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animated film bested Relativity Me-dia’s “3 Days to Kill” and Sony’s “Pom-peii” on their opening weekends. “The Lego Movie,” featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks and Morgan Freeman, earned $31.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The domestic total has passed $183 million. Overseas, it grossed $23.1 million this weekend.

Heading into full-fledged franchise territory with a sequel set to release in May 2017, “The Lego Movie” is the highest grossing film of 2014. “It’s been really tough for any of the newcomers to displace ‘Lego,’ “ said Paul Dergarabedi-an, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. “They had such a great release date that put them in this perfect position to dominate the marketplace for several weeks. For ‘Lego’ to earn $31

million in its third weekend, that would be impressive in its first weekend for any film in the first quarter.”

Relativity Media’s crime drama “3 Days to Kill,” starring Kevin Costner and Amber Heard, came in second with $12.3 million in its first weekend at the multiplex.

“Pompeii,” Sony’s boiling gladiator drama starring “Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington, took the third-place slot with $10 million. There was a fairly even gender split for the Constantin-financed film, with the audience breaking down as 52 percent male and 48 percent female. The film’s slot in the top five was steered mostly by viewers under 30.

“Pompeii got savaged by critics,” Dergarabedian said. “ ‘3 Days to Kill’ wasn’t loved by critics either, so you

had two films that didn’t have a shot at taking ‘Lego’ out. But these movies did about what we would expect.”

In its second weekend, the Sony and MGM reboot “RoboCop” dropped from third to fourth with $9.4 million. Starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton, the modernized science-fiction film (the 1987 original starred Peter Weller as a cop who gains a new robotic body) is down 57 percent from last weekend’s domestic opener. For the second weekend in a row, the action film performed better overseas with $17.7 million.

“The time of year that we’re in, the movies just aren’t the critics’ darlings,” Dergarabedian said. “These films give people options. But they won’t necessarily set the world on fire at the box office.”

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — CNN says the prime-time talk show “Piers Morgan Live” is coming to an end. Morgan suc-ceeded Larry King in the 0200 GMT time slot three years ago, but his show has had lackluster ratings. CNN said Sunday that the show’s final airdate has yet to be determined.

Morgan is a former British tabloid editor who turned to television, including stints as a judge on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and a contestant on “Celebrity Ap-prentice.” He hosted BBC’s “You Can’t Fire Me, I’m Famous” and did interview shows and documentaries for ITV.

Morgan told The New York Times that he and CNN President Jeff Zucker were discussing a new role for him at the chan-nel. CNN’s audience has tired of hearing a Brit weigh in American cultural issues, Morgan said in a story posted online Sun-day. CNN did not comment on Morgan’s future with the channel.

Morgan served as editor of The Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004. He has been

questioned in connection with Britain’s long-running phone hacking scandal, which has led to numerous arrests, resignations and the closure of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid.

Earlier this month, Morgan confirmed

that he was interviewed in December by British police investigating the illegal interception of telephone voicemails. Morgan, who said he had given a previ-ous witness statement, has consistently denied wrongdoing.

‘Lego Movie’ lead builds,

No. 1 for third weekend

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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows characters, from left, Benny, voiced by Charlie Day, Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, Vitruvius, voiced by Morgan Freeman, Wyldstyle, voiced by Elizabeth Banks and Unikitty, voiced by Alison Brie, in a scene from “The Lego Movie.”


LOS ANGELES — Action-packed new releases couldn’t stack up to 3D hit “The Lego Movie,” which took the No. 1 slot in its third weekend at the box office. The Warner Bros.

CNN says Piers Morgan’s talk show is ending

“Indonesian cuisine can become a host at home. I myself have made nearly 98 percent of the Indonesian food menus, especially Balinese food. I want the commitment of chef, employers and the govern-ment. For instance, in issuing business permit, it should be de-termined the rules arranging what percentage of the local cuisine, especially Balinese cuisine, must

be served,” said the ICA President, Henry Alexie Bloem, in Denpasar recently.

He appreciated the efforts of the Indonesian Hotels and Restau-rants Association (PHRI) that had included the Indonesian cuisine in the requirements for hotel classifi-cation. This effort would help pro-mote the Indonesian cuisines in the eyes of international community, so

that it could be sustainable.“I’ve got information that

conferment of hotel star classifi-cation will require the menu com-positions with the inclusion of Indonesian or Balinese cuisines. Suppose that everything can work as expected, the government, employers and chef will also be able to accelerate the promotion and preservation of traditional cuisines,” he said.

Even, he said the government could impose sanctions on hote-liers who did not serve Indonesian cuisines. “I absolutely agree to the imposition of sanction because the rewards and punishment should be applied. I agree with that,” he

said.He said the concept of com-

bining Balinese cuisine with Western style such as (steamed) chicken betutu with distinctive culinary style of Mexico as cur-rently presented by many chefs could become one of the ways to promote the Indonesian cuisines. For example, the somewhat similar cuisines to that of Indonesia were the Vietnamese and Thai cuisines. Bali as a tourist destination visited by many travelers should adjust them without forgetting the local peculiarities.

“Well, the distinctiveness of Bali remains to exist, but we try to adjust the tastes of Westerner. For

instance, we include the Western style or flavor, so it has a foreign flavor without leaving our culture,” he said.

Chairman of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs (HIPMI) of Denpasar, Putu Yuliartha, on the occasion said that all this time many Balinese cuisines had not featured specific peculiarities. “Well, this combination will make Bali a special culinary destination. Food is inseparable when we are talking about hotel or restaurant. Lately, we have observed that traditional cuisines have widely flourished and people have chosen cuisine as tour-ist attraction,” said Yuliartha.

ICA demands government to preserve Balinese cuisines

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DENPASAR - The Indonesian Chef Association (ICA) re-quires the commitment of government and employers in pre-serving the Indonesian cuisines, especially Balinese cuisines. All this time, the involvement of both agencies is still considered minimal to preserve the local cuisines.

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People ate their Balinese traditional dinner and enjoying ambiance atmosphere of Bali Island.

Ukraine issues arrest warrant for president

Sochi cleans up as world leaves Olympics behind

Juventus beats Torino 1-0 in Serie A derby match

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014

1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel BebetinPura Maspahit SesetanPura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan BangliPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas UbudPura Benua BesakihPura Gunung Rena Sidemen KarangasemPura Pasek Gelgel Abadi KarangasemPura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem

16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang BangliPura Gunung Pangsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Penataran Badung

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ulun Kulkul Besakih

31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tem-buku BangliPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Bule-lengPura Kayangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang

6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih

14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur BangliPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Sidemen KarangasemPura Buana Kawan Besakih

15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan SesetanPura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarman Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarman Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran ped Nusa PenidaPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KelungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan KutaPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Jati UbudPura Melanting UbudPura Dalem Peed Nusa PenidaPura Sad Kayangan Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPura Pasek Undagi Krambitan TabananPura Pucak Taman bedulu GianyarPura Puser Jagat Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Purwa Kawan BangliPura Desa Ketewel Gianyar

26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian SemalPura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

Set within the most happening area of Melawai, the hotel is situated just around the corner from the main street, Jl. Melawai 4, which has long been a hit with younger city dwell-ers. The hotel sits in the very heart of Block M inside Block M Square, Jakarta’s famous Japanese enclave known as “Little Tokyo” that teams with an excellent range of shop-ping options and thriving nightlife. Shopaholics can also enjoy the larger and more exclusive shopping outlets at the nearby Pasaraya Grande.

The hotel will feature 101 styl-ish guest rooms complete with complimentary high-speed WiFi throughout the entire hotel. The rooms are modern, functional and super clean offering cutting-edge LED TVs, security key card systems,

air conditioning, in-room safes and top of the line Serta beds with high knot count cotton linens.

In line with the signature fave-hotel experience, favehotel Mela-wai Jakarta continues the brand’s reputation for first-class facilities in an affordable hotel. Renowned as Indonesia’s Best Budget Hotel Chain having won multiple awards and accolades, favehotel Melawai Jakarta will feature typical fave-hotel amenities such as stylish function rooms, an innovative res-taurant and complimentary high-speed WiFi. Business travelers can also make use of the 3 modern meeting rooms and ample parking space, while the all day café-shop is a quite spot for light bites and casual coffee breaks. IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

Favehotel Melawai Jakarta opensIBP

JAKArTA – Favehotel Melawai Jakarta is the latest addi-

tion to the ever-growing hotel brand. Surrounded by several shopping malls, government offices and wining and dining destinations, the hotel is set to become a comfortable and convenient base for savvy travelers.

BEING unable to raise her toddler, a mother entrusted her son to Sayangi Bali Foundation. It was described by Chairman of the Sayangi Bali Founda-tion, Dewa Wirata, Sunday (Feb 23). The baby boy named Angga is now a week old and has been treated by the Sayangi Bali Foundation since he was born.

So far, the Sayangi Bali Foundation cares for five toddlers who have almost the same fate namely being unwanted or abandoned by their parents with the rea-son of the incapability of raising them. All the toddlers are Desy (9 months), Tegar (8 months), Putri (2 weeks), Lia (1.5 weeks) and Angga (1 week).

The Sayangi Bali Foundation itself was established as there was no nurs-ing house for the abandoned toddlers in Bali. Formerly, the abandoned tod-dlers were treated in Sanglah Hospital until they were adopted. Considering hospital is not a good place for the growth and development of children, the foundation is then established.

Due to still relying on self-funding and dependent on donations of others, according to Wirata, the foundation rea-sonably had difficulty in meeting the ex-penses, especially for the caregivers. “To care for the five toddlers, we surely need five caregivers on duty for 24 hours,” said Wirata. Salary of the caregivers was admitted to reach IDR 8 million per month. Coupled with the needs of the toddlers such as diapers, milk and baby food, the total expenses per month reached more than IDR 8 million.

To meet the expenses, Wirata added that his party raised funds through BBM and Facebook. “Thankfully, there are al-ways people lending a hand,” he said.

He admitted the foundation got the assistance from Social Agency once. “We have got donation from Central So-cial Agency valued at IDR 14 million,” he said. He expected the government agencies could pay more attention to the needs of those children.

According to Wirata the five toddlers were currently in the care of the founda-tion while waiting for adoption process. “They are waiting for the process of the PIPA team,” he said. (san)

According to him, such con-dition had already routinely occurred each year because so far the climbing activity had been very much influenced by weather condition. Such condi-tion would be back to normal when the weather began to be getting better as well as the arrival of the holiday season.

Alit added the climbing activi-ties would be busy in July and August. Even, at the moment the climbing activity could reach 50 groups per day.

All this time, most travelers doing the climbing were for-eigners from various countries such as Europe and America. However, lately the climbing

activities were also much in de-mand by travelers from Russia and Asia. “Today, many Russian and Asian travelers also favor this activity,” he added.

Alit said the mountain climb-ing activity on the altitude of 1,717 meters normally took him two hours. Along with the tour guide, the climbing would start

at four o’clock in the morning. Along the way, travelers would pass through rocky and sandy terrain. When feeling tired, travelers could take a rest for a moment while enjoying cof-fee or tea in some small shops there. Fatigue of the travelers would relieve after reaching the peak of the mountain. There, travelers would be presented with amazing scenery, green expanse of Lake Batur and the hills at the surrounding area. Besides, travelers could also see beautiful sunrise in the morning and returned to go down about eight to nine o’clock in the morning. (ina)

Sayangi Bali Foundation A place for abandoned toddler finding love

Rainy season

Climbing activities on Mt. Batur diminishBali Post

BANGLI - Rainy season in fact does not only have an impact on the decline in tourist arrivals to Trunyan attraction, but also on the climbing activities on Mt. Batur. Climb-ing activities on Mt. Batur having become one of the most favorite tourist attractions for those with traveling hobby declined nearly 40 percent. “Climbing activity is deserted in the current rainy season, where it maximally reaches 15 to 20 groups per day, while in sunny weather typically achieves 30-50 groups,” said Chairman of the Association of the Mount Batur Climbing Tour Guides (P3GB), Nyoman Alit Adiana, Saturday (Feb 22).

IBP/File

The beautiful view of Mount Batur

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NASA said cables attached to the capsule weren’t strong enough to handle turbulence and snapped off twice while it was in the well deck of the USS San Diego before it could be moved out to sea on Thursday. With the Orion mock-up still on the Navy ship, teams could not practice fetching the spacecraft from the ocean.

“Even though the testing didn’t go as we had planned, we’re learn-ing lessons that will help us be better prepared to retrieve Orion,” Bill Hill of NASA headquarters said in a statement. Engineers were troubleshooting the problem, and it was not clear when the test would be rescheduled.

NASA has been developing a next-generation spacecraft to carry astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, possibly to an asteroid or Mars.

Orion, which will make its first unmanned test flight this fall, is be-ing designed to travel to deep space and return at speeds of 25,000 mph (40,232 kph) by splashing down into the Pacific.

The water landing is a throwback to the 1960s and 1970s when Navy ships routinely tracked and recov-ered Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft after re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. With the space shuttle fleet retired, NASA has decided to go with an ocean splashdown. Unlike in the past, when helicop-ters would hoist astronauts after a mission, the new plan calls for an amphibious transport ship to dis-patch divers and small boat teams to recover Orion and its crew.

Last year, NASA and the Navy practiced recovering the Orion in the calm waters of the Elizabeth

River in Virginia with no problem. Before the latest test was called off, NASA said crews successfully retrieved parts of the spacecraft, in-cluding the parachute and a protec-tive covering. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was supposed to visit the test site Saturday, but his appearance was canceled.


MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s salamander-like axolotl apparently hasn’t disappeared from its only known natural habitat in Mex-ico City’s few remaining lakes. Researchers say they have sighted, but not caught, two of the slippery little creatures during a sec-ond effort to find them. A weekslong effort last year by researchers in skiffs trying to net axolotls in the shallow, muddy waters of Xochimilco lake found none, raising fears that they might only now survive in captivity.

But biologist Armando Tovar Garza of Mexico’s National Autonomous University said Friday that members of the team carry-ing out the search had seen two axolotls dur-ing the first three weeks of a second survey expected to conclude in April.

“We weren’t able to capture them ... be-cause the behavior of the axolotl makes them very difficult to capture,” Tovar Garza said. “We haven’t had any captures, but we have had two sightings. That’s important, because it tells us we still have a chance.”

The axolotl, admittedly ugly with a slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls into an odd smile, is known as the “water monster” and the “Mexican walking fish.” It’s only natural habitat is the Xochimilco network of lakes and canals — the “floating gardens” of earth piled on reed mats that the Aztecs built to grow crops but are now suffering from pollution, urban sprawl and

invasive species. The creature is import in scientific research because of its ability to regenerate severed limbs.

Some axolotls still survive in aquariums, water tanks and research labs, but experts said those conditions aren’t the best, because of interbreeding and other risks. Releasing captive-bred axolotls into the wild could spread a fungus infection that is fatal to them and could reduce their genetic diversity. Tovar Garza said some small mutations, possibly the result of interbreeding, have already been seen.

