A military officer helping with the search told AFP that rescuers had found 163 bodies out of a total of 224 people who were on board the Airbus 321, which crashed after taking off from a Red Sea beach resort.

The plane was carrying 214 Russian and three Ukrainian pas-sengers, along with seven crew members. Rescuers have decided to widen the search perimeter to 15 kilometres (nine miles), the of-ficer added.

“We found a three-year-old girl eight kilometres from the scene” of the main wreckage, he told AFP from a military base in El-Hasana, around 60 kilometres from the crash site.

Many of the bodies were miss-ing limbs, said the officer, who re-quested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to media.

Meanwhile a Russian team in-cluding the transport minister who arrived in Cairo set out to the scene of the wreckage in a remote part of the restive Sinai Peninsula, Russian official media reported.

Investigators have recovered the

plane’s black box and the govern-ment said its contents were being analysed to determine the cause of the incident.

Egyptian and Russian officials have expressed scepticism about a claim by an Islamic State group branch in Egypt that it downed the plane. The jihadists operate in the north of the peninsula, where they have waged an insurgency that killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since 2013.

Black Box RecoveredEgypt has recovered the black

box of a Russian airliner that crashed Saturday in the restive Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, the prime minis-ter’s office said.

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LOS ANGELES - Pop star Selena Gomez will produce and star in a Netf-lix adaptation of the young-adult novel “13 Reasons Why,” Variety magazine reported Thursday.

The Internet streaming giant is in final negotiations to adapt the popular book into 13 episodes, the magazine announced online.

The novel by Jay Asher tells the story of a high school boy who receives a shoebox containing 13 cassettes, which were recorded by his classmate and crush who recently killed herself.

The cassettes explain how 12 people played a role in her death and why she

committed suicide.Universal had been developing the

story into a movie before Netflix took the lead to turn it into a series, Variety said.

Netflix was not immediately available for comment.

Gomez, a teen television star turned singer, released her second solo album “Revival” earlier in October, which debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 200.

At the beginning of the month, the 23-year-old revealed that she has lupus and secretly underwent chemotherapy to treat the disease. (afp)

The singer asked for the trial in a legal counterclaim against David Mueller, who last month sued the singer as he charged he was wrongly dismissed from his job at a Denver radio station over the June 2013 incident.

In the original lawsuit, Mueller said that Swift’s bodyguards and staff “verbally abused” him as they accused the radio host of fondling the singer while posing for a pic-ture backstage before her show at a Denver arena.

But in the response filed Wednes-day in a Denver court, Swift said that Mueller was clearly the culprit and accused him of reaching under her skirt and touching her in an “intimate” place.

“Ms. Swift was forced to begin a several-hour long concert in front of 13,000 fans still distressed that

she had been so inappropriately touched,” the legal filing said.

The counterclaim said that Swift, then 23, felt especially uncomfort-able as the radio host was much larger than her at 6-foot-3 (1.9 meters) and more than 200 pounds (90 kilograms).

Swift requested a jury trial seek-ing punitive damages from Mueller, saying that any money would be donated to charitable groups that protect women.

A verdict against Mueller “will serve as an example to other women who may resist publicly reliving similar outrageous and humiliating acts,” the counter-claim said.

Swift said that she has held thousands of similar meet-and-greet events for fans and radio station personnel throughout her career

and “she has been inappropriately groped one time -- by Mueller.”

Mueller’s lawyers did not im-mediately respond to the counter-claim.

In the original lawsuit, Mueller acknowledged an incident took place but blamed it on one of his colleagues, who he said had boasted to him of grabbing Swift’s bottom while taking a picture.

Mueller’s lawsuit said that KYGO-FM, a country music sta-tion, fired him two days later after Swift’s camp warned of action unless the station “handled” the radio host.

Swift, who became a teenage star in country music, a year ago released her fifth studio album “1989,” in which she went more fully in a pop direction.

“1989” has been one of the most successful albums in recent years, racking up the fastest first-week sales in the United States since 2002. (afp)

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Taylor Swift sues radio host for groping

NEW YORK - Pop superstar Taylor Swift has demanded a trial of a radio host she accuses of groping her, saying she hopes to stand up for other women who have been assaulted.

Selena Gomez to produce, star in Netflix’s ‘13 Reasons Why’

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GLOBAL economic pressures are predicted to strengthen in 2016. This condition is believed to have an impact on the economic resilience of

Bali. Rapid urbanization, low production and weak

competitiveness of local products are dominant factors that will affect the move-

ment of the Bali’s economy. To anticipate this economic downturn, Bali is expected to immediately reorient the investment, including arranging domestic market. Rural-based economic development should also be encouraged.

As a tourist destination, Bali does have a strategic advantage in building the economic competitiveness. However, the dependence on only one economic sector

will make Bali tourism fragile. Moreover, the current food production rate to meet the needs of the population of Bali is very minimal.

Dependence of Bali on food products from outside is predicted to reach 80 per-cent and this indicates the economic vola-tility of Bali. “Bali has high dependence on food ingredients production and other consumption needs. This happens because

the population growth rate of Bali is un-controllable. This condition will become a serious burden for Bali in 2016 when the population and the rate of investment are not immediately controlled,” said an economist from the Udayana University, Dr. I Gusti Wayan Murjanayasa.

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In this photo released by the Prime Minister’s office, Sherif Ismail, right, looks at the remains of a crashed passenger jet in Hassana, Egypt on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. The Russian aircraft carrying 224 people crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous region in the Sinai Peninsula about 20 minutes after taking off from a Red Sea resort popular with Russian tourists, the Egyptian government said.

163 bodies found

Egypt rescuers widen search for Russian plane crash victims

EL-HASANA, Egypt - Egyptian rescue teams were looking Sunday for more victims of a Russian passenger plane crash in Sinai, widening the search after finding bodies scattered for kilometres a day after the incident.

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UBUD - Artotel Indonesia proudly an-nounce its involvement in Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) 2015, the annual Southeast Asia’s largest and most renowned cultural and literary event in Ubud, Bali which will be held on 28 October – 1 No-vember 2015.

With a same vision of the festival and Artotel Indonesia in showcasing the incred-ible diversity of the Archipelago’s culture

and arts to the world, Artotel Indonesia hosted some of Festival’s extensive free art programs such as Mural activity by Art Manager of Artotel Indonesia, Mr. Safrie Effendi and as well featuring an Upcoming Singaporean Artist based on Netherland named Mr. Wayne Lim, in 30 October 2015, at Taman Baca, Ubud.

Color Theory Workshop also by Art Manager of Artotel Indonesia, Mr. Safrie

Effendi, in 30 October 2015 at Campuhan College, Ubud.

After party program which held in 1 November 2015 at Taman Baca, Ubud. In this lifestyle event Artotel brings out the concept of BART, a signature Bar at The Rooftop of Artotel, and upcoming Artotel Sanur – Bali representation that serve a variety of cocktails and some other vari-ous beverages also with the companion of

live DJs performance by Art Manager of Artotel Indonesia.

Mr. Eduard R. Pangkerego, Corporate General Manager of Artotel Indonesia said; “We are really proud for being invited to involve on the annual world class festival as we have a same vision with the commit-tee in bringing the emerging local artists as well as the richness of literature and arts of the country to the world.”

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 considered 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 col-orful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Artotel Indonesia involves at UWRF 2015

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This demographic-economic expert also reminded Bali to immediately con-duct a correction in the demographic management and creative economic sec-tor if Bali does not want to be run over by global economic pressures. He said that serious threat of Bali’s economy in 2016 is widely open as a result of the weakening China’s economy. “Export of Bali in 2016 is still difficult. China becoming a major market share experi-ences an economic downturn,” he said. The condition will be exacerbated by strong external economic pressures due to unclear economic policy of the United States. “Even though there is an expectation of growth, the economic pressures of Bali in 2016 is even very strong,” he said.

To that end, he called for an urgent policy reorientation. Economic develop-ment coming from consumptive pattern should be immediately transformed into productive economy. This can be resolved by strengthening the com-petitiveness of SMEs and increasing productive cooperatives. In addition, he asked the policies must be designed with village-based economic develop-ment. This measure will suppress the imbalance of economic growth as well as reduce urbanization.

The other sector needing to be arranged is cooperative. Currently, he said, it is dominated by savings and loan coopera-tive widely operating in consumer financ-ing. The economic growth triggered by high consumptive spending is very vul-nerable. He also reminded that Bali must strengthen the domestic markets with the focus on consumer and production quality. “Other than reorientation of investment policy, the tourism sector must also be given attention,” he advised.

Associated with the economic chal-lenges of Bali in 2016, Chairman of Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Bali, A.A. Wiraputra, said that Bali cannot escape from the strengthen-ing global economic pressures. Tourism becoming the prominent sector of Bali must be ‘forced’ to involve local compo-nents. “Virtually 80 percent of the food supply as the buffer of Bali’s population needs is brought in from outside Bali. This supply dependence will make Bali’s economic resilience fragile,” he said.

These conditions will be getting more difficult when the advantages of tourism management in Bali are much enjoyed by investors. To that end, the involve-ment of local entrepreneurs and com-munity components of Bali in tourism must be opened widely. “Regulation in the tourism management in Bali should also be reviewed,” he advised. (dir)

An academician from Warmadewa Uni-versity (Unwar), Ngurah Sanjaya, reminded that all the elements may not be lullabied by the dollars resulting from the sector. More-over, Bali is only dependent on tourist visits rather than on the absorption of the product yielded.

“Currently Bali very much relies on the arrival of tourist visits. When relying on the purchase of handicrafts and other products will be heavy for Bali,” said Ngurah San-jaya.

Since travelers want to see nature and tradition, said Ngurah Sanjaya, Bali still has a hope to survive in this difficult economic condition and tight competition. “Thank-fully Bali is still interested to be visited, though there is competition. However, what to do is optimizing the spirit of government and tourism players to keep the destination well,” he said.

According to him, the government and

other stakeholders must not show any dis-courses on conflicts if we do not want Bali tourism to be paralyzed because any small problems occurred on this island will be im-mediately known to the world. “We should no longer hesitate to maintain the natural attractions in this area. Nature makes Bali beautiful, not buildings especially the man-made objects. So, preserving nature is the answer, not making artificial tourist attrac-tion,” he affirmed.

Results of the research by Bank Indonesia in 2015 indicated that direction of tourism develop-ment products have deviated from the vision and mission of the culture-based tourism (THK—three sources of happiness, namely harmonious relation of human to the Creator, fellow humans and nature), that seems very intriguing, but in the practice it is very far from the study of Bank Indonesian. If the pattern of tourism product pre-sentation is not immediately addressed, then the icon of tourism and even tourism promotion of

the county and municipality government in Bali will go up against the fact that tends to highlight entertainment tourism.

“When entertainment tourism is maintained as product presentation in Bali, it will be easily rivaled by Thailand that is consistent and more vulgar in presenting entertainment tourist attrac-tion,” said Sanjaya.

He argued that Bali will lose its identity and tourism brand, so that the tourism trend visiting Bali is no longer distinct, unique and marketable in the future. Bali will face some big challenges such as the presence of investors that force with market share presenting tourist attractions that are no longer in line with local culture. The investors potentially marginalize the people and people do not have access to capital and skills required to join the investors. People can only get the opportunity as lower-class workers.

The presence of international tourism has the potential to disrupt the elements of local culture, so that the tourism development strategy involving people as the owner of the tourist destination should become the priority of tourism in Bali. “Bali no longer needs to learn how to develop tourism growth having reached 8,000 travelers per day. Now, it is time to begin how in this dynamic tourism growth Balinese people as a whole can get a more equitable sharing of distribution,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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Tourists walked along Canggu Beach in Bali Island. Moreover, Bali is only dependent on tourist visits rather than on the absorption of the product yielded.

People must get justice from tourismProspect of Indonesia’s economic in 2016 does not go through progress. World

Bank projection mentions that the economic growth of Indonesia only shifts from 5 percent in 2014 to 5.5 percent in 2016, with a forecast that ongoing transaction stays deficit in the range of -2.9 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The sluggish national economy will affect the economic growth of Bali. However, the community of the Island of the Gods can still breathe relievedly because the economy is dominantly sustained by tourism sector.

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UBUD - A movie musical starring Tom Cruise could be near-ing production after a decade languishing in development, the screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon, said. “Bob the Musical”, directed by Michael Hazanavicius, (The Artist), tells the story of a man who hates musicals and then wakes up one day to find that his life and the world around him is one big extravaganza of singing and dancing.

“And everything he hates about musicals, that people sing and dance at the drop of a hat, he finds himself doing just that against his will,” Chabon told Reuters at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival on the Indonesian island of Bali.

Chabon said he had just turned in the first draft for the Walt Disney Pictures production, first conceived in 2004, before coming out to the Asia-Pacific for a tour of literary festivals.

Bret McKenzie, one half of musical comedy duo “Flight of the Conchords”, is composing the music and lyrics for “Bob the Musi-cal”. McKenzie won an Oscar for best original song with “Man or Muppet”, for The Muppets movie.

Chabon’s career is swerving towards music as well, said the author of several acclaimed novels, including “Mysteries of Pitts-burgh”, “Wonder Boys” and “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”, which won the Pultizer Prize for fiction in 2001.

Earlier this month, he signed with Universal Music Publishing Group to be an in-house pop lyricist. Universal will look for op-portunities for him to collaborate with musicians, he said.

The deal grew out of a songwriting partnership with producer Mark Ronson on the latter’s 2015 best-selling album “Uptown Special”. Chabon wrote the lyrics for nine of the album’s 11 tracks, but not, he said wryly, for the album’s monster-selling single, “Uptown Funk”

“When I turned 50, I started feeling inclined to saying yes to new opportunities,” said Chabon, now 52. He and Ronson were both big fans of 1970s rock group Steely Dan and the story-telling elements of that group’s lyrics and immediately hit it off, Chabon said.

Chabon, who says he listens to music all the time as he writes, says the skill set of writing song lyrics with musicians - and the satisfaction of doing that - is entirely different than the often lonely pursuit of writing a novel, which for him can sometimes take years.

“You’re collaborating with people. Doing it on the fly. They’re tinkering with the melodies, while you’re trying to come up with lyrics on the spot. Eight hours later, you’re done. You’ve made these amazing sounds in one day.”

But Chabon said he hasn’t given up his night job as a novelist. He tends to start writing in the late afternoon and sometimes all through the night at the Berkley, Calif. home he shares with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, herself a novelist and essayist, and their four children. (rtr)

This banana belongs to supe-rior variety and has higher selling price than other varieties. In addi-tion to meeting the needs of local market, this banana has become a commodity to be marketed outside the region. Not long ago, the banana plantation in West Buleleng already performed the first harvest. Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana accompa-nied by Chairman of the Buleleng House of Representatives Gede Supriatna did the first harvest.

It was also attended by the Head of the Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra and the Head of Forestry and Agricul-ture Agency, Ketut Nerda.

The regent said that to get maximal production and good fruit quality, synergy with private sector is needed. This coopera-tion program can be applied in the proper maintenance and posthar-vest management. If this could be done properly and correctly, the regent is confident that the ‘one

family plants one of fruit’ move-ment will increase the produc-tion of Buleleng local fruits and dependence on imported fruits can be diminished.

Chairman of the Prima Karya Sari Farmer Group Association, Made Suputra Yasa, said that the ‘one family plants one of fruit’ movement has been practiced at four villages in Gerokgak subdistrict namely the Sumber-kima, Banyupoh, Pejarakan and Pemuteran. (kmb38)

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One of the commodities being developed in this program is Taiwanese green banana. The banana garden is located at Pemuteran village, Gerokgak.

Buleleng boosts production of local fruits

SINGARAJA - The supply of imported fruits to Buleleng recently got serious attention from local government. Dependence on imported fruits can be reduced if the Bali local fruit production can meet the demand. To answer this challenge, the government of Buleleng boosts the produc-tion of local fruit through the ‘One Family Plants One Fruit Tree’ movement. This program is run after the local government makes cooperation with the Prima Karya Sari Farmer Group Association. One of the commodities being developed in this program is Taiwanese green banana. The banana garden is located at Pemuteran village, Gerokgak.

