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The meeting was officially openedon Monday by a Maritime Affairs andFisheries Ministry official for marineresearch and development, EndhayKusnendar. Chairman for APEC‘sFisheries Working group GelwynnJusuf said the participants of themeeting would discuss food securityand climate change issues.

“Food security has become animportant issue to sustain people`slife through sufficient supply of foodbut at the same time we will also en-sure that we can create a healthy en-vironment,” Gelwynn Jusuf said af-ter the meeting`s opening ceremony.

As in the case of climate changeissue, he said the increasing ofpopulations in the Asia Pacific re-gion had a negative impact on theenvironment, and therefore com-prehensive action must be takensoon to tackle the problem.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA – Indonesian policesaid on Sunday the gunmen whoshot dead two police officers inCentral Sulawesi were from an ex-tremist group founded by radicalcleric Abu Bakar Bashir.

“All of them were indicated tobe Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT)members who had been training orpreparing themselves to committerror acts planned in that region,”national police spokesman AntonBachrul Alam told reporters.

“Their future plans includestealing firearms from Brimobspecial police force in CentralSulawesi, robbing a bank and car-rying out robberies in the vil-lages,” he added.

Two men have been arrested

Indonesia implicates terror gang in police deathsover the attack, in which four gun-men on motorcycles opened fire onpolice guarding a bank in Palu dis-trict last month and two other gangmembers were killed in a raid inPoso district on Saturday, Alam said.

Three others are still at large,he added. The shooting is the lat-est in a series of recent terror-re-lated incidents including a GoodFriday plot to blow up a Jakartachurch and a book bomb campaigntargeting Muslim moderates andcounter-terrorism officials.

Bashir, 72, has been accused ofproviding funding of more than$62,000 to a terrorist groupdubbed Al-Qaeda in Aceh that wasplotting attacks in Indonesia, andprosecutors have sought a maxi-mum life sentence.

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Fishermen are handing over their catch in the port. Many Indonesian work as fishermenbecause Indonesia is one of countries that have many marine and fisheries resources.Some 15 countries are participating in the annual meeting of the Asia Pacific EconomicCooperation (APEC) Marine and Fisheries Conservation Working Group (MRCWG) in Balion June 6-9, 2011.

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Three arms gun and other evidences confiscated by the policefrom the gunmen who shot dead two police officers in CentralSulawesi. Indonesian police said on Sunday the gunmen whoshot dead two police officers in Central Sulawesi were from anextremist group founded by radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.

Fifteen countries attend annualAPEC marine, fisheries meeting

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DENPASAR - Some 15 coun-tries are participating in the an-nual meeting of the Asia PacificEconomic Cooperation (APEC)Marine and Fisheries Conserva-tion Working Group (MRCWG)in Bali on June 6-9, 2011.

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Implementation of the annual BAFshould be marked with the launch ofnew and superior products of culturalarts or masterpiece. Bali has many tal-ented artists so it is not difficult to finda sublime and elegant work of chef-d’oeuvre to serve as identity, icon andmascot of BAF every year.

So far, according to professor inFaculty of Letters, Udayana Univer-sity, Prof. Dr. Nyoman Darma Putra,it was only the theme of BAF changedthrough the years and then followedby performances and seminars. “Thetheme is worth renewing every year.But, it should ideally be followed bythe launch of elegant masterpiece,”said Darma Putra. Hence, accordingto the author of Bali Dalam KuasaPolitik or literally Bali under PoliticalControl (2008), through the years BAFlooked the same and monotonous.

Darma Putra said that such mas-

The 33rd Bali Arts Festival:

Should be marked by launchShould be marked by launchShould be marked by launchShould be marked by launchShould be marked by launchof cultural masterpieceof cultural masterpieceof cultural masterpieceof cultural masterpieceof cultural masterpiece

NEXT Friday (Jun 10) night the 33rd Bali Arts Festival (BAF) will be officially opened byPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The arts festival bearing the theme Desa Kala Patra: Self-Adaptation in Multi-culture will be opened simultaneously with the eleventh national UtsawaDharma Gita (UDG) and Bali World Culture Forum and Tourism Ethic in Ardha Candra Am-phitheater, Bali Art Center. After officially opening the three events, President will enjoy thepresentation of colossal ballet entitled Bhisma Dewabharata composed by the Indonesia Instituteof Arts (ISI) Denpasar. What must be improved in the implementation of the 33rd BAF?

terpiece of art could be a new qualitydance, great painting, and sculpturesexceeding the MURI accomplishmentor the others. “In short, they should bean amazing or fantastic ones that canmake Balinese community proud asBalinese,” he said. Launch of new cul-tural art products that could become amascot of BAF should be designed asa primary marker of the BAF eachyear.

According to Darma Putra, criti-cism and suggestions submitted by theIndependent Monitoring Team of BAFwas very good to be a reference inimproving the quality of BAF imple-mentation. “If not appreciated, whatis the use to form the team?” he ques-tioned. Darma Putra also welcomedwhen Governor Mangku Pastika en-thusiastically implemented the qual-ity improvement as the suggestionssubmitted by BAF independent team,

including prioritizing the works of artmaestro and the ban of transactions inthe exhibition arena. Unfortunately, hesaid, the decision to ban the transac-tion was too late and without prior so-cialization.

“Exhibitors are ready to join theBAF with equal passion as BAF inprevious years. But, suddenly therewas a ban to make transactions. Ofcourse, craftsmen and the committeeflounder about,” he said.

As a matter of fact, said DarmaPutra, there was a more strategic wayto reduce the impression of BAF as anight market. It was not by banningthe transactions, but by limiting thenumber of artisans or entrepreneursparticipating in the exhibition. Theyshould be selected from those havingpotential and good quality. “If exhibi-tion can be restricted, the space forvisitors will be more commodious.

Small and stuffy rooms crowded bydozens of merchants makes BAF notdifferent from night market,” saidDarma Putra.

Renovation of the Art CenterSo far, Darma Putra focused his

concentration on how to renovatethe Art Center that had been nearlyfour decades of age. New planningof the Art Center was necessary, soit needed destroying and re-design-ing. Spectators in the amphitheaterwere getting more and who knew thecapacity of stage to support the au-dience? How about when the colos-sal show taking place the stage col-lapsed? Art Center had to be rebuilt,changed totally according to mod-ern or even post-modern art center.“When built in 1970s by Prof. Dr.IB Mantra, the Art Center was gran-diose, but for the present and nextdecade, it needs redesigning, prepar-ing to deal with centuries of Balineseculture in years to come,” he ad-vised. If physical renovation couldbe performed, the implementation ofmore qualified BAF could be de-signed better.

On the one hand, Dharma Putrapraised the breakthrough of govern-ment to restructure the traffic to theArt Center by providing a shuttle busfrom Ngurah Rai Stadium andRenon Square. “Since it is the firstimplementation, it needs extra su-pervision to keep things runningsmoothly, otherwise the public thatare not easily to manage will makethe traffic during BAF complicatedas the previous years,” he said. Like-wise, effective socialization and con-

trol were required. “Good idea willnot run if not guarded,” he added.

Meanwhile, a lecturer at Depart-ment of Religious and Art Educationin Hindu University of Indonesia(Unhi), Denpasar, Made NadaAtmaja, said that in terms of age, the33rd BAF had been old enough. Itsimplementation was definitely ex-pected to be better and have strate-gic impact on the efforts of discov-ery, preservation and development ofBalinese art and culture.

