Mark Webber has rubbished sug-gestions that he was backing up his rivals during the Monaco Grand Prix in order to help team-mate Sebastian Vettel.

The Australian started from pole position and took his first win of the season after re-sisting race-long pressure from Mercedes’s Nico Rosberg, who was chased by Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton.

Vettel started the race from 10th posi-tion but used a different strategy than his rivals in order to gain places in the race, the German starting on Pirelli’s soft com-pound and running a lot deeper into the race than the men in front. He pitted on lap 46 and returned to the track in fourth place, ahead of Hamilton’s McLaren.

On Wednesday, Webber denied sug-

gestions that he had deliberately run slower in order to slow down the field and allow Vettel to gain ground on his rivals before his pitstop.

“I heard afterwards people had been speculating that I was ‘backing up’ Nico, Fernando and McLaren’s Lewis Hamil-ton, who was also behind me, to help my team-mate Sebastian Vettel gain places,” wrote Webber in his column for the BBC. “That is absolute rubbish. You just cannot be that fancy around Monaco.

“Ultimately, Seb ran out of tyres and he had to pit because the rest of us started to go quicker, but if they’d kept going he would have been pushing for the win.

“If we had been trying anything on, I could have been even cuter. I cleared Seb by quite a lot. If I’d wanted to slide him in among other people, I could have slowed down and it would have been even better for the team. But it just wasn’t part of the plan.

“The problem with trying to do that would be that you’re exposing yourself to even more pressure from the guys behind - Nico and Fernando in this case. And then the boys in the pits might mess up Seb’s stop and it would all be for nothing. “You always get bitten on the bum when you get fancy. So you just don’t try.”

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Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo, Ducati’s Rossi, last year’s Moto2 runner-up Marc Marquez and a multitude of other riders have been connected with the factory ride. Nakamoto says HRC will not rule out any options, and that the first step will be to speak to current works rider Dani Pedrosa, who is in his seventh straight year with the squad.

“I need to gather my ideas and discuss with my bosses in Japan,” Nakamoto told Motosprint. “Nothing is impossible now. “First of all I want to talk properly to Dani because he’s very strong and he’s been with us for many years. We can talk to Lorenzo, obviously. With Casey leaving we need to rebuild.”

Asked whether Rossi could rejoin HRC, with whom he split acrimoniously at the end of 2003, Nakamoto refused to rule out the possibility, saying: “After all, Valentino started his career in the top class with Hon-da.” He also admitted there was pressure from sponsors Repsol to give Marquez the ride, but insisted that it would be dependent on Dorna’s Carmelo Ezpeleta reversing the rookie rule – and that HRC did not want to pair two Spaniards together.

“[Marquez] is the rider Repsol wants to invest on, but to find out how we’ll

place him you need to wait for Carmelo Ezpeleta’s decision regarding the rookie rule. But HRC will not have two Spanish riders together.” Nakamoto said he did not think Stoner would change his mind, but said HRC would take its time about choosing a replacement for the reigning world champion.

“Maybe after spending one year in Aus-tralia he [Stoner] may feel nostalgic. Few things in this world give you the adrenaline you get from racing. After all, he’ll turn 27 in October: even if he stayed out for one or two years he could come back before he turns 30 and he’d still be strong.

“My mission in 2009 was to make HRC strong again in every aspect, and my job hasn’t ended. When I decided to hire Stoner, no one had anything against it: let’s see what their thoughts are now.

“It’s really early to make plans, be-cause there are many things to evaluate. It’s easy to talk and make predictions, but then to put it all into practice is a lot more complex because everyone’s needs must be considered: companies, sponsors, rid-ers. “And besides, Honda is not in such a hurry to decide: we can take our time to think calmly.”

Webber denied backup to assist teammate

Honda: No rush to find replacement for StonerHonda racing will not rush a decision on who will replace Casey Stoner

from 2013, and will not rule out any options - like that of Valentino rossi returning - according to vice president Shuhei Nakamoto. Stoner’s an-nouncement at Le Mans that he will retire at the end of the year has left Honda with the massive quandary of finding a suitable replacement.

MotoGP rider Casey Stoner of Australia pow-ers his Honda during the

free practice session of the MotoGP of France, in

Le Mans, western France, Friday, May 18, 2012.

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JAKARTA — Villagers have found the flight data recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into a jungle-clad cliff atop an Indonesian volcano three weeks ago, killing 45 people.

The device could help in-vestigators learn why the plane crashed during a May 9 dem-onstration flight for potential buyers.

Daryatmo, chief of Indone-sia’s search and rescue agency, said Thursday that the flight data recorder was buried when mud gushed down from surrounding hills after the Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashed.

He says the recorder was in good condition when villagers found it Wednesday in a deep ravine.

The device recorded data such as the jet’s altitude and speed. Another part of the plane’s “black box,” the cock-pit voice recorder, was recov-ered earlier.

Ngurah Wijaya said the Bali tourism indeed continued to grow. It was indicated by the number of foreign tourist visit tending to increase each year. Unfortunately, the increase in the tourist visit did not have so significant impact

because of the quality of foreign tourists coming to Bali tended to decrease in length of stay and expenses during their stay on this island.

He explained the decline could be seen by comparing the length of

stay and tourist spending prior to the incident of Bali bombings.

According to him, in the past the average length of stay of foreign tourists reached 12 to 14 days with a spending worth USD 250-300 per day. However, the condition had drastically changed today where their average length of stay was only 3.5 days. More sadly, their spending tended to shrink with an average of only USD 100 per day.

Ngurah Wijaya added that foreign tourists who generally stayed longer and took overland tours were those from Europe,

the United States, and Australia. Meanwhile, the Asian tourists had a length of stay of averagely 3-5 days. They visited a local destination and then took photo-graphs, but rarely took overland tours.

Ngurah Wijaya judged that reduction in the length of stay of those tourists happened due to policy of central government in the matter of flight. On that account, the central government should amend the regulation re-garding the flight policy to create overland and increase the length of stay of tourists. (kmb29)

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DENPaSar - The increasing number of foreign tourist visit to Bali was not accompanied by an increase in their length of stay and expenditure. Chairman of the Tourism Industry asso-ciation of Indonesia (GIPI) of Bali, Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya, said on Wednesday (May 30) the quality of foreign tourists who came to the island slumped in the matter of length of stay and their expenditure during their stay in Bali.

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His night was called incredible, amazing and unbelievable — and that was by the Miami Heat. And when it was over, Rondo could only express disappointment that the Boston Celtics needed more.

LeBron James scored 34 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Dwyane Wade scored eight of his 23 points in overtime and the Heat took a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals with a 115-111 win over the Celtics on Wednesday night, overcoming what will surely go down as the best game of Rondo’s career to move within six wins of an NBA title.

“We lost,” Rondo said, shrugging off talk of the historical ramifica-tions of his night. “Simple as that.” Rondo’s final numbers: 44 points, 10 assists, eight rebounds. He scored all 12 of Boston’s overtime points, giv-ing the Celtics the lead three times, only to have the Heat answer each of those. And when he finally missed in the extra session — on a play where Rondo said he got struck in the face by Wade — then and only then could Miami put Boston away.

Game 3 is Friday night in Bos-ton, where the Celtics will try to

make this a series. No Celtics team has successfully rallied from an 0-2 hole since 1969. “He really played his heart out and carried the load for us offensively,” Celtics forward Paul Pierce said. “He shot the ball, did everything possible you could ask for in him. You just hate to see an effort like that really go to waste.”

Mario Chalmers scored 22 points for Miami, which got 13 points, 11 re-bounds and three assists off the bench from Udonis Haslem. The entire Celt-ics bench combined for seven points, five rebounds and one assist.

Miami trailed by 15 points in the first half, making this the largest deficit the Heat have overcome to win a playoff game in their history. Miami had rallied from 14 points down to win twice before in the postseason, one of those being the game that clinched the 2006 NBA title. “There just can’t be any other way with this team,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “And it has to be the hard way.”

The Heat won on a night where so many things — Rondo’s effort included — suggested that they were in going to be in trouble. There

was the big early deficit, a 7-for-20 shooting effort from the floor by James, Wade going scoreless until the final seconds of the first half, 16 missed free throws and two missed chances to win — both shots by James — at the end of regulation.

And if all that wasn’t enough, Boston’s Big Four were Big again. Pierce scored 21 points before foul-ing out. Kevin Garnett scored 18 points and added eight rebounds. Ray Allen, ailing right ankle and all, went through two gameday shoot-ing workouts to try to snap out of a slump and apparently did, finish-ing with 13 points, the last three of those coming on a 3-pointer that tied the game at 99-all with 34.3 seconds left in regulation.

Miami managed to survive it all. Haslem’s dunk with 1:28 left in overtime to put Miami on top for good, Wade had a three-point play with 59.7 seconds left, and the Heat won their sixth straight East finals game going back to last season.

“One of the best games I’ve played in, win or lose,” Heat for-ward Shane Battier said. “It’s easier said when you win — but it’s un-believable.”

Reuters

PARIS - After four days of play, the French Open was left without a Williams sister in the draw on Wednesday when former runner-up Venus joined 2002 champion Serena in mak-ing an early exit. Venus, seven times a grand-slam winner but now coping with an autoim-mune disease, went out tamely 6-2 6-3 to third seed Agnieszka Radwanska.

Serena, whose shock first-round defeat by Frenchwoman

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Boston Celtics’ Rajon Rondo (9) shoots over Miami Heat’s James Jones (22) during the first half of Game 2 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoffs series, Wednesday, May 30, 2012, in Miami.

Heat overcome Rondo, top Boston 115-111 in Game 2Associated Press Writer

MIAMI — Rajon Rondo posted a stat line never before seen in NBA playoff history. He was on the court for every second of a game that finished more than three hours after it started. He scored more points in a single overtime than anyone this season.

Venus joins Serena in early French Open exit

USA’s Venus Williams returns the ball to Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska during their second round match in the French Open tennis tournament at the Ro-land Garros stadium in Paris, Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

Virginie Razzano reverber-ated through the Roland Gar-ros courts on Tuesday, was in the stands to see her big sister thrashed by an in-form Rad-wanska.

Tennis fans rued the loss of both Americans, two of the biggest characters in women’s tennis, but thankfully the men’s favourites are playing to form and both world number one Novak Djokovic and record-breaking 2009 champion Roger Federer survived into the third round.

At least one of the Williams sisters has featured at every French Open since 1997, except for last year when they were both injured, and they contested the final in 2002, with Serena winning.

As though in sympathy with their troubles this year, rain came to Paris after three days of glorious sunshine, and play ended early with fifth-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

level at 6-2 4-6 1-1 with Ger-man Cedric Marcel Stebe on Suzanne Lenglen court.

Venus showed flashes of her old self only at the end of the hour-long match with Radwanska when she won to love for 5-2 and then broke her opponent.

However, Radwanska, cover-ing the whole court and playing some sublime shots, scooped the ball over the American’s head to get to matchpoint in the fol-lowing game and then watched Venus put a forehand out.

Venus was quiet but deter-mined not to be downcast in her news conference, saying she was still learning to live with Sjogren’s Syndrome. “There are a lot of people who have it a lot worse than I do. I am still play-ing a professional sport,” the former world number one said. “I haven’t gotten to the ‘why me?’ yet, I hope I never get to the ‘why me?’ I am not allowed to feel sorry for myself.”AP Photo/Michel Spingler

Denpasar (Bali Post) –Every vehicle will be on an electric

data either its owner or vehicle physical detail to control subside petrol distribu-tion on each petrol station. Moreover government wants this way so it is transparent, accountable and its users on target. Even so, Dean of Economy Faculty for Warmadewa University, I Gst. Ngr. Sanjaya, SE, MSi, Ak stated last Wednesday (30/5) whatever govern-ment’s policy is produced has to make sure its infrastructure or supporting facilities are prepared first so it won’t be only good sayings yet can’t be applied well due to no supporting elements. “Either hardware, software or brain wear (operator) makes sure everything is done well. If none of them existed then do not hope any policy will work as hoped,” Sanjaya stated.

It was then continued that the policy to apply information technology seemed to resulted several questions on accuracy, how much cost it will produce, and is it going to be done completely. Yet to Sanjaya this government program can do well if coming from intellectual research plus with full supervision. This supervision is important as who knows a

sticker can be taken off as consumers are never optimal in not violating any law or circumstances. To guarantee success, Sanjaya suggested that the mechanism of this program has to be prioritized as Petrol and Gas board have to do a good supervision involving police, increasing petrol station operators mental, its own-ers even the public to use non subside petrol. “The public awareness has to be increased, if they can buy luxurious cars they are obliged to use non subside petrol,” Sanjaya explained.

Connecting to the sticker placement, central and regency governments includ-ing state owned cars, Sanjaya thinks this is an expired case and doesn’t mean anything as it seemed their trying to make government owned cars to give a good example to the people yet behind it there must be a debt to close the non subside petrol payment as all this time their operational budget comes from the people’s money either from Regional or Nation Budget and Expenses (APBD and APBN). The best way would to use up all operational cars that existed yet not too much as by using the state facilities; it comes with a price of high operational budget. (kmb28)

Surprisingly, the crop fail-ures happened to the seed assis-tance given by the government, belonging to the Mirah variety. Being unsold, farmers were then forced to harvest their own rice. Their yields drasti-cally dropped up to 80 percent. “Almost all the paddy plants here are damaged as attacked by planthoppers. Therefore, many farmers faced crop failures,” complained Dewa Made Ar-nana, 61, one of the local farm-ers, Wednesday (May 30).

He said the planthoppers had begun to attack since the plants were two months old. These in-sects damaged the stems and the growing grains. Various insecti-cides had been tried by farmers. Unfortunately, no one worked efficaciously. Conversely, the planthopper attack was getting more ferocious and damaged the grains until the harvest season whereas after the trans-plantation up to bearing fruit, they grew flourishingly.

He described the area of local subak territory spread across 60 hectares. Of such amount, nearly 15 hectares were attacked by planthop-pers. As consequence, farmers were losing out. According to Dewa Arnana, the recent harvest yields were unable to cover up the planting costs. “Results of our harvest are not enough to pay the rental of tractor,” he complained again. Farmers hoped there would be a compensation for their crop failure calamity because their planting costs continued to soar every year. Today, the rental of tractor reached IDR 11,000 per 100 square meter. Such amount did not include in the purchase of pesticides.

The calamity of crop fail-ure occurred for the first time experienced by local farmers. Previously, farmers only culti-vated the seedlings belonging to Inpari and Cigelis variety. They always acquired abundant

harvest yields.However, in the last planting

season, farmers were offered new rice variety, named Mirah. Since it was free and recom-mended by the government, farmers ultimately decided to take the seedlings through their pekaseh (subak chief). “We do not know if we would face crop failure like this,” said Dewa Arnana. Despite facing crop failure, farmers would con-stantly plant rice because they had no other job options. Even though farmers had a patch-up capital, they would be farming back with a seed other than Mirah variety.

The Head of Tabanan Food Crop Agriculture and Horticul-ture Agency, Nyoman Budana, promised to come to location to see the condition of the dam-aged rice. “We will have a close look at the scene first. Based on the inspection, we will know what measure to take for the way out,” he said. (kmb30)

Singaraja (Bali Post) –Kiosks located at Lovina Beac,

Buleleng now seemed to cause sellers worried as the completed built kiosks seemed to show that its condition is unmanaged properly as one of them got its ceiling totally holed also the kiosks built above the land of Ka-libukbuk Village now still have no electricity as stated by a number of sellers last Wednesday (30/5).

Sellers admitted do not know what have caused this damaged to the the one year old building yet it is predicted that one of the roofs got broken due to a tree branch falling during the bad weather a while ago. This condition is worried that it will be worsening especially if heavy rain comes that could cause more leak-ing or hit by another tree. It seemed government is not being clear on its management plus not serious in helping sellers when there should be a maintenance done based on its contract. If the kiosks management

is clear it is assured that it’s known who is responsible in such situation, does the seller who has to fix it or the government.

Meanwhile information from Head of Culture and Tourism Agency of Buleleng, Made Suarja, stated the kiosk project is on its maintenance level by the constructor only just this information is not known by them yet and it will be taken action by the Agency by approaching the contractors about this problem. To be known tens of these kiosks were built under the Nation Budget and Expenses above a land owned by Kalibukbuk Village. The kiosks then accommodated a number of sellers so no more of them goes around and caused unease situation for tourists as they get chased by the sellers. Sadly until now it’s management still unclear as Agency haven’t handed it over to the Village’s side as planned officially also a kiosk got damaged already. (kmb)

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The farmer is harvesting his crops.