Novelist Michael Chabon readies script for “Bob the Musical”

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Tourists from across the globe flock to Cairns (pronounced Kanz) for easy access to the Great Barrier Reef and some of the world’s most spectacular scuba diving, with plenty of less-crowded but picturesque beach towns nearby.

Boats chug out of the Cairns harbor carrying scuba divers and snorkelers to the reefs, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) offshore. Many boats carry visitors out to the reef and back the same day. The vessel usually stays on the reef, moving between dive spots, with tourists, supplies and the crew arriving and departing on daily shuttles.

Many of the crew members on the boats are from other countries, taking advantage of an Australian labor shortage that led to a special

temporary work visa program.In most places the reef is shal-

low enough to be enjoyed while snorkeling, but the crew can offer on-the-spot training to uncertified divers and then accompany them on shallow dives.

It should be obvious to anyone who looks at a map, but traveling in Australia adds the exclamation point to the reality that the country is huge. The land mass is about the equivalent size of the continental United States with a population of about 24 million, about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) from the east to west coasts and 2,290 miles (3,685 kilometers) from its most northerly to its most southerly points.

The flora and fauna in Australia are vary, not to mention the ever-present signs on the Queensland beaches warning about crocodiles

or marine stingers, a term that describes a variety of venomous jellyfish. There were ever-present bottles of vinegar left at many beaches to counteract the sting along with instructions to seek medical attention.

Then there are the endangered cassowaries, flightless birds re-lated to the emu, with brilliantly colored blue necks, heads with red wattles and black bodies. They are known for their unpredictabil-ity and their ability to eviscerate threats, thanks to their razor-sharp, three-toed claws.

To the north of Cairns is the Daintree National Park, some say the oldest rainforest — at 250 mil-lion years — in the world. Keep going and you hit an area called the Far North, ending at Cape York, the northernmost point of

the Australian mainland and just over 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Papua New Guinea. The area is sparsely populated but it is popular with tourists, who fill the roads with campervans — what Americans call RVs.

“There are options for accom-modation but usually people will camp and 4WD camper trailers are all the rage this year,” said Marion Esser, who runs the Cow Bay Homestay, a bed and break-fast at the edge of the Daintree Rainforest. “Then most people would be fishing on the way, lots of rivers and coast on either side of the peninsula.”

It was by the side of a road in park that we happened upon a cassowary. It was one of an esti-mated 4,400 of the protected bird left in what is known as the “wet tropics,” a 2.2 million-acre area of coastal northern Queensland.

Away from the coast, there

are also wallabies, small cuddly cousins of the kangaroo. At the Granite Gorge Nature Park out-side the town of Mareeba, about an hour west of Cairns, wallabies will sit on your lap while you feed them.

The kangaroos that help give Australia its identity are as com-mon as deer in parts of the U.S. At one point I had to slam the brakes of our rented van to avoid a kan-garoo standing in the middle of the road while we drove through a vast field of sugarcane. We stopped in time, but Australian roadsides are littered with kangaroo carcasses.

Australia is paradise for road campers. Not only are camp-grounds that would be familiar to Americans plentiful, but most towns have free designated camp-ing areas where RVs can stay for free. They always have toilet facilities, some offer showers and other amenities. (ap)

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East coast Australia offers coral, exotic wildlife

CAIRNS, Australia — It can be hard to hear an Australian accent while walking along the waterfront esplanade in the far northern city of Cairns on the Pacific.

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Now, many of the survivors are pinning their hopes on a historic election Nov. 8 pitting the military-backed ruling party against one helmed by pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and numerous ethnic parties. They fear victory by the military’s United Solidarity and Development Party would plunge Karen state and its 1.5 million people back into a hellhole.

“If the USDP comes into power, we will walk the same path. We will remain beggars. If they lose, the country will change. This is the final showdown,” says Hkun Kyi Myint, an elder of several villages around Hpa-An, the state capital.

Ethnic minorities including the Karen make up about 40 percent of Myanmar’s 52 million people. For them, the election is more than a step in Myanmar’s uneven path toward democracy. It opens up the possible fulfillment of a long-

cherished dream.Shortly after the country, then

known as Burma, gained inde-pendence from Britain in 1948, the Karen rose against the central government, which then and since has been dominated by the Burman ethnic majority. The country’s first constitution and the 1947 Pang-long Agreement, endowed with an almost mythic aura among ethnic people, promised a large measure of self-determination for minorities — even the possibility of secession.

All promises were broken fol-lowing a 1962 military coup, after which a welter of insurgent groups from the Kachin, Shan, Karen and other minorities rose up in revolt. Myanmar historian and government adviser Thant Myint-U has called this endless, bloody struggle the country’s “original sin.”

“Myanmar will not be able to fulfill its potential, or provide the

kind of future its people expect and deserve, without finding a lasting resolution to the ethnic conflicts it faces,” says Tim Johnston, Asia director for the think tank Interna-tional Crisis Group.

On Oct. 15, a National Ceasefire Agreement was signed after two years of talks and more than 200 meetings. President Thein Sein, who chairs the USDP, described it as “a historic gift from us to the genera-tions of the future.” But only eight of the more than 20 armed groups signed it, including the Karen Na-tional Union (KNU), the minority’s main insurgency group. Other cease-fires were negotiated in the 1980s and ‘90s, only to be violated.

“I hope for the best, but I have only about 10 percent faith in the ceasefire,” says Mahn Khin Tunk, a farmer and community leader near Hpa-An who has fought with the KNU.

Suspicions about the regime’s sincerity were redoubled as its troops battled several insurgent groups while peace talks proceeded. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing missed a meeting while in Israel shopping to upgrade weaponry for Myanmar’s army of at least 250,000.(ap)

BUCHAREST, Romania — When the first sparks flew, the lead singer of Goodbye to Gravity joked that they weren’t part of the heavy metal band’s performance.

Moments later, flames spread quickly through the crowded base-ment club in downtown Bucharest, trapping many and triggering a stampede that would leave at least 27 people dead and 180 injured — making it the deadliest nightclub blaze in Romanian history.

Two of the band members were among the dead, while the lead singer was one of the many people who were treated in hospital for extensive burns. Witnesses said about 300 to 400 people, including some children attending with their parents, were at the club, housed in a former factory, when a pyrotechnical show went awry. They said there was only one exit.

A spark on stage ignited some polystyrene decor, club-goers told Digi 24 television. Photos posted on social media appeared to show a flame emanating from a pillar covered in foam insulation as those in the audience applauded the band. The group, which was launching its new album “Mantras of War” Friday, had performed a song titled “This is the Day We Die” from their latest CD before the fire broke out, witnesses at the club said.

Hundreds of members of Bucharest’s medical community were mobilized in frantic efforts to save as many lives as possible. Bogdan Oprita, a spokesman for the Floreasca Emergency Hospital, said it was the worst bloodshed since the 1989 anti-Communist revolution. “It was like a war,” he said. “Dozens of surgeons were called from home and asked to operate.”

Emergency worker Violeta Maria Naca, with 22 years of experi-ence, described in a Facebook post how parents were kissing ambu-lances carrying their children, while others were hitting the vehicles begging to be transported to hospital.

“There was a child with 70 percent burns. I was crying. The flesh was coming off him. He was asking whether he would live. If it was serious,” she wrote. “He was almost in a coma. Blood and tears were coming out of his eyes. He asked me to hold his hand. I told him I had a boy the same age.”

Children accompanied by an adult are allowed to enter nightclubs in Romania and many clubs don’t pay attention to the age limit of 18 for unaccompanied teenagers.(ap)

Myanmar’s minorities fear election victory by military

HPA-AN, Myanmar — During nearly seven decades the villages of the Karen have been torched, their men summarily executed and their women raped as the ethnic minority battled Myanmar’s military regime in the world’s longest-running in-surgency. Their homeland has been called the “hidden Darfur,” where some 350,000 people have been driven from their homes into the jungles or refugee camps in neighboring Thailand.

AP Photo/David Longstreath, File

FILE - In this May 9, 2006, file photo, an ethnic Karen man and his child look from the shade of their bamboo hut in their newly constructed village of Ei Htu Hta, Myanmar, near the Salween river along the Myanmar-Thai border.

Survivors describe horror as fire spread in Bucharest club

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A woman lights candles outside the compound that housed the nightclub where a fire occurred in the early morning hours in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015.

GIANYAR - Disappointed with the Mu-nicipality Waterworks (PDAM) that cannot provide certainty for water connection, the apparatus of Petak village finally takes an innovative measure to answer the desire of residents to get clean water services. Armed with adequate potential of water supplies, the village builds self-managed waterworks.

Headman of Petak, I Made Widiana, revealed the idea of building a village-managed waterworks. It is originated from residents’ complaints about the difficulty to obtain clean water services from the PDAM Gianyar. “Many of our residents have ap-plied for new water connection, but so far there is no confirmation,” he said.

Having got no confirmation for long time, finally the Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata, issued the autonomous village preparedness program. Together with relevant agencies, his institution makes studies and tests to the field in order to meet the feasibility of the clean water utilization. Well, at that time was selected the spring at Pesiraman Gunung Merta, Madangan Kaja as location of the study.

“Having met all the feasibilities, resi-dents are very vivacious to support it. More interestingly, 200 residents directly register to the autonomous program where each applicant is charged at IDR 1.5 million,” he explained.

He revealed that his institution can raise funds from residents and donors amounting to IDR 250 million. In addition, the program will also get assistance from the government of Gianyar as much as IDR 250 million. “Thus, there is a fund of IDR 500 million for the construction of the self-managed waterworks,” he said.

He added that the management system will be entrusted to Madangan Kaja custom-ary village because the spring is located in the territory of local customary village. All hamlets at Petak village are targeted to get the water connection gradually. “Now, the installation project has reached 70 percent of completion. At least, this December the connection will have been able to drain off water to each home,” he said.

At first stage, the water connection will serve residents at three hamlets, namely Madangan Kaja, Madangan Kelod and Uma Anyar. Over time, he will continue to find the ways to meet the capital for the installa-tion of pipelines throughout the hamlet.

He explained that the self-managed waterworks is not intended to compete against the PDAM. However, it is just to accommodate the complaints of residents all this time due to limited coverage service of the PDAM. “We recognize the needs of residents to clean water services are very urgent,” he concluded. (kmb35)

The Head of the Bangli Livestock and Fishery Agency, I Wayan Sukartana, explained on Saturday (Oct. 31) that the elimination activities are almost touching the entire villages in Bangli.

For this October, a total of 890 dogs have been eliminated. This figure is much higher than in September reaching 283 heads. “The dogs eliminated in October are much more than in the previous month,” he said.

He delivered that high number of elim-ination is inseparable from increasing participation and community awareness of the rabies hazards. Implementation

of the elimination was not only carried out by the officials of the Livestock and Fishery Agency but also by village of-ficials such as pecalang or customary security guard. “The elimination is also assisted by village officials and Babin-sa—non-commissioned military officer,” he explained.

Further, Sukartana stated that people’s participation is needed to fight rabies vi-rus because the number of officers owned is very limited. Definitely this condition will make the coverage narrower. At the end, the opportunities of wild dogs to escape from elimination become higher.

“Our officers are very limited. Thus, we need people’s participation,” he said.

He also mentioned that the implemen-tation of elimination is also responding to the demand from the public. “Some activities are also carried out to follow up public request,” he said.

Besides, he also added that rabies positive cases in October also decreased. It only amounts to one head, while in September amounted to four heads. “The case of rabies positive dogs also goes down,” he said.

Population of stray dogs, said Sukar-tana, still amounts to hundreds of heads. To suppress this number, the elimination in the border area is intensively con-ducted. “We do elimination in the border area to anticipate the entry of wild dogs from outside the region,” he concluded. (kmb45)

Disappointed with PDAM, Petak village establishes self-managed waterworks

A total of 890 dogs eliminated in October

BANGLI - Rabies cases continue to overshadow a number of regions in Bali. One of them is Bangli. On average positive rabies dog is found every month. This condition makes people worried. In anticipation of this, elimi-nation activities continue to be encouraged. In this October, hundreds of dogs are eliminated.

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Dog elimination is done to prevent the spread of rabies.

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PARIS - A flood of cheap money is financing the big-gest boom in mega-mergers and takeovers since the 2008 global financial crisis.

But analysts warn that hastily arranged corporate mar-riages that seem blissful in good financial times can end in tears, and considerable debts.

Companies have already struck 45 mergers and ac-quisitions with a value exceeding $10 billion (9 billion euros) each in the first nine months of the year, according to data provider Dealogic.

The mergers amount to a total of $1.2 trillion -- up 89 percent from the same period last year.

In the latest example, US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the Viagra maker, this week announced its intention to buy Allergan, which makes Botox, and has a market value of more than $110 billion.

The return of the big merger started in the United States and moved to Europe in 2014, said Tangi Le Liboux, analyst at Paris-based financial consultants Aurel BGC.

“There is an enormous amount of cash available and interest rates are extremely low with loans available on good terms,” he said.

“External growth can be an easy option but for big structures it can also carry risks,” said Le Liboux.

It is difficult to “marry cultures”, however, he said, evoking the merger now underway between Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent.

In the 2000s, the AOL-Time Warner merger, which was agreed during the dot-com bubble but eventually unravelled, stands out as perhaps the worst merger in corporate history, in part because of a clash between the two companies’ cultures that was never successfully resolved.

But the availability of easy money is tempting to com-pany chiefs who want to buy growth instead of generating it from their existing business, especially in a period of moderate economic growth.

“With lower inflation, it’s very hard for companies to grow organically,” said Philip Whitchelo, vice president for strategy and product marketing at Intralinks, a busi-ness networks specialist that tracks merger and acquisi-tion activity.

Near-zero inflation can depress revenues, he added. “Large companies rely on acquisitions and geographic expansion to achieve growth.”

In the beer sector, Anheuser-Busch InBev, the giant behind top lager brands like Beck’s, Budweiser and Stella Artois, is seeking to swallow rival SABMiller in a deal worth more than $120 billion when debt is included.

One of the driving forces behind InBev’s bid is the chance to get access to some of the world’s fastest grow-ing markets, including Africa where SABMiller has roots dating back to the Johannesburg gold rush of the late 19th century.

The wave of mergers is moving back towards advanced economies after a slowdown in emerging markets, said Herve Jauffret, an analyst at audit and services group Ernst and Young who has just completed a study of the trend.

“Investor appetite is coming back for the mature econo-mies: the United States, Germany, England,” he said.

In France, the king of the merger is billionaire Patrick Drahi, founder of the telecommunications group Altice who has spent nearly $30 billion in a few months to acquire US cable operators Suddenlink in May and then Cablevision in September. (afp)

The Federal Reserve’s proposal put forward Friday means the mega-banks would have to bulk up their capacity to absorb financial shocks by issuing equity or long-term debt equal to pre-scribed portions of total bank assets.

The idea is that the cost of a huge bank’s failure would fall on investors in the bank’s equity or debt, not on taxpay-ers. The Fed governors led by Chair Ja-net Yellen voted 5-0 at a public meeting to propose the so-called “loss-absorbing capacity” requirements for the banks, which include JPMorgan Chase, Citi-group and Bank of America.

The eight banks would have to is-sue a total of about $120 billion in new long-term debt to meet the require-ments of the proposal, the Fed staff estimates.

If formally adopted, most of the requirements wouldn’t take effect un-til 2019, and the remainder not until

2022.The new cushions would come atop

rules adopted by the Fed in July for the eight banks to shore up their financial bases with about $200 billion in addi-tional capital — over and above capital requirements for the industry. And they would be in addition to 2014 rules directing all large U.S. banks to keep enough high-quality assets on hand to survive during a severe downturn.