“This 33rd BAF should be betterthan the previous ones. The imageof BAF as night market should beleft behind. Thus, BAF as an extrava-gant art event could be thoroughlyreflected in the implementation,” hesaid. Nada also added the hawkersshould be arranged in such a way thatthey would not enter the area of ArtCenter that could obscure the bound-aries of art. “We really hope thatBAF could serve as a venue for thepeak of artistic performances with-out harmed by the image as nightmarket. As consequence, peoplecould truly appreciate the unique artspresentation from each region, in-cluding those from outside Bali andoverseas,” he said.

As an artist, Nada also expectedthat safety and comfort of BAFwere also important to get attention.Moreover, BAF had gone world-wide where many art troupes fromoverseas also participated. Safetyand comfort were consequentlysomething necessary to get goodhandling as priority, including theparking of vehicles belonging tovisitors of BAF. (08)

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The Arda Candra, the main stage for performance in Denpasar Art Center.

3International Bali News Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Mangupura (Bali Post)—The rampant grab boys masquer-

ading as a seller of twisted leatherbracelet in the tourist area of Kuta be-gins to be disturbing. Other than an-noying public order, their actions arealso classified into a crime that is wor-ried to tarnish the image of tourism.

It was disclosed by a legislator ofBadung House from Legian, I WayanPuspa Negara, Sunday (Jun 5). Ac-cording to Puspa, aside from forcingand interfering with tourists who wereenjoying their holiday, those grab boysalso often performed ripping off ac-tion.

The modus operandi of those chil-dren was to offer twisted leather brace-let to tourists. They swarmed of tour-ists, especially foreign tourists. Amongthem, there was one pleading or forc-ing tourists to buy. Meanwhile, anotherwould carry a razor blade and then tearthe bag of foreign tourists to later re-trieve their valuables. “Almost everyday there are cries and complaints oftourists to those children whose num-ber is quite a few,” said Puspa.

Puspa estimated their activities

Chief Suryanbodo said the trafficsafety campaign was very importantfor the entire community, especiallythe Denpasar city dwellers. It was per-formed as a basis to provide a warn-ing to road users to be careful whendriving or riding on the highway. “Sofar, traffic accidents happen due tolacking of traffic discipline,” he said.

Accompanied by Chief Unit ofTraffic Affairs, Pol. Com. Bima AryaViyasa, Chief Suryanbodo explainedwhen a traffic accident occurred, otherthan serving as perpetrator one alsoserved as the victim. Well, it was worththinking about and discipline washighly required in driving a vehicle onthe highway. “We appeal all people toprioritize traffic discipline,” he said.

Further to say, many perpetratorsof violation cases were not known up

Negara (Bali Post)—The Baluk Rening Beach tour-

ist object is now under threat ofdamage following the recent abra-sion that annexes the beach seri-ously. Even, on this weekend thesea water was rising again untileroding the land and the pavementcollapsed along three meters. As aconsequence, the abrasion has animpact on the decline in touristvisit if compared to usual days.

Observation made by Bali Poston Sunday (Jun 5), the seawateroverflowed to the mainland as highas one meter and eroded the landuntil reaching the location of sometrees on the beach. The most se-vere tidal waves annexed the roadasphalt on the entrance to ReningBeach. Additionally, according tolocal residents, the mainland hadbegun to reduce up to tens ofmeters along 50 meters reachingout the entrance post into BalukRening Beach. The guard post es-tablished by hotel’s party was alsounder threat of erosion and onlyabout one meter away.

According to a lifesaver, KetutSudiarsa, the abrasion was the mostsevere among the previous ones. Ifnot immediately addressed, hisparty worried that it would getworse. Moreover, the existing as-phalt road at the entrance had beenbroken up to three meters. “Suchfierce tidal waves were the first timewithin the past few days. Even, ithad eroded the asphalt road,” he ex-plained. He added as long as 50meters of the land on the southernverge of the guard post was the mostseverely affected. Meanwhile, inthe northern side, the water stilllooked normal. “Hopefully, govern-

To diminish traffic accidents

Denpasar MetroDenpasar MetroDenpasar MetroDenpasar MetroDenpasar MetroPolice do rovingPolice do rovingPolice do rovingPolice do rovingPolice do rovingcampaigncampaigncampaigncampaigncampaignDenpasar (Bali Post)—

In the series of implementation of the Grand SympatheticOperation 2011, Traffic Unit of Denpasar Metro Police carriedout safety campaign to diminish the number of traffic accidentson Sunday (Jun 5). The campaign involving hundreds of mo-torcycles from a number of communities traveled around thecity of Denpasar. It was attended by Chief of Denpasar MetroPolice, Pol. Gr. Com. Suryanbodo Asmoro and took place atDewa Ruci Junction, Kuta

to these days because they fled afterthe incident took place. The image ofirresponsibility often occurred andmade police a little overwhelmed inperforming the investigation. “To thatend, we also appeal the public to re-port immediately to nearest police sta-tion if they came across a traffic inci-dent,” he explained.

In addition, Chief Suryanbodo alsorevealed the number of accidents inApril. In April, there were 74 cases ofaccidents with 14 death tolls, 58 seri-ously injured and 2 slightly injured.Meanwhile, in May 2011 the numberof accident occurred amounted to 88cases. Twelve people were killed, 58seriously injured and 10 slightly in-jured. “It means the number of acci-dents decreases from April to May,”he added. (kmb21)

Grab boys disturbing Kutawere coordinated by certain elements.Moreover, it had spread to several stra-tegic places in Kuta, Legian andSeminyak. Their main locales were onJalan Legian, Poppies 1 and 2, JalanPantai Kuta, Jalan Melasti, JalanSahadewa, Jalan Padma, Jalan PadmaUtara, Jalan Werkudara, Jalan Arjunaand Jalan Kayu Aya until JalanAbhimanyu.

Since it was quite disturbing andbelonging to crime, Puspa hoped thatrelevant agencies such as the publicorder officers (Satpol PP) of BadungRegency, police, community protec-tion task force (Linmas) as well asSocial and Labor Services could im-mediately take strategic measures tocontrol and provide periodic and sus-tainable debriefing. “We realize thatbusiness opportunities in the tourismsector are widely open. To maintainsuch favorable atmosphere, any socialdiseases arising must be reduced bythe firmness of the apparatus, espe-cially Satpol PP, in the context of en-forcement of the Regional RegulationNo. 4/2001 concerning with sanitationand public order,” he said. (kmb25)

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The abrasion which happen in Rening Beach.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—In the series of World Environ-

ment Day, one thousand turtlehatchlings were released onMertasari Beach, Sanur, on Sun-day (Jun 5). Such carapaced-ani-mal release into their naturalhabitat was intended to maintainthe balance of marine ecosystem.Unfortunately, the turtle huntingfor consumption purposes is stillgoing on so the turtle populationin their natural habitat is veryworrying.

The activity organized by theFoundation of Green Network In-donesia was also filled with trans-planting coral reef and plantingmangrove. Mangrove plantingwas very urgent because its for-mation with a particular thicknesswas believed to reduce the effectsof sea waves if tsunami occurred

Abrasion on Rening Beach getting more serious

ment could address the problem soit will not be getting worse, more-over it is a tourist object,” he said.

In the meantime, Wayan Suarmasaid that previously the tides hit thenorthern side where the local Padmashrine almost eroded. Fortunately,it was soon repaired by installationof coastal safeguarding culvert.However, it was only performedaround the Padma shrine so it re-mained to stand until now. Lately,the sea water shifted to hit the south-ern side until causing the trees oftens of years old uproot. Since theabrasion within the past few weeks,the number of beach visitorsslightly reduced.

To avoid people from founder-ing into the broken-down pave-ment, people inserted a warningsign by means of tree’s twigs. “Wedeliberately inserted the twigs in

order people will not sink into thebeach, especially in the darknight,” said another resident.