Attacked by planthoppers, rice of farmers unsoldTabanan (Bali Post)—

Rice farmers in Tabanan are constantly haunted by problems. After being hit by high winds, now they are facing the attack of planthoppers to their paddy plant as experienced by Subak Anyar Kumpi, Sembung Gede village, Kerambitan. As a result, rice of the farm-ers could not be sold because they were totally damaged.

Management of kiosks at Lovina still unclear

Policy without preparation

Sticker to limit subside petrol will be difficult

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A Xabi Alonso penalty and a Santi Cazorla free kick in a four-minute spell early in the second half put Spain back in control and Alvaro Negredo, who like Torres just make the cut, added a fourth. It was not all plain sailing for the world and European champions as South Korea, themselves warming up for a pair of World Cup qualifiers, exposed some gaps in the Spanish rearguard in the first half.

Torres’ place at Euro 2012 next month looked to be in danger when his erratic form for Chelsea and Spain led him to be dropped from the squad for a friendly against Venezuela earlier this year. But his Champions League semi-final goal for Chelsea against Barcelona, when he broke from his own half to score the goal that made the tie safe for the Premier League side, helped swing the pen-dulum back in his favour.

Given another chance, Torres looked sharp from the outset, deflect-ing Santi Cazorla’s shot just wide after two minutes. The 28-year-old forward put Spain ahead when he got behind the South Korea defence to meet a long Benat cross into the area with a backwards header which flew into the net.

It was his first goal since he hit the

target in a 4-0 friendly win over the United States on June 4 last year and the 28th of his international career.

“He is one of those players who brings us speed, draws markers away, never stands still, and gets into positions to receive passes behind the back line,” said Del Bosque, who is without the injured David Villa for the tournament. “Fernando is very happy to be here, he’s euphoric.”

Spain, still without their contin-gent of Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao players after they were involved in the King’s Cup final last Friday, com-pletely dominated possession for the next 15 minutes, barely letting South Korea out of their half.

HELPLESS REINA

Benat was especially impressive and on Wednesday’s performance can consider himself unlucky to be among the players who missed the cut for Poland and Ukraine. After the half hour mark, the Koreans began finding gaps in the Spanish defence and, having already caused a couple of scares, levelled just before the break.

Kim was left free on the edge of the area and rifled a 25-metre shot past the helpless Pepe Reina. Spain

quickly regained control after Igna-cio Monreal’s shot was handled by a defender and Xabi Alonso converted the resulting penalty in the 52nd minute.

Four minutes later, midfielder Santi Cazorla scored with a low free kick which went under the Korean wall. Negredo, included in the squad at the expense of Valencia’s Roberto Soldado, fired the fourth with an angled shot with 10 minutes left.

Spain, who beat Serbia 2-0 in St Gallen on Saturday, have spent one week training in the Austrian Alps, bringing in several younger players to make up for the absence of the Barcelona contingent. Del Bosque said it was worthwhile, even though players such as Benat, Soldado and Adrian Lopez had to be cut from the squad.

“We’ve have very good days for training, no injuries, we have great relationships within the group, everyone has been extraordinary,” said Del Bosque. “This has been more than a mere preparation, we have planted roots for the future with these players.”

Spain start the defence of their European crown against Group C rivals Italy on June 10 before also taking on Ireland and Croatia.

Reuters

LANDOVER, Maryland - Neymar scored a goal and had a hand in two others as Brazil outclassed the United States 4-1 in a one-sided friendly international on Wednesday. The Americans had won their last five inter-nationals in a row, including a 5-1 thumping of Scotland last weekend, but were brought back down to earth by a youthful Brazilian team preparing for the London Olympics.

Neymar opened the scoring after just 12 minutes when he coolly slotted home a penalty after U.S. defender Oguchi Oneywu accidently handballed in the box.

The 20-year-old set up the second goal for the South Americans when he laid on a pinpoint corner that defender Thiago Silva headed past U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard and into the net.

The Americans, who are in the middle of a hectic schedule of warm-ups for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, pulled one back on the stroke of halftime when Herculez Gomez, starting an international for the first time since the 2010 World Cup, nodded in a cross from Fabian Johnson.

The Americans created a handful of chances in the second half but were denied by some acrobatic saves from Brazilian goalkeeper Rafael, who impressed on debut, and some old fashioned bad luck when Onyewu hit the bar.

Brazil were far more clinical when they had opportunities. Neymar cut the ball back inside to present Marcelo with an easy goal after 59 minutes then substitute Alexandre Pato completed the rout when he angled the ball in to score three minutes from time.

Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona defender Eric Abidal could return to play football again after his liver transplant, the surgeon who carried out the operation has said.

The France international, 32, had surgery to remove a tumour from his liver last year, but after returning to play again, was forced to undergo a transplant on April 10 with part of an organ donated by his cousin.

“It’s up to him. I wouldn’t stop him. Time will tell,” doctor Juan Carlos Garcia-Valdecasas was quoted as telling Spanish television station TV3 on Thursday. “If Eric responds well, there is no reason why he shouldn’t.

“The liver is an organ that regenerates in three months. Abidal has to recover little by little, but between three and six months, or up to a year after the intervention, the patient is able to have a normal life.

“He is always in high spirits. He is a very positive character, it is tremen-dous. He has never complained about anything.”

Torres celebrates Euro inclusion by ending droughtReuters

BERNE - Striker Fernando Torres, who scraped into Spain’s Euro 2012 squad by the skin of his teeth, celebrated by ending a year-long goal drought for his country in a 4-1 friendly win over South Korea on Wednesday. Torres, complimented by coach Vicente del Bosque afterwards, gave Spain a 11th minute lead although South Korea then gave them a fright when Kim Do-Heong - who plays for National Police Agency - rifled an equaliser a minute before halftime.

Abidal could return to play again, doctor says

Brazil outclass United States 4-1 in friendly

AP Photo/Nick Wass

Brazil’s Neymar (11) celebrates his goal against the United States during the first half of an international friendly soc-cer game on Wednesday, May 30, 2012, in Landover, Md.

Tabanan (Bali Post)—Investors intensively target at Tabanan

to build a power plant project. When the issue of geothermal power plant project at Bedugul is unresolved, a similar project comes to view. This time, the investor pro-poses a hydroelectric project at Lumbung Kauh village, West Selemadeg subdistrict. As planned, the project will commence in 2013. Proposal of the project was presented by PT Bali Energi Indonesia as investor in front of the Regent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, in the tourist area of Tanah Lot, Tuesday night (May 29).

The hydropower plant mega project was planned to take advantage of the hydropow-er of the Balian River, West Selemadeg. The project was claimed to be environmentally friendly and able to generate up to 7.0 mega-watts (MW). “To anticipate the availability of fuel-fired power plant, we offer the use of hydropower for electricity generation,” said President Commissioner of PT Bali Energi Indonesia, MA. Hannopo. Total investment of the project reached IDR 130-140 billion. According to him, the streams and length of Balian River had been surveyed and they were viable for power generation system using Mini Hydropower Plant.

As planned, the project would use a pure

turbine rotated by a flow of water. If it could be approved, the project would also become a tourist area because the hydropower plant would be developed with the eco-tourism concept. “This project will be designed like a hotel resort,” said Hannopo. He added the hydropower project had advantages over the other power generation. Aside from being silent, its operational costs also tended to be lower.

Related to the offer, the Regent Eka Wiryastuti, Deputy Regent Komang Gede Sanjaya, and Chairman of Commission II of the Tabanan House Ketut Purnaya were unable to give a definite answer. According to the Regent, her party welcomed the offer. However, the project plan should be studied in depth by involving various components of society. “We respond to the offer of in-vestor. But, we must be selective,” she said. Her party, said the Regent, would conduct a study that could be accounted for.

Meanwhile, Headman of Lumbung Kauh, I Gede Nyoman Suwirya, said that his party expected the hydropower plant project could be built in his territory. So far, his village was always isolated. “We agreed to the project, but we have to examine it in depth regarding its positive and negative impacts,” he said. (kmb30)

Chief of Badung Police, Beny Ar-janto, when asked for his confirmation on Wednesday justified the incident. However, his party still made further investigation because there was no definite information. He had not known yet about the chronology of the incident whether the victims were workers at work, the owners or residents who were passing. “We still do not know the exact chronological order. Up to this night (Wednesday—Ed), the information re-mains unclear,” said Chief Beny.

He explained the three dead victims were Ni Ketut Sri Ayu Juniarti, 32, I Nyo-man Suparta, 29, and Ni Ketut Ari, 27. Meanwhile, the injured victim was Imam and the survivor was Komang Wiarsana,

33. Chief Beny explained the dead victims could have been evacuated. “Since the incident, the personnel of Petang Police have been performing the evacuation and examining witnesses,” he explained.

Based on information compiled, the incident occurred when the five people were doing excavation at the quarry C. Unbeknownst to them, the quarry C avalanched and toppled over the five victims. Well, the three victims who died could not escape because their position was inside the pit. Meanwhile, the two other victims could escape. “The surrounding residents immediately helped them and reported the incident to Petang Police,” the source said last Wednesday. (kmb21)

SANGKARAGUNG village in Negara subdis-trict is one of the villages having a cag-cag weav-ing craft as typical product of the Buffalo Race Land. Virtually all the housewives at the hamlet of Sangkaragung have a cag-cag weaving skills inherited from generation to generation. Some of them involve deeply in the profession through a group, while some others do it independently in their spare time beyond regular duties as a housewife. Amidst the condition where weaving craft works are eroded by modern textile indus-try, every family at the village remains firmly to preserve the tradition. In the long run, the crafters are faced with a difficult situation with the price of weaving works tending to drop. They are unable to compete against the modern industry.

Formerly, the craftsmen could reap consider-able income from the making of weaving works, but it now tends to decline continuously. It is caused by the price of cag-cag weaving works are not comparable to the price of raw materials and production cost. “Currently, the price is indeed pretty good, at least for an additional income,” said Ni Luh Wiarni, 41, one of the crafters from the hamlet of Pangkung Gondang, Sangkaragung, when met on Wednesday (May 30). The matter of expensive raw materials thoroughly affected the crafters. Moreover, most of them were home-based artisans intending to support their domestic economies. In the past, the raw materials were cheap, while the weaving products were expen-sive. Now, it happened on the contrary.

“The price of yarn rose, while the wage of weaving is cheap. Now, the price condition indeed remains stable. However, it still cannot give a better result,” she added. Other than for preserving the local traditions, craftsmen that were dominated by women in the neighbor-hood also took the job for economic interest. A number of artisans faced difficulty in marketing their products because their motive was differ-ent from the ones made by the weaving craft center such as at Dauhwaru. Their weaving products could only be used for sarong. It could not be used to make apparel. Most of the cag-cag looms owned by housewives were heritages from generation to generation.

Aside from weaving independently, the village also had 11 groups of cag-cag weav-ing. Unlike the independent weavers, some groups obtained capital injections in the form of loans and yarns. One of them was the Menuh Group with 10 members entirely consisting of housewives. The group established in 2001 had represented Jembrana for several times in national and international competition and ex-hibition. The Menuh Group Head, Ni Komang Ani Astuti, 33, who met last Wednesday, said that since 2008 her group had changed its status into the prosperous family income improve-ment (UPPKS). Since then, the Menuh Group obtained loans from a number of parties such as the assistance of yearn from the local govern-ment in 2010. However, her group members actually hoped to get a grant help to support their sustainability.

“So far, we have obtained assistance in the form of credits and yarns. Yet, we do expect to get a help in the form of direct grants and marketing from the government, not through a middleman so that we can enjoy the benefit directly,” she explained. According to her, she currently received several orders of cag-cag clothes from local government, but through a middleman that regularly marketed their weav-ing products. Apart from the ordered items, the group members still made weaving works each month to be marketed by middleman from Mendoyo Dauh Tukad village.

Almost all of the housewives at the village were getting involved in the cag-cag weaving. Astuti herself was an immigrant. Since she got married to the hamlet and saw her mother-in-law weaving repeatedly, she was finally able to do so proficiently. “Formerly, within a family there were three to five units of cag-cag looms. Now, they only leave one or two units because some family members were moved to their own residence. However, most of them remain to get involved in weaving works intensely,” said Astuti. Due to restricted working capital, some of them should borrow it from middleman to purchase raw materials. They would pay the debt after their products were accomplished. (olo)

Five residents hit by avalanches of quarry C Three of them were killed Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Residents of Angantiga hamlet, Petang village, Badung, were surprised by the avalanche incident on Wednesday (May 30). The quarry C located at Angantiga hamlet, avalanched and hit five local residents. Three of the five victims were buried dead, while one victim was injured and another survived.

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A woman is making cag-cag woven clothes

Cag-cag woven clothes at Sangkaragung

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Spain’s Fer-nando Torres, left, fights for the ball with South Korea’s Joo Ho Park dur-ing a friendly soccer match between Spain and South Korea at the Stade de Suisse sta-dium in Bern, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

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The party of current Prime Min-ister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thak-sin’s sister, was hoping to introduce legislation in Parliament Thursday that is widely seen as a possible first step toward providing amnesty for her fugitive brother’s convictions and allowing him to return unen-cumbered to Thailand.

Thaksin had been ousted by a 2006 military coup after being ac-cused of abuse of power and disre-spect to Thai King Bhumibol Adu-lyadej. His party was dissolved by a legal decision the year after, and he was among the 111 executives of his Thai Rak Thai Party banned from

politics for five years. He also was convicted in absentia of corruption while in self-imposed exile.

The prospect of Thaksin’s return has galvanized his opponents inside and outside Parliament, threatening to reopen political wounds from a six-year struggle between Thaksin’s opponents and supporters.

His Yellow Shirt opponents in the People’s Alliance for Democracy were back on the streets Wednesday in one of their largest demonstra-tions in recent months. They oppose a government-backed reconciliation bill to grant amnesty to all parties involved in political violence and

wrongdoing from the end of 2005 through mid-2010, a period when Thailand was wracked by turmoil and street protests.

Yellow Shirts’ protests in 2006 set the stage for the coup, and in 2008 they occupied the prime min-ister’s offices for three months and Bangkok’s two airports for a week to pressure two pro-Thaksin prime ministers out of office.

The street protests Wednesday were peaceful, but the scene was different in Parliament, where police had to keep order as the opposition Democrat Party sought to derail efforts to schedule debate on the bill. At one point, a female Democrat lawmaker dragged the House speaker’s empty chair off the podium, sparking a scuffle with government members of Par-liament. A phalanx of policemen retrieved the chair.

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An antique bowl worth HK$1.35 million ($174,000) has been stolen from an international antiques fair in Hong Kong, police said Thursday.

An unidentified foreign exhibitor alerted police on Wednesday as the three-day International Antiques Fair at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre wrapped up.

“The antique bowl was stolen from one of the display cabinets. We

have classified the case as theft,” a police spokeswoman said.

“We are still investigating and no arrests have been made so far.”

The fair’s organiser, Chak’s Invest-ment, said it had no information about the crime. The annual fair drew more than 50 exhibitors from Asia, Europe and the United States.

Hong Kong has emerged as one of the biggest auction centres after New York and London, fuelled by China’s economic boom and

demand from Asian collectors, especially mainland Chinese buy-ers, who have pushed up Chinese art prices.

Reuters

BEIJING - Iran has cancelled a $2 billion contract for a Chinese firm to help build a hydroelectric dam, Chinese state media said on Thursday, a move that risks upsetting one of Tehran’s most important economic and political allies. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to visit China next week for a security summit, where he is expected to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme.

In March 2011, Iran’s official IRNA news agency said China’s Sinohydro Corp. had signed a con-tract with Iranian hydro firm Farab to build the dam, described as the world’s tallest, in Iran’s western province of Lorestan. It was de-signed to support a 1,500-megawatt power station.

The Global Times, a popular tab-loid owned by Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Dai-

ly, said the Iranian government had decided to cancel the contract. The report did not cite sources or give a reason. But it quoted Iranian media reports as saying Iran’s central bank was “dissatisfied” with financing options offered by China.