Combined with the regulators’ previous actions, the new proposal “would substantially reduce the risk to taxpayers and the threat to financial stability stemming from the failure of these (banks),” Yellen said at the start of the meeting.

Stricter capital requirements for banks were mandated by Congress after the financial crisis, which struck in 2008 and set off the worst economic down-turn since the Great Depression. Hun-

dreds of U.S. banks received taxpayer bailouts totaling hundreds of billions of dollars during the crisis, including the eight Wall Street mega-banks that became known as “too big to fail” in Washington.

The previously adopted capital and liquidity rules are the “belt” designed to reduce the likelihood of big banks fail-ing, while the new proposal for transfer-ring potential losses to investors is the “suspenders” in case banks do fail, said Oliver Ireland, an attorney specializing in banking law at Morrison & Foerster who was an associate general counsel at the Fed.

Investors will know that if a bank fails, “they will be on the hook” and likely won’t recover the full amount they put in, Ireland said. Higher inter-est rates paid by banks on the debt they issued beforehand would compensate for the investors’ risk.

The other banks subject to the re-quirements are Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon and State Street Bank. (ap)

Cheap money fuels mega-merger boom

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, left, and Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer listen to a presentation dur-ing a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, in Washington.

Fed looks at way to shift big-bank losses to investors

WASHINGTON — In their latest bid to reduce the chances of fu-ture taxpayer bailouts, federal regulators are proposing that the eight biggest U.S. banks build new cushions against losses that would shift the burden to investors.

SEMARAPURA - Government of Klungkung makes cooperation to organize English language training for job seekers in Klungkung. The training aims to give brief-ing to people looking for job opportunities so that they can compete in the job market. In addition, the English language training also aims to support the tourism sector in Klungkung.

Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Su-wirta, said that the increasing development of tourist accommodation in Klungkung must be responded by providing a briefing to surrounding communities so that they can engage in tourism sector. “This training can support the community to get involved in tourism sector so as not only to become a spectator at their village,” said Regent Suwirta, Friday (Oct. 30).

The language training will be conducted more intensively to empower human resources in Klungkung in the era of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). “Human resource competitiveness is the

key to win the competition in the global era,” he explained. On the other hand, the tourism development in Klungkung does not just rely on natural potential but also local arts and culture must also be high-lighted.

The Head of the Klungkung Manpower Agency, I.B. Anom Adnyana, said that about 80 applicants have registered for the training. However, due to limited budget, only 20 participants can be approved. The training will take place for 21 days starting from October 30 to November 19, 2015.

A total of eight instructors and speakers will handle the training. The participants mostly graduated from high school and only a few from tourism vocational schools. See-ing the high interest of the people to attend the training, the government of Klungkung will seek to increase the training. Opening ceremony of the training is filled in with the distribution of stationery and training materials to participants by representative of Regent Suwirta. (dwa)

The magnificent museum has been closed since the past few months. The closure is marked off with the installation of sign board

saying ‘museum closed’ right at the entrance gates. Though having been closed, a number of government agencies still often held activities

in one of the meeting rooms of the museum.

The Head of the Batur Volcano Museum, Desak Made Andriani, when contacted by Bali Post re-cently for several times is not willing to give any comment. She always dodges when asked about the reason why the Batur Volcano Museum is closed all this time.

An employee of the museum,

Dewa Ariana, when met at the museum on Friday (Oct. 30) said that the Batur Volcano Museum has been closed for nearly four months. It is only closed for a while. He said the museum will be opened after the new museum building has been inaugurated by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. “We’re still waiting for the inauguration,” he said. Unfor-

tunately, he did not mention for sure when the museum building will be inaugurated.

He said that even though all this time the Batur Volcano Museum is closed to tourists, the museum spreading across the area of one hectare, he admitted, have been often used to hold meeting activi-ties by the government of Bangli. (kmb40)

Job seekers equipped with English language mastery

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The Regent of Klungkung I Nyoman Suwirta, right, talk to the particpants of the english course.

The Batur Volcano Museum

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Batur Volcano Museum closed for several months

BANGLI - The Batur Volcano Museum located in Kintamani has been closed since the past few months. It is unclear why the museum established in 2007 is closed. However, from explana-tion of one of the museum attendants, the museum is closed because it is still waiting for the inauguration of a new building by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

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It was a much-anticipated home-coming. Their house was one of thousands of dwellings that were reduced to rubble in the war. A push to reconstruct the battered coastal territory has been sluggish, relying on international funding pledges that have only partially been fulfilled.

But the al-Zazas’ move offers a rare glimmer of hope to the tens of thou-sands of Gazans who lost their homes in the war. The family’s place in Gaza City’s Shaaf neighborhood, one of the hardest-hit in the war, was among the first 170 completely destroyed homes that were approved for reconstruction under a U.N. mechanism.

“We are very happy ... it’s our home,” 50-year-old Atef al-Zaza, the family patriarch, told The Associated Press in his barely furnished new liv-ing room. “Our life is getting back to its pre-war normality.”

About half a million people were displaced at the height of the 50-day conflict and 100,000 were left home-less, according to the United Nations. Israeli airstrikes and shelling flattened entire areas, leaving piles of concrete and debris. More than 2,200 Palestin-ians were killed, the majority of them civilians, according to U.N. figures. On the Israeli side, 73 people were killed, most of them soldiers.

Many of the displaced Gazans fled to U.N. facilities serving as makeshift

shelters or moved in with relatives elsewhere in the strip. After the war, some opted to return to their shelled-out and damaged homes, leaving about 17,000 still displaced 14 months after hostilities ended.

The U.N. says some 18,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged in the war. Mufeed al-Hasayneh, the Palestinian Minister of Public Works, said that of the 130,000 houses that sustained minor and moderate dam-age, most have been repaired, while others still await funding from donor pledges.

At a conference held in Cairo shortly after the war, international donors pledged $2.7 billion to rebuild Gaza, but more than a year later, only a third of the sum has been received, al-Hasayneh said.

“We only ask for the money that was promised at the conference. We don’t ask for more,” al-Hasayneh said.

The coastal territory is under an Is-raeli and Egyptian blockade that has for years limited the entry of goods, especially construction materials like cement or steel that Israel says Hamas uses to construct tunnels and other military infrastructure.

But under a U.N.-brokered mecha-nism supported by Israel and the Palestinian Authority, construction materials are allowed to enter Gaza

under strict monitoring to ensure they are not diverted to Hamas. COGAT, the Israeli defense body that handles civilian issues with the Palestinians, said up to 850 truckloads of materi-als, including building supplies, cur-rently cross into Gaza every day. Israel imposed the blockade in 2007 after Hamas seized control of the territory.

A rift between Hamas, which rules Gaza, and the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who governs the West Bank, has also bogged down reconstruction efforts.

Still, some progress has been made. Qatar is rebuilding 1,000 housing units and Kuwait is expected to fund the rebuilding of a similar number of houses soon. Saudi Arabia promised to pay for the rebuilding of another 800 units, al-Hasayneh said.

In the Shaaf neighborhood, work-ers were busy this week building the frames of other homes being reconstructed. The beige- and peach-painted walls of the new al-Zaza home stand out amid the surrounding gray rubble.

During the war, most Shaaf resi-dents fled because of heavy Israeli artillery and tank shelling. Al-Zaza left his four-floor house where he had lived in with his wife, 12 children and brothers since 1986, and moved in with a daughter. (ap)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — There is no evidence that last month’s explosion aboard the Maldivian president’s boat was caused by a bomb, the FBI said, contradicting govern-ment allegations that have led to the arrest of the country’s vice president and deepened the turmoil in the Indian Ocean archipelago.

The Maldives’ government has accused Vice President Ahmed Adeeb of plotting to assassinate President Yameen Abdul Gayoom on Sept. 28. He escaped unhurt because he wasn’t sitting in his usual seat on the boat, the government has said. His wife, an aide and a bodyguard were injured.

The FBI said in a statement Saturday that the “submitted specimens were determined to be components from the boat and not the components of an improvised explosive device.”

“Based on the FBI’s analy-sis —which included forensic analysis of the scene, analysis of the items recovered from the scene, and chemical testing — there is no conclusive evidence to attribute the explosion on the boat to an IED,” it added.

Following the blast, the Mal-dives sought assistance from the FBI, as well as investigators from Sri Lanka, India, Australia and Saudi Arabia.

Home Minister Umar Nazeer has said that the investigation by Sri Lankan experts found that the explosion was caused by a device that was small and designed not to kill everyone on board. According to Nazeer, it was meant to kill or incapacitate the president. Nazeer did not say anything about the type of explosive device or how it was detonated. He did not answer phone calls seeking comment on Saturday and Sunday.

Nazeer seemed to have con-tradicted the FBI statement, writing on his Twitter account that “FBI examiners did not conclude that there was no IED in the blast: they did not rule out an IED” on the boat. Investigators from India, Aus-tralia and Saudi Arabia have not yet released the results of their probes.

The explosion took place as Gayoom and his wife were returning to the capital from the airport, which is on a separate island. (ap)

AP Photo/Adel Hana

In this Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 photo, Palestinians work on rebuilding a house which was destroyed during the last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza City. The four story house belonging to al-Zaza family is being rebuilt ad part of the family has moved in into renovated ground floor apartment.

Gaza family is first to return to rebuilt home after war

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The al-Zazas have much to celebrate these days, after return-ing a few weeks ago to their neighborhood in the Gaza Strip — the first Palestinian family to move back into a completely rebuilt home since last year’s war between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas.

FBI: No evidence bomb caused blast on Maldives leader’s boat

Indonesian Presi-dent Joko Widodo inspects a newly-

built canal to prevent peatland fires in

Pulang Pisau, east of Palangkaraya,

Central Kalimantan October 31, 2015. President Widodo

this week cut short an official trip to the United States due to a haze crisis caused by raging peat fires

in the Southeast Asian country. The fires, often deliber-ately set by planta-

tion companies and smallholders, have

been burning for weeks in the forests

and carbon-rich peat lands of Sumatra

and Kalimantan islands.

“The short-visit free visa facil-ity is an additional point to enhance Indonesia’s selling pitch in the world market,” the Tourism Minister said in Medan, North Sumatra, on Sat-urday.

The minister was speaking at an interactive dialog on tourism with tourism industry operators and North Sumatra Acting Governor Erry Nuradi.

The short-visit free visa facility will also help bring more foreign tourists to the country.

Minister Yahya said the confi-dence that the free visa facility would increase the number of foreign tour-ists was based on the result of the first phase of the granting of the free visa facility to 30 countries. The number of foreign tourists coming from these countries is on the rise.

Foreign tourists coming from the 30 recipient countries increased by 4.27 percent in the June-July 2015 period from that in the June - July

2014 period.Till August, the number of foreign

tourist arrivals in Indonesia stood at 6.3 million, exceeding the mid-year target at 6.15 million

Thus, the government is optimistic that it will achieve or even exceed its target, set at 10 million foreign tourist arrivals this year.

Minister Yahya said the govern-ment has set a target of 12 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2016.

Earlier, he had said that his min-istry was teaming up with private parties to achieve the target of 10 million tourist arrivals in 2015.

“One of the efforts we are making is teaming up with private parties to bring foreign tourists to the country,” Yahya said.

The move is in line with the gov-ernment’s aim to make the tourism sector the main engine of economic growth amid the global economic slowdown, he said.

The minister said he supported

the activities carried out by Herb-alife International to hold Future Millionaire Team Retreat in Bali from 15 October to 18 October. The event brought together more than 2,000 participants from Asia and the Pacific.

The government has set the target of tourist arrivals for this year at 10 million.

By August 2015, the number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia reached about 6.3 million, up by 2.71 percent from the same period of last year.

The other step taken by the gov-ernment to increase the number of tourist arrivals is providing tourists from 90 countries a visa-free facility for a short-term visit.

“The tourism sector, which con-tributed Rp140 trillion, is the fifth biggest foreign exchange earner. We expect the tourism sector to contribute Rp240 trillion to the state revenues in 2019,” he said. (ant)

JAKARTA - The increased realization of investment in three prior-ity sectors in the third quarter of 2015 has helped prepare Indonesia even more to face the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the investment board chief has said.

The three sectors are export-oriented industry, import substitution industry and mineral resources downstream businesses.

“The increase in the realization of investment in the three sectors underlines the government’s efforts to boost the competitiveness of our industry and our export-oriented efforts. This will support the readiness of Indonesia to face the AEC and other free trade agree-ments,” Franky Sibarani, the head of the Capital Investment Coor-dinating Board (BKPM), said on Saturday.

He said that based on the BKPM data, the value of investment in the export-oriented industry in the January-September 2015 period totaled Rp25.7 trillion, up 10.4 percent compared to the level achieved in the same period in the previous year.

Investment in the import substitution industry in the January-September 2015 period was recorded at Rp34.5 trillion, up 15.9 percent from that in the corresponding period a year earlier.

In the downstream industry of the mineral resource sector, invest-ment was recorded at 33.2 trillion, showing an increase of 66.8 percent as compared to that in the corresponding period last year.

According to Franky, the implementation of the AEC was now star-ing us in the face and it is an issue that should be given attention.

“One thing that should be given attention to is that we should not allow ourselves to become a big market for products of other coun-tries. We should be able to take advantage of the export opportunities which will become bigger and bigger when the market opens up,” Franky said. (ant)

Free visa facility raises Indonesia’s sale value

MEDAN - Indonesia sells itself better by offering a short-visit free visa facility to foreign tourists from 90 countries, Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said.

Increasing investment prepares Indonesia to face AEC

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

“The black box was recovered from the tail of the plane and has been sent to be analysed by experts,” the office of Prime Minister Sharif Ismail said, adding that rescuers had recovered 129 bodies from the site of the crash.

Ismail later told a press conference that experts will “start examining the information in the black box, and based on this we will study the causes of the crash”.

The Islamic State (IS) group affiliate in Egypt claimed it downed the plane, but without saying how.

And Ismail expressed scepticism when asked about the claim.

“Experts have affirmed that technically planes at this altitude cannot be shot down, and the black box will be the one that will reveal the reasons for the crash,” he was quoted by state news agency MENA as saying.

In Moscow, Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov too said the IS claim “cannot be considered accurate”, adding that authorities in Egypt “have no such information that would confirm such insinuations”.

A senior Egyptian aviation official said the plane was a charter flight operated by a Russian firm, and was flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet when communication was lost.

A senior Egyptian air traffic control official said the pilot told him in their last communication that he was having trouble with the radio system.

The plane with 214 Russian and three Ukranian passengers, and seven crew, had taken off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in the south Sinai bound for Saint Petersburg. It lost contact with air traffic control 23 minutes later.

The wreckage was found roughly 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of the North Sinai town of El-Arish, Egyptian officials said. (afp)

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SINGARAJA - Les waterfall is located in Les village, 38 kilometer south to Singaraja, in the north Bali. The waterfall is overlooking green hills and untouched nature. The height is about 30 meters.

In addition, Les Village is also famous for its very amazing beach

with its magnificent underwater world view.

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

The best way to reach Les is by rented or private car or motorcycle,

so visitors can stop where they want to take photos.

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

outside Pura Puncak Panulisan, a temple.

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

After crossing the river, a simi-lar footpath leads to the waterfall.

The 30-meter-high waterfall

has a perfect slope so the water from the river jumps from one rock to another before eventually hitting the bottom of the land more gently.

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

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Les Waterfall

Elsewhere, Carmelo Anthony led New York past Washington in the Wizards’ home opener, Mike Connley led Memphis past Brooklyn and Utah dominated the second half to defeat Indiana. Curry wound up shooting 17 of 27 from the field, including 8 of 14 from 3-point range, to go with nine assists and four steals. Five of his 3s were from between 27 and 31 feet.

Draymond Green added 21 points for de-fending champion Golden State, which has won its first three games this season.

