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DENPASAR - Towards the Christmas and year-end holidays, many tourists are eager to spend holidays in Bali. However, the congestion situation occurring recently has been a scourge for Bali as a world tour-ist destination. It is kindled by the crowded traffic situation especially on road sections to tourist access, while on the year-end it is ascertained to be getting more severe.

Chairman of the Indonesia Hotels

and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Badung Regency, IGN Rai Suryawijaya, stated the increasingly serious conges-tion situation will influence the choice of location for the accommodation. “For domestic tourists, for instance, Kuta re-mains the leading destination, but they probably book accommodation outside Kuta, such as in Denpasar and the sur-rounding areas,” said Suryawijaya when contacted on Wednesday (Dec 14).

The trial was led by Amzer Si-manjuntak, S.H accompanied by IGB Komang Wijaya Adhi, S.H., and Agus Subekti, S.H. From the trial, the judge offered mediation for both sides which will be led by the Head of Denpasar High Court, John Piter, S.H., M.H.

In the court attended by the lawyers of the governor which were

J. Robert Khuana, S.H., Drs. Ketut Ngastawa, S.H., I Nyoman Suman-tha, S.H., I Made Djaya, S.H., dan the defendants lawyer, Nyoman Gde Sudiantara, S.H., Made Adhy Mus-tika, S.H., and Nyoman Putra, S.H., the judges hoped that will peaceful action taken on the case.

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People flocked in Kuta Beach during the year-end night to celebrate the changing of year.

On year-end, domestic tourists avoid Kuta

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Situation during the first hearing to appointing mediator to mediate Bali Post and Governor of Bali in the law suit against Bali Post that filed by Governor of Bali, on Thursday, December 15, 2011.

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DENPASAR - The first trial for law suit of Bali Gover-nor against three defendants which were the Chief Editor of Bali Post, Nyoman Wirata (defendant I); PT. Bali Post (defendant II) and the reporter of Bali Post, I Ketut Bali Putra Ariawan (defendant III) was held in Denpasar High Court on Thursday, December 15, 2011.

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People Salt Source Associa-tion (Pugar) consultant from Panji Sakti Singaraja University, I Wayan Rideng, last Wednesday (14/12) stated the salt association group in this village got central government aid of IDR 800 million which hoped can increase salt produc-tion in quality and quantity. Sadly this aid is only at Pejarakan when actually there are a number of Bule-leng shores that has the potential like Kubutambahan and Tejakula. Rideng hoped the aid will be given to these areas too so salt production

in Buleleng can increase the people prosperity.

Rideng continued and stated that Buleleng salt production seemed not maximal due to many problems the farmers are facing such as human resource, tech-nology knowledge and capital especially technology in market-ing wise. All this time salt was packaged in a simple way sold to be consumed when actually if its packaged well it could be exported as a spa and batik material caus-ing it sold IDR 500 per kilogram.

“When actually in Korea salt price is IDR 250,000 per kilogram,” Rideng explained.

Head of Buleleng Fishery and Sea Agency, Nyoman Sutrisna, revealed Pejarakan salt production at Pejarakan was managed by 125 farmers which at this time to maxi-mise the salt potential they should increase human resource also to do evaluation such as identifying salt results all this time which right now just reached 75 tonnes per hectare although ideally national standard is 80-95 tonnes per hectare. (kmb15)

Denpasar (Bali Post) –After Non Smoking Area

Regulation agreed by House of Representatives, Sanglah Hospi-tal being one of the public areas should be a non smoking area and it is being fought for. For sure it has been applied since two years ago and with the regula-tion, Sanglah Human Resources Director, drg. Triputro Nugroho accompanied by Areal Secu-

rity and disciplinary Installation Head, Ferry Dwiyanto, wen met last Wednesday (14/12) Sanglah stated there will be a launch on Non Smoking Area this coming Friday (16/12) in 60 parts of Sanglah Hospital. Efforts such as forbid selling cigarettes have been applied either at canteen or cooperative also workers and visitors socialised not to smoke. “If there are they will be given

a notice and all this time they smoke outside Sanglah’s areal,” Nugroho explained.

Yet if the regulation will be applied, Fery explained that means those who violated the

IDR 50,000 or three months jail.

will be applied at Sanglah Hospi-tal,” Ferry concluded, (san)

Potential salt still not developed wellSingaraja (Bali Post) –

Buleleng Regency actually has a huge potential in salt production yet for a long time its regional government did not even think of it causing many salt farmers left it and

-okgak where 14 group of salt farmers developing since 1960 with 90 hectares for salt development existed only 60 hectares have been used so far.

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The salt farmers are seen on the picture

Sanglah Hospital applied non smoking area

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Ahead of Christmas and New Year,

the price of several foodstuffs has in-creased again. The increase is affected by decreasing yield of farmers as the result of bad weather condition. Nyoman Murniati, a foodstuff trader in Badung Market, Wednesday (Dec 14), said that production of farmers especially that brought in from Java decreased during the rainy season. As consequence, col-lectors were unable to meet the market demand in Bali. These conditions had an impact on the increase of their sell-ing prices.

“Moreover, at this time before the celebration of Christmas and New Year 2012, the demand automatically increases. The moment of holiday and

some commodities,” she said.Prices of the foodstuff showing an

increase were such as spices, chicken

condition before the feast day. On aver-age, the price of spices had increased from IDR 1,000 to IDR 2,000 per kg. Large chili had reached IDR 20,000 per kg from the previous price at IDR 18,000 per kg; small chili at IDR 18,000

per kg from previously IDR 17,000 per kg; palm sugar at IDR 9,000 per kg from IDR 8,000 per kg; and tomato at IDR 9,000 per kg whereas previously it was only sold in the range of IDR 6,000 - IDR 7,000 per kg. “Entering the Christmas and New Year, we have not dared to make sure whether it will rise again. If the weather is still not good enough and the yield of harvest is not enough, it is likely to rise again,” she said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Domestic Trade, Bali Trade Agency, Bagus Ketut Wijaya, recently said that based on the experience of Christmas and New Year there was no surge in the demand for basic foodstuffs. Therefore, by the end of this year the circumstance was predicted to be the same. If there were price hikes, they merely related to the law of business behind the busy transactions of the public demand. The increase of selling prices of basic commodities was not caused by the decline in stock, but purely because

midst of holiday.“Related to the price hike in this pe-

riod, government can only suggest the businessmen not to raise the prices,” he said. Similarly, the Bali Trade Agency also reminded to all distributors, not to do price speculation or hoard the stock in the face of Christmas and New Year. (bit)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—A number of petrol stations in Den-

pasar area run out of diesel fuel stock. Observation at several petrol stations on Wednesday (Dec 14) around 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Local Time indicated that some petrol stations posted a sign saying “Sorry, we run out of diesel fuel.” One of the petrol stations on Jalan Kamboja, for example, also posted the same sign if its diesel fuel had run out.

station, Pertamina usually supplied the diesel fuel stocks of 12,000 kiloliters per day but that day only got 8,000 kiloliters.

Similar condition was also seen in the petrol station located on Jalan Gatot Subroto Timur, Denpasar. The station also posted the same sign if the diesel fuel also ran out. As a result, many vehicle drivers were disappointed and left the station. On Tuesday afternoon,

obtain such diesel fuel. It was indicated by many complaints about the empty

supply. Unfortunately, scarcity of the diesel fuel occurred in all the petrol sta-tions along the Jalan IB Mantra Sanur until Nusa Dua area.

Related to the matter, Sales Manager of Pertamina for Bali-Lombok Area, Febrian, when contacted on Wednesday (Dec 14) said that fuel stock in Bali re-mained secure. Therefore, he denied the scarcity of fuel on this Island of the Gods. Even, Pertamina claimed if the volume of fuel delivery to petrol station was in-creased. Previously, the amount of diesel fuel delivery to petrol stations came to 130,000 kiloliters (KL) per day, now it had been increased to 150,000 KL.“The distribution of diesel fuel is still relatively normal, so do not panic. I do hope that people remain tranquil,” he said.

Currently, the number of petrol sta-tions in Bali reached 178 units and their fuel stock remained secure. On that ac-count, his party appealed the people not to worry about the stock of fuel because it was estimated to remain safe until the end of the year. (par)

Petrol stations in Denpasar lack of diesel fuel

Ahead of Christmas and New YearPrice of foodstuffs rises again

3International Bali News Friday, December 16, 2011

Group Head of the GunungSari Organic, Jatiluwih, NyomanSugita, said there were actu-ally many springs in his area.

discharge. It was triggered bythe broken channels making thewater leak and come through.“Production of our harvest is lessmaximal because many irrigationchannels are damaged,” he said onWednesday (Dec 14).

According to Sugita, the small

taken place. Even, the existing ir-rigation channels were averagelydamaged so the abundant watercould not be enjoyed by farmersto the fullest. Farmers expectedthe irrigation channels at Jatiluwihcould be improved. If left un-handled, the farmers were ascer-

tained to suffer great losses and bedistraught as did not get maximalyields. To avoid the increase ofplanting cost, some farmers choseto use organic fertilizer of cowdung. “By this organic fertilizer,we can minimize the cost and it’s

Sugita also said that in the cur-rent harvest season, one hectare offarmland could only produce 6.5tons of grain. It showed a drop ifcompared to previous productionwhen the water supply was stillabundant. Typically, the yield ofharvest could reach 7 tons. Price ofthe red rice grain was at IDR 9,000per kilogram. The price was quitegood in harmony with the highdemand. “The demand continues toincrease, especially for the inter-is-land trade,” he said. Unfortunately,Sugita observed that farmers began

to be misgiving as unable to meetthe market demand due to lackingof water supply.

