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Associated Press Writer

CARACAS, Venezuela — A U.S. filmmaker jailed for alleged espionage in Venezuela was expelled from the country and returned to the United States in a gesture that could signal a thaw in tense relations between the two countries.

The release of Timothy Tracy, 35, occurred just hours before the top dip-lomats of both countries agreed during a meeting in Guatemala to discuss restor-ing ambassador-level relations.

It was secured with the help of former U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, who has long worked to improve often strained U.S.-Venezuelan ties and was hired by Tracy’s family as an attorney in the case.

“He’s been informally advising us since pretty much the onset and we re-tained him last week,” Tracy’s sister, Tif-fany Klaasen, said of Delahunt, a mem-ber of the U.S. delegation at the March funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Both she and Delahunt also credited the U.S. State Department.

The U.S. government and friends had ridiculed the idea that Tracy was spying in Venezuela. His family said he had been making a documentary about the human costs of Venezuela’s deeply polarized society.

Following the early morning expulsion, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Gua-temala and agreed, said Kerry, to “begin to change the dialogue between our countries and hopefully quickly move” to appoint ambassadors, which they have lacked in each other’s capitals since 2010.

Delahunt acknowledged the coinci-dence of Tracy’s release but said “no conditions” were set by Kerry for the meeting with Jaua. He said he had inter-vened on Tracy’s behalf with officials in

Venezuela, who he said did not include President Nicolas Maduro, but “I want to keep those discussions private.”

“On both sides there is a desire to have an improvement in the relationship based upon respect, and that’s what’s important,” Delahunt said.

He suggested it might help that Kerry, then a Massachusetts senator, met Ma-duro a decade ago when Delahunt took a delegation of Venezuelans including Maduro on a trip to his district in Cape Cod, Massachussetts.

The trip was part of efforts by the “Grupo de Boston” in 2002-2003 to salve internal tensions in the socialist-run South American country after a failed coup against Chavez that was initially recognized by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.

Tracy’s expulsion was initially tweeted by Venezuela’s interior minister, Miguel Rodriguez, who described Tracy as hav-ing been “captured doing espionage in our country.” He had previously accused Tracy of funding opposition student groups.

Attorney General Luisa Ortega said in a statement Wednesday that she had asked for the case against Tracy on charges including conspiracy and criminal associa-tion to be shelved, even though “there were elements that could incriminate him.”

Family and friends say the Hollywood producer and small-time actor had been in the country since October making a documentary about Venezuelan politics when he was arrested on April 24 at Caracas’ airport as he tried to leave the country to attend his father’s 80th birth-day in suburban Detroit.

The show will be the first fictional TV outing for the Indian superstar, who has already hosted the hugely successful “Kaun Banega Crorepati,” India’s version of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.”

“I just felt that this could be yet an-other step” to connect with audiences “almost immediately,” the 70-year-old

told reporters. The new show will be directed by popular Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap.

Bachchan has starred in near-ly 200 films in a career that has spanned more than four decades. His latest movie was a brief role in the Baz Luhrmann-directed “The Great Gatsby.”

Indian star Amitabh Bachchan to act in TV series

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan gestures speaks during a press conference in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, June 5, 2013.

Associated Press Writer

NEW DELHI — Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan says he’ll make his television acting debut in a new series this year. Bachchan announced the new and yet untitled show to reporters in Mumbai on Wednesday. The series, to be aired on the Sony Television channel, will focus on social issues.

AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool

Venezuela frees US filmmaker jailed as alleged spy

AP Photo/Alistair Fuller, File

FILE - A Friday, May 10, 2002 file photo showing Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy and author of the book “Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within” photographed at his home in London.

China frustration with NKorea offers hope for US

Soldier pleads guilty to murdering 16 Afghan civilians

Neymar wants to ‘make history’ with Barcelona

Riot police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators who threw stones at them and chanted anti-Erdogan slogans in the heart of the capital Ankara on Wednes-day night, witnesses said. In the eastern province of Tunceli, several hundred protesters set up a street barricade and threw stones at po-lice who responded by firing water cannon. Istanbul, which has seen

some of the heaviest clashes, was quiet overnight.

What began as a campaign against the redevelopment of a leafy Istanbul park has surged into an unprecedented show of defiance against the perceived authoritarian-ism of Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party. Police backed by armoured vehicles have fired tear gas and water cannon on stone-

throwing protesters night after night, while thousands have massed peacefully in recent days on Taksim Square, where the demonstrations first began.

The straight-talking prime min-ister left on Monday in a defiant mood, dismissing the protesters as looters and vowing the unrest would be over in a matter of days, comments that his critics said fur-

ther inflamed tensions. AK Party Deputy Chairman Huseyin Celik called on party members not to go to the airport to greet Erdogan on his return to avoid stirring trouble. Erdogan was expected to hold a news conference with his Tunisian counterpart before returning.

“Nobody should take it upon themselves to go and greet the prime minister in this situation. The prime minister does not need a show of strength,” Celik said in a television interview.In Taksim Square, protesters remained defi-ant. “We have the momentum, with people like me going to work every day and coming back to attend the protests,” said Cetin, a 29-year-old

civil engineer who declined to give his surname because he works for a company close to the government.

“We should keep coming here to protest until we really feel we’ve achieved something,” he said, one of thousands gathered on Taksim Square until late into the night.

“EVERYWHERE IS TAKSIM”Deputy Prime Minister Bulent

Arinc, formally in charge while Erdogan is away, has struck a more conciliatory tone, apologising for the initial police crackdown on peaceful campaigners in Taksim’s Gezi Park and meeting a delegation of protest-ers in his office in Ankara.

REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

An anti-government pro-tester looks at Istanbul’s

Taksim square June 5, 2013. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan returns on Thurs-

day to a nation racked by protests against his leader-ship, in what could prove a pivotal moment in Turkey’s

worst political unrest for decades.

Turkey’s Erdogan set to return to nation rattled by protest

Reuters

ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Turkish police clashed with demonstrators overnight ahead of the return of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to a nation rattled by a week of protest against his leadership. Erdogan returns from a visit to North Africa to face demands he apologise over a fierce police crackdown and sack those who ordered it, following six days of protests that have left two dead and more than 4,000 injured in a dozen cities.

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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.

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Calendar Event for May 1 through June 19, 2013

1 May Buda Kliwon PahangPura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Desa Bangli BaturitiPura Silayukti Padang Bai KarangasemPura Aer Jeruk SukawatiPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran - Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel SukawatiPura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati GianyarPura Kresek Banyuning BulelengPura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Khayangan Batu Medahu Desa Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari BebandemKarangasemPura pasek Bendesa Tagtag PeguyanganPure Pulesari - Bantas Kelod Desa Sibang Gede AbiansemalPura Batur Sari UbudPura Penataran Agung SukawatiPura Panti - Kucupin Ketewel Ketewel6 May Kajeng Kliwon UwudanPura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Dlod Yeh MengwiMerajan Pasek Subadra Kramas Gianyar

9 May Tilem Sasih JiyesthaPura Bujangga Waisnawa Gumbrih JembranaPura Dalem Desa celuk

11May Tumpek KlurutPura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Desa Jelantik TojanKlungkungPura Pedarman bujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Desa Gunung Sari PenebeltabananPura Dalem Tarukan - Bebalang BangliPura Benua Kangin BesakihPura Merajan Kangin (Ida Betara Empu Baradah) Besakih

12 May r edite Umanis MerakihPura Parangan Tengah Ceningan Kangin Lem-bongan Nusa PenidaPura Desa Ubud

15 May Buda Wage MerakihPura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Banjar Kalah BatubulanPura Desa lan Puseh Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem Petitenget Kerobokan KutaPura Dalem Pulasari Samplangan GianyarPura Kubayan - Kepisah Pedungan DenpasarSelatanPura Pasek Gelgel - Tanah Pegat TabananPura Paibon lan Pura Bengkel Sumerta Den-pasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPura Panti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding Tam-pak SiringPura Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken KabaKabaPura Dadia Buda Cemeng Pulasari BatuanSukawati

21 May Anggar Kasih TambirPura Dalem Puri Batuan SukawatiPura Dalem kediri Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem SukawatiPura Dalem Lembeng Ketewel SukawatiPura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan UbudPura Puseh Ngukuhin Kramas GianyarPura Pamerajan Agung Ki Telabah TuakilangTabananPura Karang Buncing BlahbatuhPura Dalem Bubunan Seririt BulelengPura Desa Badung Kota DenpasarPura Luhur Pedenganan Bedha Bongan Ta-bananPura Pucak Payogan - Lungsiakan Kedewatan Ubud GianyarPura Tanah Kilap “Griya Anyar” Suwung KauhDenpasar Selatan

Pura Selukat Keramas Blahbatuh GianyarPura Dalem Tampuagan Peninjoan TembukuBangliPura Waturenggong Desa TaroPura Dalem Bentuyung Desa UbudPura Puseh UbudPura Dalem Puri Peliatan UbudPura Batur Hyang Bulan Muntig Karangasem

22 May Buda Umanis TambirPura Sari Banjar Titih KapalPura Gulamanikan Bendesa Manik Mas Serongga Gianyar

24 May Purnama Sasih SadhaPura Amrta Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Maospahit Banjar Grenceng Denpasar

5 Jun Buda Kliwon MatalPura Puseh lan Desa SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Bebetin Sawan BulelengPura Maspahit Sesetan Denpasar SelatanPura Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran TegallalangPura Panti Pasek Gaduh SesetanPura Pedharaman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

15 JunPura Puseh lan Desa Kota GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal (TARO) Tegallalang

19 Jun Buda Cemeng MenailPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Suka-watiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng KajaGianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan BangliPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Baler Pura Sada Pemebetan Kapal MengwiPemerajan Agung UbudPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas Ubud

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Traditional Games- A Hidden Treasure of Children HeritageToday, children have unlimited choices of games. They have been pampered by modern games, ranging from Turtle Ninja, Kung Fu, war games and many more. These can make them stay for hours in front of television or computer. Yet, behind this ease and enjoyment, they lose some values like creativity and do not know they have traditional games. It is said so because there is a trend where children, both in urban and rural areas, begin to leave their traditional games.

Many game options have been avail-able in the form of CD, DVD, Internet and cartoon in television. Just by CD rental or buying the cheapest one and sitting down sweetly, they could enjoy the games they like best. If the games contain competition, they will compete against machine or some times against friends. Without realized, this may result in sight disorder where children should gaze the monitor and finally require thick glasses at earlier age. Advancement is not always bad. However, parents should control them to what extent those games could drive good impact. Before the pres-ence of these modern games, there were many traditional games. They are no less interesting than the modern ones. Many children even find it attractive and make them creative. During an art parade of Bali Arts Festival it was shown the treasure of traditional games.

This event just like a kaleidoscope highlighting a variety of traditional games that ever existed within the life of Balinese children. To play one of the games, chil-dren should first search for its materials by themselves at backyard or garden. Actually, it is here where the challenge of the games begins. Sometimes, they got injury because they are unable to use a knife properly. It did not matter as intriguing power has superseded it.

Among the parade, there was a space intended for children world where they displayed some bizarre games like coconut shell clog, walking on stilts, pulling friend by the sheath of areca nut, pulling rope in-group and two-wheeled toy where its stick carried on shoulder. Meanwhile, the

heavier one was gallivanting show by bar-ong effigy. To play the coconut shell clog, for instance, they should keep their balance well. Standing on the tips of coconut shell is not easy. Moreover, they have to maintain the harmony of steps with the pulling of rope connected to each coconut shell.

When the pull and steps can go harmoni-ously, the player can walk faster. Balance is also entailed in walking on stilts or tajog or egrang. This game is even riskier because the position of pedal is higher from the ground. However, when a player can oper-ate these stilts properly it is more challeng-ing and pleasant. The higher the pedal the more challenging it is. Walking on stilts looks like a walking long-legged heron. It would be more interesting when passing through a muddy or knee-deep watery road. These games are often put into competition related to traditional sports.

Another game requiring cooperation is pulling the sheath of areca nut. If the bean of areca nut is used by grandfathers or grandmothers for ingredient of chew-ing betel, the sheath of it is used by their grandchildren to make ‘a pulling vehicle’. Yellow leaf signifies it has been mature. It is time for children to take it. They just need to leave out the ribs of leaf. The main rib is not cut as it will be used to pull. One child serves as passenger while another as driver who pulls the sheath. This role is exchanged so both can have an opportunity to enjoy the ‘comfort’ of this vehicle game.

Children also put an interest in dancing barong gallivanting show. For them, it has been designed a smaller-sized barong. Therefore, before growing adult they have been introduced to art world of adult people. By performing gallivanting show like this, they will obtain experience and earn money. However, the emphasis here is not on the money, but on the experience and fun. Actually, there are more traditional games that once lived in midst of Balinese community. Maybe, having watched or played modern games they could combine with the traditional ones they have. At least, the traditional can become an alternative, as all raw materials have been available at their surroundings.

Such obscurity encouraged tens of Badung civil servant candidates to report the case to Ombudsman Office at Jalan Diponegoro 182 Denpasar, Tuesday (Jun 4), that they had not received the decree of appointment and identity number (NIP). The arrival of tens of employees was di-rectly received by the Ombudsman Chief Representative of Bali Umar Ibn Alkhatab, Supervisory Assistant Duha F. Mubarok and Prevention Division Assistant Ni Nyo-man Sri Widianti.

After receiving the complainant, Sri Widianti said the report submitted to the Ombudsman Office actually consisted of two versions. Firstly, there was a civil servant asking about the filing process to Regional Civil Service Agency (BKD). The Agency stated that all the filing processes had been completed and submitted to the Regional Civil Service Agency (BKD). However, when the civil servant candidates came to question about their fate, the of-ficial of National Civil Service Agency said the filing process was still awaiting the completion of legal case at Bali Police. “According to the complainant, the Na-tional Civil Service Agency stated that the filing process was still awaiting the legal case as being investigated by Bali Police. Except, there is a letter stating that the second announcement is indeed declaring it valid and unlawful,” she said.

The report of second version, added Sri Widianti, was delivered by civil servant of teacher formation. When they came to the National Civil Service Agency, it stated if the filing was still under process. “So, based on information of the complainants, we got two different explanations from the National Civil Service Agency. To that end, we’d like to trace them,” she said.

Related to the delayed filing of the civil servant, she added the information obtained by the Ombudsman mentioned the delay was caused by the presence of a letter from the Badung House where the process should be delayed until there was clarity on the detention process. “We have received the reports of both versions and will explore them what really happens. Apparently, the

case of civil servant candidate will come into the volume 2 because the case in the volume 1 has been completed where the Badung government finally announced the results of civil servant candidate for the second time,” she said.

Her party regretted because there was no clarity about the appointment of civil servant declared to have passed because they had not been working for six months. “After the passing announcement, the civil servant candidates have got the impact where their working contract was termi-nated by the company where they previ-ously worked,” she added.

The Ombudsman promised to follow up the report of the civil servant candidates by scheduling a summons to relevant agencies in order to obtain clarification on the issue. “We will summon the relevant agencies, especially National Civil Service Agency and Regional Civil Service Agency in order that everything will be clear,” she said.

Meanwhile, one of the Badung civil servants that also reported the case last Tuesday told if the he and his colleagues were declared to have passed the selection test last December. However, until now the filling was still uncertain and also made them anxious. “Other than me, about 170 other civil servant candidates having passed in 2012 also faced the same fate. We do hope to get clarity,” he explained while asking not to publish his name for fear of being intimidated.

Information compiled in the field mentioned those having not received the appointment decree of civil servant candi-dates included the formation of elementary school teacher (73 people), nurse (25), engineering (2), ICT teacher (8), tourism teacher (2), agribusiness (1), doctor (8), veterinarian (2), undergraduate nurse (2), midwife (14), product quality examiner (2), technical supervisor of road and bridge (2), motor vehicle examiner (2), industrial relations mediator (2) and counselor to ef-fective technology (2). So far, the National Civil Service Agency and the Badung Civil Service Agency could not be asked for their confirmation. (kmb29)

Dozens of Badung civil servant candidates report to Ombudsman

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Apparently the problems of civil servant candidate (CPNS) in Badung is like

tangled threads and completely unresolved. After the announcement of recruit-ment case, another new case on the civil servant candidates emerged. The can-didates passing in the recruitment in 2012 admitted to be restless because their fate was uncertain. Though having been declared to have passed six months ago, they had not got the appointment decree of civil servant from the National Civil Service Agency (BKN).

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Enjoy the uniqueness of Nusa Lembongan-Like the water flows, myriad of foreign tourists throng the island of Nusa Lem bongan. So, it is not mistaken if this bijou island becomes one of the most popular marine tourist attractions. Every day, they come to the tiny island located in the Klungkung Regency. Even, during peak season the number of tourists coming can reach 1,500 people.

Sweetness of honey belongs to Nusa Lembon-gan makes a number of cruise companies selling holiday package over there. One of them is Bounty Cruise based at Benoa Harbor. In the morning at around 9:30 am Local Time, Bounty Cruise has started its voyage to Nusa Lembongan. Passengers are just like a king because they are served by the crews amicably. Like the facility on a luxury cruise, breakfast is available aboard.

The voyage from Benoa to Nusa Lembongan Island takes approximately one hour by speed at 20-25 knots or 45 kilometers per hour. During the voyage, we get to enjoy some entertainment, ranging from watching films to sing along on the boat deck. Songs played by the bands are adjusted to the tourist market. On Monday, for example, is specifically serving tourists from China, so the song played is a Mandarin song.

Nusa Lembongan is a small island of calcare-ous land. The life of local people seems to give

isolated impression considering there has no adequate transportation service. A number of villas and hotels have been established on steep hills and the beach. Even, on the narrow road-side measuring 2.5 meters has already existed a number of art shops and Internet cafes.

To go to a number of objects on the island, we use tarpaulin-roofed pickups. After driving about five miles, we arrive at the center of seaweed vil-lage. At this place, we will find farmers who are cleaning the seaweed and also process it.

An attractive place to visit here is the unique underground house located in the cave known as Gala-Gala house. To enter this house, we have to go down the stairs, because this house is located 10 meters under ground of limestone. The height of the cave varies from about 1 to 1.75 meters. Sometimes, we have to duck and crouch to reach the existing rooms.

Gala-Gala house was made in 1961 until 1976 by a village resident named Made Byasa who worked as a puppeteer. Such a unique work of Byasa was inspired by the life story of the Pandavas during their living in the forest. For 17 years Byasa had worked day and night to realize such monumental work. Since the age of 75 years, his old body kept on digging and when he was 93 years old he stopped, then he died at the age of 96 years.

In the coordination meeting of Commission I of the Bali House with the Bali Office of the National Union and Politics (Kesbangpol) on Tuesday (Jun 4), the Office Head, Gede Putu Jaya Suartana, explained the ranks of the Indonesian Army in Bali ranging from the Military Regional Command to Military Resort Command proposed to get fund for the security of the Bali gubernatorial election. The fund would be used for security expenses up to the inauguration of the elected governor and deputy governor. “Proposal of the security fund came from the Military Regional Command and Military Resort Command. Originally, it was proposed at IDR 7 billion more for the operation and consumption. However, after we examined and reported, the re-gional budget capability is just limited to IDR 3 billion,” explained Jaya.

