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Chinese President Xi Jinping, Japan’s Prime Minster Shinzo Abe and leaders from several African countries, as well as Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani will attend com-memorations of the 1955 conference that laid the foundations for the Cold War-era Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

The original conference in 1955 gathered around 30 countries, many of them newly independent after decades of colonialism and foreign

occupation, in the city of Bandung on Java island. It was led by Indonesian independence hero Sukarno.

Other prominent figures included Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who were among leaders who founded the NAM several years later, an organisation for countries that did not want to take sides during the Cold War with either the United States or Soviet Union.

However the NAM has struggled to remain rel-

evant in the post-Cold War era and as its member countries grew in clout, now representing a huge chunk of the global economy.

Some analysts argue the confer-ence is more about big countries -- particularly China and Japan -- seeking to unilaterally extend their influence with other participants.

China, especially, has been ag-gressively forging closer links with Africa, whose natural resources help power the country’s growth.

“The bigger states have their own

agenda coming here,” said

Tobias Ba-suki, a Ja-karta-based p o l i t i c a l analyst.

W i t h

more than 80 countries represented at the five-day conference, Basuki added that it would be hard for such a diverse group of states to reach consensus.

Nigeria’s Bolaji Akinyemi, a for-mer foreign minister, said the original grouping served as “an incubator for emerging nations like ours at inde-pendence”, but he added that it was no longer needed as “nations have grown up”.

Ahead of the meeting, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Liu Zhen-min hailed the “tradition of non-alignment”.

And, though most analysts re-mained sceptical, some observers said the growing economic strength of the participants showed evidence of renewed life in the movement.

“The conference feels like the non-aligned movement graduat-ing to BRICS,” said Ernest Bower, a

Southeast Asia expert at US think-tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies, referring to the grouping of five leading emerg-ing economies, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

However the conference has also been marred by the absence of key figures. Though India was a major player at the first meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not attend-ing; while South African President Jacob Zuma cancelled due to a wave of xenophobic violence at home. The main leaders’ summit is on Wednes-day and Thursday in Jakarta.

Asia, Africa to mark summit that forged post-colonial path

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Asian and African leaders gather in Indonesia this week to mark 60 years since a landmark conference that helped forge a common identity among emerging states, but analysts say big-power rivalries will overshadow proclamations of solidarity.

JAKARTA - Asian and African leaders gather in Indonesia this week to mark 60 years since a landmark conference that helped forge a common identity among emerging states, but analysts say big-power rivalries will overshadow proclamations of solidarity.

HONG KONG - “The Golden Era”, a biopic of an acclaimed Chinese writer in the 1930s, on Sunday won praise from the city’s prestigious film academy, scooping five prizes including best movie at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

The three-hour drama tells the story of renowned novelist Xiao Hong, whose short life battered by disease and political unrest was set against her literary success.

In the ceremony at the southern Chinese city’s harbourside Cultural Centre, the film snapped up the awards for best costume

and make up, best cinematography and best art direction, as well as best director for Ann Hui On-wah.

“I am feeling very thankful. It wasn’t an easy one to make. It took a lot of trial and error,” Hui told reporters at backstage.

Thriller “Overheard 3” also won three gongs at the glittering ceremony which, to-gether with Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards, is one of the Chinese film industry’s most

prestigious events. “Overheard 3” revolves around a row

between developers over a controversial residential project in one of Hong Kong’s lesser-known rural towns.

The movie’s star Sean Lau Ching-wan took home the best actor title.

“I want to thank every one who loves Hong Kong and Hong Kong movies,” Lau, who played a villager-turned property tycoon in the film, said.

The best actress prize went to Chinese fa-vourite Zhao Wei, who played a foster mother in “Dearest” -- beating out compatriot Tang Wei, who was nominated for her role as Xiao Hong in “The Golden Era”.

The night also proved to be prolific for Ivana Wong, who was named best new performer and best supporting actress for her role as a prostitute in “Golden Chicken SSS”.

Wong said: “When I am shooting the next movie I will feel the pressure.” (afp)

The strong weekend showing gives the car racing action flick a $294 million haul in the US and Canada since its release and giving the movie certifiable blockbuster status.

The franchise of all seven “Fast and Furi-ous” films has brought in a record-breaking $3.39 billion, NBCUniversal said.

Slapstick comedy “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” starring debuted in the second spot with $24 million in estimated sales, and stars Kevin James as the hapless, scooter-driving security guard. Another newcomer, “Unfriended,” took third on the charts with $16 million in sales, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

The social media horror flick starring Heather Sossaman finds a chat room of friends haunted by an online account of a dead friend.

Animated children’s film “Home,” about an unpopular space alien forced to flee his own kind, earned the fourth spot on the chart with $10.3 million in estimated sales.

The film, featuring the voices of ce-lebrities Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez, has brought in $142.6 million overall.

In its second week, romance novel adaptation “The Longest Ride,” brought in $6.85 million for the fifth spot follow-ing its third place debut. The movie stars Scott Eastwood, the son of actor-director Clint Eastwood.

The Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart buddy comedy “Get Hard” about a prison-bound investment banker and car washer took in $4.8 million for the sixth spot on the chart.

New nature documentary “Monkey Kingdom,” narrated by actress Tina Fey, made its debut in the seventh box office spot with $4.7 million in sales.

The film follows a newborn and mother toque macaque in the wilds of Sri Lanka.

In eight place with $4.6 million was

“Woman in Gold,” the true story of an elderly Holocaust survivor trying to get back her Nazi-looted artwork from Austria.

Action-packed “Insurgent,” the second film based on Veronica Roth’s best-selling “Divergent” book series, came in ninth place, adding $4.1 million for $120.6 million after five weeks on the charts.

The live-action reboot of “Cinderella” took 10th place, with $3.9 million in estimated ticket sales.

The Disney film has been on the charts for

six weeks, br inging in a total of $186.3 million.

(afp)

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Chinese actress Tang Wei poses after winning the Best Film award for her movie “The Golden Era” during the Hong Kong Film Awards in Hong Kong Sunday, April 19, 2015.

‘The Golden Era’ tops Hong Kong Film Awards

‘Furious 7’ surges past the $1 billion mark

LOS ANGELES - “Furious 7” surged ahead of its North American box office competition for a third straight week, taking in an estimated $29 million to hit $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

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In this April 1, 2015, file photo, Vin Diesel arrives at the premiere of “Fu-rious 7” at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in Los Angeles.

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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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First and foremost, celebrations commenced on the 3rd of March with a party for all our staff to show appreciation for their contributions and hard work, there was food, en-tertainment and lucky draw prizes including a motorbike donated by the management.

On the 9th of March a special ap-preciation dinner was held for the Management Team where the owner recognised and thanked the team for their support and contribution over the years with a commemorative Silver Parker pen engraved with the Bali Dynasty Resort.

This event was followed by an event to recognise those staff that have achieved 25 years service, 20 years and 15 years service at the Bali Dynasty Resort. 100 employees were

recognised for 25 years of service which represents nearly 27% of the total full time workforce.

The Bali Dynasty Resort recog-nises the importance of up keeping the hardware of the building to en-sure that it is well maintained and refurbished but more importantly recognising that the staff are the big-gest asset who ensure each guest is treated as an individual and receive an efficient and personalised service which has lead to many repeat guests returning year after year to visit the staff and the hotel. Over 60% of the Bali Dynasty Resort’s staff have been at the resort now more than 20 years and 72% have been at the Resort longer than 15 years meaning just 28% of the employees have been at the resort less than 15 years which

is a great achievement and reflects a happy team which translates into happy guests.

On the 15th of May there will be thank you party celebration; friends and long time supporters of the Bali Dynasty Resort will be invited to join a special event commemorating the 25th anniversary.

Strategically located in the heart of the South Kuta area, Bali Dynasty Resort has become a home away from home for leisure travelers from around the world, only ten minutes’ drive from the airport on the vibrant South Kuta beach strip and located within walking distance of Kuta’s nightlife, Waterbom Park and Dis-covery Shopping Mall.

The Bali Dynasty Resort is part of Prime Plaza Hotels and Resorts

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Dynasty’s 25th anniversary celebrationsKUTA - 2015 marks the Silver Jubilee (25th year of operation) for the Bali Dynasty resort and there

will be a lot of celebrations and activities to commemorate this important milestone in the history of the Bali Dynasty resort.

which operates hotels in Java and Bali with 5 hotels in Bali including the Sanur Paradise Plaza Hotel and Suites, Amadea Resort and Villas and PrimeBiz Kuta.

Previously, the liquor was still vis-ible at a number of shops, minimarkets and stalls in Bangli County. However, lately the liquor of class A no longer appears. Some minimarkets and shops only look selling soft drinks.

One of the residents, Wayan Sum-erta, said on Sunday (Apr. 19) that he was suffering thrush and claimed to have difficulty to find a beer. “I have come to some minimarkets, shops and stalls, but I cannot get it,” he said.

Sumerta disclosed that the beer is not used to get drunk, but to be used when suffering thrush. “When suffer-ing thrush, I usually treat it by drink-ing a can of beer and it then quickly

gets relieved,” he said.Disappearance of the liquor often

blamed to be one of the triggers of commotion is also recognized by one of the traders, Dewa Yoga. Since the issuance of the regulation of the Trade Minister, he no longer dares to peddle liquor because of fear of raids. “I do not want to get risk. It’s better for me not to sell it for the sake of safety,” he explained.

He described that the profit obtained from retail selling of beer is fairly rea-sonable. However, after the issuance of the regulation of the Trade Minister, the traders do not dare to take risk. “If possible, the traders must be tolerated

to sell a few bottles. It is different from the sale of liquor having high content of alcohol,” he explained.

Meanwhile, some time ago the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency said that no traders objected or pro-tested against the regulation of the Trade Minister. The Head of Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, I Nengah Sudibia, recently revealed that as a follow-up to the regulation, his party already scheduled a raid to several shops, stalls and minimarkets. How-ever, its final schedule has not been disclosed. He affirmed that his party already scheduled and cooperated with relevant agencies. (kmb45)

TABANAN - The harvest in Tabanan is likely to occur in June 2015 and as is increasingly the case, there seems to be a problem with a lack of harvest-ers. In order to harvest the ripe rice, Tabanan farm-ers have to rely on labour from outside of Bali.

Head of Tabanan Agriculture, Food Crops and Horticulture Agency, Nyoman Budana, explained that this year will be particularly challenging, because both Jembrana and East Jave will be harvesting at the same time, causing a scarcity in harvesters.

Although some Tabanan residents such as those found in Baturiti, are professional harvesters, they are only very few. Tegal Mengkeb village in East Selemadeg has established harvester group, but there are only enough members to serve their own village.

Chief of Subak Gadon III, Beraban village, Kediri, Ketut Sukanada, said: “I see that there are paddy fields ready to be harvested but the grain still remains on the stalk -apparently farmers are having trouble finding harvesters”.

Sukanada explained that most of the 150 hect-ares of Subak Gadon III, has been harvested by laborers from outside the region, mostly from East Java and added that Subak Gadon I and II located between Kedungu to Lengudu, have not entered harvest season.

“Indeed there is not much we can do, there is a decline in the number of people engaged in the agri-cultural sector. As a result, those who are still farm-ing, having to rely on middlemen with their laborers to harvest our rice,” he explained. (kmb24)

TABANAN - To celebrate Balinese culture, the Tanah Lot tourist attraction will hold the three day Bleganjur Festival in early July, inviting 22 customary village youth groups to participate. .

Operation Manager of Tanah Lot tourist attraction, Ketut Toya Adnyana announced on Monday, that the the festival aims to providing an opportunity for young people to express their artistic talent while preserving Balinese culture. “Besides, the festival also draw visitors to Tanah Lot who will certainly be entertained,” said Toya.

Although Tanah Lot is located at Beraban village, the participants come from villages throughout Kediri subdis-trict. Each customary village sends one bleganjur troupe. Customary village chiefs are also invited to provide in-formation about the various performances. “The festival will be held in July to coincide with school holidays,” added Toya.

According to Toya, the number of tourist visits to Tanah Lot is stable stable. During the past three months, there has been an increase of about two percent compared to the same period in 2014. The total number of visitors so far this year is 824,182. Through the bleganjur festival and also thanks to repairs made to the facilities, such as new signage and repaving the roads, they are expected the number of visitors to exceed 3 million. (kmb24)

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A man is harvesting the rice paddy. Tabanan is currently facing the lack of harvester.

Liquor disappears in Bangli

BANGLI - The issuance of the regulation of Trade Minister No. 6/M-DAG/PEr/1/2015 on the control and supervision against the procurement, distribution and sale of liquor that prohibits the sale of liquor of class A at shops or stall seems to have been applied by some people who previously sold liquor. Before the relevant authorities conduct a raid, the liquor is no longer visible in the market.

Tanah Lot to hold Bleganjur Festival

Tabanan lacks harvesters

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And owners can do a similar trick in return, researchers found. This two-way street evidently be-gan when dogs were domesticated long ago, because it helped the two species connect, the Japanese researchers say.

As canine psychology experts Evan MacLean and Brian Hare of Duke University wrote in a com-mentary on the work, “When your dog is staring at you, she may not just be after your sandwich.”

The new work is the first to present a biological mechanism for bonding across species, said researcher Larry Young of Emory University.

Neither he nor the Duke scien-tists were involved in the study, which is reported in a paper from Japan released Thursday by the journal Science.

The brain response is an in-crease in levels of a hormone called oxytocin. Studies in people and animals indicate this substance promotes social bonding, such as between parent and infant or be-tween two lovers.

One experiment in the new re-

search involved 30 owners and their dogs. Oxytocin levels in the urine of both species were sampled before and after the owners and their dogs spent a half-hour together.

Analysis showed that owners whose dogs looked at them longer in the first five minutes had bigger boosts in oxytocin levels. Similarly, dogs that gazed longer got a hor-mone boost, too. That’s evidently in response to being touched by their owners during the session, one of the study authors, Takefumi Kikusui of Azabu University near Tokyo, said in an email.

No such result appeared when re-searchers tried the experiment with wolves. The animals were paired with people who had raised them, although not as pets. The differ-ence suggests dogs started gazing at owners as a social strategy when they became domesticated, rather than inheriting it from their wolf ancestors, researchers said.

Another experiment with dogs found they looked at their owners longer if they were given doses of oxytocin, and that the hormone’s levels then went up in their owners.

But these results appeared only in female dogs; the reason isn’t clear.

An oxytocin researcher not connected to the study said pre-vious work had provided bits of evidence that the hormone plays a role in bonding between species, but that the new work is more comprehensive.

“It makes very good sense,” said C. Sue Carter, who directs the Kin-sey Institute at Indiana University.

But Clive Wynne of Arizona State University, a psychologist who studies interaction between dogs and people, said he thinks the link to domestication is “bark-ing up the wrong tree.” The study doesn’t provide convincing evi-dence for that, he said.

Emory’s Young, who studies bonding behavior, said the rela-tionship between people and dogs is special. Human love can lose its initial exhilaration over time, he said, but he hasn’t seen that with the dogs he has owned for 10 years.

“When I come home from work every day, they are just as excited to see me now as they were when I got them,” Young said. (ap)

BERLIN — Whatever caused small space rocks to lump together billions of years ago, magnetism is unlikely to be the reason.

Scientists said Tuesday that mea-surements made by the European space probe Philae, which landed on comet 67P in November, show the comet’s core isn’t magnetized.

The findings add to scientists’ understanding of how comets and even planets formed, because some astrophysicists had theorized that mag-netism might have been responsible for aligning and then binding together rocks into larger boulders.

In a paper published online by the journal Science, the team led by Hans-Ulrich Auster at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, said their data don’t support this theory, though magnetism may play a role at earlier stages of planet formation.

“If the surface was magnetized, we would have expected to see a clear in-crease in the magnetic field readings as we got closer and closer to the surface,”

said Auster. “If comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is representative of all cometary nuclei, then we suggest that magnetic forces are unlikely to have played a role in the accumulation of planetary building blocks greater than one meter (3 feet) in size.”

Allan H. Treiman, a senior scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, who wasn’t involved in the study, said the results credibly suggest other forces were responsible.

“Auster did not find any magnetic field, with a very sensitive instrument, so it seems unlikely that magnetism in the solar nebula was significant for the collection of meter-sized objects,” Treiman said in an email. “At that scale, it seems likely that electrostatic or gravitational attraction would be stronger.”

The findings are part of a wealth of scientific results obtained by scientists analyzing data collected by the Philae lander and its mother ship Rosetta, which is flying alongside the comet on its elliptical orbit around the sun. (ap)

MIAMI - The best picture we have of Pluto is a blurry, pixelated blob, but that is about to change when a NASA spacecraft makes the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet. The US space agency’s unmanned New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to pass by Pluto on July 14, and will send back unprec-edented high-resolution images, allow-ing people to glimpse the surface of the distant celestial body in rich detail.

Pluto was long considered the ninth planet in the solar system, and the furthest from the sun. It was reclassi-fied as a dwarf planet in 2006. Rocky on the inside and icy on the outside, Pluto has five moons and resides in the Kuiper Belt, a zone of the solar system that is a relic of the era of planetary for-mation more than 4.5 billion years ago, and contains comets and the building blocks of small planets.

“It sounds like science fiction but it is not,” said Alan Stern, principal inves-tigator on the New Horizons mission.

“Three months from today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will make the first exploration of the Pluto system, the Kuiper Belt and the farthest shore of ex-ploration ever reached by humankind,” Stern told reporters Tuesday.

New Horizons, about the size of a baby grand piano, is the fastest moving spacecraft ever launched, and is travel-ing about a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) a day on its way to this unexplored frontier. The 1,000-pound (465-kilogram) vehicle launched in 2006, on a journey of some three bil-lion miles to get to Pluto.

It is powered by plutonium since the sunlight is so weak at that distance that solar arrays -- often used in other kinds

of spacecraft -- would not work.Stern described the spacecraft as

being “in perfect health” and carrying a “scientific arsenal” of the most power-ful suite of seven scientific instruments ever brought to bear on the first recon-naissance of a new celestial body.

