesota in what many thought was a matchup of the league’s two best teams. The Mercury vow no letdown against Chicago.

“It was a tough series (against Minnesota),” Brittney Griner said, “but when you hear that word ‘Finals’, you’re refreshed, especially for me. This is my first one.”

Associated Press Writer

MONZA, Italy — Williams has confirmed it will retain Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bot-tas as its drivers for the 2015 Formula One season. Massa was already under contract but on Sunday the team announced it has taken up the option on Bottas’ contract following an impressive campaign.

Team principal Frank Wil-liams says “Felipe is a pleasure to work with, and combines raw pace with a wealth of experience. As for Valtteri, we have known for many years he is a very special talent.”

Massa joined Williams fol-lowing his release from Ferrari at the end of last season and secured the team’s first pole position since 2012 at the Austrian Grand Prix. Bottas has secured four podiums in the last five races to lie fifth in the drivers’ standings.

Makarova, Vesnina win US Open doubles titleAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won their second Grand Slam women’s doubles title, ending Martina Hingis’ run at the U.S. Open. The fourth-seeded Russians rallied after losing the first set to beat Hingis and Flavia Pennetta 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday night.

AP Photo/Darron Cummings

Willams confirms driver lineup of Massa and Bottas

Rejuvenated Sky challenge Mercury in WNBA Finals

AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Pat Shanahan, FileFILE - In this Aug. 9, 2014, file photo, Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner is fouled by Minnesota Lynx guard Monica Wright during a WNBA basketball game in Phoenix.

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An Under-21 international who turned 19 on Monday, Munir is of Moroccan origin and only made his debut for Barcelona in their opening La Liga match at home to Elche last month, scoring in a 3-0 win. A skillful left-footer who has something of the Lionel Messi about him and looks a bit like Neymar, Munir’s call-up prompted claims in the Spanish media that Del Bosque had selected him so he would be tied to Spain and cannot play for Morocco.

With Costa out, Del Bosque has only three recognised forwards in Munir, Barcelona team mate Pedro and Paco Alcacer of Valencia, who won his first Spain cap as a substitute in the France game. Spain failed to muster a shot on target at the Stade de France, with local media reporting it was the first time that had happened since 1990, and Del Bosque said after the game his tac-tics would be more attacking against the Macedonians.

“Next Monday we will focus more on offence and we will

try to get the three points,” he told a news conference. Spain, who won consecutive European titles in 2008 and 2012, are desperate to return to winning ways after a woe-ful World Cup when their title defence foun-dered in the group stage with defeats to the Netherlands and Chile. For all the talk of a fresh start, there will be a host of famil-iar faces in the team at Levan te ’s Ciutat de Va l e n c i a stadium on M o n -day.

Midfield stalwarts Xavi and Xabi Alonso may have gone, retiring

after the finals in Brazil, but the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Sergio

Busquets, David Silva and Santi Cazorla are still an integral part of Del Bosque’s plans.

Captain Iker Casillas remains

first-choice goalkeeper and is likely to have the familiar sight of Real Madrid team mate Sergio Ramos and Napoli’s Raul Albiol in front of him in central defence, with Jordi Alba and Cesar Azpilicueta playing and left and right back respectively. Silva defended Spain’s possession-based playing style, saying it had worked well in the past and there was no reason to change.

Associated Press

SANTA CLARA, California — Mexico settled for a 0-0 draw with Chile after squandering several good chances to score in the second half of their friendly Saturday, played in front of a sellout crowd of 67,175 at Levi’s Stadium, the new home of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers.

The contest matched two teams that were eliminated in the Round of 16 at the World Cup in Brazil. Mexico lost to the Netherlands 2-1, and Chile lost to host Brazil in penalties after playing to a score-less draw.

El Roja coach Jorge Sampaoli kept his World Cup roster intact for the friendly, while Mexico coach Miguel Herrera gave Miguel Angel

Herrera and Oswaldo Alanis their first starts in an attempt to remold his squad. He kept 10 members from the Mexican World Cup roster.

Mexico, backed by the majority of the crowd, had two clear shots on goal in a two-minute span midway through the second half. In the 65th minute, Giovani Dos Santos found himself alone with goalkeeper Claudio Bravo but rushed his shot and missed over the crossbar.

Javier Antonio Orozco then fired a shot that was just high after receiving a cross from Oribe Per-lata in front of the goal in the 67th minute.

Bravo also stopped Miguel Layun’s looping shot in the 77th minute and a point-blank shot from Orozco in the 80th.

Reuters

JOHANNESBURG - Holders Nigeria were handed a shock defeat at the start of the group phase of African Nations Cup qualifying on Saturday while Ghana also still seemed to be nursing a World Cup hangover. Fellow 2014 World Cup combatants Algeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast were in a happier mood after opening the campaign for a place at the Na-tions Cup finals in Morocco in Janu-ary with victories. There were also home wins for Burkina Faso, Gabon and Tunisia and an away triumph for the tiny Cape Verde Islands.

Zambia, winners in 2012, were held to a goalless draw at home by Mozambique. Congo became the first country in 33 years to win a competitive match in Nigeria as they beat the Nations Cup champions 3-2 in Calabar with two goals from French-born striker Thievy Bifouma. Nigeria were last beaten in a competi-tive home game when they lost 2-0 to Algeria in a World Cup qualifier in Lagos in 1981.

With a possible ban from world soccer’s ruling body FIFA hanging over them for government interfer-ence in football federation matters, they were caught out in their open-ing Group A game on Saturday. Efe Ambrose headed the hosts in front

after 13 minutes but Congo captain Prince Oniangue equalised three minutes later.

Bifouma, who had a brief spell on loan at English Premier League West Bromwich Albion last season, put Congo 2-1 ahead in the 40th minute before he converted a penalty in the 54th. Congo had been eliminated in the early knockout rounds but were given a reprieve when opponents Rwanda were found guilty of fielding an ineligible player. Ghana needed a penalty and a post to avoid defeat at home to Uganda in Kumasi, drawing 1-1 in Group E.

Fresh StartThe Black Stars were looking for

a fresh start following their World Cup woes which included a strike by the players over money and the send-ing home of Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari for indiscipline. Ghana had to come from behind after a long-range effort on the turn from Tony Mawejje gave Uganda a sur-prise lead on the stroke of halftime.

The hosts were awarded a penalty when Denis Iguma fouled Abdul Majeed Waris in the 50th minute and Dede Ayew converted the spot kick. Ghana were then grateful to see Luwagga Kizito’s angled effort come back off the upright in the second half. Cameroon put a desperate World

Cup behind them as debutant Clinton Njie and striker Vincent Aboubakar scored in a 2-0 victory in the Demo-cratic Republic of Congo.

Stephane Mbia produced a cap-tain’s performance at left back hav-ing taken the armband from Samuel Eto’o who announced his interna-tional retirement last month. Ivory Coast began a new era without Didier Drogba, who has also quit the inter-national stage, by defeating Sierra Leone 2-1 in the other Group D game. Gervinho scored the winner as the Ivorians came from behind to beat their west African rivals.

Sierra Leone were severely affect-ed by the Ebola virus outbreak in the leadup to the game, with support staff prohibited from travelling to Abidjan by Ivorian health authorities. In Group B, Algeria won 2-1 at Ethiopia while heavy rain meant the match between Mali and Malawi was called off.

Yacine Chikaoui scored a late penalty to give Tunisia a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Botswana while Samson Mbingui netted with a scorching shot as Gabon beat An-gola 1-0.

Burkina Faso, runners-up at the last finals, overcame Lesotho 2-0 with goals from Jonathan Pitroipa and Alain Traore while Cape Verde scored three times in the first 24 minutes to win 3-1 in Niger.

Associated Press

FLORENCE, Italy — Key de-fender Giorgio Chiellini has been ruled out of Italy’s opening European Championship qualifier at Norway on Tuesday due to a left calf injury.

Chiellini already sat out Italy’s 2-0 win over the Netherlands in a

friendly this week for precaution-ary reasons and further tests Friday revealed the extent of the injury.

The Azzurri were already with-out center back Andrea Barzagli, who had surgery on his right heel in July.

Also, striker Mario Balotelli is suspended and was left off the

squad and midfielder Claudio Marchisio is also suspended.

A new attack pairing of Ciro Immobile and Simone Zaza worked well together against the Dutch in coach Antonio Conte’s de-but. Another forward, Stephan El Shaarawy, remains questionable due to a left ankle problem.

Mexico settles for 0-0 draw with Chile

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Mexico’s Oswaldo Alanis (3) heads the ball next to Chile’s Alexis Sanchez during the second half of an international friendly soccer match Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, in Santa Clara, Calif. The game ended in a 0-0 draw.

REUTERS/Gustau Nacarin

Barcelona’s Munir El Haddadi cel-ebrates his goal during the Span-ish first division

soccer match against Elche at Nou Camp stadi-um in Barcelona August 24, 2014.

Reuters

MIAMI - FIFA has asked for an explanation from a member of its financial watchdog who was arrested on suspicion of corruption and money-laundering in the Cay-man Islands.

Canover Watson, one of eight members of FIFA’s Audit and Compliance Committee and a vice-president of the Caribbean

Football Union, has denied the charges and been released on bail in

the British overseas territory. Domen-ico Scala, head of the committee, said he had asked Watson for details.

“In agreement with the Ethics Committee we have asked Canover Watson whether he can share with the Audit and Compliance Commit-tee any additional information,” said

Scala in a statement issued by FIFA. “Once we have more information we will consider appropri-ate measures.”

The FIFA committee is charged with ensuring the “completeness and reliability of the financial account-ing” of world soccer’s governing body.

Cayman Islands Anti-Corruption Commissioner David Baines, in a statement to local media, said that Watson was suspected of “breach of trust contrary to section 13 of the Cayman Islands Anti-Corruption Law, as well as abuse of public office... and conflict of interest”.

Those allegations refer to Watson’s time at the head of Cayman’s Health Service Authority and follow a police investigation into the introduction of a swipe card system.