According to him, the security fund of the Bali gubernatorial election exclusively devoted to the Indonesian Army was not yet budgeted. It was only budgeted for police institution. “Indeed, the fund (for the Indonesian Army—Ed) has not been budgeted. Probably, the budgetary team has not been thinking of that far ahead and may only consider security fund for the police,” he said. Further, he said the security of Bali after the gubernatorial election until the inauguration of the elected governor and deputy governor was an important aspect that should be maintained by all the parties involved, including the Indonesian Army. “We support the Indonesian Army to secure Bali. Similarly, we will find the rules for the disburse-ment of fund so that it will not in-fringe the rules or can be taken from the unexpected fund,” he said.

Will Bali government bail out the security fund while waiting for the disbursement of fund from the regional budget as proposed to Bali House? Answering this question, Jaya said that it should be further considered since the fund was needed immediately. “Hopefully, there will be clarity soon where the fund will be taken from,”

he said.The Division Head of Domestic

Politics, Bali Office of the National Union and Politics, Dewa Putu Man-tera, added that proposal on the secu-rity fund of Bali gubernatorial election for the Indonesian Army worth IDR 3 billion would be allocated for con-sumption cost of the serving military personnel. Such meal allowance would be replaced with pocket money valued at IDR 20,000 for each person per day.

Meanwhile, a member of Com-mission I of the Bali House, Wayan Gunawan, said the security fund was indeed necessary to be approved and disbursed immediately. However, he welcomed the existing prudential principles made by the House regard-ing the budget approval. It should indeed be undertaken pursuant to the existing mechanism and regulation. According to him, mechanism of the regulation allowed the taking from the unexpected fund. However, it needed to be assessed and consulted further. “We do not reject it, we even support the security of Bali. But, we note a few things regarding the laws needing to be consulted and assessed,” said Chairman of the Golkar Faction in the Bali House.

In principle, pursuant to decision of the leadership meeting on Monday (Jun 3), the House agreed to the secu-rity fund allocated for the Indonesian Army. However, it was still assessed from which source it would be taken from and needed consulting to the Ministry of Home Affairs. “We are still assessing the proposal of the executive. If they wanted to take the security fund from the unexpected fund, it must be coordinated first with the Minister of Home Affairs. In principle, we do not reject it, but there must be precautionary prin-ciple so that the disbursement of the fund will not be problematic or even becomes the finding of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). If it happens, all the parties getting involved will reap the impact,” he said. (wid)

As for security fund of Bali gubernatorial election

Bali House soon coordinates to the Ministry of Home Affairs

BALI House seemed to have agreed to the proposal of Governor of Bali asking the additional funds given to the Indonesian Army (TNI) in charge of securing the Bali gubernatorial election until the inauguration of the elected governor and deputy governor. However, the House was still looking for a legal rule in order to accommodate the proposal in appropriate with the existing mechanism and regulation. Even, the elements of the House leadership and Chairman of Commission I of the Bali House in the near future would consult the Ministry of Home Affairs in order to find out the solution whether the fund could be disbursed from the unexpected fund as proposed by the Governor of Bali or taken from the other budget source.

IBP/FILE

Nusa Lembongan

Enjoy the uniqueness of Nusa Lembongan

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Talk about your random testing. Lindsey Vonn took an unexpected detour during her evening at an awards show — off the red carpet and into the women’s bathroom for drug testing.

The star skier was at the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards at Lincoln Center on Monday night when testers from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency escorted her to the restroom to collect a urine sample. The sample was sent to a lab and results weren’t immediately available.

USADA and Vonn’s spokesman confirmed Monday’s test. Olympic athletes are subject to random testing and required to fill out forms notifying USADA of their whereabouts at all times.

Vonn’s spokesman, Lewis Kay, says the test wasn’t a big deal to the skier, who wore a deep V-neck white gown by Cynthia Rowley, the designer who accompanied Vonn to the event.

“She understands it is part of the job,” Kay told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday.

The CFDA awards are considered the fashion industry’s Oscars. Others attending the black-tie affair included Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jessica Chastain and Ralph Lauren.

CFDA organizers, who leave no stone unturned in the planning of their awards show, said they were unaware that Vonn had been tested.

USADA said Vonn has participated in its out-of-competition testing pool for more than 12 years. The testing program requires athletes to make themselves available for tests at any time, regardless of loca-tion.

“We appreciate her professionalism and for accommodating this process, which at times can be inconvenient,” USADA spokeswoman Annie Skinner said.

Vonn won the gold medal in the downhill at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010. Her 2013 season ended when she injured her knee, though she is expected to return for the 2014 Games in Russia.

Most of Vonn’s recent headlines, however, have come because she and Tiger Woods revealed they’ve been dating. They were together at a red-carpet event in New York in May, but Woods was not with Vonn at Monday’s event.

Topshop boss Philip Green cut the ribbon to the 1,300-square-meter (14,000-square-foot) shop with the help of Taiwanese actress Gwei Lun-mei.

Green said he wants to use the store, located in the city’s central business district, as a “stepping stone” to mainland China. He’s looking for possible locations in Beijing and Shanghai to open “flagship” stores.

Other foreign retailers that have launched recently in the Asian finance center include U.S. brands Aber-crombie & Fitch, Tommy Bahama, Forever 21 and Victoria’s Secret.

Foreign brands have been lining up to open showcase boutiques in Hong Kong as they try to get a share of the spending by the increasingly affluent consumers visiting from mainland China, the world’s second biggest economy. The demand has helped drive up shop rents in Hong Kong, a former British colony that’s now a special administrative region of China.

Hong Kong is a popular shopping destination for mainland Chinese because of low taxes and a reputation for authentic goods.

Green would not say how much the company, which already has stores in other Asian countries includ-

ing Japan, Indonesia and Thailand, is paying for its new location, previ-ously occupied by a Chinese-state owned chain selling arts and crafts and jade jewelry. He said the com-pany had spent years looking.

“It’s been hard as most retailers will tell you, finding the right location in Hong Kong, at a sort of sensible price. It’s very, very tough. So this just came up, and fortunately we were able to put it together very quickly,” he said.

Prime retail space cost $4,328 per square foot a month in the first three months of 2013, making it the world’s priciest, according to commercial real estate firm CBRE. It said that was nearly 50 percent higher than New York and about four times as much as Paris or London.

Topshop is working with local department store Lane Crawford to operate the new boutique.

Green said that he’s starting his search for mainland locations this week, with Chinese real estate agents visiting him while he’s in Hong Kong.

“I’d like to have a flagship in Beijing and a flagship in Shanghai,” Green said a day before the store opening. “If we can find 2,000 to 3,000 square meters — we’d like to have a Topman as well — if we can

find 2 locations, off we go.”Green said he’d also consider

mainland locations outside of the two main cities as well as opening up another Hong Kong store. Foreign brands prefer to test out the waters in Hong Kong, on the southern coast of China, before taking the plunge into the mainland. The city is an ideal test-ing ground, with nearly three-quarters of the 49 million visitors received last year coming from mainland China. Their spending helped push up retail sales by 10 percent.

Tom Gaffney, head of retail at real estate at consulting firm Jones Lang LaSalle, said foreign retailers in Hong Kong benefit by getting brand rec-ognition and customer loyalty from mainland shoppers.

But he said that rentals, which his firm forecasts will rise 5-10 percent this year, are “something that a lot of the brands are looking at more carefully.” They’re becoming “quite cautious about taking core locations,” he said.

Swedish fashion retailer H&M is one high-profile victim of Hong Kong’s high rents. The company reportedly couldn’t agree on a lease renewal for its flagship store across the street from Topshop’s new outlet and will move out in the fall.

AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Topshop boss Philip Green, left, and Taiwanese actress Gwei Lun-mei attend the opening ceremony of the first Topshop store in Hong Kong Thursday, June 6, 2013.

UK’s Topshop opens in high-rent Hong KongAssociated Press Writer

HONG KONG — British fashion chain Topshop opened its first Hong Kong outlet on Thurs-day, becoming the latest Western brand to brave the city’s astronomical rents in a bid to crack the lucrative China market.

Lindsey Vonn goes from red carpet to drug testing

Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP

World Cup alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn arrives at the 2013 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall on Monday, June 3, 2013 in New York.

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PHNOM PENH - As invest-ment in Cambodia’s textile industry surges, so is labour unrest, putting pressure on suppliers to the world’s big garment brands to raise wages and improve sometimes grim con-ditions in one of the last bastions of

low-cost factories.Hundreds of angry workers ram-

paged this week through a textile plant in Cambodia that supplies U.S. sportswear company Nike Inc, clashing with police over their de-mands for a pay hike. The violence came just weeks after over 1,100 workers were killed in the collapse

of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh, another impoverished Asian nation where mass-produced textiles are the big-gest export earner.

Cambodia is considered one of the better locations in the world for low-cost garment manufacturing with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) monitoring pay and working conditions at many factories.

But strikes and sometimes violent protests have been on the rise as unions emboldened by a shortage of skilled workers press complaints that companies have failed to raise wages enough or improve safety.

Strikes by the country’s more than 300,000 garment workers nearly quadrupled last year to 134, accord-ing to the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia, the main industry body. The 48 strikes so far this year are already more than in the whole of 2010 or 2011. “Supply of skilled workers is a problem,” said Kaing Monika, a business develop-ment manager at the Garment Manu-facturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC), the main industry body. “Most existing factories are running at full capacity.”

Nike was the latest big brand to face protest action at its Cambodia-based suppliers in recent months, joining H&M Hennes and Mauritz AB, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Gap Inc, and Puma SE among others.

The international brands buy gar-ments from local manufacturers and do not have direct control over pay or working conditions. But the major companies have signed to the ILO scheme aimed at ensuring suppliers meet legal requirements on wages and work conditions.

The garments industry has be-come by far the country’s biggest export earner, with shipments up 10 percent in 2012 to $4.44 billion.

ELECTION YEARUntil this year, the minimum

wage in the textile sector was $61 a month, compared to $38 in Bangla-desh and more than $150 in China. The government raised it in March to $80, including a health care subsidy, but strikers at the Nike factory and other workers complain that wage rises have not kept up with costs.

“Life is hard, we have a lot of ex-penses with a low wage. Sometimes, we just borrow money from other

workers,” said 28-year-old Mao Pov, one of those on strike at the Sabrina Garment Manufacturing plant that supplies Nike as well as privately held Wilson Sporting Goods Co.

Inflation in Cambodia was 3 percent in 2012, which is low for developing nations in Asia, although many workers complain the price of basic items has risen faster.

Sweden’s H&M, the world’s second-largest fashion retailer, said a general election scheduled to be held in July had caused some instability among workers at plants run by its Cambodian suppliers.

“This being an election year, the situation in the country was gener-ally more disorderly than usual dur-ing early spring,” said spokeswoman Andrea Roos. After minimum wages were increased, “the situation on the labour market in Cambodia has been more stable”, she said.

Workers at the Nike-linked plant first went on strike on May 21 even though the factory had raised their minimum wage. The union on strike says that the health and other benefits that were previously paid separately were folded into the new wage, and is demanding another $14 hike.

There is no sign that the North Korean regime is in danger or that U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will discuss that possibility when they meet this week in California. Any such talk would alarm North Korea if word got out.

But in China, talk of a North Ko-rean collapse is no longer the taboo subject it once was. Academics are increasingly willing to discuss it and a former top U.S. general said he has detected, during informal meetings, a willingness of Chinese officials to consider such discus-sions.

That reflects internal debate in China and dismay about North Korean brinkmanship in the after-math of rocket and nuclear tests this winter that defied China, which sup-plies the North with crucial food, energy and diplomatic support.

Young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have consoli-dated control since taking power a

year-and-a-half ago, and the spike in tension that followed its Febru-ary nuclear test has eased in recent weeks. But there’s a perennial threat of fighting with South Korea on one of the world’s most militarized frontiers. China would want to avoid any conflict that could draw in its forces from the North, and U.S. forces from South Korea, as dur-ing the 1950-53 Korean War. Both powers would be concerned about the fate of North Korea’s arsenal of chemical weapons, missiles and nuclear weapons and facilities.

But China also has reason to fear a North Korean collapse. That could trigger an exodus of hungry refugees across its border and lead to a reunified Korea allied with the United States, hosting American troops on China’s doorstep.

Analysts say that until Chinese leaders decide among themselves what kind of outcome they are prepared to accept on the Korean Peninsula, they won’t discuss the

subject with U.S. officials. Still, they see some changes in China’s attitude.

Will iam Fallon, a former chief of U.S. Pa- c i f i c Command, said t h e U.S. and China would have a shared inter-est in work-ing together on North Korea and discussing issues such as securing its nuclear weapons. He said that in unofficial meetings in China this year with for-mer and current Chinese govern-ment and military officials, he raised that possibility in broad terms and de-tected a willingness to consider it.

“I certainly suggested, and I know others have offi-cially and formally suggested that it’s about time we sat down to talk because we have common interest here,” Fallon said. “I think that idea is not being rejected. The heads are nodding and they are con-

sidering it. I would expect that this would move forward, carefully.”

Such cooperation would require Beijing and Washington overcom-ing deep, mutual suspicions that characterize their relations as Chi-na’s economic and military power grows and the U.S. looks to boost its profile and long-established presence in Asia.

But China is taking a tougher stance on North Korea, as the U.S. hoped it would. It has supported tighter U.N. sanctions in re-sponse to the Febru-ary nuclear test and stepped up border inspections. Most notably, a leading

Chinese s ta te

bank shut accounts of North Ko-rea’s Foreign Trade Bank, its main foreign exchange institution.

Two weeks ago, China hosted a top North Korean envoy, a visit that Brookings Institution scholar Cheng Li says was expedited in advance of the U.S.-China summit that starts Friday. The North has since adopted a less confrontational stance and declared a willingness to return to the negotiating table.

But the U.S. sees that as little progress by North Korea, noting that the day after Vice Marshal Choe Ryong returned home, Pyongyang re-pudiated the goal of denuclearization — a U.S. prerequisite for restarting long-stalled

aid-for-disarmament ne-gotiations.

Bali News International4 Friday, June 7, 2013 Friday, June 7, 2013 13International RLDWChina frustration with NKorea offers hope for USAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — China’s growing frustration with longtime ally North Korea offers the United States a glimmer of hope about a once unthinkable prospect: holding discussions between Washington and Beijing about what to do if the government in Pyongyang collapses.

Kim Jong Un

Not just Bangladesh, garment makers pressured in Cambodia as well

REUTERS/Samrang PringA protester holds a stick and a stone during clashes with the police in front of a factory owned by Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing in Kampong Speu province, west of the capital Phnom Penh June 3, 2013.

LOvINA quay ready to be extendedBoat and yacht quay on Lovina Beach previously com-plained to be too short has now been ready to be extended by the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency. Nevertheless, before preparing the budget for the extension, the quay will be tested first in the implementation of the Sail Indonesia 2013.

The Head of Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Jro Ketut Warkadea, said the quay would be tested in the Sail Indonesia event later this year. At that time, hundreds of yachts would berth in on the jetty of Lovina. If later on the quay was considered to need extension, his party would be ready to submit the budget for the quay extension. “We do not know for sure whether the yachts will berth there. Let’s see,” he said.

According to Warkadea, the length of the quay reached 27 meters and at a glance the length really looked inadequate. Nevertheless, the quay could have been utilized. Previously, travelers had to open their shoes while riding a boat and risk of being wet, but today they were enough to come aboard through the quay. If needed an extension later on, the agency claimed to be ready to pro-pose an aid to Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy for the quay extension. The plan would be submitted through the tourism development grants. “Central government is still able to help us,” he said.

Previously, the quay development on Lovina Beach was intended for berthing location of yachts that frequently dropped in every organization of the Sail Indonesia. (kmb15)

As a form of protest, the drivers parked and left their vehicle at roadside in front of the terminal and at the exit point of the terminal to deliver speeches on their complaints in the terminal. Made Sudiya, one of the drivers, said the interprovincial city buses serving the Java-Bali route often dropped off passengers at the unofficial terminal. Furthermore, the passengers were picked up by private car alleged to have been working with the interprovincial city bus. Aside from the unofficial terminal, the drivers also said that so far there remained interprovincial city buses taking and dropping off passenger at Ubung Terminal. Automatically, such condition increasingly diminished the income of public transport drivers.

“Public transport at Mengwi Termi-nal does not get any passenger. Some-times, we just get passengers once in three days. How can we survive at this rate?” he said.

Therefore, Sudiya and his col-leagues urged the Badung Communi-cation and Informatics Agency to take action against the interprovincial city buses dropping off passengers outside

the Mengwi Terminal. “We also ask the Transportation Agency to discipline the unofficial terminal,” he affirmed.

Responding to the demands of the drivers, the Division Head of Transportation, Badung Transporta-tion and Informatics Agency, Made Widiana, stated that so far his party had attempted maximally to lead the interprovincial city buses to drop off passengers at Mengwi Terminal. Sign installation and disposition of the officials had also been done, but the same problem stayed to occur. “We in the county do not have the author-ity to take action against the stubborn interprovincial city buses. It is the duty of the province as the representative of central government,” he said.

Action of the transport drivers tak-ing place until 09:15 in the morning had kindled crowdedness in the traf-fic flow into and out of the terminal. Besides, many passengers wishing to resume their journey were displaced. Even, some passengers should walk with their baggage and leave the ter-minal to the main road to hitch a ride. (kmb22)

Lovina quay ready to be extended

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Protest against rampant unofficial terminal

Dozens of drivers block Mengwi Terminal

Bali Post/ekaTRANSPORTATION—Dozens of public transports were parked on the roadside and the exit point of the Passenger Terminal Type A at Mengwi, Tuesday (Jun 4). Such an action was an expression of resentment of the public transport drivers over the rampant unofficial terminal and interprovincial city buses remaining to head for Ubung Terminal.

Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Dozens of public transports like taxi and urban transport parked in line along the road in front of the Mengwi Passenger Terminal Type A, Tuesday (Jun 4). Even, a number of passenger vehicles were parked at the exit point of the terminal to impede the exit of vehicles. It was the pique expression of drivers rarely getting passenger due to rampant unofficial terminal and inter-provincial city buses (AKAP) still heading for Ubung Terminal, Denpasar.

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kintamani For those who love to go hiking or go to the moun-tainous area, Bali is famous for its beautiful mountainous scenery.

Kintamani for example. Kintamani is the most favorite tourist destina-tions in Bali with the active volcano of mount Batur and beautiful lake.

Kintamani is surrounded by the captivating nature and there are six ancient villages around cauldron of Batur Lake which is often con-

ceived by Bali Age Village. The local people from these Bali Age villages own the unique cultures, houses and life style. Kintamani Area is consisted of some Villages those are Kedisan Village , Buahan, Abang, Trunyan, Songan, South Batur, Middle Batur, North Batur, Sukawana and Kintamani Village . The total of resident in these area are about 15 thousand who are mostly working as farmer, merchant, or work at industrial tourism.