“Nothing like this has been done in a quarter century and nothing like this is planned by any space agency ever again,” Stern said.

New Horizons aims to map the geology of Pluto and its moons. The largest, Charon, is the size of Texas.

Scientists hope to learn more about the atmosphere of Pluto, which is mainly nitrogen like Earth’s, and find out if Pluto and Charon have interior oceans. In mid-July, the spacecraft will pass by Pluto at a speed of 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) per hour.

The New Horizons spacecraft man-agement team on Earth is aiming for a target point 7,750 miles from Pluto’s surface, but it will not be easy to get into the right position.

“We are flying three billion miles. We have to hit a target that is 60 by 90 miles, and we have to hit it within 100 seconds after nine and a half years. That’s the kind of precision we have to navigate to,” said Glen Fountain, New Horizons project manager at Johns Hopkins University Applied Phys-ics Laboratory. Starting in May, high resolution images of Pluto and Charon should start arriving on Earth, said Cathy Olkin, New Horizons deputy project scientist at the Southwest Re-search Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

The spacecraft will continue send-ing bits of data and photos from the flyby until October 2016. (afp)

Comet lander’s measurements weaken space magnetism theory

Pluto, now blurry, will become clear with NASA flyby

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In this Friday, March 6, 2015 file photo, a Welsh corgi competes in the ring with its owner on the second day of Crufts dog show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England. In a study released on Thursday, April 16, 2015, scientists found that just by gazing at their owners, dogs can trigger a response in their masters’ brains that helps them bond.

Those puppy eyes can help a dog bond with owner

NEW YORK — Oh, those puppy eyes. Just by gazing at their owners, dogs can trigger a response in their masters’ brains that helps them bond, a study says.

Similar facts were revealed by the advisor to the Ubud Hotel Association (UHA), Pande Sutawan, who added that the density of visitors to Ubud even cases traffic congestion. How-ever, based on monthly data collection, tourists tend to only stay in Ubud for 2 or 3 nights calculated over a year the average occupancy rate is only 30 to 40 percent. “We mustn’t sit on our laurels, the conditions for hoteliers is actually quite critical,” said Sutawan.

Ubud hoteliers now face stiff com-petition with hoteliers from other areas such as Nusa Dua, Kuta dn Sanur and with travel agencies in general. “The worst part of the impact that is has, is that we are forced to reduce the rates of our rooms. must reduce the room rates or offer three guts to stay for the price of two for instance. Otherwise people will be reluctant to stay in Ubud,” he complained.

Sutawan said that the severe com-petition is a result of the opening of the toll road between Nusa Dua and Tuban. to Denpasar that allows tour-ists people to move more quickly and less likely to take the time to enjoy the arts and beauty of Ubud. “Before the toll road was built, people preferred to stay longer in Ubud, but now they can still visit without having to spend the night,” he explained.

AMLAPURA - Customary Nyepi at Datah customary village, Abang subdistrict, Karangasem, took place solemnly. It was orga-nized after holding ngusaba segeha at Prajapati Temple of local village, Saturday (Apr. 18).

Chief of Datah customary village, Wayan Surya Kusuma, delivered on Saturday that the ngusaba segeha worship was followed by thousands of pilgrims. The worship was done in several stages so that the pilgrims did

need to jostle. After saying prayers of the ngusaba segeha, it was re-sumed with silent period (Nyepi) for a day from about four o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday to the same time on Sunday (Apr. 19).

The day of silence with the im-plementation of the catur brata pe-nyepian (four abstinences) consist-ing of not working (amati karya), not lighting fire or not turning on light (amati geni), not traveling or not entering other village area

(amati lelungaan) and not holding party or not enjoying entertainment (amati lelanguan). Residents are making introspection in the hope to improve their future attitudes and behavior in accordance with religious teachings. Schools are closed and so are stalls.

It means to dismiss the universe (macrocosm), the area of Datah cus-tomary village and human self (mi-crocosm) after the ngusaba segeha. Later, in relatively short time it will

be resumed with ngusaba dalem at local village. In order to maintain the solemnity of the village, peca-lang or customary security guard is assigned to secure the village. Exit access of the village is closed except for the Amlapura-Singaraja. Besides, the public transport is not allowed to stop for taking and drop-ping passengers at the road section of Datah village. Each resident installs a penjor in front of their respective house compound. (013)

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Despite the fact that Ubud -as a tourist destination, has received many awards and that the number of visitors to this area continues to increase every year, hotel owners are still facing a decline in the number of visitors who stay in this part of Gi-anyar.

Customary Nyepi at Datah village

Less travellers stay in UbudGIANYAR - Despite the

fact that Ubud -as a tourist destination, has received many awards and that the number of visitors to this area con-tinues to increase every year, hotel owners are still facing a decline in the number of visitors who stay in this part of Gianyar. Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restau-rant Association (PHRI) of Gianyar Chapter, Tjokorda Agung Ichiro, said on Monday that Ubud has been an award winning destination for a long time, has made it into the top 15 destinations of the world (ahead of Bangkok) and more and more people are visiting, yet hoteliers have noted a de-cline in business.

Another challenge faced by entre-preneurs in Ubud is the depreciation world currencies and the rising prices of basic commodities here. If hoteliers maintain the same rates, while having to pay more for everything that they provide, clearly their profit margin is smaller. To avoid this, they have to raise their prices which makes tourists less likely to want to stay. “The euro has fallen by 20 percent, Japan’s Yen has fallen by 30 percent and both the US and Australian dollars have also declined. So even if we only raise our rates according to local inflation, tourist only see increased hotel rates,” he said.

In order to address present con-ditions, Sutawan invites all those involved to come together to present

Ubud as a place that offers something different than other tourist attractions. Without taking such action, he said that Ubud will just be following the same pattern of tourist development as other places, as witnessed by the number of budget hotels currently being built in Ubud. “We need to preserve Ubud as a cultural village. In order do that, there needs to be a filtering process that allows Ubud to remain intact and therefor com-petitive because of its difference,” he affirmed.

The Head of the Gianyar Tourism Agency, I.B. Rai Brahmanta, said that the GTA will coordinate with other relevant agencies to find ways to maintain Ubud’s distinct character, “We must certainly considere this

together. For example, licensing and building permits must be issued more selectively in order to preserve Ubud as a village,” he said.

He also revealed that so far there are approximately five budget hotels around Ubud that offer prices that compete with home stays in the area.

Tjokorda Gde Raka Sukawati has requested that the government make more concerted efforts to help to main-tain the nature and culture in Ubud. He cited the construction of budget hotels, that are very disharmonious with the social and natural environment, as an example of government leniency.

“On a small plot of land, large investors can build a 500 room hotel, while local residents can only provide about 5 rooms. The development of

budget hotels is clearly disharmonious with nature, and does not meet with the provision of 60 percent green space for every 40 percent of building,” he said. (kmb35)

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The explosion aboard the Deep-water Horizon drilling rig engulfed the high-tech platform in flames, killed 11 men and injured hundreds. Oil, natural gas and toxic sludge poured into the Gulf for 87 days as regulators, industry and the White House struggled to contain the off-shore disaster. Since the Macondo disaster five years ago Monday, federal agencies have approved about two dozen next-generation, ultra-deep wells.

The number of deepwater drilling rigs has increased, too, from 35 at the time of the Macondo blowout to 48 last month, according to data from IHS Energy, a Houston company that collects industry statistics.

Department of Interior officials

overseeing offshore drilling did not provide data on these wells and accompanying exploration and drilling plans, information that The Associated Press requested last month.

But a review of offshore well data by the AP shows the average ocean depth of all wells started since 2010 is 40 percent deeper than the average well drilled in the five years before that. And that’s just the depth of the water.

Drillers are exploring a “golden zone” of oil and natural gas that lies roughly 20,000 feet (6,095 meters) beneath the sea floor, far deeper than BP’s Macondo well, which was considered so tricky at the time that a rig worker killed in

the blowout once described it to his wife as “the well from hell.”

Geophysicists estimate oil com-panies can unleash Saudi Arabian-like gushers at these unprecedented depths from fields capable of yield-ing up to 300,000 barrels of oil a day. Temperatures and pressures — the conditions that make drill-ing so risky — get more intense the deeper you go.

“It’s not rocket science,” said Matthew Franchek, director of the University of Houston’s subsea engineering graduate program. “Oh, no, it’s much, much more complicated.” Geoff Morrell, a BP spokesman, said his company has vastly improved its safety culture. (ap)

BEIRUT — Lebanon received the first installment of $3 billion worth of French weapons paid for by Saudi Arabia on Monday, part of a four-year plan to help arm Beirut in its battle against jihadi groups. The handover ceremony held at Beirut’s international airport was attended by Lebanese and French defense ministers and top army officers.

The deal aims to boost Lebanon’s military as it struggles to contain a rising tide of violence linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria.

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the deal will include dozens of armored vehicles, six transport helicopters and other types of weapons. He added that the next shipment will arrive in May. The deal also includes training programs for Lebanese troops run by the French military.

“Lebanon’s victory against ter-rorism is a victory to all nations threatened by terrorism,” Lebanese Defense Minister Samir Moqbel said. A Lebanese army general told reporters that Monday’s shipment included modern anti-tank guided Milan missiles, saying they will

be a “turning point” in the army’s performance.

The Lebanese army has been fighting members of the Islamic State group and Syria’s al-Qaida branch, the Nusra Front, mostly in areas on the border with Syria.

In August, militants crossed from Syria into the Lebanese bor-der town of Arsal, capturing more than 20 soldiers and police officer. Islamic State and Nusra Front militants have killed four of the captives and still hold the rest. “The Lebanese army paid a high price in Arsal and France helped and will help Lebanon so that it does not slip into chaos,” Le Drian said.

Lebanon announced the sur-prise $3 billion grant from Saudi Arabia in December 2013. Since then, Riyadh’s regional rival, Iran, also has said it is ready to provide aid to the Lebanese army. Many Lebanese view these offers as part of a competition for influence over their tiny country, which is riven by sectarian fissures. The Lebanese army is generally seen as a unify-ing force in Lebanon, and draws its ranks from all of the country’s sects. (ap)

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service has arrested a person for attempting to scale the White House fence. The agency says the incident happened at 10:25 p.m. Sunday.

Its statement says “this indi-vidual was immediately arrested by USSS Uniformed Division Officers,” and says the person was taken into custody and charges are pending.

The Secret Service did not iden-

tify the person arrested or divulge other details.

The agency has been beset by a series of security lapses, including an incident last Sept. 19 in which authorities said a man with a knife jumped a fence and ran inside the executive mansion, looking for the president. It was the sixth time someone had jumped the fence in 2014 and the 16th in the past five years, according to the Secret Ser-vice. (ap)

Person arrested for attempting to scale White House fence

AP Photo/Bilal Hussein

Lebanese army soldiers stand in front of French weapons at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Mon-day, April 20, 2015. Lebanon has received the first shipment of $3 billion worth of French weapons paid for by Saudi Arabia.

Lebanon gets first shipment of $3B

worth of French arms

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FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file photo by Gerald Herbert, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico. Rig fires happen with some regularity, but when word came that the rig was listing badly after an explosion the night before, New Orleans-based Herbert raced to a small airport and grabbed the first helicopter pilot he could find.

5 years after BP spill, drillers push into

riskier depthsON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Five years after the worst U.S. offshore oil spill, the indus-

try is working on drilling even further into the risky depths beneath the Gulf of Mexico to tap massive deposits once thought unreachable. But critics say energy companies haven’t developed the corresponding safety measures to prevent another disaster or contain one if it happens — a sign, environmentalists say, that the lessons of BP’s spill were short-lived.

BANGLI - The wall of the SDN 3 Songan elementary school col-lapsed along 12 meters. It occurred because the wall condition has been fragile and cracked. Fortunately, the collapsed wall did not claim any casualties because at the time the students were still learning in classroom.

According to information, the wall collapse occurred on Friday (Apr. 17) around 11:00 a.m. Shortly before the incident, the wall was pushed by a number of students who wanted to see a stray dog. In the morning, a student of the school was attack by a stray dog. Alleg-edly, the school wall has long been

fragile, so that after getting a boost from the students it became no lon-ger strong and then collapsed.

The Principal of the SDN 3 Son-gan elementary school, Ni Wayan Partini, as confirmed on Sunday (Apr. 19) justified that the wall at her school collapsed last Friday. The collapsed wall has a length

of 12 meters with the height of 1.5 meters. Partini said that when the wall collapsed, the school was implementing the teaching and learning process in classroom so that no students became the victim in the incident. “No students were affected because they were entirely in the classroom,” she explained.

According to Partini, the school wall collapsed because it has been old enough. Besides, it has been fragile and cracked. “Probably the wall collapsed due to being fragile,” she said. Over the incident, her party has reported to the Bangli Education Agency in order to get an immediate action. (kmb40)

On Saturday (Apr. 19), the Com-mission II of the Buleleng House monitored the trial operation of the steam-fueled power plant. As a result, the House found the emergence of vibrations including noises and puff of smokes from the generating engine. The House urged the investor to immediately handle the environmental disturbance to avoid disruption to the people around the plant.

Chairman of the Commission II of the Buleleng House, Putu Mangku Budiasa, said that the power plant construction has of-ten resulted in problems since the very beginning that become long

debate. As consequence, the issues hamper the project workmanship. To that end, the House reminds the investor of the power plant execut-ing the trial operation to follow the applicable regulations.

Emergence of the environmen-tal disturbances such as vibration, noises and puff of smokes should immediately find the way out, so that it does not impede the course of the trial operation until the plant normally operates. “We are as-signed by our leadership to moni-tor the trial operation of the power plant. Indeed, there are vibrations, noises and puff of smokes. We have request the investor to find a

way out for the problems. Anyhow the investors should still keep its commitment to preventing environ-mental pollution,” he said.

According to Budiasa, technical studies mention that vibrations will emerge when the generating engine is started at trial operation. Such vibration is also claimed by inves-tor to take place when the engine is started and after which the vibration will disappear. Similarly, the puff of smoke cannot be avoided and it only occurs when the engine begins to be operated. After the engine operates within a certain time limit, the smoke will not certainly appear. The investor promised to protect it

with silencer, so that the noises will not disturb the comfort of residents around the plant.

As an illustration, the investor gave an example of the power plant at Paiton in East Java where vibration, noises and puff of smokes also appeared during the trial operation of the machine as happened to the power plant at Celukan Bawang.

“The investor claims that the vi-bration and smoke only occur when starting the engine. After that, they will not appear again. To eliminate noises, it will be overcome by in-stalling silencer. This is not under-estimated and still handled. Then, we will keep doing the monitoring,” said the PDI-P politician from Selat village, Sukasada village.

On the other hand, Budiasa said that after the operation of the

power plant in West Buleleng the investor will follow it up with the recruitment of workers. Related to the recruitment, the investor is reminded of its commitment to accommodating local workers pursuant to the proportion having set forth in the documents when the investor submitted principle permit to the government. It is important to note so that the investor will not deny it. Otherwise, it may cause a turmoil leading to disruption of the power plant operation.

“The more the better will be. They must not only be from Ce-lukan Bawang village and neigh-boring villages, but also from the villages outside Gerokgak. They need to be given the opportunity to be recruited in appropriate with technical requirements,” he added. (kmb38)

Wall of SDN 3 Songan collapses

Trial operation of Celukan Bawang power plant monitored

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The Celukan Bawang Power Plant.

SINGARAJA - The steamed-fueled power plant at Celukan Bawang, Gerokgak subdistrict, begins the trial operation of its generating engine. This is enabled by the high voltage transmis-sion lines (SUTT) of the PLN having been connected to the network of the power plant. The trial operation of this power plant was monitored in person by legislator of the Buleleng House.

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TOKYO — Japan’s top trade negotiator met with U.S. Trade Repre-sentative Michael Froman on Monday, seeking to resolve differences on autos and farm exports that are hindering progress toward a Pacific Rim trade deal. Economy minister Akira Amari, Japan’s top trade negotiator, sought to keep expectations low.

“I expect the exchanges to be extremely severe,” Amari said of the talks, which began late Sunday. “I will do my utmost to narrow the gap between Japan and the United States

while firmly keeping in mind our national interest.”

Amari said that the two sides were still trying to resolve differences over removing trade barriers in key areas. Japan wants greater market open-ing for its exports of autos and auto parts. The U.S. hopes to export more rice, pork and other farm products to Japan.

The talks between Japan and the U.S. are part of negotiations among 12 nations participating in the U.S.-led Trans Pacific Partnership, which

eventually aims to create a free trade zone in the Asia-Pacific region.

Amari earlier said that some of the remaining issues between Japan and the U.S. would likely be resolved at upcoming 12-nation talks. He has downplayed the possibility of a deal with the U.S. before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Washington later this month.

An agreement by U.S. lawmak-ers last week to propose legislation allowing President Barack Obama to negotiate trade accords for overall

congressional review appeared to help move things along.

At the outset of the TPP talks, Japan identified five categories of agricul-tural products as “sensitive,” given its longstanding protections for politically powerful farm interests. They include beef and pork, wheat and barley, sugar, rice and dairy products.

Rice has proven an especially dif-ficult area for compromise.

An aging population and changing tastes mean Japan is consuming less and less rice, and has a significant

surplus of its own.Largely city-dwelling, price-con-

scious consumers would likely wel-come cheaper rice and dairy and meat products, but lack the political sway of the rural electorate that has been the mainstay of support for Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party since the 1950s.

Japanese media reports Friday sug-gested that Japan would likely agree to increase its imports of American grown rice, while keeping costly price supports to protect local farm-ers. (afp)

The free-trade zones (FTZs) will be opened in the southern province of Guangdong, the northern port of Tianjin and the eastern province of Fujian, reported the website of the People’s Daily, the ruling Commu-nist Party’s mouthpiece.

Each will cover around 120 square kilometres (46 square miles), the State Council, China’s cabinet, said.

China’s first FTZ, set up in the commercial hub Shanghai in

September 2013, will also be qua-drupled in size, it said, bringing it up to a similar scale and likely to take in the financial centre of Lu-jiazui, along with a manufacturing area and a high-tech base.