Alarmed by the creature’s falling numbers in recent years, researchers built axolotl “shelters” in Xochimilco to help them breed in the cleanest part of their remain-ing habitat.

Sacks of rocks and reedy plants act as fil-ters around a selected area, and cleaner water is pumped in, to create better conditions. The shelters also include permeable cages and other devices intended to help protect axolotls from non-native carp and tilapia that were introduced to the lake system years ago and compete with axolotls for food.

Growing up to a foot long (30 centime-ters), axolotls use four stubby legs to drag themselves along the bottom or thick tails to swim in Xochimilco’s murky channels while feeding on aquatic insects, small fish and crustaceans. But the surrounding garden-islands have increasingly been converted to illicit shantytowns, with untreated sewage often running off into the water.

AP Photo/NASA

This Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 photo released by

NASA shows crews test-ing a test version of Orion’s forward bay cover, NASA’s next-generation space cap-

sule. NASA and the Navy suspended the test Thurs-

day, Feb. 20, 2014 off the coast of San Diego after a problem was discovered.

NASA suspends space capsule recovery test in ocean


SAN DIEGO — A training exercise designed to showcase the government’s ability to recover a space capsule at sea was scrubbed after NASA ran into trouble off the Southern California coast, the space agency said Friday. Crews had difficulty tying down a mock-up of the Orion capsule aboard an amphibious warship off the shores of San Diego.

AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills

In this Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 photo, a young axolotl swims inside a plastic con-tainer at an experimental canal run by Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM) in the Xochimilco network of lakes and canals in Mexico City.

Mexico experts sight endangered ‘water monster’

IBP

DENPASAR - The number of foreign visitors to Bali rose 20.06 percent to 279,671 in January 2014 from the same period in 2013. “Almost 95 percent of the foreign visitors are holiday makers,” tourism observer Dewa Nyoman Putra said on Monday, quoting figure from the Bali tourism office.

The remaining 5 percent were business visitors mostly operating in handcraft trade, and students and people making social visits.

Most visitors to Bali said they were interested in the natural beauty of Bali and Bali cultural arts, he said.

Previously, an academician AA Gede Putra Arjawa expressed his concern over

the increase of tourists to Bali because it will backfire to Bali. In order to benefited Bali, he suggested that tourism industry should give feed back to Balinese people. “The benefits will go to the investors and authorities. Bali has much contributed, why does it obtain a little portion? This condition causes the result of tourism cannot be evenly enjoyed by the people of Bali,” he said.

According to him, it was useless to get great nickname like Bali known as tourist destination of the world while the community was still poor. Properly, said Arjawa, aside from developing cultural tourism evenly in the region of Bali, the government was also expected to prepare human resources. Local government and the House as well as Balinese people in

the central government had also to fight in order to get bigger budget. “Do not let the money yielded in Bali be sucked by central authority. Clatter of the dollars should also be enjoyed equally by the people of Bali. Have a look at, most of the local workforce only fill in the position as cleaning service, waiter, waitress or a gardener at hotel. This occurs because the human resources have not been prepared by the government,” said the academician from Gianyar.

He urged the government to promote the cultural tourism to the regions by involv-ing local communities, such as the cultural tourism at Penglipuran village. “Do not focus on one region only. Many tourist attractions in Bali remain to need govern-ment attention,” he said. (ant/rah)

“We arrested one perpetrator,” Chief Se-nior Commissioner of Denpasar Police Djoko Hariutomo stated on Monday.

Djoko explained that the arrested perpetra-tor, with the initials MS, was a man who did not come from Bali. MS is believed to be the sole executor of Latourell’s murder.

Djoko declined to reveal further details about the identity of MS as the investigators are still on the lookout for the other perpetra-tor. The police suspect that the perpetrator committed the murder due to jealousy.

Latourell was suspected to be gay. The police believe that Latourell was murdered by a close friend.

Latourell, who is a known crafts entre-preneur and an activist of the HIV/AIDS management campaign, was found dead at his residence in Jalan Banteng, Denpasar, with 65 stab wounds on his body.

Previously, the investigators had ques-tioned three witnesses related to the Latourell murder case.

AntaraDENPASAR - The Consulate General of

Republic of Indonesia in Houston, Texas, U.S., will assist 28-year-old Ketut Pujayasa, accused in persecution and rape cases.

Head of Indonesian Worker’s Service, Placement and Protection (BP3TKI) Denpasar I Wayan Pageh, Consulate General in Houston had called Pujayasa’s public defender, Chantel Doakes, appointed by U.S. Government, and who had been provided by his employer com-pany Holland America Lines.

“The Indonesian Consulate in Houston will also visit Ketut Pujayasa at Broward County Prison on Monday, local time,” Pageh as-sured.

Pujayasa will attend his first trial on Tues-day (Feb. 25) at 10 a.m., local time at the US Federal Building and Courthouse in Fort Lau-derdale, Florida.

The Indonesian Consulate will also attend Pujaya’s trial and consult his legal options with his attorney.

Ketut Pujayasa, an employee with the MS Nieuw Amsterdam since 2012, had allegedly raped a 31-year-old U.S. woman, early Friday morning (Feb. 14) while the cruise ship was off the coast of Roatan, Honduras.

Pujayasa was arrested Sunday (Feb. 16) upon the cruise ship returning to Port Ever-glades in Florida.

Denpasar police arrest US citizen’s murder suspect

AntaraDENPASAR - The Denpasar Police

have arrested a perpetrator who is sus-pected to be involved in the murder of the 52-year-old American citizen, Paul Robb Latourell, from California.

This Tuesday, Ketut Pujayasa face the first trial

The number of foreign visitors to Bali rose

20.06 percent to 279,671 in

January 2014 from the same period in 2013.

More foreign tourists visiting BaliIBP/File Photo

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The turmoil has turned this strategically located country of 46 million inside out over the past few days, raising fears that it could split apart. The parliament speaker is suddenly nominally in charge of a country whose economy is on the brink of default and whose loyal-ties are torn between Europe and longtime ruler Russia.

“The state treasury has been torn apart, the country has been brought to bankruptcy,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a leader of the protest movement and prominent lawmaker whose name is being floated as a possibility for prime minister, said in parliament Monday. The acting finance minister said Monday that the country needs $35 billion (25.5 billion euros) to finance govern-ment needs this year and next and expressed hope that Europe or the United States would help.

Ukraine’s acting interior minis-ter, Arsen Avakhov, said on his of-ficial Facebook page Monday that a warrant has been issued for the

arrest of Yanukovych and several other officials for the “mass killing of civilians.” At least 82 people, primarily protesters, were killed in clashes in Kiev last week. Avakhov says Yanukovych arrived in Crimea on Sunday, relinquished his official security detail and then drove off to an unknown location, turning off all forms of communication. “Yanukovych has disappeared,” he said.

Earlier, after signing an agree-ment Friday with the opposition to end a conflict that had turned deadly, Yanukovych had fled the capital of Kiev for eastern Ukraine. Avakhov said he tried to fly out of Donetsk but was stopped, then went to Crimea.

Tensions have been mounting in Crimea, where pro-Russian protesters gathered in front of city hall in the port of Sevastopol on Monday chanting “Russia! Rus-sia!” Russia maintains a big naval base in Sevastopol that has tangled relations between the countries for

two decades. The head of the city administration in Sevastopol quit Monday.

The tensions seem to be driven by Russia, though a representative of the pro-Moscow Russian Unity party played down fears that Crimea could secede, saying that they want to maintain ties with Moscow and a Putin-driven Customs Union but do not want Crimea to break away. Yanukovych set off a wave of pro-tests by shelving an agreement with the European Union in November and turning toward Russia, and the movement quickly expanded its grievances to corruption, human rights abuses and calls for Yanuk-ovych’s resignation.

“We must find Yanukovych and put him on trial,” said protester Le-onid Shovtak, a 50-year-old farmer from the western Ivano-Frankivsk region who came to Kiev’s Inde-pendence Square to take part in the three-month protest movement. “All the criminals with him should be in prison.”

Reuters

BANGKOK - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the target of anti-government protests in Bangkok, has been staying outside the city and on Monday ruled out resigning despite a series of deadly at-tacks heaping pressure on her administration. Yingluck, who attended a trade show in Saraburi province, 100 km (60 miles) north of Bangkok, called for dialogue to resolve a crisis that has dragged on for months, with key intersections in the capital blocked by protest camps.

“It’s time all sides turned to talk to each other,” Yingluck told report-ers. “Many people have asked me to resign but I ask: is resignation the answer? What if it creates a power vacuum?” The protests have been punctuated by gunfire and bomb blasts, including one on Sunday that killed a woman and a young brother and sister.

They are aimed at unseating Yingluck and erasing the influence of her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who is seen by many as the power behind the government. Yingluck’s office would not confirm how many days Yingluck had been working outside the capital.

She was last seen in public in Bangkok nearly a week ago, last Tuesday, when both anti-government protesters and farmers angry about not being paid under a rice subsidy scheme were trailing her and some of her ministers. She is due to attend a corruption hearing in Bangkok on Thursday. Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said Yingluck would hold a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “It is highly likely that we will hold the cabinet meeting outside of Bangkok,” Surapong told reporters.

The political crisis, which pits the mainly middle-class anti-govern-ment demonstrators from Bangkok and the south against supporters of Yingluck from the populous rural north and northeast, shows no sign of ending soon.

But the army, which toppled Thaksin in 2006 in the latest of 18 coups or attempted coups since Thailand became a constitutional monarchy in 1932, said it would not interfere.

Thai PM rules out resigning as bombs, gunfire punctuate unrest

AP Photo/Sakchai LalitLeader of anti-government protesters Suthep Thaugsuban talks to supporters in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014.

AP Photo/Andrew LubimovPeople paint on the KGB officers monument in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. A top Ukrainian opposition figure assumed presidential powers Sunday, plunging Ukraine into new uncertainty after a deadly political standoff and boosting long-jailed Yulia Tymoshenko’s chances at a return to power.

Ukraine issues arrest warrant for presidentAssociated Press Writer

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine — Ukraine’s acting government issued a warrant Monday for the arrest of President Viktor Yanukovych, last reportedly seen in the pro-Russian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, accusing him of mass crimes against protesters who stood up for months against his rule. Calls are mount-ing in Ukraine to put Yanukovych on trial, after a tumultuous presidency in which he amassed powers, enriched his allies and cracked down on protesters. Anger boiled over last week after snipers attacked protesters in the bloodiest violence in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history.

Bali Post

BANGLI - Locating in a remote area does not discourage the read-ing interest of school children in Bangli. It is evident from the seriousness of students who were very excited to read books when their school was visited by mobile library owned by the local Bangli Library, Archive and Documenta-tion.

The Head of Bangli Library, Archives and Documentation Of-

fice, Wayan Karmawan, said on Sunday (Feb 23) the students at-tending school in remote villages so far enthusiastically utilized the mobile library services organized by his party. “Occasionally, the students were very serious to read a book we provide for a few hours,” he said. According to him, it indi-cated the high interest of students in reading even though residing in remote areas.

Mobile library program having been carried out since 2006 contin-

ued to be intensified by targeting a number of areas in Bangli, mainly the remote villages. Karmawan said that schools at remote villages were deliberately made as priority con-sidering the difficulty of searching for reading materials.

Actually, in appropriate with the government program, the library only targeted elementary schools. However, when required his party was also ready to serve junior high and high schools. Not only that, if there were villages in need of

mobile library services, his party would also serve it. Even, in the rural development by mutual as-sistance movement his party also involved mobile library in the hope of widening the perspective of the community.

In addition to promoting pro-gram, his party also planned to redesign the reading room in the library office that so far was ad-mitted to be less representative. His party would seek to beautify the appearance of the library so

it could increase the interest of society to visit the library. Not only that, his party would also set a LED TV so that people who were reluctant to read could get information through watching television. “For example, if any-one wants to know more about the geopark and rural development by mutual assistance movement (gerbangsigot), they can simply click on the program without having to read it in a book,” said Karmawan. (ina)

Arrival of the regent was follow-ing the public reports in relation to the situation in the market that had not yet made any improvement. From the courtyard, the garbage looked to pile up so that it resulted in the impression of slum. Similar-ly, the parking lot was still used by seasonal traders. Thus, the market courtyard looked chaotic. When coming into the market, the regent

got more tempered as a number of stalls were still closed. Another stall was open, but the trader was not in place.

Having been traced, in fact a trader could have two to four stalls by borrowing someone else’s name. Allegedly the stalls were leased to other traders with an underhand agreement. The regent asserted, no trader was allowed to sell the place

or stall. “So, the business premise or stall must be occupied by the genu-ine occupant,” he affirmed. Such an issue had long arisen. Even ear-lier, the Klungkung Cooperatives, SMEs, Industry and Trade Agency had proved it by confiscating the receipt of stall rental. The trader concerned was also imposed with a sanction where his yellow card was revoked, but it was given to the lessee.

Even, among the traders was heard an issue if a number of stalls were ‘traded’ by the unscrupulous legislators. Unfortunately, the identity of the legislators remained unclear. The Regent Suwirta asked the Head of Cooperatives, SMEs, Industry and Trade Agency, Ko-

mang Darma Suyasa, to take de-cisive action. When finding such a trader, as the stance taken earlier, he was instructed to revoke the yellow card or ownership of the traders. Other than the Head of Cooperative Agency, after inspecting the market, the regent also reprimanded the security guards of the local market. At nine o’clock in the morning, they were still in the office but did not get around monitoring the market. In other words, the performance of local market officers was increas-ingly questioned in managing the market.

The regent reiterated that all security guards should be on hand at each wing of the market. “Do not just pass by. At this rate, the

officers must be able to anticipate the breaches in the parking lot used as selling place continuously,” he said. Regent Suwirta also asked the Head of Cooperative Agency to set working schedule of the security guard at the Galiran Market.

He claimed to have to berate again the security guards of the market and related agencies. In the previous meeting related to the control of the market, the county leadership council (Muspida) had emphasized that relevant agencies should make intensive socializa-tion to every trader. Unfortunately, there was no follow-up whatsoever. Even, the appeal of the regent to make a banner was not followed up. (kmb31)

Mobile library prioritizes in remote schools

Regent critized Galiran MarketBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Galiran Market was criticized again by the Re-gent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, Sunday (Feb 23). The market remained to look chaotic. Actually, the market had been raided for dozen times. However, the officers of Galiran Market never made improvement. As a result, the regent who came with a number of relevant agencies was made angry.

IBP/fileThe envoy of Klungkung Regent when visiting Galiran Market

Agence France-Presse

NEW YORK - The astonishingly high price paid for the messaging service WhatsApp underscores how mobile apps are transforming the way we communicate, shaking up the global telecom sector.

Facebook’s deal to pay up to $19 billion for WhatsApp comes on the heels of a $900 million purchase of another messaging service, Viber, by Japanese Internet giant Rakuten.

And the California-based mes-saging firm Snapchat, known fo its disappearing messages, reportedly turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook.