A Sinohydro official told Reu-ters by telephone the company was “checking with colleagues in Tehran on this issue”. China’s Foreign Ministry said it had no information about the case. Guo Xian’gang, vice president of the China Institute of International Studies, a government think tank, said he did not see the cancellation affecting Sino-Iran ties.

“Some projects may be can-celled due to some technical rea-sons, other projects are still going on, it is really normal,” Guo said. “The outside world does not need to exaggerate this.” Guo, who is an expert on the Middle East, added the cancellation would not affect Ahmadinejad’s visit to China.

China and Iran have close en-ergy and trade ties, and Beijing has repeatedly re-sisted U.S.-led demands to impose tougher economic sanctions on Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions. Howev-er, differences have arisen between China and Iran in the development of Iran’s oil and gas resources.

State-owned China Na-tional Petroleum Corporation was given a month’s dead-line by Iranian Oil minister Rostam Ghasemi in April to make a serious start on the gi-ant South Pars gas field after 32 months of delay.

Antique bowl stolen from Hong Kong fair: police

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tre (C) in Hong Kong. An antique bowl worth HK$1.35 million

($174,000) has been stolen from an international antiques fair at

the exhibition centre, police said Thursday

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Members of the People’s Alliance for Democracy, or Yellow Shirt group, stage a noisy rally opposing the amnesty bill outside the parliament building in Bangkok Thursday, May 31, 2012.

Prospect of Thaksin return heats up Thai politicsAssociated Press Writer

BANGKOK — Thailand’s politics heated up Wednesday over a bill that could herald the return of divisive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, while his former top lieutenants prepared to re-enter the political arena after a five-year ban.

Iran cancels $2 billion dam deal with China: report

Iranian President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad, center, arrives to attend an inauguration ceremo-ny of the newly-elected parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 27, 2012.

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Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere. The number isn’t quite a surprise, because it’s been rising at an accelerating pace. Years ago, it passed the 350 ppm mark that many scientists say is the highest safe level for carbon diox-ide. It now stands globally at 395. So far, only the Arctic has reached that 400 level, but the rest of the world will follow soon.

“The fact that it’s 400 is sig-nificant,” said Jim Butler, global monitoring director at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-tration’s Earth System Research Lab in Boulder, Colo. “It’s just a reminder to everybody that we haven’t fixed

this and we’re still in trouble.”Carbon dioxide is the chief green-

house gas and stays in the atmosphere for 100 years. Some carbon dioxide is natural, mainly from decomposing dead plants and animals. Before the Industrial Age, levels were around 275 parts per million.

For more than 60 years, readings have been in the 300s, except in ur-ban areas, where levels are skewed. The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal for electricity and oil for gaso-line, has caused the overwhelming bulk of the man-made increase in carbon in the air, scientists say.

It’s been at least 800,000 years — probably more — since Earth saw car-bon dioxide levels in the 400s, Butler and other climate scientists said.

Until now.Readings are coming in at 400 and

higher all over the Arctic. They’ve been recorded in Alaska, Greenland, Norway, Iceland and even Mongolia. But levels change with the seasons and will drop a bit in the summer, when plants suck up carbon dioxide, NOAA scientists said.

So the yearly average for those northern stations likely will be lower and so will the global num-ber. Globally, the average carbon dioxide level is about 395 parts per million but will pass the 400 mark within a few years, scientists said.

The Arctic is the leading indi-cator in global warming, both in carbon dioxide in the air and effects, said Pieter Tans, a senior NOAA scientist. “This is the first time the entire Arctic is that high,” he said. Tans called reaching the 400 num-ber “depressing,” and Butler said it was “a troubling milestone.”

MulTi-person elephant rides, orangutans eating from fine china, and carnivores on display before becoming extinct are just some of the scenes from an online ex-hibit of vintage zoo pamphlets being featured by the Smithsonian Institution.

The pamphlets, photos and zoo maps, available from the Smith-sonian Institution Libraries, come from zoos in more than 30 U.S. states and 40 countries. They show elephants in Australia ferrying schoolchildren on their backs, close-up looks at tigers in Prague, and illustrations from 1891 of a thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, a carnivorous marsupial on display at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London. The last known thylacine died in captivity in 1936.

The vintage materials reveal how much zoos have changed from amusement-park-like attractions to more educational, conservation-minded institutions. A guide to Great Britain’s Clifton Zoological Gardens from 1912, for example, shows prison-like animal enclosures

encased in heavy bars. Primates were often posed doing human-like activities. One Minnesota zoo guide from 1928 shows a chimpanzee in a stroller. The New York Zoological Park guide, published in 1905, has photographs of orangutans sitting around a table draped with a white tablecloth, mimicking a family dinner.

“Some of the photographs of animal enclosures, restraint devices and mock theatrics, while unsettling to some, are an important part of the history of human-animal relations,” wrote Alvin Hutchinson, the head of information services at Smithsonian Libraries, in an introduction to the collection.

These days zoos are focused increasingly on conservation and research rather than on anthropo-morphized chimps. Smithsonian’s National Zoo, for example, recently live-tweeted an attempt to artifi-cially inseminate its giant panda Mei Xiang. There are only about 1,600 pandas left in the wild, and captive-breeding programs are part of an effort to save the species.

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US regulators denied a request to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup to merely “corn sugar,” in a high-profile dispute between two industries. The effort to change the name comes amid controversy over the sweetener, which is at the epicenter of a dispute over a pos-sible link to obesity.

The Food and Drug Admin-istration said in a ruling that the corn industry failed to back up its request for the name change. FDA

food safety chief Michael Landa on Wednesday said the change would imply “a solid, dried, and crystallized sweetener obtained from corn.”

Landa said there is already a solid corn sweetener, called dex-trose, and that the liquid corn sweet-ener contains some ingredients that might adversely affect people “with hereditary fructose intolerance or fructose malabsorption.”

The regulatory battle between Big Sugar and Big Corn coincides with a public relations battle. The FDA

affects food labeling but does not prevent advertisements describing “corn sugar,” at least according to the corn industry. “The FDA’s ruling represents a victory for American consumers,” said Dan Callister, an attorney for the sugar industry.

“It reaffirms what most con-sumer advocates, health experts and policy officials have been saying all along: only sugar is sugar. HFCS is not sugar. The next step is for the federal court to end the (the corn industry’s) misleading propaganda campaign.”

AFP Photo/Scott OlsonCorn grows in a field near West Union, Iowa in 2011. US regulators Wednes-day denied a request to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup to merely “corn sugar,” in a high-profile dispute between two industries.

US denies name change for high-fructose corn syrup

In this image released by NOAA, Chris Carparelli, adjusts a glass flask that line the walls of an air sample process-ing room at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boul-der, Colo., Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

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Warming gas levels hit ‘troubling milestone’Associated Press Writer

WASHiNGTON — The world’s air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.

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An 1895 guidebook from the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in Eng-land.

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Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for May 20 through June 20, 2012

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, sail-ings, 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

26 May Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit JembranaOdalan Betara ratu Gede Desa Celuk SukawatiOdalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan DenpasarBetara Ratu Alit & Ratu Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarmaan Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarmaan Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarmaan Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarmaan dalem Bakas BesakihPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel Klung-kungPura Pemrajan Agung Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung.Merajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung PengatepanPura Pedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Pura BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwa Banyuangi.Pesraman Dusun Kuto Rejo Banyuangi.

30 May Buda Wage Kelawu. Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Desa Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida.Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangembungan Bongkase Abianse-mal.Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Br. Jawa Tengah BulelengPura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding TampaksiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan KutaPura Goa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihOdalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh Penataran Agung Be-sakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PejengMerajan Pasek Gelgel SonganMerajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan SidemenMerajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari Sukasada.Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Sidemen KarangasemMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli.

5 Jun Anggar Kasih Dukut. Pr. Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan TabananPura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar.Merajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agun SulahanMerajan Pasek Padang Rata PadangPura Puser Jagat Dalem Dukut Puri Sukun Nusa Penida.

6 Jun Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja AbiansemalPura Dalem Samplangan Gianyar

16 Jun Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase AbiansemalPura Watugunung BimaPura Agung Jagatkarana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya Rawamangun Jakarta TimurPura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur BulelengPura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa BaratPura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung.Pura Giri Jaya Natha BalikpapanPura Agung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia.

18 Jun Some ribek. Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Batugaing BangliPura Tirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya

20 Jun Hari raya Pagerwesi Pura Laban Sindu Jiwa Kedewatan UbudPura Kehen BangliPura Wirabuana Magelang Jawa TengahPura Padang Sakti Tangtu Denpasar TimurPura Jogan Agung Ketewel SukawatiPura Gadung Pengiasan Dauh Puri DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel Buruan Kaja TabananPura Pasek Gobleg Kerambitan tabananPura Pasek Gelgel Meliling Tabanan

Those are huge numbers in the cable television world. No scripted series on the broadcast networks last week came close. By contrast, Fox’s series finale of “House” last week reached 8.7 million people.

“Hatfields & McCoys” had a couple of big-name stars in Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton and is airing over three

nights in two-hour chunks. Broadcast television was dominated by competi-tion shows again last week, led by the 21.5 million people who watched the “American Idol” finale on Fox. “Danc-ing With the Stars” and “America’s Got Talent” also did well.

Perhaps crowded by the market-place, ABC’s “Duets” finished a

modest No. 23 in the ratings, with 6.8 million viewers. Fox’s summer series “So You Think You Can Dance” also came out of the gate slowly, with 6.3 million viewers.

Led by “Idol,” Fox won the week with an average of 8.3 million view-ers in prime time (4.9 rating, 9 share). ABC had 7.4 million (also 4.9, 9), CBS had 5.8 million (3.9, 7), NBC had 4.6 million (3.0, 5), ION Television had 1.1 million (0.7, 1) and the CW had 680,000 (0.5, 1). Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with 3.7 million (2.0, 3), Telemundo had 1.1 million (0.6, 1), TeleFutura had 510,000 (0.3, 0), Estrella had 210,000 and Azteca 110,000 (both 0.1, 0).

Associated Press Writer

DUBLIN — Bono will pres-ent Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with Amnesty International’s highest honor when she visits Dublin next month as part of her first inter-national tour in 24 years, the U2 singer and other organizers of an Irish tribute concert announced Wednesday.

Suu Kyi is scheduled to visit Dublin on June 18, a day after collecting her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel in 1991, and Amnesty’s Ambassador of Conscience award in 2009. She was unable to claim either award in person until now because she was under house arrest for 15 of the past 24 years and, even when free, afraid to leave Myanmar in case the country’s military junta barred her return.

Bono devoted a series of U2’s

2009 concerts to Suu Kyi, de-manding her release from house arrest, and unveiled the Amnesty award at one Dublin concert that year. He said the June 18 event would be the first time he’s ever met the 66-year-old pro-democ-racy activist.

“It’s so rare to see grace trump military might, and when it hap-pens we should make the most joyful noise we can,” Bono said in a prepared statement. “Aung San Suu Kyi’s grace and courage have tilted a wobbly world further in the direction of democracy. We all feel we know her, but it will be such a thrill to meet her in person.”

Suu Kyi was elected to Parlia-ment in Myanmar, also known as Burma, last month; took her seat May 2; and launched an interna-tional tour Tuesday starting in neighboring Thailand. She’s also scheduled to address both houses of the British Parliament during her European tour next month.

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BANGKOK - Thailand’s government is up in arms over a tweet by pop sensa-tion Lady Gaga about buying a fake de-signer watch in a Bangkok street market and has complained to the United States. Bangkok’s sprawling outdoor markets and some of its big shopping malls are widely known for selling near-perfect replicas of famous luxury brands, often imported from China.

Even so, Gaga’s May 23 tweet, two days ahead of a sellout concert in Bang-kok, struck a raw nerve with some Thais who said the zany artist had dented the country’s reputation by suggesting she

could easily get her hands on a fake Rolex watch. The Grammy Award winner, who cancelled a concert after threats in Indonesia and faced protests by conservative groups in the Philip-pines and South Korea, has not apolo-gized for the tweet, which Thailand’s Commerce Ministry said undermined its efforts to stamp out piracy.

“Lady Gaga is a representative of the U.S. and the U.S. puts pressure on smaller countries to promote the protection of intellectual property,” an official at the ministry’s Intellectual Property Department told Reuters, re-questing anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. “She

should tell her fans that they shouldn’t use fake goods.”

Gaga’s comment stirred debate on Thai web forums and social media. A small protest took place in Bangkok’s business district but that failed to keep fans away from her much-anticipated show on Friday, which attracted 50,000 people.

Gaga’s contentious tweet to her 24 million followers said: “I just landed in Bangkok baby! Ready for 50,000 screaming Thai monsters. I wanna get lost in a lady market and buy a fake rolex.” She was believed to be refer-ring to the popular Ladies’ Market in Hong Kong.

Thailand furious at Lady Gaga’s fake Rolex tweet

This undated image re-leased by History shows Bill

Paxton portraying Randall McCoy in a scene from the

History network’s miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys.”

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Hatfields and McCoys big draw for HistoryAssociated Press Writer

NEW yOrK — There’s nothing like a backwoods blood feud to excite television viewers on Memorial Day. The first part of the History network’s miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys” was seen by 13.9 million viewers on Monday night, more than 17 million when the immediate repeat was added in, the Nielsen company said. The numbers held up for part two on Tuesday, which was watched by 13.1 million, Nielsen said.

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Protests, marches and road blocks were planned across the country. The strike could reduce public transport and hit govern-ment offices, colleges, firms and industrial plants, but because it is not centrally organized its impact will differ from state to state.

“It will be a total shutdown across the country. It will be the biggest democratic protest the country has seen in a long time,” said Prakash Javdekar, a leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won nearly 19 percent of the vote in the 2009 election.

Strike calls in India have had mixed results in the past, and it was not clear how many people would respond on the day. A strong turnout

could indicate popular dissatisfaction with Singh’s two-term, Congress Party-led government. The day of action - or “bandh” - called by the BJP and smaller left-wing parties is not a threat to the survival of Singh’s government, but it does underscore the difficulty he faces trying to imple-ment unpopular economic reforms.

The backlash over the petrol price increase has already unnerved the government, prompting it to drop any immediate plans to raise the price of heavily subsidized diesel and kerosene, a move investors have been pushing for to narrow the budget deficit.

The coalition, weakened by a string of corruption scandals and infighting that has stymied reforms, faces mounting criticism over its

management of the economy.Investors and economists cheered

its decision last week to allow state-controlled oil companies to increase petrol prices for the first time in six months, enabling them to recover some of the losses they had racked up due to higher oil prices and a plunging rupee.

But the roughly 11 percent in-crease sparked public protests and some of the Congress party’s coali-tion partners have tried to distance themselves from the decision.

Congress’s second-biggest ally in parliament, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party, briefly threatened to quit the government on Wednesday if the increase was not trimmed, showing why decision-making is so hard in New Delhi.

Reuters BEIJING - Hundreds of Tibetans in Lhasa have been detained by

Chinese security officers after two self-immolation protests against Chinese rule over Tibet, a U.S.-broadcaster said, stoking concerns of spreading unrest among Tibetans in China.

On Sunday, two Tibetan men set themselves on fire in Lhasa, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time in four years of a major Tibetan protest against Chinese rule. One of the men died.

China has branded the self-immolators “terrorists” and criminals and has blamed exiled Tibetans and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, for inciting them. At least 35 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since March 2011 in protest against China’s six-decade rule over Tibet, according to Tibetan rights groups. At least 27 have died.

Late on Wednesday, Radio Free Asia cited a source as estimating that about 600 Tibetans had been detained since the Sunday’s protests in Lhasa. The number could not be independently confirmed because foreign journalists are barred from entering Tibet.

Hao Peng, deputy party secretary in the Tibet Autonomous Region, has urged authorities to tighten their grip on the Internet and mobile text messaging, reflecting government fears about unrest during a month-long Buddhist festival which started last week.

The move is the latest in a series of measures the government says are intended to maintain stability.

“Hao Peng stressed that...the trouble caused by the activities of the Dalai clique has persisted, and the situation for stability maintenance is still complicated and grim,” the official Tibet Daily newspaper re-ported.

Associated Press Writer

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle full of explosives outside a district police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing five policemen, a government of-ficial said.