Mount Batur is located at Kin-tamani and it has erupted about 24 times since year 1800 and still active up to now. Since the mount erupting, it has impacted to the local society life around this mount, like removing altar (Temple), improve or repairing the village and re-arrange the tradition. Lake Batur is the big-gest lake in Bali and functioning as irrigation source to all farmers around it and it is also for all Bali society generally. Kintamani area has been founded some lodging, hotels and restaurants which are located in Kintamani and Penelokan Village. It is a famous tourist place because Kintamani area owns the beautiful panorama and it is en-

circled by the cold atmosphere.Kintamani is beautifully seen

at the day time around 10:00 am until 15:00 pm especially having fine weather where entire Kinta-mani area will be able to be seen clearly. Generally, all tourists who pay a visit to this place will arrive in the day time where they can enjoy the panorama or enjoy the lunch in the local restaurant with lake view. Mostly restau-rants at Kintamani generally own very beautiful view where tourist merging into their lunch in this restaurant and meanwhile enjoy the panorama.

Kintamani is located in Kinta-mani sub district, Bangli Regency and about 50 km from Denpasar Town or about 2 hours by car. All roads are generally in good condi-tion to access to this place. The fog will descend and blanket entire area of Kintamani with cold tempera-ture in particular at late afternoon until the whole of night. The most amazing panorama at Kintamani can be seen in the morning time, when the sunrise emerges on the surface of earth precisely on the mount Batur.

A fisherman, Wayan Sudina, last Tuesday said the crossing activity was halted until the weather turned back to normal. This fisherman from Bias ham-let, Kusamba, added many vegetables owned by traders such as beans, kale, spinach, cucumber, cabbage and a va-riety of fruits could not be dispatched on Saturday (Jun 1). As a result, all commodities rotted and were made into fodder. “Rather than disposed use-lessly, the traders then processed their vegetables into fodder,” he said.

In the cargo warehouse, hundreds of commodities such as bags of rice, medi-cines, gallon water, bottled water and gas tube remained to pile up and filled up the warehouse. Meanwhile, outside the warehouse, thousands of crates of beverage still queued to be dispatched to Nusa Penida. Although it had been full, similar commodities continued to arrive, so that they were forced to be unloaded outside the warehouse and on the beach.

The Head of Bias hamlet port ware-house, Nyoman Sukadana, said last Tuesday the commodities had been stuck inside and outside the warehouse

for five days from Saturday (Jun 1) be-cause no vessel dared to transport them to Nusa Penida. According to him, for once departure a boat could maximally transport 15 tons of commodities stored in the warehouse.

All this time, the existence of ware-house spreading across some 200 square meters could adequately help the economy of local people. In case of normal crossing, many porters relied on the warehouse as the source of their livelihood. Sukadana said that each item was typically charged with stor-age and transport cost onto the boat at different rates.

For instance, rice would be charged at IDR 45,000 per ton, roof tile at IDR 85,000 per 1,000 pieces and timber at IDR 55,000 per cubic. “Meanwhile, beverage product is charged per item such as a gallon of water and beverages in crates will be charged at IDR 2,000 per item,” said Sukadana. However, since the crossing service did not oper-ate, the labor activity was bogged down so that dozens of workers at the location were idle while waiting for the weather was getting better. (kmb31)

Bad weather

Crossing stopped, vegetables rot and goods pile upSemarapura (Bali Post)—

Cessation of traditional crossing at kusamba had a great impact on the people’s economy. Vegetables usually sold to residents to traditional market at mentigi, nusa Penida, could not be transported. as a result, vegetables of traders finally rotted and were forced to be made into fodder. in addition, hun-dreds of bags of rice, medicines and various other items were still restrained at three traditional ports of kusamba up to tuesday (Jun 4).

Bali Post/kmb31Various commodities piled up in traditional port warehouse at Bias hamlet, Kusamba.

Kintamani

IBP/fileThe beautiful Kintamani, one of the tourim site in Bangli

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NEW YORK - Hiring by U.S. firms was sluggish in May while a sharp rise in mortgage inter-est rates last week weighed on what has been a buoyant hous-ing market, adding to signs the economy lost some momentum in the second quarter. Indeed, a separate report from the Federal Reserve characterized the pace of the economic expansion as “modest to moderate” since mid-April as hiring remained relatively subdued.

The Fed’s Beige Book of economic conditions is prepared as research for policymakers to use at their next meeting on June 18-19, a meeting that will be watched for any indications as to when the Fed may pull back on its stimulus program.

Private employers added 135,000 jobs in May, the ADP Na-tional Employment Report showed on Wednesday, an acceleration from April but missing forecasts for a gain of 165,000. April’s private payrolls were revised to an increase of 113,000 from the previously reported 119,000 gain. “The number was weak,” said

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, which jointly developed the report.

“The ADP (data) is suggesting instead of job growth stepping up, it’s actually stepping down as we move into the summer months,” Zandi told reporters. “It’s not like we’re falling off a cliff, it just feels like we’re throt-tling back a little bit.”

The ADP report showed man-ufacturers shed payrolls in May and a separate report indicated jobs growth in the vast services sector was weak last month, with a gauge of employment at services firms falling to its lowest in close to a year.

Economic growth is expected to cool in the current quarter from the 2.4 percent rate in the first three months of the year, partly due to fiscal belt-tighten-ing in Washington. Economists still largely expect the recovery should regain traction in the sec-ond half of the year. The goods producing sector cut 3,000 jobs in May, with a drop of 6,000 positions at manufacturing firms, which could be partially due to defense spending cutbacks, Zandi said.

That means the main focus will be President Mario Draghi’s news conference which follows Thurs-day’s policy meeting, when he is likely to trim the bank’s economic forecasts and be questioned on the future direction of policy. “We think he (Draghi) will keep the door open for more easing but it’s not the time to do it today,” said Piet Lammens, a strategist at KBC in Brussels.

The stronger conviction for no change in policy followed data sug-gesting the downturn across the re-gion is starting to ease, encouraging traders to push the euro up to $1.3131, its highest level since May 9 and up 0.3 percent on the day.

The euro’s rise dragged the dollar index to a four-week low of 82.39 (.DXY). The U.S. currency also hit a four-week low of 98.86 yen earlier on Thursday, though it then recovered to

trade at 99.25 yen, up 0.2 percent. “The dollar’s longer-term bullish outlook remains intact as the Fed will eventually start scaling down its stimulus if jobs continue to be added, while the Bank of Japan will expand its monetary base,” said Yuji Saito, director of foreign ex-change at Credit Agricole in Tokyo.

CENTRAL BANK DAYMeanwhile another central bank,

the Bank of England, is also widely ex-pected to leave its policies on hold at the conclusion of its final policy meeting under current Governor Mervyn King on Thursday. UK data on manufactur-ing, services and construction sectors have all pointed to a pick-up in activity, tempering expectations that the new governor, Mark Carney, who takes over in July, will turn to aggressive monetary easing in the near term.

As long as there are no surprises

from either the ECB or the Bank of England, the market’s focus is likely to quickly switch to Friday’s U.S. non-farm payrolls report which could deter-mine when the Federal Reserve begins tapering its bond-buying. A strong jobs report would add to speculation the Fed could begin cutting back its $85 billion a month bond-buying program before the end of the year, putting pressure on all riskier asset markets.

Fears about this have seen the broad FTSEurofirst 300 index (.FTEU3) shed nearly 10 percent over the past nine trading days, although it recov-ered slightly on Thursday to be up 0.2 percent by mid-morning. London’s FTSE 100 (.FTSE), and Frankfurt’s DAX (.GDAXI) were around 0.1 to 0.3 percent firmer. (.EU)

Earlier, another volatile session for Japan’s Nikkei index, which ended below 13,000 for the first time in two months, undermined Asian markets, sending them to fresh 2013 lows and leaving MSCI’s world equity index <.miwd00000pus> little changed.

In fixed income, German Bund prices drew support from the expec-tations the ECB will keep monetary policy ultra-easy and from the Fed uncertainty but stayed within narrow ranges.

Reuters

LONDON - Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) has sold a 260 million pound ($400 million) stake in Barclays (BARC.L), about half its holding in the British bank. SMBC said it sold 84.5 million shares at 308.5 pence apiece via an accelerated share placing. The shares were sold by Nomura , people familiar with the matter said.

SMBC said the share sale was for the “capital efficiency” of its parent Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group.

The Japanese bank bought 169 million shares in Barclays at 296p in June 2008 as part of a series of fundraisings during the financial crisis. It still held those shares last month, according to Thomson Reuters data, making it the bank’s seventh- biggest shareholder with a stake of about 1.3 percent.

The share sale was completed just before Thursday’s London stock market opening. By 4:25 a.m. ET, Barclays shares were down 2.4 percent at 308.7p.

SMBC invested alongside investors from Qatar, Singapore and China in its 4.5 billion pound fundraising in June 2008. Bar-clays has said its deal with Qatar is being investigated by UK and U.S. authorities over certain commercial agreements between the two sides.

Barclays said at the time of the fundraising SMBC’s invest-ment would open the door to closer cooperation between the banks, and in July 2010 they set up a joint private banking venture with Nikko Cordial Securities for wealthy customers in Japan, called SMBC Barclays Wealth Division. SMBC said the share sale would have no impact on its business cooperation with Barclays.

REUTERS/Suzanne PlunkettA man walks through the lobby of the London Stock Exchange August 5, 2011.

Euro gains as ECB seen on hold, Fed worries lingerReuters

LOnDOn - the euro hit a four-week high against the dollar on thurs-day as investors positioned for the European Central Bank to leave rates unchanged, but uncertainty over the U.S. Federal Reserve’s next move kept equity markets on edge. the ECB cut its main interest rate to a record low 0.5 percent in may and was seen sitting tight as it waits for further evidence of an economic recovery it has predicted will emerge in the second half of the year.

Sumitomo cuts Barclays stake with $400 million sale

Companies add more jobs but growth disappoints

BUSINESS

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INDONESIAW RLD

Associated Press writer

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s premier on Wednesday ordered relocation of the headquarters of the state-run oil company to the eastern city of Benghazi, fulfilling a long-standing demand by residents of the region and comes days after tribal declared semi-independent region in the east.

Prime Minister Ali Zidan told reporters that the decision was not taken under pressure, and that Libya’s institutions must be present everywhere across the country.

Benghazi was the birthplace of the uprising that ousted longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. Despite its oil riches, eastern Libya’s residents have complained for decades about discrimination by the west, where the capital, Tripoli, is located.

The relocation of the National Oil Corporation and af-filiated companies is expected to bring new job opportuni-ties and boost the economic weight of the region.

The decision comes after advocates of self-rule in the east pushed ahead with their plan aiming at reviving the system maintained under King Idris after the formation of the United Kingdom of Libya in 1951, when Libya was divided into three states: Tripolitania in the west, Fezzan in the southwest and Cyrenaica — or Barqa, as it was called in Arabic — which encompassed the eastern half of the country. Gadhafi led a military coup that overthrew Idris in 1969.

The leader of the autonomy movement, Ahmed al-Zubair, along with tribal and former rebel leaders, declared the eastern region of Cyrenaica as a semi-independent as of June 1. Al-Zubair also announced creation of a separate force to defend the region and collect weapons.

Idris declared eastern Libya independent from Britain on June 1, 1949.

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a decorated veteran of four com-bat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, admitted to leaving his Army post in the Afghan province of Kandahar last March to gun down and set fire to unarmed villagers, mostly women and children, in attacks on their family compounds.

“As far as why, I’ve asked that question a million times since then,” Bales said, in a calm, steady voice, when the judge pressed him for an explanation. “There is not a good reason in this world for why I did the horrible things that I did.”

The slayings marked the worst case of civilian slaughter blamed on a single, rogue U.S. soldier since the Vietnam War and further strained U.S.-Afghan relations after more than a decade of conflict in that country.

Bales, 39, now faces a life term in prison, but a military jury will decide if and when he will ever be eligible for parole after further proceedings set to begin August 19.

Prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty in return for Bales’ guilty plea to the murder charges he faced.

The judge, Army Colonel Jeffery Nance, accepted the agree-ment at the end of a lengthy hearing during which Bales was required to recount the events in question and to convince the judge he understood his plea and the consequences of his acts.

Wearing a military dress uniform, Bales stood beside his lawyer, Emma Scanlan, as she entered guilty pleas on his behalf to 16 counts of premeditated murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven counts of assault, as well as to alcohol and drug charges.

Reading through the list of charges himself, one at a time, later in the hearing, Bales acknowledged that he committed 10 of the slayings by shooting and burning his victims and that he killed six others by gunshot only.

“I then did kill her by shooting her with a firearm and burning her. This act was without legal justification,” he said during a matter-of-fact recitation of his crimes, delivered with no visible sign of emotion.

INTENT TO KILLAsked by Nance if he had acted out of self-defense, or under

orders, or whether he had any other legal justification to kill the 16 villagers, Bales replied, “No, sir.” “Could you have avoided killing them if you wanted to?” the judge asked.

“Yes, sir,” he answered, adding that he “formed the intent (to kill) as I raised my weapon.” Bales said that setting fire to his victims was also done with the intent to kill, and that he was aware it was “against their cultural norms.”

Bales has claimed his memories of the killings are spotty, but he acknowledged seeing a lantern at one point during the rampage and that matches were later found in his possession. He said he learned from previous testimony that kerosene was used in the burnings.

Bales’ wife was seated behind him in the courtroom benches at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Washington. Army prosecutors have said Bales acted alone and with chilling premeditation when, armed with a pistol, a rifle and a grenade launcher, he left his post twice during the night to attack civilians. He is said to have returned to base in the middle of the rampage to tell a fellow soldier: “I just shot up some people.”

Defense attorneys have argued that Bales, the father of two from Lake Tapps, Washington, was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury even before his deployment to Afghanistan.

STEROIDS AND WHISKEYUnder questioning from Nance, Bales said that his use of

illegal steroids, which he admitted taking to improve muscle tone and recovery time from missions, also “increased my

Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales (L) and Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance are seen in a sketch from January 17, 2013, as Bales is arraigned on 16 counts of pre-meditated murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven of assault at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

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TACOMA, Washington - A U.S. Army sergeant who killed 16 Afghan civilians in cold blood last year pleaded guilty on Wednesday to premeditated murder and other charges under a deal with military prosecutors that spares him from the death penalty.

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A small island formed by the accumulation of trash is pictured in Tanjung Burung, on the coast of Indonesia’s Banten province June 5, 2013. According a local resident, the trash originated from Jakarta and surrounding cities, and accumulated in this area after flow-ing through rivers, polluting the sea around Tanjung Burung. World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5.

Indonesia will host the 2013 Miss World competition in the country’s resort island of Bali and the capital, Jakarta, in Sep-tember.

Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, one of the local organizers, said Thurs-day that all contestants will be required to wear Bali’s traditional long sarongs instead of the sexy bikinis that are traditionally part

of the competition.He said the London-based Miss

World Organization has agreed to the request out of respect for the traditional customs and values of Indonesia.

Most Muslims in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Is-lamic country, are moderate, but a small extremist fringe has become more vocal in recent years.

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Banda Aceh, Aceh - Acehnese residents found three skeletons which were suspected to be part of tsunami victims in December 2004.

According to the residents, they found the skeletons when they were taking the sand after being dredged from Krueng (river) Aceh in Surabaya hamlet of Ateuk Pahlawan Village, Baiturrahman subdistrict, Banda Aceh City.

“Bones and human skulls, alleg-edly victims of the tsunami, were found when the residents took sand from the river that was dredged by heavy equipment,” said Suriati, a

resident of Surabaya hamlet, Banda Aceh on Tuesday.

The residents along with volun-teers of the “Radio Antar Penduduk Indonesia (RAPI)” in the city tried to collect the bones and skulls from the sand pile at the river bank.

The residents then handed the skeletons and skulls to the local office of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), and PMI personnel then delivered the skeletons and skulls to Zainoel Abidin general hospital (RSUZA) in Banda Aceh.

On April 26, river dredging workers found a human skeleton suspected to be the tsunami vic-tim under Pante Pirak bridge in the city.

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Jakarta - The Public Works Ministry is preparing at least Rp6 trillion in funds to build various basic infrastructure facilities in return for the imminent fuel price hike.

With the project targeting the poor in rural and urban areas across the country, the subsidized fuel price hike will hopefully have no significant impact on the poor, Public Works Minister Djoko Kir-manto said here on Wednesday.

He said 70 percent of the project which puts emphasis on drinking water supplies to the poor par-ticularly in drought-prone areas,

fishermen`s villages and fish ports will be carried out outside Java and 30 percent in Java.

The drinking water supply proj-ect will cover the supply of raw water at a cost of Rp2 trillion, the construction of small dams to sup-ply drinking water to 93 drought-prone districts and cities at a cost of Rp899.5 billion, the protection of coastal areas in fishermen`s settle-ments at a cost of Rp299.5 billion and the repair of small irrigation system in 4,000 villages at a cost of Rp801 billion, he said.

The second priority of the project is settlement infrastructure which will cost Rp2 trillion. The project will be carried out through

a public empowerment scheme consisting of direct assistance to 5,500 new villages and 1,800 slum villages worth Rp1.8 trillion and viability gap fund worth Rp175 billion, he said.

He said the third program is also related to the expansion of drinking water supplies to 318 fishemen`s villages at a cost of Rp2 trillion, including those to fish ports at a cost of Rp318 billion, 260 villages and 35 sub-district capitals prone to drought a cost of Rp742 billion and low-income people in 341 urban areas at a cost of Rp940 billion.

“The programs are actually not new. They just follow the previous government`s idea,” he said.

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Dumai, Riau - Thick smog covered Dumai city affecting the visibility in the city`s main roads as low as 200 meters on Wednesday at around 10 am local time. The heavy smog affected the people`s daily activity especially those riding motorcycles due to the low visibility.

Nofri, a local resident, said he was forced to wear protective face masks when taking his children to school and going for work.

“I don`t want the smog affecting

my respiratory, I and my children must put on protective masks before riding on my motorcycle,” Nofri said.

Nofri urged the government to deal with the smog immediately be-cause the haze could affect people`s respiratory.

Another resident, Ilham, said he had to cancel his appointment to ride out into the city due to the smog, al-though it was gradually thinning.

According to Ilham, the smog likely came from forest and planta-tion fires around Dumai-Rokan Hilir district border area.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Miss World organizers have axed the famed bikinis from this year’s pageant, replacing them with conservative beach sarongs amid mounting protests from hardline Muslim groups.

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“The powers that be continue to counter with violence, pressure and prohibitionist policies ... demands which are being expressed in a peaceful and democratic manner,” a spokesman for the delegation said after meeting Arinc. “We demand the removal from duty of those who gave the order to inflict force ... starting with the governors and police chiefs of Istanbul, Ankara and Hatay,” he told reporters, referring to the areas worst affected by violence.

A second trade union federation representing hundreds of thousands of workers joined the protests on Wednesday, its members banging drums, trailing banners and chanting “Tayyip resign” as they marched on Taksim.

Around Ankara’s Kugulu Park, a middle class area dotted with restaurants and bars, people chanted “dictator resign” and “everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is resistance” into the night as residents on balconies banged pots and pans in support.Despite the protest, Erdogan remains by far the country’s most popular politician, his blustering, assertive style and common touch resonating with the conservative Islamic heartland.

His AK Party has won an increasing share of the vote in three successive elections and holds around two thirds of the seats in parliament. A man who rarely bows to any opposition, he clearly has no intention of stepping down and no obvious rivals inside or outside his party. But he, and those around him, face a challenge calming the protests without appearing to lose face.