On the other hand, the VillageHead of Baluk, I Ketut Suasana,said that his party did not take anyaction because the cost to makecoastal culvert was very expensive.His party had already known butwas still unable to do anything.Previously, the village authorityhad attempted to secure thePadma shrine located on thebeachside by installing culvert toprotect it against the brunt of seawaves. However, for the abrasionreaching up to tens of meterslong, the village was unable to doprevention. “If constructing abut-ment like on Sanur Beach will re-quire a very large budget. Under-standably, we cannot afford it,”he said. (kmb26)

Environment Day celebrationOne thousand hatchlingsreleased on Mertasari Beach

one day. “Protecting the environ-ment is very important to do as areal measure to minimize the dam-age to ecosystems. For this year, wefeature the theme of campaign ‘saveour marine ecosystem.’ Throughthese activities, we want to encour-age the public awareness of Bali totake active part in environmentalconservation activities,” said AgusAwali from the Foundation ofGreen Network Indonesia, to re-porters on Sunday (Jun 5).

Meanwhile, Chairman of GreenNetwork Indonesia, TrantotoHandadhri, said the existence ofmangroves growing along thecoastal territories had an importantrole as a fortress in case of a tsunami.So far, the benefits of mangrovewhose species consisting ofAvicennia, Bruguiera and othersgrowing up along the beach was not

known by general public. “In fact,the 2-km thickness of mangrovewill be able to muffle the brunt oftsunami waves from six kilome-ters to 600 meters,” he warned.

So far, he said, the urgency ofmangrove preservation was notyet known by general public. Inyears to come, his party promisedto further intensify the campaignabout it to them. No less impor-tantly, his party would also pro-vide environmental education toschools starting from primaryschools in Denpasar. By doing so,awareness of the importance ofenvironmental sustainabilitywould have been formed from anearly age. “We will do environ-mental education activities tobuild and develop the child’scharacter and perspective on en-vironment,” he said. (kmb13)

International4 Tuesday, June 7, 2011 News

Results announced by the inde-pendent election watchdog groupTransparencia gave Humala 51.3percent of the vote against 48.7 per-cent for Keiko Fujimori with morethan 90 percent of the ballotscounted. The error margin was onepercentage point.

Official results were not ex-pected until later Sunday night, butTransparencia’s track record in pre-vious elections is solid.

Rife with mudslinging and dirtytricks, the election was marred bydoubts about both candidates’ com-

Reuters

SANAA/RIYADH – YemeniPresident Ali Abdullah Saleh wasrecovering from an operation inSaudi Arabia to remove shrapnelfrom his chest while a truce be-tween his troops and a tribal fed-eration appeared to be holding.

Protesters, interpreting Saleh’sabsence as a sign that his grip onpower was weakening, celebratedon the streets of Sanaa where theyhave been staging anti-governmentdemonstrations since January.

“Who is next?,” asked one ban-ner held up by a protesters in asea of red, white and black Yemeniflags, referring to the wave of up-risings in Arab world that has seenthe leaders of Tunisia and Egypttoppled and inspired uprisingselsewhere.

Saleh was wounded on Fridaywhen a rocket was fired into hispresidential palace in Sanaa, kill-ing seven others and injuring hisclosest advisers. He is beingtreated in a Riyadh hospital.

He left as acting president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the vicepresident who is seen by many ashaving little power. Leaving Yemen

Agence France Presse

LONDON – Prince William andnew bride Catherine will within thecoming months move intoKensington Palace, the Londonresidence once shared by the princeand his late mother Diana, accord-ing to St James’s Palace.

The newly-titled Duke of Cam-bridge and his brother Prince Harrylived in the palace after Diana andPrince Charles divorced in 1996,but the newlywed couple will moveinto a different property within thegrounds.

William and Kate to live in Kensington PalaceA spokesman from St James’s

Palace said: “We can confirm thatThe Duke and Duchess ofCambridge’s official London resi-dence will temporarily become aproperty at Kensington Palace. “Anumber of options for longer termsolutions are still being considered.

“The couple’s main home willcontinue to be their house onAnglesey, and their Household Of-fice will continue to be based at StJames’s Palace,” he added.

The duke and duchess currentlylive on the north Wales island ofAnglesey, where the prince works as

an RAF search and rescue helicopterpilot. William, 28, is second in lineto the throne for the 16 Common-wealth realms, including Britain,Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS

Members of Britain’s royalfamily, Kate Duchess of Cam-

bridge (3L) and Prince William(4L) stand alongside Queen

Elizabeth II (2nd R) on thebalcony ahead of The Derby

horse race during the secondday of the Epsom Derby

Festival, in Surrey, southernEngland, on June 4, 2011.

AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE

Presidential candidate retired Army commander and leader of the Gana Peru Party Ollanta Humala, castshis vote in Lima on June 5, 2011. Closing polls established a technical tie with conservative contendercongresswoman Keiko Fujimori leader of the Fuerza 2011 Party.

Unofficial count givesUnofficial count givesUnofficial count givesUnofficial count givesUnofficial count givesHumala narrow win in PeruHumala narrow win in PeruHumala narrow win in PeruHumala narrow win in PeruHumala narrow win in PeruAssociated Press Writer

LIMA, Peru – Unofficial results showed leftist military man OllantaHumala narrowly winning Sunday’s bitterly contested presidential run-off against the daughter of disgraced former President Alberto Fujimoriafter promising the poor a greater share of Peru’s mineral wealth.

mitment to democracy. Fujimori’sfather is serving a 25-year prisonterm for rights abuses and corrup-tion and she shares the same innercircle of advisers. Humala has beenaccused of violent excesses as anarmy counterinsurgency unit com-mander in the 1990s.

Humala, 48, allied himselfclosely with socialist VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chavez in his firstrun for the office in 2006, whichhe narrowly lost to Alan Garcia.This time he softened his radicalrhetoric and disavowed Chavez,

promising instead to follow Brazil’smarket-friendly model.

He failed to win over the businesselite, however, which fears Humalawill nationalize industries and expro-priate private property. His championswere Peru’s neglected — the one inthree people who are poor, live largelyin the Andean highlands, and havegained little or nothing from a miningbonanza that fueled economic growthaverage 7 percent a year since 2001.

Exit polls gave Humala better than70 percent of the vote in four poorhighland states including Puno, whereAymara Indians who object to aplanned Canadian-owned silver minesuspended a nearly month-long high-way blockade so people could vote.The protesters fear the mine will poi-son their water. Fujimori, meanwhile,led in Lima, but by a modest margin.

AP Photo/Hani Mohammed

In this photo taken Thursday, March 10, 2011, Yemeni Vice PresidentAbed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, left, and President Ali Abdullah Saleh,attend a rally organized by Saleh supporters in Sanaa, Yemen.

Yemen’s Saleh comes outof surgery, future unclear

at a time of such instability, evenfor medical care, could make ithard for Saleh to retain power.

Early on Monday, a truce be-tween troops loyal to Saleh and theAhmar group, leader of Yemen’sHashed tribal federation, appearedto be holding, offering some respiteafter two weeks of fighting in thecapital in which more than 200people have been killed.

Key in the coming days will beany news of Saleh’s condition andany signals from Saudi Arabia onwhether he will be able to returnto Yemen — or whether Riyadhwill apply pressure on Saleh tostep down.

Saleh, a political survivor whohas ruled the impoverished coun-try at the tip of the Arabian Pen-insula for nearly 33 years, had sofar managed to remain despite thedefection of his top generals andambassadors.

Saleh has exasperated hisformer U.S. and Saudi allies, whoonce saw him as a key partner inefforts to combat Yemen-based alQaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,by repeatedly reneging on a Gulf-brokered deal for him to quit inreturn for immunity.

