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Bali NinesentencesexplainedJAKARTA.- The Indon-esian Supreme Courthas handed down itsreasons for upholdingthe death sentencesagainst Bali Nine organ-isers Andrew Chan andMyuran Sukumaran,saying none of theirlegal objections couldbe justified.

It has also ordered thetwo pay the costs of theSupreme Court appeal -equivalent to 35¢.

Chan and Sukumaranare among six Aus-tralian members of theBali Nine on death rowin Bali’s Kerobokan pr-ison after they werecaught trying to traffickmore than 8kg of heroinfrom Bali to Australia.

Their Supreme Courtappeals against theirdeath sentences wererejected in September.

The two men listedfive legal challenges totheir death sentences,including it was againstthe Indonesian consti-tution and excessive.

But the SupremeCourt disagreed.

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Wreckagesignal onNavy radarTHE Royal AustralianNavy believes it has pic-ked up a signal from thewreckage of the BlackHawk helicopter whichcrashed into the sea offFiji late last month, kill-ing two.

HMAS Melville hasdetected transmissionsfrom the locator beaconbelieved to be from thehelicopter, the Navysaid.

The Melville arrivedin the area early yester-day morning and, usinga Towed Pinger Locat-ing Drone supplied bythe United States Navy,detected the beaconduring its first pass overthe crash site.

‘‘It is important tounderstand that wehave simply detectedthe transmission fromthe beacon. It will take anumber of days to nowlocalise the beacon’sposition,’’ said theNavy’s Maritime Com-mander, Rear AdmiralDavyd Thomas.

‘‘We are unsure of thestate of the aircraft.’’

Wollongong firm hasgrand-scale designs

Grand view: An artist’s impression of the lobby of a planned 40-storey building in Dubai designed by BHI Architects.

Spreading its wings: BHI is making inroads into Asia and the Middle East.

Impression: The Dubai building.

By GREG ELLIS

A WOLLONGONG architecture com-pany is taking the world by storm,securing multimillion-dollar develop-ments in China and the Middle East.

Earlier this year in China, BHI Archi-tects designed a university, transportinterchange and a huge tourist develop-ment. BHI is now making similar in-roads into the Middle East and such isthe demand that the company is nowopening an office in Dubai.

The Wollongong team recently com-pleted concept designs for a $100 mil-lion 40-storey office tower and twoeight-storey mixed use commercialbuildings each worth $35 million.

BHI is also involved in other projectsin Jordan and the creation of newdevelopment control guidelines for theJordanian Government and was re-cently invited to take part in a majortourism, shopping and residential de-velopment in Oman.

It includes two residential buildings,250 houses and a large shopping centre.

Director Robert Gizzi has taken res-ponsibility for the Middle East marketwhile Mark Hitchcock continues toconcentrate on China, where the con-struction of a Mag Lev high speed train

service is opening up opportunities forIllawarra companies in the world’sfastest growing economy.

In China, strong relationships devel-oped by Wollongong civic and businessleaders helped put BHI, Perform Devel-opments and Wideform in a primeposition to secure high profile projects.

The Illawarra businesses are nowinvolved in Chinese projects worthmore than $3 billion. Mr Gizzi said BHIwas happy to work with other Illawarracompanies in the Middle East as well ifany such opportunities arose.

Director Mark Hitchcock said thecompany has made exploratory visits toPakistan and India.

‘‘But our core business is in theIllawarra, which still is our bread andbutter. But this is just something thatadds diversity and gives us more experi-ence to tackle any job,’’ he said.

Mr Gizzi said he expected the doors tosoon open on much larger projects inDubai, where everything tended to bebuilt on a fairly grand scale.

Mr Gizzi also expected the largeMiddle Eastern projects to have majorspin-offs in Australia.

‘‘This will give the community confi-dence that we can do projects of thiscapacity all over Australia,’’ he said.