When the Shanghai FTZ was launched it promised a range of financial reforms, including full convertibility of the yuan currency and free interest rates, but they remain unfulfilled.

All four zones are subject to the same “negative list” that bans or restricts foreign investment in 122 business areas, ranging from geneti-cally modified seeds and rare earth mining to Internet news services and television broadcasters, a separate State Council statement showed.

Assistant commerce minister Wang Shouwen told reporters the list represented a reduction from the previous 139.

“Openness is improved greatly this time,” he said.

The Guangdong FTZ aims to speed economic integration with neighbouring Hong Kong, the former British colony that is now a special administrative region of China, one of the releases said.

It will allow Hong Kong and Macau companies to issue yuan-denominated bonds in the mainland and explore ways for firms in the zone to sell yuan-denominated shares in Hong Kong, it said.

The Fujian zone is focused on Taiwan, which China considers part

of its sovereign territory, and aims to become a “cooperation platform” for the “21st century maritime silk road” -- an initiative backed by President Xi Jinping that seeks to secure trade routes, largely through economic diplomacy, another statement said.

Companies and individuals in the Fujian zone will be permitted to invest overseas directly “using their own financial assets”, it added.

The Tianjin FTZ is part of a push to better integrate the city with nearby Beijing and Hebei province, according to the State Council. (afp)

WASHINGTON — U.S. businesses expect their sales will rebound in the next three months after a sluggish first quarter, and they plan to boost hiring and pay, according to a survey released Monday.

Just 49 percent of firms said their sales in-creased in the first three months of the year from last year’s fourth quarter. That’s down from 54 percent that reported higher sales in the last survey, in January.

Yet companies are much more bullish about the April through June quarter. Nearly three-quarters of companies forecast higher sales over the next three months, up from 68 percent in January and just 54 percent in October.

The results suggest that weak growth in the first three months of the year may prove tem-porary. Harsh winter weather, labor disputes at West Coast ports that slowed shipping and a jump in the value of the dollar likely held economic growth to a 1 percent annual pace, or below, from January through March. Yet most economists expect growth to accelerate in the second quarter.

“Growth in the first quarter appears to be an outlier within the broader economic outlook,” said John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo.

Silvia is also president of the National As-sociation for Business Economics, which con-ducted the survey covering 77 companies in the second half of March. The companies surveyed represent a broad cross-section of industries —

including manufacturing, construction, finance, hotels and restaurants — with nearly half having more than 1,000 employees and a quarter having fewer than 10.

Another sign of confidence in the economic outlook: The percentage of firms that said they

raised pay in

the January-March quarter soared to 45 percent, up from 31 percent in January and 35 per-cent a year earlier. (ap)

China to launch three new free-trade zonesBEIJING - China will launch three new free-trade zones on Tuesday, official media said

Monday, building on a project that began in Shanghai to much fanfare but has so far undershot expectations.

Japan, US talks seeking compromise on farm, auto trade

AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File

In this Jan. 12, 2015 file photo, a now hiring sign hangs nearby as a builder works on a commercial property under construction in Peabody, Mass.

US businesses expect sales rebound, more hiring

On Sunday (Apr. 19), children collected ritual ingredients from every home while letting residents know that the temple piodalan will be held soon. Hundreds of children are divided into several groups rep-resenting the devotees of Samuantiga Temple. They are spread over five customary villages; Bedulu, Wanayu Mas, Taman, Tengkulak Kaja and Tengah. They collect coconut, banana leaves and fruit, eggs, incense and other ingredients that will be used in the ceremony.

“The Ngambeng tradition begins fifteen days prior to the piodalan and

ends threee days before,” said com-mittee chairman, I Wayan Patera.

No one knows the origin of the ngambeng tradition. As a result, no one dares to forbid or abolish chil-dren from collecting the ingredients required for the ritual of the piodalan at Samuantiga Temple.

According to Patera, his predeces-sors once abolished the tradition, but what happened then? Preparations for the ceremony were disrupted as people lacked the various ritual ingredients. “Based on that experi-ence, we then resumed the ngambeng tradition,” he explained.

Other than being an ancestral heritage, the ngambeng tradition also implies a very noble meaning. The tradition, dominated by children also serves as a significantly efficient way of informing residents that the piodalan will be conducted soon. Besides, it also serves as a medium for children to learn about social and religious life from a very young age. The ngambeng tradition wherein groups of three to twelve children go door to door, is able to shape the co-operative character of these children as inspire sincerity in conducting devotional work. (dar)

MANGUPURA - The Gelang Agung temple catego-rized into dang kahyangan (sanctum to venerate a sage) located at Buangga Hamlet, Getasan Village, Petang Subdistrict, is not only considered as a sanctum by lo-cal community, but also as one of the cultural heritage cornerstones. Many cultural relics originating from thirteenth century were discovered in the temple.

Various stories arose concerning with the temple naming located amidst the paddy fields being far from residential areas. However, the naming is inseparable from the discovery of yellowish bronze bracelets siz-ing large enough. It is said the bracelet was found in the temple area. Other than bracelets, it was also found a small bronze bracelet scattered around the temple. Unfortunately, none of those bracelets are now left.

Priest of the Gelang Agung temple, I Made Terum and priest of Dalem Temple of Buangga I Ketut Malen said their predecessors frequently showed off those objects. Unfortunately, they had disappeared somewhere. Now, the existence of those objects was unknown, including the preliminary evidence of the temple establishment. Surrounding communities only referred to ancient sto-ries.

In the temple was also found some perforated coins wrapped in leaves when an excavation was made. Oddly, said a community leader, Made Ngaceng, the erythrina leaf used to wrap the coins was still fresh. Those perfo-rated coins were found during an excavation by residents and the officers of the Antiquities Reserve, Archaeologi-cal Agency for Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara Region in 1997.

Except for bronze bracelets and perforated coins, ac-cording to the story, it was also found a temple mound measuring one square meter when the temple was first discovered. Afterward, the mound was excavated. As a result, it was discovered various kinds of statues. Alleg-edly, some relicts were still kept under the temple.

Few relics excavated have now been placed in Gedong Arca. There are a statue of Lord Vishnu riding Garuda (eagle), phallus, a statue resembling lotus flower com-prising three sections with octagonal base, the center of three-tiered rectangular frame, and circular pinnacle surrounded by sculpture resembling a lotus leaf. When viewing the phallus building next to it, it is likely a symbol of yoni. If both symbols are combined, then they symbolize fertility. There is also a relic of Padmasana shrine whose headboard is inscribed with Balinese script and a few fragments of the buildings are made of stone, while fragment of the building is rectangle.

Chief of Buangga customary village, IGN Arnawa, stated that local community truly hoped the government to pay attention to the temple existence. He assessed the government’s attention so far was very minimal associ-ated with physical condition of the temple and cultural relics retained inside the temple.

Meanwhile, various magical stories accompanied the existence of the Gelang Agung temple. One of them men-tioned that in the past many juwuk linglang oranges grew around the temple and it was believed to have capability of reviving the dead. Similarly, turmeric was said to grow in the temple area where if harvested it would turn into gold. However, if it was taken home it would no longer be gold. “So far, we have a real experience where the food during the ceremony in the temple never turns stale despite being left for many days,” Ngaceng said.

Jro Mangku Terum explained the structure of the Ge-lang Agung temple was not much different from other sanctum in general in Bali. It had a two-tiered meru shrine used to venerate Goddess Sri. In the temple also occurred a chamber to venerate Danghyang Dwijendra. In certain seasons, especially when the paddy plant belonging to residents of Buangga and surrounding resi-dents was attacked by diseases, they would come to pray to the temple and beg salvation. Meanwhile, piodalan or anniversary of the temple fell on Buda (Wednesday) Umanis Julungwangi. (kmb)

Gelang Agung Temple

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Since last Saturday, a number of children in customary attires have been carrying out ngambeng activities in Bedulu village by visiting the homes of every resident there.

Ngambeng leading to Samuantiga

Temple anniversaryGIANYAR – Since last Saturday, a number of children in customary attires have been carrying out

ngambeng activities in Bedulu village by visiting the homes of every resident there. The ngambeng tradition is held as part of the piodalan or birthday of Samuantiga Temple. In 2015, the peak of the temple birthday was held on April 3.

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JAKARTA - Political solidarity alone cannot tackle the current re-gional and international issues faced by Asian and African countries, ac-cording to Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi.

“Is the political message adequate to face the current challenges? I am sure you will say no. This is just the start, and then we have to move forward,” stated Minister Marsudi in her opening remarks during the Asian-African Ministerial Meeting (AAMM) at the Jakarta Convention

Center (JCC) on Monday.Minister Marsudi explained that

in order to achieve greater political solidarity for a stronger and richer Asia and Africa, the Bandung Mes-sages should be translated into concrete action, and to this end, the document of Reinvigorating New Asian African Strategic Partnership (NAASP) would serve as a mecha-nism to implement them.

The Reinvigorating NAASP docu-ment also outlines four steps to follow up the implementation of the Band-

ung Messages, including holding a commemoration every ten years, rotation every four years, meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly every two years, and annual co-chairs meeting.

“I am confident that the compre-hensive NAASP framework will initiate a new chapter in Asian-African cooperation, as it will allow the countries to cooperate through a structured, systematic, and intensive framework,” she emphasized.

The comprehensive NAASP

framework will also bridge the gap between Asian and African conti-nents, both in terms of solidarity and physically.

During her remarks, Minister Marsudi also mentioned the Indo-nesian chairmanship in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) that will also promote maritime connectivity among Asian and Af-rican countries.

“The maritime connectivity will narrow the distance between Asia and Africa,” she pointed out.

Indonesia initiates the Bandung Messages, Reinvigorating NAASP, and the Declaration on Palestine as the three outcome documents of the 60th AAC, and each draft of the substances had been discussed in New York and finalized during the Senior Official Meeting (SOM) of the AAC on Sunday.

Indonesian Foreign Affairs Min-ister Retno Marsudi and her South African counterpart Maite Nkoa-na-Mashabane will co-chair the AAMM on April 20-21. (ant)

General Moeldoko said the military was helping police to track down radicals, highlight-ing government concern over Indonesians pledging loyalty to IS and returning to the world’s most populous Muslim country after training alongside the group in Syria or Iraq.

“The military will not give any space for IS to develop or live in Indonesia,” Moeldoko told Reuters at military headquarters on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta.

The operation was launched on March 31 and has since fin-ished. It was Indonesia’s first major military counter-terrorism operation, which included special forces personnel and intelligence agents, since the aftermath of the 2009 Jakarta hotel bombings.

Moeldoko did not say how many militants had been killed or captured.

Indonesia has fought a small number of homegrown militant groups since the early 2000s and has arrested a few people sus-pected of receiving IS training in Syria.

In the most deadly attack, Indonesian militants bombed a nightclub on the holiday island of

Bali in 2002, killing 202 people, many of them Australians.

Police have been largely suc-cessful in destroying domestic militant cells since then, but officials now worry about a re-surgence.

“The exercises (in the moun-tainous region of Central Su-lawesi) have ended,” Moeldoko said. “But we still have military elements there.”

Moeldoko also raised concerns over tensions in the South China Sea, where a number of Southeast Asian countries have overlap-ping claims with China, calling for a new military balance in the region.

“There are significant changes in the stable and calm conditions that existed in the region a decade ago,” he said.

“So everyone has an opinion that China is a threat to the neigh-bourhood. The region needs a new balance, which cannot be repre-sented by just one major power.”

China claims most of the po-tentially energy-rich South China Sea, disputed in parts with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, and denies accusations its actions in its own territory are a threat. (rtr)

REUTERS/Beawiharta

Chief Economics Minister Sofyan

Djalil talks during the opening session

of World Economic Forum on East Asia in Jakarta, April 20,

2015.

Political solidarity is not enough for asia-africa

Military launches anti-IS operation on eastern island

JAKARTA - Military has launched an anti-terrorism opera-tion on the eastern island of Sulawesi to crack down on militants with suspected links to Islamic State, the armed forces chief said on Monday.

JAKARTA - Indonesia wel-comed business chiefs and gov-ernment leaders Monday to Asia’s edition of the World Economic Forum, as calls mount for President Joko Widodo to do more to show his commitment to reform.

Some 700 participants are at-tending the event, known as “Asia’s Davos” in reference to the WEF’s annual global gathering in Switzer-land, at the start of a busy week for Jakarta, which is also hosting a sum-mit of Asian and African leaders.

Indonesia has enjoyed strong growth in recent years, driven by demand for its natural resources, for-eign investment and a fast-emerging middle class. But expansion has been slowing as commodity prices fall.

Widodo, who came to office last year partly on a pledge to revive the economy, has vowed to improve the business climate and win new investment, and sees the WEF as a key platform to push his agenda.

He is due to speak later Mon-day at the gathering, which is also being attended by several cabinet

ministers. Major companies, such as Coca-Cola and US oil giant Chev-ron are represented, as are regional leaders including Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.

As sessions got under way Mon-day, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, chief of Indonesian state-owned Bank Mandiri, struck a positive tone: “I’m very positive and optimistic -- in the next 15 years, 50 million Indone-sians will enter the middle class.”

However, Widodo, who took power in October, has his work cut out to improve the investment cli-mate, with investors put off in recent years by policies seen as nationalistic in the banking and mining sectors, and by complex bureaucracy.

Indonesia came 114th in the World Bank’s latest rankings on the ease of doing business, out of 189 countries. A nation ranked number one is deemed the easiest place to do business.

The president has taken some steps, almost entirely axing fuel sub-sidies that gobbled up a huge chunk of the economy in the early months

of his administration, a move which freed up billions of dollars.

However, analysts said momen-tum appears to have slowed and accused the government of sending mixed signals. They pointed to a ban introduced last week on the sale of beer at small shops across the Mus-lim-majority country, which sparked anger from international brewers.

“If you want to roll (out) the red carpet, don’t squeeze them when they come,” said Yose Rizal Damuri from Jakarta think-tank the Centre for Stra-tegic and International Studies.

A major focus for Widodo is improving infrastructure, with pot-holed roads and ageing ports a key complaint of investors -- a problem all too clear for delegates arriving in the chaotic capital Jakarta, which suffers chronic traffic jams and has scant public transport.

A key theme at this year’s confer-ence, which runs until Tuesday, is improving trust between countries in the region as geopolitical ten-sions risk undermining hard-won economic gains. (afp)

Indonesia seeks to lure investors at ‘Asia’s Davos’

Along with the African and Asian leaders, a handful of Middle Eastern countries are represented, including Iran by Rouhani.

And several controversial figures will attend, including Sudanese Presi-dent Omar al-Bashir, indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.

Beyond the commemorations, Muslim-majority Indonesia will host a meeting of Islamic countries on the escalating Yemen conflict, as re-quested by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Iran, part of the 57-member OIC, is a key ally of the Shiite Huthi rebels who have seized swathes of Yemen but denies arming them, as Saudi Arabia leads an air campaign against them.

The conflict has sent tensions soaring between Saudi Arabia and its regional rival Iran -- the foremost Sunni and Shiite Muslim powers in the Middle East, respectively.

Yemen and Saudi Arabia are not represented at the conference, although several other OIC members are.

Meanwhile Japan’s Abe, a strident nationalist, is due to give a speech at the summit, which will be watched closely ahead of a statement expected later this year to mark the 70th anni-versary of the end of World War II.

The five-day conference includes a ministerial meeting Monday and business summit Tuesday. It ends on Friday, with leaders heading to Bandung to commemorate the original gathering. (afp)

Asia...

The explosions were the most powerful seen in the city since a Saudi-led air campaign against Iran-allied Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, began last month. The blasts deposited a layer of soot on the top floors of residential build-ings and left the streets littered with glass. Anti-aircraft fire rattled across the city in response.

Mushroom clouds rose over Fag Atan, in the mountainous outskirts of Sanaa, where the capital’s larg-est weapons caches are located. The site has been targeted several times during the three-week air campaign.

A Yemeni official said the Saudi-led warplanes are demolishing parts of the mountain, hoping to uncover and destroy Scud missiles. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not au-thorized to speak to the press.

Some 6 kilometers (4 miles) away from Fag Atan, cars were damaged and charred, shop fronts were shattered and the windows were blown out of office build-ings.

The Houthis’ TV network al-Masirah said Mohammed Shamsan, a TV presenter for another network, was killed and that members of his crew were wounded. Ambulances were rushing to the site of the explosions, and al-Masirah aired a statement by health authorities call-ing on citizens to donate blood.

Al-Masirah said 10 people were killed and dozens wounded in the bombing. It was not immediately possible to confirm those figures. Residents posted videos and pic-tures of the explosions, and the damage they had caused, on social media. “The hanging ceiling and chandelier fell because of the explosions,” resident Mohammed Mohsen said.

Saudi Arabia and allied coun-tries began launching airstrikes on March 26, hoping to roll back the rebels, who seized Sanaa in September and have overrun large parts of the country with the help of security forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Western governments and Sunni Arab countries say the Houthis get arms from Iran. Iran and the

Large explosions from airstrikes rock Yemeni capital

SANAA, Yemen — Saudi-led airstrikes on weapons caches in Yemen’s rebel-held capital on Monday caused massive explosions that shattered windows, sent residents scrambling for shelter and killed a local TV presenter.

AP Photo/Hani Mohammed

Smoke rises after a Saudi-led airstrike hit a site where many believe the largest weapons cache in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, is located on Monday, April 20, 2015. Powerful explosions rocked the Yemeni capital early Monday morning amid the strike, shattering windows and waking residents up.

rebels deny that, though the Islamic Republic has provided political and humanitarian support to the group.

Rebel leader Abdul-Malek al-Houthi struck a defiant tone on Sunday, saying: “The great Yemeni people will never surrender and

never be subjugated.”Fighting meanwhile intensified

in the southern port city of Aden, where the Houthis and Saleh loy-alists are battling youth militias and forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled the country last month. (ap)

South Korea ready to start work to salvage sunken ferry

SEOUL — South Korea’s oceans ministry said Monday that it was ready to start work to salvage a ferry that sank last year, killing more than 300 people, and that the operation would begin soon after it gets formal approval.