He added the damaged irriga-tion channels had caused at least6 hectares of farmland to hardlyget water supply. It happened

the upstream immediately ran outbefore arriving at the downstream.Sugita said the demand for red ricewas never quiet. “Hopefully, wecan get abundant water to meet thedemand for red rice,” he said. Sofar, the farmers of Jatiluwih reliedsolely on the agriculture of red rice.They did not have business otherthan agriculture. On that account,improvement of the infrastructurewas expected to be maximal. More-over, the Jatiluwih area continuedto get the attention from foreignvisitors. (udi)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

also highlighted by the perpetrators of tourism in Bali. They assessed thecongestion occurred was not only caused by the increase of tourist visit,but also by the businesses taking advantage of the road body.

also by many businesses such as car rental, and motor rental utilizing theroad body and vehicles that should park in Central Parking even comeinto the Kuta tourist area,” said a member of the Indonesia Tourism Pro-motion Board (BPPI), Nyoman Kandia, when contacted on Wednesday(Dec 14).

-tral parking as well as make the road body free from businesses causingthe congestion. One of the solutions was the application of three-in-onesystem as implemented in Jakarta. This system was only imposed tocertain road sections passed through by private cars where a car had toconvey at least three passengers. Meanwhile, a motorcycle should be atleast ridden by two people or implementation of two-in-one system inparticular road sections.

“This will help Kuta known to be crowded. Moreover, thousands ofvehicles pass through the road sections every day. If there are no rules

Meanwhile, Chairman of the INCCA Bali, IB Surakusuma, assessedthat development of underpass projects and expansion of Ngurah Raiairport would result in high congestion as well because the project tar-geted to complete ahead of theAPEC 2013 was realized in the same timewithout socialization.

“As tourism businesspeople, we are made puzzled by implementationof the project. Without the project, the Badung region, particularly at theintersection of Dewa Ruci to Nusa Dua, has regularly jammed. Then, the

the area more severe,” he said.Themanwhois familiarlycalledGusLolecadded thecongestioncaused

by the development of projects carried out simultaneously would create anegative impression in the eyes of foreign and domestic tourists.

“Many tourists are wondering, but we ourselves have not dared to

government through GIPI Bali, because all the tourism associations co-alesce into it, including the INNCA Bali,” he said. Gus Lolec hoped thatgovernment could provide the best solution to avoid the impact causedby the project, such as by providing alternative routes during the projecttaking place. (par)

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The farmer is showing his harvest.

Lack of water causes decline in red rice cropTabanan (Bali Post)—

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to skyrocket.

Badung Regency must resolve congestion in Kuta decisively

Semarapura (Bali Post) –Elementary SDN 8 Sakti School building at Nusa Penida got at-

tacked by lightning last Tuesday (13/12) night causing four roomsdamaged where its teacher room most destroyed. It is unknown howmuch loss there are yet the school hoped government will help. Headteacher of the school, Made Granyam Astika, explained the incidenthappened around 9 pm local time when heavy rain came down withwind and lightning. It was predicted a television in the teacher roomhas been damaged yet it is still unknown since its electricity stoppedafter electricity measure attacked by lightning. “I was in mourning

Wednesday (14/12).Head of Nusa Penida Youth, Sports and Education Agency, Wayan

Natih admitted have received the report yet Natih haven’t gone tolocation as he is still following a data collection training in Denpasar.Even so, Natih also hoped government will give attention so the schoolbuilding can be used normally again. “I have asked the school to countthe loss,” Natih added.

Klungkung House or Representatives member from Sakti Village,Nusa Penida, Ketut Panca, admitted have heard the information andrequest the government to use the disaster budget to aid the schoolrepair remembering the rooms damaged are needed. “Regional Gov-ernment have allocated a budget for disaster and this can be used for

(kmb20)

School struck by lightningTeacher room destroyed

News International4 Friday, December 16, 2011

“Yesterday we raised the flag of Palestine in front of UNESCO and I thanked the president (Herman Van Rompuy) for their support for this endeavour,” Abbas said after meeting the EU president.

“I hope the day will come when we will raise the flag of Palestine at the UN and with the support of the European Union,” he added. The EU is split on the issue, however.

At a vote concerning raising the

flag at the UN’s education, science and culture agency, 11 EU nations voted in favour -- Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Slo-venia and Spain.

Eleven others abstained -- Brit-ain, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Por-tugal, Romania and Slovakia -- and five voted against. They were the Czech Republic, Germany, Lithu-

ania, the Netherlands and Sweden.Meanwhile, the EU’s chief dip-

lomat Catherine Ashton said after a meeting with Abbas that the bloc’s “overarching objective” was “the creation of an independent, democratic, contiguous and viable Palestinian state, living side by side with Israel in peace and security.

“The EU, along with its Quartet partners, has a key role to play in this process,” she said Wednesday, alluding to the UN, United States and Russia.

“I believe we all share the un-derstanding that ultimately direct negotiations are essential in order to fulfill the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people for state-hood,” she said in a statement.

Agence France Presse

Britain’s royal family will tour the globe next year to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee marking 60 years on the throne, Buckingham Palace an-nounced on Wednesday.

Prince William and his wife Catherine will travel to the Asia-Pacific region, while heir to the throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will visit countries including Australia and Canada, it said.

The queen, 85, and her husband Prince Philip, 90, will remain in Britain but will travel as widely as possible throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the palace said.

“Members of the royal family will travel overseas representing the Queen throughout the Dia-mond Jubilee year, visiting every Realm as well as undertaking visits to Commonwealth coun-tries, Crown Dependencies and

British Overseas Territories,” a Buckingham Palace spokesman said in a statement.

The world tour adds to events at home in Britain marking the ju-bilee, including a massive pageant on the River Thames involving up to 1,000 boats and the lighting of beacons across the country.

In what is likely to be the most high-profile part of the itinerary, William -- the queen’s grandson and second in line to the throne -- will travel with Catherine to Malaysia, Singapore, the Solo-mon Islands and Tuvalu.

The tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu has not had a royal visit in decades. When the queen and her husband toured it in 1982 they were carried shoulder high by islanders into the capital Funafuti as they sat in canoes.

Prince Harry, William’s young-er brother, will meanwhile make his first solo trip overseas on be-half of the queen, touring Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas.

Agence France Presse

The judge in Malaysian op-position leader Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy case said he would deliver a verdict on January 9 as the long-running and politically charged trial came to a close.

“I will deliver my decision on January 9,” judge Mohamad Zabi-din Diah told a packed courtroom in the capital Kuala Lumpur, setting the stage for a climactic ruling with potentially major implications for pivotal upcoming elections.

Zabidin set the verdict date after allowing defence lawyers a final chance to rebut the prosecution’s

charge that the former deputy prime minister and one-time leader-in-waiting sodomised a 27-year-old male aide in June 2008.

Sodomy is illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia and Anwar, 64, faces up to 20 years in jail if con-victed. Legal experts say a guilty verdict could disqualify Anwar from contesting elections widely expected to be called by Prime Min-ister Najib Razak within months.

Anwar, who was jailed a decade ago on a separate sodomy convic-tion that was later overturned, says the case was cooked up by Najib and is part of a pattern of legal harassment by the long-ruling coali-

tion to ruin him politically.In August, Anwar told the court

that case was a conspiracy by Najib “to send me into political oblivion.”

He says Najib is trying to decapi-tate an opposition alliance of ethnic Malay, Chinese and Muslim parties that has found new strength rallying around the charismatic Anwar and scored historic gains in 2008 polls.

In often lurid testimony, the de-fence has in recent months attacked alleged inconsistencies in state-ments by Anwar’s accused, Saiful Bukhari Azlan, and revelations that Saiful had met with Najib before filing a police report.

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Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (C), seen here arriving at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur, on December 15. The judge in Anwar’s sodomy case said he would deliver a verdict on January 9 as the long-running and politically charged trial came to a close

Malaysia judge to give Anwar verdict Jan 9

AFP Photo/Georges Gobet

EU Council president Herman Van Rompuy (R) and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas give a joint press conference after a working session at the EU Headquarters in Brussels.

Abbas seeks EU backing for UN membershipAgence France Presse

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas urged the European Union on Wednesday to support the Palestinian bid for full UN member-ship, as the bloc’s top diplomat called for the resumption of direct talks with Israel.

AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

Britain’s Duke of Cambridge, and his wife the Duchess of Cam-bridge arrive to attend a concert in aid of The Princes Trust City Riots Appeal and The Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry, at the Royal Albert Hall, in London, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011.

