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Rezai’s win should see her break into the WTA top 30 for the firsttime. The victory in 62 minutes — it ended on a Bartoli double-fault— was the first all-French singles final on the Tour since AmelieMauresmo beat Mary Pierce at the Paris Indoors in 2006.

The title was the second of her career for the 44th-ranked Rezai,following her win at Strasbourg in May.

“It’s a great feeling to be here in the final, I’m very sorry forMarion that this happened,” said the winner of a career-best 200,000dollars. “I’d prefer to win in a different way, but it’s tennis, a lot ofdifferent things happen. I was really motivated to win here.”

Rezai now stands 2-2 in career finals after finishing runner-up in2007 at Istanbul against Elena Dementieva and in 2008 at Aucklandagainst Lindsay Davenport. Bartoli dropped to 5-6 lifetime in singlesfinals after her disappointment on the tropical Indonesian resort is-land. The number 12 had been bidding for a year-end number 10finish had she claimed the trophy.

“I’m crying right now, but I’m so happy to be here,” said Bartoli,runner-up at Bali three years ago when it was part of the regularWTA Tour.

“Aravane had a wonderful week and played some great tennis.“My leg was hurting. I tried my best to carry on, but it was too

much pain. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to finish today.”Top seed Bartoli had been bidding for a third title of the season.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Rabies case appearing in a num-ber of regencies/city across Bali infact did not reach the circle of De-partment of Health of the RI. It wasproven by the fact that Minister ofHealth, Endang RahayuSedyaningsih has not known aboutthe spread of rabies case in Bali.

Minister that was just installedin last October 2009 admitted tohave not known if rabies caseemerged in Bali. Even, she stayedto judge Bali was free from rabies.Minister of Health EndangRahayu Sedyaningsih who wasmet in the midst of Confederation

Minister of Health Did Not Knowabout Rabies in Bali

of Medical Associations in Asiaand Oceania (CMAAO) Congressat Jimbaran, Friday (Nov 6), saidthat her party would promptlyasked for explanation to relatedofficials in Bali. At this moment,her party remained to state Bali asa free-rabies region. “Previously,it has been made clear that Baliwas free. However, regarding tothis matter, I will ask the regionalhealth authority here,” said Minis-ter of Health on last Friday.

In the endeavor to managing ra-bies, Minister of Health said therewere some programs that could beundertaken. For instance, it couldbe performed vaccination program

to dog and animals of rabies car-rier. Meanwhile, to wild dog, therewas no other choice but elimination.

On the other hand, Minister ofHealth also confessed for the 100-day program of SBY’s government,her department had 45 programsthat would be undertaken within thesecond term of government. Forhealth department, there were fourmain programs, namely improvinghealth financing, improving the sta-tus of people’s health, preventingcontagious diseases and improvinghuman resources of health depart-ment. Through the latter program,the officials would be distributed tosecluded regions. (kmb12)

Rezai set for move intotop 30 after Bali win

Agence France Presse

DENPASAR- Aravane Rezai claimed her second careertrophy with a 7-5 win at the Bali Tournament of Champi-ons as fellow Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli quit with athigh injury after the first set Sunday.

Aravane Rezai of France holds the trophy after she wonthe women’s singles final of the Bali International TennisTournament in Nusa Dua, in Bali island, on November 8,

2009 against her compatriot Marion Bartoli. Rezai wonthe Bali Tournament of Champions when top seed and

compatriot Marion Bartoli retired with a thigh injury.

Bali Post/doc

Minister of Health, EndangRahayu Sedyaningsih.

AFP PHOTO/Sonny Tumbelaka

Nepal emergesas ‘poacher’sparadise’

Number of British,France touristarriving in Baliincreasing

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Bali News

Spokesperson of Bali Police, I GdeSugianyar, last Friday (Nov 6) ex-plained that such illegal drugs weresecured after his party made coopera-tion with BNN. The party of BNNgave information that there was a sus-pected freight sent from Jakarta to Bali.The freight was wrapped in food packand suspected as illegal drugs. Hav-ing checked by X-ray machine, in fact,it contained 5,000 pills of ecstasy, ex-plained Sugianyar accompanied by Di-vision Head of Analysis, Directorateof Narcotics of Bali Police, KetutAsmiriwati.

This former Chief of BalikpapanResort Police explained that BNN di-rectly contacted Directorate of Narcot-ics, Bali Police ordering to trace theowner of package containing such sa-tanic pills. On that account, the pills

Bangli (Bali Post)—Quarrel of husband-wife, Ni

Kadek Sukerti (33) and I MadeBeneh (39), from Bayung Cerik,Kintamani, last Thursday (Nov 5),ended tragically. Made Benehstabbed the stomach of his wife bya piece of cockfight blade (taji) sothat she was bespattered with freshblood. She was promptly sent toSanglah Hospital to get immedi-ate help. After the incident, per-petrator vanished and wassearched by police. He was justencountered on Friday (Nov 6)noon, at dead condition by sus-pending himself on hibiscus tree,not far from his house.

Unit Chief of Detective ofBangli Resort Police, IN Kariyasa,accompanied by Chief ofKintamani Sector Police, IM Okaand Detective Sudarma Putra, withpermission of Chief of Bangli Re-sort Police when asked about hisconfirmation, justified that hisparty was handling the bloodydomestic violence case.

In the meantime, the motive ofcase was alleged to originate in do-mestic quarrel. Previously, Kadek

Gianyar (Bali Post)—Four youths, Ketut Subawa

(18), Made Antara (17), Putu GedeSutama (18) and Made Sugiarta(17) from Tubuh Hamlet,Batubulan, Sukawati, Gianyar,were washed away by waves lastThursday (Nov 5) when taking abath at the area of Manyar Beach,Ketewel, Sukawati, Gianyar. Outof the four youths washed away,Ketut Subawa vanished behind thefierce of waves at that afternoon.

Information gathered by BaliPost, the four youths arrived atManyar Beach at around 4 p.m.Local Time. The youth comingfrom the same hamlet, took a bathat the beach few minutes later. Pre-viously, they were playing on thesand. Residents who happened tobe at location did not see anystrange movement on thoseyouths.

Having played on the sand, theytook a bath together at the beach.Unexpectedly, their cheerfulnesson bathing on the beach ended ina disaster. A moderately large

Smuggling of 5,000Smuggling of 5,000Smuggling of 5,000Smuggling of 5,000Smuggling of 5,000Ecstasies to be FoiledEcstasies to be FoiledEcstasies to be FoiledEcstasies to be FoiledEcstasies to be FoiledSender and Receiver UntraceableDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Joint team of Directorate of Narcotics of Bali Police and National Narcotic Agency (BNN)could foil a smuggling of thousands of ecstasies on last September 28, 2009 at 4 p.m. Local Time.However, the joint team was unable to trace the sender and receiver of such illegal drugs becauseaddress of the sender was known to be fictive. Meanwhile, the destination address was men-tioned but the name of addressee registered on the cardboard box was unavailable. Hence, thejoint team only secured the evidence of 5,000 pills of ecstasy.

were let to fly to Bali.Indeed, the package has been sus-

pected when it was in Cengkareng Air-port, Jakarta. “But, it was let to be sentto Bali in the purpose to know the re-ceiver of such freight,” he revealed onthe press conference at Headquarter ofBali Police, last Friday.

Address of the sender registered wasRahman R, Jalan Pulau Asem III No.56 East Jakarta. On the brown card-board box was written the telephonenumber of the sender, namely 021-47882177. Meanwhile, the packaged wassent to Agung Antara with address onJalan Nuri No. 24, Dauh Peken Village,Tabanan with telephone number 0856215 5339.

When the package arrived at the of-fice of express courier service (Tiki) inDenpasar, the team of Directorate of

Narcotics of Bali Police took it rightaway. Furthermore, the team of KokotIndarto performed a developmentbased on the finding of such evidence.

Immediately, the team moved at thattime. The tracing was carried out to theaddress mentioned. Indeed, the addressreally existed but that name was un-available. Meanwhile, the address inJakarta was fictive, said the officer withthree jasmines on shoulder.

Furthermore, Sugianyar said thatsince the addressee and addresser werefictive, the packaged was then storedat Bali Police. “We have made a trac-ing for more than a month. Unfortu-nately, the sender and receiver wereuntraceable. On that account, we keepthe evidence in the form of grey 5,000pills of ecstasy. The case is being de-veloped,” he added. (kmb21)

Having Stabbed His Wife,Beneh Committed Suicide

Sukerti would express her inten-tion to divorce. Allegedly, thismatter triggered such quarrel.

According to a number of wit-nesses, such couple once en-gaged in a quarrel. It was allegedto emerge since Ni Kadek Sukertiasked her husband about the landpawned. At that time, the quar-rel ensued at their kitchen.“Made Beneh could not controlhis emotion and got angry. Hethen took a piece of cockfightblade and stab the stomach of hiswife,” said witness.

The witness added that victimonce shouted to ask for help. Ithappened to be heard by her fa-ther in-law, I Made Kartika. Thewitness came to location rightaway. Beneh who was angry at-tempted to attack Kartika. Un-avoidably, a struggle happenedamong them to grab the blade onBeneh’s hand. “After the bladeof Beneh was grabbed, Beneh es-caped in the dead of the night,”said Kartika. Victim was oncesent to Bangli Hospital. How-ever, she was then referred toSanglah Hospital. (kmb17)

Four Washed Away byWaves, One Vanished

wave attacked them at that after-noon and one of them vanished.Seeing that their friend Subawadisappeared from the water, thethree friends turned panic andasked for help to surrounding resi-dents. Big waves made them adriftand buffeted at sea. Fortunately,fishers at the beach soon knew this.Those fishers attempted to rescuethem. As a result, three of themcould be rescued and brought tothe beach. The case was thenpromptly reported to police.

Chief of Sukawati Sector Po-lice, VB Musak, when askedabout his confirmation, justifiedthe incident. It was known first byone of the fishers who rescuedthem. However, one of themcould not be encountered yet. “Wehave asked assistance to SARteam of Bali and Waters Police ofBali Police to search for him. Upto last Thursday afternoon, thesearch was delayed because situ-ation at location was dark. Thesearch would be resumed on Fri-day (Nov 6). (kmb16)

BP/eka

Ecstasy-Spokesperson of Bali Police, I Gde Sugianyar, showed the evidence of 5,000 pills ofecstasy at Headquarter of Bali Police, last Friday.

3Monday, November 9, 2009International Bali News

Those residents arrived about 9a.m. Local Time. As soon as arrivedat HQ of Buleleng Resort Police,residents in middle customary attiresriding motorbike and pick-up vehiclewere impeded right away by police.Unit of Mass Control, Detective andTraffic Services impeded them. Bychance, on last Friday morning, thatjoint team of Buleleng Resort Policeindeed organized vehicle’s documentinquest in front of the HQ.

Even, a number of Lemukih resi-dents riding motorbike were chargedwith traffic violation since they couldnot present a complete document oftheir motorbike.

Other than impeded in thevehicle’s document inquest,

Singaraja (Bali Post)—Three persons of police officer of Buleleng Re-

sort Police from different units were captured redhandedly when playing ceki or Chinese card at aplace on Jalan Pulau Bali, Kampung Baru,Singaraja, last Wednesday (Nov 4) night. Havingbeen probed, Thursday (Nov 5) at early morning,the three persons were released with the reason thatno evidence in the form of cash was found.

Information collected on last Thursday, men-tioned that Deputy Chief of Buleleng Resort Po-lice, Mulyadi, captured the three persons of policein person together with some members of Com-plaint and Discipline Enforcement Service (P3D)of Buleleng Resort Police. They respectivelyworked at Traffic Services and Intelligence Unit ofBuleleng Resort Police, as well as Detective Unit.