The Ministry of Oceans and Fish-eries said in a statement that it would ask the government’s safety agency to approve plans to hoist the ship from the seafloor off the country’s southwest coast. The Ministry of Public Safety and Security said it would review the request on Wednesday.

The safety agency is widely ex-pected to endorse the plan as President Park Geun-hye promised on Thursday — the anniversary of the April 16, 2014, sinking — to lift the ship.

The oceans ministry statement said it aimed to choose a company to hoist the ship within two months of getting approval and would map out detailed salvaging plans in the fol-lowing months. Ministry officials said some of the work to lift the ship, such as deploying barges where workers can stay during the salvaging operation, could start in October.

Ministry officials have said the esti-mated cost of raising the ferry is about

$91-137 million and that it’s expected to take as long as 1 1/2 years.

A total of 304 people — most of them students from a single high school — died when the ferry Sewol sank. The bodies of nine of the victims haven’t been retrieved.

Salvaging the vessel is one of the key demands of bereaved families and their supporters, who also want a more thorough investigation into the sinking. Some conservatives have opposed raising the ferry, a civilian ship, with taxpayers’ money.

Authorities have arrested about 140 people, including crew members and ferry company employees, blaming overloading of cargo, improper stor-age, botched rescue efforts and other negligence for the incident. But critics say higher-level officials haven’t been held accountable.

Violence broke out Saturday at a Seoul rally criticizing the government’s handling of the ferry disaster, with police using water cannons and pepper spray to disperse protesters. Police said Monday that they had requested war-rants to arrest five of the protesters, but that none of the five were relatives of disaster victims. (ap)

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

In this Wednesday, April 15, 2015 photo, a South Korea Coast Guard

boat passes a buoy, which marks the site where the ferry Sewol sank off Jindo, South Korea. South Korea’s

oceans ministry says it’s ready to start works to salvage a ferry that sank last year, killing more than 300 people. The

letters at a buoy read “ Sewol.”

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Rossi had overtaken the Honda at the end of the back straight, after an initial exchange of places at Turn 1, with Marquez then clipping him and falling while trying to repass. “It’s a shame that he crashed, but I think he did a mistake,” said Rossi.

“Marc is a rider who always bets all in, all or nothing. “When I over-took, he touched me the first time. On acceleration he touched me again and we crashed. “It’s a shame because it could’ve been a good battle to the end. “He knew that if I overtook him,

I was a little bit faster. So he tried everything.

“But maybe a little bit too much, I think.” Marquez said he had ‘learned’ more from Rossi during their dice. “It’s a shame what happened, because we were having a good race,” he

said. “I’ve always said that he’s my idol and my reference, so you always learn things from him.”

Rossi had come through from eighth on the grid to catch Marquez as the Honda rider’s hard tyres faded while Rossi’s extra-hards remained competitive. Marquez explained that his late switch to the softer compound had been made because Yamaha’s long-run pace suggested Rossi would be hard to beat on the same tyre.

The Italian said he had tried to ignore his rival’s strategy. “The key was that we didn’t care about Mar-quez, we just concentrated on us,” said Rossi. “We just used the tyre that permitted me to do the race distance in the least time.”

Marquez’s retirement drops him to fifth in the championship, 30 points behind Rossi - who has now won two of this season’s three grands prix. (net)

CLEVELAND — Kyrie Irving scored 30 points in his playoff debut and LeBron James added 20 in his first postseason game with Cleve-land in five years as the Cavaliers opened a run toward an NBA title with a 113-100 victory over the Boston Celtics on Sunday. Irving made five 3-pointers and Kevin Love, another postseason rookie, had 19 points and 12 rebounds.

It was Cleveland’s first home playoff game since May 11, 2010, when the Celtics won Game 5 and James left the floor to some boos from Cavaliers fans. He departed for Miami two months later, but he’s home now, all is forgiven and Cleveland is aiming to end a championship drought dating to 1964. Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points to lead the seventh-seeded Celtics. They will try to even the best-of-7 series in Game 2 on Tues-day night.

Clippers point guard Chris Paul

scored 32 points, and Blake Griffin added 26 points and 12 rebounds, as Los Angeles surged in the second half to beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-92 in their first-round playoff series opener.

Jamal Crawford added 17 points for the Clippers, who met the de-fending NBA champions’ challenge in a difficult postseason-opening matchup for two powers. Griffin threw down his usual array of roof-raising dunks, while Paul quarter-backed Los Angeles to an 18-point lead in the third quarter.

Kawhi Leonard scored 18 points for the Spurs, who had won the opening game in their previous 11 playoff series. Tim Duncan had 11 points and 11 rebounds, but the Spurs couldn’t rally from their hefty second-half deficit. Game 2 is Wednesday night.

In Atlanta, Kyle Korver scored 21 points, including five 3-pointers, as the top-seeded Hawks held off

the Brooklyn Nets 99-92 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference playoff series.

The Hawks led nearly the entire game and pushed the margin as high as 16 points, but the Nets kept coming back. Finally, Jeff Teague dropped in a floater coming off the left wing, giving Atlanta a 95-89 lead. Joe Johnson missed a 3-point-er from the corner for Brooklyn, and Teague made a pair of free throws with just under a minute remaining to essentially seal it.

Teague and DeMarre Carroll scored 17 points apiece. Game 2 is Wednesday night in Atlanta. (ap)

“Big 3” lead Cavaliers past Celtics 113-100 in Game 1

Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James shoots over Boston Celtics’ Marcus Smart (36)

and Evan Turner in the first quarter of a first round NBA

playoff basketball game, Sunday, April 19, 2015, in

Cleveland. AP Photo/Tony Dejak

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Honda rider Marc Marquez fell down after a collision with Valentino Rossi during the Argentinian GP.

Rossi says Marquez is ‘all or nothing’VALENtINo RossI described his Argentinean Grand Prix collision with Marc Marquez as

an example of the reigning MotoGP champion being an “all or nothing” rider. Marquez crashed out of sunday’s termas de Rio Hondo race when he made contact with the rear of Rossi’s Ya-maha on the penultimate lap.

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BARCELONA - Barcelona’s lethal attack has put them on course for a seventh Champions League semi-final place in eight years but their shaky defence gives Paris Saint Germain a glimmer of hope on Tuesday. The Catalan side are renowned for the quick passing possession game that brought them so much success under Pep Guar-diola, but now coach Luis Enrique is looking to triumph with a more direct approach.

Luis Enrique remains on track to emulate his predecessor and win the treble in his first season in charge, using a style of play based around the quality of his forwards. The Barca coach had to endure plenty of criticism during the first half of the campaign and there were even question marks over whether he would last the season as he tinkered with his side’s formation.

Luis Enrique has now finally settled on a game plan, one that often involves longer balls. It’s a ploy which has greatly benefited Luis Suarez who’s been deployed as a central striker. Lionel Messi, converted into the central figure of Barca’s attacking trident by Guar-diola, himself suggested it would be better for Suarez to play through the middle.

After a slow start following his post-world cup biting ban Suarez has now scored crucial goals for Barca including a double in their 3-1 first leg victory over PSG in Paris.

Atletico Madrid, last season, are the only team to have stopped Barca getting to the semi-finals of the Champions League since 2007 and it would take something special from PSG to deny them.

However, for all Barca’s flair

LONDON - Old masters Aston Villa will play holders Arsenal, the modern kings of the FA Cup, at Wembley next month in the finale of one of the most exciting competitions for years. The clubs, who have now reached 30 finals between them, will meet in the showpiece game for the first time when Arsenal, taking part in a record 19th final, will aim to become the record winners with a 12th success.

Villa held that honour when they beat Manchester United 2-1 in 1957 to win the Cup for a then-record sev-enth time. In the 58 years since they have only appeared in one final, los-ing to Chelsea in 2000, while Arsenal have played in 12 and won eight. The contrast between the clubs is not only confined to the pages of history.

Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger, who has been in the job for nearly 19 years, could become the most successful manager in the competition’s history with a sixth triumph. Tim Sherwood, on the other hand, has been in charge of Villa for just two months.

He won the Premier League title as a player with Blackburn Rovers but never played in an FA Cup final and he could not hide his delight after the 2-1 semi-final win over Liver-

pool on Sunday which he celebrated wildly with the Villa fans. Wenger, whose team rode their luck to beat Championship side Reading 2-1 after extra time on Saturday, had seen it all before.

The Frenchman looked more relieved than elated that Arsenal had beaten Reading without needing penalties as they did in last year’s semi when they overcame Cham-pionship side Wigan Athletic after a shootout.

“It was comparable to what we faced against Wigan,” Wenger told reporters. “But it was a big improve-ment because we needed penalties last year.”

Unlike Wenger, Sherwood wears his heart firmly on his sleeve. “I watched Arsene yesterday and saw how calm he was,” he said. “Like me, he knows nothing has been won yet, but I am sorry I can’t be like Arsene Wenger was after the final whistle. I was just delighted and my emotions spilled out.

“We still have a lot of work to do in the league to be safe and will be the underdogs against Arsenal, they are the holders and want to retain it. “It’s on the back-burner for us for now but I can’t wait.” (rtr)

SAO PAULO— Goalkeeper Fer-nando Prass saved two penalties as Palmeiras defeated rival Corinthians 6-5 in a shootout Sunday to reach the final of the Sao Paulo state cham-pionship. Prass came up big in the shootout after the teams drew 2-2 in the semifinal. It will be Palmeiras’ first final in the traditional regional tournament since it won the competi-tion in 2008.

Palmeiras’ opponent will be San-tos, which eliminated Sao Paulo 2-1 at the Vila Belmiro stadium to reach its seventh-straight final. Santos won three titles but was runner-up the last two years.

In the Rio de Janeiro state champi-

onship, Vasco da Gama defeated Fla-mengo 1-0 at the Maracana Stadium to reach the final against Botafogo, which eliminated Fluminense on Saturday 9-8 on penalties. Corinthi-ans, which had the competition’s best campaign, was trying to return to the Sao Paulo final again after winning the title in 2013.

Elias had a chance to win the shoo-tout for Corinthians, but the Brazil midfielder’s spot kick was stopped by Prass. The goalkeeper later also saved Petro’s shot, sealing Palmeiras’ victory in front of nearly 40,000 rival fans at the Itaquerao stadium. Palmeiras made every penalty after Robinho sent his shot over the crossbar in the

team’s first attempt. “It was a huge victory,” Prass said. “We are through, now it’s time to start thinking about the final.”

Palmeiras defender Victor Ramos opened the scoring in the 13th minute, but Corinthians rallied with goals by Danilo in the 34th and Colombian forward Stiven Mendoza in the 44th. Palmeiras’ equalizer came with a header by striker Rafael Marques in the 75th. “Gladly the ball went in and kept us alive to decide the match in the shootout,” Marques said.

Palmeiras, led by Chilean play-maker Jorge Valdivia, was without injured World Cup veteran left back Ze Roberto, while Corinthians’ Peru

striker Paolo Guerrero was nursing dengue fever.

In Rio, Vasco da Gama defeated Flamengo with a penalty kick convert-ed by Gilberto in the 62nd minute. The teams had drawn 0-0 in the first leg last week. Vasco da Gama was runner-up to Flamengo in last year’s final.

Botafogo, which won the tour-nament in 2013, advanced to the final on Saturday after a shootout decided after 22 penalties. Botafogo goalkeeper Renan converted the final shot just after Fluminense goalkeeper Diego Cavalieri sent his attempt over the crossbar.

Botafogo won 2-1 at the Engen-hao stadium to offset a loss by the

same result in the first leg a week ago at the Maracana. Fluminense was without striker Fred, who was suspended for criticizing referees ear-lier in the tournament. Fred, Brazil’s striker at the World Cup last year, had scored both goals for Fluminense in the first leg.

In the Minas Gerais state cham-pionship, Argentine striker Lucas Pratto scored twice in Atletico Mi-neiro’s 2-1 win over rival Cruzeiro at the Mineirao Stadium, leading his team to a final against Caldense. Uruguayan midfielder Giorgian De Arrascaeta scored Cruzeiro’s goal. The teams had played to a 1-1 draw last week. (ap)

LONDON - Football idols Zine-dine Zidane and Ronaldo will lead a star-studded team in a friendly match on Monday aimed at raising money to help Ebola-hit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The 12th annual ‘Match Against Poverty’, organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will be contested in France between French club AS Saint-Étienne and a team of past and present international players.

Former France captain Zidane and renowned Brazilian striker Ronaldo, both UNDP Goodwill

Ambassadors, will be joined by Ivorian Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, retired Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf and ex-Brazilian captain Cafu.

“We are delighted to play a part in helping people, communities and countries get back on their feet after the damage that Ebola has caused,” Ronaldo said in a statement.

The Ebola epidemic is believed to have killed more than 10,600 people and infected 25,791 in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, according to the World Health

Organization (WHO).Last Wednesday, the WHO said

a total of 37 confirmed cases had been reported in week to April 12, up from 30 the previous week. Of those, 28 were recorded in Guinea, nine in Sierra Leone and none in Liberia.

Proceeds from the annual match have previously helped to fund earthquake reconstruction in Haiti and Pakistan, post-typhoon recov-ery efforts in the Philippines and post-famine relief to the Horn of Africa, according to the United Nations. (rtr)

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City says playmaker David Silva did not fracture any bones in Sunday’s Premier League victory over West Ham.

Silva was taken to hospital for checks on his cheekbone and col-larbone after being caught in the face by an elbow from West Ham midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate at the Etihad Stadium.

The 29-year-old required around eight minutes of treat-ment on the field before being carefully lifted onto a stretcher and carried off.

But after Silva was given the all-clear, City says he will be closely monitored ahead of Satur-day’s game with Aston Villa. City remained fourth in the league after beating West Ham 2-0. (ap)

Football idols Zidane and Ronaldo team up in UN Ebola fundraiser

Direct Barca must stand firm against PSG

REUTERS/Albert Gea TPX

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (R) and Luis Suarez celebrate a goal against Valencia during their Spanish first division soccer match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona April 18, 2015.

going forward they are prone to making mistakes defensively and PSG’s only goal in the first leg came from Jeremy Mathieu, who put the ball in his own net. They also struggled defensively in their 2-0 win over Valencia at the weekend and it is an area that PSG can look to exploit.

“We were not organised and lacked control in the first half (against Valencia) and they put us under pressure,” Barca midfielder,

Javier Mascherano, told reporters. “These are the types of things that we have to overcome and we will analyse it.”

PSG warmed up for the Camp Nou showdown with a 3-1 victory over Nice and have Zlatan Ibra-himovic and Marco Verratti back after missing the first leg through suspension. There are fitness wor-ries, though, with Thiago Motta, Thiago Silva and David Luiz all doubtful. (rtr)

Man City gives Silva the all-clear, says no broken bones

Old masters meet new FA Cup kings in fitting final

Palmeiras beats Corinthians on penalties, reaches final

Guardiola, who has only ever recorded wins as player and coach against Porto, will also be forced to try to turn things around without sev-eral of his leading lights. “People do not know how difficult our situation is,” he told reporters after Bayern’s 2-0 victory over Hoffenheim on Sat-urday that kept them on course for the Bundesliga title.

“I will never in my life forget these months and I am proud of the team. Now we have on Tuesday the most important Champions League game. It will of course be difficult but this a is our big goal.”

Bayern players need all the pep talk they can get with Arjen Robben, David Alaba, Medhi Benatia and Javi Martinez certain to miss the game at the Allianz Arena. Winger Franck Ribery is also highly unlikely to be fit for the German champions after being sidelined for five weeks with an ankle injury.

Bastian Schweinsteiger, who had been out for two weeks with an ankle knock, did not play on Saturday due to a virus but should be fit along with captain Philipp Lahm.

However, the Bavarians, chasing a treble of titles, have also been rocked by the sudden departure of long-time team doctor Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-

Wohlfahrt this week, saying he had been blamed for the defeat in Porto. “The coach was very emotional (in Hoffenheim),” Bayern midfielder Sebastian Rode said. “He wanted to weld us together. He said we need to remain calm and focused in this situ-ation and if we believe in ourselves and the team then we can overcome obstacles.”

Porto are in fine form, having yet to lose in the Champions League this season and showing superb focus in the first leg to contain Bayern. The Portuguese edged past Academica Coimbra 1-0 in the league, with coach Julen Lopotegui making nine changes to the squad that beat Bayern.

“We were coming from a tre-mendously demanding game, both physically and psychologically, and we felt this was our best team at the moment,” said the Spaniard of their narrow win. “We had to make some changes, we needed a fresh team to win this match.” With Danilo and Alex Sandro suspended they will need another fresh team if they are to deny Bayern -- who have yet to concede a goal at home in this competition this season -- a fourth straight semi-final spot. The last time the Porto went through to the last four was when they won the trophy in 2004. (rtr)

Bayern Munich’s coach Pep Guardiola reacts during their Champions League quarterfinal first leg soccer match against Porto at Dragao stadium in Porto April 15, 2015.

Bayern hope Pep-talk will boost confidence for Porto

BERLIN - Bayern Munich are on a mission with coach Pep Guardiola firing up his injury-hit team as they seek to reverse a 3-1 deficit against Porto in the Champions League quarter-final second leg on Tuesday. The five-times European champions, who have reached the final three times since 2010, find themselves in the unusual position of having to come from behind.

REUTERS/Miguel Vidal

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Aston Villa’s Christian Benteke celebrates at the end of the match

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BARCELONA - Barcelona’s lethal attack has put them on course for a seventh Champions League semi-final place in eight years but their shaky defence gives Paris Saint Germain a glimmer of hope on Tuesday. The Catalan side are renowned for the quick passing possession game that brought them so much success under Pep Guar-diola, but now coach Luis Enrique is looking to triumph with a more direct approach.