Activities Tuesday, June 7, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for May 25 through July 8, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date forit annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 daysaccording to Balinese calendar, including the smallerancestral shrine which each family possesses. Becauseof this practically every few days a ceremony of festi-val of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali.There are also times when the entire island celebratedthe same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan,Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day,Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place onthe same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. Whennew moon is used then the celebration always happens onnew moon or full moon. The day of course can differ thereligious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full daywith some temple celebrating for three days while the cel-ebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is neverless than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days,depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressedwith pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade,sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimespainted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifullyarranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. Infront of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellasdepending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

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

Balinese TempleCeremony

25 May Buda Pon ToluCatur Temple Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring

26 May Wraspati Wage ToluPeninjoan Temple Besakih - Karangasem

1 Jun Buda Keliwon GumbregPasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga TabananPasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg TabananPuseh Guwang Village SukawatiMerajan Pasek Ketewel KetewelMerajan Pangeran TangkasKuro Agung Jeroan SadingDalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida

8 Jun Buda Paing WarigaMerajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli

11 Jun Tumpek Uduh/PengatagPuseh / Village Temple Batuan SukawatiPasek Bendesa Kekeran MengwiManik Mas Besakih - Karangasem

15 Jun Buda Wage WarigadeanKepisah Sumerta DenpasarPasek Gelgel Gerih Abiansemal BadungPuncaksari Penarukan Peninjoan BangliBangun Sakti Besakih - KarangasemAntegsari Kaba-Kaba Kediri TabananPesimpangan Batur Pande Kaba-Kaba Kediri Tabanan

17 Jun Sukra Umanis WarigadeanOdalan Ida Ratu di Penataran Agung Besakih - KarangasemOdalan Ida Ratu Puraus Merajan Salonding Besakih

19 Jun Redite Pon JulungwangiPanti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Banjar - Singaraja

21 Jun Anggar Kasih JulungwangiTirtaharum Tegalwangi BangliPasek Tohjiwa Wanasari TabananPasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel TabananPasek Bendesa Sangsit Sangsit BulelengDalem Waturenggong Taro Tegalalang

Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg TabananPasek Gelgel Tulikup - GianyarManik Bingin Sidemen - Karangasem

22 Jun Buda Umanis JulungwangiPenetaran Gana Bebalang BangliDalem Gede Banjar Pande BangliPuncaksari Sangeh Abiansemal - BadungDadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi GianyarMerajan Pasek Tohjiwa Tohjiwa JakatebelMerajan Pasek Prateka BatusesaMr. Jeroan Dauh CemenggonPuseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja

30 Jun Wraspati Wage SungsangKawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas KlungkungSiang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku BangliOdalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung BesakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PetemonOdalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih - Karangasem

6 Jul Buda Keliwon DunggulanWakika Temple Kupang, NTTAgung Girinatha Temple Sumbawa Besar NTBDukuh Sakti Temple Dukuh Kediri-TabananAtambuananta Temple Kutamba NTTWebananta Temple Kupang, NTTGiripati Mulawarman Temple PontianakMustika Dharma Temple Cijantung I Jakarta TimurMustika Dharma Kompleks Kopassus Cijantung Jakarta Timur

7 Jul Wraspati Umanis DunggulanWatukaru Temple TabananLempuyang Luhur TempleKarangasemKentel Gumi Temple KlungkungPasek Gaduh Temple Umadesa Kediri TabananPasek Kubayan Temple Wangaya Gede Penebel TabananMerajan Pasek Temple Tohjiwa Tiyingan - KlungkungMerajan Pasek Gaduh Temple Umadesa

8 Jul Sukra Paing DunggulanUlun Suwi Temple Jimbaran - BadungLuhur Temple Cemenggon, Sukawati - GianyarPasek Ubung Temple Ubung - Denpasar

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UBUD - Furama Villas & Spa andFuramaXclusive Villas & Spa Ubud, Bali cel-ebrated her 4th anniversary on Monday, 6 June2011 with a meaningful line-up of socially-con-scious and environmentally-friendly initiatives.

Various pre-anniversary activities were heldin accordance with the management’s concernfor humanity and the environment. Beginningwith an encouraging blood donation drive, as-sisted by the Palang Merah Indonesia Charity,the resort’s staff also made a concerted effort invisiting the elderly living around the surround-ing Banjar Bindu as Villa district, spreadingmuch joy and cheer. Fun sports activities wereorganized where staff engaged the local com-munity in active participation.

In addition, an anniversary brunch party washeld by the management to commemorate thespecial day which also attended by the honor-able guest in house, DR. Ellen Mc Grath andHarry from New York University. The celebra-tion ended on a high note with the announce-ment of the Best Employee of the Year 2011.

Mr. Ramia Adnyana, General Manager of

Furama and FuramaXclusive Villas Celebrates 4th AnniversaryFurama Villas & Spa Ubud remarked, “Every ini-tiative that Furama takes is our respect of an un-ceasing commitment towards the enhancement ofguests’ experiences. Furama Villas & Spa Ubud,Bali is dedicated to delivering the most memorableand exclusive resort experience in the country.”

Furama Villas & Spa is one of the interna-tional chains of hotels in Bali which is under themanagement of Furama Hotels Internationals(FHI), a hotel management company based inSingapore. Developing and committed to offer-ing the best accommodation options in the citiesof the world’s first choice, especially for theAsian region includes four-star and five star cat-egories, limited services, boutique-style resortsand villas. Supported by a priority to provide themost memorable experience for guests throughthe service with the best quality, Furama Villas& Spa also has proven its accreditation in thefield of tourism accommodation Indonesia, andBali in particular by taking several Awards, in-cluding: The Best Service Excellence 2010 byInternational Business & Company Awards, andthe Tri Hita Karana Tourism Awards 2010 GoldMedal, Security Gold Award 2009 & 2010 ofthe Indonesian National Police Region.

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Also Sunday, a Pakistani securityofficial said authorities are nearly cer-tain that a recent U.S. missile strikekilled al-Qaida commander IlyasKashmiri.

The suicide bomber struck the bak-ery in a neighborhood were army per-sonnel live in the town of Nowshera,police said. At least two soldiers wereamong the dead.

The attacker was a young mancarrying around 18 pounds (eight ki-lograms) of explosives. The blastcaused some gas cylinders in thebakery to explode, leading to a firethat left many of the 40 wounded inserious condition, said Fazal Maula,a police official.

Earlier in the day, a bomb ex-ploded at a bus stop in the Mataniarea of the northwest, killing sixpeople and wounded several others,officials said. It appeared to havebeen planted at the bus stop, as op-posed to a suicide attack.

There was no claim of responsibil-ity, but the Pakistani Taliban haveclaimed credit for other recent attacks,saying they were avenging bin Laden’s


BEIJING – Authorities in southwest China have confirmedthe deaths of 21 workers in two flooded coal mines, state mediasaid Monday, highlighting the dangers of toiling in the nation’scollieries.

In Guiyang city, the capital of Guizhou province, 13 peoplewere confirmed dead at the Fuhong mine, following a flood onMay 29, the official China Daily newspaper reported.

Only five bodies have been recovered, but experts have deter-mined that the eight miners still inside had no chance of survival.A preliminary investigation revealed that the mine was not con-structed in accordance with an approved design — a possible causeof the accident.

The second incident, which took place at an illegal mine onMay 31 on the border of Guizhou province and the Guangxi re-gion, left eight workers trapped. All of their bodies had been re-covered by Saturday, the newspaper reported.

Police have arrested four mine owners, it said. Last year, 2,433people died in coal mine accidents in China, according to officialstatistics, or a rate of more than six workers per day.