British royals unveil diamond jubilee tour

Activities Friday, December 16, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for December 3 through 28, 2011

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

3 Dec Tumpek Landep Pasek Gelgel Temple Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Agung Pasek Temple Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Agung Pasek Temple Silamadeg Tabanan Pasek Tangkas Temple Kediri Tabanan Kerta Temple Banyuning Barat Buleleng Dalem Tenggaling Temple Sengguan Singapadu Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan

Singaraja Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana Taman Desa Temple Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Penataran Pande Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Dalem Pingit Temple Taro Kaje Tegalalang dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada

Buleleng Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Ida ratu Pande Temple Besakih Mr. Pasek Temple Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Penataran Pande Temple Kusamba Klungkung Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Gianyar

4 Dec Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

7 Dec Buda Wage Uki Pasar Agung Temple Besakih Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Ibuwanasari Tegal Puseh/ Desa Temple Bebalang Bangli Dalem Temple Perancak Badung Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi

10 Dec Purnama Kenam Kiduling Kereteg Besakih Lingsar Temple Lombok Bebengan Tanjung Lombok Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Mengwi Dalem Putra Belingkang Benawah Gianyar Prajapati Temple Balikpapan

13 Dec Anggar Kasih Kulantir Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Dalem Lagan Temple Bebalang Bangli Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Gaduh Temple Sanding Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang

14 Dec Buda Umanis Kulantir Pasek Tangkas Temple kaler Tabanan Gaduh Benoh Temple Ubung Denpasar

18 Dec Redite Keliwon Tolu Dalem Alas Harum Kaba-kaba Kediri Tabanan.

19 Dec Soma Umanis Tolu Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Kawitan Sakula Gotra Tegal Kepuh Kaba-kaba Kediri

Tabanan Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Lembongan Nusa Penida Batu Madeg Temple Besakih Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih

21 Dec Buda Pon Tolu Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring

22 Dec Wraspati Wage Tolu Peninjoan Temple Besakih

28 Dec Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Puseh/ Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan

Sading Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana

Nusa Penida

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International

“I’m 61 years old and I’ve nevervoted before. I came here today as Icouldn’t vote yesterday because ofthe crowds,” said Azza Mohamed,at a busy Cairo polling stationwhere queues stretched around theblock. “Everyone who votes todayknows their vote won’t be lost,” shesaid, on the second day of the sec-ond round of a complicated electionthat will last into January.

Before Egyptians rose up in

January to topple Mubarak 18days later, the president’s NationalDemocratic Party (NDP) swept toassured victories in elections lit-tered with abuses.

“I can choose the person thatI want to represent me. The NDPused to control the country. Nowour views will steer the parlia-ment,” said 24-year-old NesmaMedhat, another Cairo voter.Parliament’s prime job will be

appointing a 100-strong assembly

powers of the president, parlia-ment and perhaps the army in thenew Egypt.

The ruling army council fuelledsuspicions it wanted to hang on topower, even after a new presidentwas elected, when its cabinetproposed inserting articles in thenew constitution that would haveshielded it from civilian scrutiny.

Reuters

BAN KOK - Opium cultiva-tion is back on the rise in Myan-mar and Laos despite govern-ment eradication campaigns, withimpoverished farmers lured byhigher prices and strong demandfrom neighboring countries, a U.N.report said Thursday.

Land used for growing opium,a paste from poppy used to makeheroin, has increased by 14 percentin Myanmar from last year and 38percent in Laos, according to satel-lite and helicopter surveys carriedout jointly by the United Nations

-ODC) and the Myanmar and Laogovernments.

The two countries form part ofSoutheast Asia’s infamous GoldenTriangle, which once accounted formore than 70 percent of the world’ssupply of heroin.

Myanmar accounts for 91 per-cent of regional production andan estimated 9 percent of globaloutput. Afghanistan supplies atleast three-quarters of global pro-duction.

Poverty and food security werea big concern in all the areas ofMyanmar surveyed, with an esti-

mated 35 percent of people having

incentive for farmers to stop grow-ing poppies.

Cultivation in Southeast Asiaclimbed 16 percent in 2011 andthere was twice as much land grow-

survey said.“There needs to be recogni-

tion that the lack of security,political stability and sustainabledevelopment are some of the keydrivers behind increased opiumproduction,” Yuri Fedotov, UN-ODC executive director, said inthe report.

Associated Press Writer

K ALA L M , Malaysia A gibbon attacked two children,including one who was seriously injured, after escaping from an enclo-

Malacca oo director Ahmad Azhar Mohammed said. Minutes later,the ape attacked a 3-year-old boy and ripped off part of his right thigh,he said.

Haziq, was hospitalized in serious condition, the zoo director said.The siamang is a tailless, black-furred gibbon native to forests in

Malaysia and Indonesia’s Sumatra province.The boy’s mother,Anita Sulaiman, told The Star newspaper that her

family was relaxing at an aviary park when they heard people screamingand saw the gibbon charging at visitors. She said the gibbon snatchedher son from her husband’s arms before biting off part of his thigh.

“I saw my husband grappling with the gibbon. A visitor came tohis aid and hit the gibbon, forcing it to release the child,” she told thenewspaper. “He lost a lot of blood. I fear my son will be scarred andtraumatized for life.”

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According to him, only foreigntourists would still choose to stayin Kuta. They generally came fromcountries such as Australia whichhad considered Kuta as a village.“Occupancy rate of the hotels inBadung ahead of Christmas is stillin the range of 65 percent. Probablyafter Christmas and by the year-endthe hotel occupancy will be in therange of 80 percent and upper,”he said.

PHRI Badung expected the

be resolved properly, so the imageofBali as aworld tourist destinationwas still maintained. “Wideningroad and creating new road are nolonger possible, let alone in Semi-nyak, Legian and Kuta. It needs tobuild the pockets of parking lot anddiscipline the roadside parking thatcan trigger congestion,” he said.

The occurring congestion wasalsoassessedbyanumberofpeople

due to uneven development ofinfrastructure so that it made tour-ists prefer the Southern Bali. Theidea was once revealed by Chair-man of GIPI Bali, Ngurah Wijaya.Unevenly distributed constructionof the supporting infrastructurehad been highlighted by tourismbusinesspeople, whereas the infra-structure, especially road access,was the key to equitable growth oftourism in Bali.

He said that many domesticand foreign tourists were choosingto stay in the southern Bali suchas Nusa Dua, Kuta and Denpasarbecause the access connecting totourist resorts likeBulelengwithouttime-consuming had not existedyet. “Bali Government should im-mediately find out a solution ofroad construction that can accessthe tourist resort in North and WestBali without taking many hours,”he said. (par)

The court is giving 40 days forboth sides to solve the case peace-fully. “If there is breakthrough inthe next 40 days, the court willgive another 15 days until the me-diator report that both sides havecome up with an agreement,”Amzer said.

After that, the judge closedthe trial. The court room was

-out Bali, some of them were theHead of Independent Journalist

Council of Bali Journalist Asso-ciation, Wayan Jesna Winada andothers. They already came to thecourt at 9 o’clock while the trialitself was started at 12.30.

After the trial, the mediator,

John Piter directly went to workby calling both sides to examinethe law suit. “We call the Gover-nor on Monday, December 19 andthe defendants on the next day.We hope that both side could obeythe schedule so the mediationprocess can be done properly,”he added.

Piter said that the rule usedto assess the matter is the ruleno 40 about press which statedthat press problem must throughthe rules and not straight to thepublic court. “This is what wewant to emphasizes on this caseso we urge the Governor to usehis answering right, similar tothe recommendation of the PressCouncil,” he added. (kmb)

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Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s football association has fined eight clubs for joining a rebel league, an official said Wednesday, in a row that has seen the country’s top club expelled from international competition.

Indonesian football was plunged into chaos last month by the break-away of 18 clubs from the official top-tier Liga Prima, accredited by the Indonesian Football Associa-

tion (PSSI), to revive the rival Liga Super.

International football body FIFA has already intervened in Indonesia once this year, forcing the PSSI to elect a new leadership following chronic infighting.

The PSSI’s diciplinary committee chief Catur Agus Saptono said Persib Bandung, who have played in the new competition, were fined one billion rupiah ($110,000) while seven other defectors were given 500 million

rupiah penalties.“Persib Bandung played in our

competition and received revenue-sharing benefits, but they now play for the other league. They are showing bad sportsmanship,” Saptono said.

The other seven teams fined were Mitra Kukar, Persisam Samarinda, Persela Lamongan, Persiba Balikpa-pan, PSPS Pekanbaru, Deltras Sido-arjo and Pelita Jaya Karawang.

The eight clubs will be relegated to the second division if they come back

to the Liga Prima, Saptono said.Last season’s Liga Prima winners

Persipura Jayapura were expelled from the Asian Champions League, the continent’s top club tournament, last week for taking part in the break-away, but were not among those fined by the PSSI.

The PSSI also sanctioned two top officials of the rebel league, banning them from any involvement in soccer-related activities for three years and fining them 150 million rupiah each.

“We had to sanction them because the encouraged teams to join the Liga Super. They claimed to be president-

director and commissioner of an official league,” said Saptono.

National under-23 football team coach Rahmad Darmawan tendered his resignation Tuesday amid the turmoil, complaining that “the play-ers are those who bear the brunt” of the quarrel.

Liga Super players have effec-tively been barred from the national team, with the PSSI citing FIFA’s rules as saying players from unofficial leagues cannot represent their country in international events.

Indonesia co-hosted the 2007 Asian Cup, but its national team’s record is poor.

The sugarcane growers grouped in the Association of Indonesian Sugarcane Farmers (APTRI) hailed among others from West Java, Cen-tral Java, East Java, Lampung and North Sumatra provinces.

They believed national sugar stocks were still enough to meet consumption until May 2012.

“The plan to import sugar is not realistic because it is not based on the real sugar stocks,” APTRI Chair-man Soemitro Samadikoen said.

The association also asked the government to issue policies which served sugarcane growers` inter-ests, including maintaining presi-

dential regulation number 57 of 2004 which declared sugar as goods under surveillance.

It said sugarcane growers were currently encountered with unfa-vorable policies including the trade minister`s decree number 111 of 2009 which it said had led to the rampant circulation of white refined sugar (crystal sugar.

APTRI said white refined sugar which was supposed to meet de-mand from food and beverage manufacturers had penetrated the domestic market at the expense of local sugarcane growers.

“Based on our findings from

several parts of Indonesia, refined sugar produced by PT Makassar Tene and bearing Bola Manis brand is widely circulating in the market,” APTRI Deputy Secretary General Nur Khabsyin said.