Luis Enrique remains on track to emulate his predecessor and win the treble in his first season in charge, using a style of play based around the quality of his forwards. The Barca coach had to endure plenty of criticism during the first half of the campaign and there were even question marks over whether he would last the season as he tinkered with his side’s formation.

Luis Enrique has now finally settled on a game plan, one that often involves longer balls. It’s a ploy which has greatly benefited Luis Suarez who’s been deployed as a central striker. Lionel Messi, converted into the central figure of Barca’s attacking trident by Guar-diola, himself suggested it would be better for Suarez to play through the middle.

After a slow start following his post-world cup biting ban Suarez has now scored crucial goals for Barca including a double in their 3-1 first leg victory over PSG in Paris.

Atletico Madrid, last season, are the only team to have stopped Barca getting to the semi-finals of the Champions League since 2007 and it would take something special from PSG to deny them.

However, for all Barca’s flair

LONDON - Old masters Aston Villa will play holders Arsenal, the modern kings of the FA Cup, at Wembley next month in the finale of one of the most exciting competitions for years. The clubs, who have now reached 30 finals between them, will meet in the showpiece game for the first time when Arsenal, taking part in a record 19th final, will aim to become the record winners with a 12th success.

Villa held that honour when they beat Manchester United 2-1 in 1957 to win the Cup for a then-record sev-enth time. In the 58 years since they have only appeared in one final, los-ing to Chelsea in 2000, while Arsenal have played in 12 and won eight. The contrast between the clubs is not only confined to the pages of history.

Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger, who has been in the job for nearly 19 years, could become the most successful manager in the competition’s history with a sixth triumph. Tim Sherwood, on the other hand, has been in charge of Villa for just two months.

He won the Premier League title as a player with Blackburn Rovers but never played in an FA Cup final and he could not hide his delight after the 2-1 semi-final win over Liver-

pool on Sunday which he celebrated wildly with the Villa fans. Wenger, whose team rode their luck to beat Championship side Reading 2-1 after extra time on Saturday, had seen it all before.

The Frenchman looked more relieved than elated that Arsenal had beaten Reading without needing penalties as they did in last year’s semi when they overcame Cham-pionship side Wigan Athletic after a shootout.

“It was comparable to what we faced against Wigan,” Wenger told reporters. “But it was a big improve-ment because we needed penalties last year.”

Unlike Wenger, Sherwood wears his heart firmly on his sleeve. “I watched Arsene yesterday and saw how calm he was,” he said. “Like me, he knows nothing has been won yet, but I am sorry I can’t be like Arsene Wenger was after the final whistle. I was just delighted and my emotions spilled out.

“We still have a lot of work to do in the league to be safe and will be the underdogs against Arsenal, they are the holders and want to retain it. “It’s on the back-burner for us for now but I can’t wait.” (rtr)

SAO PAULO— Goalkeeper Fer-nando Prass saved two penalties as Palmeiras defeated rival Corinthians 6-5 in a shootout Sunday to reach the final of the Sao Paulo state cham-pionship. Prass came up big in the shootout after the teams drew 2-2 in the semifinal. It will be Palmeiras’ first final in the traditional regional tournament since it won the competi-tion in 2008.

Palmeiras’ opponent will be San-tos, which eliminated Sao Paulo 2-1 at the Vila Belmiro stadium to reach its seventh-straight final. Santos won three titles but was runner-up the last two years.

In the Rio de Janeiro state champi-

onship, Vasco da Gama defeated Fla-mengo 1-0 at the Maracana Stadium to reach the final against Botafogo, which eliminated Fluminense on Saturday 9-8 on penalties. Corinthi-ans, which had the competition’s best campaign, was trying to return to the Sao Paulo final again after winning the title in 2013.

Elias had a chance to win the shoo-tout for Corinthians, but the Brazil midfielder’s spot kick was stopped by Prass. The goalkeeper later also saved Petro’s shot, sealing Palmeiras’ victory in front of nearly 40,000 rival fans at the Itaquerao stadium. Palmeiras made every penalty after Robinho sent his shot over the crossbar in the

team’s first attempt. “It was a huge victory,” Prass said. “We are through, now it’s time to start thinking about the final.”

Palmeiras defender Victor Ramos opened the scoring in the 13th minute, but Corinthians rallied with goals by Danilo in the 34th and Colombian forward Stiven Mendoza in the 44th. Palmeiras’ equalizer came with a header by striker Rafael Marques in the 75th. “Gladly the ball went in and kept us alive to decide the match in the shootout,” Marques said.

Palmeiras, led by Chilean play-maker Jorge Valdivia, was without injured World Cup veteran left back Ze Roberto, while Corinthians’ Peru

striker Paolo Guerrero was nursing dengue fever.

In Rio, Vasco da Gama defeated Flamengo with a penalty kick convert-ed by Gilberto in the 62nd minute. The teams had drawn 0-0 in the first leg last week. Vasco da Gama was runner-up to Flamengo in last year’s final.

Botafogo, which won the tour-nament in 2013, advanced to the final on Saturday after a shootout decided after 22 penalties. Botafogo goalkeeper Renan converted the final shot just after Fluminense goalkeeper Diego Cavalieri sent his attempt over the crossbar.

Botafogo won 2-1 at the Engen-hao stadium to offset a loss by the

same result in the first leg a week ago at the Maracana. Fluminense was without striker Fred, who was suspended for criticizing referees ear-lier in the tournament. Fred, Brazil’s striker at the World Cup last year, had scored both goals for Fluminense in the first leg.

In the Minas Gerais state cham-pionship, Argentine striker Lucas Pratto scored twice in Atletico Mi-neiro’s 2-1 win over rival Cruzeiro at the Mineirao Stadium, leading his team to a final against Caldense. Uruguayan midfielder Giorgian De Arrascaeta scored Cruzeiro’s goal. The teams had played to a 1-1 draw last week. (ap)

LONDON - Football idols Zine-dine Zidane and Ronaldo will lead a star-studded team in a friendly match on Monday aimed at raising money to help Ebola-hit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The 12th annual ‘Match Against Poverty’, organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will be contested in France between French club AS Saint-Étienne and a team of past and present international players.

Former France captain Zidane and renowned Brazilian striker Ronaldo, both UNDP Goodwill

Ambassadors, will be joined by Ivorian Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, retired Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf and ex-Brazilian captain Cafu.

“We are delighted to play a part in helping people, communities and countries get back on their feet after the damage that Ebola has caused,” Ronaldo said in a statement.

The Ebola epidemic is believed to have killed more than 10,600 people and infected 25,791 in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, according to the World Health

Organization (WHO).Last Wednesday, the WHO said

a total of 37 confirmed cases had been reported in week to April 12, up from 30 the previous week. Of those, 28 were recorded in Guinea, nine in Sierra Leone and none in Liberia.

Proceeds from the annual match have previously helped to fund earthquake reconstruction in Haiti and Pakistan, post-typhoon recov-ery efforts in the Philippines and post-famine relief to the Horn of Africa, according to the United Nations. (rtr)

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City says playmaker David Silva did not fracture any bones in Sunday’s Premier League victory over West Ham.

Silva was taken to hospital for checks on his cheekbone and col-larbone after being caught in the face by an elbow from West Ham midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate at the Etihad Stadium.

The 29-year-old required around eight minutes of treat-ment on the field before being carefully lifted onto a stretcher and carried off.

But after Silva was given the all-clear, City says he will be closely monitored ahead of Satur-day’s game with Aston Villa. City remained fourth in the league after beating West Ham 2-0. (ap)

Football idols Zidane and Ronaldo team up in UN Ebola fundraiser

Direct Barca must stand firm against PSG

REUTERS/Albert Gea TPX

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (R) and Luis Suarez celebrate a goal against Valencia during their Spanish first division soccer match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona April 18, 2015.

going forward they are prone to making mistakes defensively and PSG’s only goal in the first leg came from Jeremy Mathieu, who put the ball in his own net. They also struggled defensively in their 2-0 win over Valencia at the weekend and it is an area that PSG can look to exploit.

“We were not organised and lacked control in the first half (against Valencia) and they put us under pressure,” Barca midfielder,

Javier Mascherano, told reporters. “These are the types of things that we have to overcome and we will analyse it.”

PSG warmed up for the Camp Nou showdown with a 3-1 victory over Nice and have Zlatan Ibra-himovic and Marco Verratti back after missing the first leg through suspension. There are fitness wor-ries, though, with Thiago Motta, Thiago Silva and David Luiz all doubtful. (rtr)

Man City gives Silva the all-clear, says no broken bones

Old masters meet new FA Cup kings in fitting final

Palmeiras beats Corinthians on penalties, reaches final

Guardiola, who has only ever recorded wins as player and coach against Porto, will also be forced to try to turn things around without sev-eral of his leading lights. “People do not know how difficult our situation is,” he told reporters after Bayern’s 2-0 victory over Hoffenheim on Sat-urday that kept them on course for the Bundesliga title.

“I will never in my life forget these months and I am proud of the team. Now we have on Tuesday the most important Champions League game. It will of course be difficult but this a is our big goal.”

Bayern players need all the pep talk they can get with Arjen Robben, David Alaba, Medhi Benatia and Javi Martinez certain to miss the game at the Allianz Arena. Winger Franck Ribery is also highly unlikely to be fit for the German champions after being sidelined for five weeks with an ankle injury.

Bastian Schweinsteiger, who had been out for two weeks with an ankle knock, did not play on Saturday due to a virus but should be fit along with captain Philipp Lahm.

However, the Bavarians, chasing a treble of titles, have also been rocked by the sudden departure of long-time team doctor Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-

Wohlfahrt this week, saying he had been blamed for the defeat in Porto. “The coach was very emotional (in Hoffenheim),” Bayern midfielder Sebastian Rode said. “He wanted to weld us together. He said we need to remain calm and focused in this situ-ation and if we believe in ourselves and the team then we can overcome obstacles.”

Porto are in fine form, having yet to lose in the Champions League this season and showing superb focus in the first leg to contain Bayern. The Portuguese edged past Academica Coimbra 1-0 in the league, with coach Julen Lopotegui making nine changes to the squad that beat Bayern.

“We were coming from a tre-mendously demanding game, both physically and psychologically, and we felt this was our best team at the moment,” said the Spaniard of their narrow win. “We had to make some changes, we needed a fresh team to win this match.” With Danilo and Alex Sandro suspended they will need another fresh team if they are to deny Bayern -- who have yet to concede a goal at home in this competition this season -- a fourth straight semi-final spot. The last time the Porto went through to the last four was when they won the trophy in 2004. (rtr)

Bayern Munich’s coach Pep Guardiola reacts during their Champions League quarterfinal first leg soccer match against Porto at Dragao stadium in Porto April 15, 2015.

Bayern hope Pep-talk will boost confidence for Porto

BERLIN - Bayern Munich are on a mission with coach Pep Guardiola firing up his injury-hit team as they seek to reverse a 3-1 deficit against Porto in the Champions League quarter-final second leg on Tuesday. The five-times European champions, who have reached the final three times since 2010, find themselves in the unusual position of having to come from behind.

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Aston Villa’s Christian Benteke celebrates at the end of the match

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River then it is called Katyangan Amarawati. Pakerisan River is also named by Jalu which is according to the inscription chiseled on the above of the biggest temple door sound ‘Haji Lumahing Jalu’.

The name of Gunung Kawi is the name given on the omission which is related to the complex of

temples because the temple on this area is like the symbol from the mount. There are 3 temples which so called the name as Gunung Kawi in Bali those are Gunung Kawi in Sebatu countryside, Gunung Kawi Temple in Keliki countryside and Gunung Kawi Temple in Babitra countryside.

The ancient omission complex of Gunung Kawi is founded on 10th Century. It is founded in the era of Udayana about 989 M. At the period of Marakata governance on 1023, the omission which is called Katyagan Amarawati is developed and continued by the governance of Anak Wungsu that lead between the

years of 1049 - 1077 M.Temple complex is consisted of

2 consecutions. The consecution in eastside Pakerisan River is con-sisted of 5 units and the consecution at west side of river is 5 units, in the north is 4 units and 1 unit is located far in south side separate from the others.

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Gunung Kawi

Rossi had overtaken the Honda at the end of the back straight, after an initial exchange of places at Turn 1, with Marquez then clipping him and falling while trying to repass. “It’s a shame that he crashed, but I think he did a mistake,” said Rossi.

“Marc is a rider who always bets all in, all or nothing. “When I over-took, he touched me the first time. On acceleration he touched me again and we crashed. “It’s a shame because it could’ve been a good battle to the end. “He knew that if I overtook him,

I was a little bit faster. So he tried everything.

“But maybe a little bit too much, I think.” Marquez said he had ‘learned’ more from Rossi during their dice. “It’s a shame what happened, because we were having a good race,” he

said. “I’ve always said that he’s my idol and my reference, so you always learn things from him.”

Rossi had come through from eighth on the grid to catch Marquez as the Honda rider’s hard tyres faded while Rossi’s extra-hards remained competitive. Marquez explained that his late switch to the softer compound had been made because Yamaha’s long-run pace suggested Rossi would be hard to beat on the same tyre.

The Italian said he had tried to ignore his rival’s strategy. “The key was that we didn’t care about Mar-quez, we just concentrated on us,” said Rossi. “We just used the tyre that permitted me to do the race distance in the least time.”

Marquez’s retirement drops him to fifth in the championship, 30 points behind Rossi - who has now won two of this season’s three grands prix. (net)

CLEVELAND — Kyrie Irving scored 30 points in his playoff debut and LeBron James added 20 in his first postseason game with Cleve-land in five years as the Cavaliers opened a run toward an NBA title with a 113-100 victory over the Boston Celtics on Sunday. Irving made five 3-pointers and Kevin Love, another postseason rookie, had 19 points and 12 rebounds.

It was Cleveland’s first home playoff game since May 11, 2010, when the Celtics won Game 5 and James left the floor to some boos from Cavaliers fans. He departed for Miami two months later, but he’s home now, all is forgiven and Cleveland is aiming to end a championship drought dating to 1964. Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points to lead the seventh-seeded Celtics. They will try to even the best-of-7 series in Game 2 on Tues-day night.

Clippers point guard Chris Paul

scored 32 points, and Blake Griffin added 26 points and 12 rebounds, as Los Angeles surged in the second half to beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-92 in their first-round playoff series opener.

Jamal Crawford added 17 points for the Clippers, who met the de-fending NBA champions’ challenge in a difficult postseason-opening matchup for two powers. Griffin threw down his usual array of roof-raising dunks, while Paul quarter-backed Los Angeles to an 18-point lead in the third quarter.

Kawhi Leonard scored 18 points for the Spurs, who had won the opening game in their previous 11 playoff series. Tim Duncan had 11 points and 11 rebounds, but the Spurs couldn’t rally from their hefty second-half deficit. Game 2 is Wednesday night.

In Atlanta, Kyle Korver scored 21 points, including five 3-pointers, as the top-seeded Hawks held off

the Brooklyn Nets 99-92 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference playoff series.

The Hawks led nearly the entire game and pushed the margin as high as 16 points, but the Nets kept coming back. Finally, Jeff Teague dropped in a floater coming off the left wing, giving Atlanta a 95-89 lead. Joe Johnson missed a 3-point-er from the corner for Brooklyn, and Teague made a pair of free throws with just under a minute remaining to essentially seal it.

Teague and DeMarre Carroll scored 17 points apiece. Game 2 is Wednesday night in Atlanta. (ap)

“Big 3” lead Cavaliers past Celtics 113-100 in Game 1

Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James shoots over Boston Celtics’ Marcus Smart (36)

and Evan Turner in the first quarter of a first round NBA

playoff basketball game, Sunday, April 19, 2015, in

Cleveland. AP Photo/Tony Dejak

IBP/net

Honda rider Marc Marquez fell down after a collision with Valentino Rossi during the Argentinian GP.

Rossi says Marquez is ‘all or nothing’VALENtINo RossI described his Argentinean Grand Prix collision with Marc Marquez as

an example of the reigning MotoGP champion being an “all or nothing” rider. Marquez crashed out of sunday’s termas de Rio Hondo race when he made contact with the rear of Rossi’s Ya-maha on the penultimate lap.

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JAKARTA - Political solidarity alone cannot tackle the current re-gional and international issues faced by Asian and African countries, ac-cording to Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi.

“Is the political message adequate to face the current challenges? I am sure you will say no. This is just the start, and then we have to move forward,” stated Minister Marsudi in her opening remarks during the Asian-African Ministerial Meeting (AAMM) at the Jakarta Convention

Center (JCC) on Monday.Minister Marsudi explained that

in order to achieve greater political solidarity for a stronger and richer Asia and Africa, the Bandung Mes-sages should be translated into concrete action, and to this end, the document of Reinvigorating New Asian African Strategic Partnership (NAASP) would serve as a mecha-nism to implement them.

The Reinvigorating NAASP docu-ment also outlines four steps to follow up the implementation of the Band-

ung Messages, including holding a commemoration every ten years, rotation every four years, meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly every two years, and annual co-chairs meeting.

“I am confident that the compre-hensive NAASP framework will initiate a new chapter in Asian-African cooperation, as it will allow the countries to cooperate through a structured, systematic, and intensive framework,” she emphasized.

The comprehensive NAASP

framework will also bridge the gap between Asian and African conti-nents, both in terms of solidarity and physically.

During her remarks, Minister Marsudi also mentioned the Indo-nesian chairmanship in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) that will also promote maritime connectivity among Asian and Af-rican countries.

“The maritime connectivity will narrow the distance between Asia and Africa,” she pointed out.

Indonesia initiates the Bandung Messages, Reinvigorating NAASP, and the Declaration on Palestine as the three outcome documents of the 60th AAC, and each draft of the substances had been discussed in New York and finalized during the Senior Official Meeting (SOM) of the AAC on Sunday.

Indonesian Foreign Affairs Min-ister Retno Marsudi and her South African counterpart Maite Nkoa-na-Mashabane will co-chair the AAMM on April 20-21. (ant)

General Moeldoko said the military was helping police to track down radicals, highlight-ing government concern over Indonesians pledging loyalty to IS and returning to the world’s most populous Muslim country after training alongside the group in Syria or Iraq.