Anthony Davis had 26 points, 15 rebounds and two blocks for the injury-depleted Peli-cans, who have lost their first three games under new coach Alvin Gentry. New York’s Anthony scored 37 points as the Knicks won 117-110 at Washington.

Anthony hit a jumper with 1:35 to play to give New York a 108-106 lead, and sank two free throws with 20.4 seconds left for a 113-110 lead. Bradley Beal had 22 of his 26 points in the second half for Washington.

Memphis won 101-91 at home against Brooklyn, with Conley scoring 22 points, including 10 straight in the fourth quarter, and adding eight assists.

Conley, who was 7 of 12 from the field, including 4 of 7 from outside the arc, held off the Nets who came from 16 points down with 7:42 left to get within eight. Zach Randolph and Courtney Lee scored 15 points each for Memphis while Jarrett Jack finished with 15

for the Nets, who have lost all three games this season.

Utah outscored Indiana by 28 points in the second half to cruise to 97-76 road win. The Pacers led for almost the entire first half, but tables turned in the third quarter when Utah outscored Indiana 28-12 after trailing by seven at halftime. The Jazz (2-1) led by nine points at the end of the third quarter and pulled away in the fourth.

Derrick Favors scored 18 points for Utah. George Hill scored 17 points for the Pacers, who have given up third-quarter leads and conceded a total of 189 points in the second half across its three games this season. Los Angeles’ Blake Griffin had 37 points, nine rebounds and six assists to lead the Clippers past Sacramento 114-109.

Phoenix’s Eric Bledsoe scored 33 points, one shy of his career high, to lead the Suns past Portland for the second straight night, winning 101-90. (ap)

BASEL - Rafael Nadal reached the final of the Swiss Indoor tourna-ment when he beat Frenchman Rich-ard Gasquet 6-4 7-6(7) on Saturday, a result that was good news for fel-low Spaniard David Ferrer.

Gasquet could still have denied Ferrer a place in the ATP World Tour Finals next month, but his defeat means Ferrer, along with Japan’s Kei Nishikori, complete the eight-man line-up for the season-

ending showpiece.Nadal was a break down in the

opening set but hit back from 2-4 to win four consecutive games. He also trailed 6-4 in the second-set tiebreak before reeling off the last four points.

Standing in the way of Nadal in his 98th career final will be top seed and home favourite Roger Federer who beat American Jack Sock 6-3 6-4 in little over an hour. Federer is looking for a seventh title in his home city.

Ferrer and Nishikori join three-times defending champion and 2008 winner Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, six-times former winner Federer, Stan Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych and Nadal in Lon-don. (rtr)

Curry scores 28 in a quarter as Warriors beat Pelicans

NEW ORLEANS — Golden State’s Stephen Curry scored 53 points, includ-ing a career-high 28 in the third quarter, to lead the Warriors to a 134-120 win at New Orleans on Saturday. Curry alone outscored the Pelicans by two points in the third period, in a performance which turned the game, giving the War-riors a 105-91 lead.

AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Nadal in Basel final, sends Ferrer to London year-ender

REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts after winning his semi-final match against France’e Rich-ard Gasquet at the Swiss Indoors ATP men’s tennis tournament in Basel, Swit-zerland, October 31, 2015.

Golden State Warriors guard Ste-phen Curry (30) drives to the basket between New Orleans Pelicans for-

ward Anthony Davis (23) and center Omer Asik (3) in the second half of

an NBA basketball game in New Or-leans, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. The

Warriors won 134-120.

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The Spanish powerhouses have 24 points each from 10 rounds, with Madrid ahead on goal difference. Celta Vigo jumped to third place with a late 3-2 win at Real Socie-dad, while fourth-placed Atletico Madrid dropped four points behind the leaders after being held to a 1-1 home draw by Deportivo La Coruna at the Vicente Calderon Stadium on Friday.

At the Santiago Bernabeu, Fran-cisco “Isco” Alarcon put the hosts ahead just four minutes into the match after a perfect through ball by Casemiro, and Ronaldo added to the lead 10 minutes later with a diving header from a cross by Marcelo. Jese Rodriguez closed the scoring before halftime with a well-struck right-footed shot from inside the area in the 43rd.

Recently promoted Las Palmas scored with Hernan Santana’s header off a 38th-minute corner. Barcelona earned its third straight victory with goals by Suarez in the 37th and Neymar in the 58th. Sergi Roberto, returning from injury, set up both goals at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez in Madrid.

“We played very intelligently, always looking for solutions to find the spaces,” said Suarez, who scored his eighth league goal.

It was also the third consecutive victory for Real Madrid, which remained without some of its top players because of injuries. Among the players sidelined were goalkeeper Keylor Navas, defender Sergio Ra-mos, playmaker James Rodriguez and forwards Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale.

Rafa Benitez’s team got off to a quick start with Isco firing a shot into the far corner after a well-timed pass by Brazilian defensive midfielder Casemiro. Captain Marcelo set up Ronaldo’s firm header from near the penalty spot, and Rodriguez cleared a defender inside the area before striking a low shot into the back of

the net.It was Ronaldo’s eighth league

goal and 13th in as many matches this season. The Portuguese striker now has 234 in the league, tied with former Madrid striker Hugo Sanchez. Ronaldo had a great chance to add another goal on Saturday in second-half injury time, but his shot from just in front of the goal was blocked by Las Palmas goalkeeper Javi Varas.

“Again we had a sensational start, we played very well in the first half,” Benitez said. “We tried t o maintain the s a m e i n t e n s i t y i n t h e second half but unfor-tunately we we re no t able to do it and we could not get an- other goal.” Las Palmas remains with only one vic- tory this season and has lost four of its last five games.

It was the first time Madrid faced the Canary Islands team since striker Fernando Morientes scored five goals in a 7-0 win at the Bernabeu in 2002. Madrid had outscored Las Palmas 17-1 in the last three games enter-ing Saturday’s matchup. Real Madrid has never lost to Las Palmas at the Bernabeu, having won 28 times and drawn four.

T h e S p a n i s h powerhouse now turns its focus to the Champions League match against Paris Saint-Ger- m a i n on Tues- d a y i n Madrid. The teams l e a d Group A in t h e European com-

petition.In other Span-

ish league

results Sat-urday, fifth-

place Villarreal de-feated Sevilla 2-1, while

sixth-place Valencia beat city rival Levante 3-0. (ap)

LONDON - Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho’s said he expected to be given time to turn around the defending English champions’ dreadful start to the season after a 3-1 home loss to Liverpool on Saturday.

With rumours of emergency news confer-ences spreading like wildfire, Mourinho remained tight-lipped about his future but asked by a reporter if he expected to be dismissed, the three-times Premier League winning coach said: “No, I don’t.”

When another reporter asked if he thought Mourinho would be given the chance to fix Chelsea’s alarming slump to just above the relegation zone, the Portuguese coach simply said: “Yes”.

Mourinho is mired in the worst run of his glittering career as a top manager which includes two Eng-lish league titles in his first stint with Chelsea and a third one last year, when the London side won the league by eight points.

Chelsea fans chanted his name througout Saturday’s game. But they have now suffered s ix defeats in 11 Premier League games and have conceded 22 goals, a startling slump from the 32 goals they let in last season as a whole.

Mourinho was given public backing by owner Roman Abra-movich this month, but since then the team’s form has not improved. A spokesman for the club denied speculation on so-cial media that Chelsea would hold a special news conference later.

Chelsea looked like they might banish some of the blues when they went ahead in the fourth minute with Brazil midfielder Ramires heading in from a cross by Cesar Azpilicueta. But the game swung Liv-erpool’s way with two goals from Philippe Coutinho. Substitute Christian Benteke added the third in the 83rd minute.

M o u r i n h o declined to re-

spond directly to questions about whether Liver-pool midfielder Lucas, who had already been

booked, should have been shown a second yellow card by referee Mark Clattenburg for tripping Ramires who was bursting forward

with the scores level at 1-1.Mourinho was given a heavy fine and a sus-

pended one-match stadium ban for criticising refereeing decisions earlier in the season and he was banished to the stands in Chelsea’s previous

game, a defeat at West Ham. He did, though, appear to allude to the Lucas incident in a post-match news conference.

“Everything is a consequence of some crucial moments, moments that the stadium saw,” he said. “The players more than see, they felt it and from now what happens is

just a consequence.”

MORE CHANGES, SAME BAD RUN

In his search for a way to stem Chelsea’s slide, Mourinho

made fresh changes to his starting 11, dropping mid-

fielders Cesc Fabregas and Nemanja Matic to

the bench . Winger Eden Hazard played in a central role and Brazil’s Oscar re-turned to the side for the first time in the league in almost

a month.But Liverpool recov-

ered from their shaky start to dominate possession. As Mourinho gambled by bringing on Brazilian Kenedy, Fabregas and Radamel Falcao as attack-minded substi-tutes, the Reds punished Chelsea with counter-attacks.

Mourinho said his focus was on Chelsea’s Champions League Group G home encounter with Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday, once he had taken the time to digest Saturday’s defeat.

“I will go home and find a sad family,” he said. “I will try to watch a little of the rugby (World Cup final) and discon-nect a little bit from this and then I will start preparing the training sessions for tomorrow morning and the game Wednesday. (rtr)

Inter Milan beat AS Roma 1-0 to replace them atop Serie A thanks to a Gary Medel strike while Juventus returned to winning ways with a last-gasp Juan Cuadrado goal securing a 2-1 triumph over local rivals Torino on Saturday.

Stevan Jovetic set up Medel who hit a low drive from outside the area after 31 minutes to give Inter the lead.

Roma’s Mohamed Salah and Edin Dzeko missed chances and the visitors’ miserable night continued when Miralem Pjanic handled

after 73 minutes and was dismissed for a second yellow card.The defeat ended Roma’s five-game winning streak, leav-ing them in second place on 23 points, one behind Inter who

recorded their seventh clean sheet of the campaign.“A team is like a house, if you don’t have solid foundations, it will sink,” Inter coach Roberto

Mancini told Sky Sport Italia. “We had a great game against an excellent Roma side, so 1-0

was a good result.”Juven- tus hosted Torino in the

Turin derby hoping to avert further crisis follow- ing last week’s defeat by Sassuolo, the champions’ fourth loss of the season.

Paul Pogba opened the scoring afteer 19 minutes when he gathered a Cuadrado pass in his stride and flicked the ball up before slamming a half-volley past Daniele Padelli. Torino equalised in the 51st when Cesare Bovo fired his free kick right at team mate Daniele Baselli, only to slam the rebound into the roof of Gianluigi Buffon’s net.

The winner came in the second minute of stoppage time when Alex Sandro crossed for Cuadrado who slid in ahead of Bruno Peres to

s c o r e from close range.“ We have to continue to show this will and this win

s h o u l d give us the motivation to believe in the Scu-detto until the end,” Cuadrado told Mediaset, “From n o w o n , every game will be a final.”

J u v e moved above Torino into 10th place, with G iampie ro Ventura’s side dropping to 11 also on 15 points.

Wins on Sun- day for third-placed Napoli and Fioren-tina in fourth, with the former visiting Genoa and the latter hosting Frosi- none, would see both move level on points with Inter. (rtr)

FRANKFURT, Germany — Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored one goal and set up two despite being hit by an object thrown from the stands before the match to help Borussia Dortmund win 3-1 at Werder Bre-men in the Bundesliga on Saturday. The Armenia midfielder was not hurt in the incident, which happened after the warm-up ahead of the match. The perpetrator was apprehended and taken out of the stadium. The object appeared to be crumpled cardboard.

Marco Reus scored twice as Dort-mund used the opportunity to reduce Bayern Munich’s lead to five points following the defending champion’s 0-0 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday. Bayern dropped its first points after opening the season with 10 consecutive wins.

Borussia Moenchengladbach earned its sixth straight Bundesliga victory under interim coach Andre Schubert by winning 4-1 at Hertha Berlin. Schubert became the first Moenchengladbach coach to start his tenure with six league wins, while Berlin fell to its first home defeat of the season.

Oscar Wendt, Raffael, Granit Xhaka from a penalty and Harvard Nordveit scored for Moenchengla-dbach to strengthen Schubert’s case for a permanent job. Alexander Baumjohann converted a penalty for Berlin. In other matches, Yoshinori Muto scored a hat trick as Mainz settled for a 3-3 draw at last-place Augsburg despite leading 2-0; Hoffenheim drew 0-0 at Cologne un-der new coach Huub Stevenes; and Schalke salvaged a 1-1 draw with promoted Ingolstadt on a late goal by Leroy Sane. In the late match, Wolfsburg beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 to push past Schalke into third place, 10 points behind Bayern.

Leverkusen benefited from a

wrong call, when Nicklas Bendtner scored in the 34th after an offside. The referee overruled the linesman, who had raised his flag. Replays showed that the ball had been played by Andre Schuerrle and not Leverkusen’s Kevin Kampl before it reached Vieirinha, who was offside as he passed to Bendtner.

Leverkusen equalized six minutes later through Javier “Cicharito” Her-nandez, who headed in from close range from a cross by Christoph Kramer.

The winner came from Julian Draxler in the 77th. Bernd Leno could not hold onto a shot by Ri-cardo Rodriguez, Bas Dost squared the rebound for Draxler to knock in from close range, Draxler and Dost had come off the bench four minutes earlier. In Bremen, Reus used a good pass from Mkhitaryan to score nine minutes into the match, before Anthony Ujah pulled level for Bremen with his fourth goal in three matches.

But Mkhitaryan put Dortmund ahead again by connecting at the far post with a cross from Mats Hummels for a good header before the break and Reus completed Dortmund’s third straight victory in the 72nd.

In Augsburg, the home side battled back from a two-goal deficit to turn the match on goals from Paul Verhaegh’s penalty, former Mainz player Koo Ja-Cheolo and Raul Bobadilla in the 82nd. But Muto grabbed the equalizer for his third goal in the third minute of stoppage time.

Sane struck in the 77th minute to cancel out Tobias Levels’ first-half goal as Schalke struggled against Ingolstadt following two straight defeats to Moenchengladbach — in the Bundesliga and in the German Cup. (ap)

BIRMINGHAM, England — Leicester scored three goals in 20 minutes to beat West Bromwich Albion 3-2 Saturday, with England striker Jamie Vardy netting in his eighth straight Premier League game.

Vardy is two games away from

matching Ruud van Nistelrooy’s re-cord set in 2003 and is the league’s top scorer with 11 goals in 11 matches.

Riyad Mahrez had already scored in the 57th and 64th minutes as the visitors remained unbeaten on the road. Vardy added a third in the 77th.

Salomon Rondon’s second goal in two games put the Baggies ahead at The Hawthorns after half an hour but they missed the chance to record three successive wins for the first time since 2012. Rickie Lambert scored his first goal for Albion from the penalty spot late on. (ap)

AP Photo/Francisco Seco

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ron-aldo celebrates after scor-

ing his team’s second goal against Las Palmas during the Spanish La Liga soccer match

between Real Madrid and Las Palmas at the Santiago

Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015.

Real Madrid beats Las Palmas 3-1, stays top in Spain

MADRID — Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 13th goal of the season as Real Madrid defeated Las Palmas 3-1 Saturday to remain top of the Spanish league. Barcelona kept pace by defeating Getafe 2-0 thanks to Neymar’s league-leading ninth goal and Luis Suarez’s 300th career goal.

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

Juventus’ Juan Cuadrado (R) celebrates dancing with his team mate Paul Pogba after scoring against Torino during their Italian Serie A soccer match at Juventus Stadium in Turin, October 31, 2015.

Inter beat Roma to take top spot, Juve down Torino

Vardy scores in 8th straight Premier League game

Mourinho says he does not expect sack at Chelsea AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach

Dortmund’s Marco Reus, right, hugs teammate Henrikh Mkhi-taryan after the German Bundesliga soccer match between Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund in Bremen, Germany, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015.