Such capture originated in the report of local resi-dent mentioning that three persons of police wereplaying ceki at a location on Jalan Pulau Bali. Hav-ing been captured, the three person of police of-ficer were once probed from Wednesday up toThursday at early morning. However, the three werethen released because the police probing them didnot encounter evidence in the form of cash of thegame.

Deputy Chief of Buleleng Resort Police,Mulyadi, when asked about his confirmation, jus-tified that his party has captured three persons ofpolice officer who were playing ceki. At 11:30 p.m.Local Time, Deputy Chief received a report fromlocal resident mentioning that its members wereplaying ceki at a location on Jalan Pulau Bali,Singaraja. “With the member of duty officer, I cameto location and encountered three of our membersthere,” he said.

According to Deputy Chief Mulyadi, evidencefound at location of games was only ceki cards, andno cash was found. Based on the result of probe,three persons of police officer were at location be-cause they were on duty. “Yes, situation of securityand orderliness of community in Buleleng madethem always alert,” ended Mulyadi.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Surprising fact emerged in the mur-

der session‘s of AA Bagus NarendraPrabangsa alleged to be committed byNyoman Susrama in Denpasar Court,last Thursday (Nov 5). WitnessMertadana presented on the sessionloudly stated that he was taught to telllies by one of the lawyers of defendant.

Witness having profession as thehead of worker at the house of defen-dant said that the appeal to tell lies en-sued when he met the six lawyers atthe residential house of Bangli Regenton last February 15, 2009. At that time,the witness was asked to admit thathe worked as usual on February 11,whereas in fact he did not. JudgeDjumain chairing the session allowedthe witness to meet the lawyers ac-companying the defendant. Thisgraduate of primary school thenpointed to AA Surya Dharma wherepreviously he mentioned him as thelawyer in glasses.

Testimony of witness being veryhonest was welcome by great applausefrom session visitors. In the meantime,the lawyer Surya Dharma cornered insuch a way even gave applause by up-lifting both hands. When given oppor-tunity to ask question, Surya Dharmathen took the witness to say frankly.By mentioning a number of sages, thewitness was demanded to tell the truthwithout force from any party.

As consequence, the witness oncefelt confused. Moreover, the lawyer ofdefendant showed a piece of statementletter signed by witness.

Session of Prabangsa’s MurderWitness Admits to beTaught Telling Lies

Previously, witness stated to haveuneasy feeling when first worked onFebruary 15 after ordered to take day-off. However, witness could not explainfurther, why he felt so. When leavinghome, his feeling was good. “But, whenI arrived at working place, right in therear of the defendant’s house, suddenlysuch uneasy feeling emerged,” ex-plained the witness.

Witness also explained to have seensomething bizarre when he firstworked. Right in front of bathroom, thewitness admitted to see the ruins ofburnt wood. However, the witness hadno suspicion why such thing happenedat location.

On asked about the truth that wit-ness was order to take day-off, he justi-fied it. Afterward, the witness explainedthe details that on February 10, he wasasked to work for a half day (at after-noon). Meanwhile, on the followingday, the defendant instructed him notto work temporarily. The witness didnot know about the reason behind suchorder. Previously, there was indeed anorder not to work if materials were notavailable. In the meantime, on Febru-ary 10, all materials have been com-plete.

On that occasion, prosecutorKomang Sucitrawan also presented thewitness Rajin. Different fromMertadana who gave explanation hon-estly, this witness slightly stuttered ingiving the explanation. In providing tes-timony, the witness who often asked bydefendant to repair the house buildingwas once warned by the judge. (015)

Demo to HQ of Buleleng Resort Police

Lemukih Residents to beLemukih Residents to beLemukih Residents to beLemukih Residents to beLemukih Residents to beCharged with Traffic ViolationCharged with Traffic ViolationCharged with Traffic ViolationCharged with Traffic ViolationCharged with Traffic ViolationSingaraja (Bali Post)—

Residents of Lemukih Customary Village, Sawan subdistrict, seemingly were not bored to leavetheir work to perform demonstration to a number of institutions in Singaraja. On last Friday (Nov6), hundreds of Lemukih residents came again to Headquarter (HQ) of Buleleng Resort Police toaccompany their friends examined by investigator related to the clash ensued in last October.

Lemukih residents were also forbid-den to enter the courtyard of ResortPolice HQ, except for residents un-dergoing the probe and his lawyer.Since having no other choice,Lemukih residents should feel satis-fied by sitting down only at pavementin front of Jagatnatha Temple. Mean-while, residents who were bored tosit down looked walked back andforth on pavement along the JalanPramuka.

Spokesperson of Buleleng ResortPolice, Made Sudirsa, said that inves-tigator should probe five witnessesfrom Lemukih Customary Village onlast Friday. However, three out of fivewitnesses summoned were not will-ing to come because their name on

the summon letter was mistyped.Therefore, only two residents wereinterrogated namely Kadek Sudismaand Nyarikan Sunu. “Meanwhile,three residents whose name wasmistyped would remain to be sum-moned with a new letter,” saidSudirsa.

Sudirsa added that police has ob-tained five names of suspect becom-ing perpetrators in the attack of clashensued at Lemukih Village, last Tues-day (Oct 27) night. “The suspects willbe determined officially after inves-tigator got additional evidences onprobing the five witnesses. Thenames of suspect have been on ourhand, we just need to complete theevidences,” he said. (kmb15)

Three Persons of Police Captured When GamblingTo be Released as No Cash Evidence Found

Regarding to the existence of Traffic Services Unit atlocation, was he in charge to maintain the security, too?Deputy Chief said that such police officer was visitinghis relative who organized a ritual. (kmb15)

International4 Monday, November 9, 2009 News

Agence France-Presse

ST ANDREWS - British PrimeMinister Gordon Brown surprisedG20 finance ministers by urgingthem to consider a tax on globalfinancial transactions, but the ideagot a lukewarm response. Brownsaid Saturday such a levy, oftencalled the Tobin Tax after the USeconomist who devised it, wouldforce financial institutions to bemore responsible and was one ofa range of measures that couldhelp curb risky behaviour.

It has always been thought thatBritain opposed the idea, becauseof fears it could damage the inter-ests of the City of London,Europe’s foremost financial centre.

But finance minister AlistairDarling said “times change” after

Agence France-Presse

RIO DE JANEIRO - Familiesof the 228 people who died whenan Air France jet airliner crashedoff Brazil’s northeast coast in Juneheld a private memorial serviceSaturday at an ocean overlook inRio de Janeiro.

European relatives of thosewho perished on flight AF 447 asit was flying from Rio to Paris ar-rived Friday on a chartered AirFrance plane.

They met Brazilian kin to payrespects at a new memorial erectedin Rio’s upmarket beach-side sub-urb of Leblon.

A junior French minister, AlainJoyandet, in charge of overseas co-operation, attended the eventalong with Air France chief Jean-Cyril Spinetta, according toJoyandet’s office.

The event, limited to around500 people, was closed to report-ers at the request of relatives, theorganizers said. Police blocked thestreets leading to the site.

“It was a ceremony filled withdignity... to allow the families toexpress their mourning,” Joyandetsaid at the end of the outdoorevent, which lasted around two

Thousands of Buddhists gave theTibetan spiritual leader, who haslived in exile in India for 50 years, arousing welcome as he arrived at theTawang monastery, perched at 3,500metres (11,400 feet) in ArunachalPradesh state.

“We are very pleased and blessedto have His Holiness here,” saidSarwang Lama, a monk attired in a

Agence France-Presse

AL-KHUBAH - Saudi forcespounded Yemeni rebels on Saturdayfor a fifth straight day as YemeniPresident Ali Abdallah Saleh ruledout a truce in his war on the Shiiteinsurgents.

Huge smoke plumes could be seenrising above Jebel al-Dukhan, a2,000-metre (6,600-foot) peak on theborder near the town of Al-Khubah,a sign of continued bombing by Saudifighter jets, residents said.

Saudi artillery shelled apparentrebel positions to the south, the resi-dents said as medics reported sevenSaudis and an unknown number ofrebels had been killed since Tuesday.

Families hold Rio memorialfor doomed Air France flight

hours.At the ceremony a glass memo-

rial engraved with 228 swallows —symbolizing the number of victims— soaring over the ocean was un-veiled.

The actual ceremony wassimple: there was a reading of sa-cred texts, tributes read by fivefamilies, and a performer sang asong written by the wife of one ofthe victims.

“It was a beautiful seaside trib-ute,” said Christopher Lara, a rela-tive of a French victim. “This willbecome a place of contemplation.”

Maarten van Sluys, spokesmanfor the Brazilian victims, told AFPafter the ceremony that severalpeople at the event wore blackarmbands “to silently protest thelack of transparency of the Frenchauthorities in the investigation.”

AF 447 plunged into the Atlan-tic 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) offBrazil on June 1 in still unclear cir-cumstances.

The Airbus A330 was carrying216 passengers and a crew of 12on board. They came from 32countries and included 72 French,58 Brazilians and 26 Germans.

It was the worst disaster in AirFrance’s 75-year history.

British PM’s call for transactionstax gets cold shoulder

12 months in which G20 govern-ments had been forced to injectbillions of dollars to rescue banksfrom collapse.

A levy, Darling said, was oneway that banks could contribute tothe “wellbeing of the world” — and,more pertinently, provide funds touse if they needed bailing out again.

But just hours after Brown gavethe Tobin Tax idea fresh impetusin the Scottish town of St Andrews,where the two-day G20 financeministers meeting wrapped up onSaturday, the United States ap-peared to shoot it down in flames.

US Treasury Secretary TimGeithner said his country had notchanged its long-held opposition toan idea first floated in the 1970s.

“No, that’s not something thatwe’re prepared to support,” he toldSky News television on Saturday.

Later, Geithner told the end-of-meeting news conference that “itis fair to say that we agree that wehave to build a system in which tax-payers are not exposed to risk ofloss in the future”.

But while he refused this time tosay if Washington would activelyoppose a levy on global financialtransactions, his assertion that it was“an idea that has been around a longtime” spoke volumes.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, thehead of the International MonetaryFund, the very body which the G20has asked to study the feasibilityof such a measure, was blunt in hisassessment.

AFP PHOTO/Diptendu DUTTA

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (2R) gestures on his arrival at Tawang monastery in the northwest-ern corner of Arunachal Pradesh state on November 8, 2009. The Dalai Lama visited a remote Tibetanmonastery in northeast India at the start of a trip that has infuriated China, which claims the surroundingHimalayan region as its own. Thousands of Buddhists gave the Tibetan spiritual leader a rousing welcomeas he arrived at the Tawang monastery, perched at 3,500 metres (11,400 feet) in Arunachal Pradesh state.

AFP Photo/Oli Scarff/WPA

British Prime Minister Gordon

Saudi and Yemen battle Shiite rebels“We’re coming to grips with

these traitors, these renegades, anddaily we are losing scores of mar-tyrs from our best officers and sol-diers and citizens,” Saleh said dur-ing a speech at Balhaf in the Gulfof Aden.

“But their blood is not being shedin vain and there will be no recon-ciliation, no truce nor stoppage tothe war until we see the end of thissmall group of deviants,” he saidwithout mentioning a Saudi incur-sion into Yemen on Wednesday.

Meanwhile there was no confir-mation of rebel claims they hadseized a number of Saudi soldiers.

“With Allah’s help, the Saudityrannical advance into Yemen’s

territory has been defeated,” said astatement on the rebels’ website.

“A number of its troops have beencaptured and several military ve-hicles and supplies been seized.”

Signs of the continuing fight werepresent along the highway to Khuba,about 60 kilometres (35 miles) in-land from the Red Sea coast.

Saudi medium- and long-rangeartillery pieces were in position, andsoldiers patrolled the road and fieldsamid makeshift army camps.