The attack in Kandahar province’s Argistan district also wounded six policemen, said Javid Faisal, the provincial governor’s spokesman.

Kandahar is the spiritual heart-

land of the Taliban and has been one of the most heavily contested areas between the militants and Afghan and foreign forces. The U.S. poured tens of thousands of additional troops into Kandahar and other areas of the south in 2009 and 2010 to reverse the Taliban’s momentum. While violence has fallen in some areas, attacks still occur frequently.

Also Thursday, a homemade bomb killed a member of the U.S.-led NATO force in southern Af-

ghanistan, the coalition said, without providing further details. The death raised the number of coalition troops who have died in Afghanistan this year to 176.

The persistent violence poses a challenge for the U.S. as it seeks to hand over responsibility for security to Afghan forces and withdraw most of its combat troops by 2014. A pair of attacks killed five policemen Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, also a key base for the Taliban and their allies.

India set for sweeping protests at petrol price rise

REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta

Activists from Shiv Sena, a Hindu hardline group, carry a motorcycle as they shout slogans during a protest against the price hike in petrol, in Jammu May 24, 2012.

Reuters

NEW DELHI - Indian opposition parties planned a national strike on Thursday in protest against the steepest petrol price rise in the country’s history, seeking to exploit popular anger with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s embattled coalition government.

Suicide car bomber kills 5 police in Afghanistan

“Hundreds detained” in Tibet after self-immolations

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NEW DELHI - India’s economy grew a lower-than-expected 5.3 percent in the final quarter of the fiscal year, data showed Thursday, piling pressure on the embattled government.

The figures from the national statistics office also showed the economy expanded 6.5 percent for year to March 2012 -- lower than the government’s estimate of 6.9 percent and far below the 8.4 percent of the previous year.

“The figures have reconfirmed the Confederation of India’s own estimates, which show that the economy is in the throes of a serious slowdown,” said Chandrajit Banerjee, director general of the leading industry body.

The final quarter of the last financial year saw a contraction in the key manufacturing sector, which saw output shrink 0.3 percent owing to flagging domestic and overseas demand, com-pared with 7.3 percent expansion a year earlier.

Farm, construction and mining production grew only mod-estly.

The figures came as the rupee hit a record 56.50 low against the dollar and the government faced a nationwide strike to protest against the highest-ever petrol price hike that was put in place to curb oil firms’ losses.

Shares on the Mumbai stock market fell as much as 1.38 percent.

“We are going through a rough patch worldwide. Growth figures have taken a hit because of that,” Rajesh Chakrabarti, professor of finance at the Indian School of Business, told India’s NDTV network.

But he added the data was “extremely disappointing.”Analysts had forecast growth of 6.1 percent in the January-

March quarter and the poor performance is likely to at to the gloom shrouding Asia’s third-largest economy.

The government has little room to increase spending to spur growth and interest rates cannot be cut significantly because of high inflation, which is sitting at around 7.0 percent.

Dariusz Kowalczyk, senior economist at Credit Agricole, had spoken of “extreme pessimism” about India’s prospects before the data was released.

“Fundamentals are indeed weak with slower growth, elevated inflation and the highest deficit-to-GDP ratios in Asia,” he said, forecasting annual growth will stay below seven percent until after the general elections in 2014.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 79, admitted last week his scandal-tainted Congress-led ruling coalition “need to do better” to get the once red-hot economy moving again.

While more than six percent full-year growth would be the envy of much of the world, at least nine to 10 percent expansion is needed to reduce India’s widespread poverty, experts say.

India’s sluggishness will add to concerns about the global outlook as China has also recently released a slew of bleak data, fuelling fears the world’s second biggest economy is cooling faster than expected.

Hopes the two emerging market giants, who weathered the 2008 financial crisis well, could underpin another global recov-ery have been steadily dashed by their stuttering performances.

Singh is credited with opening up India’s economy when he was the finance minister in 1991 but his premiership has been undermined by a series of policy U-turns and corruption scandals.

His once ambitious reform agenda has stalled amid coalition infighting, and the economic climate has been further strained by the announcement of new tax policies seen as hostile to foreign investment. India’s economy is suffering from “policy incoher-ence, shifting global risk appetite and a comatose government”, said Rajeev Malik, senior economist at brokerage CLSA, said a head of the figures.

Benchmark oil for July delivery was up 28 cents to $88.10 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract slid $2.99 to close at $87.82 on the Nymex on Thursday.

In London, Brent crude was up 34 cents at $103.80 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

Experts are concerned about a banking crisis in Europe that may pull countries that use the euro common currency into recession. Concerns mounted Wednesday, when the European Commission reported that economic confidence has plummeted this month to the lowest level in 2.5 years.

The grim outlook was further

compounded by sharply higher borrowing rates for Spain and Italy. The yield on Spain’s 10-year bonds, a key indicator of market confidence in the country’s ability to continue to make payments on its debt, shot as high as 6.69 percent, the highest since the euro currency was launched in 2002.

Victor Shum, energy analyst at consultancy Purvin & Gertz in Singapore, said European troubles and weak demand were responsible for sliding oil prices.

“OPEC has been producing at record levels and North American crude production continues to boom so inventories are high,” Shum said. “The weak macroeconomic news out of Europe and fears about

all these debt troubles spreading to Spain and Italy, coupled with weak fundamentals, have caused the Nymex to break through $90 and we’re still heading down today in Asia.”

The euro fell near a two-year low against the dollar Wednesday, helping to push oil prices even lower. Oil, which is priced in dol-lars, tends to fall as the dollar rises and makes crude barrels more expensive for investors holding foreign money.

In other energy trading, heating oil was up 1 cent at $2.75 per gal-lon while gasoline futures fell 0.6 cents to $2.77 per gallon. Natural gas fell 3 cents at $2.39 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Oil near $88 amid European financial turmoil

AP Photo/Richard Drew

Traders work in the oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange, Thursday, May 24, 2012. Oil lingered near seven-month lows around $90 a barrel Thursday in Asia as Europe’s debt crisis festers and China’s economy continues to slow.

Associated Press

BANGKOK — Oil prices lingered near $88 a barrel Thursday in Asia as a fresh wave of sour economic news from Europe lent weight to expectations that the region’s slowdown will keep demand for crude subdued.

India jolted by weak growth data

Reuters

YANGON - The mother and child who touch hands in an over-crowded Yangon hospice are not family, but their tragic history begins in the blood.

Jam, 42, a mother of six, and Kanama, aged 2, are both HIV positive. Abandoned by their families, they must now find comfort in each other, although Jam still yearns for her husband to return to the private HIV hospice in the suburbs of Myanmar’s biggest city.

“He promised to come back but I’m afraid he never will,” said the woman as she burst into tears. She is known in the hospice by her nickname, Jam.

The hospice is home to 182 HIV patients, whose plight demon-strates the painful limits of Myanmar’s new democracy. A reform-minded government has vowed to overhaul a decrepit health system, but little change is likely for HIV/AIDS sufferers, who thanks to social stigma and medical neglect, are shut off in hospices that bring to mind leper colonies.

In 2009, the United Nations estimated 240,000 of Myanmar’s 60 million people were infected with HIV and about 18,000 were dying a year. Neighboring Thailand, with a slightly bigger popu-lation, has more than twice the number of people with HIV but access to drugs and greater public acceptance mean that many can lead normal lives.

Jam once lived in Kadon, a fishing village in the impoverished Irrawaddy Delta, with her farmer husband and their six children. In 2008, feeling unwell, she was treated by a self-styled medic, who injected her with a drug. The needle was dirty and had been used repeatedly. She was probably now HIV positive, although she didn’t suspect it, and her personal tragedy was soon subsumed by a national one: Cyclone Nargis.

The typhoon slammed into the delta in May that year, killing at least 138,000 people, including Jam’s sons, aged 17 and 18. She narrowly escaped, clutching her youngest child, who is six. Nargis wiped her village off the map.

Jam and thousands of other survivors struggled to rebuild their lives. Another four years passed before she fell ill again, this time more gravely, and a hospital referred her to the Yangon hospice. Tests confirmed she had AIDS. That was two months ago. Jam is mostly alone now. Apart from her six-year-old, her children shun her. Her husband, who is not HIV positive, returned to the farm.

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Les waterfall is located in Les village, 38 kilometer south to Singaraja, in the north Bali. The waterfall is overlooking green hills and untouched nature. The height is about 30 meters. In addition, Les Village is also famous for its very amazing beach with its magnificent underwater world view.

Located some 90 kilometers north of Denpasar, Les is blessed with a majestic waterfall and rich underwater scenery at its beach.

The best way to reach Les is by

rented or private car or motorcycle, so visitors can stop where they want to take photos.

The shortest route from Den-pasar to Les is through Gianyar and Kintamani, where visitors can stop to enjoy the wonderful Lake Batur and mountain views while sipping hot Balinese coffee outside Pura Puncak Panulisan, a temple.

The waterfall is about 1 kilome-ter from the village’s main road. Visitors can park at the entrance gate, where a few shops sell snacks and souvenirs, before walking along a path to an open area next to a wide

river, with a small stream of water and huge rocks.

After crossing the river, a similar footpath leads to the waterfall.

The 30-meter-high waterfall has a perfect slope so the water from the river jumps from one rock to another before eventually hitting the bottom of the land more gently.

Visitors can stand under the waterfall and enjoy the sensation of a natural massage of the water pounding on their head, neck and back while trying to become one with the surroundings and listening to the great voice of the waterfall.

Les Waterfall

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JAKARTA - “I decided to ex-perience the real Jakarta,” said a tourist, stepping gingerly between puddles of putrid water and a scur-rying rat in a scene that would never make a postcard.

Rohaizad Abu Bakar, 28, a bank employee from Singapore, said he could not believe his eyes as he wandered around the slum in the Indonesian capital, a jumble of hundreds of shacks, some less than a metre from a railway line.

Nearby, a small girl picked up a discarded juice bottle in search of a sip while a man wearing tattered shorts lay slumped on a dirty old mattress. Only a blue plastic tar-paulin offered shelter from tropical downpours.

So-called “poverty tourism” is on the rise in Jakarta.

Organisers say it raises aware-ness and brings aid to the destitute of the city, but accusations of ex-ploitation are never far away and critics say poverty should not be a tourist attraction.

A few hundred families cram into the slum in the Tanah Abang neighbourhood, minutes from gleaming shopping malls where the likes of Gucci and Louis Vuitton compete to lure the newly-minted beneficiaries of Indonesia’s eco-nomic miracle.

Abu Bakar opted against the picturesque landscapes of other parts of the country to instead join a “Jakarta Hidden Tours” trip, which aims to show visitors the squalid conditions of the nation’s poor.

“Tourists stay in their ghetto. We show what is really Jakarta,” said Ronny Poluan, 59, an Indo-nesian documentary maker who created the non-profit organisation in 2008.

Recent years have seen “poverty tourism” mushroom globally, from the favelas of Brazil to the slums of Dharavi in Mumbai, popularised by the film “Slumdog Millionaire”.

“We have about 10 tours per month, with two to four tourists each time. More and more people are coming, some now even come just for my tour,” Poluan said.

“I’ve had tourists from as far away as Washington. They’re not only backpackers, but also busi-nessmen, bankers,” he added before being cut short by shouting rever-berating around the slum.

“Kereta! Kereta!” (“A train, a train”) cried mothers rushing to grab children playing on the track as a roaring locomotive approached, whipping up clouds of dust and garbage as it surged towards the flimsy-looking shacks.

The train recently claimed the life of one little girl who died as she ran after her cat.

The slum dwellers, like half of Indonesia, live on less than two dollars per day. Each tourist pays 500,000 rupiah ($54) to visit, with half of that going to the tour com-pany, and the rest funding doctor visits, microfinance projects or community projects such as school building.

“I don’t give cash. I pay the doctors directly for example,” said Poluan.

But that does not reassure some critics.

“I’m against slums being turned into tourist spots,” Wardah Hafidz, an activist with the Urban Poor Consortium, told AFP. “It’s not about shame. People should not be exhibited like monkeys in the zoo.

“What residents get from these tours, in cash or whatever form, only strips them of their dignity and self respect, turning them into mere beggars.

“They not only become de-pendent on handouts, but come to expect them. It doesn’t help them to believe they are capable of standing on their own two feet or getting them out of the spiral of poverty,” she added.

Nonetheless, residents say they look forward to the daily influx of foreigners witnessing their life-styles.

“I like that foreigners want to know about us. It’s good they want to know about us,” said Djoko, a father in his fifties, as he removed labels from a pile of glass and plastic bottles before selling them for recycling.

Tourists deny voyeurism, instead saying that what they witness in-spires them to action.

“If I had not seen it, I would not have done anything about it,” said Caroline Bourget.

A teacher at Jakarta’s French school, she is now discussing set-ting up a mobile school in the slum to give disadvantaged children a better chance in life.

“Here we are at the heart of real-ity,” she said.

State prosecutors have sought a life sentence for Umar Patek, a leading member of the al-Qaida-linked network Jemaah Islami-yah. He is accused of illegal weapons possession, conceal-ing terrorist acts, immigration violat ions and premeditated

murder.In his defense Thursday at the

West Jakarta District Court, the 45-year-old said the sentencing demand was too heavy given his minor role in these crimes.

Patek was arrested last year in Pakistan.

AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENNIN

In this photograph taken on April 6, 2012 “Jakarta Hidden Tours” organizer Ronny Poluan (L) talks to tourists visiting a slum in North Jakarta. Poverty tourism is gaining ground in Indonesia with more tour-ists looking to “experience the real Jakarta”.

Bali bombing suspect says life sentence too heavyAssociated Press

JAKARTA — An Indonesian accused of helping build the car bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks says life imprisonment would be too heavy a punishment for his crimes.

‘Slum tourism’ treads between aid and exploitation

Reuters

JAKARTA - Indonesians de-manding more subsidised fuel have eased a blockade of the rivers used to ship coal out of the main pro-ducing region, an official said on Thursday, defusing another protest that highlighted income inequality in the booming economy.

Rising commodity exports are contributing to strong economic growth in Indonesia and creating millionaires faster than anywhere else in the world, but workers have pushed for a greater share of the wealth through a series of violent protests and strikes in the past year.

Indonesia is the world’s biggest thermal coal exporter and hundreds of activists had used small boats to block the Mahakam and Barito rivers in Kalimantan province which are used to transport at least 15 percent of the total coal output. The protesters wanted to pressure the government to allocate more subsidised vehicle fuel to their resource-rich province, where motorists are queuing for hours at fuelling stations for cheap petrol.

The blockade, however, failed to stop coal shipments by Kalimantan’s main miners, with officials from Bayan Resources , Indo Tambangra-ya Megah and Harum Energy saying that cargoes were flowing out unhin-dered. “We had a few barges held at the Mahakam bridge at Samarinda by demonstrators demanding the government increase the allocation for the subsidised fuel,” said Alastair

McLeod, chief financial officer at Bayan Resources. “It is all back to normal, and all the barges that were delayed have already departed for their respective ports.”

The central government has re-stricted supplies of subsidised fuel, which costs nearly half as much as regular fuel, to try to stop a surge in oil prices hurting its budget deficit. The governors of Kalimantan, who had threatened to cut off resource exports if their region did not get more cheap fuel, had recently lob-bied officials in Jakarta, but it was not immediately clear if the govern-ment had ceded to their demands.

The head of the Indonesian Coal Mining Association, however, ex-pects the government will increase the subsidied fuel quota to Kalim-antan. “I don’t think the situation will take much longer to stabilise,” said Supriatna Suhala.

Protests over fuel price hikes con-tributed to the downfall of autocratic leader Suharto in 1998, and the issue remains politically sensitive in a nation where 30 million, or over 12 percent, of the population is poor.

The parliament rejected a gov-ernment proposal to ease fuel sub-sidises in April and the government has since backtracked on measures requiring large private cars to only use non-subsidised fuel.

An executive at Indo Tambangra-ya Megah said protesters were still trying to stop fuel barges heading up the river. Resource firms have also been using subsidised fuel.

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Les waterfall is located in Les village, 38 kilometer south to Singaraja, in the north Bali. The waterfall is overlooking green hills and untouched nature. The height is about 30 meters. In addition, Les Village is also famous for its very amazing beach with its magnificent underwater world view.

Located some 90 kilometers north of Denpasar, Les is blessed with a majestic waterfall and rich underwater scenery at its beach.