Baines also cited “suspicion of money-laundering contrary to section 133 of the Proceeds of Crime Law” in the Watson case.

Watson denied the allegations in a statement to the Cayman Compass newspaper. The newspaper said no charges had yet been filed against Watson who under his bail terms is due to report back to police on Sept. 29.

FIFA asks arrested finance watchdog

member for explanation

Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — Ecua-dor dominated Bolivia 4-0 in

a friendly on Saturday, its first match since for-

mer coach Reinaldo Rueda’s sack-

ing follow-i n g a d i s a p -p o i n t -i n g

W o r l d

Cup campaign.Christian Noboa opened the scoring in the ninth

minute for Ecuador, firing a shot that went off the hands of Bolivia keeper Daniel Vaca and rolled in.

Ecuador made it 2-0 when Juan Cazares curled a shot into the net from 25 yards out in the 33rd minute. Enner Valencia and Junior Sornoza added two more goals in the second half.

Sixto Vizuete has replaced Rueda as Ecuador’s interim coach on a short-term contract until January. Ecuador failed to advance from the group stage at the World Cup, beating Honduras but losing to Switzerland and drawing with France. Ecuador plays Brazil on Tuesday in New Jersey.

Ecuador beats Bolivia 4-0 in friendly

Misfiring Spain begin Euro defence against MacedoniaReuters

MADRID - Coach Vicente del Bosque must cope with the absence of first-choice striker Diego Costa and try to reverse Spain’s recent inability to find the net when they host Macedonia in Monday’s opening Euro 2016 qualifier. Costa, who played 66 min-utes of Thursday’s 1-0 friendly defeat to France, was forced to abandon the European champions’ squad on Friday with a thigh injury and Del Bosque sprung a surprise by replacing the Chelsea forward with Barcelona teenager Munir el Haddadi.

Italy defender Chiellini to miss Norway qualifier

Nigeria suffer Nations Cup shock, draw for GhanaIBP/ist

Thievy Bifouma

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An Under-21 international who turned 19 on Monday, Munir is of Moroccan origin and only made his debut for Barcelona in their opening La Liga match at home to Elche last month, scoring in a 3-0 win. A skillful left-footer who has something of the Lionel Messi about him and looks a bit like Neymar, Munir’s call-up prompted claims in the Spanish media that Del Bosque had selected him so he would be tied to Spain and cannot play for Morocco.

With Costa out, Del Bosque has only three recognised forwards in Munir, Barcelona team mate Pedro and Paco Alcacer of Valencia, who won his first Spain cap as a substitute in the France game. Spain failed to muster a shot on target at the Stade de France, with local media reporting it was the first time that had happened since 1990, and Del Bosque said after the game his tac-tics would be more attacking against the Macedonians.

“Next Monday we will focus more on offence and we will

try to get the three points,” he told a news conference. Spain, who won consecutive European titles in 2008 and 2012, are desperate to return to winning ways after a woe-ful World Cup when their title defence foun-dered in the group stage with defeats to the Netherlands and Chile. For all the talk of a fresh start, there will be a host of famil-iar faces in the team at Levan te ’s Ciutat de Va l e n c i a stadium on M o n -day.

Midfield stalwarts Xavi and Xabi Alonso may have gone, retiring

after the finals in Brazil, but the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Sergio

Busquets, David Silva and Santi Cazorla are still an integral part of Del Bosque’s plans.

Captain Iker Casillas remains

first-choice goalkeeper and is likely to have the familiar sight of Real Madrid team mate Sergio Ramos and Napoli’s Raul Albiol in front of him in central defence, with Jordi Alba and Cesar Azpilicueta playing and left and right back respectively. Silva defended Spain’s possession-based playing style, saying it had worked well in the past and there was no reason to change.

Associated Press

SANTA CLARA, California — Mexico settled for a 0-0 draw with Chile after squandering several good chances to score in the second half of their friendly Saturday, played in front of a sellout crowd of 67,175 at Levi’s Stadium, the new home of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers.

The contest matched two teams that were eliminated in the Round of 16 at the World Cup in Brazil. Mexico lost to the Netherlands 2-1, and Chile lost to host Brazil in penalties after playing to a score-less draw.

El Roja coach Jorge Sampaoli kept his World Cup roster intact for the friendly, while Mexico coach Miguel Herrera gave Miguel Angel

Herrera and Oswaldo Alanis their first starts in an attempt to remold his squad. He kept 10 members from the Mexican World Cup roster.

Mexico, backed by the majority of the crowd, had two clear shots on goal in a two-minute span midway through the second half. In the 65th minute, Giovani Dos Santos found himself alone with goalkeeper Claudio Bravo but rushed his shot and missed over the crossbar.

Javier Antonio Orozco then fired a shot that was just high after receiving a cross from Oribe Per-lata in front of the goal in the 67th minute.

Bravo also stopped Miguel Layun’s looping shot in the 77th minute and a point-blank shot from Orozco in the 80th.

Reuters

JOHANNESBURG - Holders Nigeria were handed a shock defeat at the start of the group phase of African Nations Cup qualifying on Saturday while Ghana also still seemed to be nursing a World Cup hangover. Fellow 2014 World Cup combatants Algeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast were in a happier mood after opening the campaign for a place at the Na-tions Cup finals in Morocco in Janu-ary with victories. There were also home wins for Burkina Faso, Gabon and Tunisia and an away triumph for the tiny Cape Verde Islands.

Zambia, winners in 2012, were held to a goalless draw at home by Mozambique. Congo became the first country in 33 years to win a competitive match in Nigeria as they beat the Nations Cup champions 3-2 in Calabar with two goals from French-born striker Thievy Bifouma. Nigeria were last beaten in a competi-tive home game when they lost 2-0 to Algeria in a World Cup qualifier in Lagos in 1981.

With a possible ban from world soccer’s ruling body FIFA hanging over them for government interfer-ence in football federation matters, they were caught out in their open-ing Group A game on Saturday. Efe Ambrose headed the hosts in front

after 13 minutes but Congo captain Prince Oniangue equalised three minutes later.

Bifouma, who had a brief spell on loan at English Premier League West Bromwich Albion last season, put Congo 2-1 ahead in the 40th minute before he converted a penalty in the 54th. Congo had been eliminated in the early knockout rounds but were given a reprieve when opponents Rwanda were found guilty of fielding an ineligible player. Ghana needed a penalty and a post to avoid defeat at home to Uganda in Kumasi, drawing 1-1 in Group E.

Fresh StartThe Black Stars were looking for

a fresh start following their World Cup woes which included a strike by the players over money and the send-ing home of Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari for indiscipline. Ghana had to come from behind after a long-range effort on the turn from Tony Mawejje gave Uganda a sur-prise lead on the stroke of halftime.

The hosts were awarded a penalty when Denis Iguma fouled Abdul Majeed Waris in the 50th minute and Dede Ayew converted the spot kick. Ghana were then grateful to see Luwagga Kizito’s angled effort come back off the upright in the second half. Cameroon put a desperate World

Cup behind them as debutant Clinton Njie and striker Vincent Aboubakar scored in a 2-0 victory in the Demo-cratic Republic of Congo.

Stephane Mbia produced a cap-tain’s performance at left back hav-ing taken the armband from Samuel Eto’o who announced his interna-tional retirement last month. Ivory Coast began a new era without Didier Drogba, who has also quit the inter-national stage, by defeating Sierra Leone 2-1 in the other Group D game. Gervinho scored the winner as the Ivorians came from behind to beat their west African rivals.

Sierra Leone were severely affect-ed by the Ebola virus outbreak in the leadup to the game, with support staff prohibited from travelling to Abidjan by Ivorian health authorities. In Group B, Algeria won 2-1 at Ethiopia while heavy rain meant the match between Mali and Malawi was called off.

Yacine Chikaoui scored a late penalty to give Tunisia a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Botswana while Samson Mbingui netted with a scorching shot as Gabon beat An-gola 1-0.

Burkina Faso, runners-up at the last finals, overcame Lesotho 2-0 with goals from Jonathan Pitroipa and Alain Traore while Cape Verde scored three times in the first 24 minutes to win 3-1 in Niger.

Associated Press

FLORENCE, Italy — Key de-fender Giorgio Chiellini has been ruled out of Italy’s opening European Championship qualifier at Norway on Tuesday due to a left calf injury.

Chiellini already sat out Italy’s 2-0 win over the Netherlands in a

friendly this week for precaution-ary reasons and further tests Friday revealed the extent of the injury.

The Azzurri were already with-out center back Andrea Barzagli, who had surgery on his right heel in July.

Also, striker Mario Balotelli is suspended and was left off the

squad and midfielder Claudio Marchisio is also suspended.

A new attack pairing of Ciro Immobile and Simone Zaza worked well together against the Dutch in coach Antonio Conte’s de-but. Another forward, Stephan El Shaarawy, remains questionable due to a left ankle problem.

Mexico settles for 0-0 draw with Chile

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Mexico’s Oswaldo Alanis (3) heads the ball next to Chile’s Alexis Sanchez during the second half of an international friendly soccer match Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, in Santa Clara, Calif. The game ended in a 0-0 draw.

REUTERS/Gustau Nacarin

Barcelona’s Munir El Haddadi cel-ebrates his goal during the Span-ish first division

soccer match against Elche at Nou Camp stadi-um in Barcelona August 24, 2014.

Reuters

MIAMI - FIFA has asked for an explanation from a member of its financial watchdog who was arrested on suspicion of corruption and money-laundering in the Cay-man Islands.

Canover Watson, one of eight members of FIFA’s Audit and Compliance Committee and a vice-president of the Caribbean

Football Union, has denied the charges and been released on bail in

the British overseas territory. Domen-ico Scala, head of the committee, said he had asked Watson for details.

“In agreement with the Ethics Committee we have asked Canover Watson whether he can share with the Audit and Compliance Commit-tee any additional information,” said

Scala in a statement issued by FIFA. “Once we have more information we will consider appropri-ate measures.”

The FIFA committee is charged with ensuring the “completeness and reliability of the financial account-ing” of world soccer’s governing body.