Dortmund wins 3-1 in Bremen, cuts Bayern’s Bundesliga lead

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The Spanish powerhouses have 24 points each from 10 rounds, with Madrid ahead on goal difference. Celta Vigo jumped to third place with a late 3-2 win at Real Socie-dad, while fourth-placed Atletico Madrid dropped four points behind the leaders after being held to a 1-1 home draw by Deportivo La Coruna at the Vicente Calderon Stadium on Friday.

At the Santiago Bernabeu, Fran-cisco “Isco” Alarcon put the hosts ahead just four minutes into the match after a perfect through ball by Casemiro, and Ronaldo added to the lead 10 minutes later with a diving header from a cross by Marcelo. Jese Rodriguez closed the scoring before halftime with a well-struck right-footed shot from inside the area in the 43rd.

Recently promoted Las Palmas scored with Hernan Santana’s header off a 38th-minute corner. Barcelona earned its third straight victory with goals by Suarez in the 37th and Neymar in the 58th. Sergi Roberto, returning from injury, set up both goals at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez in Madrid.

“We played very intelligently, always looking for solutions to find the spaces,” said Suarez, who scored his eighth league goal.

It was also the third consecutive victory for Real Madrid, which remained without some of its top players because of injuries. Among the players sidelined were goalkeeper Keylor Navas, defender Sergio Ra-mos, playmaker James Rodriguez and forwards Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale.

Rafa Benitez’s team got off to a quick start with Isco firing a shot into the far corner after a well-timed pass by Brazilian defensive midfielder Casemiro. Captain Marcelo set up Ronaldo’s firm header from near the penalty spot, and Rodriguez cleared a defender inside the area before striking a low shot into the back of

the net.It was Ronaldo’s eighth league

goal and 13th in as many matches this season. The Portuguese striker now has 234 in the league, tied with former Madrid striker Hugo Sanchez. Ronaldo had a great chance to add another goal on Saturday in second-half injury time, but his shot from just in front of the goal was blocked by Las Palmas goalkeeper Javi Varas.

“Again we had a sensational start, we played very well in the first half,” Benitez said. “We tried t o maintain the s a m e i n t e n s i t y i n t h e second half but unfor-tunately we we re no t able to do it and we could not get an- other goal.” Las Palmas remains with only one vic- tory this season and has lost four of its last five games.

It was the first time Madrid faced the Canary Islands team since striker Fernando Morientes scored five goals in a 7-0 win at the Bernabeu in 2002. Madrid had outscored Las Palmas 17-1 in the last three games enter-ing Saturday’s matchup. Real Madrid has never lost to Las Palmas at the Bernabeu, having won 28 times and drawn four.

T h e S p a n i s h powerhouse now turns its focus to the Champions League match against Paris Saint-Ger- m a i n on Tues- d a y i n Madrid. The teams l e a d Group A in t h e European com-

petition.In other Span-

ish league

results Sat-urday, fifth-

place Villarreal de-feated Sevilla 2-1, while

sixth-place Valencia beat city rival Levante 3-0. (ap)

LONDON - Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho’s said he expected to be given time to turn around the defending English champions’ dreadful start to the season after a 3-1 home loss to Liverpool on Saturday.

With rumours of emergency news confer-ences spreading like wildfire, Mourinho remained tight-lipped about his future but asked by a reporter if he expected to be dismissed, the three-times Premier League winning coach said: “No, I don’t.”

When another reporter asked if he thought Mourinho would be given the chance to fix Chelsea’s alarming slump to just above the relegation zone, the Portuguese coach simply said: “Yes”.

Mourinho is mired in the worst run of his glittering career as a top manager which includes two Eng-lish league titles in his first stint with Chelsea and a third one last year, when the London side won the league by eight points.

Chelsea fans chanted his name througout Saturday’s game. But they have now suffered s ix defeats in 11 Premier League games and have conceded 22 goals, a startling slump from the 32 goals they let in last season as a whole.

Mourinho was given public backing by owner Roman Abra-movich this month, but since then the team’s form has not improved. A spokesman for the club denied speculation on so-cial media that Chelsea would hold a special news conference later.

Chelsea looked like they might banish some of the blues when they went ahead in the fourth minute with Brazil midfielder Ramires heading in from a cross by Cesar Azpilicueta. But the game swung Liv-erpool’s way with two goals from Philippe Coutinho. Substitute Christian Benteke added the third in the 83rd minute.

M o u r i n h o declined to re-

spond directly to questions about whether Liver-pool midfielder Lucas, who had already been

booked, should have been shown a second yellow card by referee Mark Clattenburg for tripping Ramires who was bursting forward

with the scores level at 1-1.Mourinho was given a heavy fine and a sus-

pended one-match stadium ban for criticising refereeing decisions earlier in the season and he was banished to the stands in Chelsea’s previous

game, a defeat at West Ham. He did, though, appear to allude to the Lucas incident in a post-match news conference.

“Everything is a consequence of some crucial moments, moments that the stadium saw,” he said. “The players more than see, they felt it and from now what happens is

just a consequence.”

MORE CHANGES, SAME BAD RUN

In his search for a way to stem Chelsea’s slide, Mourinho

made fresh changes to his starting 11, dropping mid-

fielders Cesc Fabregas and Nemanja Matic to

the bench . Winger Eden Hazard played in a central role and Brazil’s Oscar re-turned to the side for the first time in the league in almost

a month.But Liverpool recov-

ered from their shaky start to dominate possession. As Mourinho gambled by bringing on Brazilian Kenedy, Fabregas and Radamel Falcao as attack-minded substi-tutes, the Reds punished Chelsea with counter-attacks.

Mourinho said his focus was on Chelsea’s Champions League Group G home encounter with Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday, once he had taken the time to digest Saturday’s defeat.

“I will go home and find a sad family,” he said. “I will try to watch a little of the rugby (World Cup final) and discon-nect a little bit from this and then I will start preparing the training sessions for tomorrow morning and the game Wednesday. (rtr)

Inter Milan beat AS Roma 1-0 to replace them atop Serie A thanks to a Gary Medel strike while Juventus returned to winning ways with a last-gasp Juan Cuadrado goal securing a 2-1 triumph over local rivals Torino on Saturday.

Stevan Jovetic set up Medel who hit a low drive from outside the area after 31 minutes to give Inter the lead.

Roma’s Mohamed Salah and Edin Dzeko missed chances and the visitors’ miserable night continued when Miralem Pjanic handled

after 73 minutes and was dismissed for a second yellow card.The defeat ended Roma’s five-game winning streak, leav-ing them in second place on 23 points, one behind Inter who

recorded their seventh clean sheet of the campaign.“A team is like a house, if you don’t have solid foundations, it will sink,” Inter coach Roberto

Mancini told Sky Sport Italia. “We had a great game against an excellent Roma side, so 1-0

was a good result.”Juven- tus hosted Torino in the

Turin derby hoping to avert further crisis follow- ing last week’s defeat by Sassuolo, the champions’ fourth loss of the season.

Paul Pogba opened the scoring afteer 19 minutes when he gathered a Cuadrado pass in his stride and flicked the ball up before slamming a half-volley past Daniele Padelli. Torino equalised in the 51st when Cesare Bovo fired his free kick right at team mate Daniele Baselli, only to slam the rebound into the roof of Gianluigi Buffon’s net.

The winner came in the second minute of stoppage time when Alex Sandro crossed for Cuadrado who slid in ahead of Bruno Peres to

s c o r e from close range.“ We have to continue to show this will and this win

s h o u l d give us the motivation to believe in the Scu-detto until the end,” Cuadrado told Mediaset, “From n o w o n , every game will be a final.”

J u v e moved above Torino into 10th place, with G iampie ro Ventura’s side dropping to 11 also on 15 points.

Wins on Sun- day for third-placed Napoli and Fioren-tina in fourth, with the former visiting Genoa and the latter hosting Frosi- none, would see both move level on points with Inter. (rtr)

FRANKFURT, Germany — Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored one goal and set up two despite being hit by an object thrown from the stands before the match to help Borussia Dortmund win 3-1 at Werder Bre-men in the Bundesliga on Saturday. The Armenia midfielder was not hurt in the incident, which happened after the warm-up ahead of the match. The perpetrator was apprehended and taken out of the stadium. The object appeared to be crumpled cardboard.

Marco Reus scored twice as Dort-mund used the opportunity to reduce Bayern Munich’s lead to five points following the defending champion’s 0-0 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday. Bayern dropped its first points after opening the season with 10 consecutive wins.

Borussia Moenchengladbach earned its sixth straight Bundesliga victory under interim coach Andre Schubert by winning 4-1 at Hertha Berlin. Schubert became the first Moenchengladbach coach to start his tenure with six league wins, while Berlin fell to its first home defeat of the season.

Oscar Wendt, Raffael, Granit Xhaka from a penalty and Harvard Nordveit scored for Moenchengla-dbach to strengthen Schubert’s case for a permanent job. Alexander Baumjohann converted a penalty for Berlin. In other matches, Yoshinori Muto scored a hat trick as Mainz settled for a 3-3 draw at last-place Augsburg despite leading 2-0; Hoffenheim drew 0-0 at Cologne un-der new coach Huub Stevenes; and Schalke salvaged a 1-1 draw with promoted Ingolstadt on a late goal by Leroy Sane. In the late match, Wolfsburg beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 to push past Schalke into third place, 10 points behind Bayern.

Leverkusen benefited from a

wrong call, when Nicklas Bendtner scored in the 34th after an offside. The referee overruled the linesman, who had raised his flag. Replays showed that the ball had been played by Andre Schuerrle and not Leverkusen’s Kevin Kampl before it reached Vieirinha, who was offside as he passed to Bendtner.

Leverkusen equalized six minutes later through Javier “Cicharito” Her-nandez, who headed in from close range from a cross by Christoph Kramer.

The winner came from Julian Draxler in the 77th. Bernd Leno could not hold onto a shot by Ri-cardo Rodriguez, Bas Dost squared the rebound for Draxler to knock in from close range, Draxler and Dost had come off the bench four minutes earlier. In Bremen, Reus used a good pass from Mkhitaryan to score nine minutes into the match, before Anthony Ujah pulled level for Bremen with his fourth goal in three matches.

But Mkhitaryan put Dortmund ahead again by connecting at the far post with a cross from Mats Hummels for a good header before the break and Reus completed Dortmund’s third straight victory in the 72nd.

In Augsburg, the home side battled back from a two-goal deficit to turn the match on goals from Paul Verhaegh’s penalty, former Mainz player Koo Ja-Cheolo and Raul Bobadilla in the 82nd. But Muto grabbed the equalizer for his third goal in the third minute of stoppage time.

Sane struck in the 77th minute to cancel out Tobias Levels’ first-half goal as Schalke struggled against Ingolstadt following two straight defeats to Moenchengladbach — in the Bundesliga and in the German Cup. (ap)

BIRMINGHAM, England — Leicester scored three goals in 20 minutes to beat West Bromwich Albion 3-2 Saturday, with England striker Jamie Vardy netting in his eighth straight Premier League game.

Vardy is two games away from

matching Ruud van Nistelrooy’s re-cord set in 2003 and is the league’s top scorer with 11 goals in 11 matches.

Riyad Mahrez had already scored in the 57th and 64th minutes as the visitors remained unbeaten on the road. Vardy added a third in the 77th.

Salomon Rondon’s second goal in two games put the Baggies ahead at The Hawthorns after half an hour but they missed the chance to record three successive wins for the first time since 2012. Rickie Lambert scored his first goal for Albion from the penalty spot late on. (ap)

AP Photo/Francisco Seco

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ron-aldo celebrates after scor-

ing his team’s second goal against Las Palmas during the Spanish La Liga soccer match

between Real Madrid and Las Palmas at the Santiago

Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015.

Real Madrid beats Las Palmas 3-1, stays top in Spain

MADRID — Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 13th goal of the season as Real Madrid defeated Las Palmas 3-1 Saturday to remain top of the Spanish league. Barcelona kept pace by defeating Getafe 2-0 thanks to Neymar’s league-leading ninth goal and Luis Suarez’s 300th career goal.

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

Juventus’ Juan Cuadrado (R) celebrates dancing with his team mate Paul Pogba after scoring against Torino during their Italian Serie A soccer match at Juventus Stadium in Turin, October 31, 2015.

Inter beat Roma to take top spot, Juve down Torino

Vardy scores in 8th straight Premier League game

Mourinho says he does not expect sack at Chelsea AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach

Dortmund’s Marco Reus, right, hugs teammate Henrikh Mkhi-taryan after the German Bundesliga soccer match between Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund in Bremen, Germany, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015.

Dortmund wins 3-1 in Bremen, cuts Bayern’s Bundesliga lead

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SINGARAJA - Les waterfall is located in Les village, 38 kilometer south to Singaraja, in the north Bali. The waterfall is overlooking green hills and untouched nature. The height is about 30 meters.

In addition, Les Village is also famous for its very amazing beach

with its magnificent underwater world view.

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

The best way to reach Les is by rented or private car or motorcycle,

so visitors can stop where they want to take photos.

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

outside Pura Puncak Panulisan, a temple.

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

After crossing the river, a simi-lar footpath leads to the waterfall.

The 30-meter-high waterfall

has a perfect slope so the water from the river jumps from one rock to another before eventually hitting the bottom of the land more gently.

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

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Les Waterfall

Elsewhere, Carmelo Anthony led New York past Washington in the Wizards’ home opener, Mike Connley led Memphis past Brooklyn and Utah dominated the second half to defeat Indiana. Curry wound up shooting 17 of 27 from the field, including 8 of 14 from 3-point range, to go with nine assists and four steals. Five of his 3s were from between 27 and 31 feet.

Draymond Green added 21 points for de-fending champion Golden State, which has won its first three games this season.

Anthony Davis had 26 points, 15 rebounds and two blocks for the injury-depleted Peli-cans, who have lost their first three games under new coach Alvin Gentry. New York’s Anthony scored 37 points as the Knicks won 117-110 at Washington.

Anthony hit a jumper with 1:35 to play to give New York a 108-106 lead, and sank two free throws with 20.4 seconds left for a 113-110 lead. Bradley Beal had 22 of his 26 points in the second half for Washington.

Memphis won 101-91 at home against Brooklyn, with Conley scoring 22 points, including 10 straight in the fourth quarter, and adding eight assists.

Conley, who was 7 of 12 from the field, including 4 of 7 from outside the arc, held off the Nets who came from 16 points down with 7:42 left to get within eight. Zach Randolph and Courtney Lee scored 15 points each for Memphis while Jarrett Jack finished with 15

for the Nets, who have lost all three games this season.

Utah outscored Indiana by 28 points in the second half to cruise to 97-76 road win. The Pacers led for almost the entire first half, but tables turned in the third quarter when Utah outscored Indiana 28-12 after trailing by seven at halftime. The Jazz (2-1) led by nine points at the end of the third quarter and pulled away in the fourth.

Derrick Favors scored 18 points for Utah. George Hill scored 17 points for the Pacers, who have given up third-quarter leads and conceded a total of 189 points in the second half across its three games this season. Los Angeles’ Blake Griffin had 37 points, nine rebounds and six assists to lead the Clippers past Sacramento 114-109.

Phoenix’s Eric Bledsoe scored 33 points, one shy of his career high, to lead the Suns past Portland for the second straight night, winning 101-90. (ap)

BASEL - Rafael Nadal reached the final of the Swiss Indoor tourna-ment when he beat Frenchman Rich-ard Gasquet 6-4 7-6(7) on Saturday, a result that was good news for fel-low Spaniard David Ferrer.

Gasquet could still have denied Ferrer a place in the ATP World Tour Finals next month, but his defeat means Ferrer, along with Japan’s Kei Nishikori, complete the eight-man line-up for the season-

ending showpiece.Nadal was a break down in the

opening set but hit back from 2-4 to win four consecutive games. He also trailed 6-4 in the second-set tiebreak before reeling off the last four points.

Standing in the way of Nadal in his 98th career final will be top seed and home favourite Roger Federer who beat American Jack Sock 6-3 6-4 in little over an hour. Federer is looking for a seventh title in his home city.