On Wednesday, a small group of people who read a state-ment in support of the protests were set upon in the Black Sea city of Rize, Erdogan’s homeland and a stronghold of the AK Party, an attack that only ended after police intervened.

Turkey’s Erdogan... irritability and anger.”

During a nine-day pre-trial hearing last fall, witnesses testified that Bales had been upset by a bomb blast near his outpost that severed a fellow soldier’s leg days before the shootings.

One corporal recounted that in the hours before the ram-page he, Bales and a third soldier had been drinking whiskey together while watching the Hollywood film “Man on Fire,” which stars Denzel Washington as a former assassin bent on revenge.

Night-vision video footage taken from a surveillance balloon over the camp captured Bales’ arrest, showing him walking back to the post with a bed sheet or throw rug tied around his neck like a cloak as he is confronted by three soldiers who order him to drop his weapons and then take him into custody.

One of them, drinking buddy Corporal David Godwin, testified that Bales kept repeating the words, “I thought I was doing the right thing,” and, “It’s bad. It’s bad. It’s re-ally bad.”

After Wednesday’s hearing, Scanlan told reporters her client “has been waiting for the day that he can accept re-sponsibility for what he’s done.”

She added that Bales wanted to make a statement of apol-ogy for his actions but that Wednesday’s hearing was not the appropriate place or time.

“The forum for that is the penalty phase,” she said. Army officials said some family members of the victims are expected to give statements at the sentencing hearing in August.

The plea deal entered on Wednesday was similar to an agreement struck at Lewis-McChord in April, when Army Sergeant John Russell pleaded guilty to killing two fellow U.S. servicemen at a military counseling center in Iraq, near Baghdad’s airport, in a 2009 shooting spree.

Russell was sentenced to life in prison without parole following an abbreviated court-martial stemming from one of the worst cases of violence by an American soldier against other U.S. troops.

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PARIS, - The last time Maria Sharapova dropped the opening set of a match 6-0, an Olympic dream was trampled. On Wednesday a simi-lar drubbing provoked a champion’s response as the Russian kept alive her hopes of a second successive French Open title alive.

Thoughts of her humiliating defeat at Wimbledon by Serena Williams last year returned as the misfiring Sharapova surrendered the first set of her quarter-final against Jelena Jankovic in 28 minutes be-fore recovering to win 0-6 6-4 6-3. As expected Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic set up a siesmic semi-final clash after comfortable wins against Stanislas Wawrinka and German vet-eran Tommy Haas respectively.

Seven-times champion Nadal, roaring back into top form after a poor opening week, crushed weary-looking Swiss Wawrinka 6-2 6-3 6-1 while world number one Djokovic was made to work harder by Haas before polishing off the 35-year-old 6-3 7-6(5) 7-5. With Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Spaniard David Ferrer enjoying comprehensive wins on Tuesday all four men’s quarter-finals at Roland Garros were won in straight sets for the first time since 1948. In contrast all the women’s last-eight ties have been tightly con-tested, even Victoria Azarenka’s 7-6 6-2 defeat of Maria Kirilenko which featured a 76-minute opening set.

That Sharapova pulled round a match in which she managed just 14 points in a first set to move through to a juicy-looking semi-final against Azarenka spoke volumes for the fighting spirit of the four-times grand slam champion.

SIZZLING WINNERS“I wanted to put that chapter behind

me,” Sharapova said. “It was certainly nice to change that around, because I wasn’t doing much in that first six games.” World number two Sharapova will be wary of making such a slow start against Azarenka on Thursday.

The Belarussian enjoys a 7-5 career record against Sharapova and says she is beginning to fall in love with clay after reaching her first semi-final at Roland Garros. “I still don’t have any ring on my finger,” she said when quizzed about her relationship with the Parisian clay courts. “But I feel like we made a step forward.”

Sharapova made 45 unforced errors against the feisty Jankovic but having worked her way back into the match she showed her class with some siz-zling winners when it mattered. At 3-3 in the third set she stretched her long limbs to hook an impossible-looking backhand winner and then broke serve with a piercing forehand down the line, holding her celebratory fist-clenched salute as courtside cameras clicked their appreciation.

She then fought off a break point in the next game with a nerveless swinging volley off a Jankovic moon ball, breaking the Serbian’s spirit in the process as she moved on to reach the semi-finals here for the fourth time in 11 attempts. “Sometimes you just have to get the job done, and I did today,” Sharapova said.

REPEAT ON CARDSA repeat of last year’s women’s final

between Sharapova and Italian Sara Errani is still on the cards, although Azarenka and world number one Ser-ena Williams, who faces Errani, will have plenty to say about that. Nadal had never lost a set against Wawrinka, who was bidding to become the first Swiss to last longer at a grand slam than Roger Federer since 2002, in their nine previ-ous matches and was never in danger of doing so on Wednesday.

The core of the San Antonio team that swept that best-of-seven championship and celebrated on James’s former home court, remains intact but it will be a much-improved James who is now a much more complete player with the Miami Heat.

“LeBron is a different player than he was in ‘07. That is like ancient history,” Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich said on Wednesday.

“He was basically a neophyte at the time, wonder-ing how all this stuff worked and how it’s put together. We were very fortunate at that time to get him so early ... he’ll be a lot more of a problem than he was in ‘07, that’s for sure.”

James, the reigning league most valuable player (MVP), has arguably improved in every area of his game over the past six years and his assessment is that the main upgrade has been in terms of his basketball intelligence.

“A lot smarter and more experienced, older and more mature on and off the floor. And I think that’s the most important thing,” said James.

“I’ve matured as a basketball player. I’ve matured as a man. And it has allowed my game to sprout.”

James and the Cavaliers were simply outclassed by the Spurs in 2007 and James concedes that San Antonio worked him out pretty well. The four-time MVP is also confident that he has a more diverse range of skills this time around and, crucially, he has an increased belief in his shooting ability.

“They funneled me to the sideline and dared me to shoot it, and didn’t allow me to get to the paint where I did most of my damage back then,” said James. “If you go into my pick-and-roll now, I’m going to shoot and I’m confident I’m going to make every last one of them. I’m just more confident in my ability to shoot the ball. “At the same time, I also have a lot more weapons this time around going against this team, where in ‘07 they loaded three guys to me a lot on the strong side of the floor.

The Spurs certainly don’t expect to be able to deal with James, who won his first NBA title in 2012, with the same ease they showed six years ago.

“It was a young LeBron. He was still unbelievable, because he was just coming off an unbelievable series against Detroit, playing great basketball. I think in that particular series we played great defense on him,” said Spurs point guard Tony Parker.

“It was just the beginning for him. Right now he’s a four-time MVP, so it’s going to be a different story. He’s playing unbelievable basketball and he’s a little bit older. “We’ll try to do the best we can to try to slow him down. You can’t stop him. That’s for sure.

REUTERS/Vincent Kessler Maria Sharapova of Russia celebrates defeating Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in their women’s singles quarter-final match during the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris June 5, 2013. A hail of unforced errors could not melt away Sharapova’s French Open dreams as the Russian kept alive hopes of retaining the title with a 0-6 6-4 6-3 win over Jankovic in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.

Sharapova survives bagel, Rafa sets up Djokovic clash

AP Photo/Wilfredo LeeMiami Heat players Dwyane Wade, left, Chris Bosh and LeBron James talk following the presentation of the NBA Eastern Conference trophy following Game 7 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoff series against the Indiana Pacers, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 in Miami.

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MIAMI - A more confident LeBron James heads into his fourth NBA Finals on Thursday against a familiar San Antonio Spurs team that eased by his for-mer Cleveland squad in his first title series in 2007.

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Tanah Lot is a famous destination in Bali Island. It is located on coastal side of Beraban village, Tabanan Regency. Besides being famous for its beautiful scen-

ery, Tanah Lot also famous with its temple. The temple located on the rock with 3 acre size and reachable in a few minute by walk, because it is just 20 meters from

the coastal lip. This temple is very famous among tourist destina-

tions in Bali with spectacular view of sunset. At some nooks of coral reef around Tanah Lot Temple there

are holy tame snake in black and white color where according to the local society believe that it as a deity property and as the guard of the temple from the bad

influence. The word of Tanah Lot is consisted of two words

that are Tanah word interpreted as a reef looking like gili or isle. Lot or Lod word has meaning the sea. So Tanah Lot is meaning the small island floating on the sea. The location is now called as Tanah Lot has been used at a Megalithic period as a place that looked into holy, proven from the existence of menhir. Pursuant to environmental condition, hence the structure of Tanah

Lot Temple is built at irregular reef plain of its angle which is only consisted of one plain yard as Jeroan.The function of this temple can be realized from the

function of the main temple building which is located in the temple main area. In this place, there is a main

temple to worship the god in form of Dewa Baruna or Bhatara Segara, the sea power. The media of worship

to this god is the temple building with 5 storied mean-while the 3 storied temple building in north part of this area is purposing to worship to Dang Hyang Nirartha.

The unique animal can be seen in this temple area is the snake which are generally can be met in the coast.

Part of its stomach there are no athwart skin, there is only small skin, but this sea water snake very noxious but snakebite case are very seldom happened, because

the sea water snake generally very passive.

Tanah Lot

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When Roberto Martinez pro-duced a card during his job inter-view detailing how he mastermind-ed victory over Manchester City in the FA Cup final, Everton knew he was the man to lead their bid for Champions League qualification.

The former Wigan Athletic manager, who has forged a reputa-tion for making the best of limited resources and playing attractive football, signed a four-year contract on Wednesday to succeed David Moyes who has taken over at Man-chester United.

The Spaniard inherits a team who finished sixth in the Premier League last season and who in Moyes’ 11 years at the club became a solid outfit with regular top-eight finishes but no trophies.

With last month’s FA Cup tri-umph with Wigan Athletic still very

fresh, Martinez arrives at Goodison Park boasting a piece of silverware that his predecessor never managed and raring to build on Moyes’s legacy. “All I want to do is try to be humble enough and hard-working enough to take to that magnificent job into the next level,” Martinez, 39, told a news conference.

“(There is) huge pressure but I’m extremely proud of that pres-sure, what David Moyes has done at Everton in the last 11 years is set real standards... and given an incredible platform for the next man to continue.”

The Spaniard is likely to bring a fresh approach to the Merseyside club who are used to Moyes’s more pragmatic style and chairman Bill Kenwright said it had not taken him long to buy into Martinez’s visions for the club.

“When David (Moyes) first came to see me 11 years ago, we

were in a bad state, his first words were: ‘You’re not going down’. Roberto, almost his first words were: ‘I’ll get you in the Champions League’,” Kenwright told the news conference.

“He sat and talked to me and he showed me how he beat Man-chester City at Wembley, got out his little card and he said ‘I did this, this and this’.

“I’m not going to say to you it was like David Moyes, he got me in 30 seconds, it took him (Martinez) at least 45 seconds. But he under-stands the game, he understands Everton.”

‘A FEW QUID’

Martinez is used to working on small budgets and while Everton’s is slightly bigger, it is still a far cry from the mega-rich clubs they will need to compete with

for a top-four finish that would earn them a coveted Champions League spot.

“I’ll give him a few quid to sign a few new players,” Ken-wright said, without giving any figures but adding that he had no reason to think any of the current squad would want to move on under the new manager.

Despite the stunning FA Cup triumph against the 2012 Premier League champions, Martinez could not prevent Wigan being relegated from the top flight days later. He was habitually involved in a relega-tion battle with Wigan but bucked the trend of struggling coaches by sticking to his principles and play-ing passing football.

After spending most of his playing days in Britain, Marti-nez began his managerial career at another of his former clubs Swansea City. He won plaudits

for their free-flowing style of play and guided the Welsh side to the League One (third division) title in his first full season in charge. He joined Wigan in 2009 replac-ing Steve Bruce, and had kept them up against the odds every year until this season.

Martinez was heavily linked with a move to Liverpool last year and was even photographed talk-ing publicly with the club’s owner John W Henry but has now joined their bitter rivals. It had been an easy decision, Martinez said.

“It’s simple, it came in a natu-ral way,” he said. “After four seasons it was the right time (to move) and after meeting the chair-man I knew Everton was the right football club.

“It is a real, real special day to come to Everton Football Club and I have this feeling already of excitement, of honour.”

Neymar signed a five-year contract on Monday with Barcelona, which will now boast an even more formi-dable attacking unit with Lionel Messi playing alongside the 21-year-old sensation.

At his presentation, Neymar said that besides play-ing with Messi one of the reasons he wanted to come to Barcelona was because he had grown up watching coun-tryman Ronaldinho win titles in burgundy and blue.

Neymar said late Wednesday that Ronaldinho, the most recent Brazil star to leave his mark at Barcelona, is “beyond comparison” after he “made history with Barcelona.”

“I remember him making moves, his dribbling, winning all those titles at Camp Nou,” Neymar told Barcelona’s television station. “He made history at Barcelona and the Brazil national team ... In my case, I am beginning to make history and I hope that I can also leave my mark here in Barcelona.”

Neymar’s move to Barcelona comes 10 years after Ronaldinho arrived in 2003 and helped begin its cur-rent winning era that has included three Champions

League titles.Barcelona paid €57 million for Neymar, the eighth

most expensive signing in football history. He will play with fellow Brazil team members Dani Alves and Adriano, both of whom are defenders.

“This team is great. It has great players and great friends, which is one of the most important things for a football team,” said Neymar. “Dani told me that this is what I would find at Barcelona. He encour-aged me to come. Adriano also spoke to me about Barca and encouraged me, and here I am.”

Other Brazil stars that triumphed and became fan favorites at Barcelona include Romario (1993), Ronaldo (1996), and Rivaldo (1997).

Neymar joined Barcelona from Santos, his boyhood team that he led on its greatest run since Pele stopped playing for the Brazilian club in the 1970s. He helped Santos win the 2010 Brazilian Cup, the 2011 Copa Libertadores and three straight Sao Paulo state championships, becoming the team’s leading scorer in the post-Pele era with 138 goals in 230 matches.

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MONTEVIDEO - Substitute Luis Suarez scored after less than five minutes on the pitch to give Uruguay a 1-0 win over France in an international friendly at the Centenario on Wednesday.

Suarez, who came on for the second half in place of Diego Forlan, scored with a diagonal shot into the bottom corner in the 49th minute after evading defender Eliaquim Mangala to take a pass from Maxi Pereira.

The striker did not start with Uruguay using the match as a warm-up for a critical World Cup qualifier in Venezuela on Tuesday that Suarez will miss through suspension.

Uruguay had the better of the opening exchanges with striker Edinson Cavani dangerous in front of Steve Mandanda’s goal.

France, whose tour also includes

a match against 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil on Sunday, then took control of the ball and Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera was forced to make several saves.

Play was evenly balanced in the second half but Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez will be concerned that his most effective forward is unavailable when he most needs him.

Uruguay need a victory in Ven-ezuela to try and climb into one of the South American qualifying berths.

They are sixth in the nine-nation group with 13 points from 11 matches, two points below Chile and Venezuela.

The top four teams at the end of the qualifiers in October will go through to the Brazil finals. The fifth-placed team, at present Ven-ezuela, will enter a playoff against an Asian qualifier in November for another berth.

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BERLIN - Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery has signed a two-year contract extension to remain with the Champions League winners until 2017 and central defender Daniel van Buyten will stay on for another season, the club said on Thursday.

“We are delighted to have kept two key players with us,” said Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rum-menigge in a statement. “Franck and Daniel were outstanding in the past season and we counted on them to make the difference in the crucial games.”

Frenchman Ribery, 30, en-joyed his most successful season since joining in 2007, scoring 10 goals in the Bundesliga and set-ting up another 14.

“I had promised this to the fans and now the contract is done,” crowd favourite Ribery said. “For me and my family Munich is our second home and I am sure there are still one or two titles out there for us to win in the coming years.”The deal will also be welcomed by Pep Guardiola, the former Barcelona coach who takes over at Bayern this month, with Bayern having also signed midfielder Mario Goetze from rivals Borussia Dortmund for next season.

Van Buyten, at 35, was given a one-year extension to his deal

ZURICH — Five-time World Cup winner Brazil dropped to a historic low of No. 22 in the FIFA rank-ings on Thursday only one year before hosting the showpiece tournament.

Brazil fell three places this month as it continues to play only friendlies, including a 2-2 draw against England on Sunday. Friendlies score less than com-petitive matches in FIFA’s calculations, which have ranked teams since 1993 across a four-year results cycle.

Brazil can make up ground when it hosts the eight-nation Confederations Cup warm-up event this month. It plays No. 8 Italy, No. 17 Mexico and No. 32 Japan.

World and European champion Spain extended its lead atop the rankings since August 2011. Germany, Argentina and Croatia are next.

The Netherlands, the 2010 World Cup finalists which knocked Spain off the top two years ago, rose four spots. Portugal and Colombia are sixth and seventh. England drops two to No. 9 and Ecuador completes the top 10.

Belgium and Bosnia-Herzegovina, which lead their World Cup qualifying groups, have risen to their highest-ever ranks of No. 12 and No. 15, re-spectively.

Ivory Coast leads African nations at No. 13, and 23rd-ranked Mali closed in on Brazil in its best position.

The United States rose one place to No. 28 ahead of resuming its World Cup qualifying campaign in Jamaica on Friday. FIFA said 30 friendlies were included in the latest calculations. All World Cup qualifiers in June are calculated in the next standings published July 4.

Qatar, the 2022 World Cup host, fell three places to No. 104 and could drop further after a 1-0 home defeat against Iran on Tuesday in a key 2014 quali-fier.

Confederations Cup underdog Tahiti, which lost 7-0 to Chile’s Under-20 team this week, heads to Brazil at No. 138 in the world. Tahiti will face fel-low continental champions Nigeria, ranked No. 31, Spain and No. 19 Uruguay.

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Brazilian soccer player Neymar speaks during a commercial event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 28, 2013.

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BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona striker Neymar said he’s ready to “start marking his-tory” with the Spanish champions and follow in a long line of Brazilians who have triumphed at Camp Nou.

Everton appoint pass master Martinez as manager

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Uruguay’s Luis Suarez (R) celebrates with teammate Maxi-miliano Perieira after he scored a goal against France during their international friendly soccer match in Centenario Stadium in Montevideo, June 5, 2013.

Suarez seals Uruguay win ahead of qualifier he will miss

Brazil plummets to No. 22 in FIFA rankings

Ribery, Van Buyten extend deals at Bayern Munich

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Bayern Munich’s goalkeeper Manuel Neuer (L-R), Franck Ribery and Bastian Schweinsteiger holds up trophies while waving to fans from a truck as they make their way in a parade to the town hall with their three soccer trophies in Munich June 2, 2013.

following another solid season despite being second choice be-hind Jerome Boateng.

The Belgium international, who joined the Bavarians in 2006, will also be an option next season following the cruciate ligament injury suffered by cen-tral defender Holger Badstuber

who will be out for about 10 months.

Bayern, who set a record for fewest goals conceded in the Bundesliga with just 18 in 34 league games, became the first German club to win the treble after also adding the German Cup this month.

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When Roberto Martinez pro-duced a card during his job inter-view detailing how he mastermind-ed victory over Manchester City in the FA Cup final, Everton knew he was the man to lead their bid for Champions League qualification.