The best way to reach Les is by

rented or private car or motorcycle, so visitors can stop where they want to take photos.

The shortest route from Den-pasar to Les is through Gianyar and Kintamani, where visitors can stop to enjoy the wonderful Lake Batur and mountain views while sipping hot Balinese coffee outside Pura Puncak Panulisan, a temple.

The waterfall is about 1 kilome-ter from the village’s main road. Visitors can park at the entrance gate, where a few shops sell snacks and souvenirs, before walking along a path to an open area next to a wide

river, with a small stream of water and huge rocks.

After crossing the river, a similar footpath leads to the waterfall.

The 30-meter-high waterfall has a perfect slope so the water from the river jumps from one rock to another before eventually hitting the bottom of the land more gently.

Visitors can stand under the waterfall and enjoy the sensation of a natural massage of the water pounding on their head, neck and back while trying to become one with the surroundings and listening to the great voice of the waterfall.

Les Waterfall

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - “I decided to ex-perience the real Jakarta,” said a tourist, stepping gingerly between puddles of putrid water and a scur-rying rat in a scene that would never make a postcard.

Rohaizad Abu Bakar, 28, a bank employee from Singapore, said he could not believe his eyes as he wandered around the slum in the Indonesian capital, a jumble of hundreds of shacks, some less than a metre from a railway line.

Nearby, a small girl picked up a discarded juice bottle in search of a sip while a man wearing tattered shorts lay slumped on a dirty old mattress. Only a blue plastic tar-paulin offered shelter from tropical downpours.

So-called “poverty tourism” is on the rise in Jakarta.

Organisers say it raises aware-ness and brings aid to the destitute of the city, but accusations of ex-ploitation are never far away and critics say poverty should not be a tourist attraction.

A few hundred families cram into the slum in the Tanah Abang neighbourhood, minutes from gleaming shopping malls where the likes of Gucci and Louis Vuitton compete to lure the newly-minted beneficiaries of Indonesia’s eco-nomic miracle.

Abu Bakar opted against the picturesque landscapes of other parts of the country to instead join a “Jakarta Hidden Tours” trip, which aims to show visitors the squalid conditions of the nation’s poor.

“Tourists stay in their ghetto. We show what is really Jakarta,” said Ronny Poluan, 59, an Indo-nesian documentary maker who created the non-profit organisation in 2008.

Recent years have seen “poverty tourism” mushroom globally, from the favelas of Brazil to the slums of Dharavi in Mumbai, popularised by the film “Slumdog Millionaire”.

“We have about 10 tours per month, with two to four tourists each time. More and more people are coming, some now even come just for my tour,” Poluan said.

“I’ve had tourists from as far away as Washington. They’re not only backpackers, but also busi-nessmen, bankers,” he added before being cut short by shouting rever-berating around the slum.

“Kereta! Kereta!” (“A train, a train”) cried mothers rushing to grab children playing on the track as a roaring locomotive approached, whipping up clouds of dust and garbage as it surged towards the flimsy-looking shacks.

The train recently claimed the life of one little girl who died as she ran after her cat.

The slum dwellers, like half of Indonesia, live on less than two dollars per day. Each tourist pays 500,000 rupiah ($54) to visit, with half of that going to the tour com-pany, and the rest funding doctor visits, microfinance projects or community projects such as school building.

“I don’t give cash. I pay the doctors directly for example,” said Poluan.

But that does not reassure some critics.

“I’m against slums being turned into tourist spots,” Wardah Hafidz, an activist with the Urban Poor Consortium, told AFP. “It’s not about shame. People should not be exhibited like monkeys in the zoo.

“What residents get from these tours, in cash or whatever form, only strips them of their dignity and self respect, turning them into mere beggars.

“They not only become de-pendent on handouts, but come to expect them. It doesn’t help them to believe they are capable of standing on their own two feet or getting them out of the spiral of poverty,” she added.

Nonetheless, residents say they look forward to the daily influx of foreigners witnessing their life-styles.

“I like that foreigners want to know about us. It’s good they want to know about us,” said Djoko, a father in his fifties, as he removed labels from a pile of glass and plastic bottles before selling them for recycling.

Tourists deny voyeurism, instead saying that what they witness in-spires them to action.

“If I had not seen it, I would not have done anything about it,” said Caroline Bourget.

A teacher at Jakarta’s French school, she is now discussing set-ting up a mobile school in the slum to give disadvantaged children a better chance in life.

“Here we are at the heart of real-ity,” she said.

State prosecutors have sought a life sentence for Umar Patek, a leading member of the al-Qaida-linked network Jemaah Islami-yah. He is accused of illegal weapons possession, conceal-ing terrorist acts, immigration violat ions and premeditated

murder.In his defense Thursday at the

West Jakarta District Court, the 45-year-old said the sentencing demand was too heavy given his minor role in these crimes.

Patek was arrested last year in Pakistan.

AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENNIN

In this photograph taken on April 6, 2012 “Jakarta Hidden Tours” organizer Ronny Poluan (L) talks to tourists visiting a slum in North Jakarta. Poverty tourism is gaining ground in Indonesia with more tour-ists looking to “experience the real Jakarta”.

Bali bombing suspect says life sentence too heavyAssociated Press

JAKARTA — An Indonesian accused of helping build the car bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks says life imprisonment would be too heavy a punishment for his crimes.

‘Slum tourism’ treads between aid and exploitation

Reuters

JAKARTA - Indonesians de-manding more subsidised fuel have eased a blockade of the rivers used to ship coal out of the main pro-ducing region, an official said on Thursday, defusing another protest that highlighted income inequality in the booming economy.

Rising commodity exports are contributing to strong economic growth in Indonesia and creating millionaires faster than anywhere else in the world, but workers have pushed for a greater share of the wealth through a series of violent protests and strikes in the past year.

Indonesia is the world’s biggest thermal coal exporter and hundreds of activists had used small boats to block the Mahakam and Barito rivers in Kalimantan province which are used to transport at least 15 percent of the total coal output. The protesters wanted to pressure the government to allocate more subsidised vehicle fuel to their resource-rich province, where motorists are queuing for hours at fuelling stations for cheap petrol.

The blockade, however, failed to stop coal shipments by Kalimantan’s main miners, with officials from Bayan Resources , Indo Tambangra-ya Megah and Harum Energy saying that cargoes were flowing out unhin-dered. “We had a few barges held at the Mahakam bridge at Samarinda by demonstrators demanding the government increase the allocation for the subsidised fuel,” said Alastair

McLeod, chief financial officer at Bayan Resources. “It is all back to normal, and all the barges that were delayed have already departed for their respective ports.”

The central government has re-stricted supplies of subsidised fuel, which costs nearly half as much as regular fuel, to try to stop a surge in oil prices hurting its budget deficit. The governors of Kalimantan, who had threatened to cut off resource exports if their region did not get more cheap fuel, had recently lob-bied officials in Jakarta, but it was not immediately clear if the govern-ment had ceded to their demands.

The head of the Indonesian Coal Mining Association, however, ex-pects the government will increase the subsidied fuel quota to Kalim-antan. “I don’t think the situation will take much longer to stabilise,” said Supriatna Suhala.

Protests over fuel price hikes con-tributed to the downfall of autocratic leader Suharto in 1998, and the issue remains politically sensitive in a nation where 30 million, or over 12 percent, of the population is poor.

The parliament rejected a gov-ernment proposal to ease fuel sub-sidises in April and the government has since backtracked on measures requiring large private cars to only use non-subsidised fuel.

An executive at Indo Tambangra-ya Megah said protesters were still trying to stop fuel barges heading up the river. Resource firms have also been using subsidised fuel.

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Protests, marches and road blocks were planned across the country. The strike could reduce public transport and hit govern-ment offices, colleges, firms and industrial plants, but because it is not centrally organized its impact will differ from state to state.

“It will be a total shutdown across the country. It will be the biggest democratic protest the country has seen in a long time,” said Prakash Javdekar, a leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won nearly 19 percent of the vote in the 2009 election.

Strike calls in India have had mixed results in the past, and it was not clear how many people would respond on the day. A strong turnout

could indicate popular dissatisfaction with Singh’s two-term, Congress Party-led government. The day of action - or “bandh” - called by the BJP and smaller left-wing parties is not a threat to the survival of Singh’s government, but it does underscore the difficulty he faces trying to imple-ment unpopular economic reforms.

The backlash over the petrol price increase has already unnerved the government, prompting it to drop any immediate plans to raise the price of heavily subsidized diesel and kerosene, a move investors have been pushing for to narrow the budget deficit.

The coalition, weakened by a string of corruption scandals and infighting that has stymied reforms, faces mounting criticism over its

management of the economy.Investors and economists cheered

its decision last week to allow state-controlled oil companies to increase petrol prices for the first time in six months, enabling them to recover some of the losses they had racked up due to higher oil prices and a plunging rupee.

But the roughly 11 percent in-crease sparked public protests and some of the Congress party’s coali-tion partners have tried to distance themselves from the decision.

Congress’s second-biggest ally in parliament, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party, briefly threatened to quit the government on Wednesday if the increase was not trimmed, showing why decision-making is so hard in New Delhi.

Reuters BEIJING - Hundreds of Tibetans in Lhasa have been detained by

Chinese security officers after two self-immolation protests against Chinese rule over Tibet, a U.S.-broadcaster said, stoking concerns of spreading unrest among Tibetans in China.

On Sunday, two Tibetan men set themselves on fire in Lhasa, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time in four years of a major Tibetan protest against Chinese rule. One of the men died.

China has branded the self-immolators “terrorists” and criminals and has blamed exiled Tibetans and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, for inciting them. At least 35 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since March 2011 in protest against China’s six-decade rule over Tibet, according to Tibetan rights groups. At least 27 have died.

Late on Wednesday, Radio Free Asia cited a source as estimating that about 600 Tibetans had been detained since the Sunday’s protests in Lhasa. The number could not be independently confirmed because foreign journalists are barred from entering Tibet.

Hao Peng, deputy party secretary in the Tibet Autonomous Region, has urged authorities to tighten their grip on the Internet and mobile text messaging, reflecting government fears about unrest during a month-long Buddhist festival which started last week.

The move is the latest in a series of measures the government says are intended to maintain stability.

“Hao Peng stressed that...the trouble caused by the activities of the Dalai clique has persisted, and the situation for stability maintenance is still complicated and grim,” the official Tibet Daily newspaper re-ported.

Associated Press Writer

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle full of explosives outside a district police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing five policemen, a government of-ficial said.

The attack in Kandahar province’s Argistan district also wounded six policemen, said Javid Faisal, the provincial governor’s spokesman.

Kandahar is the spiritual heart-

land of the Taliban and has been one of the most heavily contested areas between the militants and Afghan and foreign forces. The U.S. poured tens of thousands of additional troops into Kandahar and other areas of the south in 2009 and 2010 to reverse the Taliban’s momentum. While violence has fallen in some areas, attacks still occur frequently.

Also Thursday, a homemade bomb killed a member of the U.S.-led NATO force in southern Af-

ghanistan, the coalition said, without providing further details. The death raised the number of coalition troops who have died in Afghanistan this year to 176.

The persistent violence poses a challenge for the U.S. as it seeks to hand over responsibility for security to Afghan forces and withdraw most of its combat troops by 2014. A pair of attacks killed five policemen Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, also a key base for the Taliban and their allies.

India set for sweeping protests at petrol price rise

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Activists from Shiv Sena, a Hindu hardline group, carry a motorcycle as they shout slogans during a protest against the price hike in petrol, in Jammu May 24, 2012.

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NEW DELHI - Indian opposition parties planned a national strike on Thursday in protest against the steepest petrol price rise in the country’s history, seeking to exploit popular anger with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s embattled coalition government.

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“Hundreds detained” in Tibet after self-immolations

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NEW DELHI - India’s economy grew a lower-than-expected 5.3 percent in the final quarter of the fiscal year, data showed Thursday, piling pressure on the embattled government.

The figures from the national statistics office also showed the economy expanded 6.5 percent for year to March 2012 -- lower than the government’s estimate of 6.9 percent and far below the 8.4 percent of the previous year.

“The figures have reconfirmed the Confederation of India’s own estimates, which show that the economy is in the throes of a serious slowdown,” said Chandrajit Banerjee, director general of the leading industry body.

The final quarter of the last financial year saw a contraction in the key manufacturing sector, which saw output shrink 0.3 percent owing to flagging domestic and overseas demand, com-pared with 7.3 percent expansion a year earlier.

Farm, construction and mining production grew only mod-estly.

The figures came as the rupee hit a record 56.50 low against the dollar and the government faced a nationwide strike to protest against the highest-ever petrol price hike that was put in place to curb oil firms’ losses.

Shares on the Mumbai stock market fell as much as 1.38 percent.

“We are going through a rough patch worldwide. Growth figures have taken a hit because of that,” Rajesh Chakrabarti, professor of finance at the Indian School of Business, told India’s NDTV network.

But he added the data was “extremely disappointing.”Analysts had forecast growth of 6.1 percent in the January-

March quarter and the poor performance is likely to at to the gloom shrouding Asia’s third-largest economy.

The government has little room to increase spending to spur growth and interest rates cannot be cut significantly because of high inflation, which is sitting at around 7.0 percent.

Dariusz Kowalczyk, senior economist at Credit Agricole, had spoken of “extreme pessimism” about India’s prospects before the data was released.

“Fundamentals are indeed weak with slower growth, elevated inflation and the highest deficit-to-GDP ratios in Asia,” he said, forecasting annual growth will stay below seven percent until after the general elections in 2014.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 79, admitted last week his scandal-tainted Congress-led ruling coalition “need to do better” to get the once red-hot economy moving again.

While more than six percent full-year growth would be the envy of much of the world, at least nine to 10 percent expansion is needed to reduce India’s widespread poverty, experts say.

India’s sluggishness will add to concerns about the global outlook as China has also recently released a slew of bleak data, fuelling fears the world’s second biggest economy is cooling faster than expected.

Hopes the two emerging market giants, who weathered the 2008 financial crisis well, could underpin another global recov-ery have been steadily dashed by their stuttering performances.

Singh is credited with opening up India’s economy when he was the finance minister in 1991 but his premiership has been undermined by a series of policy U-turns and corruption scandals.

His once ambitious reform agenda has stalled amid coalition infighting, and the economic climate has been further strained by the announcement of new tax policies seen as hostile to foreign investment. India’s economy is suffering from “policy incoher-ence, shifting global risk appetite and a comatose government”, said Rajeev Malik, senior economist at brokerage CLSA, said a head of the figures.

Benchmark oil for July delivery was up 28 cents to $88.10 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract slid $2.99 to close at $87.82 on the Nymex on Thursday.

In London, Brent crude was up 34 cents at $103.80 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

Experts are concerned about a banking crisis in Europe that may pull countries that use the euro common currency into recession. Concerns mounted Wednesday, when the European Commission reported that economic confidence has plummeted this month to the lowest level in 2.5 years.

The grim outlook was further

compounded by sharply higher borrowing rates for Spain and Italy. The yield on Spain’s 10-year bonds, a key indicator of market confidence in the country’s ability to continue to make payments on its debt, shot as high as 6.69 percent, the highest since the euro currency was launched in 2002.

Victor Shum, energy analyst at consultancy Purvin & Gertz in Singapore, said European troubles and weak demand were responsible for sliding oil prices.

“OPEC has been producing at record levels and North American crude production continues to boom so inventories are high,” Shum said. “The weak macroeconomic news out of Europe and fears about

all these debt troubles spreading to Spain and Italy, coupled with weak fundamentals, have caused the Nymex to break through $90 and we’re still heading down today in Asia.”

The euro fell near a two-year low against the dollar Wednesday, helping to push oil prices even lower. Oil, which is priced in dol-lars, tends to fall as the dollar rises and makes crude barrels more expensive for investors holding foreign money.

In other energy trading, heating oil was up 1 cent at $2.75 per gal-lon while gasoline futures fell 0.6 cents to $2.77 per gallon. Natural gas fell 3 cents at $2.39 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Oil near $88 amid European financial turmoil

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Traders work in the oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange, Thursday, May 24, 2012. Oil lingered near seven-month lows around $90 a barrel Thursday in Asia as Europe’s debt crisis festers and China’s economy continues to slow.