Cayman Islands Anti-Corruption Commissioner David Baines, in a statement to local media, said that Watson was suspected of “breach of trust contrary to section 13 of the Cayman Islands Anti-Corruption Law, as well as abuse of public office... and conflict of interest”.

Those allegations refer to Watson’s time at the head of Cayman’s Health Service Authority and follow a police investigation into the introduction of a swipe card system.

Baines also cited “suspicion of money-laundering contrary to section 133 of the Proceeds of Crime Law” in the Watson case.

Watson denied the allegations in a statement to the Cayman Compass newspaper. The newspaper said no charges had yet been filed against Watson who under his bail terms is due to report back to police on Sept. 29.

FIFA asks arrested finance watchdog

member for explanation

Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — Ecua-dor dominated Bolivia 4-0 in

a friendly on Saturday, its first match since for-

mer coach Reinaldo Rueda’s sack-

ing follow-i n g a d i s a p -p o i n t -i n g

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Cup campaign.Christian Noboa opened the scoring in the ninth

minute for Ecuador, firing a shot that went off the hands of Bolivia keeper Daniel Vaca and rolled in.

Ecuador made it 2-0 when Juan Cazares curled a shot into the net from 25 yards out in the 33rd minute. Enner Valencia and Junior Sornoza added two more goals in the second half.

Sixto Vizuete has replaced Rueda as Ecuador’s interim coach on a short-term contract until January. Ecuador failed to advance from the group stage at the World Cup, beating Honduras but losing to Switzerland and drawing with France. Ecuador plays Brazil on Tuesday in New Jersey.

Ecuador beats Bolivia 4-0 in friendly

Misfiring Spain begin Euro defence against MacedoniaReuters

MADRID - Coach Vicente del Bosque must cope with the absence of first-choice striker Diego Costa and try to reverse Spain’s recent inability to find the net when they host Macedonia in Monday’s opening Euro 2016 qualifier. Costa, who played 66 min-utes of Thursday’s 1-0 friendly defeat to France, was forced to abandon the European champions’ squad on Friday with a thigh injury and Del Bosque sprung a surprise by replacing the Chelsea forward with Barcelona teenager Munir el Haddadi.

Italy defender Chiellini to miss Norway qualifier

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TABANAN - This hot spring is located at Penatahan Village, Penebel Subdistrict, ap-proximately 13 km from the town of Tabanan and 34 km north of Denpasar. It offers beautiful natural scenery on the right and left side with the backdrop of amazing terraced rice fields. The hot spring is perched right on the banks of Yeh Ho River. Local people call the hot spring by Yeh Panes. Based on the results of research in the laboratory of the Department of Health, the hot spring is very good for bathing because it contains sulfur and other minerals. It is excellent for curing light skin diseases.

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Penatahan Hot Spring

“Definitely, it was so amazing,” Ma-karova said. “I’m just so happy. It was a great two weeks for me.”

Hingis and Pennetta thought they had broken to get the final set back on serve at 3-3, but the Russians challenged a shot that had been called a winner and the ball was shown to be out by a millimeter.

Makarova and Vesnina saved three break points to hold and then won the next two games to clinch the championship.

Playing doubles in her latest comeback from retirement, the 33-year-old Hingis was in her first major final since the 2002 Australian Open. She has won nine Grand Slam doubles titles to go with her five major singles championships. “It was an incredible journey,” she said.

Hingis returned to competition last year but lost in the first round of the 2013 U.S. Open with Daniela Hantuchova and this summer’s Wimbledon with Vera Zvonareva. She and Pennetta had played in three tournaments together leading up to the U.S. Open. Makarova and Vesnina

also won the 2013 French Open.Makarova was routed by No. 1 Serena

Williams 6-1, 6-3 on Friday in her first major singles semifinal. She and Vesnina beat Williams and her sister Venus in the quarterfinals in doubles.

Vesnina said she ran into Serena Williams in the locker room Saturday morning and the 13-time major doubles champion asked if she was playing in the final that day. “She looked straight at me in my eyes — she’s like, ‘Go for it, because you really deserve it,’” Vesnina said, still a bit in awe.

Elena Vesnina, right, and Ekaterina Makarova, of Russia, kiss the cham-

pionship trophy after winning the women’s doubles final over Flavia

Pennetta, of Italy, and Martina Hingis, of Switzerland, at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Sept. 6,

2014, in New York.

Associated Press Writer

PHOENIX — After a dominating WNBA season, the Phoenix Mercury would seem to be a lock to win the league championship over the Chicago Sky. Not so fast. Phoenix knows the Sky’s 15-19 regular season record is deceiving given how many players were out with injuries and other medical problems.

The Mercury’s Diana Taurasi calls Chicago “probably one of top two or three teams in the league.”

The Sky better be good, because Phoenix enters Sunday’s Game 1 with an 18-game home winning streak. The Mercury haven’t lost in Phoenix since May 23, to San Antonio in the third game of the season.

Phoenix beat Chicago twice in the regular season, but the Sky were missing star forward Elena Delle Donne and point guard Courtney Vandersloot for both of those games.

“We’re all going to have to play our best basketball in order to compete and get some wins out of this,” Delle Donne said.

Delle Donne and Vandersloot each missed 17 regular season games, Delle Donne because of a recurrence of Lyme disease, Vandersloot with a knee injury. The list goes on. Center Sylvia Fowles missed the first 14 games due to hip surgery, and guard Epiphanny Prince was out the first seven games due to physical and mental exhaustion. “We’ve faced so much adversity,” Delle Donne said. “I think that carries us through.” Chicago isn’t completely healthy — Delle Donne is nursing a sore back.

“It’s not fun having a sore back, but I’ll be able to work through it, to push through,” she said.

Phoenix rolled to a 29-5 regular-season record, the best mark in league history. The Mercury swept Los Angeles in two games in the first round of the playoffs, then pulled out a 2-1 triumph over Minnesota in what many thought was a matchup of the league’s two best teams. The Mercury vow no letdown against Chicago.

“It was a tough series (against Minnesota),” Brittney Griner said, “but when you hear that word ‘Finals’, you’re refreshed, especially for me. This is my first one.”

Associated Press Writer

MONZA, Italy — Williams has confirmed it will retain Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bot-tas as its drivers for the 2015 Formula One season. Massa was already under contract but on Sunday the team announced it has taken up the option on Bottas’ contract following an impressive campaign.

Team principal Frank Wil-liams says “Felipe is a pleasure to work with, and combines raw pace with a wealth of experience. As for Valtteri, we have known for many years he is a very special talent.”

Massa joined Williams fol-lowing his release from Ferrari at the end of last season and secured the team’s first pole position since 2012 at the Austrian Grand Prix. Bottas has secured four podiums in the last five races to lie fifth in the drivers’ standings.

Makarova, Vesnina win US Open doubles titleAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won their second Grand Slam women’s doubles title, ending Martina Hingis’ run at the U.S. Open. The fourth-seeded Russians rallied after losing the first set to beat Hingis and Flavia Pennetta 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday night.

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Willams confirms driver lineup of Massa and Bottas

Rejuvenated Sky challenge Mercury in WNBA Finals

AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Pat Shanahan, FileFILE - In this Aug. 9, 2014, file photo, Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner is fouled by Minnesota Lynx guard Monica Wright during a WNBA basketball game in Phoenix.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s en-ergy minister s tepped down Friday, a presidential spokesman said, after anti-corruption offi-cials named him a suspect in the latest graft case to embarrass the president’s fractured Democratic Party.

Jero Wacik resigned as minis-ter for energy and natural mineral resources after officials accused him of raking in almost 10 bil-lion rupiah ($850,000) for his ministry’s budget through illegal means.

Corruption Eradication Com-mission (KPK) officials named Wacik a suspect Wednesday, saying he had collected kickbacks and claimed money for arranging fictitious meetings. They accused Wacik of extorting state funds and abuse of power.

“The letter of resignation was received by the president this morning. Perhaps he will appoint someone to fill in as an interim energy minister,” Yudhoyono’s spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha told reporters.

Wacik has neither admitted nor denied the accusations, saying only that he would respect the legal process.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party and his Cabinet have been rocked by a series of graft scandals that have undermined the leader’s promises to clamp down corrup-tion in one of the world’s most graft-ridden nations.

The scandals have devastated the party that has headed a coali-

tion government for 10 years, its popularity diving in April’s legislative elections.

The KPK had been eyeing Wacik since last year, when the chief of the country’s main oil and gas regulator, Rudi Rubi-andini, was caught red-handed being given stacks of US and Singapore dollars.

Rubiandini was found guilty in April of accepting more than $1 million in bribes from several companies and jailed for seven years.

Wacik had recommended Ru-biandini as head of the oil and gas agency, which comes under the authority of the energy ministry.

Wacik has not yet been de-tained -- the KPK typically ar-rests suspects weeks or months after they are named.

Indonesia’s former sports minister, from the president’s party and Cabinet, was jailed for four years in July in a corruption case linked to the construction of a sports stadium.

Yudhoyono must step down in October after serving the maxi-mum two terms, and will hand the presidency to Joko Widodo, who won July’s election.

Millions of Indonesians disil-lusioned with Yudhoyono and his government have pegged high hopes for clean governance and reform on Widodo, seen as a new-generation leader.

Indonesia ranks 114th out of 177 countries and territories in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. A number one ranking means the least corrupt.

“Maryam” won the award after being selected into one of the 12 nominees, out of 2,500 films partici-pating in the festival, the Indonesian embassy in Rome said in a press statement on Sunday.

Saleh, 35, hoped that “Maryam” could be nominated in the Ozu Film Festival to be held in Italy next November. In 2013, Sidi Saleh’s film entitled “Fitri” was nominated in Clermon-fd International Film Festival in Paris, Nindarsari Utomo,

diplomat in the embassy, said.Quoting Variety, Yahoo News

reported that Swedish director Roy Andersson’s “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” an absurdist pic consisting of intersect-ing beautifully composed vignettes won the 71st Venice Golden Lion.