The former Wigan Athletic manager, who has forged a reputa-tion for making the best of limited resources and playing attractive football, signed a four-year contract on Wednesday to succeed David Moyes who has taken over at Man-chester United.

The Spaniard inherits a team who finished sixth in the Premier League last season and who in Moyes’ 11 years at the club became a solid outfit with regular top-eight finishes but no trophies.

With last month’s FA Cup tri-umph with Wigan Athletic still very

fresh, Martinez arrives at Goodison Park boasting a piece of silverware that his predecessor never managed and raring to build on Moyes’s legacy. “All I want to do is try to be humble enough and hard-working enough to take to that magnificent job into the next level,” Martinez, 39, told a news conference.

“(There is) huge pressure but I’m extremely proud of that pres-sure, what David Moyes has done at Everton in the last 11 years is set real standards... and given an incredible platform for the next man to continue.”

The Spaniard is likely to bring a fresh approach to the Merseyside club who are used to Moyes’s more pragmatic style and chairman Bill Kenwright said it had not taken him long to buy into Martinez’s visions for the club.

“When David (Moyes) first came to see me 11 years ago, we

were in a bad state, his first words were: ‘You’re not going down’. Roberto, almost his first words were: ‘I’ll get you in the Champions League’,” Kenwright told the news conference.

“He sat and talked to me and he showed me how he beat Man-chester City at Wembley, got out his little card and he said ‘I did this, this and this’.

“I’m not going to say to you it was like David Moyes, he got me in 30 seconds, it took him (Martinez) at least 45 seconds. But he under-stands the game, he understands Everton.”

‘A FEW QUID’

Martinez is used to working on small budgets and while Everton’s is slightly bigger, it is still a far cry from the mega-rich clubs they will need to compete with

for a top-four finish that would earn them a coveted Champions League spot.

“I’ll give him a few quid to sign a few new players,” Ken-wright said, without giving any figures but adding that he had no reason to think any of the current squad would want to move on under the new manager.

Despite the stunning FA Cup triumph against the 2012 Premier League champions, Martinez could not prevent Wigan being relegated from the top flight days later. He was habitually involved in a relega-tion battle with Wigan but bucked the trend of struggling coaches by sticking to his principles and play-ing passing football.

After spending most of his playing days in Britain, Marti-nez began his managerial career at another of his former clubs Swansea City. He won plaudits

for their free-flowing style of play and guided the Welsh side to the League One (third division) title in his first full season in charge. He joined Wigan in 2009 replac-ing Steve Bruce, and had kept them up against the odds every year until this season.

Martinez was heavily linked with a move to Liverpool last year and was even photographed talk-ing publicly with the club’s owner John W Henry but has now joined their bitter rivals. It had been an easy decision, Martinez said.

“It’s simple, it came in a natu-ral way,” he said. “After four seasons it was the right time (to move) and after meeting the chair-man I knew Everton was the right football club.

“It is a real, real special day to come to Everton Football Club and I have this feeling already of excitement, of honour.”

Neymar signed a five-year contract on Monday with Barcelona, which will now boast an even more formi-dable attacking unit with Lionel Messi playing alongside the 21-year-old sensation.

At his presentation, Neymar said that besides play-ing with Messi one of the reasons he wanted to come to Barcelona was because he had grown up watching coun-tryman Ronaldinho win titles in burgundy and blue.

Neymar said late Wednesday that Ronaldinho, the most recent Brazil star to leave his mark at Barcelona, is “beyond comparison” after he “made history with Barcelona.”

“I remember him making moves, his dribbling, winning all those titles at Camp Nou,” Neymar told Barcelona’s television station. “He made history at Barcelona and the Brazil national team ... In my case, I am beginning to make history and I hope that I can also leave my mark here in Barcelona.”

Neymar’s move to Barcelona comes 10 years after Ronaldinho arrived in 2003 and helped begin its cur-rent winning era that has included three Champions

League titles.Barcelona paid €57 million for Neymar, the eighth

most expensive signing in football history. He will play with fellow Brazil team members Dani Alves and Adriano, both of whom are defenders.

“This team is great. It has great players and great friends, which is one of the most important things for a football team,” said Neymar. “Dani told me that this is what I would find at Barcelona. He encour-aged me to come. Adriano also spoke to me about Barca and encouraged me, and here I am.”

Other Brazil stars that triumphed and became fan favorites at Barcelona include Romario (1993), Ronaldo (1996), and Rivaldo (1997).

Neymar joined Barcelona from Santos, his boyhood team that he led on its greatest run since Pele stopped playing for the Brazilian club in the 1970s. He helped Santos win the 2010 Brazilian Cup, the 2011 Copa Libertadores and three straight Sao Paulo state championships, becoming the team’s leading scorer in the post-Pele era with 138 goals in 230 matches.

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MONTEVIDEO - Substitute Luis Suarez scored after less than five minutes on the pitch to give Uruguay a 1-0 win over France in an international friendly at the Centenario on Wednesday.

Suarez, who came on for the second half in place of Diego Forlan, scored with a diagonal shot into the bottom corner in the 49th minute after evading defender Eliaquim Mangala to take a pass from Maxi Pereira.

The striker did not start with Uruguay using the match as a warm-up for a critical World Cup qualifier in Venezuela on Tuesday that Suarez will miss through suspension.

Uruguay had the better of the opening exchanges with striker Edinson Cavani dangerous in front of Steve Mandanda’s goal.

France, whose tour also includes

a match against 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil on Sunday, then took control of the ball and Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera was forced to make several saves.

Play was evenly balanced in the second half but Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez will be concerned that his most effective forward is unavailable when he most needs him.

Uruguay need a victory in Ven-ezuela to try and climb into one of the South American qualifying berths.

They are sixth in the nine-nation group with 13 points from 11 matches, two points below Chile and Venezuela.

The top four teams at the end of the qualifiers in October will go through to the Brazil finals. The fifth-placed team, at present Ven-ezuela, will enter a playoff against an Asian qualifier in November for another berth.

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BERLIN - Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery has signed a two-year contract extension to remain with the Champions League winners until 2017 and central defender Daniel van Buyten will stay on for another season, the club said on Thursday.

“We are delighted to have kept two key players with us,” said Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rum-menigge in a statement. “Franck and Daniel were outstanding in the past season and we counted on them to make the difference in the crucial games.”

Frenchman Ribery, 30, en-joyed his most successful season since joining in 2007, scoring 10 goals in the Bundesliga and set-ting up another 14.

“I had promised this to the fans and now the contract is done,” crowd favourite Ribery said. “For me and my family Munich is our second home and I am sure there are still one or two titles out there for us to win in the coming years.”The deal will also be welcomed by Pep Guardiola, the former Barcelona coach who takes over at Bayern this month, with Bayern having also signed midfielder Mario Goetze from rivals Borussia Dortmund for next season.

Van Buyten, at 35, was given a one-year extension to his deal

ZURICH — Five-time World Cup winner Brazil dropped to a historic low of No. 22 in the FIFA rank-ings on Thursday only one year before hosting the showpiece tournament.

Brazil fell three places this month as it continues to play only friendlies, including a 2-2 draw against England on Sunday. Friendlies score less than com-petitive matches in FIFA’s calculations, which have ranked teams since 1993 across a four-year results cycle.

Brazil can make up ground when it hosts the eight-nation Confederations Cup warm-up event this month. It plays No. 8 Italy, No. 17 Mexico and No. 32 Japan.

World and European champion Spain extended its lead atop the rankings since August 2011. Germany, Argentina and Croatia are next.

The Netherlands, the 2010 World Cup finalists which knocked Spain off the top two years ago, rose four spots. Portugal and Colombia are sixth and seventh. England drops two to No. 9 and Ecuador completes the top 10.

Belgium and Bosnia-Herzegovina, which lead their World Cup qualifying groups, have risen to their highest-ever ranks of No. 12 and No. 15, re-spectively.

Ivory Coast leads African nations at No. 13, and 23rd-ranked Mali closed in on Brazil in its best position.

The United States rose one place to No. 28 ahead of resuming its World Cup qualifying campaign in Jamaica on Friday. FIFA said 30 friendlies were included in the latest calculations. All World Cup qualifiers in June are calculated in the next standings published July 4.

Qatar, the 2022 World Cup host, fell three places to No. 104 and could drop further after a 1-0 home defeat against Iran on Tuesday in a key 2014 quali-fier.

Confederations Cup underdog Tahiti, which lost 7-0 to Chile’s Under-20 team this week, heads to Brazil at No. 138 in the world. Tahiti will face fel-low continental champions Nigeria, ranked No. 31, Spain and No. 19 Uruguay.

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Brazilian soccer player Neymar speaks during a commercial event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 28, 2013.

Neymar wants to ‘make history’ with BarcelonaAssociated Press Writer

BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona striker Neymar said he’s ready to “start marking his-tory” with the Spanish champions and follow in a long line of Brazilians who have triumphed at Camp Nou.

Everton appoint pass master Martinez as manager

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Uruguay’s Luis Suarez (R) celebrates with teammate Maxi-miliano Perieira after he scored a goal against France during their international friendly soccer match in Centenario Stadium in Montevideo, June 5, 2013.

Suarez seals Uruguay win ahead of qualifier he will miss

Brazil plummets to No. 22 in FIFA rankings

Ribery, Van Buyten extend deals at Bayern Munich

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Bayern Munich’s goalkeeper Manuel Neuer (L-R), Franck Ribery and Bastian Schweinsteiger holds up trophies while waving to fans from a truck as they make their way in a parade to the town hall with their three soccer trophies in Munich June 2, 2013.

following another solid season despite being second choice be-hind Jerome Boateng.

The Belgium international, who joined the Bavarians in 2006, will also be an option next season following the cruciate ligament injury suffered by cen-tral defender Holger Badstuber

who will be out for about 10 months.

Bayern, who set a record for fewest goals conceded in the Bundesliga with just 18 in 34 league games, became the first German club to win the treble after also adding the German Cup this month.

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PARIS, - The last time Maria Sharapova dropped the opening set of a match 6-0, an Olympic dream was trampled. On Wednesday a simi-lar drubbing provoked a champion’s response as the Russian kept alive her hopes of a second successive French Open title alive.

Thoughts of her humiliating defeat at Wimbledon by Serena Williams last year returned as the misfiring Sharapova surrendered the first set of her quarter-final against Jelena Jankovic in 28 minutes be-fore recovering to win 0-6 6-4 6-3. As expected Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic set up a siesmic semi-final clash after comfortable wins against Stanislas Wawrinka and German vet-eran Tommy Haas respectively.

Seven-times champion Nadal, roaring back into top form after a poor opening week, crushed weary-looking Swiss Wawrinka 6-2 6-3 6-1 while world number one Djokovic was made to work harder by Haas before polishing off the 35-year-old 6-3 7-6(5) 7-5. With Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Spaniard David Ferrer enjoying comprehensive wins on Tuesday all four men’s quarter-finals at Roland Garros were won in straight sets for the first time since 1948. In contrast all the women’s last-eight ties have been tightly con-tested, even Victoria Azarenka’s 7-6 6-2 defeat of Maria Kirilenko which featured a 76-minute opening set.

That Sharapova pulled round a match in which she managed just 14 points in a first set to move through to a juicy-looking semi-final against Azarenka spoke volumes for the fighting spirit of the four-times grand slam champion.

SIZZLING WINNERS“I wanted to put that chapter behind

me,” Sharapova said. “It was certainly nice to change that around, because I wasn’t doing much in that first six games.” World number two Sharapova will be wary of making such a slow start against Azarenka on Thursday.

The Belarussian enjoys a 7-5 career record against Sharapova and says she is beginning to fall in love with clay after reaching her first semi-final at Roland Garros. “I still don’t have any ring on my finger,” she said when quizzed about her relationship with the Parisian clay courts. “But I feel like we made a step forward.”

Sharapova made 45 unforced errors against the feisty Jankovic but having worked her way back into the match she showed her class with some siz-zling winners when it mattered. At 3-3 in the third set she stretched her long limbs to hook an impossible-looking backhand winner and then broke serve with a piercing forehand down the line, holding her celebratory fist-clenched salute as courtside cameras clicked their appreciation.

She then fought off a break point in the next game with a nerveless swinging volley off a Jankovic moon ball, breaking the Serbian’s spirit in the process as she moved on to reach the semi-finals here for the fourth time in 11 attempts. “Sometimes you just have to get the job done, and I did today,” Sharapova said.

REPEAT ON CARDSA repeat of last year’s women’s final

between Sharapova and Italian Sara Errani is still on the cards, although Azarenka and world number one Ser-ena Williams, who faces Errani, will have plenty to say about that. Nadal had never lost a set against Wawrinka, who was bidding to become the first Swiss to last longer at a grand slam than Roger Federer since 2002, in their nine previ-ous matches and was never in danger of doing so on Wednesday.

The core of the San Antonio team that swept that best-of-seven championship and celebrated on James’s former home court, remains intact but it will be a much-improved James who is now a much more complete player with the Miami Heat.

“LeBron is a different player than he was in ‘07. That is like ancient history,” Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich said on Wednesday.

“He was basically a neophyte at the time, wonder-ing how all this stuff worked and how it’s put together. We were very fortunate at that time to get him so early ... he’ll be a lot more of a problem than he was in ‘07, that’s for sure.”

James, the reigning league most valuable player (MVP), has arguably improved in every area of his game over the past six years and his assessment is that the main upgrade has been in terms of his basketball intelligence.

“A lot smarter and more experienced, older and more mature on and off the floor. And I think that’s the most important thing,” said James.

“I’ve matured as a basketball player. I’ve matured as a man. And it has allowed my game to sprout.”

James and the Cavaliers were simply outclassed by the Spurs in 2007 and James concedes that San Antonio worked him out pretty well. The four-time MVP is also confident that he has a more diverse range of skills this time around and, crucially, he has an increased belief in his shooting ability.

“They funneled me to the sideline and dared me to shoot it, and didn’t allow me to get to the paint where I did most of my damage back then,” said James. “If you go into my pick-and-roll now, I’m going to shoot and I’m confident I’m going to make every last one of them. I’m just more confident in my ability to shoot the ball. “At the same time, I also have a lot more weapons this time around going against this team, where in ‘07 they loaded three guys to me a lot on the strong side of the floor.

The Spurs certainly don’t expect to be able to deal with James, who won his first NBA title in 2012, with the same ease they showed six years ago.

“It was a young LeBron. He was still unbelievable, because he was just coming off an unbelievable series against Detroit, playing great basketball. I think in that particular series we played great defense on him,” said Spurs point guard Tony Parker.

“It was just the beginning for him. Right now he’s a four-time MVP, so it’s going to be a different story. He’s playing unbelievable basketball and he’s a little bit older. “We’ll try to do the best we can to try to slow him down. You can’t stop him. That’s for sure.

REUTERS/Vincent Kessler Maria Sharapova of Russia celebrates defeating Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in their women’s singles quarter-final match during the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris June 5, 2013. A hail of unforced errors could not melt away Sharapova’s French Open dreams as the Russian kept alive hopes of retaining the title with a 0-6 6-4 6-3 win over Jankovic in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.

Sharapova survives bagel, Rafa sets up Djokovic clash

AP Photo/Wilfredo LeeMiami Heat players Dwyane Wade, left, Chris Bosh and LeBron James talk following the presentation of the NBA Eastern Conference trophy following Game 7 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoff series against the Indiana Pacers, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 in Miami.

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MIAMI - A more confident LeBron James heads into his fourth NBA Finals on Thursday against a familiar San Antonio Spurs team that eased by his for-mer Cleveland squad in his first title series in 2007.

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Tanah Lot is a famous destination in Bali Island. It is located on coastal side of Beraban village, Tabanan Regency. Besides being famous for its beautiful scen-

ery, Tanah Lot also famous with its temple. The temple located on the rock with 3 acre size and reachable in a few minute by walk, because it is just 20 meters from

the coastal lip. This temple is very famous among tourist destina-

tions in Bali with spectacular view of sunset. At some nooks of coral reef around Tanah Lot Temple there

are holy tame snake in black and white color where according to the local society believe that it as a deity property and as the guard of the temple from the bad

influence. The word of Tanah Lot is consisted of two words

that are Tanah word interpreted as a reef looking like gili or isle. Lot or Lod word has meaning the sea. So Tanah Lot is meaning the small island floating on the sea. The location is now called as Tanah Lot has been used at a Megalithic period as a place that looked into holy, proven from the existence of menhir. Pursuant to environmental condition, hence the structure of Tanah

Lot Temple is built at irregular reef plain of its angle which is only consisted of one plain yard as Jeroan.The function of this temple can be realized from the

function of the main temple building which is located in the temple main area. In this place, there is a main

temple to worship the god in form of Dewa Baruna or Bhatara Segara, the sea power. The media of worship

to this god is the temple building with 5 storied mean-while the 3 storied temple building in north part of this area is purposing to worship to Dang Hyang Nirartha.

The unique animal can be seen in this temple area is the snake which are generally can be met in the coast.

Part of its stomach there are no athwart skin, there is only small skin, but this sea water snake very noxious but snakebite case are very seldom happened, because

the sea water snake generally very passive.

Tanah Lot

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TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s premier on Wednesday ordered relocation of the headquarters of the state-run oil company to the eastern city of Benghazi, fulfilling a long-standing demand by residents of the region and comes days after tribal declared semi-independent region in the east.

Prime Minister Ali Zidan told reporters that the decision was not taken under pressure, and that Libya’s institutions must be present everywhere across the country.

Benghazi was the birthplace of the uprising that ousted longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. Despite its oil riches, eastern Libya’s residents have complained for decades about discrimination by the west, where the capital, Tripoli, is located.

The relocation of the National Oil Corporation and af-filiated companies is expected to bring new job opportuni-ties and boost the economic weight of the region.

The decision comes after advocates of self-rule in the east pushed ahead with their plan aiming at reviving the system maintained under King Idris after the formation of the United Kingdom of Libya in 1951, when Libya was divided into three states: Tripolitania in the west, Fezzan in the southwest and Cyrenaica — or Barqa, as it was called in Arabic — which encompassed the eastern half of the country. Gadhafi led a military coup that overthrew Idris in 1969.

The leader of the autonomy movement, Ahmed al-Zubair, along with tribal and former rebel leaders, declared the eastern region of Cyrenaica as a semi-independent as of June 1. Al-Zubair also announced creation of a separate force to defend the region and collect weapons.

Idris declared eastern Libya independent from Britain on June 1, 1949.

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a decorated veteran of four com-bat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, admitted to leaving his Army post in the Afghan province of Kandahar last March to gun down and set fire to unarmed villagers, mostly women and children, in attacks on their family compounds.

“As far as why, I’ve asked that question a million times since then,” Bales said, in a calm, steady voice, when the judge pressed him for an explanation. “There is not a good reason in this world for why I did the horrible things that I did.”

The slayings marked the worst case of civilian slaughter blamed on a single, rogue U.S. soldier since the Vietnam War and further strained U.S.-Afghan relations after more than a decade of conflict in that country.

Bales, 39, now faces a life term in prison, but a military jury will decide if and when he will ever be eligible for parole after further proceedings set to begin August 19.

Prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty in return for Bales’ guilty plea to the murder charges he faced.

The judge, Army Colonel Jeffery Nance, accepted the agree-ment at the end of a lengthy hearing during which Bales was required to recount the events in question and to convince the judge he understood his plea and the consequences of his acts.