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BANGKOK — Oil prices lingered near $88 a barrel Thursday in Asia as a fresh wave of sour economic news from Europe lent weight to expectations that the region’s slowdown will keep demand for crude subdued.

India jolted by weak growth data

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YANGON - The mother and child who touch hands in an over-crowded Yangon hospice are not family, but their tragic history begins in the blood.

Jam, 42, a mother of six, and Kanama, aged 2, are both HIV positive. Abandoned by their families, they must now find comfort in each other, although Jam still yearns for her husband to return to the private HIV hospice in the suburbs of Myanmar’s biggest city.

“He promised to come back but I’m afraid he never will,” said the woman as she burst into tears. She is known in the hospice by her nickname, Jam.

The hospice is home to 182 HIV patients, whose plight demon-strates the painful limits of Myanmar’s new democracy. A reform-minded government has vowed to overhaul a decrepit health system, but little change is likely for HIV/AIDS sufferers, who thanks to social stigma and medical neglect, are shut off in hospices that bring to mind leper colonies.

In 2009, the United Nations estimated 240,000 of Myanmar’s 60 million people were infected with HIV and about 18,000 were dying a year. Neighboring Thailand, with a slightly bigger popu-lation, has more than twice the number of people with HIV but access to drugs and greater public acceptance mean that many can lead normal lives.

Jam once lived in Kadon, a fishing village in the impoverished Irrawaddy Delta, with her farmer husband and their six children. In 2008, feeling unwell, she was treated by a self-styled medic, who injected her with a drug. The needle was dirty and had been used repeatedly. She was probably now HIV positive, although she didn’t suspect it, and her personal tragedy was soon subsumed by a national one: Cyclone Nargis.

The typhoon slammed into the delta in May that year, killing at least 138,000 people, including Jam’s sons, aged 17 and 18. She narrowly escaped, clutching her youngest child, who is six. Nargis wiped her village off the map.

Jam and thousands of other survivors struggled to rebuild their lives. Another four years passed before she fell ill again, this time more gravely, and a hospital referred her to the Yangon hospice. Tests confirmed she had AIDS. That was two months ago. Jam is mostly alone now. Apart from her six-year-old, her children shun her. Her husband, who is not HIV positive, returned to the farm.

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Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for May 20 through June 20, 2012

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, sail-ings, 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

26 May Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit JembranaOdalan Betara ratu Gede Desa Celuk SukawatiOdalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan DenpasarBetara Ratu Alit & Ratu Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarmaan Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarmaan Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarmaan Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarmaan dalem Bakas BesakihPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel Klung-kungPura Pemrajan Agung Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung.Merajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung PengatepanPura Pedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Pura BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwa Banyuangi.Pesraman Dusun Kuto Rejo Banyuangi.

30 May Buda Wage Kelawu. Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Desa Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida.Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangembungan Bongkase Abianse-mal.Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Br. Jawa Tengah BulelengPura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding TampaksiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan KutaPura Goa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihOdalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh Penataran Agung Be-sakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PejengMerajan Pasek Gelgel SonganMerajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan SidemenMerajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari Sukasada.Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Sidemen KarangasemMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli.

5 Jun Anggar Kasih Dukut. Pr. Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan TabananPura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar.Merajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agun SulahanMerajan Pasek Padang Rata PadangPura Puser Jagat Dalem Dukut Puri Sukun Nusa Penida.

6 Jun Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja AbiansemalPura Dalem Samplangan Gianyar

16 Jun Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase AbiansemalPura Watugunung BimaPura Agung Jagatkarana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya Rawamangun Jakarta TimurPura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur BulelengPura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa BaratPura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung.Pura Giri Jaya Natha BalikpapanPura Agung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia.

18 Jun Some ribek. Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Batugaing BangliPura Tirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya

20 Jun Hari raya Pagerwesi Pura Laban Sindu Jiwa Kedewatan UbudPura Kehen BangliPura Wirabuana Magelang Jawa TengahPura Padang Sakti Tangtu Denpasar TimurPura Jogan Agung Ketewel SukawatiPura Gadung Pengiasan Dauh Puri DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel Buruan Kaja TabananPura Pasek Gobleg Kerambitan tabananPura Pasek Gelgel Meliling Tabanan

Those are huge numbers in the cable television world. No scripted series on the broadcast networks last week came close. By contrast, Fox’s series finale of “House” last week reached 8.7 million people.

“Hatfields & McCoys” had a couple of big-name stars in Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton and is airing over three

nights in two-hour chunks. Broadcast television was dominated by competi-tion shows again last week, led by the 21.5 million people who watched the “American Idol” finale on Fox. “Danc-ing With the Stars” and “America’s Got Talent” also did well.

Perhaps crowded by the market-place, ABC’s “Duets” finished a

modest No. 23 in the ratings, with 6.8 million viewers. Fox’s summer series “So You Think You Can Dance” also came out of the gate slowly, with 6.3 million viewers.

Led by “Idol,” Fox won the week with an average of 8.3 million view-ers in prime time (4.9 rating, 9 share). ABC had 7.4 million (also 4.9, 9), CBS had 5.8 million (3.9, 7), NBC had 4.6 million (3.0, 5), ION Television had 1.1 million (0.7, 1) and the CW had 680,000 (0.5, 1). Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with 3.7 million (2.0, 3), Telemundo had 1.1 million (0.6, 1), TeleFutura had 510,000 (0.3, 0), Estrella had 210,000 and Azteca 110,000 (both 0.1, 0).

Associated Press Writer

DUBLIN — Bono will pres-ent Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with Amnesty International’s highest honor when she visits Dublin next month as part of her first inter-national tour in 24 years, the U2 singer and other organizers of an Irish tribute concert announced Wednesday.

Suu Kyi is scheduled to visit Dublin on June 18, a day after collecting her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel in 1991, and Amnesty’s Ambassador of Conscience award in 2009. She was unable to claim either award in person until now because she was under house arrest for 15 of the past 24 years and, even when free, afraid to leave Myanmar in case the country’s military junta barred her return.

Bono devoted a series of U2’s

2009 concerts to Suu Kyi, de-manding her release from house arrest, and unveiled the Amnesty award at one Dublin concert that year. He said the June 18 event would be the first time he’s ever met the 66-year-old pro-democ-racy activist.

“It’s so rare to see grace trump military might, and when it hap-pens we should make the most joyful noise we can,” Bono said in a prepared statement. “Aung San Suu Kyi’s grace and courage have tilted a wobbly world further in the direction of democracy. We all feel we know her, but it will be such a thrill to meet her in person.”

Suu Kyi was elected to Parlia-ment in Myanmar, also known as Burma, last month; took her seat May 2; and launched an interna-tional tour Tuesday starting in neighboring Thailand. She’s also scheduled to address both houses of the British Parliament during her European tour next month.

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BANGKOK - Thailand’s government is up in arms over a tweet by pop sensa-tion Lady Gaga about buying a fake de-signer watch in a Bangkok street market and has complained to the United States. Bangkok’s sprawling outdoor markets and some of its big shopping malls are widely known for selling near-perfect replicas of famous luxury brands, often imported from China.

Even so, Gaga’s May 23 tweet, two days ahead of a sellout concert in Bang-kok, struck a raw nerve with some Thais who said the zany artist had dented the country’s reputation by suggesting she

could easily get her hands on a fake Rolex watch. The Grammy Award winner, who cancelled a concert after threats in Indonesia and faced protests by conservative groups in the Philip-pines and South Korea, has not apolo-gized for the tweet, which Thailand’s Commerce Ministry said undermined its efforts to stamp out piracy.

“Lady Gaga is a representative of the U.S. and the U.S. puts pressure on smaller countries to promote the protection of intellectual property,” an official at the ministry’s Intellectual Property Department told Reuters, re-questing anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. “She

should tell her fans that they shouldn’t use fake goods.”

Gaga’s comment stirred debate on Thai web forums and social media. A small protest took place in Bangkok’s business district but that failed to keep fans away from her much-anticipated show on Friday, which attracted 50,000 people.

Gaga’s contentious tweet to her 24 million followers said: “I just landed in Bangkok baby! Ready for 50,000 screaming Thai monsters. I wanna get lost in a lady market and buy a fake rolex.” She was believed to be refer-ring to the popular Ladies’ Market in Hong Kong.

Thailand furious at Lady Gaga’s fake Rolex tweet

This undated image re-leased by History shows Bill

Paxton portraying Randall McCoy in a scene from the

History network’s miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys.”

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Hatfields and McCoys big draw for HistoryAssociated Press Writer

NEW yOrK — There’s nothing like a backwoods blood feud to excite television viewers on Memorial Day. The first part of the History network’s miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys” was seen by 13.9 million viewers on Monday night, more than 17 million when the immediate repeat was added in, the Nielsen company said. The numbers held up for part two on Tuesday, which was watched by 13.1 million, Nielsen said.

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Bono, the Irish rock star and activist, speaks at the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security following an appearance by President Obama, Friday, May 18, 2012, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.

Bono to present Amnesty award to Suu Kyi in Dublin

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The party of current Prime Min-ister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thak-sin’s sister, was hoping to introduce legislation in Parliament Thursday that is widely seen as a possible first step toward providing amnesty for her fugitive brother’s convictions and allowing him to return unen-cumbered to Thailand.

Thaksin had been ousted by a 2006 military coup after being ac-cused of abuse of power and disre-spect to Thai King Bhumibol Adu-lyadej. His party was dissolved by a legal decision the year after, and he was among the 111 executives of his Thai Rak Thai Party banned from

politics for five years. He also was convicted in absentia of corruption while in self-imposed exile.

The prospect of Thaksin’s return has galvanized his opponents inside and outside Parliament, threatening to reopen political wounds from a six-year struggle between Thaksin’s opponents and supporters.

His Yellow Shirt opponents in the People’s Alliance for Democracy were back on the streets Wednesday in one of their largest demonstra-tions in recent months. They oppose a government-backed reconciliation bill to grant amnesty to all parties involved in political violence and

wrongdoing from the end of 2005 through mid-2010, a period when Thailand was wracked by turmoil and street protests.

Yellow Shirts’ protests in 2006 set the stage for the coup, and in 2008 they occupied the prime min-ister’s offices for three months and Bangkok’s two airports for a week to pressure two pro-Thaksin prime ministers out of office.

The street protests Wednesday were peaceful, but the scene was different in Parliament, where police had to keep order as the opposition Democrat Party sought to derail efforts to schedule debate on the bill. At one point, a female Democrat lawmaker dragged the House speaker’s empty chair off the podium, sparking a scuffle with government members of Par-liament. A phalanx of policemen retrieved the chair.

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An antique bowl worth HK$1.35 million ($174,000) has been stolen from an international antiques fair in Hong Kong, police said Thursday.

An unidentified foreign exhibitor alerted police on Wednesday as the three-day International Antiques Fair at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre wrapped up.

“The antique bowl was stolen from one of the display cabinets. We

have classified the case as theft,” a police spokeswoman said.

“We are still investigating and no arrests have been made so far.”

The fair’s organiser, Chak’s Invest-ment, said it had no information about the crime. The annual fair drew more than 50 exhibitors from Asia, Europe and the United States.

Hong Kong has emerged as one of the biggest auction centres after New York and London, fuelled by China’s economic boom and

demand from Asian collectors, especially mainland Chinese buy-ers, who have pushed up Chinese art prices.

Reuters

BEIJING - Iran has cancelled a $2 billion contract for a Chinese firm to help build a hydroelectric dam, Chinese state media said on Thursday, a move that risks upsetting one of Tehran’s most important economic and political allies. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to visit China next week for a security summit, where he is expected to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme.

In March 2011, Iran’s official IRNA news agency said China’s Sinohydro Corp. had signed a con-tract with Iranian hydro firm Farab to build the dam, described as the world’s tallest, in Iran’s western province of Lorestan. It was de-signed to support a 1,500-megawatt power station.

The Global Times, a popular tab-loid owned by Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Dai-

ly, said the Iranian government had decided to cancel the contract. The report did not cite sources or give a reason. But it quoted Iranian media reports as saying Iran’s central bank was “dissatisfied” with financing options offered by China.

A Sinohydro official told Reu-ters by telephone the company was “checking with colleagues in Tehran on this issue”. China’s Foreign Ministry said it had no information about the case. Guo Xian’gang, vice president of the China Institute of International Studies, a government think tank, said he did not see the cancellation affecting Sino-Iran ties.

“Some projects may be can-celled due to some technical rea-sons, other projects are still going on, it is really normal,” Guo said. “The outside world does not need to exaggerate this.” Guo, who is an expert on the Middle East, added the cancellation would not affect Ahmadinejad’s visit to China.

China and Iran have close en-ergy and trade ties, and Beijing has repeatedly re-sisted U.S.-led demands to impose tougher economic sanctions on Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions. Howev-er, differences have arisen between China and Iran in the development of Iran’s oil and gas resources.

State-owned China Na-tional Petroleum Corporation was given a month’s dead-line by Iranian Oil minister Rostam Ghasemi in April to make a serious start on the gi-ant South Pars gas field after 32 months of delay.

Antique bowl stolen from Hong Kong fair: police

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File photo of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Cen-

tre (C) in Hong Kong. An antique bowl worth HK$1.35 million

($174,000) has been stolen from an international antiques fair at

the exhibition centre, police said Thursday

AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong

Members of the People’s Alliance for Democracy, or Yellow Shirt group, stage a noisy rally opposing the amnesty bill outside the parliament building in Bangkok Thursday, May 31, 2012.

Prospect of Thaksin return heats up Thai politicsAssociated Press Writer

BANGKOK — Thailand’s politics heated up Wednesday over a bill that could herald the return of divisive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, while his former top lieutenants prepared to re-enter the political arena after a five-year ban.

Iran cancels $2 billion dam deal with China: report

Iranian President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad, center, arrives to attend an inauguration ceremo-ny of the newly-elected parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 27, 2012.

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Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere. The number isn’t quite a surprise, because it’s been rising at an accelerating pace. Years ago, it passed the 350 ppm mark that many scientists say is the highest safe level for carbon diox-ide. It now stands globally at 395. So far, only the Arctic has reached that 400 level, but the rest of the world will follow soon.

“The fact that it’s 400 is sig-nificant,” said Jim Butler, global monitoring director at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-tration’s Earth System Research Lab in Boulder, Colo. “It’s just a reminder to everybody that we haven’t fixed

this and we’re still in trouble.”Carbon dioxide is the chief green-

house gas and stays in the atmosphere for 100 years. Some carbon dioxide is natural, mainly from decomposing dead plants and animals. Before the Industrial Age, levels were around 275 parts per million.

For more than 60 years, readings have been in the 300s, except in ur-ban areas, where levels are skewed. The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal for electricity and oil for gaso-line, has caused the overwhelming bulk of the man-made increase in carbon in the air, scientists say.

It’s been at least 800,000 years — probably more — since Earth saw car-bon dioxide levels in the 400s, Butler and other climate scientists said.

Until now.Readings are coming in at 400 and

higher all over the Arctic. They’ve been recorded in Alaska, Greenland, Norway, Iceland and even Mongolia. But levels change with the seasons and will drop a bit in the summer, when plants suck up carbon dioxide, NOAA scientists said.

So the yearly average for those northern stations likely will be lower and so will the global num-ber. Globally, the average carbon dioxide level is about 395 parts per million but will pass the 400 mark within a few years, scientists said.

The Arctic is the leading indi-cator in global warming, both in carbon dioxide in the air and effects, said Pieter Tans, a senior NOAA scientist. “This is the first time the entire Arctic is that high,” he said. Tans called reaching the 400 num-ber “depressing,” and Butler said it was “a troubling milestone.”

MulTi-person elephant rides, orangutans eating from fine china, and carnivores on display before becoming extinct are just some of the scenes from an online ex-hibit of vintage zoo pamphlets being featured by the Smithsonian Institution.

The pamphlets, photos and zoo maps, available from the Smith-sonian Institution Libraries, come from zoos in more than 30 U.S. states and 40 countries. They show elephants in Australia ferrying schoolchildren on their backs, close-up looks at tigers in Prague, and illustrations from 1891 of a thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, a carnivorous marsupial on display at the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London. The last known thylacine died in captivity in 1936.