Adam Driver took the best actor award for his role as a young father in New York worried about his young child¿s nutritional regime in Italian director Saverio Costanzo¿s dark and

topical “Hungry Hearts.”The Silver Lion went to Russian

maestro Andrei Konchalovsky’s “The Postman’s White Nights,” a drama rooted in the reality of a remote lakeside Russian village about a char-ismatic postman who is the locals’ sole connection to the outside world, feauturing a largely non-pro cast.

The Venice festival is an interna-tional competition dedicated to films that represent the latest aesthetic and expressive trends.

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SURABAYA - The Education and Culture Ministry has awarded a medal to the Surabaya city gov-ernment for its efforts in caring for culture preserves.

Secretary of the Surabaya city administration Hendro Gunawan said on Saturday that he was representing Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini in receiving the medal from Deputy Education and Culture Minister Wie-ndu Nuryanti at the National Museum in Jakarta on Friday night, Sept 5.

“Besides Surabaya, similar med-als were also given to the Semarang, Surakarta, Yogyakarta and Sawah Lunto city governments,” he said.

Hendro said the Surabaya city government had been committed to

protecting culture preserves by pro-viding assistance, compensation, licensing privileges and incentives to the owners of buildings declared culture preserves.

Under regulation of the Sura-baya mayor number 59 of 2007 on the conservation of buildings and environments declared culture pre-serves, the assistance could come in the form of periodical maintenance and consultations, he said.

Additionally, the compensation could cover tax relief or reduced levies, he said.

The regulation also controlled the mechanism of reward and fines.

The regulation stipulates that owners of buildings declared cul-ture preserves who have consis-

tently cared for their buildings deserve to receive awards from the Surabaya mayor. On the other hand, if they renovate or demolish buildings without abiding by proper procedures, owners will be subject to sanctions, he said.

Hendro, who is former chief of the Surabaya city development planning agency (Bappeko), said the city administration has inten-sively encouraged the private sector to become involved in the conserva-tion of culture preserves.

“Thank God the public, particu-larly the private sector, have posi-tively responded to the call. This means that awareness of the need to care about culture preserves has really been instilled in the people of Surabaya,” he said.

A man holds a poster as police offi-cers stand watch dur-ing a rally against the Is-lamic State group, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014.

Associated Press

BANDA ACEH — Authorities in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province have caned five men for gambling.

Saabaruddin, chief of security guards in the Pidie district capital of Sigli, said Saturday that the men were caught playing dominos for money at a coffee stall in February. He said the men were detained at a city penitentiary and were convicted by a Shariah court last week.

Saabaruddin, who uses one name, said hundreds of onlookers watched as the men were caned after Friday prayer at Sigli’s main mosque.

He said one of the men was caned eight times, while the other four were caned seven times.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, has a policy of secularism but allows Aceh, located on Sumatra island, to imple-ment a version of Shariah, or Islamic law.

Energy minister resigns in corruption scandal

5 gamblers caned in Aceh province

“Maryam” wins prize in Venice Film Festival

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LONDON - An Indonesian film entitled “Maryam” directed by Sidi Saleh won Horizons Prize for the Best Short Film in the 71st Venice International Film Festival.

Surabaya receives award for maintaining culture preserves

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The developments have helped push Hollande’s popularity to new record lows. Three polls released in recent days show that he has lower approval ratings than every other French president in modern times. This week, ex-partner Valerie Tri-erweiler described Hollande as a mean liar in a book released seven months after they broke up, amid reports that he was having an affair with French actress Julie Gayet.

Not only did Trierweiler spread intimate details of Hollande’s infi-delities, but she also depicted the Socialist leader as someone who despises the poor — a grave politi-cal sin for a left-wing leader who won election in 2012 on promises of social justice. According to Trier-weiler, Hollande once disdainfully referred to the poor as those with “no teeth” — a reference to people who can’t afford dental care.

The expression shocked many and immediately became the top hashtag on Twitter in France, seized upon by Hollande’s critics. Some right-wing activists dubbing them-selves the “no teeth” movement

held a small protest near the Elysee Palace on Friday evening. A visibly indignant Hollande defended him-self at a news conference, insisting that serving the poor is his “reason for being.”

This new political storm comes just days after Hollande appointed a new Cabinet to silence ministers who had openly criticized his economic policy, and to send a pro-business signal to the European Union. But with unemployment over 10 percent and no economic growth, the new government had no grace period.

A remark by new Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron that he would be open to rethinking France’s 35-hour workweek caused big uproar in the French left. A few days later, Labor Minister Francois Rebsamen said he wanted the coun-try’s unemployment services to bet-ter monitor jobseekers — causing uproar among unions.

And then Thursday, a junior minister of the new Cabinet, Thom-as Thevenoud, was forced to quit because of problems with tax

authorities, according to the prime minister’s office.

Even once-popular Prime Min-ister Manuel Valls has seen his approval rating plummet to around 30 percent in recent weeks. He faces a confidence vote Sept. 16 at which dozens of Socialist parlia-ment members who disapprove of Hollande’s spending cuts could try to spread rebellion among leftist ranks. Far right leader Marine Le Pen asked for dissolution of Parlia-ment to organize new elections.

Another threat may come from the mainstream conservatives, meeting this weekend in Nice after a couple of years of division and tumult. Many are hoping that Sarkozy announces his candidacy for the party’s top job, a first step toward a potential bid to regain the presidency in 2017 after losing it to Hollande in 2012.

Hollande insisted Friday he wouldn’t let the avalanche of bad news get him down. “I’ve been elected for 5 years by the French people. There is no poll... that may interrupt (my) term.”

Associated Press

LONDON — The British gov-ernment plans to offer Scotland more financial autonomy in the coming days as polls predict a very close vote in the upcoming referendum on Scottish indepen-dence.

Chancellor George Osborne told BBC Sunday that the govern-ment is finalizing plans to give Scotland “much greater” fiscal and tax autonomy and will unveil the proposals in the coming days.

He spoke after polls showed a tightening of the vote ahead of the September 18 referendum on whether Scotland should become independent from Britain.

Osborne said the polls show how important every vote will be and reiterated that an indepen-dent Scotland would not be able to use the British pound.

He said Britain’s three main political parties understand Scot-tish voters want more autonomy and that the new proposals would be substantive.

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BEIJING — Chinese authorities killed almost 5,000 dogs in one city after blaming five human deaths on rabies, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.

The city of Baoshan in southwestern Yunnan province killed 4,900 dogs and vaccinated another 100,000 in its anti-rabies campaign, Xinhua said. The city issued an urgent order calling for authorities to tightly regulate dogs and kill stray ones.

Chinese governments often order such widespread dog culls or ban dog ownership to control the spread of rabies. That has sparked outcry from some dog owners and animal rights activ-ists who call for sterilizing and vaccinating dogs rather than killing them.

In 2009, authorities in the northern city of Hanzhong report-edly killed about 37,000 dogs after a rabies outbreak, including clubbing some of the animals to death.

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French President Francois Hollande gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the end of the NATO summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014.

French president in trouble, in public and private

Associated Press

PARIS — Things can’t get much worse for French President Francois Hollande: The economy is lagging; his new government is already under fire; and his private life has just been exposed in a ravaging book by the former first lady. Adding to his concerns is the possibility that his chief rival — conservative Nicolas Sarkozy — will launch a political comeback this weekend.

China kills nearly 5,000 dogs

to control rabies

UK offers Scotland more autonomy ahead of vote

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SNP leader Alex Salmond visits Brownings Bakers bakery where he was presented with ‘Aye’ branded cakes, as the Scottish independence referendum campaign continues, in Kilmarnock, Scotland, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.

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SAN FRANCISCO — China’s Alibaba Group is seeking to raise up to $24.3 billion in its upcoming IPO — an amount that would be the most raised by a company in a stock market debut.

The e-commerce company and its early investors are hoping to sell up to 368 million shares for $60 to $66 apiece, according to a regula-tory filing late Friday that sets the stage for Alibaba Group Ltd. to make its long-awaited debut on the New York Stock Exchange later this month.

The documents didn’t spell out when trading would begin. The debut is likely to come somewhere from Sept. 18 through Sept. 26. The timing hinges on how many issues regulators raise with the IPO.

The company’s management will begin to travel around the world next week to meet with money man-agers and other investors interested in investing in Alibaba’s IPO. If in-terest increases, the IPO price could be higher than $66 per share.

Alibaba has emerged as a hot commodity because of its e-com-merce bazaar, a shopping magnet for businesses and consumers alike as China’s economy steadily grows. The company’s network of sites includes Taobao, Tmall, and AliEx-

press, as well as Alibaba.Most of Alibaba’s 279 million

active buyers visit the sites at least once a month on smartphones and other mobile devices, making the company attractive to investors as computing shifts away from laptop and desktop machines.

At $66 per share, Alibaba would debut with a market value of $163 bil-lion. That would be more than all but a handful of technology companies, a testament to Alibaba’s stunning growth since former schoolteacher Jack Ma started the company in his apartment 15 years ago.

Alibaba plans to sell 123 million of the shares, with the rest being offered by the company’s early investors, including Yahoo Inc., which is parting with some of its 22-percent stake.

The fundraising target eclipses the $16 billion Facebook raised in 2012, the most for a technology IPO. It also would top the all-time IPO fundraising record of $22.1 billion set by the Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. in 2010, according to the research firm Dealogic.

Even at $60 per share, Alibaba’s IPO would come close to matching the record set by the Agricultural Bank of China.

Still, it’s possible investors won’t like what they hear during Alibaba’s upcoming management presenta-

tions, dropping the IPO price.In its last fiscal year ending

March 31, Alibaba earned $3.7 bil-lion, making it more profitable than eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. combined. Amazon ended Friday

with a market value of about $160 billion while eBay’s market value stood at $67 billion.

Like China’s consumer and In-ternet market, Alibaba is still grow-ing rapidly. The company’s revenue

in its latest quarter ending in June surged 46 percent from last year to $2.54 billion while its earnings climbed 60 percent to nearly $1.2 billion, after subtracting a one-time gain and certain other items.