Wearing a military dress uniform, Bales stood beside his lawyer, Emma Scanlan, as she entered guilty pleas on his behalf to 16 counts of premeditated murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven counts of assault, as well as to alcohol and drug charges.

Reading through the list of charges himself, one at a time, later in the hearing, Bales acknowledged that he committed 10 of the slayings by shooting and burning his victims and that he killed six others by gunshot only.

“I then did kill her by shooting her with a firearm and burning her. This act was without legal justification,” he said during a matter-of-fact recitation of his crimes, delivered with no visible sign of emotion.

INTENT TO KILLAsked by Nance if he had acted out of self-defense, or under

orders, or whether he had any other legal justification to kill the 16 villagers, Bales replied, “No, sir.” “Could you have avoided killing them if you wanted to?” the judge asked.

“Yes, sir,” he answered, adding that he “formed the intent (to kill) as I raised my weapon.” Bales said that setting fire to his victims was also done with the intent to kill, and that he was aware it was “against their cultural norms.”

Bales has claimed his memories of the killings are spotty, but he acknowledged seeing a lantern at one point during the rampage and that matches were later found in his possession. He said he learned from previous testimony that kerosene was used in the burnings.

Bales’ wife was seated behind him in the courtroom benches at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Washington. Army prosecutors have said Bales acted alone and with chilling premeditation when, armed with a pistol, a rifle and a grenade launcher, he left his post twice during the night to attack civilians. He is said to have returned to base in the middle of the rampage to tell a fellow soldier: “I just shot up some people.”

Defense attorneys have argued that Bales, the father of two from Lake Tapps, Washington, was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury even before his deployment to Afghanistan.

STEROIDS AND WHISKEYUnder questioning from Nance, Bales said that his use of

illegal steroids, which he admitted taking to improve muscle tone and recovery time from missions, also “increased my

Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales (L) and Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance are seen in a sketch from January 17, 2013, as Bales is arraigned on 16 counts of pre-meditated murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven of assault at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

Soldier pleads guilty to murdering 16 Afghan civiliansReuters

TACOMA, Washington - A U.S. Army sergeant who killed 16 Afghan civilians in cold blood last year pleaded guilty on Wednesday to premeditated murder and other charges under a deal with military prosecutors that spares him from the death penalty.

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Libya moves state-run oil company to Benghazi

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A small island formed by the accumulation of trash is pictured in Tanjung Burung, on the coast of Indonesia’s Banten province June 5, 2013. According a local resident, the trash originated from Jakarta and surrounding cities, and accumulated in this area after flow-ing through rivers, polluting the sea around Tanjung Burung. World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5.

Indonesia will host the 2013 Miss World competition in the country’s resort island of Bali and the capital, Jakarta, in Sep-tember.

Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, one of the local organizers, said Thurs-day that all contestants will be required to wear Bali’s traditional long sarongs instead of the sexy bikinis that are traditionally part

of the competition.He said the London-based Miss

World Organization has agreed to the request out of respect for the traditional customs and values of Indonesia.

Most Muslims in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Is-lamic country, are moderate, but a small extremist fringe has become more vocal in recent years.

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Banda Aceh, Aceh - Acehnese residents found three skeletons which were suspected to be part of tsunami victims in December 2004.

According to the residents, they found the skeletons when they were taking the sand after being dredged from Krueng (river) Aceh in Surabaya hamlet of Ateuk Pahlawan Village, Baiturrahman subdistrict, Banda Aceh City.

“Bones and human skulls, alleg-edly victims of the tsunami, were found when the residents took sand from the river that was dredged by heavy equipment,” said Suriati, a

resident of Surabaya hamlet, Banda Aceh on Tuesday.

The residents along with volun-teers of the “Radio Antar Penduduk Indonesia (RAPI)” in the city tried to collect the bones and skulls from the sand pile at the river bank.

The residents then handed the skeletons and skulls to the local office of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), and PMI personnel then delivered the skeletons and skulls to Zainoel Abidin general hospital (RSUZA) in Banda Aceh.

On April 26, river dredging workers found a human skeleton suspected to be the tsunami vic-tim under Pante Pirak bridge in the city.

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Jakarta - The Public Works Ministry is preparing at least Rp6 trillion in funds to build various basic infrastructure facilities in return for the imminent fuel price hike.

With the project targeting the poor in rural and urban areas across the country, the subsidized fuel price hike will hopefully have no significant impact on the poor, Public Works Minister Djoko Kir-manto said here on Wednesday.

He said 70 percent of the project which puts emphasis on drinking water supplies to the poor par-ticularly in drought-prone areas,

fishermen`s villages and fish ports will be carried out outside Java and 30 percent in Java.

The drinking water supply proj-ect will cover the supply of raw water at a cost of Rp2 trillion, the construction of small dams to sup-ply drinking water to 93 drought-prone districts and cities at a cost of Rp899.5 billion, the protection of coastal areas in fishermen`s settle-ments at a cost of Rp299.5 billion and the repair of small irrigation system in 4,000 villages at a cost of Rp801 billion, he said.

The second priority of the project is settlement infrastructure which will cost Rp2 trillion. The project will be carried out through

a public empowerment scheme consisting of direct assistance to 5,500 new villages and 1,800 slum villages worth Rp1.8 trillion and viability gap fund worth Rp175 billion, he said.

He said the third program is also related to the expansion of drinking water supplies to 318 fishemen`s villages at a cost of Rp2 trillion, including those to fish ports at a cost of Rp318 billion, 260 villages and 35 sub-district capitals prone to drought a cost of Rp742 billion and low-income people in 341 urban areas at a cost of Rp940 billion.

“The programs are actually not new. They just follow the previous government`s idea,” he said.

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Dumai, Riau - Thick smog covered Dumai city affecting the visibility in the city`s main roads as low as 200 meters on Wednesday at around 10 am local time. The heavy smog affected the people`s daily activity especially those riding motorcycles due to the low visibility.

Nofri, a local resident, said he was forced to wear protective face masks when taking his children to school and going for work.

“I don`t want the smog affecting

my respiratory, I and my children must put on protective masks before riding on my motorcycle,” Nofri said.

Nofri urged the government to deal with the smog immediately be-cause the haze could affect people`s respiratory.

Another resident, Ilham, said he had to cancel his appointment to ride out into the city due to the smog, al-though it was gradually thinning.

According to Ilham, the smog likely came from forest and planta-tion fires around Dumai-Rokan Hilir district border area.

Indonesia axes bikinis for 2013 Miss World pageant

Associated Press Writer

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Miss World organizers have axed the famed bikinis from this year’s pageant, replacing them with conservative beach sarongs amid mounting protests from hardline Muslim groups.

Acehnese residents find skeletons of tsunami victims

Smog covers Dumai city, Riau

Govt prepares Rp6 tln for basic infrastructures

“The powers that be continue to counter with violence, pressure and prohibitionist policies ... demands which are being expressed in a peaceful and democratic manner,” a spokesman for the delegation said after meeting Arinc. “We demand the removal from duty of those who gave the order to inflict force ... starting with the governors and police chiefs of Istanbul, Ankara and Hatay,” he told reporters, referring to the areas worst affected by violence.

A second trade union federation representing hundreds of thousands of workers joined the protests on Wednesday, its members banging drums, trailing banners and chanting “Tayyip resign” as they marched on Taksim.

Around Ankara’s Kugulu Park, a middle class area dotted with restaurants and bars, people chanted “dictator resign” and “everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is resistance” into the night as residents on balconies banged pots and pans in support.Despite the protest, Erdogan remains by far the country’s most popular politician, his blustering, assertive style and common touch resonating with the conservative Islamic heartland.

His AK Party has won an increasing share of the vote in three successive elections and holds around two thirds of the seats in parliament. A man who rarely bows to any opposition, he clearly has no intention of stepping down and no obvious rivals inside or outside his party. But he, and those around him, face a challenge calming the protests without appearing to lose face.

On Wednesday, a small group of people who read a state-ment in support of the protests were set upon in the Black Sea city of Rize, Erdogan’s homeland and a stronghold of the AK Party, an attack that only ended after police intervened.

Turkey’s Erdogan... irritability and anger.”

During a nine-day pre-trial hearing last fall, witnesses testified that Bales had been upset by a bomb blast near his outpost that severed a fellow soldier’s leg days before the shootings.

One corporal recounted that in the hours before the ram-page he, Bales and a third soldier had been drinking whiskey together while watching the Hollywood film “Man on Fire,” which stars Denzel Washington as a former assassin bent on revenge.

Night-vision video footage taken from a surveillance balloon over the camp captured Bales’ arrest, showing him walking back to the post with a bed sheet or throw rug tied around his neck like a cloak as he is confronted by three soldiers who order him to drop his weapons and then take him into custody.

One of them, drinking buddy Corporal David Godwin, testified that Bales kept repeating the words, “I thought I was doing the right thing,” and, “It’s bad. It’s bad. It’s re-ally bad.”

After Wednesday’s hearing, Scanlan told reporters her client “has been waiting for the day that he can accept re-sponsibility for what he’s done.”

She added that Bales wanted to make a statement of apol-ogy for his actions but that Wednesday’s hearing was not the appropriate place or time.

“The forum for that is the penalty phase,” she said. Army officials said some family members of the victims are expected to give statements at the sentencing hearing in August.

The plea deal entered on Wednesday was similar to an agreement struck at Lewis-McChord in April, when Army Sergeant John Russell pleaded guilty to killing two fellow U.S. servicemen at a military counseling center in Iraq, near Baghdad’s airport, in a 2009 shooting spree.

Russell was sentenced to life in prison without parole following an abbreviated court-martial stemming from one of the worst cases of violence by an American soldier against other U.S. troops.

Bali News Friday, June 7, 2013 5InternationalFriday, June 7, 201312 International

kintamani For those who love to go hiking or go to the moun-tainous area, Bali is famous for its beautiful mountainous scenery.

Kintamani for example. Kintamani is the most favorite tourist destina-tions in Bali with the active volcano of mount Batur and beautiful lake.

Kintamani is surrounded by the captivating nature and there are six ancient villages around cauldron of Batur Lake which is often con-

ceived by Bali Age Village. The local people from these Bali Age villages own the unique cultures, houses and life style. Kintamani Area is consisted of some Villages those are Kedisan Village , Buahan, Abang, Trunyan, Songan, South Batur, Middle Batur, North Batur, Sukawana and Kintamani Village . The total of resident in these area are about 15 thousand who are mostly working as farmer, merchant, or work at industrial tourism.

Mount Batur is located at Kin-tamani and it has erupted about 24 times since year 1800 and still active up to now. Since the mount erupting, it has impacted to the local society life around this mount, like removing altar (Temple), improve or repairing the village and re-arrange the tradition. Lake Batur is the big-gest lake in Bali and functioning as irrigation source to all farmers around it and it is also for all Bali society generally. Kintamani area has been founded some lodging, hotels and restaurants which are located in Kintamani and Penelokan Village. It is a famous tourist place because Kintamani area owns the beautiful panorama and it is en-

circled by the cold atmosphere.Kintamani is beautifully seen

at the day time around 10:00 am until 15:00 pm especially having fine weather where entire Kinta-mani area will be able to be seen clearly. Generally, all tourists who pay a visit to this place will arrive in the day time where they can enjoy the panorama or enjoy the lunch in the local restaurant with lake view. Mostly restau-rants at Kintamani generally own very beautiful view where tourist merging into their lunch in this restaurant and meanwhile enjoy the panorama.

Kintamani is located in Kinta-mani sub district, Bangli Regency and about 50 km from Denpasar Town or about 2 hours by car. All roads are generally in good condi-tion to access to this place. The fog will descend and blanket entire area of Kintamani with cold tempera-ture in particular at late afternoon until the whole of night. The most amazing panorama at Kintamani can be seen in the morning time, when the sunrise emerges on the surface of earth precisely on the mount Batur.

A fisherman, Wayan Sudina, last Tuesday said the crossing activity was halted until the weather turned back to normal. This fisherman from Bias ham-let, Kusamba, added many vegetables owned by traders such as beans, kale, spinach, cucumber, cabbage and a va-riety of fruits could not be dispatched on Saturday (Jun 1). As a result, all commodities rotted and were made into fodder. “Rather than disposed use-lessly, the traders then processed their vegetables into fodder,” he said.

In the cargo warehouse, hundreds of commodities such as bags of rice, medi-cines, gallon water, bottled water and gas tube remained to pile up and filled up the warehouse. Meanwhile, outside the warehouse, thousands of crates of beverage still queued to be dispatched to Nusa Penida. Although it had been full, similar commodities continued to arrive, so that they were forced to be unloaded outside the warehouse and on the beach.

The Head of Bias hamlet port ware-house, Nyoman Sukadana, said last Tuesday the commodities had been stuck inside and outside the warehouse

for five days from Saturday (Jun 1) be-cause no vessel dared to transport them to Nusa Penida. According to him, for once departure a boat could maximally transport 15 tons of commodities stored in the warehouse.

All this time, the existence of ware-house spreading across some 200 square meters could adequately help the economy of local people. In case of normal crossing, many porters relied on the warehouse as the source of their livelihood. Sukadana said that each item was typically charged with stor-age and transport cost onto the boat at different rates.

For instance, rice would be charged at IDR 45,000 per ton, roof tile at IDR 85,000 per 1,000 pieces and timber at IDR 55,000 per cubic. “Meanwhile, beverage product is charged per item such as a gallon of water and beverages in crates will be charged at IDR 2,000 per item,” said Sukadana. However, since the crossing service did not oper-ate, the labor activity was bogged down so that dozens of workers at the location were idle while waiting for the weather was getting better. (kmb31)

Bad weather

Crossing stopped, vegetables rot and goods pile upSemarapura (Bali Post)—

Cessation of traditional crossing at kusamba had a great impact on the people’s economy. Vegetables usually sold to residents to traditional market at mentigi, nusa Penida, could not be transported. as a result, vegetables of traders finally rotted and were forced to be made into fodder. in addition, hun-dreds of bags of rice, medicines and various other items were still restrained at three traditional ports of kusamba up to tuesday (Jun 4).

Bali Post/kmb31Various commodities piled up in traditional port warehouse at Bias hamlet, Kusamba.

Kintamani

IBP/fileThe beautiful Kintamani, one of the tourim site in Bangli

Reuters

NEW YORK - Hiring by U.S. firms was sluggish in May while a sharp rise in mortgage inter-est rates last week weighed on what has been a buoyant hous-ing market, adding to signs the economy lost some momentum in the second quarter. Indeed, a separate report from the Federal Reserve characterized the pace of the economic expansion as “modest to moderate” since mid-April as hiring remained relatively subdued.

The Fed’s Beige Book of economic conditions is prepared as research for policymakers to use at their next meeting on June 18-19, a meeting that will be watched for any indications as to when the Fed may pull back on its stimulus program.

Private employers added 135,000 jobs in May, the ADP Na-tional Employment Report showed on Wednesday, an acceleration from April but missing forecasts for a gain of 165,000. April’s private payrolls were revised to an increase of 113,000 from the previously reported 119,000 gain. “The number was weak,” said

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, which jointly developed the report.

“The ADP (data) is suggesting instead of job growth stepping up, it’s actually stepping down as we move into the summer months,” Zandi told reporters. “It’s not like we’re falling off a cliff, it just feels like we’re throt-tling back a little bit.”

The ADP report showed man-ufacturers shed payrolls in May and a separate report indicated jobs growth in the vast services sector was weak last month, with a gauge of employment at services firms falling to its lowest in close to a year.

Economic growth is expected to cool in the current quarter from the 2.4 percent rate in the first three months of the year, partly due to fiscal belt-tighten-ing in Washington. Economists still largely expect the recovery should regain traction in the sec-ond half of the year. The goods producing sector cut 3,000 jobs in May, with a drop of 6,000 positions at manufacturing firms, which could be partially due to defense spending cutbacks, Zandi said.

That means the main focus will be President Mario Draghi’s news conference which follows Thurs-day’s policy meeting, when he is likely to trim the bank’s economic forecasts and be questioned on the future direction of policy. “We think he (Draghi) will keep the door open for more easing but it’s not the time to do it today,” said Piet Lammens, a strategist at KBC in Brussels.

The stronger conviction for no change in policy followed data sug-gesting the downturn across the re-gion is starting to ease, encouraging traders to push the euro up to $1.3131, its highest level since May 9 and up 0.3 percent on the day.

The euro’s rise dragged the dollar index to a four-week low of 82.39 (.DXY). The U.S. currency also hit a four-week low of 98.86 yen earlier on Thursday, though it then recovered to

trade at 99.25 yen, up 0.2 percent. “The dollar’s longer-term bullish outlook remains intact as the Fed will eventually start scaling down its stimulus if jobs continue to be added, while the Bank of Japan will expand its monetary base,” said Yuji Saito, director of foreign ex-change at Credit Agricole in Tokyo.

CENTRAL BANK DAYMeanwhile another central bank,

the Bank of England, is also widely ex-pected to leave its policies on hold at the conclusion of its final policy meeting under current Governor Mervyn King on Thursday. UK data on manufactur-ing, services and construction sectors have all pointed to a pick-up in activity, tempering expectations that the new governor, Mark Carney, who takes over in July, will turn to aggressive monetary easing in the near term.

As long as there are no surprises

from either the ECB or the Bank of England, the market’s focus is likely to quickly switch to Friday’s U.S. non-farm payrolls report which could deter-mine when the Federal Reserve begins tapering its bond-buying. A strong jobs report would add to speculation the Fed could begin cutting back its $85 billion a month bond-buying program before the end of the year, putting pressure on all riskier asset markets.

Fears about this have seen the broad FTSEurofirst 300 index (.FTEU3) shed nearly 10 percent over the past nine trading days, although it recov-ered slightly on Thursday to be up 0.2 percent by mid-morning. London’s FTSE 100 (.FTSE), and Frankfurt’s DAX (.GDAXI) were around 0.1 to 0.3 percent firmer. (.EU)

Earlier, another volatile session for Japan’s Nikkei index, which ended below 13,000 for the first time in two months, undermined Asian markets, sending them to fresh 2013 lows and leaving MSCI’s world equity index <.miwd00000pus> little changed.

In fixed income, German Bund prices drew support from the expec-tations the ECB will keep monetary policy ultra-easy and from the Fed uncertainty but stayed within narrow ranges.

Reuters

LONDON - Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) has sold a 260 million pound ($400 million) stake in Barclays (BARC.L), about half its holding in the British bank. SMBC said it sold 84.5 million shares at 308.5 pence apiece via an accelerated share placing. The shares were sold by Nomura , people familiar with the matter said.

SMBC said the share sale was for the “capital efficiency” of its parent Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group.

The Japanese bank bought 169 million shares in Barclays at 296p in June 2008 as part of a series of fundraisings during the financial crisis. It still held those shares last month, according to Thomson Reuters data, making it the bank’s seventh- biggest shareholder with a stake of about 1.3 percent.

The share sale was completed just before Thursday’s London stock market opening. By 4:25 a.m. ET, Barclays shares were down 2.4 percent at 308.7p.

SMBC invested alongside investors from Qatar, Singapore and China in its 4.5 billion pound fundraising in June 2008. Bar-clays has said its deal with Qatar is being investigated by UK and U.S. authorities over certain commercial agreements between the two sides.