The vintage materials reveal how much zoos have changed from amusement-park-like attractions to more educational, conservation-minded institutions. A guide to Great Britain’s Clifton Zoological Gardens from 1912, for example, shows prison-like animal enclosures

encased in heavy bars. Primates were often posed doing human-like activities. One Minnesota zoo guide from 1928 shows a chimpanzee in a stroller. The New York Zoological Park guide, published in 1905, has photographs of orangutans sitting around a table draped with a white tablecloth, mimicking a family dinner.

“Some of the photographs of animal enclosures, restraint devices and mock theatrics, while unsettling to some, are an important part of the history of human-animal relations,” wrote Alvin Hutchinson, the head of information services at Smithsonian Libraries, in an introduction to the collection.

These days zoos are focused increasingly on conservation and research rather than on anthropo-morphized chimps. Smithsonian’s National Zoo, for example, recently live-tweeted an attempt to artifi-cially inseminate its giant panda Mei Xiang. There are only about 1,600 pandas left in the wild, and captive-breeding programs are part of an effort to save the species.

Agence France Presse

US regulators denied a request to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup to merely “corn sugar,” in a high-profile dispute between two industries. The effort to change the name comes amid controversy over the sweetener, which is at the epicenter of a dispute over a pos-sible link to obesity.

The Food and Drug Admin-istration said in a ruling that the corn industry failed to back up its request for the name change. FDA

food safety chief Michael Landa on Wednesday said the change would imply “a solid, dried, and crystallized sweetener obtained from corn.”

Landa said there is already a solid corn sweetener, called dex-trose, and that the liquid corn sweet-ener contains some ingredients that might adversely affect people “with hereditary fructose intolerance or fructose malabsorption.”

The regulatory battle between Big Sugar and Big Corn coincides with a public relations battle. The FDA

affects food labeling but does not prevent advertisements describing “corn sugar,” at least according to the corn industry. “The FDA’s ruling represents a victory for American consumers,” said Dan Callister, an attorney for the sugar industry.

“It reaffirms what most con-sumer advocates, health experts and policy officials have been saying all along: only sugar is sugar. HFCS is not sugar. The next step is for the federal court to end the (the corn industry’s) misleading propaganda campaign.”

AFP Photo/Scott OlsonCorn grows in a field near West Union, Iowa in 2011. US regulators Wednes-day denied a request to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup to merely “corn sugar,” in a high-profile dispute between two industries.

US denies name change for high-fructose corn syrup

In this image released by NOAA, Chris Carparelli, adjusts a glass flask that line the walls of an air sample process-ing room at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boul-der, Colo., Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

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Warming gas levels hit ‘troubling milestone’Associated Press Writer

WASHiNGTON — The world’s air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.

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An 1895 guidebook from the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in Eng-land.

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A Xabi Alonso penalty and a Santi Cazorla free kick in a four-minute spell early in the second half put Spain back in control and Alvaro Negredo, who like Torres just make the cut, added a fourth. It was not all plain sailing for the world and European champions as South Korea, themselves warming up for a pair of World Cup qualifiers, exposed some gaps in the Spanish rearguard in the first half.

Torres’ place at Euro 2012 next month looked to be in danger when his erratic form for Chelsea and Spain led him to be dropped from the squad for a friendly against Venezuela earlier this year. But his Champions League semi-final goal for Chelsea against Barcelona, when he broke from his own half to score the goal that made the tie safe for the Premier League side, helped swing the pen-dulum back in his favour.

Given another chance, Torres looked sharp from the outset, deflect-ing Santi Cazorla’s shot just wide after two minutes. The 28-year-old forward put Spain ahead when he got behind the South Korea defence to meet a long Benat cross into the area with a backwards header which flew into the net.

It was his first goal since he hit the

target in a 4-0 friendly win over the United States on June 4 last year and the 28th of his international career.

“He is one of those players who brings us speed, draws markers away, never stands still, and gets into positions to receive passes behind the back line,” said Del Bosque, who is without the injured David Villa for the tournament. “Fernando is very happy to be here, he’s euphoric.”

Spain, still without their contin-gent of Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao players after they were involved in the King’s Cup final last Friday, com-pletely dominated possession for the next 15 minutes, barely letting South Korea out of their half.

HELPLESS REINA

Benat was especially impressive and on Wednesday’s performance can consider himself unlucky to be among the players who missed the cut for Poland and Ukraine. After the half hour mark, the Koreans began finding gaps in the Spanish defence and, having already caused a couple of scares, levelled just before the break.

Kim was left free on the edge of the area and rifled a 25-metre shot past the helpless Pepe Reina. Spain

quickly regained control after Igna-cio Monreal’s shot was handled by a defender and Xabi Alonso converted the resulting penalty in the 52nd minute.

Four minutes later, midfielder Santi Cazorla scored with a low free kick which went under the Korean wall. Negredo, included in the squad at the expense of Valencia’s Roberto Soldado, fired the fourth with an angled shot with 10 minutes left.

Spain, who beat Serbia 2-0 in St Gallen on Saturday, have spent one week training in the Austrian Alps, bringing in several younger players to make up for the absence of the Barcelona contingent. Del Bosque said it was worthwhile, even though players such as Benat, Soldado and Adrian Lopez had to be cut from the squad.

“We’ve have very good days for training, no injuries, we have great relationships within the group, everyone has been extraordinary,” said Del Bosque. “This has been more than a mere preparation, we have planted roots for the future with these players.”

Spain start the defence of their European crown against Group C rivals Italy on June 10 before also taking on Ireland and Croatia.

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LANDOVER, Maryland - Neymar scored a goal and had a hand in two others as Brazil outclassed the United States 4-1 in a one-sided friendly international on Wednesday. The Americans had won their last five inter-nationals in a row, including a 5-1 thumping of Scotland last weekend, but were brought back down to earth by a youthful Brazilian team preparing for the London Olympics.

Neymar opened the scoring after just 12 minutes when he coolly slotted home a penalty after U.S. defender Oguchi Oneywu accidently handballed in the box.

The 20-year-old set up the second goal for the South Americans when he laid on a pinpoint corner that defender Thiago Silva headed past U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard and into the net.

The Americans, who are in the middle of a hectic schedule of warm-ups for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, pulled one back on the stroke of halftime when Herculez Gomez, starting an international for the first time since the 2010 World Cup, nodded in a cross from Fabian Johnson.

The Americans created a handful of chances in the second half but were denied by some acrobatic saves from Brazilian goalkeeper Rafael, who impressed on debut, and some old fashioned bad luck when Onyewu hit the bar.

Brazil were far more clinical when they had opportunities. Neymar cut the ball back inside to present Marcelo with an easy goal after 59 minutes then substitute Alexandre Pato completed the rout when he angled the ball in to score three minutes from time.

Reuters

MADRID - Barcelona defender Eric Abidal could return to play football again after his liver transplant, the surgeon who carried out the operation has said.

The France international, 32, had surgery to remove a tumour from his liver last year, but after returning to play again, was forced to undergo a transplant on April 10 with part of an organ donated by his cousin.

“It’s up to him. I wouldn’t stop him. Time will tell,” doctor Juan Carlos Garcia-Valdecasas was quoted as telling Spanish television station TV3 on Thursday. “If Eric responds well, there is no reason why he shouldn’t.

“The liver is an organ that regenerates in three months. Abidal has to recover little by little, but between three and six months, or up to a year after the intervention, the patient is able to have a normal life.

“He is always in high spirits. He is a very positive character, it is tremen-dous. He has never complained about anything.”

Torres celebrates Euro inclusion by ending droughtReuters

BERNE - Striker Fernando Torres, who scraped into Spain’s Euro 2012 squad by the skin of his teeth, celebrated by ending a year-long goal drought for his country in a 4-1 friendly win over South Korea on Wednesday. Torres, complimented by coach Vicente del Bosque afterwards, gave Spain a 11th minute lead although South Korea then gave them a fright when Kim Do-Heong - who plays for National Police Agency - rifled an equaliser a minute before halftime.

Abidal could return to play again, doctor says

Brazil outclass United States 4-1 in friendly

AP Photo/Nick Wass

Brazil’s Neymar (11) celebrates his goal against the United States during the first half of an international friendly soc-cer game on Wednesday, May 30, 2012, in Landover, Md.

Tabanan (Bali Post)—Investors intensively target at Tabanan

to build a power plant project. When the issue of geothermal power plant project at Bedugul is unresolved, a similar project comes to view. This time, the investor pro-poses a hydroelectric project at Lumbung Kauh village, West Selemadeg subdistrict. As planned, the project will commence in 2013. Proposal of the project was presented by PT Bali Energi Indonesia as investor in front of the Regent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, in the tourist area of Tanah Lot, Tuesday night (May 29).

The hydropower plant mega project was planned to take advantage of the hydropow-er of the Balian River, West Selemadeg. The project was claimed to be environmentally friendly and able to generate up to 7.0 mega-watts (MW). “To anticipate the availability of fuel-fired power plant, we offer the use of hydropower for electricity generation,” said President Commissioner of PT Bali Energi Indonesia, MA. Hannopo. Total investment of the project reached IDR 130-140 billion. According to him, the streams and length of Balian River had been surveyed and they were viable for power generation system using Mini Hydropower Plant.

As planned, the project would use a pure

turbine rotated by a flow of water. If it could be approved, the project would also become a tourist area because the hydropower plant would be developed with the eco-tourism concept. “This project will be designed like a hotel resort,” said Hannopo. He added the hydropower project had advantages over the other power generation. Aside from being silent, its operational costs also tended to be lower.

Related to the offer, the Regent Eka Wiryastuti, Deputy Regent Komang Gede Sanjaya, and Chairman of Commission II of the Tabanan House Ketut Purnaya were unable to give a definite answer. According to the Regent, her party welcomed the offer. However, the project plan should be studied in depth by involving various components of society. “We respond to the offer of in-vestor. But, we must be selective,” she said. Her party, said the Regent, would conduct a study that could be accounted for.

Meanwhile, Headman of Lumbung Kauh, I Gede Nyoman Suwirya, said that his party expected the hydropower plant project could be built in his territory. So far, his village was always isolated. “We agreed to the project, but we have to examine it in depth regarding its positive and negative impacts,” he said. (kmb30)

Chief of Badung Police, Beny Ar-janto, when asked for his confirmation on Wednesday justified the incident. However, his party still made further investigation because there was no definite information. He had not known yet about the chronology of the incident whether the victims were workers at work, the owners or residents who were passing. “We still do not know the exact chronological order. Up to this night (Wednesday—Ed), the information re-mains unclear,” said Chief Beny.

He explained the three dead victims were Ni Ketut Sri Ayu Juniarti, 32, I Nyo-man Suparta, 29, and Ni Ketut Ari, 27. Meanwhile, the injured victim was Imam and the survivor was Komang Wiarsana,

33. Chief Beny explained the dead victims could have been evacuated. “Since the incident, the personnel of Petang Police have been performing the evacuation and examining witnesses,” he explained.

Based on information compiled, the incident occurred when the five people were doing excavation at the quarry C. Unbeknownst to them, the quarry C avalanched and toppled over the five victims. Well, the three victims who died could not escape because their position was inside the pit. Meanwhile, the two other victims could escape. “The surrounding residents immediately helped them and reported the incident to Petang Police,” the source said last Wednesday. (kmb21)

SANGKARAGUNG village in Negara subdis-trict is one of the villages having a cag-cag weav-ing craft as typical product of the Buffalo Race Land. Virtually all the housewives at the hamlet of Sangkaragung have a cag-cag weaving skills inherited from generation to generation. Some of them involve deeply in the profession through a group, while some others do it independently in their spare time beyond regular duties as a housewife. Amidst the condition where weaving craft works are eroded by modern textile indus-try, every family at the village remains firmly to preserve the tradition. In the long run, the crafters are faced with a difficult situation with the price of weaving works tending to drop. They are unable to compete against the modern industry.

Formerly, the craftsmen could reap consider-able income from the making of weaving works, but it now tends to decline continuously. It is caused by the price of cag-cag weaving works are not comparable to the price of raw materials and production cost. “Currently, the price is indeed pretty good, at least for an additional income,” said Ni Luh Wiarni, 41, one of the crafters from the hamlet of Pangkung Gondang, Sangkaragung, when met on Wednesday (May 30). The matter of expensive raw materials thoroughly affected the crafters. Moreover, most of them were home-based artisans intending to support their domestic economies. In the past, the raw materials were cheap, while the weaving products were expen-sive. Now, it happened on the contrary.

“The price of yarn rose, while the wage of weaving is cheap. Now, the price condition indeed remains stable. However, it still cannot give a better result,” she added. Other than for preserving the local traditions, craftsmen that were dominated by women in the neighbor-hood also took the job for economic interest. A number of artisans faced difficulty in marketing their products because their motive was differ-ent from the ones made by the weaving craft center such as at Dauhwaru. Their weaving products could only be used for sarong. It could not be used to make apparel. Most of the cag-cag looms owned by housewives were heritages from generation to generation.

Aside from weaving independently, the village also had 11 groups of cag-cag weav-ing. Unlike the independent weavers, some groups obtained capital injections in the form of loans and yarns. One of them was the Menuh Group with 10 members entirely consisting of housewives. The group established in 2001 had represented Jembrana for several times in national and international competition and ex-hibition. The Menuh Group Head, Ni Komang Ani Astuti, 33, who met last Wednesday, said that since 2008 her group had changed its status into the prosperous family income improve-ment (UPPKS). Since then, the Menuh Group obtained loans from a number of parties such as the assistance of yearn from the local govern-ment in 2010. However, her group members actually hoped to get a grant help to support their sustainability.

“So far, we have obtained assistance in the form of credits and yarns. Yet, we do expect to get a help in the form of direct grants and marketing from the government, not through a middleman so that we can enjoy the benefit directly,” she explained. According to her, she currently received several orders of cag-cag clothes from local government, but through a middleman that regularly marketed their weav-ing products. Apart from the ordered items, the group members still made weaving works each month to be marketed by middleman from Mendoyo Dauh Tukad village.

Almost all of the housewives at the village were getting involved in the cag-cag weaving. Astuti herself was an immigrant. Since she got married to the hamlet and saw her mother-in-law weaving repeatedly, she was finally able to do so proficiently. “Formerly, within a family there were three to five units of cag-cag looms. Now, they only leave one or two units because some family members were moved to their own residence. However, most of them remain to get involved in weaving works intensely,” said Astuti. Due to restricted working capital, some of them should borrow it from middleman to purchase raw materials. They would pay the debt after their products were accomplished. (olo)

Five residents hit by avalanches of quarry C Three of them were killed Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Residents of Angantiga hamlet, Petang village, Badung, were surprised by the avalanche incident on Wednesday (May 30). The quarry C located at Angantiga hamlet, avalanched and hit five local residents. Three of the five victims were buried dead, while one victim was injured and another survived.

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Cag-cag woven clothes at Sangkaragung

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Spain’s Fer-nando Torres, left, fights for the ball with South Korea’s Joo Ho Park dur-ing a friendly soccer match between Spain and South Korea at the Stade de Suisse sta-dium in Bern, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

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His night was called incredible, amazing and unbelievable — and that was by the Miami Heat. And when it was over, Rondo could only express disappointment that the Boston Celtics needed more.

LeBron James scored 34 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Dwyane Wade scored eight of his 23 points in overtime and the Heat took a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals with a 115-111 win over the Celtics on Wednesday night, overcoming what will surely go down as the best game of Rondo’s career to move within six wins of an NBA title.

“We lost,” Rondo said, shrugging off talk of the historical ramifica-tions of his night. “Simple as that.” Rondo’s final numbers: 44 points, 10 assists, eight rebounds. He scored all 12 of Boston’s overtime points, giv-ing the Celtics the lead three times, only to have the Heat answer each of those. And when he finally missed in the extra session — on a play where Rondo said he got struck in the face by Wade — then and only then could Miami put Boston away.

Game 3 is Friday night in Bos-ton, where the Celtics will try to

make this a series. No Celtics team has successfully rallied from an 0-2 hole since 1969. “He really played his heart out and carried the load for us offensively,” Celtics forward Paul Pierce said. “He shot the ball, did everything possible you could ask for in him. You just hate to see an effort like that really go to waste.”

Mario Chalmers scored 22 points for Miami, which got 13 points, 11 re-bounds and three assists off the bench from Udonis Haslem. The entire Celt-ics bench combined for seven points, five rebounds and one assist.