The association urged the gov-ernment to stop the circulation of refined sugar in the market and take firm measures against those involved in it.

“The circulation of refined sugar also has an adverse impact on the sugar trade system as a whole,” he said. At the rally the sugarcane farmers also asked the government not to issue permits for the con-struction of new sugar mills.

“But if the government insists on licencing new sugar mills, APTRI will ask the new sugar mills to mill smallholder sugarcane rather than raw sugar,” Soemitro said.

Bloomberg

JAKARTA - Indonesia may issue a rule next year requiring telecom-munications companies, including Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), operating there to build local data centers, a move the nation’s biggest smartphone seller has resisted.

The government has informed the companies of the coming regulation, an element of the 2008 law con-cerning information and electronic transactions, said Tifatul Sembiring, Indonesia’s minister of communica-tion and information technology.

“Building a data center isn’t easy,” Sembiring said in Jakarta. “And it is expensive. We have told them to be ready.”

The pending requirement high-lights the mounting challenges RIM faces in expanding overseas as India, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have expressed concern they can’t monitor e-mail traffic originat-ing in their countries. The United Arab Emirates abandoned threats to ban BlackBerry traffic in October 2010, without saying whether the Waterloo, Ontario-based company had met its demands.

RIM will “work through” any is-sues the Indonesian government has to avert any potential service inter-ruptions, David Paterson, RIM’s vice president of government relations, said in a Dec. 10 telephone interview. Media reports last week said Indone-sia’s government is threatening to cut BlackBerry data services if it doesn’t comply with commitments made in January. RIM sent a letter to the In-donesian government Sept. 23 saying it had “fully addressed” the govern-ment’s issues by adding content filters and speeding up its regional network, Paterson said.

RIM said in a separate e-mailed statement that it hasn’t been advised of any new specific requirements beyond the initial requests by the government.

“This raises a lot of concerns as these countries want to have it both ways - they want to claim they’re democracies and also control every-

thing,” said Will Stofega, an analyst at research firm International Data Corp. in Framingham, Mass.

Indonesian police are investigat-ing RIM’s country head after a sale on the company’s new BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone resulted in a stampede that injured more than 40 people.

More than 3,000 people lined up outside a Jakarta shopping mall on Nov. 25 to buy the newly released phone, which was being offered at a 50 percent discount to the first 1,000 customers, South Jakarta Police Chief Imam Sugianto said Dec. 9.

Not Blocking RIMThree other people involved with

the event also are being investigated, Sugianto said. All are cooperating and there are no plans to arrest anyone, he said. Indonesia had at least 5 million BlackBerry subscribers as of the first half of this year, according to the na-tion’s telecommunications regulator.

RIM has led Indonesia’s smart-phone market since the fourth quarter of 2010, Stofega said. IDC expects the market to grow 68 percent next year, he said.

Indonesia currently does not re-quire companies to have servers in Indonesia, and the government has been discussing the regulation for about three years, a ministry spokes-man, Gatot Dewo Broto, said Dec. 14. Once it is implemented, companies will have to comply, Broto said.

The new rule doesn’t mention any companies by name, he said.

“The regulation doesn’t have any intention to block RIM,” he said.

Earlier this year, the government urged RIM to build a regional network aggregator in Indonesia, saying it would benefit BlackBerry users in the world’s fourth-most populous country, enabling the government to secure cus-tomers’ data and to reduce costs.

“I don’t think anybody has any remote interest in doing anything negative for the millions of Black-Berry users in Indonesia,” Paterson said Dec. 11. RIM installed some infrastructure in Singapore and Hong Kong that would speed up data flow for carriers, Paterson said.

FOTO ANTARA/Reno Esnir

Thousands of sugarcane growers staged a rally outside the Trade Ministry building here on Wednesday to protest against the government`s plan to import 500 thousand tons of sugar next year.

Antara

JAKARTA - Thousands of sugarcane growers staged a rally outside the Trade Ministry building here on Wednesday to protest against the government`s plan to import 500 thousand tons of sugar next year.

8 InternationalFriday, December 16, 2011

Bali Today

Many of the Chinese touristscame there for a holiday for thebeautiful nature, arts and culture,some of them similar to those inChina, an observer of Bali’s tour-ism Dewa Rai Budiasa said.

Dewa Rai said Bali with itsbeautiful nature and unique art andculture, is worth to spend a honey-moon for foreign tourists.

According to the Bali tourismagency, some 198,790 Chinesecame straight from their country toBali in the January-October 2011period, a 13.76 pct increase com-pared to the 174,743 in last year’ssame period.

Dewa Rai said that his com-pany who had often handled foreignyoungsters for a honeymoon in the

island paradise, said the number ofChinese to Bali ranked second in thenumber of tourist suppliers to Balifollowing Australia with 660.743.

The plan of a big power investorand a company from Chen hento help this area to realize the BaliGreen Province, contributed to theincrease in the number of Chinesetourists to Bali.

AntaraDEN ASA - French consum-

ers have started reducing Bali’shandicraft and other non-oil/gascommodity purchases as an im-pact of the economic recession inthat country.

France is known as the big-gest Balinese handicraft buyersfrom Eurupe but has been re-ducing to 30.5 pct, head of theBali industrial and trade exportagency Putu Bagiada said here on

Wednesday.Bali’s exports to France have

nor reached only 27.3 million USdollars in the January-October2011 period, compared to lastyear’s 39.7 million dollars of thelast year.

This region’s foreign tradeto France had been declining,although the Indonesian govern-ment has been increasing the

encourage more French tourists

to the island paradise.France was the third biggest

buyer of Bali’s non-oil/gas com-modities last year, but the positionhad been taken over by Australiawhile the highest was still the USand Japan in fourth rank.

As many Europeans have beenvisiting Bali, it has a positive ef-fect on Bali’s foreign trade to thatpart of the world, especially withregard to handicraft goods andfarm commodities.

Beauty can stop everyone’s eyes flickering. Beauty of thekid song can lullaby a baby. Similarly, beauty also can toss theimagination, soothe the mind and draw people to get near. Balihas many sources of that beauty offering the charm of nature,culture or adventure.

By maintaining traditions inspired by Hinduism, Balinesepeople go on running in harmony with the time. In other words,they do not feel inferior because of inheriting those traditions.Beauty in the form of various dance movements has been intro-duced since early ages. On seeing a dance staged, a toddler maywatch it attentively or its fingers move and move as if imitatingthe movement of the dance.

Virtually all customary villages in Bali have gamelan troupe.This troupe plays important role in expressing their entertain-ment arts and accompanying every ritual activity. This existencegives opportunity to villagers from child to adult to expresstheir artistic talent especially in dance, drama and gamelan arts.Young girls under twelve or elementary school age have a chanceto participate in performing Rejang Dance. By wearing whiteand yellow costumes and floral decoration on head, they dancebeautifully accompanied by gamelan music. Rejang Dance is oneof the sacred dances performed in relation to the organization oftemple anniversary or odalan. Other than putting a basic love totheir tradition, they also show devotional service or ngatur ayahthrough the arts.

When they grow older, right on entering secondary school,they join customary village youth club or Sekaa Taruna. Here,with their male friends and their brothers and sisters start to learnabout organization. Many things can be learned through this or-ganization. Since it has affiliation to customary village, they canlearn about the making of some simple oblation under guidanceof senior oblation maker and various traditional arts. In Bali, thisyouth club actually play important role in preparing young gen-eration to maintain their valuable cultural heritages or to preparethemselves for inheriting customary responsibility.

With their male counterpart, here the young girls also learn toplay drama or more complex traditional arts. Popular genres ofperformance showed are pure entertainment and the one in combi-nation with sacred dance. The latter usually features Calonarang.This magical drama involves a combination of male and femaleplayers. In essence, this Calonarang drama highlights the endlessfight between truth and untruth symbolizing by sanctified effi-gies or tapakan like Rangda and Barong. By and large, it is alsoassociated with ritual events at local temple.

In the following stage, when woman gets married she will enterthe new organization, namely customary village. Having learnedmuch about ritual works, it is now the time to practice them inwider social life. They should attend some socio-religious activi-ties when the events engage the members of customary village. Atthis stage, household mother can remain to show her devotionalservice through the arts other than social works. Through thearts, they may join the drama or individual psalmodic singing orpasantian.

How is about their private life It is normal as others. They alsohave opportunity to build career in their profession. In modernlife with heterogeneous professions as today, woman also worksas men do. Traditions do not impede them to reach outstandingachievement in self-employee or office job. If they work at day-time, some social works will be held at the evening.

Tradition is not something obsolete. Even, it retains abundantinspirations to create something new and creative that is advanta-geous for modern life. However, traditions should also be reviewedand adjust to the current condition without leaving behind its core.Tradition does not hinder women to get their career achievement.Even, it stays to give them a channel to express their spiritualsense through devotional services. (BTN punia)

Chinese tourists shopping in one of art markets in Bali Island. The number of Chinese tourists to Bali has been increasing almost each month, earning it the credit of one of the 10 biggest tourist suppliers to the island paradise.

China second biggest tourist supplier to BaliAntara

DEN ASA - The number o Chinese tourists to Bali has been increasin almost each month,earnin it the credit o one o the 0 bi est tourist suppliers to the island paradise.

France begins reducing imports from Bali

Balinese women:

In devotional services through the arts

Balinese Culture

9International Friday, December 16, 2011

Special Mussels:Dissolved in Tenderness of Coconut Milk

While boring with the ordinary servings, simply try a delightful flavor of seafood. For instance, with a combination of mussel ingredient and Balinese tuber spices, it could pamper the appetite of foodies or culinary adventurers. Tender coconut milk will enhance the flavor of mussel.