Some analysts expect more deals to come now that it’s clear that messaging is becoming a killer app that can enable mobile phone users around the globe to get free from their local carriers and communi-cate freely worldwide.

Declan Lonergan, analyst at Yankee Group, said the new focus on messaging “signals the growing importance of IP communications in consumers’ lives.”

“Facebook’s valuation of What-sApp is shockingly high, but so too is the risk of being left behind as these apps become dominant plat-forms for communications, media

distribution, social engagement and advertising,” Lonergan said in a blog post.

The huge deal for WhatsApp has shined a spotlight on BlackBerry, the struggling smartphone maker which also has a messaging service with 80 million customers using Android and Apple devices.

“There will be more deals,” said analyst Thibaut De Smedt of the investment bank Bryan, Garnier & Co.

But De Smedt said he sees more interest in “startups which have invented a service and spread it around the world,” especially in places such as Asia.

Some of these services include China-based WeChat, Japan’s Line and Kakao in South Korea. These have been mainly domestically focused but are starting to turn their attention to the global market.

By using Internet or IP commu-nications, these messaging services can help users bypass telecom car-riers and their fees for SMS -- a global market worth tens of billions of dollars, which helps explain the price for WhatsApp.

“SMS volumes were higher than social messaging volumes in 2012, but in 2013, messaging apps took a big leap forward and overtook traf-fic. We can expect strong growth

in traffic to continue in the coming years,” says a report from the Brit-ish consultancy Ovum.

The research firm Informa said in a recent report that global annual SMS revenues will fall by $23 bil-lion by 2018 from $120 billion in 2013 mainly due to “continuing adoption and use of over-the-top

messaging applications in both de-veloped and emerging markets.”

Analysts at the research firm Tre-fis said in a report that “mobile mes-saging is here to stay, even though the growth in social networking industry might slow down” and that WhatsApp fills an important gap in Facebook’s portfolio.

But some analysts say text mes-saging is just one small part of what could be a much bigger market for mobile communications, with voice, images and video, and that services like WhatsApp may shake up the market in the same way You-Tube, bought by Google in 2006, shook up online video.

Bali News Tuesday, February 25, 2014 5InternationalTuesday, February 25, 201412 International

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Bowls are usu-ally made of genuine silver or brass coated with silver and taken advantage for the means of ritual. Along with the development of times, an innovation is carried out by Balinese craftsmen by using rattan. Aside from being light, the price is very affordable. However, only some few people take advantage of this business opportunity.

One of the bowl rattan craftswomen remaining to exist so far is Ni Kadek Suwitri from Blumbang hamlet, Pe-narungan, Mengwi. When met at her business premise, she admitted to have become a rattan bowl and tray crafts-woman since 10 years ago. Currently, Suwitri employed 9 workers.

“At first, I saw such a product in the market. After purchasing, in fact the making is not difficult. I made such a rattan bowl through autodidactic learning,” added Suwitri.

The first production, according to Suwitri, was a plain bowl or the one without accessories. Due to looking unique and rarely found for sale in

the market, the craft was hunted by people, especially by the Hindus in Bali. Her business was growing rap-idly and many customers from outside Badung ordered her craft works.

Other than bowl, with the help of her children Suwitri also made bamboo basket as well as wooden and shell tray. “For the raw material (rattan), I order it to Kalimantan. A month I can spend a total of 200 kg. If the rattan runs out, I just need to order it via phone and it will be sent to Bali,” she said.

Related to price, according to this middle-aged woman, her product was the cheapest compared to that offered at other places. The price of bowl or tray ranged from IDR 60,000 to IDR 125,000. It depended on the shape and accessories in use. Her products were often on display in the exhibition by customers. Moreover, she did not urge her customers to pay in full. “If my products are unsalable, they can be returned. I never asked for upfront payment,” she said.

Other than rattan bowl and tray, Su-witri also sold wooden and shell trays.

Due to raw material constraints, she could not produce her own works but worked closely with other craftsmen from Tabanan and Bangli, especially for wood carving tray. For keben bam-boo basket, she just added a jelly de-sign motif or sequins so that it looked more beautiful and festive. Though produced by herself, she did not close the opportunity to sell the handicraft product of others. She always accepted if there were other craftsmen who consigned their products.

“For sequin materials, I purchase them in the shop in Denpasar. Many shops are selling such raw materials so it is not difficult to get them,” said Suwitri while setting the series of sequins in bowl cover.

Her business premise is never empty of customers. Several cus-tomers come to purchase or order her handicraft products. Sometimes, she is out of stock, especially before Galungan. “Ahead of Galungan, I sell more than IDR 1 million for keben bamboo baskets. Additionally, a lot of bowls and trays are also sold,” she added. (rah)

As planned, the solar power plant development will be established around the area of East Buleleng, from Bukti village in Kubutamba-han subdistrict to Tembok village around the east end of Buleleng County. In the closed meeting, Jero Wacik estimated the construc-tion could start operating in 2014. Then, many things should be met including land acquisition and hu-man resources to manage the solar power plant in the future. “When I met with the Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana, the land acquisition for the solar power plant is still being attempted. The land must be provided first such as in the area of Bangli and Karangasem, like that,” he said.

The solar power plant develop-ment would continue to be pursued as a way to generate electricity through solar power. In addition to cost saving, the use of sunlight is also sufficient and beneficial to wider community. Jero Wacik said the solar energy was available ev-erywhere and such natural resource

could be utilized. On the other hand, the solar power development was also intended to resolve the water shortage in East Buleleng during dry season. The electric-ity generated would be taken into account when the amount of land in use could be known pursuant to the land provided by local govern-ment.

“Like in Bangli and in Karang-sem, the land is owned by local government. When the land has been ready, it is up to the govern-ment where to be built because the sun is available everywhere. At the moment, it is still difficult to find the land. As soon as it is available, we will set up the program. No matter how many megawatts to be made, one megawatt or more it’s okay. However, it will depend on its land area. One hectare is equal to one megawatt and 2 hectares are equal to 2 megawatts,” he said.

According to the Head of Bule-leng Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Gede Suyasa, the solar panels for the solar power plant

development would soon be built at Bukti village, Kubutambahan subdistrict. The development plan was still being attempted and in need of a discussion on the prepara-tions such as land acquisition and cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. As

for the capacity, it was estimated to be around one megawatt.

The Buleleng government was estimated to have prepared land with an area of one hectare. Mean-while, to supply water needs at Ju-lah, Sembiran, Tejakula and Pacung village, in the future the solar power

plant would plan to use a series of centrifugal water pump at Bukti village. “We will use a centrifugal water pump to move the water at Air Sanih so it can go up and be stored in the tank tower. So, the water needs at Pacung to Tejakula can be supplied,” he said. (dgk)

Solar power development continues to be quickened

Affordable price, rattan bowl in demand in the market

IBP/Ngurah KenBowls are usually made of genuine silver or brass coated with silver and taken advantage for the means of ritual. Along with the development of times, an innovation is carried out by Ba-linese craftsmen by using rattan.

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - So far, the plan of solar power plant (PLTS) develop-ment is still rolled out in order to be immediately realized. This matter is still being pursued by Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jero Wacik, Saturday (Feb 22). Hopefully, the solar power plant can be empowered optimally, so that people no longer face power short-age in the future.

IBP/SwasrinaSo far, the plan of solar power plant (PLTS) development is still rolled out in order to be immediately realized. This matter is still being pursued by Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jero Wacik, Saturday (Feb 22).

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20, which accounts for 85 percent of the world economy, also agreed to pursue greater transparency about monetary policy after rifts about the US taper.

They expressed “deep regret” that reforms to the International Monetary Fund have stalled, be-cause the United States Congress has yet to ratify them.

After their meeting in Sydney, the G20 ministers issued what host Australia called “an unprecedented” and unusually brief two-page state-

ment to drive “a return to strong, sustainable and balanced growth in the global economy”.

“We will develop ambitious but realistic policies with the aim to lift our collective GDP by more than two percent above the trajectory implied by current policies over the coming five years,” they said in ref-erence to two percentage points.

“This is over US$2.0 trillion more in real terms and will lead to significant additional jobs.”

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew stressed at a press conference that the G20 had left the austerity debate

behind and was fully focused on growth.

“If you look where we were a year ago, debating austerity... This (weekend) was a debate about how can we work together to share best practices and develop an approach where our individual economies can grow and the global economy can hit the objective that is set forth in this text,” he said.

The IMF has said the strategy could add half a percentage point to global growth annually over four years starting next year.

The fund currently projects growth of 3.7 percent this year and 3.9 percent in 2015, with each G20 country to hammer out the finer points before the leaders’ summit in Brisbane in November.

“We believe that if the reforms

that have been identified are ad-hered to, delivered by the various authorities, then that is a goal that can be achieved or possibly ex-ceeded,” said IMF chief Christine Lagarde, adding that meetings were held in an “excellent spirit”.

Ministers said the figure could be reached by increasing investment and employment and enhancing trade, adding that there was “no room for complacency” and that addressing the challenges “requires ambition”.

Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey, the G20 chair, had been pushing ministers to agree to faster global growth targets, with private-sector investment as a central plank.

He stressed the need for struc-tural reforms to drive growth.

“We know reform is hard. We

have to earn economic growth and new jobs,” he said after the meet-ing ended.

“It will take concrete actions across the G20 to boost investment, trade, competition and employment opportunities, as well as getting our macroeconomic fundamentals right.”

The fallout being felt by some emerging economies as the US Federal Reserve winds back its mammoth stimulus programme was another lightning-rod issue in Sydney.

Acknowledging complaints by emerging economies that a lack of communication has worsened the impact on their markets, which have suffered capital flows and currency volatility, the G20 agreed to more transparency.

G20 vows to add $2 trillion to world economy to lift growthAgence France-Presse

SYDNEY - The world’s biggest economies vowed Sunday to boost global growth by more than $2 trillion over five years, shifting their focus away from austerity as a fragile recovery takes hold.

WhatsApp deal shows stunning growth of messaging apps

AP Photo/dpa, Marc Müller, FileIn this Jan. 20, 2014, file photo, Jan Koum, 38, co- founder of WhatsApp speaks in Munich. The astonish-ingly high price paid for the messaging service WhatsApp underscores how mobile apps are transforming the way we communicate, shaking up the global telecom sector.

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JAKARTA - Seven Sumatran elephants have been found dead in west-ern Indonesia and it is thought they were poisoned, a wildlife official said Monday, just the latest deaths of the critically-endangered animals.

Dozens of the elephants have died after being poisoned in recent years on Sumatra island, as the creatures come into conflict with humans due to the rapid expansion of palm oil plantations which destroys their habitat.

The latest to die were a female adult, five male teenagers, and a male calf believed to be from the same herd, said local wildlife agency spokesman Muhammad Zanir.

The remains of the elephants were found on February 16 just outside Tesso Nilo National Park and it is thought they died five months earlier, he said.

“There is an indication that they were poisoned,” he said. “Some people may consider the elephants a threat to their palm oil plantations and poison them.”

While Sumatran elephants are regularly found dead, it is rare to discover so many at the same time.

Swathes of rainforest have been destroyed in recent years to make way for plantations and villagers increasingly target Sumatran elephants, which they regard as pests.

While most concessions for palm oil companies are granted outside Tesso Nilo, in Riau province in eastern Sumatra, many villagers still illegally set up plantations inside the park, said WWF spokeswoman Syamsidar, who goes by one name.

Poachers also sometimes target the animals -- the smallest of the Asian elephants -- for their ivory tusks, which are in high demand for use in tra-ditional Chinese medicine.

The WWF says there are only between 2,400 and 2,800 Sumatran el-ephants remaining in the wild and warns they face extinction in less than 30 years unless the destruction of their habitat is halted.

Rampant expansion of plantations and the mining industry has destroyed nearly 70 percent of the elephant’s forest habitat over 25 years, according to the WWF.

Protection group the International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the elephants as “critically endangered”, one step below “extinct in the wild”.












Catherine was summoned by the anti graft agency to give explana-tion about a car she received from Wawan.

Wawan, a brother of Banten Gov-ernor Ratu Atut Chosiyah, has been charged with corruption and money laundering. KPK said Wawan had given cars as gifts to a number of film stars and members of the re-gional legislative assembly.

KPK already investigated two other artists Rebecca Reijman and Jennifer Dunn in the same case.

KPK has confiscated all of the cars. Altogether KPK has confiscated 42 cars including from Wawan’s house or companies.

The cars included luxurious cars such as Ferrari, Lamborgini Aventador, Bentley Continental, Rolls Royce Flying Spur, Nissan GTR, Toyota Vellfire, Mitsubhisi Pajero, Honda CR-V, Mercedes Benz, Mini Cooper, Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota Lexus, Toyota Innova, BMW, Toyota Fortuner, Mitsubhisi Outlander, Ford Fiesta,

Nissan Terano, Honda Freed, Isuzu Panther, Toyota Avanza, Suzuki APV, and Izusu Panther, and a Har-ley Davidson motorbike.

KPK spokesman Johan Budi said KPK has not stopped tracking down allegedly ill gained assets of Wawan. Wawan was charged with bribery in the Lebak district elec-tion, mark up in the price of health equipment for health center in Tangerang Selatan and corruption in the procurement of health equip-ment for Banten province.

AntaraPEKANBARU - The Terra and

Aqua satellite has detected a total of 1,234 hotspots from forest, plantation and peatland fires in Riau province.

The haze produced by the hotspots will not cross over to Malaysia or Sin-gapore because the wind blows from the north and the east in the opposite direction toward the neighboring countries, Ardhitama, the Pekanbaru meteorological, climatology and geo-physics office (BMKG) stated on Monday. The number was lesser than 1,526 hotspots detected on June 23, 2013, he added. Last year’s hotspots produced haze that affected Malaysia and Singapore.

“This time, it will not happen again because the wind direction is con-sistently from north and east toward

south,” he stated.He quoted the data from the

U.S.NOAA 18 satellite that detected hotspots not only in Indonesia, but also in other ASEAN member countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.

The NOAA satellite recorded 490 hotspots in Vietnam, he cited.

Meanwhile, hotspots in forests, plantations and peatland fires, which came early in the Sumatra and Kali-mantan islands this year, have made the Indonesian government inten-sify law enforcement to deal with the problem.

“Usually haze occurs in May or June. But, this year, the haze has hap-pened in January and February in Riau and West Kalimantan,” the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB)

spokesman Sutopo stated in Jakarta, recently.

On February 11, BNPB held a coordination meeting with several government and law enforcement agencies to tackle the problem of haze from forest fires and drought this year.

The government will address the forest fire issue through land and aerial operations. The land operation will in-volve, among others, military officers, police, forest fire brigade units, and civilian security personnel.

The aerial operations will include air-borne water bombing and weather modification or cloud seeding technol-ogies. The BNBP will rent the Be-200 Fire-Fighting Amphibious aircraft and the Kamov helicopter from Russia for water bombing.