Trucks laden with mattresses,chairs and other household goodsplodded down the road away fromthe border, from where most of thepopulation had been evacuated totent camps earlier in the week.

Dalai Lama visitsDalai Lama visitsDalai Lama visitsDalai Lama visitsDalai Lama visitsIndian monasteryIndian monasteryIndian monasteryIndian monasteryIndian monasterydespite China protestdespite China protestdespite China protestdespite China protestdespite China protestAgence France-Presse

TAWANG - The Dalai Lama visited a remote Tibetan monastery innortheast India on Sunday at the start of a trip that has infuriatedChina, which claims the surrounding Himalayan region as its own.

new maroon robe, as Tibetan prayerflags fluttered in the air and postersof the Dalai Lama adorned streetsand rooftops.

“The Dalai Lama is very happyand is excited to be in ArunachalPradesh,” T.G. Rinpoche, a seniorBuddhist and former state minister,told AFP.

Sandwiched between Myanmar,

Bhutan and Tibet, the lush, forestedstate of Arunachal is governed byIndia but claimed by China. Beijinghas slammed the visit as a provoca-tion aimed at harming relations be-tween China and India.

Tawang — 400 years old and thesecond largest Tibetan monastery inIndia — holds strong memories forthe Dalai Lama.

When he fled Tibet in 1959 fol-lowing a failed uprising against Chi-nese rule, Arunachal was his pointof entry to India and he took refugein Tawang at the start of his decadesin exile.

General Info Monday, November 9, 2009 5International

Denpasar

There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners -Denpasar General Hospital(RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongayaand Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Itsfacilities have improved since the emergency ward had beenbuilt in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become aproblem anymore since it has complete equipments. It islocated on Jl. KesehatanSelatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with :Phone : 227 911 – 15Fax : 226 363

Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters forless serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, ane-mia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equippedto care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl.Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.Phone : 223 036Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit)Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private)Jl. Sudirman No 50, DenpasarPhone : 227 560, 234 824

In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medicalevacuation company, thatis:AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah RaiNo. 24X, Kuta 80361.Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that theBlood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh)Negative blood.

Badung

Bali Medical ClinicsThere are some medical clinics that are well known by for-eigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and oper-ated :

Bali International Medical Center (BIMC)Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excel-lent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Servicesfor tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance& Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone: 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta,Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com

International SOS Clinic BaliOpened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visi-tors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-houremergency medical service.Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - IndonesiaPhone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919E-mail : info@sos-bali.comttp ://www.sos-bali.com

Bali Nusa Dua Emergency ClinicJl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324

Kuta ClinicJl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268

Dental ClinicDr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, DenpasarPhone : 222 445, 234 375

DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324

Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4ABr. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

Australian Consulate GeneralJalan Tantular 32 Renon DenpasarPhone: +62 361 241118Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

The Czech RepublicJalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.286 465

France Consulate AgencyJalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.285 485

The Federal Republic of GermanyJalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.288 535

The Republic of HungaryJalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.287 701

Italian ConsulateJalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 005

Honorary Consulate of MexicoJalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.223 266

Honorary Consulate of The NetherlandsJalan Raya Kuta 127, BaliPhone +62.361.761 506

Honorary Consulate of SpainKomplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. JalanPatih Jelantik Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.769 286

USA Consulate AgencyJalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.222 426

Consulate General of JapanJalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.227 628

Honorary Consulate of BritishJalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.270 601

Swiss and Austria ConsulateJalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan IstanaGalleriaPhone +62.361.751 735

Honorary Consulate of BrazilJalan Legian No. 186, BaliPhone +62.361.757 775

Honorary Consulate of ThailandJalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.263 310

Embassy of IndiaJalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.241 978

Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf FinlandSegara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.282 223

Honorary Consulate of MalaysiaAlam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.752 520

Bangli

Bangli General HospitalJl. Kesumayuda 27, BangliPhone : +62 366 91521

Gianyar

Clinic MasJl. Raya Mas, UbudPhone : +62 361 974573

Toyo ClinicJl. Pengosekan, UbudPhone : +62 361 978078

Permata Bunda ClinicJl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, GianyarPhone : +62 361 942082

Ubud ClinicJl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, UbudPhone : +62 361 974911

Gianyar General HospitalJl. Ciung Wanara 2, GianyarPhone : +62 361 943049

Karangasem

Karangasem General HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai, KarangasemPhone : +62 363 21001

Klungkung

Klungkung General HospitalJl. Flamboyan 40-4, KlungkungPhone : +62 366 21371

Negara

Negara General HospitalJl. Gelar, NegaraPhone : +62 365 41006

Tabanan

Laboratorium ClinicJl. Gunung semeru No. 8, TabananPhone : +62 361 819260

Mengwi ClinicJl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, TabananPhone : +62 361 880550

Darma Kerti HospitalJl. Teratai 16, TabananPhone : +62 361 812359

Tabanan General HospitalJl. Pahlawan 14, TabananPhone : +62 361 811027

Praja Taxi : (0361) 289090Bali Taxi : (0361) 701111Ngurah Rai Taxi : (0361) 724724Pan Wirthi Taxi : (0361) 723366Komotra Taxi : (0361) 758855

Singaraja

Prodia ClinicJl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali0362 - 24-516

Singaraja HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali0362 - 22-573

Pet ClinicsKayumas: (0361) 226934Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518Sidakarya: (0361) 724492Pedungan: (0361) 720026

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“We found a male rhino with bul-let in his head around a lake in thepark. It was a horrific sight,” saidPradhan, who was informed by tourguides about the injured animal.

“The poachers had cut the hornoff without killing it and it seemedin great pain,” said the chief wardenof the Chitwan National Park insouthwest Nepal, a UNESCO worldheritage site that is popular with for-eign tourists.

Pradhan, who said the incidentwas the worst of his 20-year wild-life career, did everything he couldto save the rhino but it died withintwo weeks.

In Nepal, poaching is gettingworse, conservationists say, and thecountry has emerged as a hub for theillegal trade in animal parts given itsstrategic location between India, thesource of material, and the Chinesemarket.

Porous borders, a lack of coordi-nation between countries in the re-gion and political instability inNepal mean the men with guns andunderworld connections are gainingthe upper hand.

“The disappearance of tigers andseizures of skins, bones and rhino

Nepal emerges asNepal emerges asNepal emerges asNepal emerges asNepal emerges as‘poacher’s paradise’‘poacher’s paradise’‘poacher’s paradise’‘poacher’s paradise’‘poacher’s paradise’Agence France-Presse

KATHMANDU - Forest warden Narendra Man Babu Pradhan is on the frontline of Nepal’sbattle against poachers and he grimaces as he recalls the recent discovery of an injured rhinowhose horn had been cut off.

horns indicate poaching and traffick-ing is growing,” Shiva Raj Bhatta,spokesman at Nepal’s department ofnational parks and wildlife conser-vation, told AFP.

“Our wildlife is in a critical stage.We believe Nepal is fast developingas an international hub for wildlifetrade and turning into a poacher’sparadise.”

Chitwan Park has lost 24 rhinos— 17 of them killed by poachers —in the past 18 months.

The figures for Asian big cats arenot encouraging either.

A new tiger census carried outearlier this year showed that therewere 121 adult tigers in Nepal’sparks. In two parks in southwesternNepal, the numbers fell by 60 per-cent, from 65 to 26.

World Bank president RobertZoellick, who sent a video messageto a tiger conservation forum at theend of October, said that traders andpoachers were better organised thanpolicymakers and conservationists.

“At present the illegal trade inwildlife is estimated at over 10 bil-lion dollars (annually) across Asia —second only to weapons and drugsmuggling,” he said.

In India, where tiger numbers aredwindling, experts say the borderbetween India and Nepal serves asthe principal route for contrabandfrom India to the main market inChina.

Poachers bribe poor forest dwell-ers to guide them through the densejungles.

Part of the problem in Nepal, ex-plained Bhatta, is that recent politi-cal turmoil has handed smugglers theopportunity to expand their opera-tions.

Nepal’s decade-long civil warbetween Maoist rebels and the stateended in 2006 with a UN-brokeredpeace agreement.

Since then the country has seentumultuous change, with the ultra-leftists winning landmark polls,abolishing the 240-year-old monar-chy and declaring Nepal a secularstate before their government fell inMay.

“Before the peace accord, thearmy used to be mobilised both in-side and outside the parks, whichcreated a psychological deterrent tothe poachers,” Bhatta said.

“Now the army is confined justinside the parks and in barracks.”

Agence France-Presse

MIAMI - Mexico’s government is-sued a hurricane warning on Saturdayas a strengthening tropical storm Idabore down on the country’s Yucatanpeninsula.

Ida was quickly picking up strengthand could again become a hurricanelate Saturday, the Miami-based Na-tional Hurricane Center (NHC) said,adding that the storm threatened to hitthe United States on Wednesday.

At 1800 GMT the center of Ida waslocated about 370 kilometers (230miles) southeast of Cozumel, Mexico,and about 370 kilometers (230 miles)south of the western tip of Cuba, theNHC said.

“Reports from an Air Force Re-serve aircraft indicate that the maxi-mum sustained winds have increasedto near 110 kilometers (70 miles) perhour, with higher gusts,” making it astrong tropical storm.

Ida could become a hurricane lateSaturday, “but weakening is expectedafter Ida enters the Gulf of Mexico,”

Tropical storm ‘Ida’ gainsstrength in Caribbean

the NHC said.Ida was moving northward at 15

kilometers per hour, and was forecastto pick up speed, turn northwest, andtouch the northern portion of theYucatan Peninsula on Sunday, thenmove into the southeastern Gulf ofMexico.

Cuba also issued a tropical stormwarning for the Pinar del Rio prov-ince.

The storm is expected to dump upto 13 centimeters (five inches) of rainover parts of the Yucatan peninsula andCuba, “with possible isolated maxi-mum amounts” of 25 centimeters (10inches).

On Friday, Ida battered Nicaragua’sCaribbean coast despite being down-graded to a tropical depression.

Heavy rains from Ida swelled Nica-raguan rivers, destroying an estimated530 houses and hitting remote com-munities in one of Central America’spoorest nations.

The NHC warned rains could pro-duce flash floods and mudslides inCentral America and the Caribbean.

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Beth Williamstraveled hundreds of miles to the UScapital to loudly rail against a loom-ing health care bill, then tracked downher congressman for a heart-to-heartover the legislation she was sure hewould support.

The divorced 45-year-old fromCanton, Ohio, lost her job at a carparts plant 20 months ago and has nohealth insurance, but in an impas-sioned encounter with freshmanDemocrat John Boccieri imploredhim not to vote for a bill crafted byhis party that would help cover mil-lions like her but that she and fellowconservatives decry as a financialboondoggle.

Boccieri’s office said Saturday,even as lawmakers raucously debatedthe bill, that he was still undecidedon whether or not to vote for the mostambitious overhaul of its kind in morethan a generation.

“I’m hoping we might strike achord with him,” Williams told AFP.“But I’m worried he’ll vote downparty lines.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosihoped as much, predicting that the 10-year, trillion-dollar measure will earnthe 218 votes needed to pass in a voteas early as Saturday night. It wouldstill need to be approved by the Sen-ate before it reaches President BarackObama’s desk.

Republican leaders vowed a unitedfront against it, and Pelosi facedenough of a struggle to keep Demo-crats from defecting over the bill’slanguage on abortion and immigra-tion that Obama headed to CongressSaturday to personally woo waveringDemocrats like Boccieri.