Ferrer and Nishikori join three-times defending champion and 2008 winner Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, six-times former winner Federer, Stan Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych and Nadal in Lon-don. (rtr)

Curry scores 28 in a quarter as Warriors beat Pelicans

NEW ORLEANS — Golden State’s Stephen Curry scored 53 points, includ-ing a career-high 28 in the third quarter, to lead the Warriors to a 134-120 win at New Orleans on Saturday. Curry alone outscored the Pelicans by two points in the third period, in a performance which turned the game, giving the War-riors a 105-91 lead.

AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Nadal in Basel final, sends Ferrer to London year-ender

REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts after winning his semi-final match against France’e Rich-ard Gasquet at the Swiss Indoors ATP men’s tennis tournament in Basel, Swit-zerland, October 31, 2015.

Golden State Warriors guard Ste-phen Curry (30) drives to the basket between New Orleans Pelicans for-

ward Anthony Davis (23) and center Omer Asik (3) in the second half of

an NBA basketball game in New Or-leans, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. The

Warriors won 134-120.

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It was a much-anticipated home-coming. Their house was one of thousands of dwellings that were reduced to rubble in the war. A push to reconstruct the battered coastal territory has been sluggish, relying on international funding pledges that have only partially been fulfilled.

But the al-Zazas’ move offers a rare glimmer of hope to the tens of thou-sands of Gazans who lost their homes in the war. The family’s place in Gaza City’s Shaaf neighborhood, one of the hardest-hit in the war, was among the first 170 completely destroyed homes that were approved for reconstruction under a U.N. mechanism.

“We are very happy ... it’s our home,” 50-year-old Atef al-Zaza, the family patriarch, told The Associated Press in his barely furnished new liv-ing room. “Our life is getting back to its pre-war normality.”

About half a million people were displaced at the height of the 50-day conflict and 100,000 were left home-less, according to the United Nations. Israeli airstrikes and shelling flattened entire areas, leaving piles of concrete and debris. More than 2,200 Palestin-ians were killed, the majority of them civilians, according to U.N. figures. On the Israeli side, 73 people were killed, most of them soldiers.

Many of the displaced Gazans fled to U.N. facilities serving as makeshift

shelters or moved in with relatives elsewhere in the strip. After the war, some opted to return to their shelled-out and damaged homes, leaving about 17,000 still displaced 14 months after hostilities ended.

The U.N. says some 18,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged in the war. Mufeed al-Hasayneh, the Palestinian Minister of Public Works, said that of the 130,000 houses that sustained minor and moderate dam-age, most have been repaired, while others still await funding from donor pledges.

At a conference held in Cairo shortly after the war, international donors pledged $2.7 billion to rebuild Gaza, but more than a year later, only a third of the sum has been received, al-Hasayneh said.

“We only ask for the money that was promised at the conference. We don’t ask for more,” al-Hasayneh said.

The coastal territory is under an Is-raeli and Egyptian blockade that has for years limited the entry of goods, especially construction materials like cement or steel that Israel says Hamas uses to construct tunnels and other military infrastructure.

But under a U.N.-brokered mecha-nism supported by Israel and the Palestinian Authority, construction materials are allowed to enter Gaza

under strict monitoring to ensure they are not diverted to Hamas. COGAT, the Israeli defense body that handles civilian issues with the Palestinians, said up to 850 truckloads of materi-als, including building supplies, cur-rently cross into Gaza every day. Israel imposed the blockade in 2007 after Hamas seized control of the territory.

A rift between Hamas, which rules Gaza, and the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who governs the West Bank, has also bogged down reconstruction efforts.

Still, some progress has been made. Qatar is rebuilding 1,000 housing units and Kuwait is expected to fund the rebuilding of a similar number of houses soon. Saudi Arabia promised to pay for the rebuilding of another 800 units, al-Hasayneh said.

In the Shaaf neighborhood, work-ers were busy this week building the frames of other homes being reconstructed. The beige- and peach-painted walls of the new al-Zaza home stand out amid the surrounding gray rubble.

During the war, most Shaaf resi-dents fled because of heavy Israeli artillery and tank shelling. Al-Zaza left his four-floor house where he had lived in with his wife, 12 children and brothers since 1986, and moved in with a daughter. (ap)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — There is no evidence that last month’s explosion aboard the Maldivian president’s boat was caused by a bomb, the FBI said, contradicting govern-ment allegations that have led to the arrest of the country’s vice president and deepened the turmoil in the Indian Ocean archipelago.

The Maldives’ government has accused Vice President Ahmed Adeeb of plotting to assassinate President Yameen Abdul Gayoom on Sept. 28. He escaped unhurt because he wasn’t sitting in his usual seat on the boat, the government has said. His wife, an aide and a bodyguard were injured.

The FBI said in a statement Saturday that the “submitted specimens were determined to be components from the boat and not the components of an improvised explosive device.”

“Based on the FBI’s analy-sis —which included forensic analysis of the scene, analysis of the items recovered from the scene, and chemical testing — there is no conclusive evidence to attribute the explosion on the boat to an IED,” it added.

Following the blast, the Mal-dives sought assistance from the FBI, as well as investigators from Sri Lanka, India, Australia and Saudi Arabia.

Home Minister Umar Nazeer has said that the investigation by Sri Lankan experts found that the explosion was caused by a device that was small and designed not to kill everyone on board. According to Nazeer, it was meant to kill or incapacitate the president. Nazeer did not say anything about the type of explosive device or how it was detonated. He did not answer phone calls seeking comment on Saturday and Sunday.

Nazeer seemed to have con-tradicted the FBI statement, writing on his Twitter account that “FBI examiners did not conclude that there was no IED in the blast: they did not rule out an IED” on the boat. Investigators from India, Aus-tralia and Saudi Arabia have not yet released the results of their probes.

The explosion took place as Gayoom and his wife were returning to the capital from the airport, which is on a separate island. (ap)

AP Photo/Adel Hana

In this Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 photo, Palestinians work on rebuilding a house which was destroyed during the last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza City. The four story house belonging to al-Zaza family is being rebuilt ad part of the family has moved in into renovated ground floor apartment.

Gaza family is first to return to rebuilt home after war

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The al-Zazas have much to celebrate these days, after return-ing a few weeks ago to their neighborhood in the Gaza Strip — the first Palestinian family to move back into a completely rebuilt home since last year’s war between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas.

FBI: No evidence bomb caused blast on Maldives leader’s boat

Indonesian Presi-dent Joko Widodo inspects a newly-

built canal to prevent peatland fires in

Pulang Pisau, east of Palangkaraya,

Central Kalimantan October 31, 2015. President Widodo

this week cut short an official trip to the United States due to a haze crisis caused by raging peat fires

in the Southeast Asian country. The fires, often deliber-ately set by planta-

tion companies and smallholders, have

been burning for weeks in the forests

and carbon-rich peat lands of Sumatra

and Kalimantan islands.

“The short-visit free visa facil-ity is an additional point to enhance Indonesia’s selling pitch in the world market,” the Tourism Minister said in Medan, North Sumatra, on Sat-urday.

The minister was speaking at an interactive dialog on tourism with tourism industry operators and North Sumatra Acting Governor Erry Nuradi.

The short-visit free visa facility will also help bring more foreign tourists to the country.

Minister Yahya said the confi-dence that the free visa facility would increase the number of foreign tour-ists was based on the result of the first phase of the granting of the free visa facility to 30 countries. The number of foreign tourists coming from these countries is on the rise.

Foreign tourists coming from the 30 recipient countries increased by 4.27 percent in the June-July 2015 period from that in the June - July

2014 period.Till August, the number of foreign

tourist arrivals in Indonesia stood at 6.3 million, exceeding the mid-year target at 6.15 million

Thus, the government is optimistic that it will achieve or even exceed its target, set at 10 million foreign tourist arrivals this year.

Minister Yahya said the govern-ment has set a target of 12 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2016.

Earlier, he had said that his min-istry was teaming up with private parties to achieve the target of 10 million tourist arrivals in 2015.

“One of the efforts we are making is teaming up with private parties to bring foreign tourists to the country,” Yahya said.

The move is in line with the gov-ernment’s aim to make the tourism sector the main engine of economic growth amid the global economic slowdown, he said.

The minister said he supported

the activities carried out by Herb-alife International to hold Future Millionaire Team Retreat in Bali from 15 October to 18 October. The event brought together more than 2,000 participants from Asia and the Pacific.

The government has set the target of tourist arrivals for this year at 10 million.

By August 2015, the number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia reached about 6.3 million, up by 2.71 percent from the same period of last year.

The other step taken by the gov-ernment to increase the number of tourist arrivals is providing tourists from 90 countries a visa-free facility for a short-term visit.

“The tourism sector, which con-tributed Rp140 trillion, is the fifth biggest foreign exchange earner. We expect the tourism sector to contribute Rp240 trillion to the state revenues in 2019,” he said. (ant)

JAKARTA - The increased realization of investment in three prior-ity sectors in the third quarter of 2015 has helped prepare Indonesia even more to face the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the investment board chief has said.

The three sectors are export-oriented industry, import substitution industry and mineral resources downstream businesses.

“The increase in the realization of investment in the three sectors underlines the government’s efforts to boost the competitiveness of our industry and our export-oriented efforts. This will support the readiness of Indonesia to face the AEC and other free trade agree-ments,” Franky Sibarani, the head of the Capital Investment Coor-dinating Board (BKPM), said on Saturday.

He said that based on the BKPM data, the value of investment in the export-oriented industry in the January-September 2015 period totaled Rp25.7 trillion, up 10.4 percent compared to the level achieved in the same period in the previous year.

Investment in the import substitution industry in the January-September 2015 period was recorded at Rp34.5 trillion, up 15.9 percent from that in the corresponding period a year earlier.

In the downstream industry of the mineral resource sector, invest-ment was recorded at 33.2 trillion, showing an increase of 66.8 percent as compared to that in the corresponding period last year.

According to Franky, the implementation of the AEC was now star-ing us in the face and it is an issue that should be given attention.

“One thing that should be given attention to is that we should not allow ourselves to become a big market for products of other coun-tries. We should be able to take advantage of the export opportunities which will become bigger and bigger when the market opens up,” Franky said. (ant)

Free visa facility raises Indonesia’s sale value

MEDAN - Indonesia sells itself better by offering a short-visit free visa facility to foreign tourists from 90 countries, Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said.

Increasing investment prepares Indonesia to face AEC

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

“The black box was recovered from the tail of the plane and has been sent to be analysed by experts,” the office of Prime Minister Sharif Ismail said, adding that rescuers had recovered 129 bodies from the site of the crash.

Ismail later told a press conference that experts will “start examining the information in the black box, and based on this we will study the causes of the crash”.

The Islamic State (IS) group affiliate in Egypt claimed it downed the plane, but without saying how.

And Ismail expressed scepticism when asked about the claim.

“Experts have affirmed that technically planes at this altitude cannot be shot down, and the black box will be the one that will reveal the reasons for the crash,” he was quoted by state news agency MENA as saying.

In Moscow, Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov too said the IS claim “cannot be considered accurate”, adding that authorities in Egypt “have no such information that would confirm such insinuations”.

A senior Egyptian aviation official said the plane was a charter flight operated by a Russian firm, and was flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet when communication was lost.

A senior Egyptian air traffic control official said the pilot told him in their last communication that he was having trouble with the radio system.

The plane with 214 Russian and three Ukranian passengers, and seven crew, had taken off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in the south Sinai bound for Saint Petersburg. It lost contact with air traffic control 23 minutes later.

The wreckage was found roughly 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of the North Sinai town of El-Arish, Egyptian officials said. (afp)

Egypt...

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PARIS - A flood of cheap money is financing the big-gest boom in mega-mergers and takeovers since the 2008 global financial crisis.

But analysts warn that hastily arranged corporate mar-riages that seem blissful in good financial times can end in tears, and considerable debts.

Companies have already struck 45 mergers and ac-quisitions with a value exceeding $10 billion (9 billion euros) each in the first nine months of the year, according to data provider Dealogic.

The mergers amount to a total of $1.2 trillion -- up 89 percent from the same period last year.

In the latest example, US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the Viagra maker, this week announced its intention to buy Allergan, which makes Botox, and has a market value of more than $110 billion.

The return of the big merger started in the United States and moved to Europe in 2014, said Tangi Le Liboux, analyst at Paris-based financial consultants Aurel BGC.

“There is an enormous amount of cash available and interest rates are extremely low with loans available on good terms,” he said.

“External growth can be an easy option but for big structures it can also carry risks,” said Le Liboux.

It is difficult to “marry cultures”, however, he said, evoking the merger now underway between Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent.

In the 2000s, the AOL-Time Warner merger, which was agreed during the dot-com bubble but eventually unravelled, stands out as perhaps the worst merger in corporate history, in part because of a clash between the two companies’ cultures that was never successfully resolved.

But the availability of easy money is tempting to com-pany chiefs who want to buy growth instead of generating it from their existing business, especially in a period of moderate economic growth.

“With lower inflation, it’s very hard for companies to grow organically,” said Philip Whitchelo, vice president for strategy and product marketing at Intralinks, a busi-ness networks specialist that tracks merger and acquisi-tion activity.

Near-zero inflation can depress revenues, he added. “Large companies rely on acquisitions and geographic expansion to achieve growth.”

In the beer sector, Anheuser-Busch InBev, the giant behind top lager brands like Beck’s, Budweiser and Stella Artois, is seeking to swallow rival SABMiller in a deal worth more than $120 billion when debt is included.

One of the driving forces behind InBev’s bid is the chance to get access to some of the world’s fastest grow-ing markets, including Africa where SABMiller has roots dating back to the Johannesburg gold rush of the late 19th century.

The wave of mergers is moving back towards advanced economies after a slowdown in emerging markets, said Herve Jauffret, an analyst at audit and services group Ernst and Young who has just completed a study of the trend.

“Investor appetite is coming back for the mature econo-mies: the United States, Germany, England,” he said.

In France, the king of the merger is billionaire Patrick Drahi, founder of the telecommunications group Altice who has spent nearly $30 billion in a few months to acquire US cable operators Suddenlink in May and then Cablevision in September. (afp)

The Federal Reserve’s proposal put forward Friday means the mega-banks would have to bulk up their capacity to absorb financial shocks by issuing equity or long-term debt equal to pre-scribed portions of total bank assets.

The idea is that the cost of a huge bank’s failure would fall on investors in the bank’s equity or debt, not on taxpay-ers. The Fed governors led by Chair Ja-net Yellen voted 5-0 at a public meeting to propose the so-called “loss-absorbing capacity” requirements for the banks, which include JPMorgan Chase, Citi-group and Bank of America.

The eight banks would have to is-sue a total of about $120 billion in new long-term debt to meet the require-ments of the proposal, the Fed staff estimates.

If formally adopted, most of the requirements wouldn’t take effect un-til 2019, and the remainder not until

2022.The new cushions would come atop

rules adopted by the Fed in July for the eight banks to shore up their financial bases with about $200 billion in addi-tional capital — over and above capital requirements for the industry. And they would be in addition to 2014 rules directing all large U.S. banks to keep enough high-quality assets on hand to survive during a severe downturn.

Combined with the regulators’ previous actions, the new proposal “would substantially reduce the risk to taxpayers and the threat to financial stability stemming from the failure of these (banks),” Yellen said at the start of the meeting.

Stricter capital requirements for banks were mandated by Congress after the financial crisis, which struck in 2008 and set off the worst economic down-turn since the Great Depression. Hun-

dreds of U.S. banks received taxpayer bailouts totaling hundreds of billions of dollars during the crisis, including the eight Wall Street mega-banks that became known as “too big to fail” in Washington.

The previously adopted capital and liquidity rules are the “belt” designed to reduce the likelihood of big banks fail-ing, while the new proposal for transfer-ring potential losses to investors is the “suspenders” in case banks do fail, said Oliver Ireland, an attorney specializing in banking law at Morrison & Foerster who was an associate general counsel at the Fed.