Barclays said at the time of the fundraising SMBC’s invest-ment would open the door to closer cooperation between the banks, and in July 2010 they set up a joint private banking venture with Nikko Cordial Securities for wealthy customers in Japan, called SMBC Barclays Wealth Division. SMBC said the share sale would have no impact on its business cooperation with Barclays.

REUTERS/Suzanne PlunkettA man walks through the lobby of the London Stock Exchange August 5, 2011.

Euro gains as ECB seen on hold, Fed worries lingerReuters

LOnDOn - the euro hit a four-week high against the dollar on thurs-day as investors positioned for the European Central Bank to leave rates unchanged, but uncertainty over the U.S. Federal Reserve’s next move kept equity markets on edge. the ECB cut its main interest rate to a record low 0.5 percent in may and was seen sitting tight as it waits for further evidence of an economic recovery it has predicted will emerge in the second half of the year.

Sumitomo cuts Barclays stake with $400 million sale

Companies add more jobs but growth disappoints

BUSINESS

Reuters

PHNOM PENH - As invest-ment in Cambodia’s textile industry surges, so is labour unrest, putting pressure on suppliers to the world’s big garment brands to raise wages and improve sometimes grim con-ditions in one of the last bastions of

low-cost factories.Hundreds of angry workers ram-

paged this week through a textile plant in Cambodia that supplies U.S. sportswear company Nike Inc, clashing with police over their de-mands for a pay hike. The violence came just weeks after over 1,100 workers were killed in the collapse

of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh, another impoverished Asian nation where mass-produced textiles are the big-gest export earner.

Cambodia is considered one of the better locations in the world for low-cost garment manufacturing with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) monitoring pay and working conditions at many factories.

But strikes and sometimes violent protests have been on the rise as unions emboldened by a shortage of skilled workers press complaints that companies have failed to raise wages enough or improve safety.

Strikes by the country’s more than 300,000 garment workers nearly quadrupled last year to 134, accord-ing to the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia, the main industry body. The 48 strikes so far this year are already more than in the whole of 2010 or 2011. “Supply of skilled workers is a problem,” said Kaing Monika, a business develop-ment manager at the Garment Manu-facturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC), the main industry body. “Most existing factories are running at full capacity.”

Nike was the latest big brand to face protest action at its Cambodia-based suppliers in recent months, joining H&M Hennes and Mauritz AB, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Gap Inc, and Puma SE among others.

The international brands buy gar-ments from local manufacturers and do not have direct control over pay or working conditions. But the major companies have signed to the ILO scheme aimed at ensuring suppliers meet legal requirements on wages and work conditions.

The garments industry has be-come by far the country’s biggest export earner, with shipments up 10 percent in 2012 to $4.44 billion.

ELECTION YEARUntil this year, the minimum

wage in the textile sector was $61 a month, compared to $38 in Bangla-desh and more than $150 in China. The government raised it in March to $80, including a health care subsidy, but strikers at the Nike factory and other workers complain that wage rises have not kept up with costs.

“Life is hard, we have a lot of ex-penses with a low wage. Sometimes, we just borrow money from other

workers,” said 28-year-old Mao Pov, one of those on strike at the Sabrina Garment Manufacturing plant that supplies Nike as well as privately held Wilson Sporting Goods Co.

Inflation in Cambodia was 3 percent in 2012, which is low for developing nations in Asia, although many workers complain the price of basic items has risen faster.

Sweden’s H&M, the world’s second-largest fashion retailer, said a general election scheduled to be held in July had caused some instability among workers at plants run by its Cambodian suppliers.

“This being an election year, the situation in the country was gener-ally more disorderly than usual dur-ing early spring,” said spokeswoman Andrea Roos. After minimum wages were increased, “the situation on the labour market in Cambodia has been more stable”, she said.

Workers at the Nike-linked plant first went on strike on May 21 even though the factory had raised their minimum wage. The union on strike says that the health and other benefits that were previously paid separately were folded into the new wage, and is demanding another $14 hike.

There is no sign that the North Korean regime is in danger or that U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will discuss that possibility when they meet this week in California. Any such talk would alarm North Korea if word got out.

But in China, talk of a North Ko-rean collapse is no longer the taboo subject it once was. Academics are increasingly willing to discuss it and a former top U.S. general said he has detected, during informal meetings, a willingness of Chinese officials to consider such discus-sions.

That reflects internal debate in China and dismay about North Korean brinkmanship in the after-math of rocket and nuclear tests this winter that defied China, which sup-plies the North with crucial food, energy and diplomatic support.

Young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have consoli-dated control since taking power a

year-and-a-half ago, and the spike in tension that followed its Febru-ary nuclear test has eased in recent weeks. But there’s a perennial threat of fighting with South Korea on one of the world’s most militarized frontiers. China would want to avoid any conflict that could draw in its forces from the North, and U.S. forces from South Korea, as dur-ing the 1950-53 Korean War. Both powers would be concerned about the fate of North Korea’s arsenal of chemical weapons, missiles and nuclear weapons and facilities.

But China also has reason to fear a North Korean collapse. That could trigger an exodus of hungry refugees across its border and lead to a reunified Korea allied with the United States, hosting American troops on China’s doorstep.

Analysts say that until Chinese leaders decide among themselves what kind of outcome they are prepared to accept on the Korean Peninsula, they won’t discuss the

subject with U.S. officials. Still, they see some changes in China’s attitude.

Will iam Fallon, a former chief of U.S. Pa- c i f i c Command, said t h e U.S. and China would have a shared inter-est in work-ing together on North Korea and discussing issues such as securing its nuclear weapons. He said that in unofficial meetings in China this year with for-mer and current Chinese govern-ment and military officials, he raised that possibility in broad terms and de-tected a willingness to consider it.

“I certainly suggested, and I know others have offi-cially and formally suggested that it’s about time we sat down to talk because we have common interest here,” Fallon said. “I think that idea is not being rejected. The heads are nodding and they are con-

sidering it. I would expect that this would move forward, carefully.”

Such cooperation would require Beijing and Washington overcom-ing deep, mutual suspicions that characterize their relations as Chi-na’s economic and military power grows and the U.S. looks to boost its profile and long-established presence in Asia.

But China is taking a tougher stance on North Korea, as the U.S. hoped it would. It has supported tighter U.N. sanctions in re-sponse to the Febru-ary nuclear test and stepped up border inspections. Most notably, a leading

Chinese s ta te

bank shut accounts of North Ko-rea’s Foreign Trade Bank, its main foreign exchange institution.

Two weeks ago, China hosted a top North Korean envoy, a visit that Brookings Institution scholar Cheng Li says was expedited in advance of the U.S.-China summit that starts Friday. The North has since adopted a less confrontational stance and declared a willingness to return to the negotiating table.

But the U.S. sees that as little progress by North Korea, noting that the day after Vice Marshal Choe Ryong returned home, Pyongyang re-pudiated the goal of denuclearization — a U.S. prerequisite for restarting long-stalled

aid-for-disarmament ne-gotiations.

Bali News International4 Friday, June 7, 2013 Friday, June 7, 2013 13International RLDWChina frustration with NKorea offers hope for USAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — China’s growing frustration with longtime ally North Korea offers the United States a glimmer of hope about a once unthinkable prospect: holding discussions between Washington and Beijing about what to do if the government in Pyongyang collapses.

Kim Jong Un

Not just Bangladesh, garment makers pressured in Cambodia as well

REUTERS/Samrang PringA protester holds a stick and a stone during clashes with the police in front of a factory owned by Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing in Kampong Speu province, west of the capital Phnom Penh June 3, 2013.

LOvINA quay ready to be extendedBoat and yacht quay on Lovina Beach previously com-plained to be too short has now been ready to be extended by the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency. Nevertheless, before preparing the budget for the extension, the quay will be tested first in the implementation of the Sail Indonesia 2013.

The Head of Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Jro Ketut Warkadea, said the quay would be tested in the Sail Indonesia event later this year. At that time, hundreds of yachts would berth in on the jetty of Lovina. If later on the quay was considered to need extension, his party would be ready to submit the budget for the quay extension. “We do not know for sure whether the yachts will berth there. Let’s see,” he said.

According to Warkadea, the length of the quay reached 27 meters and at a glance the length really looked inadequate. Nevertheless, the quay could have been utilized. Previously, travelers had to open their shoes while riding a boat and risk of being wet, but today they were enough to come aboard through the quay. If needed an extension later on, the agency claimed to be ready to pro-pose an aid to Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy for the quay extension. The plan would be submitted through the tourism development grants. “Central government is still able to help us,” he said.

Previously, the quay development on Lovina Beach was intended for berthing location of yachts that frequently dropped in every organization of the Sail Indonesia. (kmb15)

As a form of protest, the drivers parked and left their vehicle at roadside in front of the terminal and at the exit point of the terminal to deliver speeches on their complaints in the terminal. Made Sudiya, one of the drivers, said the interprovincial city buses serving the Java-Bali route often dropped off passengers at the unofficial terminal. Furthermore, the passengers were picked up by private car alleged to have been working with the interprovincial city bus. Aside from the unofficial terminal, the drivers also said that so far there remained interprovincial city buses taking and dropping off passenger at Ubung Terminal. Automatically, such condition increasingly diminished the income of public transport drivers.

“Public transport at Mengwi Termi-nal does not get any passenger. Some-times, we just get passengers once in three days. How can we survive at this rate?” he said.

Therefore, Sudiya and his col-leagues urged the Badung Communi-cation and Informatics Agency to take action against the interprovincial city buses dropping off passengers outside

the Mengwi Terminal. “We also ask the Transportation Agency to discipline the unofficial terminal,” he affirmed.

Responding to the demands of the drivers, the Division Head of Transportation, Badung Transporta-tion and Informatics Agency, Made Widiana, stated that so far his party had attempted maximally to lead the interprovincial city buses to drop off passengers at Mengwi Terminal. Sign installation and disposition of the officials had also been done, but the same problem stayed to occur. “We in the county do not have the author-ity to take action against the stubborn interprovincial city buses. It is the duty of the province as the representative of central government,” he said.

Action of the transport drivers tak-ing place until 09:15 in the morning had kindled crowdedness in the traf-fic flow into and out of the terminal. Besides, many passengers wishing to resume their journey were displaced. Even, some passengers should walk with their baggage and leave the ter-minal to the main road to hitch a ride. (kmb22)

Lovina quay ready to be extended

IBP/File

Protest against rampant unofficial terminal

Dozens of drivers block Mengwi Terminal

Bali Post/ekaTRANSPORTATION—Dozens of public transports were parked on the roadside and the exit point of the Passenger Terminal Type A at Mengwi, Tuesday (Jun 4). Such an action was an expression of resentment of the public transport drivers over the rampant unofficial terminal and interprovincial city buses remaining to head for Ubung Terminal.

Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Dozens of public transports like taxi and urban transport parked in line along the road in front of the Mengwi Passenger Terminal Type A, Tuesday (Jun 4). Even, a number of passenger vehicles were parked at the exit point of the terminal to impede the exit of vehicles. It was the pique expression of drivers rarely getting passenger due to rampant unofficial terminal and inter-provincial city buses (AKAP) still heading for Ubung Terminal, Denpasar.

3Friday, June 7, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, June 7, 2013

Enjoy the uniqueness of Nusa Lembongan-Like the water flows, myriad of foreign tourists throng the island of Nusa Lem bongan. So, it is not mistaken if this bijou island becomes one of the most popular marine tourist attractions. Every day, they come to the tiny island located in the Klungkung Regency. Even, during peak season the number of tourists coming can reach 1,500 people.

Sweetness of honey belongs to Nusa Lembon-gan makes a number of cruise companies selling holiday package over there. One of them is Bounty Cruise based at Benoa Harbor. In the morning at around 9:30 am Local Time, Bounty Cruise has started its voyage to Nusa Lembongan. Passengers are just like a king because they are served by the crews amicably. Like the facility on a luxury cruise, breakfast is available aboard.

The voyage from Benoa to Nusa Lembongan Island takes approximately one hour by speed at 20-25 knots or 45 kilometers per hour. During the voyage, we get to enjoy some entertainment, ranging from watching films to sing along on the boat deck. Songs played by the bands are adjusted to the tourist market. On Monday, for example, is specifically serving tourists from China, so the song played is a Mandarin song.

Nusa Lembongan is a small island of calcare-ous land. The life of local people seems to give

isolated impression considering there has no adequate transportation service. A number of villas and hotels have been established on steep hills and the beach. Even, on the narrow road-side measuring 2.5 meters has already existed a number of art shops and Internet cafes.

To go to a number of objects on the island, we use tarpaulin-roofed pickups. After driving about five miles, we arrive at the center of seaweed vil-lage. At this place, we will find farmers who are cleaning the seaweed and also process it.

An attractive place to visit here is the unique underground house located in the cave known as Gala-Gala house. To enter this house, we have to go down the stairs, because this house is located 10 meters under ground of limestone. The height of the cave varies from about 1 to 1.75 meters. Sometimes, we have to duck and crouch to reach the existing rooms.

Gala-Gala house was made in 1961 until 1976 by a village resident named Made Byasa who worked as a puppeteer. Such a unique work of Byasa was inspired by the life story of the Pandavas during their living in the forest. For 17 years Byasa had worked day and night to realize such monumental work. Since the age of 75 years, his old body kept on digging and when he was 93 years old he stopped, then he died at the age of 96 years.

In the coordination meeting of Commission I of the Bali House with the Bali Office of the National Union and Politics (Kesbangpol) on Tuesday (Jun 4), the Office Head, Gede Putu Jaya Suartana, explained the ranks of the Indonesian Army in Bali ranging from the Military Regional Command to Military Resort Command proposed to get fund for the security of the Bali gubernatorial election. The fund would be used for security expenses up to the inauguration of the elected governor and deputy governor. “Proposal of the security fund came from the Military Regional Command and Military Resort Command. Originally, it was proposed at IDR 7 billion more for the operation and consumption. However, after we examined and reported, the re-gional budget capability is just limited to IDR 3 billion,” explained Jaya.

According to him, the security fund of the Bali gubernatorial election exclusively devoted to the Indonesian Army was not yet budgeted. It was only budgeted for police institution. “Indeed, the fund (for the Indonesian Army—Ed) has not been budgeted. Probably, the budgetary team has not been thinking of that far ahead and may only consider security fund for the police,” he said. Further, he said the security of Bali after the gubernatorial election until the inauguration of the elected governor and deputy governor was an important aspect that should be maintained by all the parties involved, including the Indonesian Army. “We support the Indonesian Army to secure Bali. Similarly, we will find the rules for the disburse-ment of fund so that it will not in-fringe the rules or can be taken from the unexpected fund,” he said.

Will Bali government bail out the security fund while waiting for the disbursement of fund from the regional budget as proposed to Bali House? Answering this question, Jaya said that it should be further considered since the fund was needed immediately. “Hopefully, there will be clarity soon where the fund will be taken from,”

he said.The Division Head of Domestic

Politics, Bali Office of the National Union and Politics, Dewa Putu Man-tera, added that proposal on the secu-rity fund of Bali gubernatorial election for the Indonesian Army worth IDR 3 billion would be allocated for con-sumption cost of the serving military personnel. Such meal allowance would be replaced with pocket money valued at IDR 20,000 for each person per day.

Meanwhile, a member of Com-mission I of the Bali House, Wayan Gunawan, said the security fund was indeed necessary to be approved and disbursed immediately. However, he welcomed the existing prudential principles made by the House regard-ing the budget approval. It should indeed be undertaken pursuant to the existing mechanism and regulation. According to him, mechanism of the regulation allowed the taking from the unexpected fund. However, it needed to be assessed and consulted further. “We do not reject it, we even support the security of Bali. But, we note a few things regarding the laws needing to be consulted and assessed,” said Chairman of the Golkar Faction in the Bali House.

In principle, pursuant to decision of the leadership meeting on Monday (Jun 3), the House agreed to the secu-rity fund allocated for the Indonesian Army. However, it was still assessed from which source it would be taken from and needed consulting to the Ministry of Home Affairs. “We are still assessing the proposal of the executive. If they wanted to take the security fund from the unexpected fund, it must be coordinated first with the Minister of Home Affairs. In principle, we do not reject it, but there must be precautionary prin-ciple so that the disbursement of the fund will not be problematic or even becomes the finding of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). If it happens, all the parties getting involved will reap the impact,” he said. (wid)

As for security fund of Bali gubernatorial election

Bali House soon coordinates to the Ministry of Home Affairs

BALI House seemed to have agreed to the proposal of Governor of Bali asking the additional funds given to the Indonesian Army (TNI) in charge of securing the Bali gubernatorial election until the inauguration of the elected governor and deputy governor. However, the House was still looking for a legal rule in order to accommodate the proposal in appropriate with the existing mechanism and regulation. Even, the elements of the House leadership and Chairman of Commission I of the Bali House in the near future would consult the Ministry of Home Affairs in order to find out the solution whether the fund could be disbursed from the unexpected fund as proposed by the Governor of Bali or taken from the other budget source.

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Nusa Lembongan

Enjoy the uniqueness of Nusa Lembongan

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Talk about your random testing. Lindsey Vonn took an unexpected detour during her evening at an awards show — off the red carpet and into the women’s bathroom for drug testing.

The star skier was at the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards at Lincoln Center on Monday night when testers from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency escorted her to the restroom to collect a urine sample. The sample was sent to a lab and results weren’t immediately available.

USADA and Vonn’s spokesman confirmed Monday’s test. Olympic athletes are subject to random testing and required to fill out forms notifying USADA of their whereabouts at all times.

Vonn’s spokesman, Lewis Kay, says the test wasn’t a big deal to the skier, who wore a deep V-neck white gown by Cynthia Rowley, the designer who accompanied Vonn to the event.

“She understands it is part of the job,” Kay told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday.

The CFDA awards are considered the fashion industry’s Oscars. Others attending the black-tie affair included Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jessica Chastain and Ralph Lauren.

CFDA organizers, who leave no stone unturned in the planning of their awards show, said they were unaware that Vonn had been tested.

USADA said Vonn has participated in its out-of-competition testing pool for more than 12 years. The testing program requires athletes to make themselves available for tests at any time, regardless of loca-tion.

“We appreciate her professionalism and for accommodating this process, which at times can be inconvenient,” USADA spokeswoman Annie Skinner said.

Vonn won the gold medal in the downhill at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010. Her 2013 season ended when she injured her knee, though she is expected to return for the 2014 Games in Russia.

Most of Vonn’s recent headlines, however, have come because she and Tiger Woods revealed they’ve been dating. They were together at a red-carpet event in New York in May, but Woods was not with Vonn at Monday’s event.

Topshop boss Philip Green cut the ribbon to the 1,300-square-meter (14,000-square-foot) shop with the help of Taiwanese actress Gwei Lun-mei.

Green said he wants to use the store, located in the city’s central business district, as a “stepping stone” to mainland China. He’s looking for possible locations in Beijing and Shanghai to open “flagship” stores.

Other foreign retailers that have launched recently in the Asian finance center include U.S. brands Aber-crombie & Fitch, Tommy Bahama, Forever 21 and Victoria’s Secret.