The US legislative system may bea world away from small-townAmerica, but the marbled halls ofCongress are open to the public,

AFP PHOTO / HO / Wildlife Conservation Nepal

This handout picture released by the Wildlife Conservation Nepal (WCN) and taken on June 29,2009 shows Nepalese poachers (front) being held by police officers with a tiger skin seized froma hotel in Chitwan, 70 kilometres (44 miles) southwest of Kathmandu. Conservationists say Nepalis fast becoming a transit hub for endangered species, with rhino horns and tiger skins fromIndia being smuggled through the Himalayan nation into neighbouring China. Ms Williams goes to Washington

maintaining the cherished opportu-nity for constituents to address griev-ances directly with their lawmakers.

Sometimes, the effort pays off.After catching an overnight bus to

Washington for a “Kill the Bill” rallyThursday at the US Capitol, Williamsand some 10 others from Ohio’s 16thdistrict made their way to her appoint-ment with Boccieri.

“Our economy has been under at-tack. We’ve lost our free market,”Williams began, describing her fearsof how a government takeover ofhealth care would balloon the nationaldebt and send the United States downthe path to socialized medicine.

“This is something that is dear tomy heart,” she told Boccieri, 40, onthe Capitol steps. “I love this countryto death. I would never go anywhereelse,” she said, her voice cracking.“But if things continue the way thiscurrent administration and this Con-gress is trying to go, I will not hesi-tate to leave this country.”

Boccieri, an air force pilot whoflew missions in Iraq and Afghani-stan, listened somberly as Williamsand others protested the agenda castby Obama on health care, a cap-and-trade system to fight climate change,and what they see as governmenttakeover of the economy.

When pressed on how he’ll votefor the health bill, Boccieri pointedto the sky-high costs of not reform-ing the system.

The congressman has anguishedover the legislation. He and his teamhave held nearly 150 roundtablemeetings and listened to scores ofvoters as part of what he described as“a long, thoughtful, and sometimesemotional” process.

“We need to have a debate abouthow we go forward, because rightnow we have an unsustainable fu-ture with respect to health care,” hetold the group.

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“This is only the beginning,” saidUsman Yasin who took the initiativeto mobilize “Face-bookers” supportfor the KPK after feeling outraged

AFP PHOTO / KRIS ARIA

This photo taken on October 26 2009 shows Alex - spokesman for the 255 Sri Lankan asylumseekers - holding a Sri Lankan child during an interview in Serang. Although the ForeignMinistry has extended their stay permit, the regional government of Riau Islands rejects theSri Lankan immigrants who are now still aboard an Australian-flagged ship anchoring in Riauwaters.

Antara

JAKARTA - The Association of the Indone-sian Tour & Travel Agencies (Asita) said tour-ism investment in Indonesia would grow posi-tively after the holding of last month’s nationalsummit.

“The investment in the tourism sector willgrow positively, though it would not be as rapidas our expectation,” Asita Vice Chairman forJakarta Jongki Adiyasa said here over the week-end.

He said that significant growth could howeverbe expected from certain tourism sectors such ashotels and MICE (meeting, incentive, conferenceand exhibition) programs.

The Asita chairman said he was convincedthat the investment in the hotel and MICE sec-tors would grow significantly in line with theimprovement of the country’s economic busi-ness climate.

Unluckily however, the good investment cli-mate was unlikely to be followed by all businesssectors in tourism as a whole, he said.

“The causes of this condition included the fact

Antara

BATAM - Although the Foreign Minis-try has extended their stay permit, the re-gional government of Riau Islands rejectsthe Sri Lankan immigrants who are now stillaboard an Australian-flagged ship anchor-ing in Riau waters.

“Although the foreign ministry has ex-tended their stay permit, we remain firm toreject them,” Governor of Riau IslandsIsmeth Abdullah said here on Sunday.

However, he said, the regional govern-ment would accept the permit if they stayedonly aboard the Oceanic Viking ship whichlaid anchor in the waters of Pulau Cempedakisland, Bintan District, Riau Islands.

“If they just stay aboard the ship, it’s OK.The Sri Lankan immigrants actually alsorefused to leave the ship,” the governor said.

Abdullah said that the regional govern-ment would reject the Sri Lankan immi-grants if they left their ship and stayed inTanjungpinang of Riau Islands province.

The Indonesian government has extendedby one week the stay permit of 78 Sri Lankanillegal immigrants on board an Australian-

Antara

YOGYAKARTA - The governmentthrough the Ministry of Social Affairs ispreparing a fund of Rp1.3 trillion to fi-nance a Family of Hope Program (PKH)in 2010, a cabinet minister said.

“The funds are being prepared for720,000 selected poor families. Thesefamilies have to meet the condition be-fore they could receive the assistance,”Social Affairs Minister Salim Segaf AlJufri said here on Sunday.

The minister said that the PKH pro-gram was part of the government’s ef-forts to reduce the number of poor peopleto 8-10 percent in the coming five yearsfrom 14-15 percent at present.

The PKH program is a scheme inwhich the government provides cash toa very poor family (RTSM) based on cer-tain categories in an effort to develop thecountry’s human resources in the fieldof education and health.

Government preparing IDR1.3trillion for family of hope program

The target of the PKH program is anRSTM which has at least one familymember at age between 0 and 15 years,or an expectant mother in selected region.

“The recipient of this program must be amother or women who are taking care of achild in the family concerned. This is intendedto empower women,” the minister said.

He said that the would-be recipientsmust sign an agreement which specifiedthat they should sent children of 7-15years to schools, or children of 16-18years who had not yet finished their nine-year basic education.

Besides, they had also take children of0-6 years to health care centers based on thehealth care procedures. Those who werepregnant were expected to check their healthregularly based on the PKH procedures.

The minister said that the program hadbeen carried out in a number of coun-tries such as in Latin American nations.In Indonesia it had been started in 2007and was expected to continue until 2015.

Summit to boost tourism investment: ASITAthat there are many inconsistent polices in thetourism sector which often overlap between thoseissued by the central government and those bythe regional administrations,” the Asita chairmansaid.

He cited as an example the police numbers ofvehicles for a tourism fleet in Bali and Jakarta.

“In Bali they are required to use private platenumbers while in Jakarta they have to use ser-vice ones. Thus, in Bali, a fleet has to pay taxhigher than one that has to be paid in Jakarta,” hesaid.

Jongki said that many investors were actuallywaiting for the government’s consistent policiesbefore they could go ahead with making a seri-ous investment in Indonesia.

He considered that consistency was importantbecause the tourism business was sensitive topolicy changes. The more frequent change in thepolicy the bigger the loss a tourism businesswould likely to suffer.

Therefore, Asita was calling on policy makersto be consistent in drawing up their policies whichhad to be synchronized with those produced inthe regions.

Number of ‘Facebookers’Number of ‘Facebookers’Number of ‘Facebookers’Number of ‘Facebookers’Number of ‘Facebookers’supporting KPK reaches one millionsupporting KPK reaches one millionsupporting KPK reaches one millionsupporting KPK reaches one millionsupporting KPK reaches one millionAntara

JAKARTA - The number of people supporting the Corruption Eradi-cation Commission (KPK) through the internet-based social commu-nication service “Facebook” reached the target number of one millionon Saturday, the campaign’s initiator said.

about what he thought were unjustpolice actions against two of theanti-graft body’s leaders.

Usman, a lecturer at

Muhammadiyah University inBengkulu, in an interview withMetro TV, also said his effort hadshown that Facebook was a socialnetwork that was capable of effec-tively voicing public opinion in adirect and undistorted way.

“I myself never thought, it coulddo this,” he said, adding he had be-gun inviting other Facebookers’ opin-ions on the KPK-Police conflict on

October 29, following the arrest ofsuspended KPK deputy chiefs BibitSamad Rianto and Chandra Hamzah.

He said he was moved by the factthat his initiative was not only re-sponded to positively by people inthe country but also by Indonesiansabroad. Usman said he hopedFacebook could also prove to be auseful tool for the public to helpsolve other national problems.

In the meantime, following Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’sdecision to form an independent teamto verify the lawfulness of the two KPKleaders’ arrest and the replaying of arecording of wiretapped conversationsbetween a businessman and some rank-ing law enforcement officials suggest-ing the existence of a plot to frame Bibitand Chandra, the duo were released lastTuesday (Nov 3).

Riau Islands rejects SriLankan immigrants

flagged ship in Bintan district’s waters, RiauIslands province, foreign ministry spokesmanTeuku Faizasyah said Friday. said.

The government’s gesture on the SriLankan immigrants who are seeking asy-lum in Australia was a reflection of its un-derstanding of the problem being faced bythe Australian government in relation withthe Sri Lankan refugees,Faizasyah said.

“The extension was granted in the hopethe Australian government can find a bettersolution to the problem the illegal immi-grants pose,” said Faizasyah.

Faizasyah also called on the local people,regional administration and related authori-ties in Bintan island to be patient concern-ing the presence of illegal immigrants intheir territory. On Tuesday (Nov 3), authori-ties from the Australian immigration officemet with a delegation from Indonesia’s Min-istry of Foreign Affairs to discuss the fateof the 78 Sri Lankan immigrants.

The forum, Faizasyah added, also talkedabout ways to tackle such problems in thefuture since Indonesia is always made astransit country for the immigrants wantingto go to Australia.

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Bali Today

“With he increasing number ofBritish tourists arriving in Bali, Brit-ain has ranked eighth in the list ofbiggest countries sending tourists toBali,” Head of the Central Bureau ofStatistics (BPS) for Bali province, IdaKomang Wisnu said here on Sunday.

He said that Britain was rankedeighth after Australia, Japan, China,Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan andFrance.

Wisnu said Britain contributed3.81 percent to the total foreign tour-ist arrivals in Bali, which reached 1.5million people.

On the national scale, more than4.61 million foreign tourists visitedIndonesia in the first nine months of2009, up 1.07 percent from the sameperiod last year.

“In September 2009 alone, thenumber of tourist arrivals was493,799,” head of the tourismministry’s data processing and net-work system center Ir. Wibowo saidearly this week.

Compared to the same period lastyear, the number of tourist arrivals inSeptember 2009 slightly fell 1.44percent, he said.

He said seven entry points includ-ing Ngurah Rai, Polonia and SamRatulangi Airports saw an increase inthe number of tourist arrivals in Sep-tember 2009.

In the meantime, the number of

Bali Post

DENPASAR - After Bali Prov-ince failed to invite investors to buildtoll road and bridge connectingSerangan to Tanjung Benoa, NusaDua, later it was offered fly-over andsubway to overcome the traffic jamon the route of Bypass Ngurah Rairanging from Dewa Ruciroundabouts, Tuban T-junction up toNusa Dua. The Head of Bali PublicWorks Service, I Gusti NyomanSura Adnyana, said the matter, Fri-day (Nov 6).

Such an offer related to greenlight rendered by Minister of PublicWorks, Djoko Kirmanto, after see-ing the design of fly-over and sub-way. Technically, there was no prob-lem. “However, we should also con-sider it in terms of customary andcultural aspects,” he said.

Seemingly, Minister of PublicWorks realized that it was not easyto build fly-over in Bali as it con-cerned with customary and culturalaspects. This matter has once beendiscussed at Warung Beras Bali byinviting resource person Ida

Number of British, France tourist arrivingNumber of British, France tourist arrivingNumber of British, France tourist arrivingNumber of British, France tourist arrivingNumber of British, France tourist arrivingin Bali increasingin Bali increasingin Bali increasingin Bali increasingin Bali increasing

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The photo shows tourists are trying to take a turtle to the beach. The number of British touristsvisiting the Indonesian resort island of Bali in the January-August 2009 period increased 10.50percent to 58,560 from 52,994 in the same period a year earlier, a statistics official said.

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DENPASAR - The number of British tourists visiting the In-donesian resort island of Bali in the January-August 2009 pe-riod increased 10.50 percent to 58,560 from 52,994 in the sameperiod a year earlier, a statistics official said.