Labour rights groups, however, say the actual death toll is likelymuch higher than official data indicates, partly due to under-re-porting of accidents as mine bosses seek to limit their economiclosses and avoid punishment.


SYDNEY – Most Australians op-pose a tax on the carbon emissionsblamed for global warming and wantPrime Minister Julia Gillard to callan early election over the issue, ac-cording to a poll released on Mon-day.

The findings were published aday after thousands of people ralliedaround the nation in support of thecontroversial plan, which is the sub-ject of intense debate in Australia.

The Galaxy poll for News Lim-ited newspapers, conducted country-wide on June 1 and 2, revealed 58percent were against the tax, withjust 28 percent in favour and the restundecided.

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ISLAMABAD – A suicidebomber attacked a bakery inPakistan’s northwest on Sun-day, killing 18 people, and an-other bomb in the volatile re-gion left six others dead. Theattacks were the latest in awave of bloodshed to hit Paki-stan since the U.S. raid thatkilled al-Qaida chief Osamabin Laden.

death in the May 2 U.S. raid. Kashmiriis the latest al-Qaida leader to be killed,though there are still lingering doubtsafter the missile strike late Friday.

Kashmiri was rumored to be a po-tential long-shot candidate to replacebin Laden as head of al-Qaida. U.S.officials have described him as al-Qaida’s military operations chief inPakistan, and he was on a list of thefive most wanted militants believedto be in the country. The 47-year-oldwas sought in the 2008 attacks inMumbai, India, accused of slaughter-ing many Pakistanis, and suspected ofaiding plots against Western targets.

It was unclear how Kashmiri wastracked down, but Pakistan and theU.S. recently agreed to jointly tar-get him and a handful of other mili-

tant leaders as part of measures torepair relations badly strained by theunilateral May 2 raid, officials havesaid.

The Pakistani security officialsaid Sunday that the weekend re-ports of Kashmiri’s death were “95percent confirmed,” as authoritieshave checked with various sources.It’s unlikely authorities will ever findthe body to reach 100 percent cer-tainty — militants usually quicklydispose of colleagues’ corpses.

Photographic evidence or DNAsamples may help, but verifying thedead in drone strikes is generally dif-ficult. Initial reports have turned outto be wrong in the past, includingone in September 2009 that saidKashmiri had been killed.

Most Australians againstcarbon tax: poll

Gillard pledged ahead of her elec-tion last year that she would not in-troduce a carbon tax, and the pollshowed 64 percent of the 500 vot-ers questioned want her to call afresh ballot. Only 24 percent said shehad a mandate to implement her pro-posal.

Heavily reliant on coal-firedpower and mining exports, Australiais one of the world’s worst per capitapolluters and the government wantsthe tax levied on major industrialpolluters by July 1, 2012.

This would give way to an emis-sions trading scheme within three tofive years. But the conservative op-position says it would damage theeconomy and drive up the cost of liv-ing by making energy far more ex-

pensive, bumping up electricity bills.Nearly three-quarters of those

polled believe it would leave themfinancially worse off and deliver littleor no benefit for the environment.“The problem for the government isthat most voters believe the personalcost outweighs the environmentalbenefits,” said Galaxy pollster DavidBriggs.

The findings came in the wake ofrallies around the country on Sundayin favour of the tax that attracted tensof thousands of supporters.

“We think momentum is building,people-power is building, becauseAustralians want action on climatechange,” Australian ConservationFoundation chief executive DonHenry said at a rally in Melbourne.

21 confirmed dead inChina mine floods: Xinhua

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Pakistani rescue workers gather at the site of a bomb blast ina bus stand in Matani near Peshawar, Pakistan Sunday, June5, 2011. The bomb blast killed several people in northwest Pa-kistan, in the latest violence to hit the country since the U.S.raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

He said the working groupmeeting in Bali was an importantforum for APEC member coun-tries to discuss how they wouldstrengthen cooperation in orderto face today‘s global challengessuch as the food security and cli-mate change issues.

Meanwhile, Chairman ofAPEC‘s Marine ResourcesConservation Working GroupUlises Munaylla from Perustated recently the world wasfacing the negative impacts ofclimate change on the marinebiodiversity which eventuallywould also affect food security.

He expected the Bali meet-ing would produce positive in-puts to member countries ofAPEC in relation to the effortsto tackle climate change andsecure food supply to thepeople.

The Asia-Pacific EconomicCooperation (APEC) of the

Police say the JAT hefounded in 2008 was a front fora new campaign of terrorism inthe world’s most populousMuslim-majority state.

Indonesia is struggling todeal with the threat of home-grown Islamist militants whooppose the country’s secular,

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democratic system and want tocreate a caliphate across muchof Southeast Asia.

Vicious communal clashesbetween Muslims and Chris-tians in 2000 and 2001 claimedaround 1,000 lives in Poso, andsporadic unrest continued forseveral years.

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22nd Fisheries Working Group(FWG), the 24th Marine Re-source Conservation WorkingGroup (MRCWG) are partici-pated in by 63 officers from 15APEC member countries,namely USA, Malaysia, Tai-wan, Japan, Thailand, Mexico,South Korea, Australia, HongKong, Chile, Russia and thePhilippines.

The event is also attended byan observer from an Indepen-dent Assessor and four expertspeakers, including from theNGOs.

Since 2010, the Lead Shep-herd position for APEC FWGhas been held by GellwynnJusuf from Indonesia, who isalso currently serving as Secre-tary General of Ministry ofMarine Affairs and Fisheries,while Ulises Munaylla fromPeru is the Lead Shepherd fromAPEC MRCWG since 2009.

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JAMBI - Sky Aviation will makemaiden flight to the Depati Parboairport in Jambi provincial districtof Kerinci, Sumatra, on Monday(June 6, 2011), Tourism Travel Bu-reau Association spokesman said.

A Sky Aviation aircraft will flyfrom Jambi three times a week, saidRoy Mardianto, the Tourism TravelBureau Association (ASITA) sec-retary said here on Sunday.

The first flight of the Sky Avia-tion Fokker aircraft will be marked

Abu Bakar Bashir is accused of helpingto set up and fund a terror training camp inAceh province for a group that allegedlyplanned attacks on foreigners and assassi-nations of moderate Muslim leaders suchas President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Prosecutors have sought a life sentencefor Bashir, who co-founded the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network, whichis blamed for some of Indonesia’s deadli-est suicide bombings.

Bashir, 72, denies involvement with thetraining camp but has repeatedly defendedit as legal under Islam.

The white-bearded cleric told a Jakartacourt that the case against him was fabri-cated and witnesses that testified by tele-conference were doing so under pressure.

“Therefore their testimonies could notbe trusted,” he said.

Citing verses from the Quran, Bashirsaid he rejected the trial as counter to Is-lam.

Indonesia, a secular nation of 237 mil-lion with more Muslims than any other inthe world, has made strides in fighting ter-rorism since the first Jemaah Islamiyah-linked attack on Bali island in 2002. Morethan 260 people have died altogether, manyof them Western tourists.

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SUKABUMI - The West Java Pro-vincial Development Planning Board(Bappeda) plans to build an airportat Citarete village in Surade subdis-trict, Sukabumi district, West Java, in2015, at a cost of Rp1.5 trillion.

“We have conducted a feasibil-ity study in the area since 2005 andthe results of the study suggest thatthe area is suitable for an airport,”Bappeda Chief Deny Juanda saidon Sunday.

The airport was designed to sup-port the tourism industry in the

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JAKARTA - Indonesia is ex-ploring the possibility of expand-ing the markets of its small andmedium enterprises (SMEs) inAfrica through the 11 Africancountries with which it has al-ready established diplomatic re-lations, a government official saidhere on Sunday.