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On Wednesday, Abe gave key jobs -- including the justice minis-try and oversight of the embattled nuclear power sector -- to women, who now make up more than a quar-ter of the 18-strong cabinet.

“Creating a society where women can shine is a big challenge that the Abe cabinet is taking on,” said the conservative premier, who swept to power in late 2012 on a ticket to kickstart the lumbering economy.

The move followed growing calls for Japan to make better use of its highly-educated but underemployed

women as a rapidly ageing popula-tion strains the public purse.

Tokyo wants to boost the ratio of women in senior positions to 30 percent by 2020, up from 11 percent now, one of the lowest rates in the world.

Dozens of Japan’s biggest firms -- including Toyota, Panasonic and All Nippon Airways -- recently announced targets for boosting the number of executive women.

But the task is a daunting one in a country where sexist attitudes are still prevalent and men dominate

politics and business.Long working hours, boozy

after-work sessions with the boss, and not enough childcare facilities are also among the reasons why many working Japanese women opt to stay at home or give up hopes of promotion after having children.

“The corporate gender gap in Japan is thought to be a result of indirect discrimination against women,” said Kazuo Yamaguchi, a sociology professor at the Univer-sity of Chicago.

“For example, willingness to work long hours seems to be a condition for promotion for women, but not for men.

“Another example is a corporate practice of placing women in posi-tions that have fewer opportunities for promotion despite high job-

performance evaluations.”Chie Kobayashi, a mother of

two, transferred to Nissan’s Brazil office in 2005, becoming the first working mother at the Japanese automaker to work overseas.

“I had been hoping to work in a foreign country since I was young and single,” said Kobayashi, 46, now the Tokyo-based head of Nis-san’s diversity development office.

Kobayashi, who joined Nissan straight out of university, credits a tie-up with France’s Renault in 1999 for boosting her job choices.

“Compared with other Japanese companies, Nissan is probably ad-vanced in terms of diversity in person-nel, as it was forced to change when it joined with Renault,” she told AFP.

But Kobayashi cast doubt on the government targets.

“If you try to achieve numerical targets by any means, it could bring about a skewed situation such as lenient performance assessments for women,” she said.

Meaningful change in company demographics will only come if more Japanese women want to work and the environment welcomes them, added French sociologist Muriel Jol-ivet, who has been living and teaching in Japan for years and has written several books on Japanese society. “These kind of (numerical) goals don’t mean anything,” she said.

Old attitudes can be another bar-rier, an issue highlighted this sum-mer when a member of Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) admitted he hurled sexist taunts at a Tokyo assemblywoman during a council debate on motherhood.

Japan’s bid for economy driven by women faces big hurdlesAgence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appointment of a record number of women to his cabinet highlights efforts to power the economy by boosting the female workforce -- but he faces myriad challenges turning that vision into reality.

Alibaba seeks to raise up to $24.3 billion in IPO record

AP Photo/FileIn this March 17, 2014 file photo, people walk past a company logo at the headquarters of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province.

“We are still searching for the missing Australian tourist, and we still have not found any signs of him,” Nusa Penida Police Chief Police Commissioner Nyoman Suarsika stated on Friday.

Peter James Alexander Maynard, the missing tourist from Noosa, Queensland, Australia, was last seen having breakfast in his bun-galow in Nusa Penida on Tuesday (Aug. 26).

Maynard was scheduled to check out from the bungalow on Thursday (Aug. 28), but he was not traceable and had left his belongings, includ-ing his surfboard, in the bungalow, Suarsika revealed.

The police have been trying to trace the whereabouts of Maynard by contacting local shops providing diving and surfing gear, in case he shows up or had been there since he was reported missing.

“We are still unsure what can possibly be the cause of Mr May-nard’s disappearance, and we are still trying to find him,” Suarsika noted.

Peter Maynard’s wife, Kylie Maynard, is also assisting the lo-cal police in the search for her husband.

During the stay in Bali, the victim happened to spend holidays alone by surfing at Lembongan. His wife was unable to accompany because she was busy working in Australia. So, the victim traveled alone to Bali for a holiday.

Before known to disappear, the victim could send a short message to his wife on August 22 that he would holiday to Lembongan for surfing. After sending the last mes-sage, there was no information from the victim.

Meanwhile, having checked at

the bungalow where he stayed, the victim’s wife and another family recognized if the items at the bun-galow belonged to the victim. They included a wallet, passport, camera, mobile phone and another cloth. However, in the checking, the vic-tim’s wife admitted not to find one of the three surfboards. The victim brought along three surfboards from Australia to Bali.

When checked last Saturday, the victim’s surfboard only remained two pieces. In addition, one of the victim’s surfing shirts was not found, either.

However, Suarsika could not ascertain if the victim disappeared while surfing on Jungutbatu Beach. Based on testimony of one of the witnesses at the bungalow, the victim who checked in on August 23 was seen to only carry two surf-boards. In addition, the victim was also known to surf once in front of the bungalow on August 26 as the wave condition was not good. “From testimony of a witness at the bungalow, the victim only surfed once, while the victim lazed at the

bungalow on the remaining days,” said Suarsika

Suarsika also added that there was no special agent from Australia to assist the victim’s family coming to check the victim’s property at the bungalow where he stayed. Family of the victim that came to Lembon-gan included his wife, in-laws and parents. After checking in room in room number 205 on the second floor where the victim stayed, the family immediately took all the victim’s properties to the Consul-ate in Denpasar. “We do not know where the victim’s family stayed in Denpasar. Before going to hotel, he said the victim’s family wanted to make a report first to the consul-ate,” he said.

To note, Peter came to Lembon-gan on Saturday (Aug 23) around 1:30 p.m. To get to Lembongan, he rode the Bali Brio boat from Sanur. Arriving at Lembongan, Peter then headed to Nusa Indah Bungalow and occupied room number 205 on second floor at Lembongan. Dur-ing at Lembongan, Peter planned to stay for five days. He would

check out on August 28 from the bungalow. However, after five days went by the existence of Peter was unknown.

The missing of Peter at Lem-bongan was just known after the bungalow owner named Kadek Maryanta aka Tomo checked the room condition occupied by Peter because the victim would incidentally check out on August 28.

However, after checking the victim’s room it was apparently still locked. The key to the vic-tim’s room was known to have been commended at receptionist. Being suspicious if something bad happened, the bungalow owner then checked the victim’s room.

However, to date the victim did not go back to the bungalow. Ultimately the bungalow owner reported the incident to Nusa Penida Police. Even, the officer getting the report directly listed the victim in the missing person search list (DPO). Moreover, the victim had not been found so far. (119)

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DENPASAR - Bali’s exports in the first seven months of 2014 rose 4.16 percent to US$300.95 million from US$288.93 million in the same period last year.

The export hike was chiefly fueled by home industry, which contributed US$104.68 million or 34.78 percent of the overall exports, according to data from the Bali provincial industry and trade of-fice on Friday.

The exports from home industry represented a 2.29 percent increase compared with US$102.34 million in the same period last year.

Household handicraft industry contributed US$133.15 million to the overall exports, up 11.48 percent from US$119.44 million in the January-July 2013 period. Handicraft industry, which comprises 14 different commodities, made up 44.24 percent of the total non-oil/non-gas exports.

The export of plantation products was recorded at US$1.34 million in the January-July 2014 period, a 138.25 percent surge compared with US$563,924.56 million in the same period last year.

Meanwhile, fisheries and maritime sector con-tributed US$61.14 million or 20.32 percent of the overall exports.

However, the export of other commodities declined to US$ 625,597.79 from US$1.80 million.

Head of the Central Statistics Agency office in Bali Province Panusunan Siregar said part of the exports was shipped through Benoa Port in Denpasar, while the rest through other ports in Indonesia.

Police search Australian tourist missing for 10 days Bali Post

DENPASAR - Bali Police is still searching for an Australian tourist who reportedly went missing ten days ago, and there were no signs hinting to his disappearance.

Export up 4.16 percent

IBP/File PhotoBali’s exports in the first seven months of 2014 rose 4.16 percent to US$300.95 million from US$288.93 million in the same period last year.

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Ahmad Kamal, a spokesman for Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority, said at least 69 people have died in the eastern Punjab province since Thursday. He said another 48 people died in the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir and 11 died in northern Gilgit Bal-tistan province. Kamal said officials believe most were killed when the roofs of their homes collapsed. He said the deluge has injured 261 people across the country.

“We are dispatching tents and other relief items for those who have been affected because of rains and floods,” he said. He said the army was using helicopters and boats to evacuate people from affected areas and had set up nearly 50 re-lief camps to shelter them. Kamal said more than 4,000 homes across the country collapsed partially or completely, rendering thousands homeless. Homes in Pakistani vil-lages are often built with mud bricks and without concrete foundations, making them vulnerable to collapse under heavy rains.

In India, authorities put the death toll at 108 people, including some 30 people killed when a bus filled with a wedding party washed away in a flooded stream. Four passengers managed to swim away, but others remain unaccounted for, officials said. At least 300 federal rescue workers have joined thousands of state police and soldiers to rescue tens of thousands of people stranded across the region. “The government will leave no stone unturned to help the people in distress,” Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in a statement.

Dozens of bridges have been dam-aged or washed away, and authorities fear the death toll may rise in the region as more flooding and rain is forecast for the coming days.

State-run Pakistan television showed inundated villages, sub-merged roads and damaged homes across Pakistan and Kashmir. Paki-stan and India suffer widespread flooding during the annual monsoon season. In 2010, flash floods killed 1,700 people in Pakistan.

Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea — Detained American Matthew Miller will be tried next Sunday, North Korean state media said, less than a week after the detainee made a rare foreign media appearance to plead for help.

Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch Sunday that the Supreme Court decided to “judge” Miller on Sept. 14. It did not elaborate on specific charges against him, although past reports have accused him of hostile acts.

Miller, 24, was detained after entering the country April 10, when he tore up his tourist visa at the airport and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum, KCNA has reported.