ANTARA FOTO/Yudhi Mahatma

Film star Catherine Wilson has been summoned by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for questioning on money laundering case of Tubagus Chaeri Wardana alias Wawan.

KPK summons actress over money laundering caseAntara

JAKARTA - Film star Catherine Wilson has been summoned by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for questioning on money laundering case of Tubagus Chaeri Wardana alias Wawan. “I will give clarification first (to the KPK),” Catherine told reporters after arrival at the KPK office on Monday.

Over 1,2 thousand hotspots detected in Riau

Elephants found dead, poisoning suspected


HANOI, Vietnam — At least seven mourners were killed and 37 others were injured when a suspension bridge broke as they were transporting a coffin to a graveyard in northern Vietnam, police said Monday.

Police officer Phung Quang Tuyen said cables on one side of the year-old bridge in Lai Chau province’s Tam Duong district snapped, causing the group to fall about 20 meters (65 feet) onto rocks. He said 23 of the injuries were serious. The coffin containing the body of a village official was thrown into the shallow stream, he said.

“It was a horrible scene,” Tuyen said by telephone from the province. “People were screaming and crying.” An investigation into the cause of the accident is underway, Tuyen said.

The online VnExpress newspaper quoted Nguyen Vuong Chien, admin-istrator of the provincial traffic safety board, as saying vibrations from the funeral procession may have set off a resonance in the bridge, causing the cable to break.

Travelers through the region’s airport, rebuilt completely for the games, reported briskly moving security lines and check-in times of anywhere from 10 minutes to three hours, depending on desti-nation. On what was predicted to be the heaviest Olympic-related travel day, the transit situation seemed to come down to this: It was like a busy morning at any normal big-city airport.

By the Black Sea coastline, Olympic Park, which will be hosting events at the upcoming Paralympic Games, had cleared out. Like the city of Sochi around it, the park felt deserted except for the legions of volunteers in mul-ticolored patchwork jackets who still patrolled the area. Most secu-rity barriers remained in place in anticipation of the Paralympics, but security was noticeably more relaxed.

These Winter Games, Rus-sian President Vladimir Putin’s political showpiece and bragging

trophy, convened under storm clouds — international concerns about gay rights and fears of a terror attack among them. But ath-letes overwhelmingly chose not to use the Olympic stage to make any statements, and the games opened and closed with vigorous (if sometimes spotty) security and no sign of any potentially violent activity.

When it came to logistics and sports, Russia outdid itself. Beyond initial grumblings about unfinished hotels and stray dogs, the Olympic infrastructure per-formed close to flawlessly. And the athletes: The home team claimed 33 medals, its largest haul ever — even counting the Soviet Union days — and a far cry from the 2010 performance in Vancou-ver that disappointed Putin and so many Russians. “Russia has deliv-ered on its promise,” said Dmitry Chernyshenko, head of the Sochi organizing committee.

The successes — and a visu-

ally rich closing-ceremony tour through Russian history that ended with a handoff to the next Winter Games host city, Pyeongchang in South Korea — produced a party-like-it’s-1999 atmosphere across the finally chilly Olympic Park during Monday’s early hours.

Young Sochi Games volun-teers, restrained and professional for 17 days, busted loose, running around outside Fisht Stadium with whoops, hollers and squeals. Self-ies gave way to enthusiastic group shots — and group hugs. “Thank you for coming! Thank you for being here!” volunteers shouted to passing visitors as Olympic Park emptied out.

“Amazing. Look at this. Look at what we got done,” said Viktor Virchenko, a heavily mustachioed folk dancer from nearby Stanitsa Leningradskaya who was cheer-fully stalking Olympic Park early Monday in traditional woolen hat and 19th-century regalia. “I am very proud,” he said.


RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Mohammed Aqeel spent weeks at home in Pakistan waiting for death after suffering a debilitating spinal cord injury in a car crash before friends suggested he come to St. Joseph’s Hospice on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad. Now 13 years later, his life and those of some 40 others who live on its grounds might be changed forever as this hospital of last resort faces closure over its ris-ing debts.

“I will helplessly weep and what else can I do?” Aqeel asked, tears rolling down his face. Since 1964, St. Joseph’s Hospice has treated hundreds of maimed and sick patients, overwhelmingly Muslims, who had nowhere else to go even as Pakistan experienced two military coups, wars in neighboring Afghanistan and a dangerous rise in militancy. But as wealthy donors and foreign benefactors fled the violence and unrest, so too did the endowments the hospice relies on to treat some 100 patients who visit daily.

Pakistan’s abysmal health care sector is starved for money, the latest technology and drugs — and those who can’t afford care have turned to St. Joseph’s. The hospice has a monthly budget of about 1.5 million rupees — $15,000 — but officials there say they have been facing a shortfall of half a million rupees (about $5,000) a month. They’ve bor-rowed money and cut costs as low as they can, but there’s not much more they can do.

“Initially, we managed to handle the situation, but now the situa-tion is alarming,” said Margaret Walsh, an Irish nun who has run the facility as the chief administrator since 2009. “I feel pain when I think about the worst scenario of closing down the hospital.” Rising costs from ever-increasing utility bills has deeply affected St. Joseph’s, said Rehmat Michael Hakim, chairman of the hospital’s executive commit-tee that oversees the functions of the hospice. He said the hospice relies on generators during electricity outages to warm paralyzed patients. “If we don’t use electricity heaters in winter, the patients will die of cold,” Hakim said.

Executive Chairwoman of the Indonesian Gastronomy Academy, Vita Datau, said her party would like to encourage the government to continuously have commitment to advance the Indonesian cuisines.

“We will encourage the government policies to raise the culinary po-tentials in the eye of international community. Similarly, hotels should also offer our traditional menus so as to be well known,” she said.

According to her, hotels should also present Indonesian cuisines in order the efforts to promote traditional cuisines could be realized. “We encourage the hotels to offer 20 percent of their food consisting of Indonesia cuisines. Well, the task of chef is to create how the cui-sines can be accepted by travelers, so they recognize the delicacy of Indonesian food,” she affirmed. (kmb27)

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Guest check-in for their flights at the Sochi Airport following the 2014 Winter Olympics, Mon-day, Feb. 24, 2014, in Sochi, Russia.

Sochi cleans up as world leaves Olympics behindAssociated Press Writer

SOCHI, Russia — By the busload, the world’s athletes and visitors rolled toward Sochi’s airport and took off for home Monday, fresh from a Winter Games experience that many Rus-sians pronounced a smashing success and that the Olympic movement’s chief enthusiastically labeled a victory for the region and the host nation. “Yes! We did it!” one Olympic volunteer exulted as she darted into the night. After 17 days of global sport and spotlight, Sochi ended the spirited chants of “Ro-ssi-ya! Ro-ssi-ya!” and started cleaning up.

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The result moved the Clippers 3 games clear atop the Pacific Di-vision, while the Thunder’s lead in the Northwest was trimmed to 4-1/2 games ahead of Portland, which staged a creditable comeback win over Minnesota despite being without leading scorer LaMarcus Aldridge.

Among other key results, Hous-ton edged Phoenix with a last-gasp 3-pointer, and Miami comfortably beat Chicago even without an in-jured LeBron James. The Clippers

recorded the highest score of any team against Oklahoma City this season, with Matt Barnes contribut-ing 24 points. Oklahoma City over-came a 15-point deficit late in the third quarter to take a 115-112 lead with 2:43 to play, but the Clippers controlled the game from there.

Kevin Durant had 42 points and 10 assists for the Thunder, which has been unable to rekindle mo-mentum since the All-Star break. Houston moved within 2 games of the Southwest Division lead by

pipping Phoenix 115-112, with Pat-rick Beverley sinking the go-ahead 3-pointer with 34.3 seconds left.

Beverley then made two free throws that boosted Houston’s lead to 113-110 with 20 seconds to go before Goran Dragic scored on a layup to cut it to 113-112 with 14.7 seconds to play.

Donatas Motiejunas sank two free throws with 14.1 seconds left to complete the scoring. Dragic scored a career-high 35 points for the Suns, but missed a 3 at the buzzer. Dwight Howard scored 25 for the Rockets, who trailed by 10 entering the fourth quarter. Miami beat Chicago 93-79, with Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade making up for the absence of James, who broke his nose in Thursday’s win at Oklahoma City.

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Susie Wolff will become the first woman driver in 22 years to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix weekend this season after Williams said the Scot would be on track for them in two free practice sessions later this year. The team said on Monday the 31-year-old wife of Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff, a former Williams executive director, would remain their development driver in an expanded role that will include two Friday outings.

Williams did not say which race weekends Wolff would be appearing at. “I’m grateful for the support and belief Williams continue to show in me and 2014 promises to be a very important milestone in my career,” Wolff said in a statement.

“Competing in two FP1 (first free practice) sessions, alongside an additional full test day this season will be a big step and I am looking forward to the opportunity to get behind the wheel of the FW36 on a Grand Prix weekend.” Wolff, who raced for seven years in the German Touring Car (DTM) championship, took part in an official Formula One test for Williams last year and has conducted straight line aerodynamic tests.

She has little chance of actually racing, with 21-year-old Brazil-ian Felipe Nasr the team’s official test and reserve driver. Brazil’s Felipe Massa and Finland’s Valtteri Bottas are the two main drivers for the team this season. Williams’ chief technical officer Pat Sy-monds said she had “demonstrated a natural talent for developing a car and providing strong feedback”.

The last woman to take part in any stage of a grand prix weekend was Italian Giovanna Amati, who tried and failed to qualify with Brabham in 1992. However women are involved at all levels in the paddock, from mechanics and engineers to team boss. Monisha Kaltenborn is the principal of Sauber while Claire Williams is deputy principal at the team founded by her father Frank.

Sauber this month appointed 25-year-old Swiss Simona de Sil-vestro, who has competed for four years in the U.S.-based IndyCar series, as an affiliated driver with the aim of her racing in 2015.

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AP Photo/Sue OgrockiLos Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul (3) shoots in front of Oklahoma City Thunder guard Reggie Jackson (15) in the third quarter of an NBA basketball game in Oklahoma City, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. Los Angeles won 125-117. Thunder forward Nick Collison (4) is at right.

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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Los Angeles Clippers showed they are a strong contender for the NBA Western Conference title by winning 125-117 at Conference leader Oklahoma City on Sunday, with Jamal Crawford scoring 36 points.

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“It was a penalty on El Kaddouri,” Torino coach Giampiero Ventura said. “It’s disappointing because if (referee Nicola) Rizzoli had seen the penalty maybe we would have witnessed a different game. If we had drawn today it would have been a fair result.” It was Tevez’s 13th goal of the season and sees him move level with Giuseppe Rossi at the top of the goalscoring table. The Fiorentina striker was injured at the beginning of January and is out for the rest of the season.

Juventus moved nine points ahead of second-placed Roma, which has a game in hand. “It wasn’t easy,” Conte said. “But we conceded very little to Torino. There was contact but fortunately the referee chose well. “We were calmer last year. Behind us we have a team like Roma, which is more dangerous that Napoli was last year. They don’t make mistakes, they have enthusiasm and desire.”

In the race for the final Europa League spot, Torino slipped four points below fifth-placed Inter Milan which could only draw 1-1 at home to relegation-threatened Cagliari.

Hellas Verona almost squandered a three-goal lead but held on to win 3-2 at struggling Livorno and moved a point behind Inter. Luca Toni scored his 12th of the season for Verona.

Elsewhere, AC Milan recovered from its disap-pointing Champions League defeat to Atletico Ma-

drid by winning 2-0 at Sampdoria, which had former Rossoneri striker Maxi Lopez sent off. New signings Adel Taarabt and Adil Rami both scored their second Milan goals. Also, Chievo Verona beat Catania 2-0

in a relegation fight and Udinese drew 1-1 against Atalanta.


BARCELONA, Spain — Atletico Madrid slumped to a stunning 3-0 loss at Osasuna on Sunday, leaving Real Madrid as the sole leader of the Spanish league for the first time since May 2012. Osasuna beat Atletico at its own game, both in its tough, physical approach and its set piece strategy to take a three-goal lead at the break after one of Atletico’s worst first halves in three years under coach Diego Simeone.

Alvaro Cejudo opened the scoring from a corner kick in the sixth minute before fellow forwards Emiliano Armenteros and Roberto Torres added goals in the 21st and 42nd. Atletico’s loss came one day after Barcelona lost 3-1 at Real Sociedad, with both the for-mer front-runners looking weary after their Champions League trips in midweek.

Atletico fullback Filipe Luis, who returned from injury, said that their win at AC Milan on Wednesday had nothing to do with this defeat. “Osasuna played a great game,” said Filipe Luis. “You can’t take anything away from them. They beat us in every facet of the match.” Atletico and Barcelona have both dropped 10

points over the last seven rounds, allowing Madrid to turn a five-point deficit into a three-point lead despite playing without Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo during a three-game suspension. Madrid hadn’t topped the standings since winning the title in 2011-12.

Simeone quickly needs to restore both his team’s fitness and confidence before it hosts Madrid next weekend after its cross-town rivals travel to German side Schalke 04 on Wednesday.

Also on Sunday, Athletic Bilbao strengthened its hold on fourth place by winning 2-0 at Real Betis after the bottom side had two players dismissed, while Va-lencia and Sevilla won to move to within five points of sixth place and Spain’s last Europa League spot.

Osasuna had already earned draws against Barcelona and Madrid at El Reyno de Navarra Stadium this season, and Javi Gracia’s side lived up to its reputation as being one of the toughest hosts in the Liga. “I think the fact that those three teams haven’t won here says a lot,” said Cejudo, who credited his team’s fans for their vocal support that he said “pushes” the team forward.


PARIS — Zlatan Ibra- himovic took his tally to 37 goa l s in

another re- m a r k a b l e season on Sun-

day, scoring a hat trick as defending

champion Paris Saint-Germain won 4-2 at Tou-

louse to maintain its five-point lead over Monaco. Ibrahimovic,

w h o a l s o helped set up the other goal for Argen-tina winger Ezequiel Lavezzi, has scored 22 league goals and is

closing in on his career-best total of 30 from last season. At this pace, he is on course to get 50 goals in all competitions.

“It was a good game. It wasn’t easy to play on this pitch because it wasn’t in a good state,” said Ibrahimovic, who scored twice in the 4-0 rout of Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League on Tuesday. “I feel good, very good physically. I don’t know how far we can go but I hope the team keeps on playing like this, and we’ll see what we can win.” PSG is finding its best form again at just the right time and next faces bitter rival Marseille at home next weekend.

“We’ve scored a lot of goals in one week. It shows our attacking talent and it’s going to be very hard to catch us,” PSG midfielder Blaise Matuidi said. “Now we can recover properly before the Mar-seille game.” Toulouse coach Alain Casanova promised to attack and was true to his word, with lively striker Wissam Ben Yedder scoring twice to set up a nervous finish before Ibrahimovic converted his second penalty of the match in the last minute.