Neddy Rafinaldi Halim, theCooperatives and Small and Me-dium Enterprises Ministry‘s di-rector for marketing and businessnetworking, said the aim was tocanvass the markets in 45 Afri-can countries through the 11countries which already have dip-lomatic ties with Indonesia.

“We have conducted a businessforum with the ambassadors of 11African countries to Indonesia,”Neddy Rafinaldi Halim said.

According to him, it was con-cluded at the business forum onJune 1, 2011 that there were wideopportunities for Indonesia tomarket its SME products in theAfrican continent.

In addition, the 11 countries in

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Supporters of Radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir display placards demanding tofree Bashir during the closing of his terrorism trial in Jakarta on June 6, 2011.

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JAKARTA – A radical Indonesian cleric facing life in prison on terrorismcharges protested his innocence Monday and rejected the trial as outside Islamiclaw in a final court appearance before judges announce a verdict.

But the country still faces pockets ofradicalized Islamists, and a small but increas-ingly vocal hard-line fringe has carried outviolent attacks in recent months on minori-ties and police. A panel of five judges is toannounce its verdict on June 16. The maxi-mum penalty for the terror charges is death.

Prosecutors say testimony from dozens ofwitnesses at Bashir’s trial proved he not onlyincited others but played an active role in ter-rorist activities. In a court appearance lastmonth, the fiery cleric called Osama binLaden a “warrior” who will be rewarded inheaven for the “great sacrifices” he made forIslam.

The Aceh-based training camp, raided byan anti-terror squad early last year, was orga-nized by a new terror cell allegedly planningMumbai-style attacks.

It’s not the first time Bashir has faced ter-rorism charges or spent time in detention.

He was arrested almost immediately afterthe Bali bombings, but prosecutors were un-able to prove a string of terrorism-related al-legations and reduced his four-year prison sen-tence to 18 months for immigration violations.

Soon after his release, he was re-arrestedand sentenced to 2 1/2 years, this time forinciting the Bali blasts, a charge that was over-turned on appeal. He was freed in 2006.

Sukabumi to have airportsouthern part of Sukabumi districtas well as the agromarine industry,he said.

The project had been put in thelong-term development plan of2005-2025 and the provincial spa-tial layout plan of 2009-2029, hesaid.

“The construction of the airportwill cost about Rp1.5 trillion, ex-cluding land clearance,” he said.

According to him, the develop-ment of tourism-oriented airportwas inseparable from the Sukabumidistrict government‘s success inconducting large-scale tourism and

investment promotion campaigns todevelop the region including theagromarine industry.

The airport would no doubt pro-vide easy access to tourist sites inthe southern part of Sukabumi dis-trict, he said.

Meanwhile, head of theSukabumi District DevelopmentPlanning Board Dodi Sumantri saidhe had been informed of the plan tobuild the airport at Citarete sayingthe local authorities were currentlyimproving a number of facilities andinfrastructures to support the devel-opment of the airport.

RI eyes African marketsfor its SME products

Africa had a profound interest instrengthening cooperation withIndonesia in the economic field,especially in small and mediumbusinesses.

“At the business forum wefound out that there are many po-tential markets in Africa for theproducts of Indonesian small andmedium enterprises,” Neddy said.

He said Somalia was import-ing 20 million sarongs per yearfrom Indonesia.

“It seems that the Africancountries with diplomatic rela-tions with Indonesia will facilitateour business players especiallySMEs to to gain access to moreother countries in the African con-tinent,” he added.

To follow it up, Neddy said hewould discuss the technical mat-ters with the ambassadors of 11African countries to Indonesia.

He explained that there were45 big countries in Africa and 11of them have had diplomatic re-lations with Indonesia.

According to him those coun-tries had potential market for In-donesian UKM products.

Sky Aviation to make maiden flight to Kerinciin a ceremony held by Jambi gov-ernor Hasan Basri Agus at JambiSultan Thaha airport at 9 am onMonday, Roy said.

In the meantime, the Archi-pelago network regional boardChairman Dahril Alfath warned thatthe aircraft plying the Jambi-Kerinci route should be maintainedif the government really wants togive a positive impact to the Kerincipeople.

“The flight should be permanentalthough it is only two or three timesa week, so it will benefit the Kerinci

people,” Dahril said, hoping that theflight can be conducted every day.

Dahril expressed regret if theflight to Kerinci is only temporary,for instance in holding governmentbig and important events, like theLake Kerinci festival from July 6 to11, 2011.

If the flight to Kerinci is only tem-porary, it will stop after the LakeKerinci festival is concluded, Dahrilcited, adding it means that the govern-ment fails to manage the Kerinci dis-trict potential, and consequently the in-vestors may not come, Dahril said.

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The governor said that forBali to become an economic cor-ridor was in accordance with theMaster Plan of the Accelerationand Expansion of IndonesianEconomic Development (MP3EI2011-2025).

“In the MP3EI Bali is definedas the corridor and gateway fortourists who want to visit EastJava, West Nusa Tenggara(NTB), and East Nusa Tenggara(NTT),” Governor MangkuPastika said.

Pastika added that in terms ofinfrastructure the province hasbeen ready to become gateway of

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DENPASAR - Indonesiahas called on APEC membercountries to make use of theirmarine resources in a sustain-able manner while also tryingto preserve the environment.

The call was made byEndhay Kusnendar, head ofthe research and developmentdivision of Indonesia‘s Ma-rine and Fisheries Ministry atthe opening session of the22nd APEC Fisheries Work-ing Group Meeting as well asthe 24th APEC‘s Marine Re-source Conservation WorkingGroup Meeting in Bali onMonday.

Endhay said APEC hadnow become one of theprominent economic powersin the world with its membereconomies accounting for57% of the global GDP andmore than 40% of the worldtrade volume.

With a total population ofmore than 2.6 billion, he said,APEC itself had become ahuge potential market. Theconsumption of global fishproducts in APEC economieshad reached 70%, whichcomes from both capturedand aquaculture production.

“Though the numbers look

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DENPASAR - A total of 64,455Japanese tourists visited Bali in thefirst four months of 2011, down 21.81percent from 82,436 in the same pe-riod last year.

“The drop put Japan in third fromsecond place among the top tensources of Bali`s foreign tourist arriv-als,” Head of the Bali Provincial Sta-tistics Office I Gede Suarsa said onSunday.

China overtook Japan as the sec-ond source of foreign tourist arriv-als thanks to the increasing num-ber of Chinese tourists holidayingin the world-renowned tourist is-land, he said.

He said the Japanese tourists weremade up of 7.59 percent of the over-all tourist arrivals in Bali in the fourmonths through April which reached848,899, up 13.37 percent compared

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DENPASAR - The province of Bali is ready to become an economic corridor, Governor MadeMangku Pastika said here on Monday.

tourism, not only for tourist whowanted to visit East Java, NTB,and NTT, but also to Makassar,Papua, and other destinationsacross the country.

Even in the near future an-other international airport willbe built at the northern part ofBali, a toll road across the wa-ter, an underpass at Dewa Rucijunction in Kuta, and a rail roadaround the island for railwaytourism.

“And again I say that Bali isabsolutely ready to support theMP3EI 2011-2025,” the gover-nor said.

He asserted that there was noproblem whatsoever with tourismspatial planning in Bali as a thegateway of tourism in Indonesia.

Meanwhile, culture and tour-ism spokesman for human re-sources development Gede Pitanasaid that as a gateway of tourism,Bali should be able to be a knotof tourism activities to some otherareas, especially in the easternpart of Indonesia.