Ingredient: 250g mussel, a cup of coconut milkSpices: 6 cloves shallot, 4 cloves garlic, 1 large chili,

2 small chilies, 1 slice turmeric, 1 slice kencur (aromatic ginger), 1 slice ginger, 1 pc salam leaf, 2 pcs kaffir lime leaf, ½ tsp coriander, ½ tsp pepper, ½ tsp salt, 1 tbsp of lime juice and 2 tbsp palm oil

Method:

to remove its odor.

lime leaf, salam leaf, pepper, salt and coriander.

Pour the mussel into the spices on the frying pan and stir

coriander. Wait for a while until the coconut milk turns a little dry. Take out and it is ready to serve. (BTN/punia)

ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

A worker controlling one of generators in electricity power station at Pesanggaran, Denpasar, Thursday, December 15, 2011. Government plan to change the use of electricity source from fuel fossil to geothermal and gas to safe the environment and energy eficiency.

Teep Beans:La ing hile En oying Slo Snac

in fact, Balinese community also retains easy-peasy snack but sometimes a bit harder. One of them is the bean of teep. Its tree resembles to that of breadfruit. However, its beans are far smaller compared to that of breadfruit. When its fruits have turned ripe, they usually

is only interested to eat the flesh of fruit. Similar thing also happens to coffee beans. Since the skin of beans is hard it cannot digest them so civet could only enjoy

people see the ripe fruits first, they will not need to wait the coming of civet to pick them.

To process the beans, they are first cleansed

should be fried without oil but sand. When they have

it may take a bit long time to open and chew them. However, if they are indeed dry enough and cooked well they must be easy to open and crispy. They are good to consume as slow snack while chatting or watching TV. (BTN/punia)

Friday, December 16, 201110 InternationalDestinations

IBP

Gua Lawah or Bat Cave is one of favorite places of interest in Bali and it is located near of hilly bank so it is called reef of Middle hill. This cave is located in Pasing-gahan countryside, Dawan sub district, Klungkung Regency, east part of Bali and about 1,5 hours from Denpasar Town. There is a nature cave dwelt by thousands of tail bat located at north side from Jeroan/center of Gua Lawah Temple . Meanwhile the main road from Klungkung to Amlapura is just in front of the temple. This cave is apposite to the beautiful beach with black sand along the coastal area.

Pursuant to the papyrus of Dwi Jendra Tattwa, the Gua Lawah’s name is Gua Lela-wah, the name which is given by Danghyang Nirartha (a priest overspread the Hindu teaching in Bali) when he stop in this place on his Tirtha Yatra trips. He arrive at a cave which is a lot of bats hang on and its unbro-ken voice clamor as hymn to add the beauty of the cave. Therefore this cave is named by Gua Lawah/Bat Cave. On the above cave is growth by the flower trees with it’s smelt fragrance and stimulus the peace mind of

Danghyang Nirartha, so that he overnight stay for some nights in this place. From the cave we see also the beautiful coast with the blue ocean with Nusa Penida Island as a backdrop.

Gua Lawah Temple History* According to the chronicle of Bendesa

Mas, it mentions that the elaborations of Mpu Kuturan (a Hindu priest who come from Java) then he live in Bali which has been hosted in Silayukti, Padang Bai. He also builds some temple like Gua Lawah Temple.

* According to the Papyrus of Dwijendra Tattwa, it narrates that after Danghyang Nirartha stay some nights at Goa Lawah, then he build a Kahyangan Temple on the ground. It means that Danghyang Nirartha extends the Palinggih or temple building existing at Gua Lawah Temple.

Temple festival at Gua Lawah is basi-cally divided into 2 types that is Piodalan ceremony, and Ngusaba ceremony. On this event, many Hindu people from entire of the island come and pray. Gua Lawah is a place of interest in Bali and opened for visitors who wish to see the temple closely.

Gua Lawah

Friday, December 16, 2011 11

BUSINESSInternational

Associated Press

TOKYO A key centralbank survey showed Thursdaythat confidence at major Japa-nese manufacturers fell over thelast quarter, as the export-reliantcountry battled a strong yenand an increasingly precariousglobal economy.

In the Bank of Japan’s “tankan”survey of business sentiment, themain index for big manufacturersfell to minus 4, in the first dete-rioration in two quarters. Threemonths ago, it stood at 2.

The figure represents thepercentage of companies sayingbusiness conditions are goodminus those saying conditionsare unfavorable, with 100 repre-senting the best mood and minus100 the worst.

The result is slightly worsethan Kyodo News agency’s aver-age market forecast for a readingof minus 2.

Large manufacturers also

don’t expect to feel better any-time soon. The central bank fore-casts the index to fall to minus 5over the next three months.

Japan has been batt l ing astrong yen, which has hit mul-tiple historic highs this yearagainst the dollar. Amid Eu-rope’s debt problems and eco-nomic uncertainty in the U.S.,global investors have looked tothe Japanese currency as a rela-tively safe haven.

But Japan relies on exportsto drive growth, and the yen’sappreciation has hit companiessuch as Toyota Motor Corp. andSony Corp. hard. When the yenclimbs, it reduces the value ofexporters’ overseas profits whenrepatriated to Japan.

That has forced companies toshift more production overseas,prompting worries about a hol-lowing out of Japanese industry.

The most pessimistic of thebig manufacturing group wasthe electrical machinery sector

including audio and videoequipment which tumbled tominus 21 from minus 5. Compa-nies doing business in petroleumproducts and heavy machineryalso recorded big declines.

The auto industry, however,showed surprising resilience.Its index jumped seven pointsto 20, despite the yen and recentparts supply problems due to theflooding in Thailand.

Big non-manufacturers werefeeling more optimistic as well.Their confidence index rose to 4from 1 three months earlier.

The reading for medium-sizedmanufacturers was flat at minus3, while the small manufacturersindex improved to minus 8, upfrom minus 11.

The survey, which helps guidemonetary policy, showed that largecompanies overall plan to boostcapital spending by 1.4 percent this

in the September survey.

Thedatahighlights increasingrisksto China’s growth emanating froma deterioration in developed marketeconomies while domestic demand isbeingdentedbygovernmentefforts to

“Growthmomentumremainsweakwith additional downside risks fromexports and the property market not

Hongbin, chief China economist atHSBC.

canandshouldmakemoreaggressive

fronts to stabilize growth and jobs.”

-turing purchasing managers’ index(PMI),which showedChina’s factoryactivity shrank again in Decemberafter new orders fell.

The PMI, the earliest indicator ofChina’s industrial activity, is likely toentrenchviews thatmanufacturers arestrugglingwithwaningglobaldemand

and tight domestic credit conditions.The contraction indicated by the

PMI came swiftly after Commerce

on-year fall in foreign direct invest-ment growth in China in 28 months.

November’s $8.8 billion of com-mitments were down 9.8 percent on

July 2009’s 35.7 percent year-on-yearcollapse to $5.4 billion.

United States was a particular drag,slowing year-to-date growth in FDI

-cent in October’s data.

Still, totalFDI in theyear todateof$103.8 billion suggest 2011 is poisedto be a record-breaking year.

The slowdown in FDI growth

capital from China in four years inOctober, part of a recent trend of

largely driven by Europe’s festeringdebt crisis.

But Hua hongwei, an econo-

mist with Huachuang Securities inBeijing, says the long-term allureto global investors of the world’ssecond-biggest economy remainedstrong and he expected a reasonablyswift rebound.

Data from the Commerce Minis-try showed that U.S. investments inChina dropped 23.1 percent from a

11 months of the year.Investments from the European

Union -- China’s single largest trad-ingpartner --were$5.98billion in theJanuary-November period, up a tiny0.29 percent from a year earlier.

Investments from 10 of China’sAsian neighbors, including HongKong, Taiwan and Japan and SouthKorea, however, jumped 17.98percent to $89.6 billion in the sameperiod.

Service-sector FDI was up 18.6percentbetweenJanuaryandNovem-ber, more than twice the 7.6 percentrate of growth in the manufacturingsector in the same period.

Associated Press

WASH N TON Democrats backed away from theirdemand for higher taxes on millionaires as part of legislation toextend payroll tax cuts for mostAmericans as Congress struggledto avert a partial government shutdown.

Wednesday that Democrats were drafting a new proposal to ex-tend the payroll tax that likely would not include the millionaires’surtax that Republicans opposed almost unanimously.

As President Barack Obama readies for his re-election

a political maneuver designed to force Republican lawmakersto choose between protecting the wealthy on the one hand andextending tax cuts for millions on the other. Since Obama tookpower, Democrats have talked of raising taxes on the wealthy toBill Clinton-era levels, a proposal that has popular approval buthas been met with staunch opposition by Republicans who say itwill stall economic growth and is an act of class warfare.

The pre-Christmas wrangling caps a contentious year in acapital hindered by divided government, with Democrats con-trolling the White House and Senate while Republicans run theHouse. Lawmakers have engaged in down-to-the-wire dramaeven when performing the most mundane acts of governing, suchas keeping agencies functioning and extending federal borrowingauthority, tasks that are only becoming more politically delicateas the calendar nears the 2012 election year.

move. “They’re not giving up a whole lot. The tax they wanted toimplement on business owners was something that couldn’t passthe House and couldn’t pass the Senate,” Sen. Mitch McConnell,the Republican Senate leader, said in a CNBC interview.

Jettisoning the tax could also require Democrats to agree topolitically painful savings elsewhere in the budget to replacethe estimated $140 billion the tax would have raised over adecade.