Australian, French, Saudi Arabian,UAE, and Chinese tourists to Indone-sia has also increased significantly.

“The number of foreign tourists toIndonesia in the January-September2009 period increased by an averageof more than two digits,” Wibowo said.

According to the center, the num-ber of Australian tourists in the Janu-ary-September 2009 period reached368,236, which is a 26.66 percent in-crease, and French tourists reached115,872, up by 26.67 percent.

In the meantime, the number ofSaudi, UAE, and Chinese touristsreached respectively 40,374, 2,902,and 262,140, or an increase by respec-tively 24.33, 33.18, and 20.07 percent.

French touristThe number of French tourist arriv-

als in Bali went up by 73,167 or 39.98percent from January to August 2009from that in the same period in 2008.

France was among the top 10 coun-tries contributing to Bali’s tourist dol-lar earnings, added Wisnu.

The European country was on theseventh rank after Australia, Japan,China, Malaysia, South Korea and Tai-wan.

France accounted for about 4.76percent of the total number of for-eign tourists visiting Bali (1,538,048)during the January-August period in2009, he said.

To Overcome Traffic Jam on Jalan Ngurah Rai

Toll Failed, Subwayto be proposed

Pedanda Gunung, customary figureand discoverer of Sosrobahu tech-nique, Ida Cokorde Sukawati. How-ever, it was encountered a crossopinion regarding to fly-over. “Thisproblem should be resolved at re-gional level before proposing itsbudget to central government,” saidMinister of Public Works as quotedby the Head of Bali Public WorksService.

While waiting for the realiza-tion of this road, his party performedthe widening to the road body atparticular points and reduced cross-roads to overcome the traffic jamsat certain paths. Besides, geometricof the road should be improved, no-tably at routes that were vulnerableto traffic accident like that ofDenpasar-Gilimanuk route.

Alternatives of fly-over andsubway were expected to answer thecomplain of the Head of Commis-sion III of Bali House, Putu AgusSuradnyana that the traffic jam atDewa Ruci roundabouts and T-junc-tion of Ngurah Rai Airports wereextraordinarily serious. “Justimagine, tourists that would like to

go to Ubud from Nusa Dua shouldtake up to 2 hours due to traffic jamat those points,” he said.

For that purpose, there shouldbe braveness of regional governmentto re-offer the fly-over and subwaybefore the traffic jam was gettingmore serious. Chiefly, the one hap-pened at Dewa Ruci roundabouts.His party also expected that govern-ment dared allocate a budget for thedevelopment of road and Serangan-Tanjung Benoa Bridge when therewere no investors showing interestto take the road project.

Previously, the road andSerangan-Tanjung Benoa, Nusa DuaBridge has been offered for twotimes to Toll Road DevelopmentAuthority (BPJT) to look for inves-tor. However, no investors looked tobe interested as it was not profitable.Lately, there was an issue that inves-tors from China and Korea wouldhave an interest to build the toll roadand bridge. Yet, the party of BaliHouse felt pessimistic it could berealized. “The route is short, only 9km and dominant users will be mo-torbike,” he said. (029)

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The photo shows the island of Bali from above. After Bali Prov-ince failed to invite investors to build toll road and bridge con-necting Serangan to Tanjung Benoa, Nusa Dua, later it was of-fered fly-over and subway to overcome the traffic jam on theroute of Bypass Ngurah Rai ranging from Dewa Ruciroundabouts, Tuban T-junction up to Nusa Dua. The Head of BaliPublic Works Service, I Gusti Nyoman Sura Adnyana, said thematter, Friday.

Balinese Culture

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Balinese food gets its characteristic flavor from ablend of spices, herbs, roots and other savoryingredients, which are prepared in different ways. Thebasic seasonings (known as base – pronounced barseh– is sometimes finely chopped or sliced, other timespounded to a fine paste. Some spice pastes are madefrom raw ingredients, while for others; the ingredientsare either steamed or roasted before pounding.

These spice pastes can be prepared in advanced andstored in a refrigerator for up to one week. They can alsobe divided into smaller quantities and deep-frozen. If youare using a mortar and pestle, grind the dry spices suchas pepper and coriander first; then add the hardestingredients, the roots such as laos and kencur. Whenthese are finely ground, add the shallots and chilies,then finally soft ingredients such as shrimp paste.

If using a food processor, blend the dry spices firstthen add all other ingredients, except the oil.

Spice pastes keep refrigerated for up to two weeks, orspread finished spice paste in ice cube tray and freeze.Once frozen paste will keep easy up to 6 months.

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IBP DENPASAR – The increasing

numbers of BlackBerry Internet ser-vice (BIS) users make Telkomsel,the biggest operator in Indonesia; in-troduce new innovations of BIS toits customers. These innovationscompleted the unlimited BIS that al-ready exist.

According to Telkomsel’s GMSales & Customer Services BaliNusra region Syaiful Bachri theseinnovations have different treat-ment to different type of custom-ers. There are three types of groupsthat can be found in Telkomsel’sBIS users. The first group is the onewho need full services, the secondone is who need only chatting andsocial networking stuffs, while inthe third group only use BIS tosending and reading email.

Learning these characters, addedSyaiful, Telkomsel launched two pack-ages of BIS, which are BlackBerryLifestyle package and BlackBerryBusiness. ‘’This two different pack-age are offerings different services. Forexample the BlackBerry Lifestyle isfor the customers who like unlimitedchatting using BlackBerry Messenger,Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Win-dow Live Messenger, and other socialnetworking, like Facebook andMySpace,” he explained.

Ingredients:250 gr large

red chili, seededand peeled

40 gr bird’seye chili, finelysliced

50 gr garlic,peeled andchopped

200 gr shallot,peeled andchopped

50 gr ginger, peeled and chopped150 gr laos, peeled and chopped2½ tbsp black pepper corn crushed2½ tbsp coriander seed crushed100 gr candlenut40 gr palm sugar, chopped150 ml coconut oil250 ml water3 salam leaf¾ tbsp salt

Preparation:Combine all ingredients except salam leaf, water and

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GM Sales & Customer Service of Telkomsel Bali Nusra RegionSyaiful Bachri (3l) during the launching of Bundling Package ofSimpati Pede and BlackBerry Curve 8520 or famously knownas Gemini in Bali - Nusra region.

Telkomsel introduce new BIS innovations Each package is offering an af-

fordable price so its can be use by stu-dents who want to use BlackBerry.BlackBerry Lifestyle customers canchoose IDR3, 000 per day usage orIDR20, 000 per week. If customerswant to be more economical they canchoose per month package which onlycost IDR65, 000. Meanwhile the usersof BlackBerry Business can choose perday usage that cost IDR5, 000 orweekly package cost IDR28, 000 or

monthly package that cost IDR80, 000. To mark the launched of these new

BISs, Telkomsel also introducing aBundling Package of Simpati Pede andBlackBerry Curve 8520 or famouslyknown as Gemini at Bali - Nusra re-gion. Syaiful very optimized that thisaffordable handset will make the num-bers of BIS users increase greatly. Ac-cording to him, BlackBerry users in Bali- Nusra are growing rapidly, around 725percent compare to the January 2009.

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RAMBUT Siwi Temple is one of the biggest Hindu Temples in Bali locatedin Negara regency, west part of Bali. It is a beautiful Hindu shrine set in the cliffbank with wide Indian Ocean just in front of the temple. This temple has beenrenovated and moved to the top of hill for better location of worshiping to thegod. Rambut Siwi Temple or local people call Pura Rambut Siwi is supported bythe local resident including the maintenance, ceremony and other activities.

The local believe that every temple in Bali keep secret of holy including RambutSiwi Temple. This temple owns the representative temple building which is setbeside of main road from Denpasar to Gilimanuk. We can see all cars driven bylocal Hindu people will stop for a while in this temple for worshiping to get thegod bless of securing during the journey. It is the same local people do at othertemples in Bali like Gua Lawah and Pulaki Temple. The main temple located incliff bank and blessed by the breathtaking view of the Indian Ocean. From thetop of the cliff, we can see the old temple building on the ground and just in frontof the ocean. Meanwhile the beautiful panorama of the blue Indian Ocean willadd the impression of your experience. It is opened for tourist destination in westpart of Bali and the right place to visit during your vacation in this island.Location

Rambut Siwi Temple is one of big temple in Bali located in Yeh EmbangKangin countryside, Mendoyo district and Jembrana regency. It is about 2.5 hoursdrives from Denpasar town go to the west part of Bali or 45 minutes drive fromNegara town. This temple is daily taken care by a group of community which iscalled ‘Pangempon’ come from Pekutatan district. It is simple way to reach thistemple from Denpasar and just follow the main road to Gilimanuk. On the way toGilimanuk, in particular of entering the regency of Jembrana area, you will findout a temple in the left side where most of the cars stop. Rambut Siwi Temple isvisited by many tourists and it is one of the tourist destinations in Bali or Placesof Interest in Bali.

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Monday, November 9, 2009 11

BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

TAIPEI - Taiwan is expectedto forge an agreement on financialcooperation with China “soon”, inyet another sign of evolving ties be-tween the two former bitter rivals,it was reported Sunday.

A senior Taiwanese official incharge of relations with China saidover the weekend the formal sign-ing of the agreement, which calls forcloser banking, insurance and secu-rities cooperation, “could take placesoon,” local media reported.

Negotiations on the agreement“are almost completed,” said ChiangPin-kung, chairman of the quasi-of-ficial Straits Exchange Foundation.

The foundation and its Chinese

Yunus, who with his GrameenBank — which gives tiny loans to thevery poor to help start businesses —won the 2006 Peace Prize, told mediahere on Saturday: “Any problem has apotential of being addressed with a so-cial business.”

“Social business being a businesswhere you don’t make money,” he ex-plained. “Zero profit for the investors.”

The ground-breaking “microcredit”banker from Bangladesh is backed bycorporations like food giant Danone,global water group Veolia, sportswearcompany Adidas, software pioneerSAP and academics at Kyushu Univer-sity in Japan.

The first Global Grameen Meetingof companies, foundations, think-tanks,scientific experts and other institutionswas hosted by Europe’s largestcarmaker Volkswagen at its headquar-ters in Wolfsburg, northern Germany.

Grameen is a Bengali word for vil-lage, and “was chosen to indicate thatbig projects may start small,” a state-ment said.

The forum’s ambitious goal is toeliminate poverty by 2030 in both thedeveloping world and advanced econo-mies.

Ideas that sprouted on the Indiansub-continent are being transplanted inGermany, Europe’s biggest economy,and in France, where Danone will drawon its experience with Yunus inBangladesh to launch a project for the

Agence France-Presse

NEW DELHI - India’s pre-mier rolled out the welcome matfor foreign investors Sunday,promising to step up economicreforms to draw global funds andput the country on a high growthpath.

Prime Minster ManmohanSingh, speaking to a blue-chip in-ternational economic summit, saidpolicy would be guided by thedesire to create “an investorfriendly environment.”

India had attracted foreign di-rect investment of more than 120billion dollars since 2001-02 butmore was needed to develop itsvast economy, he told a WorldEconomic Forum meeting in NewDelhi.

“You are all welcome in ourefforts,” he told 600 delegatesfrom around the world, adding thatthe government wanted to pushthrough reforms to make the coun-try more attractive for investment.

“We need to strengthen ourfinancial system in various waysto make sure it can provide whatis needed for our development,”he said, promising to open up in-surance and other financial sectorsmore aggressively to generatefunds. Since winning a decisivere-election victory in May, theCongress-led government hasbeen able to pursue reformsblocked in the last parliament bycommunist opposition.

He said the government wasaiming for 6.5 percent growth inthis fiscal year to March 2010 de-spite the worst monsoon in nearlyfour decades that has hit agricul-ture, and he forecast “over sevenpercent” expansion next year.