Therefore he added that to be atourism gateway, the design oftourism development should bedone orderly, systematically, andin a measurable way.

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Governor Bali Made Mangku Pastika explained that provinceof Bali is ready to become an economic corridor.

Indonesia calls for sustainableuse of APEC’s Marine Resources

very promising, on the otherhand, however, we are facing amajor threat of ecosystem deg-radation due to excessive use ofour resources which in returnwill jeopardize the sustainabilityof our oceans, and coastal re-sources,” he said.

He said it was crucial forcountries having marine re-sources to realize the full eco-nomic potential of their fisher-ies resources. “Economicsustainability depends not onlyon management of resourcesustainability but that economicvalue added for economies fromthe use of such resources is fullyenabled,” he said.

Therefore, Endhay said, Indo-nesia with i ts mega marinebiodiversity as a comparative ad-vantage, realized the responsibil-ity to safeguard the sustainabledevelopment of its marine re-sources and called on otherAPEC members to make themost of their ocean related re-sources and manage it in a sus-tainable manner.

He also reminded about theagreement which had beenmade by APEC Ocean-RelatedMinisters last 2010 in Paracas,Peru, titled the Paracas Decla-ration.

“I believe strongly, after allthese declarations; it is high time

for us to reaffirm our commit-ment by moving from words toaction in achieving sustainabledevelopment of our ocean,seas, and coastal resources inthe Asia-Pacific region,” hesaid.

The APEC‘S 22nd FisheriesWorking Group Meeting andthe 24th Marine ResourceConservation Working GroupMeeting in Bali takes place inBali starting June 6-9.

The meeting is participatedin by representatives from 16countries namely Indonesia,the US, Malaysia, Taiwan, Ja-pan, Thailand, Mexico, SouthKorea, Australia, Hong Kong,Chile, Russia, the Philippine,China and Vietnam. The eventis also attended by an observerfrom Independent Assessorand four expert speakers, in-cluding from NGOs.

Since 2010, the Lead Shep-herd position for APEC FWGheld by Mr Gellwynn JusufPhD from Indonesia, whichcurrently also serves as Secre-tary General of Ministry ofMarine Affairs and Fisheries(MMAF), while Mr UlisesMunaylla PhD from Peru is theLead Shepherd from APECMRCWG since 2009. They areboth Co-Chairs of the fourdays meeting in Bali.

Japanese tourist arrivalsin Bali down 21.81 pct

to 748,754 in the same period last year.Last year, 245,040 Japanese tourists

visited Bali, a 26.61 percent declinecompared with the year before.

Gede Suarsa said tourist arrivalsfrom seven of the top ten source coun-tries increased significantly whilethose from the other three sourcecountries declined in the January-April 2011 period.

Tourist arrivals from Australia rose34.92 percent to 210,903 from 162,082,China 0.19 percent to 71,186 from71,052, Malaysia 32.95 percent to52,507 from 39,435, Britain 46.98 per-cent to 32,128 from 21,859, Russia26.74 percent to 31,646 from 24,970,Singapore 42.99 percent to 30,455 from21,095 and France 15.15 percent to28,897 from 25,095.

Meanwhile, those from Taiwandropped 10.51 percent from 44,085 to39,451, and South Korea 1.35 percentfrom 37,787 to 37,277.

Asian touristsshopping atart market. Atotal of 64,455Japanesetouristsvisited Bali inthe first fourmonths of2011, down21.81 percentfrom 82,436 inthe sameperiod lastyear.IBP/Net

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Roast Duck In Banana LeafOVERVIEW:The rich flavor of duck is greatly enhanced by a host

of pungent roots, herbs and seasonings in this dish,which is invariably a great favorite with visitors to Bali.The Balinese have great admiration for the duck andconsider it to be a particularly strong animal as it is,like the turtle, the only one able to survive on land aswater.

INGREDIENTS:1 whole duck, weigh about 2 kg (4 ½ lb)18 shallots, peeled, cut in half, and sliced6 cloves garlic, peeled, cut in half, & sliced3 stalks lemon grass, finely sliced5 fragrant lime leaves, finely sliced6 candlenuts, chopped5 cm (2 in), ginger, peeled and chopped8 cm (3in) fresh turmeric, peeled, chopped8 cm (3in) kencur root, peeled, chopped1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed5 bird’s-eye chilies, slices1 tsp coriander seeds, crushed2 tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted and coarsely

crushed1½ tbsp salt3 tbsp oilBanana leaves, greaseproof paper or aluminum foil

for wrapping

PREPARATION:Wipe the duck dry and set aside. Combine all

ingredients except banana leafs in a bowl and mix well.Rub the duck outside with this mixture and fill thecenter of the duck with the remainder.

Close open duck with satay skewer. Wrap in severallayers of banana leaves, greaseproof paper or foil andsteam for 50 minutes. Transfer duck to a moderateoven and bake at 180o C (350o F) for 30 minutes.

Remove banana leaves, cut duck meat up in smallpieces and serve with stuffing. When cooked, the meatshould be so tender that it falls off the bones.(www.baliguide.com/balifood)

When penjors paraphernalia areerected throughout the island, theyepitomize that Galungan festivityhas come. Every single devotee isin blooming heart welcoming itwith joy. This six monthly celebra-tion in Balinese calendar encour-ages people to make earnest prepa-ration whole day and night. It’s timeto glorify God and ancestors.

Based on the mythology,Galungan delineates the triumph ofdharma (truth) against adharma (un-truth). According to TatwaMayadanawa transliterated byMade Gambar said that Bedaulukingdom in Bali was once ruled byMayadanawa. He was very power-ful and proud of his power and feelsto have more sovereign power thanthat of gods.

This arrogance until forbids allsubjects to worship God togetherwith the celebration to glorify allGod’s manifestations. The non-ex-istence of freedom to worship andother religious activities causedmany subjects greatly sufferedwhere diseases spread and harvestsfailed. Seeing this condition, LordMahadeva in heaven feels disap-pointed. Having organized an as-sembly session with other gods, itis decided to attack Mayadanawa.Under the leadership of Lord Indra,the target can be timely destroyed.In short, the troops of the gods wonthe battle. This does not only stand

Mayadanawa: Feeling SuperiorityResults in Destruction

for the triumph of the gods, but alsoof the whole mankind on earth.

Afterwards, Galungan then canbe re-celebrated after the triumphof Indra. Many subjects felt to re-gain their enlightenment as theywere able to practice their religiouslife. This festivity lasts for ten daysand ends in the day calledKuningan. Aside from paying hom-age at village temple, it is also in-tended to appreciate the ancestorsat family shrine. Similarly, devoteesthank for the prosperity bestowedand maintain the relationship withtheir ancestors. Though they haveleft for the beyond, hopefully theycould illuminate their descendants.

Another version about Galunganis mentioned by the manuscriptJaya Kasunu. It is said that the kingJaya Kasunu (AD 1204), meditated(held dewa sraya) to invoke guid-ance. His problem was that not oneof his predecessors could rulelonger. Through his solemn medi-tation he was inspired that he shouldre-organize religious activities, suchas Galungan.

No matter what the version is,the essence of these mythologiesimplies that a devotee or creationshould maintain their persistentcontact to his Creator. The âtmandwelling within the human selfshould maintain his contact to Brah-man, the Creator. By doing so, hu-mans can continuously obtain the

illumination to walk in the path ofdharma.

As manifestation of gratitude,devotees express it through worshipat temples, garden, rice field and soforth. Everything that has givenprosperity is also offered an obla-tion, including the means of trans-portation. If you happen to take anexcursion on that day you of coursewill rub up against many cars af-fixed with young coconut parapher-nalia.