In a brief interview with The Associated Press in Pyongyang last week, Miller and two other Americans held by North Korea, Jeffrey Fowle and Kenneth Bae, called for Washington to send a high-ranking U.S. representative to make a direct appeal for their freedom.

North Korea has often used detained Americans as bargaining chips with Washington in the past. Senior statesmen

including former President Bill Clinton have made trips to Pyongyang to secure the release of detainees.

Bae, a Korean-American missionary who is accused of plotting to overthrow Pyongyang regime, has been sentenced to a 15-year term. He said last week that his health has deteriorated at the labor camp where he works eight hours a day.

Fowle arrived in the country on April 29. He is suspected of leaving a Bible in a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin. Christian evangelism is consid-ered a crime in North Korea. Fowle lives in Miamisburg, Ohio, and has a wife and three children.

National Security Council spokesman Patrick Ventrell said White House has “closely” followed their cases and that it is doing all it can to win their “earliest possible release.”

The U.S. has repeatedly offered to send its envoy for North Korean human rights issues, Robert King, to Pyongyang to seek a pardon for Bae and other U.S. detainees, but without success. Washington has no diplomatic ties with North Korea and no embassy in Pyongyang. Instead, the Swed-ish Embassy takes responsibility for U.S. consular affairs.

Monsoon rains kill 128 in Pakistan, 108 in IndiaAssociated Press Writer

ISLAMABAD — Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods have killed 128 people in Pakistan and 108 people in India, officials said Saturday, as forecasters warned of more rain in the coming days and troops raced to evacuate people from deluged areas. The annual monsoon season has struck hard across the region, leav-ing people to wade through rushing water in towns and villages across Pakistan and in Indian-controlled areas of Kashmir, where authorities say they are seeing some of the worst flooding in decades.

AP Photo/Channi Anand

A man looks at the damaged bridge over the swelling Tawi River in Jammu, India, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. Heavy monsoon rains have caused flash floods and landslides that left more than 100 people dead in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir and in eastern Pakistan, officials said Friday.

Detained American in North Korea gets trial date

AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, FileFILE - In this Sept. 1, 2014 file photo, Jeffrey Fowle, an American detained in North Korea, speaks to the Associated Press, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Fishermen hav-ing boats at Fish Landing Base (PPI) of Sangsit have begun to lack of diesel supply over the past few days. This complaint was submitted by fishermen considering formerly they could usually buy ten drums of diesel containing 220 liters per drum, but lately they could only buy maximally five drums. Definitely, this condition will disrupt the deliv-ery and departure schedule of fish. As a result, many fish tend to rot.

At the PPI Sangsit, fishermen regularly send fish from Sapeken Island (Madura) to PPI Sangsit and vice versa. The economy hav-ing been running smoothly and supporting most fishermen so far faced the problem in the matter of diesel supply. Their fish tend to rot because fishermen can only send fish every three days instead of every two days by sea. “We complain about the restriction on the purchase of diesel. Our depar-ture schedule to send fresh fish is ultimately delayed, so that many fish are rotting. Being unable to send it immediately, many fish rot, reaching 30 percent of the fish catch in the high seas,” said Napang, 37, a fisherman at PPI Sangsit, Friday afternoon (Sep 5).

A number of fishing boats were forced to spend the night in order to get fuel before leaving. For once departure, fishermen required up to five drums of diesel. Due to limited

supply of diesel, fishermen should be patient for being unable to send fish immediately. “Yes, we must stay for one night, sir, because we cannot be back to send fish. We’ve

waited for diesel here for almost six hours, but it is not available. In normal condition, we can arrive last night around 24:00 local time for the voyage from the PPI Sangsit

06:00 a.m. to Sapeken Island. So, we have to wait for the diesel supply until it comes,” he said.

An officer of the SPDN Sangsit justified a number of complaints of fishermen regarding the restriction of diesel at Pertamina Depot at Mang-gis, Karangasem. As a result, the delivery was disrupted and fishermen were advised to tolerate. “Every two weeks, we are regularly sent eight tons of diesel fuel from Manggis. Now, almost more than two weeks, we have not received any delivery yet. This happens due to restriction at Pertamina Depot at Manggis, Karan-gasem,” said the officer asking not to publish the name.

Meanwhile, the Head of Bule-leng Cooperatives, Industry and Trade Agency, Ni Made Arnika, explained that Pertamina had nor-malized the fuel supply since a week ago, where one of them was by adding 5 to 10 percent of quota in Buleleng. “It is true that Pertamina has normalized the fuel supply in Buleleng. If the price will be increased, the condition is indeed like this (supply limited—Ed). Moreover, some time ago, local people were busy buying fuel in bulk. It also triggers crowdedness, but the condition has now returned to normal at every petrol station,” said Arnika. (kmb34)

At least there are 14 units of landscap-ing becoming the attention and authority for maintenance by Gianyar government through the Gianyar Sanitation and Land-scaping Agency (DKP). Of the dozens of landscaping spreading across some points, they have a total area of 213,060 square meters. For that purpose, the Sanitation and Landscaping Agency only has totally 77 workers divided into four groups.

Additionally, it still faces obstacles in the matter of restricted maintenance cost compared to the making of new landscap-ing program which can amount to billions of rupiahs. In terms of maintenance, the allocation of fund remains incorporated in the budget of the Sanitation and Landscap-ing Agency where it has the allocation of IDR 2 billion in 2014.

The Division Head of Sanitation and Landscaping Agency, DKP Gianyar, Dewa Ngakan Manuaba, did not dismiss such con-

dition. However, in terms of comparison of the total area of landscaping to the existing maintenance workers, it was still less compa-rable. Ideally, each group of the landscaping maintenance consisted of 50 workers.

Nevertheless, the existing workers were empowered so that the landscaping under the authority of the Sanitation and Land-scaping Agency could still be maintained so far. Similarly, in response to the budget constraint, the agency in this case should make adjustments to the existing funds.

In 2014, in addition to making a pond in the area of Ciung Wanara Park, the agency would also arrange the border at the entrance to Gianyar, install decorative light-ing at the Astina Square and plant sidewalk shade trees. “In addition to making minor maintenance, his party will also arrange the garden along the boulevard and paint of the sculptures in the garden,” he said. (kmb16)

Landscaping maintenance still lacks of labor and budget Bali Post

GIANYAR - The arrangement and maintenance for a number of landscaping units in Gianyar County stays sober. As the region of the art and culture becoming a tour-ist destination, the government still faces a number of obstacles in the maintenance of the aesthetic values along the Gianyar County. Some of them are related to labor and minimal maintenance costs for the landscaping.

IBP/gungdarThe landscaping officers in Gianyar are working to imporve the condition of the garden in the city

Fishermen send fish late due to lacking of diesel supply

IBP/Dewa KusumaThe boat is waiting for diesel fuel supply before moving

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Michelin-starred chefs have come to the restaurant for tutelage in the art of traditional wok cooking over intensely hot charcoal braziers. Bangkok’s well-heeled park their luxury cars outside, which is a good clue for first-timers who have trou-ble finding the small eatery since it lacks an English-language sign.

The owner presides over two flaming street-side woks and is revered by regulars for her rendi-tions of ordinary Thai dishes. She is known and celebrated for her pad kee mao, or “drunken noodles,” a steaming plate of chewy, seared rice noodles with crunchy hearts of coconut palm, hulking fresh shrimp and just the right amount of throat-warming spice. To eat it once is to be haunted by it and need to return.

Other favorites are Jay Fai’s rad na, an unspicy cousin of pad kee mao, and her $25 crab omelet — which is packed with half a kilogram (1 pound) of fresh crab chunks and wrapped in a delicate

egg binding.The prices defy the belief that all

street food is cheap. Noodle dishes at Raan Jay Fai (raan simply means restaurant) cost about $12 a plate, compared to roughly a dollar at most roadside venues. But devotees will tell you to eat at Jay Fai first, and judge later.

For a cheaper option, Jay Fai’s neighbor down the street is Thip Samai, a noodle joint touted to have the best pad thai in Bangkok.

Whether that’s true or not, there’s no dispute about its popularity. A line forms outside at 5 p.m., when it opens, as a station of cooks churn out huge wok-loads of pad thai from a sidewalk kitchen.

Thip Samai’s menu consists of eight types of pad thai. The tradi-tional version costs 50 baht ($1.50). A variety called “superb pad thai,” which has a reddish color from shrimp oil and comes wrapped in a thin egg omelet, is 80 baht ($2.50). For the carb-conscious there’s “pad thai without noodles,” with extra

shrimp and tofu, also for 80 baht.Thip Samai started as a food stall,

then moved indoors in 1966. Its wood-paneled walls are decorated with vintage posters and pictures of its now-deceased founder who used to cook the dish for the late Queen Mother of Thailand. The Queen Mother suggested that a fresh co-conut slush would pair nicely with the pad thai, the restaurant says. It’s a delicious combination, as is its trademark fresh orange juice, served with an extra-thick straw to suck up the pulp.

A note for finding Raan Jay Fai or Thip Samai: Take a taxi. They’re on a non-descript street in one of Bangkok’s old neighborhoods, where skyscrapers and subways don’t yet exist. Mahachai Road — or Thanon Mahachai in Thai — is near Chinatown and the Golden Mount, a Buddhist temple also known as Wat Saket. Neither is open for lunch or takes credit cards. It’s best to go for an early dinner to avoid lines.

“The significant increase puts China in the second place in the list of countries contributing the largest number of tourists to Bali, after Australia, which is at the top,” Panasunan Siregar, the head of the Bali Bureau of Statistic Center, said on Sunday.

The number of Chinese tourists in Bali has surpassed the number of those from Malaysia and Japan.

China contributed 15.80 per-cent of the total number of foreign tourists visiting Bali, which is 2.06 million in the first seven months of this years.

The total number of foreign tourists visiting Bali in the first seven months this year was also

up by 16.66 percent, reaching 2.08 million people from 1.79 million in the same period last year.