“I am happy India has beenable to face the global economicdownturn better than most othercountries in the world,” he said.

Nobel laureate says global crisis a chanceNobel laureate says global crisis a chanceNobel laureate says global crisis a chanceNobel laureate says global crisis a chanceNobel laureate says global crisis a chanceto change businessto change businessto change businessto change businessto change businessAgence France-Presse

WOLFSBURG - Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus calls the global economic crisis“an excellent opportunity to reflect and redesign” businesses, and devote creative ones to solvingsocial problems.

poor in Paris.“It’s really a source of inspiration,”

Danone representative EmmanuelFaber told a press conference in thecompany of Yunus and the othergroups.

He underscored the “new processes,new ideas, new ways of working thatsocial business has driven into themainstream way of Danone doing busi-ness.”

The big group’s have not decidedto ditch profits altogether but are set-ting up subsidiaries to work on the so-cial business model in addressing prob-lems with the environment, health care,nutrition and unemployment.

“Each one is dedicated to solving aparticular social problem,” Yunus said.

Hans Reitz, co-founder with Yunusand director of the Grameen CreativeLab that brought together varied sec-tors to brainstorm for solutions, said hisgroup would launch seven small com-panies in Germany with no more thanfive to seven employees.

“You can start small and give it atry, find out if it works or if it doesn’twork,” he said, and share the resultsacross what Faber said was now “a glo-bal network of people thinking alongthese lines.”

Faber quoted Danone founderAntoine Riboud as stressing “therecould not be long-term wealth creationwithout social progress.”

Peter Graf of SAP warned mean-

while that if they failed to act on globalissues, there was “a danger of compa-nies losing their social license to dobusiness.”

He called the threat “hugely under-estimated as the public gets more andmore aware of the crises that we arefacing.”

Danone plans to launch a project tohave 300 people deliver fresh dairyproducts to Paris area shops on elec-tric-powered tricycles. The driverswould be ex-convicts or others facedwith marginal living situations and theplan would cut carbon dioxide emis-sions from delivery vans withdrawnfrom circulation, he said.

In Germany, Reitz is experimentingwith business loans to 15-year-oldschool children to show them theycould later be self-employed.

Making cakes, candles and musicCDs allowed German and immigrantyouth to “start a small business and cre-ate an identity,” he said.

“You can create a job for others, youdon’t have to wait to have a job,” Reitzstressed as the eurozone struggles toreduce chronic unemployment.

Yunus believes social businessescan unite public sector and charity goalswith the dynamics of an enterprise.

“If you can design businesses, bringthe power of business, and the technol-ogy of businesses and the creativity ofbusinesses to bear on a problem, maybewe can solve it,” he said.

India PM invites world to investin economy under reform

“Our medium term objective isto achieve eight to nine percentgrowth.”

Singh said “clearly the worstis behind” the global economy buthe added the path to sustained re-covery “will be long and somewhatuncertain.”

This meant India would haveto rely heavily on domestic demandto power its growth, he said.

Overhauling the country’s di-lapidated infrastructure — roads,airports, ports and other services —would be key to keeping theeconomy on the recovery trail, hesaid. He added it was vital to en-sure growth was “inclusive” andimproved the lives of the estimated40 percent of the nearly 1.2 billionIndians who still live in extremepoverty.

A Lion statue, seen, in frontof the Guangzhou R&F

Center, at the Central Busi-ness District CBD in

Guangzhou, southern city ofChina, Wednesday, Nov. 4,

2009. Taiwan is expected toforge an agreement on

financial cooperation withChina “soon”, in yet another

sign of evolving ties betweenthe two former bitter rivals, it

was reported Sunday.

AFP PHOTO/RAVEENDRAN

Indian Prime MinisterManmohan Singh attendsThe World Economic Forum’s25th India Economic Summit-2009 in New Delhi on Novem-ber 8, 2009. During hisspeech Singh said that hewould pursue financial sectorreforms to fund infrastruc-ture development that wouldin turn propel the economy.

Taiwan, China to sign financialcooperation pact: report

counterpart, the Association for Re-lations Across the Taiwan Strait havebeen authorised separately by theirgovernments to handle exchanges inthe absence of official contact be-tween the two sides.

Relations between China andTaiwan have improved markedlysince May 2008, when the China-friendly Ma Ying-jeou assumed thepresidency, pledging to push forcloser economic cooperation andallow in more Chinese tourists.

The two sides held their firstdirect dialogue in 10 years in Beijingin June last year, leading to regulardirect flights across the Taiwan Straitand measures to boost tourism.

Taiwan has governed itselfsince 1949 at the end of a civil war,

but Beijing regards the island as arenegade province awaiting reunifi-cation with the mainland.

AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Entertainment InternationalMonday, November 9, 200912

Reuters

LOS ANGELES– R&B singerRihanna broke her silence about thenight her ex-boyfriend Chris Brownattacked her, saying he had bitten her,put her in a headlock and left herbleeding and swollen.

“It wasn’t the same person thatsays ‘I love you.’ It was notthose...eyes,” Rihanna, 21, told DianeSawyer in an interview on ABCtelevision’s “Good MorningAmerica” show.

“He had...no soul in his eyes. Justblank...He was clearly blacked out.There was no person when I lookedat him,” she said.

Brown, 20, singer of hits like“Kiss, Kiss,” was sentenced to fiveyears probation and 180 hours ofcommunity service for the assault inFebruary on the eve of the GrammyAwards.

He has apologized publicly andalthough the pair briefly reunited,Rihanna said she now has “no desireat all to be with him.”

Rihanna said the attacks startedwith an argument over a text mes-sage Brown received while they weredriving home from an industry party.

“I couldn’t take it that he kept ly-

According to Aerosmith’s gui-tarist Joe Perry, Tyler has quit theband and isn’t on speaking termswith anybody.

He tells the Las Vegas Sun,“Steven quit as far as I can tell. Idon’t know any more than you doabout it. I got off the plane twonights ago. I saw online that Stevensaid that he was going to leave theband. I don’t know for how long,indefinitely or whatever. Other thanthat, I don’t know.”

Perry blames Tyler’s lack ofcommunication for the split saying,“He’s notorious for that. That’s onething I’ve learned to live with. I tryto overlook it. I like to pick mybattles.

“Frankly, the last few monthsI’ve been wanting not to rock theboat. I don’t want him cancelingany more gigs. We really wanted todo these last four. We just kind ofdidn’t want to call him out or any-thing and get him anymore p**sedoff, for whatever reason. So we justlet things lie.

“So we did the gigs and, like Isaid, I got off the plane and saw thisonline. That’s how I know about it...He has had no contact with me orthe other band members.”

Perry added that the group willgo on with or without Tyler. Headds, “Right now I’m adjusting tohow we’re going to go on.Aerosmith is such a powerful band,I mean it’s like a steam locomotive.You just can’t disregard 40 years offour guys who play together as wellas they do. We’re just trying to - at

Agence France Presse

LOS ANGELES– Oscar-winnerMorgan Freeman has settled a lawsuitinvolving a female passenger travel-ing in his car when it crashed last year,the woman’s lawyer confirmed.

Freeman, 72, suffered a broken

Nicole Kidman has fallen ill, and hasbeen forced to cancel a scheduled trip toKenya. She’s come down with the flu—regular flu, not swine flu—and decidedon staying home to take care of herself.

Nicole was supposed to go to Kenyathis week as part of an initiative launchedby the United Nations DevelopmentFund for Women (Unifem).

She’d planned on visiting schools andhospitals in the country and raise aware-ness of women’s rights. A representativefor Kidman says in a statement, “Nicoleis deeply sorry that, because she is ill

with the seasonal flu, she cannot come to Kenya.The Say No - UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign is a

top priority and together with Unifem she will work to advance this criti-cal initiative.”

She definitely made the right choice! Travel is the worst thing forsomeone who is sick! Get better, Nicole!

Rihanna

Rihanna describes nightof attack by Chris Brown

ing to me. And he couldn’t take it thatI wouldn’t drop it. And...it was ugly,”she told Sawyer. She acknowledgedpolice reports that Brown bit her, puther in a head lock until she hadtrouble breathing, and punched herseveral times in the eye.

“I fended him off with myfeet...but it was not like, it was notlike a fight with each other. I just...Ireally just wanted it to stop,” she said.

Her screams prompted a passer-by to call the police.

“I was bleeding, I was swollen inthe face,” she said. “So there was noway of me getting home, except for,my next option was to get out of thecar and walk. Start walking in agown, in a bloody face. So I reallydon’t know what my plan was.”

Rihanna said although herwounds had long healed, she hadflashbacks and scars inside.

“The thing that men don’t realizewhen they hit a woman, it’s...the face,the broken arm, the black eye, it’s go-ing to heal. That’s not the problem.It’s the scar inside.

“You flashback...you...you re-member all the time. It comes backto you whether you like it or not. Andit’s painful. So I don’t think he un-derstood that,” she said.

Nicole Kidman CancelsKenya Trip Due to Flu

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman settles suit in crash case: lawyerarm, elbow and minor shoulder dam-age when his car veered off the roadin a late-night single vehicle crash nearRuleville, Mississippi in August 2008.

His passenger, Demaris Meyer,had sued Freeman in the US Dis-trict Court in Mississippi for com-pensation, saying the injuries and

trauma she sustained in the crash lefther unable to work.

Meyer, who had to be cut out ofwreckage of the vehicle by respond-ers, suffered broken bones and headinjuries which had left her with cogni-tive difficulties and short term memoryloss, according to earlier statements.

The case has now been dismissedafter both parties agreed an out-of-court settlement, Meyer’s lawyerGloria Allred said Friday.

“Ms Meyer is pleased that the mat-ter is resolved and the case is settled,”Allred said in an email to AFP.

Freeman won an Academy Awardfor his role in 2004’s Clint Eastwoodboxing drama “Million Dollar Baby”and is famous for his authoritativevoice that has been used to narratedocumentaries and commercials aswell as film roles. He has been nomi-nated for an Oscar a total of four times.

Freeman will soon be seen in an-other collaboration with Eastwood,“Invictus,” a film based on the 1995Rugby World Cup. Freeman portraysformer South African presidentNelson Mandela.

Steven Tyler Quits AerosmithSteven Tyler Quits AerosmithSteven Tyler Quits AerosmithSteven Tyler Quits AerosmithSteven Tyler Quits AerosmithLas Vegas

After 40 years, Steven Tylerhas decided to part ways from theband that made him a householdname.

least I am - trying to figure out whatdirection the band should take.

“As far as replacing Steve, it’s notjust about that, it’s also four guysthat play extremely well together,and I’m not going to see that go towaste. I really don’t know what pathit’s going to take at this point, butwe’ll probably find somebody elsethat will sing in those spots where

we need a singer and then we’ll beable to move the Aerosmith up anotch, move the vibe up a notch.”

The group has been fighting ru-mors of a split for almost a year nowafter cancelled tour dates, injuriesand accidents. Are you shocked bythe news, or did you see it coming?Will Aerosmith be the same withoutSteven Tyler?

Steven Tyler

International Monday, November 9, 2009 13Life Style

The government has just pickeda group of companies and a team ofresearchers tasked with turning theambitious, multi-billion-dollardream of unlimited clean energy intoreality in coming decades.

With few energy resources of itsown and heavily reliant on oil im-ports, Japan has long been a leaderin solar and other renewable ener-gies and this year set ambitiousgreenhouse gas reduction targets.

But Japan’s boldest plan to dateis the Space Solar Power System(SSPS), in which arrays of photo-voltaic dishes several squarekilometres (square miles) in sizewould hover in geostationary orbit

AFP PHOTO / USEF / HO

This file handout graphic illustration released from Japan’s Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment FreeFlyer (USEF) on September 3, 2009 shows a system of space solar power system (SSPS) which consists ofa large solar power generator and transmission panel

Agence France Presse

NELSON– Scientists have discov-ered the first evidence that dinosaursroamed the South Island of NewZealand with 70-million-year-oldfootprints found in six locations.