Investors will know that if a bank fails, “they will be on the hook” and likely won’t recover the full amount they put in, Ireland said. Higher inter-est rates paid by banks on the debt they issued beforehand would compensate for the investors’ risk.

The other banks subject to the re-quirements are Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon and State Street Bank. (ap)

Cheap money fuels mega-merger boom

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, left, and Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer listen to a presentation dur-ing a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, in Washington.

Fed looks at way to shift big-bank losses to investors

WASHINGTON — In their latest bid to reduce the chances of fu-ture taxpayer bailouts, federal regulators are proposing that the eight biggest U.S. banks build new cushions against losses that would shift the burden to investors.

SEMARAPURA - Government of Klungkung makes cooperation to organize English language training for job seekers in Klungkung. The training aims to give brief-ing to people looking for job opportunities so that they can compete in the job market. In addition, the English language training also aims to support the tourism sector in Klungkung.

Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Su-wirta, said that the increasing development of tourist accommodation in Klungkung must be responded by providing a briefing to surrounding communities so that they can engage in tourism sector. “This training can support the community to get involved in tourism sector so as not only to become a spectator at their village,” said Regent Suwirta, Friday (Oct. 30).

The language training will be conducted more intensively to empower human resources in Klungkung in the era of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). “Human resource competitiveness is the

key to win the competition in the global era,” he explained. On the other hand, the tourism development in Klungkung does not just rely on natural potential but also local arts and culture must also be high-lighted.

The Head of the Klungkung Manpower Agency, I.B. Anom Adnyana, said that about 80 applicants have registered for the training. However, due to limited budget, only 20 participants can be approved. The training will take place for 21 days starting from October 30 to November 19, 2015.

A total of eight instructors and speakers will handle the training. The participants mostly graduated from high school and only a few from tourism vocational schools. See-ing the high interest of the people to attend the training, the government of Klungkung will seek to increase the training. Opening ceremony of the training is filled in with the distribution of stationery and training materials to participants by representative of Regent Suwirta. (dwa)

The magnificent museum has been closed since the past few months. The closure is marked off with the installation of sign board

saying ‘museum closed’ right at the entrance gates. Though having been closed, a number of government agencies still often held activities

in one of the meeting rooms of the museum.

The Head of the Batur Volcano Museum, Desak Made Andriani, when contacted by Bali Post re-cently for several times is not willing to give any comment. She always dodges when asked about the reason why the Batur Volcano Museum is closed all this time.

An employee of the museum,

Dewa Ariana, when met at the museum on Friday (Oct. 30) said that the Batur Volcano Museum has been closed for nearly four months. It is only closed for a while. He said the museum will be opened after the new museum building has been inaugurated by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. “We’re still waiting for the inauguration,” he said. Unfor-

tunately, he did not mention for sure when the museum building will be inaugurated.

He said that even though all this time the Batur Volcano Museum is closed to tourists, the museum spreading across the area of one hectare, he admitted, have been often used to hold meeting activi-ties by the government of Bangli. (kmb40)

Job seekers equipped with English language mastery

IBP/Dewa Farend

The Regent of Klungkung I Nyoman Suwirta, right, talk to the particpants of the english course.

The Batur Volcano Museum

IBP/Sosiawan

Batur Volcano Museum closed for several months

BANGLI - The Batur Volcano Museum located in Kintamani has been closed since the past few months. It is unclear why the museum established in 2007 is closed. However, from explana-tion of one of the museum attendants, the museum is closed because it is still waiting for the inauguration of a new building by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

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Now, many of the survivors are pinning their hopes on a historic election Nov. 8 pitting the military-backed ruling party against one helmed by pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and numerous ethnic parties. They fear victory by the military’s United Solidarity and Development Party would plunge Karen state and its 1.5 million people back into a hellhole.

“If the USDP comes into power, we will walk the same path. We will remain beggars. If they lose, the country will change. This is the final showdown,” says Hkun Kyi Myint, an elder of several villages around Hpa-An, the state capital.

Ethnic minorities including the Karen make up about 40 percent of Myanmar’s 52 million people. For them, the election is more than a step in Myanmar’s uneven path toward democracy. It opens up the possible fulfillment of a long-

cherished dream.Shortly after the country, then

known as Burma, gained inde-pendence from Britain in 1948, the Karen rose against the central government, which then and since has been dominated by the Burman ethnic majority. The country’s first constitution and the 1947 Pang-long Agreement, endowed with an almost mythic aura among ethnic people, promised a large measure of self-determination for minorities — even the possibility of secession.

All promises were broken fol-lowing a 1962 military coup, after which a welter of insurgent groups from the Kachin, Shan, Karen and other minorities rose up in revolt. Myanmar historian and government adviser Thant Myint-U has called this endless, bloody struggle the country’s “original sin.”

“Myanmar will not be able to fulfill its potential, or provide the

kind of future its people expect and deserve, without finding a lasting resolution to the ethnic conflicts it faces,” says Tim Johnston, Asia director for the think tank Interna-tional Crisis Group.

On Oct. 15, a National Ceasefire Agreement was signed after two years of talks and more than 200 meetings. President Thein Sein, who chairs the USDP, described it as “a historic gift from us to the genera-tions of the future.” But only eight of the more than 20 armed groups signed it, including the Karen Na-tional Union (KNU), the minority’s main insurgency group. Other cease-fires were negotiated in the 1980s and ‘90s, only to be violated.

“I hope for the best, but I have only about 10 percent faith in the ceasefire,” says Mahn Khin Tunk, a farmer and community leader near Hpa-An who has fought with the KNU.

Suspicions about the regime’s sincerity were redoubled as its troops battled several insurgent groups while peace talks proceeded. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing missed a meeting while in Israel shopping to upgrade weaponry for Myanmar’s army of at least 250,000.(ap)

BUCHAREST, Romania — When the first sparks flew, the lead singer of Goodbye to Gravity joked that they weren’t part of the heavy metal band’s performance.

Moments later, flames spread quickly through the crowded base-ment club in downtown Bucharest, trapping many and triggering a stampede that would leave at least 27 people dead and 180 injured — making it the deadliest nightclub blaze in Romanian history.

Two of the band members were among the dead, while the lead singer was one of the many people who were treated in hospital for extensive burns. Witnesses said about 300 to 400 people, including some children attending with their parents, were at the club, housed in a former factory, when a pyrotechnical show went awry. They said there was only one exit.

A spark on stage ignited some polystyrene decor, club-goers told Digi 24 television. Photos posted on social media appeared to show a flame emanating from a pillar covered in foam insulation as those in the audience applauded the band. The group, which was launching its new album “Mantras of War” Friday, had performed a song titled “This is the Day We Die” from their latest CD before the fire broke out, witnesses at the club said.

Hundreds of members of Bucharest’s medical community were mobilized in frantic efforts to save as many lives as possible. Bogdan Oprita, a spokesman for the Floreasca Emergency Hospital, said it was the worst bloodshed since the 1989 anti-Communist revolution. “It was like a war,” he said. “Dozens of surgeons were called from home and asked to operate.”

Emergency worker Violeta Maria Naca, with 22 years of experi-ence, described in a Facebook post how parents were kissing ambu-lances carrying their children, while others were hitting the vehicles begging to be transported to hospital.

“There was a child with 70 percent burns. I was crying. The flesh was coming off him. He was asking whether he would live. If it was serious,” she wrote. “He was almost in a coma. Blood and tears were coming out of his eyes. He asked me to hold his hand. I told him I had a boy the same age.”

Children accompanied by an adult are allowed to enter nightclubs in Romania and many clubs don’t pay attention to the age limit of 18 for unaccompanied teenagers.(ap)

Myanmar’s minorities fear election victory by military

HPA-AN, Myanmar — During nearly seven decades the villages of the Karen have been torched, their men summarily executed and their women raped as the ethnic minority battled Myanmar’s military regime in the world’s longest-running in-surgency. Their homeland has been called the “hidden Darfur,” where some 350,000 people have been driven from their homes into the jungles or refugee camps in neighboring Thailand.

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FILE - In this May 9, 2006, file photo, an ethnic Karen man and his child look from the shade of their bamboo hut in their newly constructed village of Ei Htu Hta, Myanmar, near the Salween river along the Myanmar-Thai border.

Survivors describe horror as fire spread in Bucharest club

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A woman lights candles outside the compound that housed the nightclub where a fire occurred in the early morning hours in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015.

GIANYAR - Disappointed with the Mu-nicipality Waterworks (PDAM) that cannot provide certainty for water connection, the apparatus of Petak village finally takes an innovative measure to answer the desire of residents to get clean water services. Armed with adequate potential of water supplies, the village builds self-managed waterworks.

Headman of Petak, I Made Widiana, revealed the idea of building a village-managed waterworks. It is originated from residents’ complaints about the difficulty to obtain clean water services from the PDAM Gianyar. “Many of our residents have ap-plied for new water connection, but so far there is no confirmation,” he said.

Having got no confirmation for long time, finally the Regent of Gianyar, A.A. Gde Agung Bharata, issued the autonomous village preparedness program. Together with relevant agencies, his institution makes studies and tests to the field in order to meet the feasibility of the clean water utilization. Well, at that time was selected the spring at Pesiraman Gunung Merta, Madangan Kaja as location of the study.

“Having met all the feasibilities, resi-dents are very vivacious to support it. More interestingly, 200 residents directly register to the autonomous program where each applicant is charged at IDR 1.5 million,” he explained.

He revealed that his institution can raise funds from residents and donors amounting to IDR 250 million. In addition, the program will also get assistance from the government of Gianyar as much as IDR 250 million. “Thus, there is a fund of IDR 500 million for the construction of the self-managed waterworks,” he said.

He added that the management system will be entrusted to Madangan Kaja custom-ary village because the spring is located in the territory of local customary village. All hamlets at Petak village are targeted to get the water connection gradually. “Now, the installation project has reached 70 percent of completion. At least, this December the connection will have been able to drain off water to each home,” he said.

At first stage, the water connection will serve residents at three hamlets, namely Madangan Kaja, Madangan Kelod and Uma Anyar. Over time, he will continue to find the ways to meet the capital for the installa-tion of pipelines throughout the hamlet.

He explained that the self-managed waterworks is not intended to compete against the PDAM. However, it is just to accommodate the complaints of residents all this time due to limited coverage service of the PDAM. “We recognize the needs of residents to clean water services are very urgent,” he concluded. (kmb35)

The Head of the Bangli Livestock and Fishery Agency, I Wayan Sukartana, explained on Saturday (Oct. 31) that the elimination activities are almost touching the entire villages in Bangli.

For this October, a total of 890 dogs have been eliminated. This figure is much higher than in September reaching 283 heads. “The dogs eliminated in October are much more than in the previous month,” he said.

He delivered that high number of elim-ination is inseparable from increasing participation and community awareness of the rabies hazards. Implementation

of the elimination was not only carried out by the officials of the Livestock and Fishery Agency but also by village of-ficials such as pecalang or customary security guard. “The elimination is also assisted by village officials and Babin-sa—non-commissioned military officer,” he explained.

Further, Sukartana stated that people’s participation is needed to fight rabies vi-rus because the number of officers owned is very limited. Definitely this condition will make the coverage narrower. At the end, the opportunities of wild dogs to escape from elimination become higher.

“Our officers are very limited. Thus, we need people’s participation,” he said.

He also mentioned that the implemen-tation of elimination is also responding to the demand from the public. “Some activities are also carried out to follow up public request,” he said.

Besides, he also added that rabies positive cases in October also decreased. It only amounts to one head, while in September amounted to four heads. “The case of rabies positive dogs also goes down,” he said.

Population of stray dogs, said Sukar-tana, still amounts to hundreds of heads. To suppress this number, the elimination in the border area is intensively con-ducted. “We do elimination in the border area to anticipate the entry of wild dogs from outside the region,” he concluded. (kmb45)

Disappointed with PDAM, Petak village establishes self-managed waterworks

A total of 890 dogs eliminated in October

BANGLI - Rabies cases continue to overshadow a number of regions in Bali. One of them is Bangli. On average positive rabies dog is found every month. This condition makes people worried. In anticipation of this, elimi-nation activities continue to be encouraged. In this October, hundreds of dogs are eliminated.

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Dog elimination is done to prevent the spread of rabies.

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UBUD - A movie musical starring Tom Cruise could be near-ing production after a decade languishing in development, the screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon, said. “Bob the Musical”, directed by Michael Hazanavicius, (The Artist), tells the story of a man who hates musicals and then wakes up one day to find that his life and the world around him is one big extravaganza of singing and dancing.

“And everything he hates about musicals, that people sing and dance at the drop of a hat, he finds himself doing just that against his will,” Chabon told Reuters at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival on the Indonesian island of Bali.

Chabon said he had just turned in the first draft for the Walt Disney Pictures production, first conceived in 2004, before coming out to the Asia-Pacific for a tour of literary festivals.

Bret McKenzie, one half of musical comedy duo “Flight of the Conchords”, is composing the music and lyrics for “Bob the Musi-cal”. McKenzie won an Oscar for best original song with “Man or Muppet”, for The Muppets movie.

Chabon’s career is swerving towards music as well, said the author of several acclaimed novels, including “Mysteries of Pitts-burgh”, “Wonder Boys” and “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”, which won the Pultizer Prize for fiction in 2001.

Earlier this month, he signed with Universal Music Publishing Group to be an in-house pop lyricist. Universal will look for op-portunities for him to collaborate with musicians, he said.

The deal grew out of a songwriting partnership with producer Mark Ronson on the latter’s 2015 best-selling album “Uptown Special”. Chabon wrote the lyrics for nine of the album’s 11 tracks, but not, he said wryly, for the album’s monster-selling single, “Uptown Funk”

“When I turned 50, I started feeling inclined to saying yes to new opportunities,” said Chabon, now 52. He and Ronson were both big fans of 1970s rock group Steely Dan and the story-telling elements of that group’s lyrics and immediately hit it off, Chabon said.

Chabon, who says he listens to music all the time as he writes, says the skill set of writing song lyrics with musicians - and the satisfaction of doing that - is entirely different than the often lonely pursuit of writing a novel, which for him can sometimes take years.

“You’re collaborating with people. Doing it on the fly. They’re tinkering with the melodies, while you’re trying to come up with lyrics on the spot. Eight hours later, you’re done. You’ve made these amazing sounds in one day.”

But Chabon said he hasn’t given up his night job as a novelist. He tends to start writing in the late afternoon and sometimes all through the night at the Berkley, Calif. home he shares with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, herself a novelist and essayist, and their four children. (rtr)

This banana belongs to supe-rior variety and has higher selling price than other varieties. In addi-tion to meeting the needs of local market, this banana has become a commodity to be marketed outside the region. Not long ago, the banana plantation in West Buleleng already performed the first harvest. Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana accompa-nied by Chairman of the Buleleng House of Representatives Gede Supriatna did the first harvest.

It was also attended by the Head of the Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra and the Head of Forestry and Agricul-ture Agency, Ketut Nerda.

The regent said that to get maximal production and good fruit quality, synergy with private sector is needed. This coopera-tion program can be applied in the proper maintenance and posthar-vest management. If this could be done properly and correctly, the regent is confident that the ‘one

family plants one of fruit’ move-ment will increase the produc-tion of Buleleng local fruits and dependence on imported fruits can be diminished.

Chairman of the Prima Karya Sari Farmer Group Association, Made Suputra Yasa, said that the ‘one family plants one of fruit’ movement has been practiced at four villages in Gerokgak subdistrict namely the Sumber-kima, Banyupoh, Pejarakan and Pemuteran. (kmb38)

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One of the commodities being developed in this program is Taiwanese green banana. The banana garden is located at Pemuteran village, Gerokgak.