Miami trailed by 15 points in the first half, making this the largest deficit the Heat have overcome to win a playoff game in their history. Miami had rallied from 14 points down to win twice before in the postseason, one of those being the game that clinched the 2006 NBA title. “There just can’t be any other way with this team,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “And it has to be the hard way.”

The Heat won on a night where so many things — Rondo’s effort included — suggested that they were in going to be in trouble. There

was the big early deficit, a 7-for-20 shooting effort from the floor by James, Wade going scoreless until the final seconds of the first half, 16 missed free throws and two missed chances to win — both shots by James — at the end of regulation.

And if all that wasn’t enough, Boston’s Big Four were Big again. Pierce scored 21 points before foul-ing out. Kevin Garnett scored 18 points and added eight rebounds. Ray Allen, ailing right ankle and all, went through two gameday shoot-ing workouts to try to snap out of a slump and apparently did, finish-ing with 13 points, the last three of those coming on a 3-pointer that tied the game at 99-all with 34.3 seconds left in regulation.

Miami managed to survive it all. Haslem’s dunk with 1:28 left in overtime to put Miami on top for good, Wade had a three-point play with 59.7 seconds left, and the Heat won their sixth straight East finals game going back to last season.

“One of the best games I’ve played in, win or lose,” Heat for-ward Shane Battier said. “It’s easier said when you win — but it’s un-believable.”

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PARIS - After four days of play, the French Open was left without a Williams sister in the draw on Wednesday when former runner-up Venus joined 2002 champion Serena in mak-ing an early exit. Venus, seven times a grand-slam winner but now coping with an autoim-mune disease, went out tamely 6-2 6-3 to third seed Agnieszka Radwanska.

Serena, whose shock first-round defeat by Frenchwoman

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

Boston Celtics’ Rajon Rondo (9) shoots over Miami Heat’s James Jones (22) during the first half of Game 2 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoffs series, Wednesday, May 30, 2012, in Miami.

Heat overcome Rondo, top Boston 115-111 in Game 2Associated Press Writer

MIAMI — Rajon Rondo posted a stat line never before seen in NBA playoff history. He was on the court for every second of a game that finished more than three hours after it started. He scored more points in a single overtime than anyone this season.

Venus joins Serena in early French Open exit

USA’s Venus Williams returns the ball to Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska during their second round match in the French Open tennis tournament at the Ro-land Garros stadium in Paris, Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

Virginie Razzano reverber-ated through the Roland Gar-ros courts on Tuesday, was in the stands to see her big sister thrashed by an in-form Rad-wanska.

Tennis fans rued the loss of both Americans, two of the biggest characters in women’s tennis, but thankfully the men’s favourites are playing to form and both world number one Novak Djokovic and record-breaking 2009 champion Roger Federer survived into the third round.

At least one of the Williams sisters has featured at every French Open since 1997, except for last year when they were both injured, and they contested the final in 2002, with Serena winning.

As though in sympathy with their troubles this year, rain came to Paris after three days of glorious sunshine, and play ended early with fifth-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

level at 6-2 4-6 1-1 with Ger-man Cedric Marcel Stebe on Suzanne Lenglen court.

Venus showed flashes of her old self only at the end of the hour-long match with Radwanska when she won to love for 5-2 and then broke her opponent.

However, Radwanska, cover-ing the whole court and playing some sublime shots, scooped the ball over the American’s head to get to matchpoint in the fol-lowing game and then watched Venus put a forehand out.

Venus was quiet but deter-mined not to be downcast in her news conference, saying she was still learning to live with Sjogren’s Syndrome. “There are a lot of people who have it a lot worse than I do. I am still play-ing a professional sport,” the former world number one said. “I haven’t gotten to the ‘why me?’ yet, I hope I never get to the ‘why me?’ I am not allowed to feel sorry for myself.”AP Photo/Michel Spingler

Denpasar (Bali Post) –Every vehicle will be on an electric

data either its owner or vehicle physical detail to control subside petrol distribu-tion on each petrol station. Moreover government wants this way so it is transparent, accountable and its users on target. Even so, Dean of Economy Faculty for Warmadewa University, I Gst. Ngr. Sanjaya, SE, MSi, Ak stated last Wednesday (30/5) whatever govern-ment’s policy is produced has to make sure its infrastructure or supporting facilities are prepared first so it won’t be only good sayings yet can’t be applied well due to no supporting elements. “Either hardware, software or brain wear (operator) makes sure everything is done well. If none of them existed then do not hope any policy will work as hoped,” Sanjaya stated.

It was then continued that the policy to apply information technology seemed to resulted several questions on accuracy, how much cost it will produce, and is it going to be done completely. Yet to Sanjaya this government program can do well if coming from intellectual research plus with full supervision. This supervision is important as who knows a

sticker can be taken off as consumers are never optimal in not violating any law or circumstances. To guarantee success, Sanjaya suggested that the mechanism of this program has to be prioritized as Petrol and Gas board have to do a good supervision involving police, increasing petrol station operators mental, its own-ers even the public to use non subside petrol. “The public awareness has to be increased, if they can buy luxurious cars they are obliged to use non subside petrol,” Sanjaya explained.

Connecting to the sticker placement, central and regency governments includ-ing state owned cars, Sanjaya thinks this is an expired case and doesn’t mean anything as it seemed their trying to make government owned cars to give a good example to the people yet behind it there must be a debt to close the non subside petrol payment as all this time their operational budget comes from the people’s money either from Regional or Nation Budget and Expenses (APBD and APBN). The best way would to use up all operational cars that existed yet not too much as by using the state facilities; it comes with a price of high operational budget. (kmb28)

Surprisingly, the crop fail-ures happened to the seed assis-tance given by the government, belonging to the Mirah variety. Being unsold, farmers were then forced to harvest their own rice. Their yields drasti-cally dropped up to 80 percent. “Almost all the paddy plants here are damaged as attacked by planthoppers. Therefore, many farmers faced crop failures,” complained Dewa Made Ar-nana, 61, one of the local farm-ers, Wednesday (May 30).

He said the planthoppers had begun to attack since the plants were two months old. These in-sects damaged the stems and the growing grains. Various insecti-cides had been tried by farmers. Unfortunately, no one worked efficaciously. Conversely, the planthopper attack was getting more ferocious and damaged the grains until the harvest season whereas after the trans-plantation up to bearing fruit, they grew flourishingly.

He described the area of local subak territory spread across 60 hectares. Of such amount, nearly 15 hectares were attacked by planthop-pers. As consequence, farmers were losing out. According to Dewa Arnana, the recent harvest yields were unable to cover up the planting costs. “Results of our harvest are not enough to pay the rental of tractor,” he complained again. Farmers hoped there would be a compensation for their crop failure calamity because their planting costs continued to soar every year. Today, the rental of tractor reached IDR 11,000 per 100 square meter. Such amount did not include in the purchase of pesticides.

The calamity of crop fail-ure occurred for the first time experienced by local farmers. Previously, farmers only culti-vated the seedlings belonging to Inpari and Cigelis variety. They always acquired abundant

harvest yields.However, in the last planting

season, farmers were offered new rice variety, named Mirah. Since it was free and recom-mended by the government, farmers ultimately decided to take the seedlings through their pekaseh (subak chief). “We do not know if we would face crop failure like this,” said Dewa Arnana. Despite facing crop failure, farmers would con-stantly plant rice because they had no other job options. Even though farmers had a patch-up capital, they would be farming back with a seed other than Mirah variety.

The Head of Tabanan Food Crop Agriculture and Horticul-ture Agency, Nyoman Budana, promised to come to location to see the condition of the dam-aged rice. “We will have a close look at the scene first. Based on the inspection, we will know what measure to take for the way out,” he said. (kmb30)

Singaraja (Bali Post) –Kiosks located at Lovina Beac,

Buleleng now seemed to cause sellers worried as the completed built kiosks seemed to show that its condition is unmanaged properly as one of them got its ceiling totally holed also the kiosks built above the land of Ka-libukbuk Village now still have no electricity as stated by a number of sellers last Wednesday (30/5).

Sellers admitted do not know what have caused this damaged to the the one year old building yet it is predicted that one of the roofs got broken due to a tree branch falling during the bad weather a while ago. This condition is worried that it will be worsening especially if heavy rain comes that could cause more leak-ing or hit by another tree. It seemed government is not being clear on its management plus not serious in helping sellers when there should be a maintenance done based on its contract. If the kiosks management

is clear it is assured that it’s known who is responsible in such situation, does the seller who has to fix it or the government.

Meanwhile information from Head of Culture and Tourism Agency of Buleleng, Made Suarja, stated the kiosk project is on its maintenance level by the constructor only just this information is not known by them yet and it will be taken action by the Agency by approaching the contractors about this problem. To be known tens of these kiosks were built under the Nation Budget and Expenses above a land owned by Kalibukbuk Village. The kiosks then accommodated a number of sellers so no more of them goes around and caused unease situation for tourists as they get chased by the sellers. Sadly until now it’s management still unclear as Agency haven’t handed it over to the Village’s side as planned officially also a kiosk got damaged already. (kmb)

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The farmer is harvesting his crops.

Attacked by planthoppers, rice of farmers unsoldTabanan (Bali Post)—

Rice farmers in Tabanan are constantly haunted by problems. After being hit by high winds, now they are facing the attack of planthoppers to their paddy plant as experienced by Subak Anyar Kumpi, Sembung Gede village, Kerambitan. As a result, rice of the farm-ers could not be sold because they were totally damaged.

Management of kiosks at Lovina still unclear

Policy without preparation

Sticker to limit subside petrol will be difficult

Mark Webber has rubbished sug-gestions that he was backing up his rivals during the Monaco Grand Prix in order to help team-mate Sebastian Vettel.

The Australian started from pole position and took his first win of the season after re-sisting race-long pressure from Mercedes’s Nico Rosberg, who was chased by Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton.

Vettel started the race from 10th posi-tion but used a different strategy than his rivals in order to gain places in the race, the German starting on Pirelli’s soft com-pound and running a lot deeper into the race than the men in front. He pitted on lap 46 and returned to the track in fourth place, ahead of Hamilton’s McLaren.

On Wednesday, Webber denied sug-

gestions that he had deliberately run slower in order to slow down the field and allow Vettel to gain ground on his rivals before his pitstop.

“I heard afterwards people had been speculating that I was ‘backing up’ Nico, Fernando and McLaren’s Lewis Hamil-ton, who was also behind me, to help my team-mate Sebastian Vettel gain places,” wrote Webber in his column for the BBC. “That is absolute rubbish. You just cannot be that fancy around Monaco.

“Ultimately, Seb ran out of tyres and he had to pit because the rest of us started to go quicker, but if they’d kept going he would have been pushing for the win.

“If we had been trying anything on, I could have been even cuter. I cleared Seb by quite a lot. If I’d wanted to slide him in among other people, I could have slowed down and it would have been even better for the team. But it just wasn’t part of the plan.

“The problem with trying to do that would be that you’re exposing yourself to even more pressure from the guys behind - Nico and Fernando in this case. And then the boys in the pits might mess up Seb’s stop and it would all be for nothing. “You always get bitten on the bum when you get fancy. So you just don’t try.”

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Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo, Ducati’s Rossi, last year’s Moto2 runner-up Marc Marquez and a multitude of other riders have been connected with the factory ride. Nakamoto says HRC will not rule out any options, and that the first step will be to speak to current works rider Dani Pedrosa, who is in his seventh straight year with the squad.

“I need to gather my ideas and discuss with my bosses in Japan,” Nakamoto told Motosprint. “Nothing is impossible now. “First of all I want to talk properly to Dani because he’s very strong and he’s been with us for many years. We can talk to Lorenzo, obviously. With Casey leaving we need to rebuild.”

Asked whether Rossi could rejoin HRC, with whom he split acrimoniously at the end of 2003, Nakamoto refused to rule out the possibility, saying: “After all, Valentino started his career in the top class with Hon-da.” He also admitted there was pressure from sponsors Repsol to give Marquez the ride, but insisted that it would be dependent on Dorna’s Carmelo Ezpeleta reversing the rookie rule – and that HRC did not want to pair two Spaniards together.

“[Marquez] is the rider Repsol wants to invest on, but to find out how we’ll

place him you need to wait for Carmelo Ezpeleta’s decision regarding the rookie rule. But HRC will not have two Spanish riders together.” Nakamoto said he did not think Stoner would change his mind, but said HRC would take its time about choosing a replacement for the reigning world champion.

“Maybe after spending one year in Aus-tralia he [Stoner] may feel nostalgic. Few things in this world give you the adrenaline you get from racing. After all, he’ll turn 27 in October: even if he stayed out for one or two years he could come back before he turns 30 and he’d still be strong.

“My mission in 2009 was to make HRC strong again in every aspect, and my job hasn’t ended. When I decided to hire Stoner, no one had anything against it: let’s see what their thoughts are now.

“It’s really early to make plans, be-cause there are many things to evaluate. It’s easy to talk and make predictions, but then to put it all into practice is a lot more complex because everyone’s needs must be considered: companies, sponsors, rid-ers. “And besides, Honda is not in such a hurry to decide: we can take our time to think calmly.”

Webber denied backup to assist teammate

Honda: No rush to find replacement for StonerHonda racing will not rush a decision on who will replace Casey Stoner

from 2013, and will not rule out any options - like that of Valentino rossi returning - according to vice president Shuhei Nakamoto. Stoner’s an-nouncement at Le Mans that he will retire at the end of the year has left Honda with the massive quandary of finding a suitable replacement.

MotoGP rider Casey Stoner of Australia pow-ers his Honda during the

free practice session of the MotoGP of France, in

Le Mans, western France, Friday, May 18, 2012.

AP Photo/David Vincent

India set for sweeping protests at petrol price rise

Associated Press

JAKARTA — Villagers have found the flight data recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into a jungle-clad cliff atop an Indonesian volcano three weeks ago, killing 45 people.

The device could help in-vestigators learn why the plane crashed during a May 9 dem-onstration flight for potential buyers.

Daryatmo, chief of Indone-sia’s search and rescue agency, said Thursday that the flight data recorder was buried when mud gushed down from surrounding hills after the Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashed.

He says the recorder was in good condition when villagers found it Wednesday in a deep ravine.

The device recorded data such as the jet’s altitude and speed. Another part of the plane’s “black box,” the cock-pit voice recorder, was recov-ered earlier.

Ngurah Wijaya said the Bali tourism indeed continued to grow. It was indicated by the number of foreign tourist visit tending to increase each year. Unfortunately, the increase in the tourist visit did not have so significant impact

because of the quality of foreign tourists coming to Bali tended to decrease in length of stay and expenses during their stay on this island.

He explained the decline could be seen by comparing the length of

stay and tourist spending prior to the incident of Bali bombings.

According to him, in the past the average length of stay of foreign tourists reached 12 to 14 days with a spending worth USD 250-300 per day. However, the condition had drastically changed today where their average length of stay was only 3.5 days. More sadly, their spending tended to shrink with an average of only USD 100 per day.

Ngurah Wijaya added that foreign tourists who generally stayed longer and took overland tours were those from Europe,

the United States, and Australia. Meanwhile, the Asian tourists had a length of stay of averagely 3-5 days. They visited a local destination and then took photo-graphs, but rarely took overland tours.

Ngurah Wijaya judged that reduction in the length of stay of those tourists happened due to policy of central government in the matter of flight. On that account, the central government should amend the regulation re-garding the flight policy to create overland and increase the length of stay of tourists. (kmb29)

Foreign tourist visit increases, spending slumps

Bali Post

DENPaSar - The increasing number of foreign tourist visit to Bali was not accompanied by an increase in their length of stay and expenditure. Chairman of the Tourism Industry asso-ciation of Indonesia (GIPI) of Bali, Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya, said on Wednesday (May 30) the quality of foreign tourists who came to the island slumped in the matter of length of stay and their expenditure during their stay in Bali.

Russian jet’s flight recorder found

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

National Search and Rescue Agency head Daryatmo, center, with the flight data recorder of the crashed Sukhoi Superjet 100 speaks during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, May 31, 2012. Authorities found the flight data recorder of the Russian plane that slammed into a jungle-clad cliff atop an Indonesian volcano during a May 9 demonstration flight for potential buyers. At left is Indonesian National Transportation Safety Board chief Tatang Kurniadi.