In its most recent form, the surtax would have slapped a 1.9percent tax on income in excess of $1 million, with the proceedshelping pay for the extension of tax cuts for 160 million workers.Senate Democrats have twice forced votes on the proposal.

Republicans say they plan to try winning House approval for

September. They unveiled a spending package overnight despitea plea from the White House for additional talks over a handfulof provisions opposed by Obama.

Dan Pfeiffer, White House communications director, saidCongress should approve a short-term bill to keep the govern-

The Republican measure contains language to roll back Obamaadministration policies that had loosened restrictions on the rightsof Cuban immigrants to send money to relatives in Cuba or travelback to the island to visit.

Democratic Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid warned that un-less Republicans show a willingness to bend, the country facesa government shutdown “that will be just as unpopular” as thetwo that occurred when presidential candidate Newt Gingrichwas House speaker more than a decade ago.

It was a reminder as if McConnell and current HouseSpeaker John Boehner needed one of the political debaclethat ensued for Republicans when Gingrich was outmaneuveredin a showdown with former Bill Clinton.

After a two-day silence, the White House said Obama wouldsign the measure despite initial concern over a provision requir-

Foreign investment in China Reuters

Congress drops millionaires tax to avert shutdown

Entertainment InternationalFriday, December 16, 201112

“The Help” was closely followed by silent-era drama “The Artist” with three nominations for its actors, including best cast in a film. Joining them in that key category were the performers in critically acclaimed drama “The Descendants” and unexpected picks in director Woody Al-len’s “Midnight in Paris” and the raunchy comedy “Bridesmaids.”

The Screen Actors Guild, or SAG, awards are among the most-watched hon-ors during Hollywood’s film awards sea-son, leading up to the Oscars in February, because actors make up one of the largest voting groups for Academy Awards. As a result, SAG nominees typically figure prominently on many ballots by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which gives out the Oscars.

The SAG Awards will be given out in Los Angeles on January 29, and televised on cable TV networks TNT and TBS. SAG surprises included the ensemble nod for “Bridesmaids” because dramas typically are favored over comedies during awards season. The joke-filled movie about women in a wedding party

also earned Melissa McCarthy a best supporting actress nod.

While movies such as “The Artist,” “The Help” and “The Descendants” have made many critics’ and industry groups’ lists of top movies, “Midnight in Paris” will get a big boost in this year’s Acad-emy Award race by virtue of its SAG nomination. Next on Oscar watchers’ list is Thursday’s Golden Globe nods.

Among acting races, Leonardo Di-Caprio earned a surprise SAG nod for best actor as FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover in “J. Edgar” and Brad Pitt’s role as a math-minded baseball man in “Moneyball” put him in the race, too.

They are joined by another unexpect-ed choice, Mexican-born actor Demain Bichir in “A Better Life.” Rounding out the category will be widely touted George Clooney playing a struggling father in “The Descendants” and French actor Jean Dujardin as a silent-era film star in “The Artist” Left out of the SAG actor race was Michael Fassbender, who has earned acclaim portraying a sex ad-dict in “Shame.”

REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

Actresses Regina King (L) and Judy Greer announce Viola Davis as outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role nominee for her work in “The Help” for 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in West Hollywood, December 14, 2011.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — A judge offered Lindsay Lohan something Wednesday that she hadn’t heard from a court in nearly two years: Praise. Superior Court Judge Stepha-nie Sautner said the actress was doing well

under strict new terms of her probation and urged her to keep up the good work.

The starlet has completed 12 days at the county morgue and five therapy sessions since Nov. 2, when she was sentenced to a strict routine of community service and counseling after her latest probation viola-tion. “You’re doing well and I’d like to see it continue,” Sautner said during a 10-minute status hearing.

She also offered Lohan an incentive to succeed, saying the actress could take leisure trips outside California after she completes a dozen days of morgue work a month. The actress had permission from her probation officer to take a trip to Hawaii to celebrate her sister’s birthday. She returned just hours before the hearing.

Lohan, 25, has drawn the repeated ire of judges for failing to complete counseling sessions and community service assignments on time. Sautner made clear Wednesday that she believes Lohan’s new schedule — which requires the model and actress to appear in court monthly until March — is the reason for the turnaround.

The judge even hinted that Lohan might end her supervised probation early if she works harder. “Do more days a month and we can end this in February, possibly,” Sau-tner said. The judge said Lohan should keep reporting to court in person to make sure she remains on track. “I think she likes to come see me,” Sautner joked. “I think that’s her motivation.”

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s daughter says she was inspired to be an actress after seeing her father in the film “Moonwalker.”

“My dad was in the movie ‘Moonwalker’ and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn’t know he could act,” Paris Jackson told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, according to a transcript of the episode to air Thursday. “I saw that and I said, ‘Wow, I want to be just like him.’”

The film featuring Jackson’s signature dance move and other videos was released in 1988. Paris said her father encouraged her and did improvisation sessions to develop her skills. The 13-year-old has been cast alongside Larry King in a film based on a new children’s book, “Lundon’s Bridge and the Three Keys,” which is in early stages of development.

The Internet Movie Database, known as IMDB, shows the film is tentatively sched-uled for a 2013 release, although filmmak-ers have not presented the teen’s proposed acting contract to a Los Angeles court as required because she is a minor. Paris also talked about the lengths that her father took to protect her identity for an episode that will air on Thursday.

She said her father protected her and her two brothers from the media, such as by placing them in masks or dressing them in costumes when they were in public. She said

she initially thought wearing the mask was stupid, but later came to realize that it was for her and her brothers’ protection.

She said no one recognized her when she began attending school after her father’s death in June 2009. “I was like, yes, I have a chance to be normal,” she said.

Jackson’s children have since been in the public eye, appearing onstage at their father’s televised memorial service, the Grammy Awards and other television appearances.

Reuters

LOS ANGELES - The actors of civil rights drama “The Help” topped Screen Actors Guild Award nominations on Wednesday with four nods including best film cast, leading a list of nominees that saw many surprises in Hollywood’s current awards season.

Judge says Lindsay Lohan doing well on probation

AP Photo/Michael Nelson, Pool

Lindsay Lohan appears in court during a progress report session at the Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 in Los Angeles.

Jackson daughter tells ‘Ellen’ about acting dreams

AP Photo/Warner Bros., Michael Rozman

In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo released by War-ner Bros., talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, right, welcomes Paris Jackson, daughter of the late pop star Michael Jackson during a taping of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in Burbank, Calif.

Life Style Friday, December 16, 2011 13International

The combination of Google’s soft-ware and Samsung’s hardware makes the Galaxy Nexus one of the best can-didates to compete with Apple’s latest iPhone, though its price is steep. It will be available Thursday in the U.S. for $300 with a two-year Verizon Wireless contract.

Like the previous phone in the Nexus

line, the Nexus S, the Galaxy Nexus was jointly developed by Google Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. It features a slim frame with a large, curved glass screen that’s comfortable for chatting with friends and excellent for watching videos. There are 32 gigabytes of built-in storage space on the Verizon version of the phone, but no external slot for a microSD memory card.

The screen, a pocket-busting 4.65 inches at the diagonal, makes the iP-hone’s 3.5-inches look diminutive. And despite the size, the Galaxy Nexus man-ages to weigh just 4.8 ounces, slightly less than Apple’s offering.

On it, videos and Web pages looked

crisp and bright, with rich colors. I start-ed watching a video during testing — an HD copy of “The Help” that I rented from Google’s Android Market — and had to force myself to break away to test other features of the device.

With the latest version of Android under the hood, the Galaxy Nexus is packed with new and improved features. Many of them are great; others are sim-ply great in theory.

Overall, the software looks fresher and less cluttered. The virtual “buttons” that usually sit at the bottom of the screen have been redesigned. There’s still a “home” and a “back” button, but no “menu” button to pull up various op-tions within an app. Instead, there’s now a “recent apps” button that shows what you’ve been doing lately on the phone.

Another neat change: The buttons are completely virtual, so they change direc-tions when you flip the phone sideways and disappear when you’re viewing photos or videos.

Associated Press Writer

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — An unexpected but fruitful relationship has blossomed between two potent forces in the swamps of South Florida: the American crocodile, and a nuclear power plant.

The reptile has made it off the endangered species list thanks in part to 168 miles of manmade cooling canals surrounding Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant in the southeastern corner of the Florida peninsula. It turns out that Florida Power and Light was building prime croc habitat just as virtually every other developer was paving it over.

Federal wildlife officials give the state’s largest public utility part of the credit for a five-fold increase in the species’ population in Florida. There are only two other sanctuaries for the crocodiles, which are still considered threatened.

“The way the cooling canal system was designed actually turned out to be pretty good for crocodile nesting,” said John Wrublik, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice. “It wasn’t designed for crocodiles, but they’ve done a very good job of maintaining that area.”

Hundreds of crocodiles, as long as 15 feet and as heavy as one ton, roam the swampland surrounding the power plant. They’re moni-tored by wildlife biologists hired by the utility, who sometimes need quick reflexes to keep all their fingers.

On one recent nighttime survey, Mario Al-decoa jumped from an airboat in total darkness and darted into the bushes to grab a 13-pound crocodile to mark it for identification. “It’s usually just adrenaline and instinct,” he said.

The American crocodile is often confused with its plentiful cousin, the alligator. Alliga-tors are black, have broad, rounded snouts and are found throughout the deep South. Crocodiles are grayish, have narrow tapered snouts and are so sensitive to cold that their only U.S. habitat is in South Florida.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny she could fit into the palm of her doctor’s hand. Weighing just 9 1/2 ounces — less than a can of soda — she is among the smallest babies ever born in the world. Most infants her size don’t survive, but doctors are preparing to send her home by New Year’s.