“The military will not give any space for IS to develop or live in Indonesia,” Moeldoko told Reuters at military headquarters on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta.

The operation was launched on March 31 and has since fin-ished. It was Indonesia’s first major military counter-terrorism operation, which included special forces personnel and intelligence agents, since the aftermath of the 2009 Jakarta hotel bombings.

Moeldoko did not say how many militants had been killed or captured.

Indonesia has fought a small number of homegrown militant groups since the early 2000s and has arrested a few people sus-pected of receiving IS training in Syria.

In the most deadly attack, Indonesian militants bombed a nightclub on the holiday island of

Bali in 2002, killing 202 people, many of them Australians.

Police have been largely suc-cessful in destroying domestic militant cells since then, but officials now worry about a re-surgence.

“The exercises (in the moun-tainous region of Central Su-lawesi) have ended,” Moeldoko said. “But we still have military elements there.”

Moeldoko also raised concerns over tensions in the South China Sea, where a number of Southeast Asian countries have overlap-ping claims with China, calling for a new military balance in the region.

“There are significant changes in the stable and calm conditions that existed in the region a decade ago,” he said.

“So everyone has an opinion that China is a threat to the neigh-bourhood. The region needs a new balance, which cannot be repre-sented by just one major power.”

China claims most of the po-tentially energy-rich South China Sea, disputed in parts with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, and denies accusations its actions in its own territory are a threat. (rtr)

REUTERS/Beawiharta

Chief Economics Minister Sofyan

Djalil talks during the opening session

of World Economic Forum on East Asia in Jakarta, April 20,

2015.

Political solidarity is not enough for asia-africa

Military launches anti-IS operation on eastern island

JAKARTA - Military has launched an anti-terrorism opera-tion on the eastern island of Sulawesi to crack down on militants with suspected links to Islamic State, the armed forces chief said on Monday.

JAKARTA - Indonesia wel-comed business chiefs and gov-ernment leaders Monday to Asia’s edition of the World Economic Forum, as calls mount for President Joko Widodo to do more to show his commitment to reform.

Some 700 participants are at-tending the event, known as “Asia’s Davos” in reference to the WEF’s annual global gathering in Switzer-land, at the start of a busy week for Jakarta, which is also hosting a sum-mit of Asian and African leaders.

Indonesia has enjoyed strong growth in recent years, driven by demand for its natural resources, for-eign investment and a fast-emerging middle class. But expansion has been slowing as commodity prices fall.

Widodo, who came to office last year partly on a pledge to revive the economy, has vowed to improve the business climate and win new investment, and sees the WEF as a key platform to push his agenda.

He is due to speak later Mon-day at the gathering, which is also being attended by several cabinet

ministers. Major companies, such as Coca-Cola and US oil giant Chev-ron are represented, as are regional leaders including Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.

As sessions got under way Mon-day, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, chief of Indonesian state-owned Bank Mandiri, struck a positive tone: “I’m very positive and optimistic -- in the next 15 years, 50 million Indone-sians will enter the middle class.”

However, Widodo, who took power in October, has his work cut out to improve the investment cli-mate, with investors put off in recent years by policies seen as nationalistic in the banking and mining sectors, and by complex bureaucracy.

Indonesia came 114th in the World Bank’s latest rankings on the ease of doing business, out of 189 countries. A nation ranked number one is deemed the easiest place to do business.

The president has taken some steps, almost entirely axing fuel sub-sidies that gobbled up a huge chunk of the economy in the early months

of his administration, a move which freed up billions of dollars.

However, analysts said momen-tum appears to have slowed and accused the government of sending mixed signals. They pointed to a ban introduced last week on the sale of beer at small shops across the Mus-lim-majority country, which sparked anger from international brewers.

“If you want to roll (out) the red carpet, don’t squeeze them when they come,” said Yose Rizal Damuri from Jakarta think-tank the Centre for Stra-tegic and International Studies.

A major focus for Widodo is improving infrastructure, with pot-holed roads and ageing ports a key complaint of investors -- a problem all too clear for delegates arriving in the chaotic capital Jakarta, which suffers chronic traffic jams and has scant public transport.

A key theme at this year’s confer-ence, which runs until Tuesday, is improving trust between countries in the region as geopolitical ten-sions risk undermining hard-won economic gains. (afp)

Indonesia seeks to lure investors at ‘Asia’s Davos’

Along with the African and Asian leaders, a handful of Middle Eastern countries are represented, including Iran by Rouhani.

And several controversial figures will attend, including Sudanese Presi-dent Omar al-Bashir, indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.

Beyond the commemorations, Muslim-majority Indonesia will host a meeting of Islamic countries on the escalating Yemen conflict, as re-quested by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Iran, part of the 57-member OIC, is a key ally of the Shiite Huthi rebels who have seized swathes of Yemen but denies arming them, as Saudi Arabia leads an air campaign against them.

The conflict has sent tensions soaring between Saudi Arabia and its regional rival Iran -- the foremost Sunni and Shiite Muslim powers in the Middle East, respectively.

Yemen and Saudi Arabia are not represented at the conference, although several other OIC members are.

Meanwhile Japan’s Abe, a strident nationalist, is due to give a speech at the summit, which will be watched closely ahead of a statement expected later this year to mark the 70th anni-versary of the end of World War II.

The five-day conference includes a ministerial meeting Monday and business summit Tuesday. It ends on Friday, with leaders heading to Bandung to commemorate the original gathering. (afp)

Asia...

The explosions were the most powerful seen in the city since a Saudi-led air campaign against Iran-allied Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, began last month. The blasts deposited a layer of soot on the top floors of residential build-ings and left the streets littered with glass. Anti-aircraft fire rattled across the city in response.

Mushroom clouds rose over Fag Atan, in the mountainous outskirts of Sanaa, where the capital’s larg-est weapons caches are located. The site has been targeted several times during the three-week air campaign.

A Yemeni official said the Saudi-led warplanes are demolishing parts of the mountain, hoping to uncover and destroy Scud missiles. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not au-thorized to speak to the press.

Some 6 kilometers (4 miles) away from Fag Atan, cars were damaged and charred, shop fronts were shattered and the windows were blown out of office build-ings.

The Houthis’ TV network al-Masirah said Mohammed Shamsan, a TV presenter for another network, was killed and that members of his crew were wounded. Ambulances were rushing to the site of the explosions, and al-Masirah aired a statement by health authorities call-ing on citizens to donate blood.

Al-Masirah said 10 people were killed and dozens wounded in the bombing. It was not immediately possible to confirm those figures. Residents posted videos and pic-tures of the explosions, and the damage they had caused, on social media. “The hanging ceiling and chandelier fell because of the explosions,” resident Mohammed Mohsen said.

Saudi Arabia and allied coun-tries began launching airstrikes on March 26, hoping to roll back the rebels, who seized Sanaa in September and have overrun large parts of the country with the help of security forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Western governments and Sunni Arab countries say the Houthis get arms from Iran. Iran and the

Large explosions from airstrikes rock Yemeni capital

SANAA, Yemen — Saudi-led airstrikes on weapons caches in Yemen’s rebel-held capital on Monday caused massive explosions that shattered windows, sent residents scrambling for shelter and killed a local TV presenter.

AP Photo/Hani Mohammed

Smoke rises after a Saudi-led airstrike hit a site where many believe the largest weapons cache in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, is located on Monday, April 20, 2015. Powerful explosions rocked the Yemeni capital early Monday morning amid the strike, shattering windows and waking residents up.

rebels deny that, though the Islamic Republic has provided political and humanitarian support to the group.

Rebel leader Abdul-Malek al-Houthi struck a defiant tone on Sunday, saying: “The great Yemeni people will never surrender and

never be subjugated.”Fighting meanwhile intensified

in the southern port city of Aden, where the Houthis and Saleh loy-alists are battling youth militias and forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled the country last month. (ap)

South Korea ready to start work to salvage sunken ferry

SEOUL — South Korea’s oceans ministry said Monday that it was ready to start work to salvage a ferry that sank last year, killing more than 300 people, and that the operation would begin soon after it gets formal approval.

The Ministry of Oceans and Fish-eries said in a statement that it would ask the government’s safety agency to approve plans to hoist the ship from the seafloor off the country’s southwest coast. The Ministry of Public Safety and Security said it would review the request on Wednesday.

The safety agency is widely ex-pected to endorse the plan as President Park Geun-hye promised on Thursday — the anniversary of the April 16, 2014, sinking — to lift the ship.

The oceans ministry statement said it aimed to choose a company to hoist the ship within two months of getting approval and would map out detailed salvaging plans in the fol-lowing months. Ministry officials said some of the work to lift the ship, such as deploying barges where workers can stay during the salvaging operation, could start in October.

Ministry officials have said the esti-mated cost of raising the ferry is about

$91-137 million and that it’s expected to take as long as 1 1/2 years.

A total of 304 people — most of them students from a single high school — died when the ferry Sewol sank. The bodies of nine of the victims haven’t been retrieved.

Salvaging the vessel is one of the key demands of bereaved families and their supporters, who also want a more thorough investigation into the sinking. Some conservatives have opposed raising the ferry, a civilian ship, with taxpayers’ money.

Authorities have arrested about 140 people, including crew members and ferry company employees, blaming overloading of cargo, improper stor-age, botched rescue efforts and other negligence for the incident. But critics say higher-level officials haven’t been held accountable.

Violence broke out Saturday at a Seoul rally criticizing the government’s handling of the ferry disaster, with police using water cannons and pepper spray to disperse protesters. Police said Monday that they had requested war-rants to arrest five of the protesters, but that none of the five were relatives of disaster victims. (ap)

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

In this Wednesday, April 15, 2015 photo, a South Korea Coast Guard

boat passes a buoy, which marks the site where the ferry Sewol sank off Jindo, South Korea. South Korea’s

oceans ministry says it’s ready to start works to salvage a ferry that sank last year, killing more than 300 people. The

letters at a buoy read “ Sewol.”

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TOKYO — Japan’s top trade negotiator met with U.S. Trade Repre-sentative Michael Froman on Monday, seeking to resolve differences on autos and farm exports that are hindering progress toward a Pacific Rim trade deal. Economy minister Akira Amari, Japan’s top trade negotiator, sought to keep expectations low.

“I expect the exchanges to be extremely severe,” Amari said of the talks, which began late Sunday. “I will do my utmost to narrow the gap between Japan and the United States

while firmly keeping in mind our national interest.”

Amari said that the two sides were still trying to resolve differences over removing trade barriers in key areas. Japan wants greater market open-ing for its exports of autos and auto parts. The U.S. hopes to export more rice, pork and other farm products to Japan.

The talks between Japan and the U.S. are part of negotiations among 12 nations participating in the U.S.-led Trans Pacific Partnership, which

eventually aims to create a free trade zone in the Asia-Pacific region.

Amari earlier said that some of the remaining issues between Japan and the U.S. would likely be resolved at upcoming 12-nation talks. He has downplayed the possibility of a deal with the U.S. before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Washington later this month.

An agreement by U.S. lawmak-ers last week to propose legislation allowing President Barack Obama to negotiate trade accords for overall

congressional review appeared to help move things along.

At the outset of the TPP talks, Japan identified five categories of agricul-tural products as “sensitive,” given its longstanding protections for politically powerful farm interests. They include beef and pork, wheat and barley, sugar, rice and dairy products.

Rice has proven an especially dif-ficult area for compromise.

An aging population and changing tastes mean Japan is consuming less and less rice, and has a significant

surplus of its own.Largely city-dwelling, price-con-

scious consumers would likely wel-come cheaper rice and dairy and meat products, but lack the political sway of the rural electorate that has been the mainstay of support for Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party since the 1950s.

Japanese media reports Friday sug-gested that Japan would likely agree to increase its imports of American grown rice, while keeping costly price supports to protect local farm-ers. (afp)

The free-trade zones (FTZs) will be opened in the southern province of Guangdong, the northern port of Tianjin and the eastern province of Fujian, reported the website of the People’s Daily, the ruling Commu-nist Party’s mouthpiece.

Each will cover around 120 square kilometres (46 square miles), the State Council, China’s cabinet, said.

China’s first FTZ, set up in the commercial hub Shanghai in

September 2013, will also be qua-drupled in size, it said, bringing it up to a similar scale and likely to take in the financial centre of Lu-jiazui, along with a manufacturing area and a high-tech base.

When the Shanghai FTZ was launched it promised a range of financial reforms, including full convertibility of the yuan currency and free interest rates, but they remain unfulfilled.

All four zones are subject to the same “negative list” that bans or restricts foreign investment in 122 business areas, ranging from geneti-cally modified seeds and rare earth mining to Internet news services and television broadcasters, a separate State Council statement showed.

Assistant commerce minister Wang Shouwen told reporters the list represented a reduction from the previous 139.

“Openness is improved greatly this time,” he said.

The Guangdong FTZ aims to speed economic integration with neighbouring Hong Kong, the former British colony that is now a special administrative region of China, one of the releases said.

It will allow Hong Kong and Macau companies to issue yuan-denominated bonds in the mainland and explore ways for firms in the zone to sell yuan-denominated shares in Hong Kong, it said.

The Fujian zone is focused on Taiwan, which China considers part

of its sovereign territory, and aims to become a “cooperation platform” for the “21st century maritime silk road” -- an initiative backed by President Xi Jinping that seeks to secure trade routes, largely through economic diplomacy, another statement said.

Companies and individuals in the Fujian zone will be permitted to invest overseas directly “using their own financial assets”, it added.

The Tianjin FTZ is part of a push to better integrate the city with nearby Beijing and Hebei province, according to the State Council. (afp)

WASHINGTON — U.S. businesses expect their sales will rebound in the next three months after a sluggish first quarter, and they plan to boost hiring and pay, according to a survey released Monday.

Just 49 percent of firms said their sales in-creased in the first three months of the year from last year’s fourth quarter. That’s down from 54 percent that reported higher sales in the last survey, in January.

Yet companies are much more bullish about the April through June quarter. Nearly three-quarters of companies forecast higher sales over the next three months, up from 68 percent in January and just 54 percent in October.

The results suggest that weak growth in the first three months of the year may prove tem-porary. Harsh winter weather, labor disputes at West Coast ports that slowed shipping and a jump in the value of the dollar likely held economic growth to a 1 percent annual pace, or below, from January through March. Yet most economists expect growth to accelerate in the second quarter.

“Growth in the first quarter appears to be an outlier within the broader economic outlook,” said John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo.

Silvia is also president of the National As-sociation for Business Economics, which con-ducted the survey covering 77 companies in the second half of March. The companies surveyed represent a broad cross-section of industries —

including manufacturing, construction, finance, hotels and restaurants — with nearly half having more than 1,000 employees and a quarter having fewer than 10.

Another sign of confidence in the economic outlook: The percentage of firms that said they

raised pay in

the January-March quarter soared to 45 percent, up from 31 percent in January and 35 per-cent a year earlier. (ap)

China to launch three new free-trade zonesBEIJING - China will launch three new free-trade zones on Tuesday, official media said

Monday, building on a project that began in Shanghai to much fanfare but has so far undershot expectations.

Japan, US talks seeking compromise on farm, auto trade

AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File

In this Jan. 12, 2015 file photo, a now hiring sign hangs nearby as a builder works on a commercial property under construction in Peabody, Mass.

US businesses expect sales rebound, more hiring

On Sunday (Apr. 19), children collected ritual ingredients from every home while letting residents know that the temple piodalan will be held soon. Hundreds of children are divided into several groups rep-resenting the devotees of Samuantiga Temple. They are spread over five customary villages; Bedulu, Wanayu Mas, Taman, Tengkulak Kaja and Tengah. They collect coconut, banana leaves and fruit, eggs, incense and other ingredients that will be used in the ceremony.

“The Ngambeng tradition begins fifteen days prior to the piodalan and

ends threee days before,” said com-mittee chairman, I Wayan Patera.

No one knows the origin of the ngambeng tradition. As a result, no one dares to forbid or abolish chil-dren from collecting the ingredients required for the ritual of the piodalan at Samuantiga Temple.

According to Patera, his predeces-sors once abolished the tradition, but what happened then? Preparations for the ceremony were disrupted as people lacked the various ritual ingredients. “Based on that experi-ence, we then resumed the ngambeng tradition,” he explained.

Other than being an ancestral heritage, the ngambeng tradition also implies a very noble meaning. The tradition, dominated by children also serves as a significantly efficient way of informing residents that the piodalan will be conducted soon. Besides, it also serves as a medium for children to learn about social and religious life from a very young age. The ngambeng tradition wherein groups of three to twelve children go door to door, is able to shape the co-operative character of these children as inspire sincerity in conducting devotional work. (dar)

MANGUPURA - The Gelang Agung temple catego-rized into dang kahyangan (sanctum to venerate a sage) located at Buangga Hamlet, Getasan Village, Petang Subdistrict, is not only considered as a sanctum by lo-cal community, but also as one of the cultural heritage cornerstones. Many cultural relics originating from thirteenth century were discovered in the temple.

Various stories arose concerning with the temple naming located amidst the paddy fields being far from residential areas. However, the naming is inseparable from the discovery of yellowish bronze bracelets siz-ing large enough. It is said the bracelet was found in the temple area. Other than bracelets, it was also found a small bronze bracelet scattered around the temple. Unfortunately, none of those bracelets are now left.

Priest of the Gelang Agung temple, I Made Terum and priest of Dalem Temple of Buangga I Ketut Malen said their predecessors frequently showed off those objects. Unfortunately, they had disappeared somewhere. Now, the existence of those objects was unknown, including the preliminary evidence of the temple establishment. Surrounding communities only referred to ancient sto-ries.

In the temple was also found some perforated coins wrapped in leaves when an excavation was made. Oddly, said a community leader, Made Ngaceng, the erythrina leaf used to wrap the coins was still fresh. Those perfo-rated coins were found during an excavation by residents and the officers of the Antiquities Reserve, Archaeologi-cal Agency for Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara Region in 1997.