Buleleng boosts production of local fruits

SINGARAJA - The supply of imported fruits to Buleleng recently got serious attention from local government. Dependence on imported fruits can be reduced if the Bali local fruit production can meet the demand. To answer this challenge, the government of Buleleng boosts the produc-tion of local fruit through the ‘One Family Plants One Fruit Tree’ movement. This program is run after the local government makes cooperation with the Prima Karya Sari Farmer Group Association. One of the commodities being developed in this program is Taiwanese green banana. The banana garden is located at Pemuteran village, Gerokgak.

Novelist Michael Chabon readies script for “Bob the Musical”

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Tourists from across the globe flock to Cairns (pronounced Kanz) for easy access to the Great Barrier Reef and some of the world’s most spectacular scuba diving, with plenty of less-crowded but picturesque beach towns nearby.

Boats chug out of the Cairns harbor carrying scuba divers and snorkelers to the reefs, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) offshore. Many boats carry visitors out to the reef and back the same day. The vessel usually stays on the reef, moving between dive spots, with tourists, supplies and the crew arriving and departing on daily shuttles.

Many of the crew members on the boats are from other countries, taking advantage of an Australian labor shortage that led to a special

temporary work visa program.In most places the reef is shal-

low enough to be enjoyed while snorkeling, but the crew can offer on-the-spot training to uncertified divers and then accompany them on shallow dives.

It should be obvious to anyone who looks at a map, but traveling in Australia adds the exclamation point to the reality that the country is huge. The land mass is about the equivalent size of the continental United States with a population of about 24 million, about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) from the east to west coasts and 2,290 miles (3,685 kilometers) from its most northerly to its most southerly points.

The flora and fauna in Australia are vary, not to mention the ever-present signs on the Queensland beaches warning about crocodiles

or marine stingers, a term that describes a variety of venomous jellyfish. There were ever-present bottles of vinegar left at many beaches to counteract the sting along with instructions to seek medical attention.

Then there are the endangered cassowaries, flightless birds re-lated to the emu, with brilliantly colored blue necks, heads with red wattles and black bodies. They are known for their unpredictabil-ity and their ability to eviscerate threats, thanks to their razor-sharp, three-toed claws.

To the north of Cairns is the Daintree National Park, some say the oldest rainforest — at 250 mil-lion years — in the world. Keep going and you hit an area called the Far North, ending at Cape York, the northernmost point of

the Australian mainland and just over 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Papua New Guinea. The area is sparsely populated but it is popular with tourists, who fill the roads with campervans — what Americans call RVs.

“There are options for accom-modation but usually people will camp and 4WD camper trailers are all the rage this year,” said Marion Esser, who runs the Cow Bay Homestay, a bed and break-fast at the edge of the Daintree Rainforest. “Then most people would be fishing on the way, lots of rivers and coast on either side of the peninsula.”

It was by the side of a road in park that we happened upon a cassowary. It was one of an esti-mated 4,400 of the protected bird left in what is known as the “wet tropics,” a 2.2 million-acre area of coastal northern Queensland.

Away from the coast, there

are also wallabies, small cuddly cousins of the kangaroo. At the Granite Gorge Nature Park out-side the town of Mareeba, about an hour west of Cairns, wallabies will sit on your lap while you feed them.

The kangaroos that help give Australia its identity are as com-mon as deer in parts of the U.S. At one point I had to slam the brakes of our rented van to avoid a kan-garoo standing in the middle of the road while we drove through a vast field of sugarcane. We stopped in time, but Australian roadsides are littered with kangaroo carcasses.

Australia is paradise for road campers. Not only are camp-grounds that would be familiar to Americans plentiful, but most towns have free designated camp-ing areas where RVs can stay for free. They always have toilet facilities, some offer showers and other amenities. (ap)

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East coast Australia offers coral, exotic wildlife

CAIRNS, Australia — It can be hard to hear an Australian accent while walking along the waterfront esplanade in the far northern city of Cairns on the Pacific.

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UBUD - Artotel Indonesia proudly an-nounce its involvement in Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) 2015, the annual Southeast Asia’s largest and most renowned cultural and literary event in Ubud, Bali which will be held on 28 October – 1 No-vember 2015.

With a same vision of the festival and Artotel Indonesia in showcasing the incred-ible diversity of the Archipelago’s culture

and arts to the world, Artotel Indonesia hosted some of Festival’s extensive free art programs such as Mural activity by Art Manager of Artotel Indonesia, Mr. Safrie Effendi and as well featuring an Upcoming Singaporean Artist based on Netherland named Mr. Wayne Lim, in 30 October 2015, at Taman Baca, Ubud.

Color Theory Workshop also by Art Manager of Artotel Indonesia, Mr. Safrie

Effendi, in 30 October 2015 at Campuhan College, Ubud.

After party program which held in 1 November 2015 at Taman Baca, Ubud. In this lifestyle event Artotel brings out the concept of BART, a signature Bar at The Rooftop of Artotel, and upcoming Artotel Sanur – Bali representation that serve a variety of cocktails and some other vari-ous beverages also with the companion of

live DJs performance by Art Manager of Artotel Indonesia.

Mr. Eduard R. Pangkerego, Corporate General Manager of Artotel Indonesia said; “We are really proud for being invited to involve on the annual world class festival as we have a same vision with the commit-tee in bringing the emerging local artists as well as the richness of literature and arts of the country to the world.”

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 considered 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 col-orful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Artotel Indonesia involves at UWRF 2015

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This demographic-economic expert also reminded Bali to immediately con-duct a correction in the demographic management and creative economic sec-tor if Bali does not want to be run over by global economic pressures. He said that serious threat of Bali’s economy in 2016 is widely open as a result of the weakening China’s economy. “Export of Bali in 2016 is still difficult. China becoming a major market share experi-ences an economic downturn,” he said. The condition will be exacerbated by strong external economic pressures due to unclear economic policy of the United States. “Even though there is an expectation of growth, the economic pressures of Bali in 2016 is even very strong,” he said.

To that end, he called for an urgent policy reorientation. Economic develop-ment coming from consumptive pattern should be immediately transformed into productive economy. This can be resolved by strengthening the com-petitiveness of SMEs and increasing productive cooperatives. In addition, he asked the policies must be designed with village-based economic develop-ment. This measure will suppress the imbalance of economic growth as well as reduce urbanization.

The other sector needing to be arranged is cooperative. Currently, he said, it is dominated by savings and loan coopera-tive widely operating in consumer financ-ing. The economic growth triggered by high consumptive spending is very vul-nerable. He also reminded that Bali must strengthen the domestic markets with the focus on consumer and production quality. “Other than reorientation of investment policy, the tourism sector must also be given attention,” he advised.

Associated with the economic chal-lenges of Bali in 2016, Chairman of Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Bali, A.A. Wiraputra, said that Bali cannot escape from the strengthen-ing global economic pressures. Tourism becoming the prominent sector of Bali must be ‘forced’ to involve local compo-nents. “Virtually 80 percent of the food supply as the buffer of Bali’s population needs is brought in from outside Bali. This supply dependence will make Bali’s economic resilience fragile,” he said.

These conditions will be getting more difficult when the advantages of tourism management in Bali are much enjoyed by investors. To that end, the involve-ment of local entrepreneurs and com-munity components of Bali in tourism must be opened widely. “Regulation in the tourism management in Bali should also be reviewed,” he advised. (dir)

An academician from Warmadewa Uni-versity (Unwar), Ngurah Sanjaya, reminded that all the elements may not be lullabied by the dollars resulting from the sector. More-over, Bali is only dependent on tourist visits rather than on the absorption of the product yielded.

“Currently Bali very much relies on the arrival of tourist visits. When relying on the purchase of handicrafts and other products will be heavy for Bali,” said Ngurah San-jaya.

Since travelers want to see nature and tradition, said Ngurah Sanjaya, Bali still has a hope to survive in this difficult economic condition and tight competition. “Thank-fully Bali is still interested to be visited, though there is competition. However, what to do is optimizing the spirit of government and tourism players to keep the destination well,” he said.

According to him, the government and

other stakeholders must not show any dis-courses on conflicts if we do not want Bali tourism to be paralyzed because any small problems occurred on this island will be im-mediately known to the world. “We should no longer hesitate to maintain the natural attractions in this area. Nature makes Bali beautiful, not buildings especially the man-made objects. So, preserving nature is the answer, not making artificial tourist attrac-tion,” he affirmed.

Results of the research by Bank Indonesia in 2015 indicated that direction of tourism develop-ment products have deviated from the vision and mission of the culture-based tourism (THK—three sources of happiness, namely harmonious relation of human to the Creator, fellow humans and nature), that seems very intriguing, but in the practice it is very far from the study of Bank Indonesian. If the pattern of tourism product pre-sentation is not immediately addressed, then the icon of tourism and even tourism promotion of

the county and municipality government in Bali will go up against the fact that tends to highlight entertainment tourism.

“When entertainment tourism is maintained as product presentation in Bali, it will be easily rivaled by Thailand that is consistent and more vulgar in presenting entertainment tourist attrac-tion,” said Sanjaya.

He argued that Bali will lose its identity and tourism brand, so that the tourism trend visiting Bali is no longer distinct, unique and marketable in the future. Bali will face some big challenges such as the presence of investors that force with market share presenting tourist attractions that are no longer in line with local culture. The investors potentially marginalize the people and people do not have access to capital and skills required to join the investors. People can only get the opportunity as lower-class workers.

The presence of international tourism has the potential to disrupt the elements of local culture, so that the tourism development strategy involving people as the owner of the tourist destination should become the priority of tourism in Bali. “Bali no longer needs to learn how to develop tourism growth having reached 8,000 travelers per day. Now, it is time to begin how in this dynamic tourism growth Balinese people as a whole can get a more equitable sharing of distribution,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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Tourists walked along Canggu Beach in Bali Island. Moreover, Bali is only dependent on tourist visits rather than on the absorption of the product yielded.

People must get justice from tourismProspect of Indonesia’s economic in 2016 does not go through progress. World

Bank projection mentions that the economic growth of Indonesia only shifts from 5 percent in 2014 to 5.5 percent in 2016, with a forecast that ongoing transaction stays deficit in the range of -2.9 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The sluggish national economy will affect the economic growth of Bali. However, the community of the Island of the Gods can still breathe relievedly because the economy is dominantly sustained by tourism sector.

A military officer helping with the search told AFP that rescuers had found 163 bodies out of a total of 224 people who were on board the Airbus 321, which crashed after taking off from a Red Sea beach resort.

The plane was carrying 214 Russian and three Ukrainian pas-sengers, along with seven crew members. Rescuers have decided to widen the search perimeter to 15 kilometres (nine miles), the of-ficer added.

“We found a three-year-old girl eight kilometres from the scene” of the main wreckage, he told AFP from a military base in El-Hasana, around 60 kilometres from the crash site.

Many of the bodies were miss-ing limbs, said the officer, who re-quested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to media.

Meanwhile a Russian team in-cluding the transport minister who arrived in Cairo set out to the scene of the wreckage in a remote part of the restive Sinai Peninsula, Russian official media reported.

Investigators have recovered the

plane’s black box and the govern-ment said its contents were being analysed to determine the cause of the incident.

Egyptian and Russian officials have expressed scepticism about a claim by an Islamic State group branch in Egypt that it downed the plane. The jihadists operate in the north of the peninsula, where they have waged an insurgency that killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since 2013.

Black Box RecoveredEgypt has recovered the black

box of a Russian airliner that crashed Saturday in the restive Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, the prime minis-ter’s office said.

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LOS ANGELES - Pop star Selena Gomez will produce and star in a Netf-lix adaptation of the young-adult novel “13 Reasons Why,” Variety magazine reported Thursday.

The Internet streaming giant is in final negotiations to adapt the popular book into 13 episodes, the magazine announced online.

The novel by Jay Asher tells the story of a high school boy who receives a shoebox containing 13 cassettes, which were recorded by his classmate and crush who recently killed herself.

The cassettes explain how 12 people played a role in her death and why she

committed suicide.Universal had been developing the

story into a movie before Netflix took the lead to turn it into a series, Variety said.

Netflix was not immediately available for comment.

Gomez, a teen television star turned singer, released her second solo album “Revival” earlier in October, which debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 200.

At the beginning of the month, the 23-year-old revealed that she has lupus and secretly underwent chemotherapy to treat the disease. (afp)

The singer asked for the trial in a legal counterclaim against David Mueller, who last month sued the singer as he charged he was wrongly dismissed from his job at a Denver radio station over the June 2013 incident.

In the original lawsuit, Mueller said that Swift’s bodyguards and staff “verbally abused” him as they accused the radio host of fondling the singer while posing for a pic-ture backstage before her show at a Denver arena.

But in the response filed Wednes-day in a Denver court, Swift said that Mueller was clearly the culprit and accused him of reaching under her skirt and touching her in an “intimate” place.

“Ms. Swift was forced to begin a several-hour long concert in front of 13,000 fans still distressed that

she had been so inappropriately touched,” the legal filing said.

The counterclaim said that Swift, then 23, felt especially uncomfort-able as the radio host was much larger than her at 6-foot-3 (1.9 meters) and more than 200 pounds (90 kilograms).

Swift requested a jury trial seek-ing punitive damages from Mueller, saying that any money would be donated to charitable groups that protect women.

A verdict against Mueller “will serve as an example to other women who may resist publicly reliving similar outrageous and humiliating acts,” the counter-claim said.

Swift said that she has held thousands of similar meet-and-greet events for fans and radio station personnel throughout her career

and “she has been inappropriately groped one time -- by Mueller.”

Mueller’s lawyers did not im-mediately respond to the counter-claim.

In the original lawsuit, Mueller acknowledged an incident took place but blamed it on one of his colleagues, who he said had boasted to him of grabbing Swift’s bottom while taking a picture.

Mueller’s lawsuit said that KYGO-FM, a country music sta-tion, fired him two days later after Swift’s camp warned of action unless the station “handled” the radio host.

Swift, who became a teenage star in country music, a year ago released her fifth studio album “1989,” in which she went more fully in a pop direction.

“1989” has been one of the most successful albums in recent years, racking up the fastest first-week sales in the United States since 2002. (afp)

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Taylor Swift sues radio host for groping

NEW YORK - Pop superstar Taylor Swift has demanded a trial of a radio host she accuses of groping her, saying she hopes to stand up for other women who have been assaulted.

Selena Gomez to produce, star in Netflix’s ‘13 Reasons Why’

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GLOBAL economic pressures are predicted to strengthen in 2016. This condition is believed to have an impact on the economic resilience of

Bali. Rapid urbanization, low production and weak

competitiveness of local products are dominant factors that will affect the move-

ment of the Bali’s economy. To anticipate this economic downturn, Bali is expected to immediately reorient the investment, including arranging domestic market. Rural-based economic development should also be encouraged.

As a tourist destination, Bali does have a strategic advantage in building the economic competitiveness. However, the dependence on only one economic sector

will make Bali tourism fragile. Moreover, the current food production rate to meet the needs of the population of Bali is very minimal.

Dependence of Bali on food products from outside is predicted to reach 80 per-cent and this indicates the economic vola-tility of Bali. “Bali has high dependence on food ingredients production and other consumption needs. This happens because

the population growth rate of Bali is un-controllable. This condition will become a serious burden for Bali in 2016 when the population and the rate of investment are not immediately controlled,” said an economist from the Udayana University, Dr. I Gusti Wayan Murjanayasa.

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Reorientation of investment urgent to be done

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In this photo released by the Prime Minister’s office, Sherif Ismail, right, looks at the remains of a crashed passenger jet in Hassana, Egypt on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. The Russian aircraft carrying 224 people crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous region in the Sinai Peninsula about 20 minutes after taking off from a Red Sea resort popular with Russian tourists, the Egyptian government said.

163 bodies found

Egypt rescuers widen search for Russian plane crash victims

EL-HASANA, Egypt - Egyptian rescue teams were looking Sunday for more victims of a Russian passenger plane crash in Sinai, widening the search after finding bodies scattered for kilometres a day after the incident.