Melinda was born premature at 24 weeks over the summer and spent the early months co-cooned in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit in Southern California. Almost every day, her 22-year-old mother sits at her bedside

and stays overnight whenever she can.The day before her Thursday due date,

Haydee Ibarra visited Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center where her daughter has been since her birth in late August. Melinda is believed to be the second smallest baby to survive in the U.S. and third in the world.

Ibarra caressed Melinda through the portholes of the incubator where nurses pinned up a homemade sign bearing her name. Now weighing four pounds, Melinda gripped Ibarra’s pinky finger and yawned. “Melinda, Melinda,” she cooed at her daugh-ter dressed in a polka dot onesie. “You’re awake today.”

Review: Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus a sweet smartphoneAssociated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — As fans of Google’s Android mobile software well know, each new version is named after a sugary treat, such as Gingerbread or Honeycomb. Android is about to get even sweeter with Ice Cream Sandwich — a smooth, feature-rich operating system that will run first on the delectable Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone.

AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

An Associated Press reporter demonstrates the Samsung Gal-axy Nexus phone, which runs the newest version of Google’s Android mobile software, Ice Cream Sand-wich, during a product review in San Francisco, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011.

Palm-sized baby, 2nd smallest in US, is growing

AP Photo/Haydee Ibarra

This undated photo provided by Melinda Guido’s family shows Melinda, with her mother’s fingers in the scene, in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.

Biologists monitor crocodiles at nuclear plant

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

In this Nov. 28, 2011 photo, wildlife biolo-gists gather waiting for nightfall at a dock on a cooling canal adjacent to the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant during a night-time crocodile survey in Homestead, Fla.

Friday, December 16, 201114 InternationalSport

The Spanish champions, bidding to winthe seven-team competition for the secondtime in three years, face Brazil’s Santos ina mouth-watering final in Yokohama onSunday.

The gloss was taken off an easy winin front of 66,000 spectators after Spainstriker David Villa was rushed to hospitalwith a broken leg after going down awk-wardly in the first half.

Barca took the lead in comical fashionafter 25 minutes, Pedro’s cross bobblingoff Al Sadd defender Nadir Belhadj andgoalkeeper Mohamed Saqr ’s panickedclearance crashing off Adriano’s shin intothe back of the net.

Adriano scored his second two minutesbefore halftime, latching on to a pass fromThiago Alcantara to drive a powerful left-foot shot into the bottom corner.

Argentine wizard Lionel Messi bril-liantly picked out Seydou Keita, whocalmly flicked home Barca’s third in the64th minute.

Substitute Maxwell added fourth in the81st minute to complete the rout as Barca’s

quick passing game befuddled Asianchampions Al Sadd, who gave themless trouble than stadium securityhad on arriving for the match.

Messi and several Barcelonateam mates looked confusedat being held up by zealousJapanese security guards aftergetting off the bus for not havingtheir accreditation visible.

Reuters

BERNE - Paris St Germain went out of the EuropaLeague despite a 4-2 win overAthletic Bilbao on Wednes-day, losing their place to fellow big spenders Salzburgwho fought back to win 3-2 at Slovan Bratislava. Dy-namo Kiev were also knocked out after a squandering

draw at home to Maccabi Tel Aviv as the evening’s 12ties produced 51 goals.

A last-minute goal cost 2010 runners-up Fulham theirplace in a 2-2 draw at home to Odense in more drama.

Lazio, Besiktas, former European champions Steaua Bu-charest and Wisla Krakow reached the last 32, which willinclude Manchester United after their Champions League

elimination last week.

games in Group F, the Austrian side progressing thanks totheir better head-to-head record.

Bilbao, led by eccentric former Argentina and Chile

by Qatari investors, spent over 80 million euros ($107.76million) on new players before the start of the seasonand their elimination is a setback for coach AntoineKombouare after he appeared to have got back ontrack in Ligue 1.

Jon Aurtenetxe gave Athletic a third minute leadbut Javier Pastore, the most expensive of PSG’ssignings, equalised and Mathieu Bodmer put them2-1 ahead by halftime. “It’s a great disappointmentbecause to be honest, there was a good chance toqualify in from this group,” said Kombouare. “Ithink we lacked realism during the group stage,especially against Salzburg and Bratislava.”

Although David Lopez made it 2-2, an InigoPerez own goal and a Guillaume Hoarau penalty

turned out to be in vain after Jakob Jantscherscored twice in Salzburg’s win.

Salzburg, who have invested heavily sincetheir takeover and subsequent re-branding by en-ergy drinks manufacturer Red Bull in 2005, were2-0 behind after six minutes after Milos Lacnyscored twice for the Slovakian champions.

However, the Austrians, who have neverreached the Champions League since the take-over, were level by the 25th minute thanks to aJantscher penalty and a strike from Leonardo.Jantscher then sidefooted the crucial goal in the68th minute.

Reuters

LONDON - Having had their armourpierced for the first time this season leadersManchester City face a big test of their re-solve when Arsenal come gunning for themin the Premier League on Sunday.

Until Monday’s 2-1 defeat by ChelseaRoberto Mancini’s side appeared all butuntouchable at the top but that first reversehas provided a reality check for City andfuelled the belief of the side’s trying tokeep pace with their lightning start.

Throw in their Champions League exit atthe group stage the week before and a num-ber of defensive injuries, the visit of therejuvenated Gunners will shed more lighton the durability of Mancini’s expensivelyassembled machine.

By the time they face Arsenal (1610) theycould even find themselves displaced from

BERNE - Paris St Germain went out of the EuropaLeague despite a 4-2 win overAthletic Bilbao on Wednesday, losing their place to fellow big spenders Salzburgwho fought back to win 3-2 at Slovan Bratislava. Dynamo Kiev were also knocked out after a squandering

draw at home to Maccabi Tel Aviv as the evening’s 12ties produced 51 goals.

A last-minute goal cost 2010 runners-up Fulham theirplace in a 2-2 draw at home to Odense in more drama.

Lazio, Besiktas, former European champions Steaua Bucharest and Wisla Krakow reached the last 32, which willinclude Manchester United after their Champions League

elimination last week.

games in Group F, the Austrian side progressing thanks totheir better head-to-head record.

Bilbao, led by eccentric former Argentina and Chile

by Qatari investors, spent over 80 million euros ($107.76million) on new players before the start of the seasonand their elimination is a setback for coach AntoineKombouare after he appeared to have got back ontrack in Ligue 1.

Jon Aurtenetxe gave Athletic a third minute leadbut Javier Pastore, the most expensive of PSG’ssignings, equalised and Mathieu Bodmer put them2-1 ahead by halftime. “It’s a great disappointmentbecause to be honest, there was a good chance toqualify in from this group,” said Kombouare. “Ithink we lacked realism during the group stage,especially against Salzburg and Bratislava.”

Although David Lopez made it 2-2, an InigoPerez own goal and a Guillaume Hoarau penalty

turned out to be in vain after Jakob Jantscherscored twice in Salzburg’s win.

Salzburg, who have invested heavily sincetheir takeover and subsequent re-branding by energy drinks manufacturer Red Bull in 2005, were2-0 behind after six minutes after Milos Lacnyscored twice for the Slovakian champions.

However, the Austrians, who have neverreached the Champions League since the takeover, were level by the 25th minute thanks to aJantscher penalty and a strike from Leonardo.Jantscher then sidefooted the crucial goal in the68th minute.

Reuters

BERNE - Paris St Germain went out of the EuropaLeague despite a 4-2 win overAthletic Bilbao on Wednesday, losing their place to fellow big spenders Salzburgwho fought back to win 3-2 at Slovan Bratislava. Dynamo Kiev were also knocked out after a squandering

draw at home to Maccabi Tel Aviv as the evening’s 12ties produced 51 goals.

A last-minute goal cost 2010 runners-up Fulham theirplace in a 2-2 draw at home to Odense in more drama.

Lazio, Besiktas, former European champions Steaua Bucharest and Wisla Krakow reached the last 32, which willinclude Manchester United after their Champions League

elimination last week.

games in Group F, the Austrian side progressing thanks totheir better head-to-head record.

Bilbao, led by eccentric former Argentina and Chile

by Qatari investors, spent over 80 million euros ($107.76million) on new players before the start of the seasonand their elimination is a setback for coach AntoineKombouare after he appeared to have got back ontrack in Ligue 1.

Jon Aurtenetxe gave Athletic a third minute leadbut Javier Pastore, the most expensive of PSG’ssignings, equalised and Mathieu Bodmer put them2-1 ahead by halftime. “It’s a great disappointmentbecause to be honest, there was a good chance toqualify in from this group,” said Kombouare. “Ithink we lacked realism during the group stage,especially against Salzburg and Bratislava.”

Although David Lopez made it 2-2, an InigoPerez own goal and a Guillaume Hoarau penalty

turned out to be in vain after Jakob Jantscherscored twice in Salzburg’s win.

Salzburg, who have invested heavily sincetheir takeover and subsequent re-branding by energy drinks manufacturer Red Bull in 2005, were2-0 behind after six minutes after Milos Lacnyscored twice for the Slovakian champions.

However, the Austrians, who have neverreached the Champions League since the takeover, were level by the 25th minute thanks to aJantscher penalty and a strike from Leonardo.Jantscher then sidefooted the crucial goal in the68th minute.

quick passing game befuddled Asianchampions Al Sadd, who gave themless trouble than stadium security

getting off the bus for not having

AP Photo/ Kerstin Joensson

Salzburg’s Gonzalo Zarate from Argentina, left, and Paris’ Nicolas Douchez challenge for the ball during the Group F Europa League soccer match between Red Bull Salzburg and Paris St. Germain in Salzburg, Austria, Thursday , Dec. 1, 2011.