“We didn’t play particularly well, because the players were a bit tired (after Tuesday night),” PSG coach Laurent Blanc said. “We didn’t create an enormous amount of chances but we took them, and when you score four goals the coach can only be happy.” Mean-while, Lille fell further behind the top two after a dour 0-0 draw with Lille.

Third-place Lille is 10 points behind Monaco and one point ahead of fourth-place Saint-Etienne, while Lyon is five points behind Lille in sixth place. PSG took the lead in the 33rd minute when Serbian de-fender Uros Spajic brought down Lavezzi, and Ibrahimovic drilled his spot kick down the middle with goalkeeper Zacharie Boucher guessing wrong as he dived to his right. PSG should have scored again in the 43rd when Ibrahimovic crossed from the left and center back Thiago Silva failed to hit the target as he lunged in at the far post. A minute

later, Toulouse punished PSG for that miss when Ben Yedder volleyed in a cross from midfielder Etienne Didot. But PSG regained the lead in the

56th when Ibrahimovic again crossed from the left, Matuidi let the ball run and Lavezzi finished with a first-time shot.

Ibrahimovic seemed to have put the result beyond doubt in the 70th, head-ing in substitute Yohan Cabaye’s free kick after the impressive Lavezzi had been fouled, but sloppy play let Toulouse back into the game three minutes later. After PSG midfielder Thiago Motta went to challenge forward Martin Braithwate, the ball bounced into the penalty area and Ben Yedder beat goal-keeper Salvatore Sirigu with a calm finish.

Not to be outdone, Ibrahimovic went close with another header from Cabaye’s free kick — which Boucher kept out — and then scored another penalty after Issiaga Sylla had handled his free kick.

Ibrahimovic was lucky, however, as he tried to dink it over Boucher. The goalkeeper saved the shot, only for the rebound to fall kindly into the Sweden forward’s path.

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers will not sacrifice his side’s thrilling attacking style in favour of tightening up the defence as the Merseysiders continue to keep them-selves in the hunt for a first Premier League title. Sunday’s 4-3 win over Swansea City moved Liverpool back to within four points of leaders Chelsea with 11 matches remain-ing, and also saw them leapfrog third-placed Manchester City as the league’s leading

scorers with 70 goals.Despite seeing England’s Daniel

Sturridge match former Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy’s feat of scoring in eight consecutive Premier League matches, Liverpool allowed Swansea to twice pull level before Jordan Henderson’s second goal with 16 minutes remaining secured the three points.

Rodgers said his side needed to tighten up at the back, but did not want to curb their attacking ways that have allowed Luis Suarez and Sturridge emerge

as the league’s top two scorers with a combined 41 goals. “I think

it’s not our style,” former Swansea manager Rodgers told reporters.“I worry always to play good foot-

ball. I’m not one who is totally satisfied to always just grind out results. It is about win-ning, that’s what professional sport is about at this level. But for us I always concentrate on performance because I think that the con-sequence of performing well consistently is getting results and this season we’ve shown that. “We’ve shown that when we play well we get the win.”

Liverpool, whose last t i t le came in the 1989-90 season, before the start of the Premier League, have conceded more goals that their three title rivals - Chelsea, Arsenal and City - and struggled to contain Swansea’s Wilfried Bony on Sunday, with the Ivorian scoring twice.

Martin Skrtel, who gave away a penalty that allowed Bony to equalise at 3-3, was given a torrid time before being replaced by Kolo Toure, who himself has made two costly errors in recent weeks that led directly to goals.

Rodgers said that at times his players were failing to defend “anywhere near well enough.” “The problem is that it’s not coaching,” Rod-gers said.

beats Torino 1-0 in Serie A derby match

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Juventus forward Carlos Tevez, of Argenti-na, jumps Torino defender Emiliano Moretti

during a Serie A soccer match be-tween Juventus and Torino at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy,

Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014.


MILAN — Carloz Tevez struck again to help Juventus beat Torino 1-0 in the Turin derby on Sunday as Antonio Conte’s side maintained its charge to a third straight Serie A title. Tevez scored on the half hour mark, although Torino will feel aggrieved not to have been awarded a late penalty when Omar El Kaddouri appeared to be tripped by Andrea Pirlo.

Rodgers has no

intention of curbing attacking ways

Ibrahimovic scores 3 as PSG wins 4-2 at Toulouse

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PSG’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, right celebrates after scoring during a Champions League round of the last 16 first leg soccer match between Bayer Leverkusen and Paris Saint-Germain in Leverkusen, Germany, Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014.

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Atletico de Madrid’s Juanfran, center, duels for the ball with Osasuna’s Emiliano Armenteros of Argentina, left, and Roberto Torres, during their Span-ish League soccer match, at El Sadar stadium in Pamplona, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. Ateltico de Madrid lost the match 3-0.

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BULELENG - It is lo-cated at Banjar Tegeha village, 18 km to the west of Singaraja and 2 km south of Singaraja-Seririt highway. This temple is perched at the foot of the hill overlooking the sea. The Brahma Arama Bud-dhist Monastery is the larg-est Buddhist temple in Bali. It spreads across a quite extensive area. From this place, visitors can see the beautiful view of the North Bali Sea stretching from the east to the west because it is located in on a hilly area. On that account, this Buddhist temple has a remarkable attraction for both foreign and domestic tourists. The impressive monument resembling a large temple bell was do-nated by Thailand while the panels depict the story of Buddha, and Buddha statue. This monastery can provide an ideal desti-nation for those seeking an appropriate venue for meditation.

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The result moved the Clippers 3 games clear atop the Pacific Di-vision, while the Thunder’s lead in the Northwest was trimmed to 4-1/2 games ahead of Portland, which staged a creditable comeback win over Minnesota despite being without leading scorer LaMarcus Aldridge.

Among other key results, Hous-ton edged Phoenix with a last-gasp 3-pointer, and Miami comfortably beat Chicago even without an in-jured LeBron James. The Clippers

recorded the highest score of any team against Oklahoma City this season, with Matt Barnes contribut-ing 24 points. Oklahoma City over-came a 15-point deficit late in the third quarter to take a 115-112 lead with 2:43 to play, but the Clippers controlled the game from there.

Kevin Durant had 42 points and 10 assists for the Thunder, which has been unable to rekindle mo-mentum since the All-Star break. Houston moved within 2 games of the Southwest Division lead by

pipping Phoenix 115-112, with Pat-rick Beverley sinking the go-ahead 3-pointer with 34.3 seconds left.

Beverley then made two free throws that boosted Houston’s lead to 113-110 with 20 seconds to go before Goran Dragic scored on a layup to cut it to 113-112 with 14.7 seconds to play.

Donatas Motiejunas sank two free throws with 14.1 seconds left to complete the scoring. Dragic scored a career-high 35 points for the Suns, but missed a 3 at the buzzer. Dwight Howard scored 25 for the Rockets, who trailed by 10 entering the fourth quarter. Miami beat Chicago 93-79, with Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade making up for the absence of James, who broke his nose in Thursday’s win at Oklahoma City.

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Susie Wolff will become the first woman driver in 22 years to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix weekend this season after Williams said the Scot would be on track for them in two free practice sessions later this year. The team said on Monday the 31-year-old wife of Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff, a former Williams executive director, would remain their development driver in an expanded role that will include two Friday outings.

Williams did not say which race weekends Wolff would be appearing at. “I’m grateful for the support and belief Williams continue to show in me and 2014 promises to be a very important milestone in my career,” Wolff said in a statement.

“Competing in two FP1 (first free practice) sessions, alongside an additional full test day this season will be a big step and I am looking forward to the opportunity to get behind the wheel of the FW36 on a Grand Prix weekend.” Wolff, who raced for seven years in the German Touring Car (DTM) championship, took part in an official Formula One test for Williams last year and has conducted straight line aerodynamic tests.

She has little chance of actually racing, with 21-year-old Brazil-ian Felipe Nasr the team’s official test and reserve driver. Brazil’s Felipe Massa and Finland’s Valtteri Bottas are the two main drivers for the team this season. Williams’ chief technical officer Pat Sy-monds said she had “demonstrated a natural talent for developing a car and providing strong feedback”.

The last woman to take part in any stage of a grand prix weekend was Italian Giovanna Amati, who tried and failed to qualify with Brabham in 1992. However women are involved at all levels in the paddock, from mechanics and engineers to team boss. Monisha Kaltenborn is the principal of Sauber while Claire Williams is deputy principal at the team founded by her father Frank.

Sauber this month appointed 25-year-old Swiss Simona de Sil-vestro, who has competed for four years in the U.S.-based IndyCar series, as an affiliated driver with the aim of her racing in 2015.

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AP Photo/Sue OgrockiLos Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul (3) shoots in front of Oklahoma City Thunder guard Reggie Jackson (15) in the third quarter of an NBA basketball game in Oklahoma City, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. Los Angeles won 125-117. Thunder forward Nick Collison (4) is at right.

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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Los Angeles Clippers showed they are a strong contender for the NBA Western Conference title by winning 125-117 at Conference leader Oklahoma City on Sunday, with Jamal Crawford scoring 36 points.

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JAKARTA - Seven Sumatran elephants have been found dead in west-ern Indonesia and it is thought they were poisoned, a wildlife official said Monday, just the latest deaths of the critically-endangered animals.























Catherine was summoned by the anti graft agency to give explana-tion about a car she received from Wawan.

Wawan, a brother of Banten Gov-ernor Ratu Atut Chosiyah, has been charged with corruption and money laundering. KPK said Wawan had given cars as gifts to a number of film stars and members of the re-gional legislative assembly.

KPK already investigated two other artists Rebecca Reijman and Jennifer Dunn in the same case.

KPK has confiscated all of the cars. Altogether KPK has confiscated 42 cars including from Wawan’s house or companies.

The cars included luxurious cars such as Ferrari, Lamborgini Aventador, Bentley Continental, Rolls Royce Flying Spur, Nissan GTR, Toyota Vellfire, Mitsubhisi Pajero, Honda CR-V, Mercedes Benz, Mini Cooper, Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota Lexus, Toyota Innova, BMW, Toyota Fortuner, Mitsubhisi Outlander, Ford Fiesta,

Nissan Terano, Honda Freed, Isuzu Panther, Toyota Avanza, Suzuki APV, and Izusu Panther, and a Har-ley Davidson motorbike.

KPK spokesman Johan Budi said KPK has not stopped tracking down allegedly ill gained assets of Wawan. Wawan was charged with bribery in the Lebak district elec-tion, mark up in the price of health equipment for health center in Tangerang Selatan and corruption in the procurement of health equip-ment for Banten province.

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Aqua satellite has detected a total of 1,234 hotspots from forest, plantation and peatland fires in Riau province.

The haze produced by the hotspots will not cross over to Malaysia or Sin-gapore because the wind blows from the north and the east in the opposite direction toward the neighboring countries, Ardhitama, the Pekanbaru meteorological, climatology and geo-physics office (BMKG) stated on Monday. The number was lesser than 1,526 hotspots detected on June 23, 2013, he added. Last year’s hotspots produced haze that affected Malaysia and Singapore.

“This time, it will not happen again because the wind direction is con-sistently from north and east toward

south,” he stated.He quoted the data from the

U.S.NOAA 18 satellite that detected hotspots not only in Indonesia, but also in other ASEAN member countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.

The NOAA satellite recorded 490 hotspots in Vietnam, he cited.

Meanwhile, hotspots in forests, plantations and peatland fires, which came early in the Sumatra and Kali-mantan islands this year, have made the Indonesian government inten-sify law enforcement to deal with the problem.

“Usually haze occurs in May or June. But, this year, the haze has hap-pened in January and February in Riau and West Kalimantan,” the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB)

spokesman Sutopo stated in Jakarta, recently.

On February 11, BNPB held a coordination meeting with several government and law enforcement agencies to tackle the problem of haze from forest fires and drought this year.

The government will address the forest fire issue through land and aerial operations. The land operation will in-volve, among others, military officers, police, forest fire brigade units, and civilian security personnel.

The aerial operations will include air-borne water bombing and weather modification or cloud seeding technol-ogies. The BNBP will rent the Be-200 Fire-Fighting Amphibious aircraft and the Kamov helicopter from Russia for water bombing.

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Film star Catherine Wilson has been summoned by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for questioning on money laundering case of Tubagus Chaeri Wardana alias Wawan.

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JAKARTA - Film star Catherine Wilson has been summoned by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for questioning on money laundering case of Tubagus Chaeri Wardana alias Wawan. “I will give clarification first (to the KPK),” Catherine told reporters after arrival at the KPK office on Monday.

Over 1,2 thousand hotspots detected in Riau

Elephants found dead, poisoning suspected


HANOI, Vietnam — At least seven mourners were killed and 37 others were injured when a suspension bridge broke as they were transporting a coffin to a graveyard in northern Vietnam, police said Monday.

Police officer Phung Quang Tuyen said cables on one side of the year-old bridge in Lai Chau province’s Tam Duong district snapped, causing the group to fall about 20 meters (65 feet) onto rocks. He said 23 of the injuries were serious. The coffin containing the body of a village official was thrown into the shallow stream, he said.

“It was a horrible scene,” Tuyen said by telephone from the province. “People were screaming and crying.” An investigation into the cause of the accident is underway, Tuyen said.

The online VnExpress newspaper quoted Nguyen Vuong Chien, admin-istrator of the provincial traffic safety board, as saying vibrations from the funeral procession may have set off a resonance in the bridge, causing the cable to break.

Travelers through the region’s airport, rebuilt completely for the games, reported briskly moving security lines and check-in times of anywhere from 10 minutes to three hours, depending on desti-nation. On what was predicted to be the heaviest Olympic-related travel day, the transit situation seemed to come down to this: It was like a busy morning at any normal big-city airport.

By the Black Sea coastline, Olympic Park, which will be hosting events at the upcoming Paralympic Games, had cleared out. Like the city of Sochi around it, the park felt deserted except for the legions of volunteers in mul-ticolored patchwork jackets who still patrolled the area. Most secu-rity barriers remained in place in anticipation of the Paralympics, but security was noticeably more relaxed.

These Winter Games, Rus-sian President Vladimir Putin’s political showpiece and bragging

trophy, convened under storm clouds — international concerns about gay rights and fears of a terror attack among them. But ath-letes overwhelmingly chose not to use the Olympic stage to make any statements, and the games opened and closed with vigorous (if sometimes spotty) security and no sign of any potentially violent activity.

When it came to logistics and sports, Russia outdid itself. Beyond initial grumblings about unfinished hotels and stray dogs, the Olympic infrastructure per-formed close to flawlessly. And the athletes: The home team claimed 33 medals, its largest haul ever — even counting the Soviet Union days — and a far cry from the 2010 performance in Vancou-ver that disappointed Putin and so many Russians. “Russia has deliv-ered on its promise,” said Dmitry Chernyshenko, head of the Sochi organizing committee.

The successes — and a visu-

ally rich closing-ceremony tour through Russian history that ended with a handoff to the next Winter Games host city, Pyeongchang in South Korea — produced a party-like-it’s-1999 atmosphere across the finally chilly Olympic Park during Monday’s early hours.