They are the first dinosaur foot-prints found in the country althoughbones, mostly vertebrae, have been

Agence France Presse

SHANGHAI- The officiallaunch of Apple’s iPhone in Chinahas been disappointing at best formobile operator China Unicom,with the grey market still boom-ing and competitors offering wor-thy alternatives, experts say.

Unicom unveiled Apple’siconic handset in Beijing on Oc-tober 30, but the few hundredpeople who braved the cold windand rain to snap up the iPhonepaled in comparison to hordes seenin New York in 2007 or Tokyo andHong Kong last year.

Vendors and experts say the highprice, disabled WiFi and wide rangeof other options has so far doggedsales in the world’s biggest cell phonemarket of nearly 720 million users.

Unicom said last week that ithad sold 5,000 units in the firstweekend, but has released no fig-ures since.

“The market was obviously ex-pecting more, based on what hap-pened with the debut of iPhone”in other countries, Bertram Lai, aHong Kong-based analyst withCIMB-GK Securities, told AFP.

“The introduction of a moreexpensive, less usable iPhone with

Japan eyes solar station inJapan eyes solar station inJapan eyes solar station inJapan eyes solar station inJapan eyes solar station inspace as new energy sourcespace as new energy sourcespace as new energy sourcespace as new energy sourcespace as new energy sourceAgence France Presse

TOKYO – It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan’s space agencyis dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space andzap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.

outside the Earth’s atmosphere.“Since solar power is a clean and

inexhaustible energy source, we be-lieve that this system will be able tohelp solve the problems of energyshortage and global warming,” re-searchers at Mitsubishi Heavy In-dustries, one of the project partici-pants, wrote in a report.

“The sun’s rays abound in space.”The solar cells would capture the

solar energy, which is at least fivetimes stronger in space than onEarth, and beam it down to theground through clusters of lasers ormicrowaves.

These would be collected by gi-gantic parabolic antennae, likely to

be located in restricted areas at seaor on dam reservoirs, said TadashigeTakiya, a spokesman at the JapanAerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA).

The researchers are targeting aone gigawatt system, equivalent toa medium-sized atomic power plant,that would produce electricity ateight yen (cents) per kilowatt-hour,six times cheaper than its currentcost in Japan.

The challenge — including trans-porting the components to space —may appear gigantic, but Japan hasbeen pursuing the project since1998, with some 130 researchersstudying it under JAXA’s oversight.

Last month Japan’s Economy andTrade Ministry and the Science Min-istry took another step toward mak-ing the project a reality, by select-ing several Japanese high-tech giantsas participants in the project.

AFP PHOTO / HO / GNS SCIENCE

Dinosaur prints found on NZealand’s South Islanddiscovered in two North Island loca-tions. The footprints were found byscientist Greg Browne in the remoteWhanganui Inlet in the northwest ofNelson at the top of the South Island.

They are spread over 10 kilometresand in one area there are up to 20 foot-prints, Browne said.

Browne, a sedimentologist, be-lieves the footprints belonged to sau-

ropods — plant-eating dinosaurs whichwere among the largest animals to havelived, growing up to six metres (yards)in length and weighing several tonnes.

He said he carefully considered allpossible geological and biological ex-planations for the features in the rockand was able to rule them out one byone. His investigation included com-parisons with dinosaur footprints insimilar-aged rocks in other parts of theworld.

The footprints were made in beachsands and were probably quickly cov-ered and preserved by mud from sub-sequent tides.

“What makes this discovery special

is the unique preservation of the foot-prints in an environment where theycould easily have been destroyed bywaves, tides, or wind,” Browne said.

As with much of New Zealand,northwest Nelson was largely sub-merged between 70 and 20 millionyears ago and the footprints wouldhave been covered by hundreds ofmetres of marine sediments.

However, after the country wasuplifted and northwest Nelsonemerged from the sea, the overlyingsedimentary rock has been erodedaway over the past 20 million yearsto expose the footprints again,Browne said.

An undated handout photo obtained on November 8 shows scientistGreg Browne next to one of six 70 million-year-old footprints foundin various locations in the Nelson region. They are the first dinosaurfootprints found in New Zealand although bones, mostly vertebrae,have been found in two North Island locations.

AP Photo/Kin Cheung, file

In this July 11, 2008 file photo, models hold the new iPhones duringthe first day of the release in Hong Kong. Apple Inc. partner ChinaUnicom Ltd. has sold 5,000 iPhones since the smart phone’s formalweekend debut in China, a lackluster start after analysts warnedthe company might be setting prices too high.

iPhone disappoints inChina launch: analysts

fewer functions is not going to bevery exciting for the market.”

Unicom, the country’s second-largest mobile operator by sub-scribers, is offering a number ofcontract deals that bring the priceof the iPhone down — but it stillcosts more than 500 dollars, out ofrange for most consumers. With-out a subscription, the handset cancost up to 1,000 dollars.

iPhone’s WiFi functions havebeen disabled to comply with Chi-nese government regulations — an-other downside for tech-savvy buy-ers who know they can easily findfake and smuggled versions that willoffer them more complete options.

Liu Dongping, the Shanghai-based business director for vendorQuickway Industrial Corp. Ltd.,said he had sold dozens of UnicomiPhones so far, but called the lackof WiFi a “critical problem”.

“Unicom’s iPhone has got alukewarm response from the mar-ket so far,” Liu said, also pointingto the limited gaming softwareavailable on the handset.

“Most customers who are inter-ested in buying iPhones are high-end customers. They are smartenough to understand how qualityvaries with price and model.”

Monday, November 9, 200914 InternationalSport

Federer will be bidding for a fourth con-secutive title here when he faces the second-seeded Serb, who saved three match pointsin spectacular fashion to win a dramatic semi-final over Radek Stepanek 6-7 (4/7), 7-5, 6-2.

World number one Federer leadsDjokovic 9-4 in their career series, standing2-2 his season with his rival.

“Djokovic has been playing some solidtennis, he’s stayed calm in tough situationstwice this week in matches,” said the Swiss.

“We usually have tough matches, it de-pends a lot on who has the better day. I’mhappy where my game’s at right now.

“But I hope to pick up a bit more speedfor the final. The crowd will be on my sideand that’s an advantage.”

Federer last lost in Basel in 2003 to IvanLjubicic, returned in 2006 and has won thelast three editions.

Chiudinelli saved a set point in the com-bative opening set, but then was passed onone of his own before Federer landed thetiebreaker.

Agence France Presse

DALLAS- Germany’s Dirk Nowitzkiscored a game-high 29 points as the DallasMavericks romped past Toronto 129-101 in aNational Basketball Association game Sunday.

Nowitzki added nine rebounds and dishedout four assists. Jason Terry and Shawn Marionscored 19 and 18 points for Dallas, who havewon four of their past five games.

Josh Howard added 16 points, and JamesSingleton came off the bench to score 10 pointsfor Dallas at the American Airlines Centerarena.

Chris Bosh led Toronto with 26 points and12 rebounds. Andrea Bargnani scored 22points, while Jose Calderon had 13 and sevenassists in the loss.

Dallas broke the game open by scoring10 unanswered points early in the third quar-ter to take a 70-52 lead.

While Memphis Grizzlies guard AllenIverson has left the National Basketball As-sociation team and headed to his home inAtlanta to deal with personal issues.

Iverson, who has expressed his displea-sure at not starting for the Grizzlies this sea-son, is in his first year with the team.

The nine-time all-star missed the firstthree games of the regular season with ahamstring injury.

The 34-year-old Iverson is averaging12.3 points and 3.7 assists per game.

Iverson played for both Denver and De-troit last season after 10 seasons with Phila-delphia where he won the league MVPaward in 2001.

Agence France Presse

SHANGHAI- Tiger Woods was widely ex-pected to be in the hunt when it came to thecrunch at the HSBC Champions on Sunday, butthe frustrated American world number one hadan off day.

Woods started the final round in joint sec-ond place, two shots behind eventual winner PhilMickelson but faded to finish five strokes adriftafter a round of 72.

Nothing went right, he said. “Anything that could go wrong went wrong

for me,” he said. “Just one of those days where Ididn’t put it together at the right time.”

He self-destructed with a double bogey onthe fourth when he drove his ball into an adja-cent canal and had to take a drop.

He recovered to leave himself with a four-foot putt for a bogey but the ball agonisinglybounced out of the hole and he lost two shots.

It didn’t get any better with another bogeyon the sixth, when his 10-foot downhill par puttran five feet past the hole.

He was clearly getting frustrated and whena camera clicked as he was teeing off at the sev-enth and his shot found a bunker, he shouted “Ijust can’t get a swing” and started swearing un-der his breath.

The seventh looked like finishing him. Hisshot out of the bunker found the rough and thenhe put himself in the sand again to drop anothershot. Mickelson birdied that hole and Woods wassix behind his arch rival.

But three consecutive birdies, on nine, 10and 11, put him back in the hunt and two moreon 14 and 15 raised his hopes before a bogey onthe last summed up his disappointing day.

He said there was nothing wrong with hisgame, it was just not his day.

AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI

Roger Federer of Switzerland serves a ball to his compatriot Marco Chiudinelli(out of camera range) during his semi-final game to win 7-6, 6-3 at the SwissIndoors ATP tennis tournament on November 7.

Federer sets up Basel titleFederer sets up Basel titleFederer sets up Basel titleFederer sets up Basel titleFederer sets up Basel titleshowdown with Djokovicshowdown with Djokovicshowdown with Djokovicshowdown with Djokovicshowdown with DjokovicAgence France Presse

BASEL- Roger Federer beat childhood friend Marco Chiudinelli 7-6 (9/7), 6-3 on Sunday to clinch a 19th straight victory at the Swiss Indoors tournamentand set up a final with Novak Djokovic.

Federer took control 4-1 in the secondon his way to a 59th victory this season.

“I tried to be focussed, especially in thetiebreak,” said Federer. “On this surface youcan suddely be down love-30, it can goquickly.”

Djokovic, winner of three titles in 2009,moved into his ninth final of the year and re-mains the leader in ATP matches won in theseason on 70.

He looked to be on the brink of a loss,trailing a set and 4-5 after Stepanek had takenthe lead with his sixth ace in the previousgame.

Facing three match points in the tenthgame after a double-fault, Djokovic calmlysaved two with winners while a Stepanek er-ror accounted for the third.

A break in the next game for 6-5 and aforehand winner to end the set breathed newlife into Djokovic.

The Serbian began the final set with abreak and closed out Stepanek with a break inthe seventh game and an error from the Czecha game later to escape in two and a half hours.

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Dallas Mavericks forward DirkNowitzki, left, shoots a three-point shot while Toronto Rap-tors forward Chris Bosh de-fends during the third quarterof an NBA basketball game.

Germany’s Nowitzki shinesas Mavs breeze past Raptors

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Tiger Woods of the United States watchesthe flight of his shot on the 8th hole duringthe HSBC Champions golf tournament atthe Sheshan International Golf Club inShanghai, China, Sunday, Nov. 8. Woods fin-ished at 12-under.

Frustrated Woods has an off day “No, just one of those days. I got off to a

bad start early and battled back to eight-under-par for the day,” he said.

“But then I got caught a little flyer there onthe 18th and hit in the water.”

Asked what he would do on Monday, he re-plied: “As of right now, I don’t really plan ontomorrow. I just want to get out of here.”

Woods, who has won 16 of the 30 WorldGolf Championships events he has entered, nextheads to Melbourne, where he will play the Aus-tralian Masters.