Salzburg through at PSG’s expense

Barca mug Al Sadd to set up

Reuters

YOKOHAMA, Japan - European champions Barcelona overpow-ered Qatar’s Al Sadd 4-0 on Thursday to reach the Club World Cup

one-sided contest.

Spain’s FC Barcelona midfielder Adriano celebrates after scoring his second goal against Qatar’s Al-Sadd Sports Club in the first

half of their semifinal match at the Club World Cup soccer

tournament in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Thursday, Dec.

15, 2011.

AP Photo/Koji Sasahara

LONDON - Having had their armourpierced for the first time this season leaders

Arsenal out to test Man City’s resolve

the summit by Man-chester United whoplay at Queen’s ParkRangers in an earlier kickoff(1200).

City, who have 38 points toUnited’s 36, have looked downon everyone else since mid-October.

Full-back Micah Richards is readyto return after missing the last twomatches to ease City’s defensive crisisbut they will be without AleksandarKolarov -- sidelined for a month with agroin injury -- and Gael Clichy, who willserve a one match ban against his formerclub after being sent off in City’s defeat atStamford Bridge.

The match is a key one for both clubsand comes three weeks after a largely shad-ow City side beat Arsenal 1-0 in a LeagueCup quarter-final at the Emirates Stadium.

Friday, December 16, 2011 15International Sport

The Briton’s camp has lodgedan official complaint over therefereeing of Saturday’s fight inWashington D.C. where Khan wasdeducted two points in a split-decision defeat.

“We are trying to get the resultoverturned, if not then a rematch isgoing to happen,” Khan told Reu-ters in an interview at a gym he setup in his home town of Bolton innorthwest England and where pic-tures of him adorn several walls.

“Even if the result does getturned over, I would still give Lam-ont Peterson a deserved re-match.We’ll do it somewhere neutral,not in D.C. or in the U.K. Some-where like Vegas ... where it willbe neutral judging and a neutralreferee.”

Referee Joseph Cooper penal-ized Khan one point in the seventhround for pushing and one in the12th when he hit Peterson on thebreak in the fight which was tak-ing place in the American boxer’shome town.

The deductions proved crucialwhen the scores were announced,one judge giving the fight 114-111to Khan but the other two scoringit 113-112 for Petersen.

Khan said he would never fightin Washington D.C. again and be-lieved other boxers would now alsosnub the venue.

“I don’t think there will beother big fights there, definitelynot, after seeing what happened tome,” he said.

“People are going to think whyshould we go there because of thedecision, and the refereeing andjudging is not according to ourprofession.”

SOUR GRAPESConfident that Peterson would

stick to his word and agree to are-match in March or May, Khanwas already thinking about how toget back his belts.

“(The key is to) not stay on theropes too long, not stand in frontof him, keep the movement, keepthe distance ... be just one step

ahead of him really,” the 25-year-old said.

“I always knew he was goingto be a tough fighter, he’s got oneof those styles that makes it dif-ficult.

“People were saying to me youcan go in there and knock him outin four or five rounds but I knewit was going to go the distanceand I trained very hard for thefight.”

The defeat was Khan’s second in28 fights since turning professionalafter winning an Olympic silvermedal at the 2004 Athens Games.

His post-fight comments havebeen blasted as sour grapes bysome Internet bloggers but Khandenied he was being a bad loser.

“I’m not complaining,” he said.“I’ve said Lamont Peterson foughta great fight, it was just judgedunfairly.”

The loss has forced him to delayhis plans to move up a weight divi-sion, where he would hope to fightthe likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Reuters

The Memphis Grizzlies have re-signed Spanish center MarcGasol, the team said Wednesday, after he helped them to theirmost successful season by reaching last season’s conference

Gasol, who had used his Twitter page to say a tentativeagreement had been reached Monday, agreed to a four-year contract for $57.7 million, according to local mediareports.

“We are very happy to re-sign Marc Gasol, who has been oneof the pillars of the Grizzlies franchise since his arrival,” teamgeneral manager Chris Wallace said in a statement.

“We are excited to keep him as part of our core group of play-ers and to build on what this organization has already achievedfor many years to come.”

Memphis beat the Western Conference top seed San Antonio

the Oklahoma City Thunder to seven games in the conference

The 26-year-old 7-foot-1 (2.16m) Gasol averages 12.6 pointsand 7.8 rebounds per game after three seasons in the NBA, allwith the Grizzlies.

Reuters

KABUL- Itspitch, theysaid,was sobloodsoaked thatgrasswouldnot grow. For years, the only spectacles on offer at the Ghazi Stadiumin theAfghancapitalwere executions, stonings andmutilationsby theTaliban, rulers of the country from 1996 to 2001.

On Thursday, thousands of young Afghan athletes wearing soc-cer strips, boxing and running warmup gear, and the belted white

re-opening.This time, the grass has been ripped up and replaced with bright

“Of all the international projects implemented inAfghanistan, thisis one of the most popular, it enjoys the support of allAfghans,” saidLieutenant General Mohammad ZaherAghbar, president ofAfghani-stan’sNationalOlympicCommittee, andagoalkeeperwith thearmy’s

“Theplace thatoncewasused toexecutepeopleduring theTaliban,and then football played on their blood, is now turned into a peacefulplace,” he said.

“Sport helps societies get together, it will strengthen our nationalsolidarity,” Aghbar said, adding that he was trying to line up foreignboxing and soccer teams to come to Ghazi Stadium in early 2012.

AP Photo/Susan Walsh

Unified Super Lightweight Champion Amir Khan poses for a photo at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, to kick off the “Capital Showdown” fight week.

Khan wants result overturned and a rematchReuters

BOLTON, En land - The bruises were still visible on Amir Khan’s ace Wednesday when he said

super-li htwei ht and B li ht-welterwei ht titles to the American last week.Taliban death stadium reborn as Afghan sporting hope

new four-year agreement

REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

Marc Gasol of Spain watches FIBA EuroBasket 2011 clas-sification for 4th to 8th place basketball game between Serbia and Greece in Kaunas September 16, 2011.

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The most significant change is the start of the season moving forward by a week, with the Qatar Grand Prix now taking place on 8 April rather than on 15 April as published in the calendar revealed in September.

The Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez has also now been confirmed, the race having appeared as subject to a new contract in the summer version of the calendar.

Sachsenring has been added to the schedule for the German Grand Prix, although the event is still subject to the finalisation of a contract.

SEBASTIAN Vettel has added yet another accolade at the end of his remarkable 2011 campaign - by being voted as the best Formula 1 driver of the year in AUTOSPORT’s exclusive team principals’ top 10 rankings. In the now annual poll, Vettel emerged as a clear winner ahead of Jenson But-ton - with last year’s winner Fernando Alonso dropping two places down to third.

The annual team principals’ verdict is compiled by getting the top ten driver rankings of every boss, which are kept se-cret, and then converting their rankings into the F1 points’ system (25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1).

The final scores are added up to discover which driver the team bosses overall believed had done the best job through-out the campaign. Vettel is the first world champion since Lewis Hamilton in 2008 to earn the top place in the drivers’ rankings.

Red Bull Racing team prin-cipal Christian Horner be-lieved that it would have been wrong for any driver other than Vettel to have come out on top

on the back of his dominant campaign. “It would have been a surprise if any driver other than Sebastian would have been voted as the driver of the year, after the season he’s had in 2011,” Horner told AUTOSPORT.

“He won 11 races, finished second in five, third in one, had a fourth place and one DNF which is quite a remark-able run of results. “On top of which, he scored a season record of 15 pole positions to secure his second consecutive world championship title. Therefore he fully deserves to have been recognised as the outstanding driver of 2011.”

Paul di Resta was the leading rookie driver, earning 44 points to take seventh place, while Heikki Kovalainen’s efforts for Team Lotus were rewarded with ninth place.

This year’s voters were: Horner, Martin Whitmarsh, Stefano Domenicali, Ross Brawn, Eric Boullier, Frank Williams, Vijay Mallya, Pe-ter Sauber, Tony Fernandes, Colin Kolles and John Booth. Scuderia Toro Rosso declined to take part.

Sebastian Vettel voted best F1 driver of 2011 by team bosses

AP Photo//Parivartan Sharma, Pool

Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel, left, of Germany poses with an Indian traditional dancer dur-ing the 2011 Federation Internationale de l’Automobile, FIA, gala night in Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi, India Friday Dec. 9, 2011.

Provisional 2012 calendar

8 April Qatar* Doha/Losail29 April Spain Jerez de la Frontera6 May Portugal (STC) Estoril20 May France Le Mans3 June Catalunya Catalunya17 June Great Britain Silverstone30 June Netherlands** Assen8 July Germany (STC) Sachsenring15 July Italy Mugello29 July United States*** Laguna Seca19 August Indianapolis Indianapolis26 August Czech Rep. Brno16 September San Marino Misano30 September Aragon Motorland14 October Japan Motegi21 October Malaysia Sepang28 October Australia Phillip Island11 November Valencia Ricardo Tormo

* Evening race** Saturday Race*** Only MotoGP classSTC (Subject to the contract)TBC (To be confirmed)

REUTERS/Michael Kooren

Honda MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli of Italy (L) and Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo of Spain (R).

FIM publishes provisional 2012 calendar for MotoGP

MotoGP’s ruling body, FIM, has revealed another provi-sional calendar for the 2012 season, with little change from the previous version.