Young Sochi Games volun-teers, restrained and professional for 17 days, busted loose, running around outside Fisht Stadium with whoops, hollers and squeals. Self-ies gave way to enthusiastic group shots — and group hugs. “Thank you for coming! Thank you for being here!” volunteers shouted to passing visitors as Olympic Park emptied out.

“Amazing. Look at this. Look at what we got done,” said Viktor Virchenko, a heavily mustachioed folk dancer from nearby Stanitsa Leningradskaya who was cheer-fully stalking Olympic Park early Monday in traditional woolen hat and 19th-century regalia. “I am very proud,” he said.


RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Mohammed Aqeel spent weeks at home in Pakistan waiting for death after suffering a debilitating spinal cord injury in a car crash before friends suggested he come to St. Joseph’s Hospice on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad. Now 13 years later, his life and those of some 40 others who live on its grounds might be changed forever as this hospital of last resort faces closure over its ris-ing debts.

“I will helplessly weep and what else can I do?” Aqeel asked, tears rolling down his face. Since 1964, St. Joseph’s Hospice has treated hundreds of maimed and sick patients, overwhelmingly Muslims, who had nowhere else to go even as Pakistan experienced two military coups, wars in neighboring Afghanistan and a dangerous rise in militancy. But as wealthy donors and foreign benefactors fled the violence and unrest, so too did the endowments the hospice relies on to treat some 100 patients who visit daily.

Pakistan’s abysmal health care sector is starved for money, the latest technology and drugs — and those who can’t afford care have turned to St. Joseph’s. The hospice has a monthly budget of about 1.5 million rupees — $15,000 — but officials there say they have been facing a shortfall of half a million rupees (about $5,000) a month. They’ve bor-rowed money and cut costs as low as they can, but there’s not much more they can do.

“Initially, we managed to handle the situation, but now the situa-tion is alarming,” said Margaret Walsh, an Irish nun who has run the facility as the chief administrator since 2009. “I feel pain when I think about the worst scenario of closing down the hospital.” Rising costs from ever-increasing utility bills has deeply affected St. Joseph’s, said Rehmat Michael Hakim, chairman of the hospital’s executive commit-tee that oversees the functions of the hospice. He said the hospice relies on generators during electricity outages to warm paralyzed patients. “If we don’t use electricity heaters in winter, the patients will die of cold,” Hakim said.

Executive Chairwoman of the Indonesian Gastronomy Academy, Vita Datau, said her party would like to encourage the government to continuously have commitment to advance the Indonesian cuisines.

“We will encourage the government policies to raise the culinary po-tentials in the eye of international community. Similarly, hotels should also offer our traditional menus so as to be well known,” she said.

According to her, hotels should also present Indonesian cuisines in order the efforts to promote traditional cuisines could be realized. “We encourage the hotels to offer 20 percent of their food consisting of Indonesia cuisines. Well, the task of chef is to create how the cui-sines can be accepted by travelers, so they recognize the delicacy of Indonesian food,” she affirmed. (kmb27)

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Guest check-in for their flights at the Sochi Airport following the 2014 Winter Olympics, Mon-day, Feb. 24, 2014, in Sochi, Russia.

Sochi cleans up as world leaves Olympics behindAssociated Press Writer

SOCHI, Russia — By the busload, the world’s athletes and visitors rolled toward Sochi’s airport and took off for home Monday, fresh from a Winter Games experience that many Rus-sians pronounced a smashing success and that the Olympic movement’s chief enthusiastically labeled a victory for the region and the host nation. “Yes! We did it!” one Olympic volunteer exulted as she darted into the night. After 17 days of global sport and spotlight, Sochi ended the spirited chants of “Ro-ssi-ya! Ro-ssi-ya!” and started cleaning up.

Bridge collapse kills 7 in northern Vietnam

Hospital of last resort in Pakistan faces closure

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NEW YORK - The astonishingly high price paid for the messaging service WhatsApp underscores how mobile apps are transforming the way we communicate, shaking up the global telecom sector.

Facebook’s deal to pay up to $19 billion for WhatsApp comes on the heels of a $900 million purchase of another messaging service, Viber, by Japanese Internet giant Rakuten.

And the California-based mes-saging firm Snapchat, known fo its disappearing messages, reportedly turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook.

Some analysts expect more deals to come now that it’s clear that messaging is becoming a killer app that can enable mobile phone users around the globe to get free from their local carriers and communi-cate freely worldwide.

Declan Lonergan, analyst at Yankee Group, said the new focus on messaging “signals the growing importance of IP communications in consumers’ lives.”

“Facebook’s valuation of What-sApp is shockingly high, but so too is the risk of being left behind as these apps become dominant plat-forms for communications, media

distribution, social engagement and advertising,” Lonergan said in a blog post.

The huge deal for WhatsApp has shined a spotlight on BlackBerry, the struggling smartphone maker which also has a messaging service with 80 million customers using Android and Apple devices.

“There will be more deals,” said analyst Thibaut De Smedt of the investment bank Bryan, Garnier & Co.

But De Smedt said he sees more interest in “startups which have invented a service and spread it around the world,” especially in places such as Asia.

Some of these services include China-based WeChat, Japan’s Line and Kakao in South Korea. These have been mainly domestically focused but are starting to turn their attention to the global market.

By using Internet or IP commu-nications, these messaging services can help users bypass telecom car-riers and their fees for SMS -- a global market worth tens of billions of dollars, which helps explain the price for WhatsApp.

“SMS volumes were higher than social messaging volumes in 2012, but in 2013, messaging apps took a big leap forward and overtook traf-fic. We can expect strong growth

in traffic to continue in the coming years,” says a report from the Brit-ish consultancy Ovum.

The research firm Informa said in a recent report that global annual SMS revenues will fall by $23 bil-lion by 2018 from $120 billion in 2013 mainly due to “continuing adoption and use of over-the-top

messaging applications in both de-veloped and emerging markets.”

Analysts at the research firm Tre-fis said in a report that “mobile mes-saging is here to stay, even though the growth in social networking industry might slow down” and that WhatsApp fills an important gap in Facebook’s portfolio.

But some analysts say text mes-saging is just one small part of what could be a much bigger market for mobile communications, with voice, images and video, and that services like WhatsApp may shake up the market in the same way You-Tube, bought by Google in 2006, shook up online video.

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MANGUPURA - Bowls are usu-ally made of genuine silver or brass coated with silver and taken advantage for the means of ritual. Along with the development of times, an innovation is carried out by Balinese craftsmen by using rattan. Aside from being light, the price is very affordable. However, only some few people take advantage of this business opportunity.

One of the bowl rattan craftswomen remaining to exist so far is Ni Kadek Suwitri from Blumbang hamlet, Pe-narungan, Mengwi. When met at her business premise, she admitted to have become a rattan bowl and tray crafts-woman since 10 years ago. Currently, Suwitri employed 9 workers.

“At first, I saw such a product in the market. After purchasing, in fact the making is not difficult. I made such a rattan bowl through autodidactic learning,” added Suwitri.

The first production, according to Suwitri, was a plain bowl or the one without accessories. Due to looking unique and rarely found for sale in

the market, the craft was hunted by people, especially by the Hindus in Bali. Her business was growing rap-idly and many customers from outside Badung ordered her craft works.

Other than bowl, with the help of her children Suwitri also made bamboo basket as well as wooden and shell tray. “For the raw material (rattan), I order it to Kalimantan. A month I can spend a total of 200 kg. If the rattan runs out, I just need to order it via phone and it will be sent to Bali,” she said.

Related to price, according to this middle-aged woman, her product was the cheapest compared to that offered at other places. The price of bowl or tray ranged from IDR 60,000 to IDR 125,000. It depended on the shape and accessories in use. Her products were often on display in the exhibition by customers. Moreover, she did not urge her customers to pay in full. “If my products are unsalable, they can be returned. I never asked for upfront payment,” she said.

Other than rattan bowl and tray, Su-witri also sold wooden and shell trays.

Due to raw material constraints, she could not produce her own works but worked closely with other craftsmen from Tabanan and Bangli, especially for wood carving tray. For keben bam-boo basket, she just added a jelly de-sign motif or sequins so that it looked more beautiful and festive. Though produced by herself, she did not close the opportunity to sell the handicraft product of others. She always accepted if there were other craftsmen who consigned their products.

“For sequin materials, I purchase them in the shop in Denpasar. Many shops are selling such raw materials so it is not difficult to get them,” said Suwitri while setting the series of sequins in bowl cover.

Her business premise is never empty of customers. Several cus-tomers come to purchase or order her handicraft products. Sometimes, she is out of stock, especially before Galungan. “Ahead of Galungan, I sell more than IDR 1 million for keben bamboo baskets. Additionally, a lot of bowls and trays are also sold,” she added. (rah)

As planned, the solar power plant development will be established around the area of East Buleleng, from Bukti village in Kubutamba-han subdistrict to Tembok village around the east end of Buleleng County. In the closed meeting, Jero Wacik estimated the construc-tion could start operating in 2014. Then, many things should be met including land acquisition and hu-man resources to manage the solar power plant in the future. “When I met with the Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana, the land acquisition for the solar power plant is still being attempted. The land must be provided first such as in the area of Bangli and Karangasem, like that,” he said.

The solar power plant develop-ment would continue to be pursued as a way to generate electricity through solar power. In addition to cost saving, the use of sunlight is also sufficient and beneficial to wider community. Jero Wacik said the solar energy was available ev-erywhere and such natural resource

could be utilized. On the other hand, the solar power development was also intended to resolve the water shortage in East Buleleng during dry season. The electric-ity generated would be taken into account when the amount of land in use could be known pursuant to the land provided by local govern-ment.

“Like in Bangli and in Karang-sem, the land is owned by local government. When the land has been ready, it is up to the govern-ment where to be built because the sun is available everywhere. At the moment, it is still difficult to find the land. As soon as it is available, we will set up the program. No matter how many megawatts to be made, one megawatt or more it’s okay. However, it will depend on its land area. One hectare is equal to one megawatt and 2 hectares are equal to 2 megawatts,” he said.

According to the Head of Bule-leng Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Gede Suyasa, the solar panels for the solar power plant

development would soon be built at Bukti village, Kubutambahan subdistrict. The development plan was still being attempted and in need of a discussion on the prepara-tions such as land acquisition and cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. As

for the capacity, it was estimated to be around one megawatt.

The Buleleng government was estimated to have prepared land with an area of one hectare. Mean-while, to supply water needs at Ju-lah, Sembiran, Tejakula and Pacung village, in the future the solar power

plant would plan to use a series of centrifugal water pump at Bukti village. “We will use a centrifugal water pump to move the water at Air Sanih so it can go up and be stored in the tank tower. So, the water needs at Pacung to Tejakula can be supplied,” he said. (dgk)

Solar power development continues to be quickened

Affordable price, rattan bowl in demand in the market

IBP/Ngurah KenBowls are usually made of genuine silver or brass coated with silver and taken advantage for the means of ritual. Along with the development of times, an innovation is carried out by Ba-linese craftsmen by using rattan.

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SINGARAJA - So far, the plan of solar power plant (PLTS) develop-ment is still rolled out in order to be immediately realized. This matter is still being pursued by Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jero Wacik, Saturday (Feb 22). Hopefully, the solar power plant can be empowered optimally, so that people no longer face power short-age in the future.

IBP/SwasrinaSo far, the plan of solar power plant (PLTS) development is still rolled out in order to be immediately realized. This matter is still being pursued by Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jero Wacik, Saturday (Feb 22).

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20, which accounts for 85 percent of the world economy, also agreed to pursue greater transparency about monetary policy after rifts about the US taper.

They expressed “deep regret” that reforms to the International Monetary Fund have stalled, be-cause the United States Congress has yet to ratify them.

After their meeting in Sydney, the G20 ministers issued what host Australia called “an unprecedented” and unusually brief two-page state-

ment to drive “a return to strong, sustainable and balanced growth in the global economy”.

“We will develop ambitious but realistic policies with the aim to lift our collective GDP by more than two percent above the trajectory implied by current policies over the coming five years,” they said in ref-erence to two percentage points.

“This is over US$2.0 trillion more in real terms and will lead to significant additional jobs.”

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew stressed at a press conference that the G20 had left the austerity debate

behind and was fully focused on growth.

“If you look where we were a year ago, debating austerity... This (weekend) was a debate about how can we work together to share best practices and develop an approach where our individual economies can grow and the global economy can hit the objective that is set forth in this text,” he said.

The IMF has said the strategy could add half a percentage point to global growth annually over four years starting next year.

The fund currently projects growth of 3.7 percent this year and 3.9 percent in 2015, with each G20 country to hammer out the finer points before the leaders’ summit in Brisbane in November.

“We believe that if the reforms

that have been identified are ad-hered to, delivered by the various authorities, then that is a goal that can be achieved or possibly ex-ceeded,” said IMF chief Christine Lagarde, adding that meetings were held in an “excellent spirit”.

Ministers said the figure could be reached by increasing investment and employment and enhancing trade, adding that there was “no room for complacency” and that addressing the challenges “requires ambition”.

Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey, the G20 chair, had been pushing ministers to agree to faster global growth targets, with private-sector investment as a central plank.

He stressed the need for struc-tural reforms to drive growth.

“We know reform is hard. We

have to earn economic growth and new jobs,” he said after the meet-ing ended.

“It will take concrete actions across the G20 to boost investment, trade, competition and employment opportunities, as well as getting our macroeconomic fundamentals right.”

The fallout being felt by some emerging economies as the US Federal Reserve winds back its mammoth stimulus programme was another lightning-rod issue in Sydney.

Acknowledging complaints by emerging economies that a lack of communication has worsened the impact on their markets, which have suffered capital flows and currency volatility, the G20 agreed to more transparency.

G20 vows to add $2 trillion to world economy to lift growthAgence France-Presse

SYDNEY - The world’s biggest economies vowed Sunday to boost global growth by more than $2 trillion over five years, shifting their focus away from austerity as a fragile recovery takes hold.

WhatsApp deal shows stunning growth of messaging apps

AP Photo/dpa, Marc Müller, FileIn this Jan. 20, 2014, file photo, Jan Koum, 38, co- founder of WhatsApp speaks in Munich. The astonish-ingly high price paid for the messaging service WhatsApp underscores how mobile apps are transforming the way we communicate, shaking up the global telecom sector.

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The turmoil has turned this strategically located country of 46 million inside out over the past few days, raising fears that it could split apart. The parliament speaker is suddenly nominally in charge of a country whose economy is on the brink of default and whose loyal-ties are torn between Europe and longtime ruler Russia.

“The state treasury has been torn apart, the country has been brought to bankruptcy,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a leader of the protest movement and prominent lawmaker whose name is being floated as a possibility for prime minister, said in parliament Monday. The acting finance minister said Monday that the country needs $35 billion (25.5 billion euros) to finance govern-ment needs this year and next and expressed hope that Europe or the United States would help.