Foreign brands have been lining up to open showcase boutiques in Hong Kong as they try to get a share of the spending by the increasingly affluent consumers visiting from mainland China, the world’s second biggest economy. The demand has helped drive up shop rents in Hong Kong, a former British colony that’s now a special administrative region of China.

Hong Kong is a popular shopping destination for mainland Chinese because of low taxes and a reputation for authentic goods.

Green would not say how much the company, which already has stores in other Asian countries includ-

ing Japan, Indonesia and Thailand, is paying for its new location, previ-ously occupied by a Chinese-state owned chain selling arts and crafts and jade jewelry. He said the com-pany had spent years looking.

“It’s been hard as most retailers will tell you, finding the right location in Hong Kong, at a sort of sensible price. It’s very, very tough. So this just came up, and fortunately we were able to put it together very quickly,” he said.

Prime retail space cost $4,328 per square foot a month in the first three months of 2013, making it the world’s priciest, according to commercial real estate firm CBRE. It said that was nearly 50 percent higher than New York and about four times as much as Paris or London.

Topshop is working with local department store Lane Crawford to operate the new boutique.

Green said that he’s starting his search for mainland locations this week, with Chinese real estate agents visiting him while he’s in Hong Kong.

“I’d like to have a flagship in Beijing and a flagship in Shanghai,” Green said a day before the store opening. “If we can find 2,000 to 3,000 square meters — we’d like to have a Topman as well — if we can

find 2 locations, off we go.”Green said he’d also consider

mainland locations outside of the two main cities as well as opening up another Hong Kong store. Foreign brands prefer to test out the waters in Hong Kong, on the southern coast of China, before taking the plunge into the mainland. The city is an ideal test-ing ground, with nearly three-quarters of the 49 million visitors received last year coming from mainland China. Their spending helped push up retail sales by 10 percent.

Tom Gaffney, head of retail at real estate at consulting firm Jones Lang LaSalle, said foreign retailers in Hong Kong benefit by getting brand rec-ognition and customer loyalty from mainland shoppers.

But he said that rentals, which his firm forecasts will rise 5-10 percent this year, are “something that a lot of the brands are looking at more carefully.” They’re becoming “quite cautious about taking core locations,” he said.

Swedish fashion retailer H&M is one high-profile victim of Hong Kong’s high rents. The company reportedly couldn’t agree on a lease renewal for its flagship store across the street from Topshop’s new outlet and will move out in the fall.

AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Topshop boss Philip Green, left, and Taiwanese actress Gwei Lun-mei attend the opening ceremony of the first Topshop store in Hong Kong Thursday, June 6, 2013.

UK’s Topshop opens in high-rent Hong KongAssociated Press Writer

HONG KONG — British fashion chain Topshop opened its first Hong Kong outlet on Thurs-day, becoming the latest Western brand to brave the city’s astronomical rents in a bid to crack the lucrative China market.

Lindsey Vonn goes from red carpet to drug testing

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World Cup alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn arrives at the 2013 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall on Monday, June 3, 2013 in New York.

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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.

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Calendar Event for May 1 through June 19, 2013

1 May Buda Kliwon PahangPura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Desa Bangli BaturitiPura Silayukti Padang Bai KarangasemPura Aer Jeruk SukawatiPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran - Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel SukawatiPura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati GianyarPura Kresek Banyuning BulelengPura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Khayangan Batu Medahu Desa Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari BebandemKarangasemPura pasek Bendesa Tagtag PeguyanganPure Pulesari - Bantas Kelod Desa Sibang Gede AbiansemalPura Batur Sari UbudPura Penataran Agung SukawatiPura Panti - Kucupin Ketewel Ketewel6 May Kajeng Kliwon UwudanPura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Dlod Yeh MengwiMerajan Pasek Subadra Kramas Gianyar

9 May Tilem Sasih JiyesthaPura Bujangga Waisnawa Gumbrih JembranaPura Dalem Desa celuk

11May Tumpek KlurutPura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Desa Jelantik TojanKlungkungPura Pedarman bujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Desa Gunung Sari PenebeltabananPura Dalem Tarukan - Bebalang BangliPura Benua Kangin BesakihPura Merajan Kangin (Ida Betara Empu Baradah) Besakih

12 May r edite Umanis MerakihPura Parangan Tengah Ceningan Kangin Lem-bongan Nusa PenidaPura Desa Ubud

15 May Buda Wage MerakihPura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Banjar Kalah BatubulanPura Desa lan Puseh Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem Petitenget Kerobokan KutaPura Dalem Pulasari Samplangan GianyarPura Kubayan - Kepisah Pedungan DenpasarSelatanPura Pasek Gelgel - Tanah Pegat TabananPura Paibon lan Pura Bengkel Sumerta Den-pasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPura Panti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding Tam-pak SiringPura Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken KabaKabaPura Dadia Buda Cemeng Pulasari BatuanSukawati

21 May Anggar Kasih TambirPura Dalem Puri Batuan SukawatiPura Dalem kediri Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem SukawatiPura Dalem Lembeng Ketewel SukawatiPura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan UbudPura Puseh Ngukuhin Kramas GianyarPura Pamerajan Agung Ki Telabah TuakilangTabananPura Karang Buncing BlahbatuhPura Dalem Bubunan Seririt BulelengPura Desa Badung Kota DenpasarPura Luhur Pedenganan Bedha Bongan Ta-bananPura Pucak Payogan - Lungsiakan Kedewatan Ubud GianyarPura Tanah Kilap “Griya Anyar” Suwung KauhDenpasar Selatan

Pura Selukat Keramas Blahbatuh GianyarPura Dalem Tampuagan Peninjoan TembukuBangliPura Waturenggong Desa TaroPura Dalem Bentuyung Desa UbudPura Puseh UbudPura Dalem Puri Peliatan UbudPura Batur Hyang Bulan Muntig Karangasem

22 May Buda Umanis TambirPura Sari Banjar Titih KapalPura Gulamanikan Bendesa Manik Mas Serongga Gianyar

24 May Purnama Sasih SadhaPura Amrta Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Maospahit Banjar Grenceng Denpasar

5 Jun Buda Kliwon MatalPura Puseh lan Desa SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Bebetin Sawan BulelengPura Maspahit Sesetan Denpasar SelatanPura Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran TegallalangPura Panti Pasek Gaduh SesetanPura Pedharaman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

15 JunPura Puseh lan Desa Kota GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal (TARO) Tegallalang

19 Jun Buda Cemeng MenailPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Suka-watiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng KajaGianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan BangliPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Baler Pura Sada Pemebetan Kapal MengwiPemerajan Agung UbudPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas Ubud

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Traditional Games- A Hidden Treasure of Children HeritageToday, children have unlimited choices of games. They have been pampered by modern games, ranging from Turtle Ninja, Kung Fu, war games and many more. These can make them stay for hours in front of television or computer. Yet, behind this ease and enjoyment, they lose some values like creativity and do not know they have traditional games. It is said so because there is a trend where children, both in urban and rural areas, begin to leave their traditional games.

Many game options have been avail-able in the form of CD, DVD, Internet and cartoon in television. Just by CD rental or buying the cheapest one and sitting down sweetly, they could enjoy the games they like best. If the games contain competition, they will compete against machine or some times against friends. Without realized, this may result in sight disorder where children should gaze the monitor and finally require thick glasses at earlier age. Advancement is not always bad. However, parents should control them to what extent those games could drive good impact. Before the pres-ence of these modern games, there were many traditional games. They are no less interesting than the modern ones. Many children even find it attractive and make them creative. During an art parade of Bali Arts Festival it was shown the treasure of traditional games.

This event just like a kaleidoscope highlighting a variety of traditional games that ever existed within the life of Balinese children. To play one of the games, chil-dren should first search for its materials by themselves at backyard or garden. Actually, it is here where the challenge of the games begins. Sometimes, they got injury because they are unable to use a knife properly. It did not matter as intriguing power has superseded it.

Among the parade, there was a space intended for children world where they displayed some bizarre games like coconut shell clog, walking on stilts, pulling friend by the sheath of areca nut, pulling rope in-group and two-wheeled toy where its stick carried on shoulder. Meanwhile, the

heavier one was gallivanting show by bar-ong effigy. To play the coconut shell clog, for instance, they should keep their balance well. Standing on the tips of coconut shell is not easy. Moreover, they have to maintain the harmony of steps with the pulling of rope connected to each coconut shell.

When the pull and steps can go harmoni-ously, the player can walk faster. Balance is also entailed in walking on stilts or tajog or egrang. This game is even riskier because the position of pedal is higher from the ground. However, when a player can oper-ate these stilts properly it is more challeng-ing and pleasant. The higher the pedal the more challenging it is. Walking on stilts looks like a walking long-legged heron. It would be more interesting when passing through a muddy or knee-deep watery road. These games are often put into competition related to traditional sports.

Another game requiring cooperation is pulling the sheath of areca nut. If the bean of areca nut is used by grandfathers or grandmothers for ingredient of chew-ing betel, the sheath of it is used by their grandchildren to make ‘a pulling vehicle’. Yellow leaf signifies it has been mature. It is time for children to take it. They just need to leave out the ribs of leaf. The main rib is not cut as it will be used to pull. One child serves as passenger while another as driver who pulls the sheath. This role is exchanged so both can have an opportunity to enjoy the ‘comfort’ of this vehicle game.

Children also put an interest in dancing barong gallivanting show. For them, it has been designed a smaller-sized barong. Therefore, before growing adult they have been introduced to art world of adult people. By performing gallivanting show like this, they will obtain experience and earn money. However, the emphasis here is not on the money, but on the experience and fun. Actually, there are more traditional games that once lived in midst of Balinese community. Maybe, having watched or played modern games they could combine with the traditional ones they have. At least, the traditional can become an alternative, as all raw materials have been available at their surroundings.

Such obscurity encouraged tens of Badung civil servant candidates to report the case to Ombudsman Office at Jalan Diponegoro 182 Denpasar, Tuesday (Jun 4), that they had not received the decree of appointment and identity number (NIP). The arrival of tens of employees was di-rectly received by the Ombudsman Chief Representative of Bali Umar Ibn Alkhatab, Supervisory Assistant Duha F. Mubarok and Prevention Division Assistant Ni Nyo-man Sri Widianti.

After receiving the complainant, Sri Widianti said the report submitted to the Ombudsman Office actually consisted of two versions. Firstly, there was a civil servant asking about the filing process to Regional Civil Service Agency (BKD). The Agency stated that all the filing processes had been completed and submitted to the Regional Civil Service Agency (BKD). However, when the civil servant candidates came to question about their fate, the of-ficial of National Civil Service Agency said the filing process was still awaiting the completion of legal case at Bali Police. “According to the complainant, the Na-tional Civil Service Agency stated that the filing process was still awaiting the legal case as being investigated by Bali Police. Except, there is a letter stating that the second announcement is indeed declaring it valid and unlawful,” she said.

The report of second version, added Sri Widianti, was delivered by civil servant of teacher formation. When they came to the National Civil Service Agency, it stated if the filing was still under process. “So, based on information of the complainants, we got two different explanations from the National Civil Service Agency. To that end, we’d like to trace them,” she said.

Related to the delayed filing of the civil servant, she added the information obtained by the Ombudsman mentioned the delay was caused by the presence of a letter from the Badung House where the process should be delayed until there was clarity on the detention process. “We have received the reports of both versions and will explore them what really happens. Apparently, the

case of civil servant candidate will come into the volume 2 because the case in the volume 1 has been completed where the Badung government finally announced the results of civil servant candidate for the second time,” she said.

Her party regretted because there was no clarity about the appointment of civil servant declared to have passed because they had not been working for six months. “After the passing announcement, the civil servant candidates have got the impact where their working contract was termi-nated by the company where they previ-ously worked,” she added.

The Ombudsman promised to follow up the report of the civil servant candidates by scheduling a summons to relevant agencies in order to obtain clarification on the issue. “We will summon the relevant agencies, especially National Civil Service Agency and Regional Civil Service Agency in order that everything will be clear,” she said.

Meanwhile, one of the Badung civil servants that also reported the case last Tuesday told if the he and his colleagues were declared to have passed the selection test last December. However, until now the filling was still uncertain and also made them anxious. “Other than me, about 170 other civil servant candidates having passed in 2012 also faced the same fate. We do hope to get clarity,” he explained while asking not to publish his name for fear of being intimidated.

Information compiled in the field mentioned those having not received the appointment decree of civil servant candi-dates included the formation of elementary school teacher (73 people), nurse (25), engineering (2), ICT teacher (8), tourism teacher (2), agribusiness (1), doctor (8), veterinarian (2), undergraduate nurse (2), midwife (14), product quality examiner (2), technical supervisor of road and bridge (2), motor vehicle examiner (2), industrial relations mediator (2) and counselor to ef-fective technology (2). So far, the National Civil Service Agency and the Badung Civil Service Agency could not be asked for their confirmation. (kmb29)

Dozens of Badung civil servant candidates report to Ombudsman

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Apparently the problems of civil servant candidate (CPNS) in Badung is like

tangled threads and completely unresolved. After the announcement of recruit-ment case, another new case on the civil servant candidates emerged. The can-didates passing in the recruitment in 2012 admitted to be restless because their fate was uncertain. Though having been declared to have passed six months ago, they had not got the appointment decree of civil servant from the National Civil Service Agency (BKN).

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Associated Press Writer

CARACAS, Venezuela — A U.S. filmmaker jailed for alleged espionage in Venezuela was expelled from the country and returned to the United States in a gesture that could signal a thaw in tense relations between the two countries.

The release of Timothy Tracy, 35, occurred just hours before the top dip-lomats of both countries agreed during a meeting in Guatemala to discuss restor-ing ambassador-level relations.

It was secured with the help of former U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, who has long worked to improve often strained U.S.-Venezuelan ties and was hired by Tracy’s family as an attorney in the case.

“He’s been informally advising us since pretty much the onset and we re-tained him last week,” Tracy’s sister, Tif-fany Klaasen, said of Delahunt, a mem-ber of the U.S. delegation at the March funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Both she and Delahunt also credited the U.S. State Department.

The U.S. government and friends had ridiculed the idea that Tracy was spying in Venezuela. His family said he had been making a documentary about the human costs of Venezuela’s deeply polarized society.

Following the early morning expulsion, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Gua-temala and agreed, said Kerry, to “begin to change the dialogue between our countries and hopefully quickly move” to appoint ambassadors, which they have lacked in each other’s capitals since 2010.

Delahunt acknowledged the coinci-dence of Tracy’s release but said “no conditions” were set by Kerry for the meeting with Jaua. He said he had inter-vened on Tracy’s behalf with officials in

Venezuela, who he said did not include President Nicolas Maduro, but “I want to keep those discussions private.”

“On both sides there is a desire to have an improvement in the relationship based upon respect, and that’s what’s important,” Delahunt said.

He suggested it might help that Kerry, then a Massachusetts senator, met Ma-duro a decade ago when Delahunt took a delegation of Venezuelans including Maduro on a trip to his district in Cape Cod, Massachussetts.

The trip was part of efforts by the “Grupo de Boston” in 2002-2003 to salve internal tensions in the socialist-run South American country after a failed coup against Chavez that was initially recognized by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.

Tracy’s expulsion was initially tweeted by Venezuela’s interior minister, Miguel Rodriguez, who described Tracy as hav-ing been “captured doing espionage in our country.” He had previously accused Tracy of funding opposition student groups.

Attorney General Luisa Ortega said in a statement Wednesday that she had asked for the case against Tracy on charges including conspiracy and criminal associa-tion to be shelved, even though “there were elements that could incriminate him.”

Family and friends say the Hollywood producer and small-time actor had been in the country since October making a documentary about Venezuelan politics when he was arrested on April 24 at Caracas’ airport as he tried to leave the country to attend his father’s 80th birth-day in suburban Detroit.

The show will be the first fictional TV outing for the Indian superstar, who has already hosted the hugely successful “Kaun Banega Crorepati,” India’s version of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.”

“I just felt that this could be yet an-other step” to connect with audiences “almost immediately,” the 70-year-old

told reporters. The new show will be directed by popular Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap.

Bachchan has starred in near-ly 200 films in a career that has spanned more than four decades. His latest movie was a brief role in the Baz Luhrmann-directed “The Great Gatsby.”

Indian star Amitabh Bachchan to act in TV series

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan gestures speaks during a press conference in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, June 5, 2013.

Associated Press Writer

NEW DELHI — Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan says he’ll make his television acting debut in a new series this year. Bachchan announced the new and yet untitled show to reporters in Mumbai on Wednesday. The series, to be aired on the Sony Television channel, will focus on social issues.

AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool

Venezuela frees US filmmaker jailed as alleged spy

AP Photo/Alistair Fuller, File

FILE - A Friday, May 10, 2002 file photo showing Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy and author of the book “Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within” photographed at his home in London.

China frustration with NKorea offers hope for US

Soldier pleads guilty to murdering 16 Afghan civilians

Neymar wants to ‘make history’ with Barcelona

Riot police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators who threw stones at them and chanted anti-Erdogan slogans in the heart of the capital Ankara on Wednes-day night, witnesses said. In the eastern province of Tunceli, several hundred protesters set up a street barricade and threw stones at po-lice who responded by firing water cannon. Istanbul, which has seen

some of the heaviest clashes, was quiet overnight.

What began as a campaign against the redevelopment of a leafy Istanbul park has surged into an unprecedented show of defiance against the perceived authoritarian-ism of Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party. Police backed by armoured vehicles have fired tear gas and water cannon on stone-

throwing protesters night after night, while thousands have massed peacefully in recent days on Taksim Square, where the demonstrations first began.

The straight-talking prime min-ister left on Monday in a defiant mood, dismissing the protesters as looters and vowing the unrest would be over in a matter of days, comments that his critics said fur-

ther inflamed tensions. AK Party Deputy Chairman Huseyin Celik called on party members not to go to the airport to greet Erdogan on his return to avoid stirring trouble. Erdogan was expected to hold a news conference with his Tunisian counterpart before returning.

“Nobody should take it upon themselves to go and greet the prime minister in this situation. The prime minister does not need a show of strength,” Celik said in a television interview.In Taksim Square, protesters remained defi-ant. “We have the momentum, with people like me going to work every day and coming back to attend the protests,” said Cetin, a 29-year-old

civil engineer who declined to give his surname because he works for a company close to the government.

“We should keep coming here to protest until we really feel we’ve achieved something,” he said, one of thousands gathered on Taksim Square until late into the night.

“EVERYWHERE IS TAKSIM”Deputy Prime Minister Bulent

Arinc, formally in charge while Erdogan is away, has struck a more conciliatory tone, apologising for the initial police crackdown on peaceful campaigners in Taksim’s Gezi Park and meeting a delegation of protest-ers in his office in Ankara.

REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

An anti-government pro-tester looks at Istanbul’s

Taksim square June 5, 2013. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan returns on Thurs-

day to a nation racked by protests against his leader-ship, in what could prove a pivotal moment in Turkey’s

worst political unrest for decades.

Turkey’s Erdogan set to return to nation rattled by protest

Reuters

ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Turkish police clashed with demonstrators overnight ahead of the return of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to a nation rattled by a week of protest against his leadership. Erdogan returns from a visit to North Africa to face demands he apologise over a fierce police crackdown and sack those who ordered it, following six days of protests that have left two dead and more than 4,000 injured in a dozen cities.