Except for bronze bracelets and perforated coins, ac-cording to the story, it was also found a temple mound measuring one square meter when the temple was first discovered. Afterward, the mound was excavated. As a result, it was discovered various kinds of statues. Alleg-edly, some relicts were still kept under the temple.

Few relics excavated have now been placed in Gedong Arca. There are a statue of Lord Vishnu riding Garuda (eagle), phallus, a statue resembling lotus flower com-prising three sections with octagonal base, the center of three-tiered rectangular frame, and circular pinnacle surrounded by sculpture resembling a lotus leaf. When viewing the phallus building next to it, it is likely a symbol of yoni. If both symbols are combined, then they symbolize fertility. There is also a relic of Padmasana shrine whose headboard is inscribed with Balinese script and a few fragments of the buildings are made of stone, while fragment of the building is rectangle.

Chief of Buangga customary village, IGN Arnawa, stated that local community truly hoped the government to pay attention to the temple existence. He assessed the government’s attention so far was very minimal associ-ated with physical condition of the temple and cultural relics retained inside the temple.

Meanwhile, various magical stories accompanied the existence of the Gelang Agung temple. One of them men-tioned that in the past many juwuk linglang oranges grew around the temple and it was believed to have capability of reviving the dead. Similarly, turmeric was said to grow in the temple area where if harvested it would turn into gold. However, if it was taken home it would no longer be gold. “So far, we have a real experience where the food during the ceremony in the temple never turns stale despite being left for many days,” Ngaceng said.

Jro Mangku Terum explained the structure of the Ge-lang Agung temple was not much different from other sanctum in general in Bali. It had a two-tiered meru shrine used to venerate Goddess Sri. In the temple also occurred a chamber to venerate Danghyang Dwijendra. In certain seasons, especially when the paddy plant belonging to residents of Buangga and surrounding resi-dents was attacked by diseases, they would come to pray to the temple and beg salvation. Meanwhile, piodalan or anniversary of the temple fell on Buda (Wednesday) Umanis Julungwangi. (kmb)

Gelang Agung Temple

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Since last Saturday, a number of children in customary attires have been carrying out ngambeng activities in Bedulu village by visiting the homes of every resident there.

Ngambeng leading to Samuantiga

Temple anniversaryGIANYAR – Since last Saturday, a number of children in customary attires have been carrying out

ngambeng activities in Bedulu village by visiting the homes of every resident there. The ngambeng tradition is held as part of the piodalan or birthday of Samuantiga Temple. In 2015, the peak of the temple birthday was held on April 3.

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The explosion aboard the Deep-water Horizon drilling rig engulfed the high-tech platform in flames, killed 11 men and injured hundreds. Oil, natural gas and toxic sludge poured into the Gulf for 87 days as regulators, industry and the White House struggled to contain the off-shore disaster. Since the Macondo disaster five years ago Monday, federal agencies have approved about two dozen next-generation, ultra-deep wells.

The number of deepwater drilling rigs has increased, too, from 35 at the time of the Macondo blowout to 48 last month, according to data from IHS Energy, a Houston company that collects industry statistics.

Department of Interior officials

overseeing offshore drilling did not provide data on these wells and accompanying exploration and drilling plans, information that The Associated Press requested last month.

But a review of offshore well data by the AP shows the average ocean depth of all wells started since 2010 is 40 percent deeper than the average well drilled in the five years before that. And that’s just the depth of the water.

Drillers are exploring a “golden zone” of oil and natural gas that lies roughly 20,000 feet (6,095 meters) beneath the sea floor, far deeper than BP’s Macondo well, which was considered so tricky at the time that a rig worker killed in

the blowout once described it to his wife as “the well from hell.”

Geophysicists estimate oil com-panies can unleash Saudi Arabian-like gushers at these unprecedented depths from fields capable of yield-ing up to 300,000 barrels of oil a day. Temperatures and pressures — the conditions that make drill-ing so risky — get more intense the deeper you go.

“It’s not rocket science,” said Matthew Franchek, director of the University of Houston’s subsea engineering graduate program. “Oh, no, it’s much, much more complicated.” Geoff Morrell, a BP spokesman, said his company has vastly improved its safety culture. (ap)

BEIRUT — Lebanon received the first installment of $3 billion worth of French weapons paid for by Saudi Arabia on Monday, part of a four-year plan to help arm Beirut in its battle against jihadi groups. The handover ceremony held at Beirut’s international airport was attended by Lebanese and French defense ministers and top army officers.

The deal aims to boost Lebanon’s military as it struggles to contain a rising tide of violence linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria.

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the deal will include dozens of armored vehicles, six transport helicopters and other types of weapons. He added that the next shipment will arrive in May. The deal also includes training programs for Lebanese troops run by the French military.

“Lebanon’s victory against ter-rorism is a victory to all nations threatened by terrorism,” Lebanese Defense Minister Samir Moqbel said. A Lebanese army general told reporters that Monday’s shipment included modern anti-tank guided Milan missiles, saying they will

be a “turning point” in the army’s performance.

The Lebanese army has been fighting members of the Islamic State group and Syria’s al-Qaida branch, the Nusra Front, mostly in areas on the border with Syria.

In August, militants crossed from Syria into the Lebanese bor-der town of Arsal, capturing more than 20 soldiers and police officer. Islamic State and Nusra Front militants have killed four of the captives and still hold the rest. “The Lebanese army paid a high price in Arsal and France helped and will help Lebanon so that it does not slip into chaos,” Le Drian said.

Lebanon announced the sur-prise $3 billion grant from Saudi Arabia in December 2013. Since then, Riyadh’s regional rival, Iran, also has said it is ready to provide aid to the Lebanese army. Many Lebanese view these offers as part of a competition for influence over their tiny country, which is riven by sectarian fissures. The Lebanese army is generally seen as a unify-ing force in Lebanon, and draws its ranks from all of the country’s sects. (ap)

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service has arrested a person for attempting to scale the White House fence. The agency says the incident happened at 10:25 p.m. Sunday.

Its statement says “this indi-vidual was immediately arrested by USSS Uniformed Division Officers,” and says the person was taken into custody and charges are pending.

The Secret Service did not iden-

tify the person arrested or divulge other details.

The agency has been beset by a series of security lapses, including an incident last Sept. 19 in which authorities said a man with a knife jumped a fence and ran inside the executive mansion, looking for the president. It was the sixth time someone had jumped the fence in 2014 and the 16th in the past five years, according to the Secret Ser-vice. (ap)

Person arrested for attempting to scale White House fence

AP Photo/Bilal Hussein

Lebanese army soldiers stand in front of French weapons at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Mon-day, April 20, 2015. Lebanon has received the first shipment of $3 billion worth of French weapons paid for by Saudi Arabia.

Lebanon gets first shipment of $3B

worth of French arms

AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File

FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file photo by Gerald Herbert, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico. Rig fires happen with some regularity, but when word came that the rig was listing badly after an explosion the night before, New Orleans-based Herbert raced to a small airport and grabbed the first helicopter pilot he could find.

5 years after BP spill, drillers push into

riskier depthsON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Five years after the worst U.S. offshore oil spill, the indus-

try is working on drilling even further into the risky depths beneath the Gulf of Mexico to tap massive deposits once thought unreachable. But critics say energy companies haven’t developed the corresponding safety measures to prevent another disaster or contain one if it happens — a sign, environmentalists say, that the lessons of BP’s spill were short-lived.

BANGLI - The wall of the SDN 3 Songan elementary school col-lapsed along 12 meters. It occurred because the wall condition has been fragile and cracked. Fortunately, the collapsed wall did not claim any casualties because at the time the students were still learning in classroom.

According to information, the wall collapse occurred on Friday (Apr. 17) around 11:00 a.m. Shortly before the incident, the wall was pushed by a number of students who wanted to see a stray dog. In the morning, a student of the school was attack by a stray dog. Alleg-edly, the school wall has long been

fragile, so that after getting a boost from the students it became no lon-ger strong and then collapsed.

The Principal of the SDN 3 Son-gan elementary school, Ni Wayan Partini, as confirmed on Sunday (Apr. 19) justified that the wall at her school collapsed last Friday. The collapsed wall has a length

of 12 meters with the height of 1.5 meters. Partini said that when the wall collapsed, the school was implementing the teaching and learning process in classroom so that no students became the victim in the incident. “No students were affected because they were entirely in the classroom,” she explained.

According to Partini, the school wall collapsed because it has been old enough. Besides, it has been fragile and cracked. “Probably the wall collapsed due to being fragile,” she said. Over the incident, her party has reported to the Bangli Education Agency in order to get an immediate action. (kmb40)

On Saturday (Apr. 19), the Com-mission II of the Buleleng House monitored the trial operation of the steam-fueled power plant. As a result, the House found the emergence of vibrations including noises and puff of smokes from the generating engine. The House urged the investor to immediately handle the environmental disturbance to avoid disruption to the people around the plant.

Chairman of the Commission II of the Buleleng House, Putu Mangku Budiasa, said that the power plant construction has of-ten resulted in problems since the very beginning that become long

debate. As consequence, the issues hamper the project workmanship. To that end, the House reminds the investor of the power plant execut-ing the trial operation to follow the applicable regulations.

Emergence of the environmen-tal disturbances such as vibration, noises and puff of smokes should immediately find the way out, so that it does not impede the course of the trial operation until the plant normally operates. “We are as-signed by our leadership to moni-tor the trial operation of the power plant. Indeed, there are vibrations, noises and puff of smokes. We have request the investor to find a

way out for the problems. Anyhow the investors should still keep its commitment to preventing environ-mental pollution,” he said.

According to Budiasa, technical studies mention that vibrations will emerge when the generating engine is started at trial operation. Such vibration is also claimed by inves-tor to take place when the engine is started and after which the vibration will disappear. Similarly, the puff of smoke cannot be avoided and it only occurs when the engine begins to be operated. After the engine operates within a certain time limit, the smoke will not certainly appear. The investor promised to protect it

with silencer, so that the noises will not disturb the comfort of residents around the plant.

As an illustration, the investor gave an example of the power plant at Paiton in East Java where vibration, noises and puff of smokes also appeared during the trial operation of the machine as happened to the power plant at Celukan Bawang.

“The investor claims that the vi-bration and smoke only occur when starting the engine. After that, they will not appear again. To eliminate noises, it will be overcome by in-stalling silencer. This is not under-estimated and still handled. Then, we will keep doing the monitoring,” said the PDI-P politician from Selat village, Sukasada village.

On the other hand, Budiasa said that after the operation of the

power plant in West Buleleng the investor will follow it up with the recruitment of workers. Related to the recruitment, the investor is reminded of its commitment to accommodating local workers pursuant to the proportion having set forth in the documents when the investor submitted principle permit to the government. It is important to note so that the investor will not deny it. Otherwise, it may cause a turmoil leading to disruption of the power plant operation.

“The more the better will be. They must not only be from Ce-lukan Bawang village and neigh-boring villages, but also from the villages outside Gerokgak. They need to be given the opportunity to be recruited in appropriate with technical requirements,” he added. (kmb38)

Wall of SDN 3 Songan collapses

Trial operation of Celukan Bawang power plant monitored

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The Celukan Bawang Power Plant.

SINGARAJA - The steamed-fueled power plant at Celukan Bawang, Gerokgak subdistrict, begins the trial operation of its generating engine. This is enabled by the high voltage transmis-sion lines (SUTT) of the PLN having been connected to the network of the power plant. The trial operation of this power plant was monitored in person by legislator of the Buleleng House.

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And owners can do a similar trick in return, researchers found. This two-way street evidently be-gan when dogs were domesticated long ago, because it helped the two species connect, the Japanese researchers say.

As canine psychology experts Evan MacLean and Brian Hare of Duke University wrote in a com-mentary on the work, “When your dog is staring at you, she may not just be after your sandwich.”

The new work is the first to present a biological mechanism for bonding across species, said researcher Larry Young of Emory University.

Neither he nor the Duke scien-tists were involved in the study, which is reported in a paper from Japan released Thursday by the journal Science.

The brain response is an in-crease in levels of a hormone called oxytocin. Studies in people and animals indicate this substance promotes social bonding, such as between parent and infant or be-tween two lovers.

One experiment in the new re-

search involved 30 owners and their dogs. Oxytocin levels in the urine of both species were sampled before and after the owners and their dogs spent a half-hour together.

Analysis showed that owners whose dogs looked at them longer in the first five minutes had bigger boosts in oxytocin levels. Similarly, dogs that gazed longer got a hor-mone boost, too. That’s evidently in response to being touched by their owners during the session, one of the study authors, Takefumi Kikusui of Azabu University near Tokyo, said in an email.

No such result appeared when re-searchers tried the experiment with wolves. The animals were paired with people who had raised them, although not as pets. The differ-ence suggests dogs started gazing at owners as a social strategy when they became domesticated, rather than inheriting it from their wolf ancestors, researchers said.

Another experiment with dogs found they looked at their owners longer if they were given doses of oxytocin, and that the hormone’s levels then went up in their owners.

But these results appeared only in female dogs; the reason isn’t clear.

An oxytocin researcher not connected to the study said pre-vious work had provided bits of evidence that the hormone plays a role in bonding between species, but that the new work is more comprehensive.

“It makes very good sense,” said C. Sue Carter, who directs the Kin-sey Institute at Indiana University.

But Clive Wynne of Arizona State University, a psychologist who studies interaction between dogs and people, said he thinks the link to domestication is “bark-ing up the wrong tree.” The study doesn’t provide convincing evi-dence for that, he said.

Emory’s Young, who studies bonding behavior, said the rela-tionship between people and dogs is special. Human love can lose its initial exhilaration over time, he said, but he hasn’t seen that with the dogs he has owned for 10 years.

“When I come home from work every day, they are just as excited to see me now as they were when I got them,” Young said. (ap)

BERLIN — Whatever caused small space rocks to lump together billions of years ago, magnetism is unlikely to be the reason.

Scientists said Tuesday that mea-surements made by the European space probe Philae, which landed on comet 67P in November, show the comet’s core isn’t magnetized.

The findings add to scientists’ understanding of how comets and even planets formed, because some astrophysicists had theorized that mag-netism might have been responsible for aligning and then binding together rocks into larger boulders.

In a paper published online by the journal Science, the team led by Hans-Ulrich Auster at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, said their data don’t support this theory, though magnetism may play a role at earlier stages of planet formation.

“If the surface was magnetized, we would have expected to see a clear in-crease in the magnetic field readings as we got closer and closer to the surface,”

said Auster. “If comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is representative of all cometary nuclei, then we suggest that magnetic forces are unlikely to have played a role in the accumulation of planetary building blocks greater than one meter (3 feet) in size.”

Allan H. Treiman, a senior scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, who wasn’t involved in the study, said the results credibly suggest other forces were responsible.

“Auster did not find any magnetic field, with a very sensitive instrument, so it seems unlikely that magnetism in the solar nebula was significant for the collection of meter-sized objects,” Treiman said in an email. “At that scale, it seems likely that electrostatic or gravitational attraction would be stronger.”

The findings are part of a wealth of scientific results obtained by scientists analyzing data collected by the Philae lander and its mother ship Rosetta, which is flying alongside the comet on its elliptical orbit around the sun. (ap)

MIAMI - The best picture we have of Pluto is a blurry, pixelated blob, but that is about to change when a NASA spacecraft makes the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet. The US space agency’s unmanned New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to pass by Pluto on July 14, and will send back unprec-edented high-resolution images, allow-ing people to glimpse the surface of the distant celestial body in rich detail.

Pluto was long considered the ninth planet in the solar system, and the furthest from the sun. It was reclassi-fied as a dwarf planet in 2006. Rocky on the inside and icy on the outside, Pluto has five moons and resides in the Kuiper Belt, a zone of the solar system that is a relic of the era of planetary for-mation more than 4.5 billion years ago, and contains comets and the building blocks of small planets.

“It sounds like science fiction but it is not,” said Alan Stern, principal inves-tigator on the New Horizons mission.

“Three months from today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will make the first exploration of the Pluto system, the Kuiper Belt and the farthest shore of ex-ploration ever reached by humankind,” Stern told reporters Tuesday.

New Horizons, about the size of a baby grand piano, is the fastest moving spacecraft ever launched, and is travel-ing about a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) a day on its way to this unexplored frontier. The 1,000-pound (465-kilogram) vehicle launched in 2006, on a journey of some three bil-lion miles to get to Pluto.

It is powered by plutonium since the sunlight is so weak at that distance that solar arrays -- often used in other kinds

of spacecraft -- would not work.Stern described the spacecraft as

being “in perfect health” and carrying a “scientific arsenal” of the most power-ful suite of seven scientific instruments ever brought to bear on the first recon-naissance of a new celestial body.

“Nothing like this has been done in a quarter century and nothing like this is planned by any space agency ever again,” Stern said.

New Horizons aims to map the geology of Pluto and its moons. The largest, Charon, is the size of Texas.

Scientists hope to learn more about the atmosphere of Pluto, which is mainly nitrogen like Earth’s, and find out if Pluto and Charon have interior oceans. In mid-July, the spacecraft will pass by Pluto at a speed of 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) per hour.

The New Horizons spacecraft man-agement team on Earth is aiming for a target point 7,750 miles from Pluto’s surface, but it will not be easy to get into the right position.

“We are flying three billion miles. We have to hit a target that is 60 by 90 miles, and we have to hit it within 100 seconds after nine and a half years. That’s the kind of precision we have to navigate to,” said Glen Fountain, New Horizons project manager at Johns Hopkins University Applied Phys-ics Laboratory. Starting in May, high resolution images of Pluto and Charon should start arriving on Earth, said Cathy Olkin, New Horizons deputy project scientist at the Southwest Re-search Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

The spacecraft will continue send-ing bits of data and photos from the flyby until October 2016. (afp)

Comet lander’s measurements weaken space magnetism theory

Pluto, now blurry, will become clear with NASA flyby

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In this Friday, March 6, 2015 file photo, a Welsh corgi competes in the ring with its owner on the second day of Crufts dog show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England. In a study released on Thursday, April 16, 2015, scientists found that just by gazing at their owners, dogs can trigger a response in their masters’ brains that helps them bond.