Bali, one of the world’s most famous tourist destinations, has set a target of attracting at least 3.5 mil-lion foreign tourists, or a 10 percent increase, in 2014 from last year’s target of 3.18 million.

The total number of foreign travelers who visited Bali in 2012 was around 2.89 million, or 96.4 percent of the target set.

In 2013, Bali exceeded its target of attracting 3.1 million foreign tourists, as the number of direct foreign tourist arrivals to the island reached 3,278,697, or up by 13.37 percent from last year’s figure.

In January-June period this year, the number of foreign visitors to Bali totaled 1,727,875, a hike of 15.73 percent from 1,493,020 in the same period last year.

Australia supplied the highest number, with 446,406 visitors, in the same period, followed by visi-tors from China reaching 264,840 and Malaysia 109,298.

The number of Russian holiday makers visiting Bali, however, has declined lately due to escalation of conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.

The number of Russians visiting Bali shrank 12 percent to 29,783 in the first half of this year from 45,216 in the same period in 2013.

Agence France-Presse

NAPLES - Nowhere does pizza quite like Naples, and the Italian city is determined to maintain its reputation as the spiritual home of one of the world’s favourite foods.

For the last week, the gritty southern port has been playing host to “Napoli Pizza Village” -- an extra-large celebration of the art of combining bread and tomato sauce with cheese and just about anything else that comes to hand into a plate-ful of calorific yumminess.

More than 50 pizza joints from the city and much further afield joined forces to create the world’s largest open-air “pizzeria” as chefs from all over the world congregated to swap notes and pass on tips along the seafront.

Some of them were also vying for the prestigious title of champion “pizzaiolo”, as the Italians refer to the cooks trusted with whisking the national dish in and out of fiery ovens.

Naples certainly didn’t invent the idea of bread with a savoury topping. Such dishes were common across the Middle East long before the late 19th Century, when Nea-politan baker Raffaele Esposito is credited with giving birth to what we now think of as pizza with his creation of the Margherita.

The celebrated mix of tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and basil was inspired by the red, white and green colours of the Italian flag.

“Raffaele created it in honour of Queen Margherita,” who was Italy’s queen from 1878-1900, local Lello Magnetti told AFP-TV.

“But pizza’s origins are much older. Let’s just say that they have even found Chinese roots for it!”

Organisers of this week’s festivities were anticipating feeding half a million people by the time the festivities wrapped up on Sunday.

“Through an event intended to defend a product, we have managed to promote a whole city and its region,” said Sergio Miccu, the chair of the organisation “Pizzaiuoli Napolitani”, which put on the show.

Among the chefs willing to put their pizza to the ultimate test of judgement by their peers was South Korean Joo Young, who had travelled from Seoul in search of fresh insight into his chosen profession.

“Real Neapolitan pizza is still not very well known in Korea, but, little by little, people are beginning to hear about it,” Joo told AFP as he showed off his creation of a pizza in the form of a bowler hat of the kind favoured by Toto, a famous comic actor often considered to have been Italy’s Charlie Chaplin.

Joo’s creation was not enough to win him the top prize, which went to 28-year-old local Valentino Libro di Quarto, who succeeds his compatriot Davide Civitiello and a long line of overseas winners of the “Caputo” trophy.

Among those dishing out lessons was 70-year-old Gennaro Cervone, a born-and-bred Neapolitan who put together his first pizza at the age of seven. Among those on the receiving end of his wisdom was Loredana, who told AFP-TV she had come in search of “the secrets of the pizzaoilo”.

To which Cervone’s reply is: “There are no secrets! Water, flour, yeast and salt: that is the secret!”

Not quite, it would seem. Seconds later this veteran of the ovens is whispering that “a little spoon of sugar in the dough -- that helps to bring out the colour during the cooking”.

Famous for producing a pizza with a base that is es-sentially well-proven bread -- as distinct from the crispy wafer-thin crust favoured up the coast in Rome -- Naples wants its signature dish included on the list of foodstuffs considered by the UN’s cultural arm UNESCO to form part of the heritage of humanity.

In its spiritual home, a celebration of all things pizza

AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

This Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 photo showsvPad Thai, cooking at Thip Samai restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand. Thip Samai’s menu consists of eight types of Pad Thai. The traditional version costs 50 baht ($1.50).

Famous noodles in BangkokAssociated Press

BANGKOK — With its fluorescent bulbs and cafeteria-style tables, the Bangkok restaurant Raan Jay Fai wouldn’t win any awards for interior decorating. But that hasn’t deterred Martha Stewart, one of the restaurant’s many fans. After a visit and memorable meal, the decor guru called the restaurant’s 70-year-old owner and sole chef — who is named Jay Fai — “the best cook in Thailand.”

Antara

DENPASAR - Star-rated hotels in the Indonesian resort island of Bali witnessed an average 0.70 percent decline in their oc-cupancy rate to 61.40 percent in July 2014 from 62.10 percent a month earlier.

“The occupancy rate is quite good, as normally an occupancy rate of above 50 percent is sufficient to cover operating costs, including employees’ salaries,” head of the Central Statistics Agency office in Bali Province Panusunan Siregar stated on Saturday.

Bali received 361,066 interna-tional visitors in July 2014, up 21.21 percent from the same month last year or 9.28 percent from the previ-ous month, he said.

The international visitors mostly stayed at star-rated hotels, which are located in six of nine districts/

municipality in the province, he noted.

Panusunan said the highest room occupancy rate in July 2014 was recorded in Tabanan District at 83.20 percent, down 3.91 percent from 87.11 percent in the previous month.

This was followed by Gianyar District at 62.03 percent, up 6.47 percent from 55.56 percent the previous month.

Meanwhile, the room occupancy rate in Denpasar municipality in July 2014 was recorded at 61.08 percent, Badung 60.98 percent, Buleleng 60.56 percent.

The three districts of Jembrana, Bangli, and Klungkung have no star-rated hotels.

In total, Bali has 2,260 star-rated and non-star hotels with 56,971 rooms, according to the Indonesian Association of Hotels and Restau-rants of Bali chapter.

Star-rated hotels record 61.40 percent

occupancy rate

ANTARA FOTO/Fikri Yusuf

Tourists watched sunset at Dreamland Beach, Bali Island, recently. Star-rated hotels in the Indonesian resort island of Bali witnessed an average 0.70 percent decline in their occu-pancy rate to 61.40 percent in July 2014 from 62.10 percent a month earlier.

Number of Chinese tourists up

IBP/File Photo

Chinese tourists bought Balinese local products at Sukawati Art Market, Gianyar Regency. The number of Chinese tourists visiting Bali Island reached 330,172 people, or an increase of 45.78 percent during January-July 2014, from 226,494 people in last year’s same period.

Antara

DENPASAR - The number of Chinese tourists visiting Bali Island reached 330,172 people, or an increase of 45.78 percent during January-July 2014, from 226,494 people in last year’s same period.

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Monday, September 8, 2014Monday, September 8, 2014

Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014

9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap BesakihPura Dangkahyangan TabananPura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem

13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku BangliPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal MengwiPura Taman Limut Mas Ubud

14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri 19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang BangliPura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan BulelengPura Gunung Pengsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Tengah TegalalangPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan TabananPira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan DenpasarPura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala BesakihPura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Batu Sari UbudPura Penataran Dalem Guliang BangliPura Pasek Dangka Guwang SukawatiPura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem

20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak SiringPura Rambut Siwi JembranaPura Batu Bolong Canggu KutaPura Pasek Marga Klaci TabananPura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru NegaraPura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan BulelengPira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede TabananPura Desa Banyuning BulelengPura Srijong TabananPura Pucak Mundi Nusa PenidaPura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod GianyarPura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud

21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng

3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan BangliPura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba TabananPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah BulelengPura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang

9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTBPura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu KarangasemPura Padharman Arya Telabah BesakihPura Bukit Mentik Batur KintamaniPura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar

10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaBhatara Ratu Gede Celuk GianyarPura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Sesetan DenpasarBhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klung-kungPura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya

17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Cemenggaon GianyarPura Penataran Ped Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa AbiansemalPura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah BulelengPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa PenidaPura Jati Ubud GianyarPura Melanting Ubud GianyarPura Dalem Ped Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Karangasem

19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri 23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

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On 29th of August, Berry Biz held the Grand Opening with attendees from government officials, shareholders, partners, and travel agents. Chic, con-temporary and smart, Berry Biz allows the guest to work in the best conditions away from the usual office.

With 90 business themed guestrooms that come in three different room types, Superior, Deluxe, and Biz Suite, Berry Biz also offers Female Biz Traveler room that equipped with the things needed to stay on the pulse of work-ing and modern in design. All of the type of rooms brings both comfort and professionalism to suit different levels of business travel comfort. Female Biz Traveler Room is one of the unique

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In Bali, at least in 2014, there were 17 cases of corruption coming into the Corruption Court of Den-pasar. Meanwhile, in 2013, there were 25 cases of corruption in Bali coming into the Corruption Court. Responding to such condition, it was considered important to give emphasis on younger generation to habituate the anti-corruption, hating corruption and having the sense of shame because after committing corruption, it will not only give moral burden to the corrupters. But the family especially those remain-ing to belong to the perpetrator’s family will also bear a disgrace and even it becomes a social sanc-tion in the community. Those who have been corrupting have labeled as corrupter.

Afterwards, the question aris-ing is that has the ‘culture’ of shame and or the ‘culture’ of anti-corruption already been extinct in our society? What about the hopes to younger generation? And how is the response to law enforcement of-ficers to combat the corruption?

One of the legal practitioners, Maya Arsanti, has a lot of views when talking about the matter of corruption as well as the prevention. The graduate of the law department said that it was very important to implement the education on corrup-tion in the family. Even, it was also needed to be provided at schools to enlighten the teens if corruption was very embarrassing. Then, she argued that before becoming an im-portant person or any other official,

the national generation should be educated with moral education to form the mental of the nation.

“We need a counseling or edu-cation that corruption is not com-mendable because it has something to do with moral,” said the woman who is active in a legal organiza-tion.