Ukraine’s acting interior minis-ter, Arsen Avakhov, said on his of-ficial Facebook page Monday that a warrant has been issued for the

arrest of Yanukovych and several other officials for the “mass killing of civilians.” At least 82 people, primarily protesters, were killed in clashes in Kiev last week. Avakhov says Yanukovych arrived in Crimea on Sunday, relinquished his official security detail and then drove off to an unknown location, turning off all forms of communication. “Yanukovych has disappeared,” he said.

Earlier, after signing an agree-ment Friday with the opposition to end a conflict that had turned deadly, Yanukovych had fled the capital of Kiev for eastern Ukraine. Avakhov said he tried to fly out of Donetsk but was stopped, then went to Crimea.

Tensions have been mounting in Crimea, where pro-Russian protesters gathered in front of city hall in the port of Sevastopol on Monday chanting “Russia! Rus-sia!” Russia maintains a big naval base in Sevastopol that has tangled relations between the countries for

two decades. The head of the city administration in Sevastopol quit Monday.

The tensions seem to be driven by Russia, though a representative of the pro-Moscow Russian Unity party played down fears that Crimea could secede, saying that they want to maintain ties with Moscow and a Putin-driven Customs Union but do not want Crimea to break away. Yanukovych set off a wave of pro-tests by shelving an agreement with the European Union in November and turning toward Russia, and the movement quickly expanded its grievances to corruption, human rights abuses and calls for Yanuk-ovych’s resignation.

“We must find Yanukovych and put him on trial,” said protester Le-onid Shovtak, a 50-year-old farmer from the western Ivano-Frankivsk region who came to Kiev’s Inde-pendence Square to take part in the three-month protest movement. “All the criminals with him should be in prison.”

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BANGKOK - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the target of anti-government protests in Bangkok, has been staying outside the city and on Monday ruled out resigning despite a series of deadly at-tacks heaping pressure on her administration. Yingluck, who attended a trade show in Saraburi province, 100 km (60 miles) north of Bangkok, called for dialogue to resolve a crisis that has dragged on for months, with key intersections in the capital blocked by protest camps.

“It’s time all sides turned to talk to each other,” Yingluck told report-ers. “Many people have asked me to resign but I ask: is resignation the answer? What if it creates a power vacuum?” The protests have been punctuated by gunfire and bomb blasts, including one on Sunday that killed a woman and a young brother and sister.

They are aimed at unseating Yingluck and erasing the influence of her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who is seen by many as the power behind the government. Yingluck’s office would not confirm how many days Yingluck had been working outside the capital.

She was last seen in public in Bangkok nearly a week ago, last Tuesday, when both anti-government protesters and farmers angry about not being paid under a rice subsidy scheme were trailing her and some of her ministers. She is due to attend a corruption hearing in Bangkok on Thursday. Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said Yingluck would hold a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “It is highly likely that we will hold the cabinet meeting outside of Bangkok,” Surapong told reporters.

The political crisis, which pits the mainly middle-class anti-govern-ment demonstrators from Bangkok and the south against supporters of Yingluck from the populous rural north and northeast, shows no sign of ending soon.

But the army, which toppled Thaksin in 2006 in the latest of 18 coups or attempted coups since Thailand became a constitutional monarchy in 1932, said it would not interfere.

Thai PM rules out resigning as bombs, gunfire punctuate unrest

AP Photo/Sakchai LalitLeader of anti-government protesters Suthep Thaugsuban talks to supporters in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014.

AP Photo/Andrew LubimovPeople paint on the KGB officers monument in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. A top Ukrainian opposition figure assumed presidential powers Sunday, plunging Ukraine into new uncertainty after a deadly political standoff and boosting long-jailed Yulia Tymoshenko’s chances at a return to power.

Ukraine issues arrest warrant for presidentAssociated Press Writer

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine — Ukraine’s acting government issued a warrant Monday for the arrest of President Viktor Yanukovych, last reportedly seen in the pro-Russian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, accusing him of mass crimes against protesters who stood up for months against his rule. Calls are mount-ing in Ukraine to put Yanukovych on trial, after a tumultuous presidency in which he amassed powers, enriched his allies and cracked down on protesters. Anger boiled over last week after snipers attacked protesters in the bloodiest violence in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history.

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BANGLI - Locating in a remote area does not discourage the read-ing interest of school children in Bangli. It is evident from the seriousness of students who were very excited to read books when their school was visited by mobile library owned by the local Bangli Library, Archive and Documenta-tion.

The Head of Bangli Library, Archives and Documentation Of-

fice, Wayan Karmawan, said on Sunday (Feb 23) the students at-tending school in remote villages so far enthusiastically utilized the mobile library services organized by his party. “Occasionally, the students were very serious to read a book we provide for a few hours,” he said. According to him, it indi-cated the high interest of students in reading even though residing in remote areas.

Mobile library program having been carried out since 2006 contin-

ued to be intensified by targeting a number of areas in Bangli, mainly the remote villages. Karmawan said that schools at remote villages were deliberately made as priority con-sidering the difficulty of searching for reading materials.

Actually, in appropriate with the government program, the library only targeted elementary schools. However, when required his party was also ready to serve junior high and high schools. Not only that, if there were villages in need of

mobile library services, his party would also serve it. Even, in the rural development by mutual as-sistance movement his party also involved mobile library in the hope of widening the perspective of the community.

In addition to promoting pro-gram, his party also planned to redesign the reading room in the library office that so far was ad-mitted to be less representative. His party would seek to beautify the appearance of the library so

it could increase the interest of society to visit the library. Not only that, his party would also set a LED TV so that people who were reluctant to read could get information through watching television. “For example, if any-one wants to know more about the geopark and rural development by mutual assistance movement (gerbangsigot), they can simply click on the program without having to read it in a book,” said Karmawan. (ina)

Arrival of the regent was follow-ing the public reports in relation to the situation in the market that had not yet made any improvement. From the courtyard, the garbage looked to pile up so that it resulted in the impression of slum. Similar-ly, the parking lot was still used by seasonal traders. Thus, the market courtyard looked chaotic. When coming into the market, the regent

got more tempered as a number of stalls were still closed. Another stall was open, but the trader was not in place.

Having been traced, in fact a trader could have two to four stalls by borrowing someone else’s name. Allegedly the stalls were leased to other traders with an underhand agreement. The regent asserted, no trader was allowed to sell the place

or stall. “So, the business premise or stall must be occupied by the genu-ine occupant,” he affirmed. Such an issue had long arisen. Even ear-lier, the Klungkung Cooperatives, SMEs, Industry and Trade Agency had proved it by confiscating the receipt of stall rental. The trader concerned was also imposed with a sanction where his yellow card was revoked, but it was given to the lessee.

Even, among the traders was heard an issue if a number of stalls were ‘traded’ by the unscrupulous legislators. Unfortunately, the identity of the legislators remained unclear. The Regent Suwirta asked the Head of Cooperatives, SMEs, Industry and Trade Agency, Ko-

mang Darma Suyasa, to take de-cisive action. When finding such a trader, as the stance taken earlier, he was instructed to revoke the yellow card or ownership of the traders. Other than the Head of Cooperative Agency, after inspecting the market, the regent also reprimanded the security guards of the local market. At nine o’clock in the morning, they were still in the office but did not get around monitoring the market. In other words, the performance of local market officers was increas-ingly questioned in managing the market.

The regent reiterated that all security guards should be on hand at each wing of the market. “Do not just pass by. At this rate, the

officers must be able to anticipate the breaches in the parking lot used as selling place continuously,” he said. Regent Suwirta also asked the Head of Cooperative Agency to set working schedule of the security guard at the Galiran Market.

He claimed to have to berate again the security guards of the market and related agencies. In the previous meeting related to the control of the market, the county leadership council (Muspida) had emphasized that relevant agencies should make intensive socializa-tion to every trader. Unfortunately, there was no follow-up whatsoever. Even, the appeal of the regent to make a banner was not followed up. (kmb31)

Mobile library prioritizes in remote schools

Regent critized Galiran MarketBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Galiran Market was criticized again by the Re-gent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, Sunday (Feb 23). The market remained to look chaotic. Actually, the market had been raided for dozen times. However, the officers of Galiran Market never made improvement. As a result, the regent who came with a number of relevant agencies was made angry.

IBP/fileThe envoy of Klungkung Regent when visiting Galiran Market

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NASA said cables attached to the capsule weren’t strong enough to handle turbulence and snapped off twice while it was in the well deck of the USS San Diego before it could be moved out to sea on Thursday. With the Orion mock-up still on the Navy ship, teams could not practice fetching the spacecraft from the ocean.

“Even though the testing didn’t go as we had planned, we’re learn-ing lessons that will help us be better prepared to retrieve Orion,” Bill Hill of NASA headquarters said in a statement. Engineers were troubleshooting the problem, and it was not clear when the test would be rescheduled.

NASA has been developing a next-generation spacecraft to carry astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, possibly to an asteroid or Mars.

Orion, which will make its first unmanned test flight this fall, is be-ing designed to travel to deep space and return at speeds of 25,000 mph (40,232 kph) by splashing down into the Pacific.

The water landing is a throwback to the 1960s and 1970s when Navy ships routinely tracked and recov-ered Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft after re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. With the space shuttle fleet retired, NASA has decided to go with an ocean splashdown. Unlike in the past, when helicop-ters would hoist astronauts after a mission, the new plan calls for an amphibious transport ship to dis-patch divers and small boat teams to recover Orion and its crew.

Last year, NASA and the Navy practiced recovering the Orion in the calm waters of the Elizabeth

River in Virginia with no problem. Before the latest test was called off, NASA said crews successfully retrieved parts of the spacecraft, in-cluding the parachute and a protec-tive covering. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was supposed to visit the test site Saturday, but his appearance was canceled.


MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s salamander-like axolotl apparently hasn’t disappeared from its only known natural habitat in Mex-ico City’s few remaining lakes. Researchers say they have sighted, but not caught, two of the slippery little creatures during a sec-ond effort to find them. A weekslong effort last year by researchers in skiffs trying to net axolotls in the shallow, muddy waters of Xochimilco lake found none, raising fears that they might only now survive in captivity.

But biologist Armando Tovar Garza of Mexico’s National Autonomous University said Friday that members of the team carry-ing out the search had seen two axolotls dur-ing the first three weeks of a second survey expected to conclude in April.

“We weren’t able to capture them ... be-cause the behavior of the axolotl makes them very difficult to capture,” Tovar Garza said. “We haven’t had any captures, but we have had two sightings. That’s important, because it tells us we still have a chance.”

The axolotl, admittedly ugly with a slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls into an odd smile, is known as the “water monster” and the “Mexican walking fish.” It’s only natural habitat is the Xochimilco network of lakes and canals — the “floating gardens” of earth piled on reed mats that the Aztecs built to grow crops but are now suffering from pollution, urban sprawl and

invasive species. The creature is import in scientific research because of its ability to regenerate severed limbs.

Some axolotls still survive in aquariums, water tanks and research labs, but experts said those conditions aren’t the best, because of interbreeding and other risks. Releasing captive-bred axolotls into the wild could spread a fungus infection that is fatal to them and could reduce their genetic diversity. Tovar Garza said some small mutations, possibly the result of interbreeding, have already been seen.

Alarmed by the creature’s falling numbers in recent years, researchers built axolotl “shelters” in Xochimilco to help them breed in the cleanest part of their remain-ing habitat.

Sacks of rocks and reedy plants act as fil-ters around a selected area, and cleaner water is pumped in, to create better conditions. The shelters also include permeable cages and other devices intended to help protect axolotls from non-native carp and tilapia that were introduced to the lake system years ago and compete with axolotls for food.

Growing up to a foot long (30 centime-ters), axolotls use four stubby legs to drag themselves along the bottom or thick tails to swim in Xochimilco’s murky channels while feeding on aquatic insects, small fish and crustaceans. But the surrounding garden-islands have increasingly been converted to illicit shantytowns, with untreated sewage often running off into the water.

AP Photo/NASA

This Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 photo released by

NASA shows crews test-ing a test version of Orion’s forward bay cover, NASA’s next-generation space cap-

sule. NASA and the Navy suspended the test Thurs-

day, Feb. 20, 2014 off the coast of San Diego after a problem was discovered.

NASA suspends space capsule recovery test in ocean


SAN DIEGO — A training exercise designed to showcase the government’s ability to recover a space capsule at sea was scrubbed after NASA ran into trouble off the Southern California coast, the space agency said Friday. Crews had difficulty tying down a mock-up of the Orion capsule aboard an amphibious warship off the shores of San Diego.

AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills

In this Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 photo, a young axolotl swims inside a plastic con-tainer at an experimental canal run by Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM) in the Xochimilco network of lakes and canals in Mexico City.

Mexico experts sight endangered ‘water monster’

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DENPASAR - The number of foreign visitors to Bali rose 20.06 percent to 279,671 in January 2014 from the same period in 2013. “Almost 95 percent of the foreign visitors are holiday makers,” tourism observer Dewa Nyoman Putra said on Monday, quoting figure from the Bali tourism office.

The remaining 5 percent were business visitors mostly operating in handcraft trade, and students and people making social visits.

Most visitors to Bali said they were interested in the natural beauty of Bali and Bali cultural arts, he said.

Previously, an academician AA Gede Putra Arjawa expressed his concern over

the increase of tourists to Bali because it will backfire to Bali. In order to benefited Bali, he suggested that tourism industry should give feed back to Balinese people. “The benefits will go to the investors and authorities. Bali has much contributed, why does it obtain a little portion? This condition causes the result of tourism cannot be evenly enjoyed by the people of Bali,” he said.

According to him, it was useless to get great nickname like Bali known as tourist destination of the world while the community was still poor. Properly, said Arjawa, aside from developing cultural tourism evenly in the region of Bali, the government was also expected to prepare human resources. Local government and the House as well as Balinese people in

the central government had also to fight in order to get bigger budget. “Do not let the money yielded in Bali be sucked by central authority. Clatter of the dollars should also be enjoyed equally by the people of Bali. Have a look at, most of the local workforce only fill in the position as cleaning service, waiter, waitress or a gardener at hotel. This occurs because the human resources have not been prepared by the government,” said the academician from Gianyar.

He urged the government to promote the cultural tourism to the regions by involv-ing local communities, such as the cultural tourism at Penglipuran village. “Do not focus on one region only. Many tourist attractions in Bali remain to need govern-ment attention,” he said. (ant/rah)

“We arrested one perpetrator,” Chief Se-nior Commissioner of Denpasar Police Djoko Hariutomo stated on Monday.

Djoko explained that the arrested perpetra-tor, with the initials MS, was a man who did not come from Bali. MS is believed to be the sole executor of Latourell’s murder.

Djoko declined to reveal further details about the identity of MS as the investigators are still on the lookout for the other perpetra-tor. The police suspect that the perpetrator committed the murder due to jealousy.

Latourell was suspected to be gay. The police believe that Latourell was murdered by a close friend.