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In an action-packed derby at the Calderon,Kaka gave Real the lead after just five minutesalthough there were suspicions of a foul onCleber Santana in the lead-up.

Chances came and went for both sides butReal were more clinical with Marcelo doublingthe advantage with an acute drive with hisweaker right foot.

Still not fully fit, Sergio Aguero was intro-duced in the second half and after runningthrough on goal was brought down by SergioRamos who was dismissed.

However, Real went further ahead throughGonzalo Higuain after 73 minutes beforeAtletico launched an assault which saw DiegoForlan and Aguero both score.

Real coach Manuel Pellegrini said: “In thefirst half, Atletico hardly caused us any troubleand then we still had everything controlled un-til Ramos was sent off.

“We have to improve because we lack con-sistency but I have a good feeling about theteam.”

Atletico coach Quique Flores admitted thatthe result leaves the team in a precarious posi-tion in the league.

“The alarm bells are ringing for us but withfight and character we have to take on the nextfew games and start moving up the table,” hesaid.

Youngster Pedro Rodriguez scored a brace

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Real Madrid’s Ricardo Izecson ‘Kaka’ of Brazil, center, reacts after scoring againstAtletico de Madrid with fellow team members Sergio Ramos, left, and Alvaro Arbeloaright, during a Spanish La Liga soccer derby match at the Vicente Calderon stadium.

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ROME- Juventus closed the gap on InterMilan at the top of Serie A to four points onSunday after a thrilling 5-2 win against Atalantain Bergamo.

Mauro Camoranesi scored twice in asmany minutes to give the Bianconeri a 2-0 leadat half-time. Valdes reduced the deficit early inthe second half, but a Felipe Melo scorcher re-stored the two-goal advantage four minuteslater.

Fabio Ceravolo set up a grandstand finishon 71 minutes, but late goals from Diego andDavid Trezeguet, with his record-equalling167th for the club, left the scoreline lookingslightly harsh for a valiant Atalanta.

Despite the five goals, and three other ef-forts ruled out, Juventus coach Ciro Ferrarapraised his team’s defensive performance.“This is the spirit I want Juve to play with,” hesaid. “We are playing a different system at themoment with playmakers but we also have towork hard. Those at the front are the first thathave to defend so we don’t get left one-on-oneat the back.

“We’ve only lost one in five now and weare getting better at playing without the ball - asign of a great side. We’re working on confi-dence and obviously this result will help us alot.”

Hoping to banish memories of their lastouting in Serie A - a 3-2 loss to Napoli - Juventusbegan in positive fashion on a difficult, rain-drenched surface. Camoranesi, scorer of theChampions League winner in midweek againstMaccabi Haifa, set his sights on 10 minutes witha scuffed shot which was turned around the postby a diving Andrea Consigli. After Trezeguethad a header ruled out for offside, Atalanta al-most snatched the lead on 33 minutes asCristiano Doni turned sharply 12 yards out butcould only flash his shot inches wide.

The chance seemed to spark Juventus intoaction. Fabio Grosso turned and crossed forCamoranesi to bury a header at the near post togive Juve the lead on 36 minutes. The two com-bined a minute later with Grosso’s centre, this

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BARCELONA- Ten-man Real Madrid survived a late fightback by Atletico Madridto win 3-2 and keep the pressure on Spanish league leaders Barcelona on Sunday.

as Barcelona kept up a one-point lead over Realwith a 4-2 win over Real Mallorca. Barcelonacoach Pep Guardiola sent out a second-stringside with Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, LeoMessi and Dani Alves all missing from the start-ing line-up.

Barcelona dominated the game and wentahead through Pedro after a delightful back-heelfrom Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Jose Nunes levelledfor Mallorca, heading home at the far post froma corner but Barcelona scored twice in the run-up to half-time.

Pedro scored again and then Thierry Henrygrabbed his first goal after an injury-plaguedstart to the season. Mallorca were unable makeany real inroads after the break and substituteMessi increased Barcelona’s advantage from thepenalty spot. There was still time at the end fora consolation from Alhassane Keita.

“It wasn’t all bad,” said Guardiola. “Lastyear nobody gave us any chance and each stepthat we made was met by surprise, but this yearthere is no room for surprises.”

A battling performance by Deportivo LaCoruna saw them keep up their push for a placein Europe with a 2-0 win at Getafe despite be-ing reduced to nine men.

Getafe had only lost once at home so far toBarcelona but they went behind after 14 min-utes when Miguel Mista headed home a crossfrom full back Luis Felipe.

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WOLVERHAMPTON- Arsenal under-lined their credentials as serious challengers forthe Premier League title with an imperious 4-1win over Wolverhampton on Sunday.

Arsene Wenger’s side were widely writ-ten off as also-rans after an unsettling pre-sea-son, but they look increasingly capable of push-ing Chelsea and Manchester United for theEnglish crown.

The Gunners were at their eye-catchingbest at Molineux as own goals from RonaldZubar and Jody Craddock were followed bystrikes from Cesc Fabregas and AndreyArshavin to move them above United into sec-ond place - two points behind leaders Chelsea.

Wenger’s team are playing some of the bestfootball in the country at present and are un-questionably the most lethal, with 55 goals inall competitions. Arsenal, who have gone fourseasons without a trophy, are determined tomuscle in on the title race this season and 24hours before United and Chelsea locked hornsat Stamford Bridge, they put down their ownmarker.

They are averaging three goals a game andhit that mark before half-time with a mix ofbrilliance and sheer good luck. Wolves playeda major part in their own downfall, even thoughboss Mick McCarthy had insisted they wouldnot roll over for the only team he would pay towatch in the top flight.

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Juventus midfielder MauroCamoranesi celebrates after scoringagainst Atalanta during their ItalianSerie A football match at the “AtletiAzzurri d’Italia” Stadium in Bergamo.

Five-goal Juventus pile pressure on Inter

time from the left, cleared straight to Camoranesiand the Argentina-born player picked the samespot perfectly from the edge of the area to doublethe lead.

Stunned temporarily, Atalanta respondedfive minutes into the second half when TiberioGuarente threaded a delightful ball to Valdeswhose shot found its way past Gianluigi Buffonto cut the deficit.

Juve hit back immediately. Within fourminutes, Christian Poulsen and Felipe Melo hadgoals disallowed for offside before the Brazil-ian picked up the ball on 55 minutes and arrowedin an unstoppable strike from 25 yards.

The home side kept battling. On 70 min-utes, Valdes turned Caceres on the edge of thebox and bent a shot just wide of the angle. Aminute later and Fabio Ceravolo practised thesame trick on Grosso on the right, this time find-ing the net with a curling left-foot shot to re-duce the deficit to 3-2.

Atalanta pushed for the equaliser but theywere caught twice in the last six minutes as firstDiego collected a Camoranesi centre to stabexpertly home, then Trezeguet fired home a fifthfrom close range to make it 5-2.

Rampant Arsenal put bite on Wolves In a 14 minute spell, McCarthy’s side did

not so much roll over as get well and trulymauled. Zubar started the downfall when henudged Fabregas’s 28th minute corner into hisown net after goalkeeper Wayne Hennesseymade a hash of collecting inside the six-yardbox.

Wenger hardly needed any luck but it camein bucketloads for a team he reckons could beas exciting as his ‘Invincibles’, who wentthrough the entire 2003-04 league season with-out defeat. In the 36th minute, Eduardo’s chipwas heading miles wide of the far post untilstriking Craddock’s head to loop overHennessey. If the first two were lucky, the thirdfrom Fabregas was pure class.

The Arsenal captain finished off a movehe started on the half-way line after Robin VanPersie’s brilliant lay-off. McCarthy knows lifeat this level was always going to be tough andthings are not likely to get any easier at Chelseanext week.

At least Wolves, who are third from bot-tom of the table, limited the damage in the sec-ond period and restricted Arsenal to a solitarystrike from Arshavin. The Russia winger vol-leyed in from the edge of the area - after a poorpunch from Hennessey - to increase McCarthy’smisery. Craddock’s 89th minute header will beno consolation for McCarthy who has anotherrelegation scrap looming and the former Re-public of Ireland manager has his work cut outto survive.

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The 29-year-old from London isthe new world champion after onlythree heavyweight fights, havingstepped up from cruiserweight as thejudges scored the 12-round fight114-114 even, 116-112 and 116-112in Haye’s favour.

“Ever since I was little, I said thatone day I would be heavyweightchampion of the world,” said Haye.

With superior footwork, Hayekept moving away from theRussian’s close-range punches anddenied the 2.13m Valuev the chanceto hang on and wear him down withhis sheer size.

This was only Valuev’s second de-feat - after losing to Ruslan Chagaevin April 2007 - and Haye gave awayseven stones (44kg) in weight againstthe Russian and was 23cm shorterthan the former champion.

Haye made a bright start, look-ing for weaknesses in Valuev’s de-fence and landed several shots to theupper body and one to the face whilethe Russian giant took up his usual

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HARTFORD- Chad Dawsondefended his International Boxing

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Chad Dawson, right, trades punches with Glen Johnson dur-ing their WBC Interim / IBO Light Heavyweight Champion-ship fight in Hartford, Conn., on Sunday, Nov. 8. Dawson wonin 12 rounds with a unanimous decision.

Dawson stays unbeaten withimpressive win over Johnson

Organization title with a unanimousdecision over Glen Johnson in a lightheavyweight fight here Sunday.

Dawson (29-0, 17 KOs) won on

all three judges scorecards 115-113,115-113, 117-111 over Jamaica’sJohnson (49-13-2, 33 KOs).

The fight was more one-sidedthan their first bout which was alsowon by Dawson. This time hedominated Johnson with his supe-rior speed in the ring not allowinghis opponent to turn it into aslugfest.

Dawson retained his WorldBoxing Council light heavyweighttitle with his win over Johnson in2008, but later surrendered the beltrather than face a title showdownwith Adrian Diaconu of Romania.

Dawson gained the Interna-tional Boxing Federationas well asthe IBO light heavyweight titlewith a unanimous decision overAntonio Tarver in October of2008, and defended that title withanother decision over Tarver onMay 9.

Dawson relinquished the IBFbelt when he refused to fight cur-rent IBF champ Tavoris Cloud.

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NUREMBERG- British challenger David Haye claimed theWBA heavyweight title on Sunday with a shock majority deci-sion win against Russian giant Nikolai Valuev.

position shuffling around themiddle of the ring.

There was a flurry of punchesthrown towards the end of the sec-ond and Valuev stepped up at thestart of the third, but it was Hayewho caught the Russian with aquick left, right.

The Russian started the fourthwith a mark to his right cheek andattempted to put Haye in the cor-ner, but the Briton again wriggledout of danger, landed an arcing left-hook and kept moving to avoid theclose-range punches.

With Valuev throwing countlesspunches, but landing few, Hayecaught the Russian with another right,left, right combination in the fifth.

A heavy left to the side of theface from Haye caught Valuev be-fore he followed up with a left, rightcombination at the start of the sev-enth while the Russian caught thechallenger with several punches toshade the round.

With his corner urging him not

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Great Britain’s David Haye celebrates holding his belt after his WBA heavyweight title fightagainst Russia’s Nikolai Valuev in Nuremberg, southern Germany, on Sunday, Nov. 8. Haye wonthe fight after 12 rounds by points.

to drop his pace to that of the slowerRussian, Haye was starting to tire inthe eighth as his opponent’s sheersize started to show signs of wear-ing him down.

A left hook got through Valuev’s

guard in the ninth before Hayecaught the Russian with a round-house right flush in the face and abig right-hook in the tenth rockedValuev backwards, but the Russianwas landing several of his own.

The decisive blows came in thetwelfth round when Haye’s two left-hooks wobbled Valuev as the Britonfinished with a flourish and Hayepunched the air with delight at thefinal bell.