Those puppy eyes can help a dog bond with owner

NEW YORK — Oh, those puppy eyes. Just by gazing at their owners, dogs can trigger a response in their masters’ brains that helps them bond, a study says.

Similar facts were revealed by the advisor to the Ubud Hotel Association (UHA), Pande Sutawan, who added that the density of visitors to Ubud even cases traffic congestion. How-ever, based on monthly data collection, tourists tend to only stay in Ubud for 2 or 3 nights calculated over a year the average occupancy rate is only 30 to 40 percent. “We mustn’t sit on our laurels, the conditions for hoteliers is actually quite critical,” said Sutawan.

Ubud hoteliers now face stiff com-petition with hoteliers from other areas such as Nusa Dua, Kuta dn Sanur and with travel agencies in general. “The worst part of the impact that is has, is that we are forced to reduce the rates of our rooms. must reduce the room rates or offer three guts to stay for the price of two for instance. Otherwise people will be reluctant to stay in Ubud,” he complained.

Sutawan said that the severe com-petition is a result of the opening of the toll road between Nusa Dua and Tuban. to Denpasar that allows tour-ists people to move more quickly and less likely to take the time to enjoy the arts and beauty of Ubud. “Before the toll road was built, people preferred to stay longer in Ubud, but now they can still visit without having to spend the night,” he explained.

AMLAPURA - Customary Nyepi at Datah customary village, Abang subdistrict, Karangasem, took place solemnly. It was orga-nized after holding ngusaba segeha at Prajapati Temple of local village, Saturday (Apr. 18).

Chief of Datah customary village, Wayan Surya Kusuma, delivered on Saturday that the ngusaba segeha worship was followed by thousands of pilgrims. The worship was done in several stages so that the pilgrims did

need to jostle. After saying prayers of the ngusaba segeha, it was re-sumed with silent period (Nyepi) for a day from about four o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday to the same time on Sunday (Apr. 19).

The day of silence with the im-plementation of the catur brata pe-nyepian (four abstinences) consist-ing of not working (amati karya), not lighting fire or not turning on light (amati geni), not traveling or not entering other village area

(amati lelungaan) and not holding party or not enjoying entertainment (amati lelanguan). Residents are making introspection in the hope to improve their future attitudes and behavior in accordance with religious teachings. Schools are closed and so are stalls.

It means to dismiss the universe (macrocosm), the area of Datah cus-tomary village and human self (mi-crocosm) after the ngusaba segeha. Later, in relatively short time it will

be resumed with ngusaba dalem at local village. In order to maintain the solemnity of the village, peca-lang or customary security guard is assigned to secure the village. Exit access of the village is closed except for the Amlapura-Singaraja. Besides, the public transport is not allowed to stop for taking and drop-ping passengers at the road section of Datah village. Each resident installs a penjor in front of their respective house compound. (013)

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Despite the fact that Ubud -as a tourist destination, has received many awards and that the number of visitors to this area continues to increase every year, hotel owners are still facing a decline in the number of visitors who stay in this part of Gi-anyar.

Customary Nyepi at Datah village

Less travellers stay in UbudGIANYAR - Despite the

fact that Ubud -as a tourist destination, has received many awards and that the number of visitors to this area con-tinues to increase every year, hotel owners are still facing a decline in the number of visitors who stay in this part of Gianyar. Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restau-rant Association (PHRI) of Gianyar Chapter, Tjokorda Agung Ichiro, said on Monday that Ubud has been an award winning destination for a long time, has made it into the top 15 destinations of the world (ahead of Bangkok) and more and more people are visiting, yet hoteliers have noted a de-cline in business.

Another challenge faced by entre-preneurs in Ubud is the depreciation world currencies and the rising prices of basic commodities here. If hoteliers maintain the same rates, while having to pay more for everything that they provide, clearly their profit margin is smaller. To avoid this, they have to raise their prices which makes tourists less likely to want to stay. “The euro has fallen by 20 percent, Japan’s Yen has fallen by 30 percent and both the US and Australian dollars have also declined. So even if we only raise our rates according to local inflation, tourist only see increased hotel rates,” he said.

In order to address present con-ditions, Sutawan invites all those involved to come together to present

Ubud as a place that offers something different than other tourist attractions. Without taking such action, he said that Ubud will just be following the same pattern of tourist development as other places, as witnessed by the number of budget hotels currently being built in Ubud. “We need to preserve Ubud as a cultural village. In order do that, there needs to be a filtering process that allows Ubud to remain intact and therefor com-petitive because of its difference,” he affirmed.

The Head of the Gianyar Tourism Agency, I.B. Rai Brahmanta, said that the GTA will coordinate with other relevant agencies to find ways to maintain Ubud’s distinct character, “We must certainly considere this

together. For example, licensing and building permits must be issued more selectively in order to preserve Ubud as a village,” he said.

He also revealed that so far there are approximately five budget hotels around Ubud that offer prices that compete with home stays in the area.

Tjokorda Gde Raka Sukawati has requested that the government make more concerted efforts to help to main-tain the nature and culture in Ubud. He cited the construction of budget hotels, that are very disharmonious with the social and natural environment, as an example of government leniency.

“On a small plot of land, large investors can build a 500 room hotel, while local residents can only provide about 5 rooms. The development of

budget hotels is clearly disharmonious with nature, and does not meet with the provision of 60 percent green space for every 40 percent of building,” he said. (kmb35)

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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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First and foremost, celebrations commenced on the 3rd of March with a party for all our staff to show appreciation for their contributions and hard work, there was food, en-tertainment and lucky draw prizes including a motorbike donated by the management.

On the 9th of March a special ap-preciation dinner was held for the Management Team where the owner recognised and thanked the team for their support and contribution over the years with a commemorative Silver Parker pen engraved with the Bali Dynasty Resort.

This event was followed by an event to recognise those staff that have achieved 25 years service, 20 years and 15 years service at the Bali Dynasty Resort. 100 employees were

recognised for 25 years of service which represents nearly 27% of the total full time workforce.

The Bali Dynasty Resort recog-nises the importance of up keeping the hardware of the building to en-sure that it is well maintained and refurbished but more importantly recognising that the staff are the big-gest asset who ensure each guest is treated as an individual and receive an efficient and personalised service which has lead to many repeat guests returning year after year to visit the staff and the hotel. Over 60% of the Bali Dynasty Resort’s staff have been at the resort now more than 20 years and 72% have been at the Resort longer than 15 years meaning just 28% of the employees have been at the resort less than 15 years which

is a great achievement and reflects a happy team which translates into happy guests.

On the 15th of May there will be thank you party celebration; friends and long time supporters of the Bali Dynasty Resort will be invited to join a special event commemorating the 25th anniversary.

Strategically located in the heart of the South Kuta area, Bali Dynasty Resort has become a home away from home for leisure travelers from around the world, only ten minutes’ drive from the airport on the vibrant South Kuta beach strip and located within walking distance of Kuta’s nightlife, Waterbom Park and Dis-covery Shopping Mall.

The Bali Dynasty Resort is part of Prime Plaza Hotels and Resorts

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Dynasty’s 25th anniversary celebrationsKUTA - 2015 marks the Silver Jubilee (25th year of operation) for the Bali Dynasty resort and there

will be a lot of celebrations and activities to commemorate this important milestone in the history of the Bali Dynasty resort.

which operates hotels in Java and Bali with 5 hotels in Bali including the Sanur Paradise Plaza Hotel and Suites, Amadea Resort and Villas and PrimeBiz Kuta.

Previously, the liquor was still vis-ible at a number of shops, minimarkets and stalls in Bangli County. However, lately the liquor of class A no longer appears. Some minimarkets and shops only look selling soft drinks.

One of the residents, Wayan Sum-erta, said on Sunday (Apr. 19) that he was suffering thrush and claimed to have difficulty to find a beer. “I have come to some minimarkets, shops and stalls, but I cannot get it,” he said.

Sumerta disclosed that the beer is not used to get drunk, but to be used when suffering thrush. “When suffer-ing thrush, I usually treat it by drink-ing a can of beer and it then quickly

gets relieved,” he said.Disappearance of the liquor often

blamed to be one of the triggers of commotion is also recognized by one of the traders, Dewa Yoga. Since the issuance of the regulation of the Trade Minister, he no longer dares to peddle liquor because of fear of raids. “I do not want to get risk. It’s better for me not to sell it for the sake of safety,” he explained.

He described that the profit obtained from retail selling of beer is fairly rea-sonable. However, after the issuance of the regulation of the Trade Minister, the traders do not dare to take risk. “If possible, the traders must be tolerated

to sell a few bottles. It is different from the sale of liquor having high content of alcohol,” he explained.

Meanwhile, some time ago the Bangli Industry and Trade Agency said that no traders objected or pro-tested against the regulation of the Trade Minister. The Head of Bangli Industry and Trade Agency, I Nengah Sudibia, recently revealed that as a follow-up to the regulation, his party already scheduled a raid to several shops, stalls and minimarkets. How-ever, its final schedule has not been disclosed. He affirmed that his party already scheduled and cooperated with relevant agencies. (kmb45)

TABANAN - The harvest in Tabanan is likely to occur in June 2015 and as is increasingly the case, there seems to be a problem with a lack of harvest-ers. In order to harvest the ripe rice, Tabanan farm-ers have to rely on labour from outside of Bali.

Head of Tabanan Agriculture, Food Crops and Horticulture Agency, Nyoman Budana, explained that this year will be particularly challenging, because both Jembrana and East Jave will be harvesting at the same time, causing a scarcity in harvesters.

Although some Tabanan residents such as those found in Baturiti, are professional harvesters, they are only very few. Tegal Mengkeb village in East Selemadeg has established harvester group, but there are only enough members to serve their own village.

Chief of Subak Gadon III, Beraban village, Kediri, Ketut Sukanada, said: “I see that there are paddy fields ready to be harvested but the grain still remains on the stalk -apparently farmers are having trouble finding harvesters”.

Sukanada explained that most of the 150 hect-ares of Subak Gadon III, has been harvested by laborers from outside the region, mostly from East Java and added that Subak Gadon I and II located between Kedungu to Lengudu, have not entered harvest season.

“Indeed there is not much we can do, there is a decline in the number of people engaged in the agri-cultural sector. As a result, those who are still farm-ing, having to rely on middlemen with their laborers to harvest our rice,” he explained. (kmb24)

TABANAN - To celebrate Balinese culture, the Tanah Lot tourist attraction will hold the three day Bleganjur Festival in early July, inviting 22 customary village youth groups to participate. .

Operation Manager of Tanah Lot tourist attraction, Ketut Toya Adnyana announced on Monday, that the the festival aims to providing an opportunity for young people to express their artistic talent while preserving Balinese culture. “Besides, the festival also draw visitors to Tanah Lot who will certainly be entertained,” said Toya.

Although Tanah Lot is located at Beraban village, the participants come from villages throughout Kediri subdis-trict. Each customary village sends one bleganjur troupe. Customary village chiefs are also invited to provide in-formation about the various performances. “The festival will be held in July to coincide with school holidays,” added Toya.

According to Toya, the number of tourist visits to Tanah Lot is stable stable. During the past three months, there has been an increase of about two percent compared to the same period in 2014. The total number of visitors so far this year is 824,182. Through the bleganjur festival and also thanks to repairs made to the facilities, such as new signage and repaving the roads, they are expected the number of visitors to exceed 3 million. (kmb24)

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A man is harvesting the rice paddy. Tabanan is currently facing the lack of harvester.

Liquor disappears in Bangli

BANGLI - The issuance of the regulation of Trade Minister No. 6/M-DAG/PEr/1/2015 on the control and supervision against the procurement, distribution and sale of liquor that prohibits the sale of liquor of class A at shops or stall seems to have been applied by some people who previously sold liquor. Before the relevant authorities conduct a raid, the liquor is no longer visible in the market.

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Tabanan lacks harvesters

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, Japan’s Prime Minster Shinzo Abe and leaders from several African countries, as well as Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani will attend com-memorations of the 1955 conference that laid the foundations for the Cold War-era Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

The original conference in 1955 gathered around 30 countries, many of them newly independent after decades of colonialism and foreign

occupation, in the city of Bandung on Java island. It was led by Indonesian independence hero Sukarno.

Other prominent figures included Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who were among leaders who founded the NAM several years later, an organisation for countries that did not want to take sides during the Cold War with either the United States or Soviet Union.

However the NAM has struggled to remain rel-

evant in the post-Cold War era and as its member countries grew in clout, now representing a huge chunk of the global economy.

Some analysts argue the confer-ence is more about big countries -- particularly China and Japan -- seeking to unilaterally extend their influence with other participants.

China, especially, has been ag-gressively forging closer links with Africa, whose natural resources help power the country’s growth.

“The bigger states have their own

agenda coming here,” said

Tobias Ba-suki, a Ja-karta-based p o l i t i c a l analyst.

W i t h

more than 80 countries represented at the five-day conference, Basuki added that it would be hard for such a diverse group of states to reach consensus.

Nigeria’s Bolaji Akinyemi, a for-mer foreign minister, said the original grouping served as “an incubator for emerging nations like ours at inde-pendence”, but he added that it was no longer needed as “nations have grown up”.

Ahead of the meeting, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Liu Zhen-min hailed the “tradition of non-alignment”.

And, though most analysts re-mained sceptical, some observers said the growing economic strength of the participants showed evidence of renewed life in the movement.

“The conference feels like the non-aligned movement graduat-ing to BRICS,” said Ernest Bower, a

Southeast Asia expert at US think-tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies, referring to the grouping of five leading emerg-ing economies, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

However the conference has also been marred by the absence of key figures. Though India was a major player at the first meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not attend-ing; while South African President Jacob Zuma cancelled due to a wave of xenophobic violence at home. The main leaders’ summit is on Wednes-day and Thursday in Jakarta.

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Asian and African leaders gather in Indonesia this week to mark 60 years since a landmark conference that helped forge a common identity among emerging states, but analysts say big-power rivalries will overshadow proclamations of solidarity.

JAKARTA - Asian and African leaders gather in Indonesia this week to mark 60 years since a landmark conference that helped forge a common identity among emerging states, but analysts say big-power rivalries will overshadow proclamations of solidarity.

HONG KONG - “The Golden Era”, a biopic of an acclaimed Chinese writer in the 1930s, on Sunday won praise from the city’s prestigious film academy, scooping five prizes including best movie at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

The three-hour drama tells the story of renowned novelist Xiao Hong, whose short life battered by disease and political unrest was set against her literary success.

In the ceremony at the southern Chinese city’s harbourside Cultural Centre, the film snapped up the awards for best costume

and make up, best cinematography and best art direction, as well as best director for Ann Hui On-wah.

“I am feeling very thankful. It wasn’t an easy one to make. It took a lot of trial and error,” Hui told reporters at backstage.

Thriller “Overheard 3” also won three gongs at the glittering ceremony which, to-gether with Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards, is one of the Chinese film industry’s most

prestigious events. “Overheard 3” revolves around a row

between developers over a controversial residential project in one of Hong Kong’s lesser-known rural towns.

The movie’s star Sean Lau Ching-wan took home the best actor title.

“I want to thank every one who loves Hong Kong and Hong Kong movies,” Lau, who played a villager-turned property tycoon in the film, said.

The best actress prize went to Chinese fa-vourite Zhao Wei, who played a foster mother in “Dearest” -- beating out compatriot Tang Wei, who was nominated for her role as Xiao Hong in “The Golden Era”.

The night also proved to be prolific for Ivana Wong, who was named best new performer and best supporting actress for her role as a prostitute in “Golden Chicken SSS”.

Wong said: “When I am shooting the next movie I will feel the pressure.” (afp)

The strong weekend showing gives the car racing action flick a $294 million haul in the US and Canada since its release and giving the movie certifiable blockbuster status.

The franchise of all seven “Fast and Furi-ous” films has brought in a record-breaking $3.39 billion, NBCUniversal said.

Slapstick comedy “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” starring debuted in the second spot with $24 million in estimated sales, and stars Kevin James as the hapless, scooter-driving security guard. Another newcomer, “Unfriended,” took third on the charts with $16 million in sales, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

The social media horror flick starring Heather Sossaman finds a chat room of friends haunted by an online account of a dead friend.

Animated children’s film “Home,” about an unpopular space alien forced to flee his own kind, earned the fourth spot on the chart with $10.3 million in estimated sales.

The film, featuring the voices of ce-lebrities Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez, has brought in $142.6 million overall.

In its second week, romance novel adaptation “The Longest Ride,” brought in $6.85 million for the fifth spot follow-ing its third place debut. The movie stars Scott Eastwood, the son of actor-director Clint Eastwood.

The Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart buddy comedy “Get Hard” about a prison-bound investment banker and car washer took in $4.8 million for the sixth spot on the chart.

New nature documentary “Monkey Kingdom,” narrated by actress Tina Fey, made its debut in the seventh box office spot with $4.7 million in sales.

The film follows a newborn and mother toque macaque in the wilds of Sri Lanka.

In eight place with $4.6 million was

“Woman in Gold,” the true story of an elderly Holocaust survivor trying to get back her Nazi-looted artwork from Austria.

Action-packed “Insurgent,” the second film based on Veronica Roth’s best-selling “Divergent” book series, came in ninth place, adding $4.1 million for $120.6 million after five weeks on the charts.

The live-action reboot of “Cinderella” took 10th place, with $3.9 million in estimated ticket sales.

The Disney film has been on the charts for

six weeks, br inging in a total of $186.3 million.

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Chinese actress Tang Wei poses after winning the Best Film award for her movie “The Golden Era” during the Hong Kong Film Awards in Hong Kong Sunday, April 19, 2015.

‘The Golden Era’ tops Hong Kong Film Awards

‘Furious 7’ surges past the $1 billion mark

LOS ANGELES - “Furious 7” surged ahead of its North American box office competition for a third straight week, taking in an estimated $29 million to hit $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

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In this April 1, 2015, file photo, Vin Diesel arrives at the premiere of “Fu-rious 7” at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in Los Angeles.