Latourell, who is a known crafts entre-preneur and an activist of the HIV/AIDS management campaign, was found dead at his residence in Jalan Banteng, Denpasar, with 65 stab wounds on his body.

Previously, the investigators had ques-tioned three witnesses related to the Latourell murder case.

AntaraDENPASAR - The Consulate General of

Republic of Indonesia in Houston, Texas, U.S., will assist 28-year-old Ketut Pujayasa, accused in persecution and rape cases.

Head of Indonesian Worker’s Service, Placement and Protection (BP3TKI) Denpasar I Wayan Pageh, Consulate General in Houston had called Pujayasa’s public defender, Chantel Doakes, appointed by U.S. Government, and who had been provided by his employer com-pany Holland America Lines.

“The Indonesian Consulate in Houston will also visit Ketut Pujayasa at Broward County Prison on Monday, local time,” Pageh as-sured.

Pujayasa will attend his first trial on Tues-day (Feb. 25) at 10 a.m., local time at the US Federal Building and Courthouse in Fort Lau-derdale, Florida.

The Indonesian Consulate will also attend Pujaya’s trial and consult his legal options with his attorney.

Ketut Pujayasa, an employee with the MS Nieuw Amsterdam since 2012, had allegedly raped a 31-year-old U.S. woman, early Friday morning (Feb. 14) while the cruise ship was off the coast of Roatan, Honduras.

Pujayasa was arrested Sunday (Feb. 16) upon the cruise ship returning to Port Ever-glades in Florida.

Denpasar police arrest US citizen’s murder suspect

AntaraDENPASAR - The Denpasar Police

have arrested a perpetrator who is sus-pected to be involved in the murder of the 52-year-old American citizen, Paul Robb Latourell, from California.

This Tuesday, Ketut Pujayasa face the first trial

The number of foreign visitors to Bali rose

20.06 percent to 279,671 in

January 2014 from the same period in 2013.

More foreign tourists visiting BaliIBP/File Photo

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for January 1 through February 26, 2014

1 Jan Buda Kliwon Matal, Kajeng Kliwon And Tilem Sasih Kenam Pura Desa Sukawati SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Gelgel BebetinPura Maspahit SesetanPura Padharman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

11 Jan Tumpek Kandang Pura Desa GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

15 Jan Purnama Sasih Kapitu Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjauan BangliPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas UbudPura Benua BesakihPura Gunung Rena Sidemen KarangasemPura Pasek Gelgel Abadi KarangasemPura Pucak Gunung Mangun Kubu Karangasem

16 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 17 Jan Hari Bhatara Sri 21 Jan Anggara Kasih Prangbakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sidamala Bebalang BangliPura Gunung Pangsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Dalem Bitra GianyarPura Pura Hyang Haluh/Jenggala Besakih

Pura Tengkulak Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Penataran Badung

29 Jan Hari Siwaratri

30 Jan Tilem Sasih Kepitu Pura Buana Kawan BesakihPura Ulun Kulkul Besakih

31 Jan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

5 Feb Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Peninjauan Tem-buku BangliPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Bule-lengPura Kayangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Raung Taro Tegalalang

6 Feb Pura Dalem Puri Besakih

14 Feb Purnama Sasih Kawulu Pura Dalem Batur BangliPura Ida Ratu Pasek BesakihPura Dalem Suci Sidemen KarangasemPura Buana Kawan Besakih

15 Feb Tumpek Wayang & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan SesetanPura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarman Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarman Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pedarman Dinasti Dalem Besakih

Pura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura jala Sidhi amerta Juanda Surabaya

19 Feb Buda Cemeng Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran ped Nusa PenidaPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KelungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Kedonganan KutaPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Jati UbudPura Melanting UbudPura Dalem Peed Nusa PenidaPura Sad Kayangan Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Gunung Karangasem

21 Feb Hari Bhatara Sri 25 Feb Anggara Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPura Pasek Undagi Krambitan TabananPura Pucak Taman bedulu GianyarPura Puser Jagat Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Purwa Kawan BangliPura Desa Ketewel Gianyar

26 Feb Pura Agung Pasek gelgel Sibang Kaja Abian SemalPura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

Set within the most happening area of Melawai, the hotel is situated just around the corner from the main street, Jl. Melawai 4, which has long been a hit with younger city dwell-ers. The hotel sits in the very heart of Block M inside Block M Square, Jakarta’s famous Japanese enclave known as “Little Tokyo” that teams with an excellent range of shop-ping options and thriving nightlife. Shopaholics can also enjoy the larger and more exclusive shopping outlets at the nearby Pasaraya Grande.

The hotel will feature 101 styl-ish guest rooms complete with complimentary high-speed WiFi throughout the entire hotel. The rooms are modern, functional and super clean offering cutting-edge LED TVs, security key card systems,

air conditioning, in-room safes and top of the line Serta beds with high knot count cotton linens.

In line with the signature fave-hotel experience, favehotel Mela-wai Jakarta continues the brand’s reputation for first-class facilities in an affordable hotel. Renowned as Indonesia’s Best Budget Hotel Chain having won multiple awards and accolades, favehotel Melawai Jakarta will feature typical fave-hotel amenities such as stylish function rooms, an innovative res-taurant and complimentary high-speed WiFi. Business travelers can also make use of the 3 modern meeting rooms and ample parking space, while the all day café-shop is a quite spot for light bites and casual coffee breaks. IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

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JAKArTA – Favehotel Melawai Jakarta is the latest addi-

tion to the ever-growing hotel brand. Surrounded by several shopping malls, government offices and wining and dining destinations, the hotel is set to become a comfortable and convenient base for savvy travelers.

BEING unable to raise her toddler, a mother entrusted her son to Sayangi Bali Foundation. It was described by Chairman of the Sayangi Bali Founda-tion, Dewa Wirata, Sunday (Feb 23). The baby boy named Angga is now a week old and has been treated by the Sayangi Bali Foundation since he was born.

So far, the Sayangi Bali Foundation cares for five toddlers who have almost the same fate namely being unwanted or abandoned by their parents with the rea-son of the incapability of raising them. All the toddlers are Desy (9 months), Tegar (8 months), Putri (2 weeks), Lia (1.5 weeks) and Angga (1 week).

The Sayangi Bali Foundation itself was established as there was no nurs-ing house for the abandoned toddlers in Bali. Formerly, the abandoned tod-dlers were treated in Sanglah Hospital until they were adopted. Considering hospital is not a good place for the growth and development of children, the foundation is then established.

Due to still relying on self-funding and dependent on donations of others, according to Wirata, the foundation rea-sonably had difficulty in meeting the ex-penses, especially for the caregivers. “To care for the five toddlers, we surely need five caregivers on duty for 24 hours,” said Wirata. Salary of the caregivers was admitted to reach IDR 8 million per month. Coupled with the needs of the toddlers such as diapers, milk and baby food, the total expenses per month reached more than IDR 8 million.

To meet the expenses, Wirata added that his party raised funds through BBM and Facebook. “Thankfully, there are al-ways people lending a hand,” he said.

He admitted the foundation got the assistance from Social Agency once. “We have got donation from Central So-cial Agency valued at IDR 14 million,” he said. He expected the government agencies could pay more attention to the needs of those children.

According to Wirata the five toddlers were currently in the care of the founda-tion while waiting for adoption process. “They are waiting for the process of the PIPA team,” he said. (san)

According to him, such con-dition had already routinely occurred each year because so far the climbing activity had been very much influenced by weather condition. Such condi-tion would be back to normal when the weather began to be getting better as well as the arrival of the holiday season.

Alit added the climbing activi-ties would be busy in July and August. Even, at the moment the climbing activity could reach 50 groups per day.

All this time, most travelers doing the climbing were for-eigners from various countries such as Europe and America. However, lately the climbing

activities were also much in de-mand by travelers from Russia and Asia. “Today, many Russian and Asian travelers also favor this activity,” he added.

Alit said the mountain climb-ing activity on the altitude of 1,717 meters normally took him two hours. Along with the tour guide, the climbing would start

at four o’clock in the morning. Along the way, travelers would pass through rocky and sandy terrain. When feeling tired, travelers could take a rest for a moment while enjoying cof-fee or tea in some small shops there. Fatigue of the travelers would relieve after reaching the peak of the mountain. There, travelers would be presented with amazing scenery, green expanse of Lake Batur and the hills at the surrounding area. Besides, travelers could also see beautiful sunrise in the morning and returned to go down about eight to nine o’clock in the morning. (ina)

Sayangi Bali Foundation A place for abandoned toddler finding love

Rainy season

Climbing activities on Mt. Batur diminishBali Post

BANGLI - Rainy season in fact does not only have an impact on the decline in tourist arrivals to Trunyan attraction, but also on the climbing activities on Mt. Batur. Climb-ing activities on Mt. Batur having become one of the most favorite tourist attractions for those with traveling hobby declined nearly 40 percent. “Climbing activity is deserted in the current rainy season, where it maximally reaches 15 to 20 groups per day, while in sunny weather typically achieves 30-50 groups,” said Chairman of the Association of the Mount Batur Climbing Tour Guides (P3GB), Nyoman Alit Adiana, Saturday (Feb 22).

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The beautiful view of Mount Batur


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animated film bested Relativity Me-dia’s “3 Days to Kill” and Sony’s “Pom-peii” on their opening weekends. “The Lego Movie,” featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks and Morgan Freeman, earned $31.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The domestic total has passed $183 million. Overseas, it grossed $23.1 million this weekend.

Heading into full-fledged franchise territory with a sequel set to release in May 2017, “The Lego Movie” is the highest grossing film of 2014. “It’s been really tough for any of the newcomers to displace ‘Lego,’ “ said Paul Dergarabedi-an, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. “They had such a great release date that put them in this perfect position to dominate the marketplace for several weeks. For ‘Lego’ to earn $31

million in its third weekend, that would be impressive in its first weekend for any film in the first quarter.”

Relativity Media’s crime drama “3 Days to Kill,” starring Kevin Costner and Amber Heard, came in second with $12.3 million in its first weekend at the multiplex.

“Pompeii,” Sony’s boiling gladiator drama starring “Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington, took the third-place slot with $10 million. There was a fairly even gender split for the Constantin-financed film, with the audience breaking down as 52 percent male and 48 percent female. The film’s slot in the top five was steered mostly by viewers under 30.

“Pompeii got savaged by critics,” Dergarabedian said. “ ‘3 Days to Kill’ wasn’t loved by critics either, so you

had two films that didn’t have a shot at taking ‘Lego’ out. But these movies did about what we would expect.”

In its second weekend, the Sony and MGM reboot “RoboCop” dropped from third to fourth with $9.4 million. Starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton, the modernized science-fiction film (the 1987 original starred Peter Weller as a cop who gains a new robotic body) is down 57 percent from last weekend’s domestic opener. For the second weekend in a row, the action film performed better overseas with $17.7 million.

“The time of year that we’re in, the movies just aren’t the critics’ darlings,” Dergarabedian said. “These films give people options. But they won’t necessarily set the world on fire at the box office.”


LOS ANGELES — CNN says the prime-time talk show “Piers Morgan Live” is coming to an end. Morgan suc-ceeded Larry King in the 0200 GMT time slot three years ago, but his show has had lackluster ratings. CNN said Sunday that the show’s final airdate has yet to be determined.

Morgan is a former British tabloid editor who turned to television, including stints as a judge on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and a contestant on “Celebrity Ap-prentice.” He hosted BBC’s “You Can’t Fire Me, I’m Famous” and did interview shows and documentaries for ITV.

Morgan told The New York Times that he and CNN President Jeff Zucker were discussing a new role for him at the chan-nel. CNN’s audience has tired of hearing a Brit weigh in American cultural issues, Morgan said in a story posted online Sun-day. CNN did not comment on Morgan’s future with the channel.

Morgan served as editor of The Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004. He has been

questioned in connection with Britain’s long-running phone hacking scandal, which has led to numerous arrests, resignations and the closure of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid.

Earlier this month, Morgan confirmed

that he was interviewed in December by British police investigating the illegal interception of telephone voicemails. Morgan, who said he had given a previ-ous witness statement, has consistently denied wrongdoing.

‘Lego Movie’ lead builds,

No. 1 for third weekend

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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows characters, from left, Benny, voiced by Charlie Day, Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, Vitruvius, voiced by Morgan Freeman, Wyldstyle, voiced by Elizabeth Banks and Unikitty, voiced by Alison Brie, in a scene from “The Lego Movie.”


LOS ANGELES — Action-packed new releases couldn’t stack up to 3D hit “The Lego Movie,” which took the No. 1 slot in its third weekend at the box office. The Warner Bros.

CNN says Piers Morgan’s talk show is ending

“Indonesian cuisine can become a host at home. I myself have made nearly 98 percent of the Indonesian food menus, especially Balinese food. I want the commitment of chef, employers and the govern-ment. For instance, in issuing business permit, it should be de-termined the rules arranging what percentage of the local cuisine, especially Balinese cuisine, must

be served,” said the ICA President, Henry Alexie Bloem, in Denpasar recently.

He appreciated the efforts of the Indonesian Hotels and Restau-rants Association (PHRI) that had included the Indonesian cuisine in the requirements for hotel classifi-cation. This effort would help pro-mote the Indonesian cuisines in the eyes of international community, so

that it could be sustainable.“I’ve got information that

conferment of hotel star classifi-cation will require the menu com-positions with the inclusion of Indonesian or Balinese cuisines. Suppose that everything can work as expected, the government, employers and chef will also be able to accelerate the promotion and preservation of traditional cuisines,” he said.

Even, he said the government could impose sanctions on hote-liers who did not serve Indonesian cuisines. “I absolutely agree to the imposition of sanction because the rewards and punishment should be applied. I agree with that,” he

said.He said the concept of com-

bining Balinese cuisine with Western style such as (steamed) chicken betutu with distinctive culinary style of Mexico as cur-rently presented by many chefs could become one of the ways to promote the Indonesian cuisines. For example, the somewhat similar cuisines to that of Indonesia were the Vietnamese and Thai cuisines. Bali as a tourist destination visited by many travelers should adjust them without forgetting the local peculiarities.

“Well, the distinctiveness of Bali remains to exist, but we try to adjust the tastes of Westerner. For

instance, we include the Western style or flavor, so it has a foreign flavor without leaving our culture,” he said.

Chairman of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs (HIPMI) of Denpasar, Putu Yuliartha, on the occasion said that all this time many Balinese cuisines had not featured specific peculiarities. “Well, this combination will make Bali a special culinary destination. Food is inseparable when we are talking about hotel or restaurant. Lately, we have observed that traditional cuisines have widely flourished and people have chosen cuisine as tour-ist attraction,” said Yuliartha.

ICA demands government to preserve Balinese cuisines

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DENPASAR - The Indonesian Chef Association (ICA) re-quires the commitment of government and employers in pre-serving the Indonesian cuisines, especially Balinese cuisines. All this time, the involvement of both agencies is still considered minimal to preserve the local cuisines.

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People ate their Balinese traditional dinner and enjoying ambiance atmosphere of Bali Island.

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