On that account, in addition to giving emphasis on the culture of shame, the prevention of corruption could also be made by providing religious teachings, Pancasila moral education, and character building. “From that point, they must also be provided with the attitude of anti-corruption,” she explained.

In the future, the government was expected to always supervise those who were entrusted for the tasks of

governing the country. Another task of the government was to make the society of Indonesia prosperous, so that all the need aspects could be fulfilled in the community, such as free education, free healthcare, flats and the others.

Meanwhile, the media such as television should not only air a series of advertising, but also air the laws regarding the cause and effect of their actions. She pointed out that people should understand about the law. If they had known the risks of the law, people should do their best to avoid any things that could go up against the laws. On that account, she said that any transactions related to ex-penditure and revenue could be made online so as to facilitate the supervision.

Another legal practitioner, Ha-soloan Sianturi, had not much dif-ferent opinion from that of Maya Arsanti. The key was honesty. According to the man doubling as one of the judges in the Denpasar Corruption Court, corruption had actually appeared in the smallest environment or at home. “For ex-

ample, when we are given money as much as IDR 10,000, spent at IDR 8,000, the remaining IDR 2,000 was not returned. Yeah, it is also called corruption,” said the man of Batak descent. Sianturi added that to prevent the ‘culture’ of corruption could be made through education from an early age. “One of them is by instilling honesty,” he explained.

On that account, he hoped that the corruption with bad connotation should be avoided by society and authorities. One of the measures that could be performed, in ad-dition to honesty, was living the life orderly, timely and must act in accordance with the prevailing norms. “Do not reduce the authority given,” he said.

Responding to corruption in Bali that so far had reached 17 cas-es, Hasoloan Sianturi argued that they indicated if the investigators, both the prosecutors and police, had been getting better. However, it was necessary to upgrade the insight and human resources in order to control, so there would be no deviation. (asa)

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Forest fires on Mendee Hill, Tejakula subdistrict, Buleleng, were alleged to have frequently happened and the surrounding communities have been ready to anticipate the fires in the hill areas. It was revealed by the head of Tejakula subdistrict, Nyoman Widiartha, when met by Bali Post, Saturday (Sep 6). He admitted the fire frequently happened in the forest located on the steep and dry land condition, especially when entering dry season. However, from a series of fires, his party remained to supervise and monitor so that people would not become the victims of the forest fires.

“We continue to monitor the fire situation and hope there will be govern-ment assistance to extinguish the fire. The forest fire has often occurred due to drought in the forest of Mendee Hill. Even, the forest fire regularly happens almost every year,” he said.

He explained that the efforts to extinguish the fire would continue to be done if the fire condition began to

spread closer to residential areas. Loca-tion of the fire was quite challenging and the land condition was filled with dry weeds and plants. “Since the forest fire frequently happens, the community has made an effort through anticipation and alertness. When the fire approaches human settlement, precisely in particular radius, without direct command people will attempt to extinguish the fire,” he explained.

Location of the forest fires in the region of Mendee Hill, expected Wid-iartha, could get the attention of the Bali Forestry Agency because the forest areas needed reforestation and the cultivation of plants according to the type of local environment. To that end, the residents in the vicinity would stay comfortably without the fear of fire.

In the meantime, the hot spots began to spread to Bangli County. “From the information obtained, the hot spots originally originated from Mendee Hill, and now I see the fire heading for the south towards Bangli,” said Widiartha. (kmb34)

Decline in the ‘culture’ of anti-corruption

Moral degradation, weak monitoring systemBali Post

DENPASAR - In the first week of September 2014, the public was shocked by the determina-tion of Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jero Wacik, as the suspect on the allegation of corruption and blackmail. As stated by the Commission of Corruption Eradication (KPK), the modus committed was possibly by ordering his subordinates to raise additional funds to be used as imaging and his own interests. Definitely, many parties stunned on hearing the deter-mination of the minister of the ‘wet’ department originating from yeh Mampeh, Batur village, Kintamani. Many people did not believe it because he diligently came home.

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A fire happen in the forest of Tejakula subdistrict, Buleleng.

Dry land condition, people accustomed to alerting fires

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TORONTO - Jake Gyllenhaal becomes a blood-thirsty crime pho-tographer who rushes to scenes of gruesome murders, home invasions and robberies in order to sell the footage to local television stations in “Nightcrawler.”

The American actor who shot to fame in Ang Lee’s epic film “Broke-back Mountain,” about two men in love, and reaffirmed his acting chops in last year’s “Prisoners” is back at the Toronto International Film Festival this year to promote Dan Gilroy’s directorial debut, appearing leaner and meaner.

He plays Lou Bloom, a loner and petty thief who trolls the Los Angeles night before happening upon so-called nightcrawlers in action.

He buys himself a cheap video camera and a police radio scanner and joins in, going head-to-head with seasoned professionals such as Joe Loder (Bill Paxton).

He thrives in this new line of work, with some help from televi-sion producer Nina, played by Rene Russo (“The Thomas Crown Affair,” “Thor”).

If a crime scene doesn’t quite tell the story Nina wants, he moves bodies around to enhance the photo.

Screenwriter-turned-director Dan Gilroy (“Freejack,” “The Bourne Legacy”) received a warm reception

from the audience at the world premiere of his film.

“I didn’t know when I wrote the script that I would direct it later,” he told the audience.

But after working for a long time in the film industry, he added, “I thought I was ready for that.” In the end, “We all made the film we wanted to make -- something rare and special,” he said.

The film’s com-pletely twisted pro-tagonist does not ap-pear to have a past, a family or even friends. He is chatty and does not like to be contradicted.

“He is a chilling metaphor for film-makers,” said Toron-to film festival artis-tic director Cameron Bailey.

Commenting on the role, Gyllenhaal said he used to cross paths with coyotes growing up in Los Angeles.

“Lou is like the coy-otes in the streets. Los Angeles at night, the wilderness begins, all the animals come out,” he said.

The comedian detailed in her 2012 book “I Hate Everyone ... Starting With Me” that she hoped for “a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action” and “Hollywood all the way.” Instead of a rabbi talking, Rivers asked for “Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents” and “a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyonce’s.”

The actual event Sunday may be slightly more muted. Funeral services at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan will be private and neither the temple nor Rivers’ personal publicist would give further details or divulge a guest list. It was not even known what time the funeral would start. But cameras and a media presence was very likely.

Rivers, who died Thursday at 81, was a trailblazer for all comics, but

especially for women. The raspy-voiced blonde with the brash New York accent was a TV talk show host, actress, a fashion critic, and she sold a line of jewelry.

The cause of death was being investigated. Rivers had been hospitalized since Aug. 28 when she went into cardiac arrest during a routine procedure at a doctor’s office. The New York state health department is investigating the circumstances.

In her book, Rivers joked that dying of natu-ral causes was boring. “It’s the grand finale, act three, the eleven o’clock number — make it count. If you’re going to die, die interesting! Is there anything worse than a boring death? I think not.”

Her publicist said that in lieu of flowers, dona-tions can be made to God’s Love, We Deliver; Guide Dogs for the Blind; or Our House.

Joan Rivers funeral set for Sunday

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Associated Press

NEW YORK — Joan Rivers’ plans for an elaborate, over-the-top funeral may not be exactly what she will get, but it may be close.

Gyllenhaal chases crime shots in ‘Nightcrawler’

Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Scholars (ICPI) of Bali Chapter, I Putu Anom, argued that the government and stakeholders should create a new breakthrough by educating farmers not only on how to grow crops, but also how to educate them to be entrepreneurs. On that account, this sector could be improved and demanded again by the public.

“It’s time to educate farmers in order they can become agricul-tural entrepreneur whose products are ready to compete in terms of quantity and quality. As a result, more and more people will pursue the agricultural sector,” said Putu Anom.

According to him, this time farmers are learning how to produce a quality product to meet the market

demand, particularly in the tourism sector. However, they do not have the ability to manage the abundant post-harvest product.

“Indeed the government needs to make regulation to require tourism industry in Bali so that it serves local fruits and teaches them how to market their products. As a re-sult, the price of products will not slump freely when the harvest is

abundant,” he explained.He said that central and local

government should continue to work with universities to conduct a research and assessment on local products. The effort was made to improve the quantity and quality of local products, so that they could compete in international market. “The government should keep an eye on the products imported and local product in order to still comply with the quality standard, product validity, licensing, health standard and others,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Panusunan Siregar, explained that based on the results of the Ag-ricultural Census 2013, the average income of each farming household

sourcing from the agricultural sector in Bali amounted to IDR 11.97 million each year or about IDR 997,420 per month. From the income, in terms of the agricultural sector, the largest average income sourced from livestock namely at IDR 3.60 million each year or about 30.04 percent. Then, it was followed by plantation business at IDR 2.54 million (21.26 percent), rice crop at IDR 2.32 million (19.41 percent), horticulture at IDR 2.03 million (16.99 percent), marine fishing at IDR 409,000 (3.42 percent), crops at IDR 315,000 (2.63 percent), forestry crops at IDR 291,000 (2.43 percent), marine fish cultivation at IDR 151,000 (1.26 percent) and fish cultivation in ponds or freshwater at IDR 133,000. (kmb27)

Bali agriculture slumps

Farmers must be educated to be entrepreneurBali Post

DENPASAR - Rapid land conversion in Bali has adverse impact on the sustainability of the agricultural sector. Unsurprisingly the sector absorbing much labor turns obsolete. Such dark portrait was seen in the Agricultural Census 2013 where the number of farming household in Bali last year reached 408,233, a decline of 17.09 percent or with the average reduction of 1.70 percent per year since 2003 that was originally recorded to reach 492,394 households. Not only that, of the 404,507 farming households that were formerly cultivating their land in Bali Province, a total of 63.58 percent or 257,181 farming households were categorized into smallholder.

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Rapid land conversion in Bali has adverse impact on the sustainability of the agricultural sector. The government and stakeholders should create a new breakthrough by educating farmers not only on how to grow crops, but also how to educate them to be entrepreneurs.

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