Hopefully, the festivity doesnot come to an end at the vibrantfiesta marked with grandiose ob-lation, assorted delicious food orluxurious paraphernalia. All thetimes it should help the spiritualdevelopment. Anything achievedin this life either tangible or in-tangible entities, should not makeus arrogant. Sometimes, whenhaving abundance of wealth orhigher educational background, ahuman feels superior or morepowerful than others. Even, it is notemployed as a milestone to improvehis devotion to God. It’s here wherethe achievement drags human tosluggish condition or gorge of de-struction. Like Mayadanawa, heforgot that there is a vast sky abovehim. His power has led him to hisdissolution. If we do not want to be-come the next Mayadanawa, con-sistent devotion must be estab-lished. (BTN/punia)

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Telaga Waja Rivers is one of the longest rivers on eastBali starts to runs southward Bali from southern slope ofmount Abang. Mount Abang a peak at the south rim of Baturcaldera as the remnant of tremendous eruption which wasprobably happened at the same time as other super volcaniceruptions along volcanic belt of archipelago. The explosionof Batur created beautiful panorama of Lake Batur, MountBatur and mount Abang. This nature’s beauty has made westrim of Batur the most haunted place for travelers to Bali, anda tour package called Kintamani tour is the most popular inBali.

Telaga Waja River seems it was part of the created nature’sbeauty starts at the slope of Mt. Abang runs through idyllicvillages and jungle slopes along the area of KecamatanRendang onward to the area of Kabupaten Klungkung endson the sea, close to the biggest temple of Bali, the Besakih,and cut the foot of the highest mountain on Bali that is MountAgung on the west side. It is not known why the name isTelaga Waja. Telaga for Balinese is pool, lake or embung,while waja or Baja is metal. It is no reference in Balineseword could lead to any understanding on what is behind theword of metal pool, as the fact a pool or lake has the waterstaying, but river or tukad in Balinese has running water whichis always ending on the sea.

Telaga WajaRafting

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BUSINESS


AMSTERDAM – Despite 20years of effort, greenhouse gasemissions are going up instead ofdown, hitting record highs as cli-mate negotiators gather to debatea new global warming accord.

The new report by the Interna-tional Energy Agency showinghigh emissions from fossil fuelsis one of several pieces of badnews facing delegates from about180 countries heading to Bonn,Germany, for two weeks of talksbeginning Monday.

Another: The tsunami-trig-gered nuclear disaster in Marchapparently has sidelined Japan’saggressive policies to combat cli-mate change and prompted coun-tries like Germany to hasten thedecommissioning of nuclearpower stations which, regardlessof other drawbacks, have nearlyzero carbon emissions.

“Japan’s energy future is inlimbo,” says analyst EndreTvinnereim of the consultancyfirm Point Carbon. The falloutfrom the catastrophe has “put cli-mate policy further down the pri-ority list,” and the short-term ef-fect in Japan — one of the world’smost carbon-efficient countries— will be more burning of fossilfuels, he said.

And despite the expansion ofrenewable energy around theworld, the Paris-based IEA’s re-port said energy-related carbonemissions last year topped 30gigatons, 5 percent more than theprevious record in 2008. Withenergy investments locked intocoal- and oil-fueled infrastruc-ture, that situation will changelittle over the next decade, it said.

Airlines will probably earn about$4 billion in 2011, down from $18 bil-lion last year, the International AirTransport Association said. IATA’sprevious forecast in March estimated2011 profits of $8.6 billion.

“Natural disasters in Japan, unrestin the Middle East and North Africa,plus the sharp rise in oil prices haveslashed industry profit expectations,”IATA Director General GiovanniBisignani said in a statement. “That weare making any money at all in a yearwith this combination of unprec-edented shocks is a result of a veryfragile balance.”

Higher fuel costs — crude rose to$115 last month from $84 in February— are the largest obstacle to airlineprofitability, IATA said.


SINGAPORE – Oil prices fellbelow $100 a barrel Monday inAsia after new indications ofslowing U.S. economic growthahead of an OPEC meeting thisweek.

Benchmark oil for July deliv-ery was down $1 to $99.22 a bar-rel at late afternoon Singaporetime in electronic trading on theNew York Mercantile Exchange.The contract fell 18 cents to settleat $100.22 on Friday.

In London, Brent crude forJuly delivery was down 93 centsto $114.91 a barrel on the ICEFutures exchange.

Investors wil l be closelywatching Wednesday’s meetingof the Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries in Vienna.The 12-member cartel, whichproduces about 40 percent of glo-bal crude supplies, will be debat-

IATA says airlineIATA says airlineIATA says airlineIATA says airlineIATA says airlineprofits to plungeprofits to plungeprofits to plungeprofits to plungeprofits to plungethis yearthis yearthis yearthis yearthis yearAssociated Press Writer

SINGAPORE – Airline profits will likely plummet this yearbecause of natural disasters, political violence and higher fuelprices, an industry group said Monday.

The industry’s fuel bill will likelyrise by $10 billion this year to $176billion and fuel now accounts for 30percent of an airline’s costs, up from13 percent in 2001, IATA said.

Airlines are counting on the globaleconomy continuing to grow to helpoffset higher oil prices. Passenger num-bers will likely increase 4.4 percent thisyear while cargo should grow 5.5 per-cent, though both forecasts are belowIATA’s March estimates.

“The corporate sector is cash-rich,business confidence is high, and worldtrade continues to expand,” IATA said.“The key risk to this outlook is a weak-ening of global economic growth.”

IATA expects a razor thin 0.7 per-cent profit margin for airlines this yearon revenue of $598 billion.

Oil falls below $100 afterweak US jobs figures

ing whether to boost productionto help lower prices.

Traders are also gauging theimpact of a weaker U.S. economyon consumer spending. The La-bor Department said Friday theU.S. added 54,000 jobs in May,the fewest in eight months. Dur-ing the previous three months, theeconomy added an average of220,000 jobs per month.

“We are focusing our attentionon the OPEC meeting and thefallout from Friday’s jobs data,”energy consultant The Schork Re-port said. “Last week issued dailytelltales that the pace of the U.S.economic recovery is in seriousdoubt.”

In other Nymex trading in Julycontracts, heating oil fell 1.6cents to $3.04 a gallon and gaso-line dropped 2.3 cents to $2.97 agallon. Natural gas futures gained8.4 cents to $4.79 per 1,000 cu-bic feet.

A discount on educationalDVDs for children isoffered through theGroupon website in theChicago area on June 2,2011 in Chicago, Illinois.Groupon announced todaythat it has filed with theSecurities and ExchangeCommission for a pro-posed initial public offer-ing (IPO) of its Class Acommon stock. The socialbuying site is expected toraise an estimated $750million with the IPO.Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP

Greenhouse gas emissionshitting record highs

Fatih Birol, the IEA’s chiefeconomist, says the energy trendshould be “a wake-up call.” Thefigures are “a serious setback” tohopes of limiting the rise in theEarth’s average temperature to 2degrees Celsius (3.8 F) abovepreindustrial levels, he said.

Any rise beyond that, scientistsbelieve, could lead to catastrophicclimate shifts affecting water sup-plies and global agriculture, set-ting off more frequent and fiercestorms and causing a rise in sealevels that would endanger coast-lines.

The June 6-17 discussions inBonn are to prepare for the annualyear-end decision-making U.N.conference, which this year is inDurban, South Africa. Even morethan previous conferences,Durban could be the forum for amajor showdown betweenwealthy countries and the devel-oping world.

Poor countries say the wealthyWest, whose industries over-loaded the atmosphere with car-bon dioxide and other climate-changing gases over the last 200years, is not doing enough to cutfuture pollution.

A study released Sunday sup-ports that view.

The report, based on an analy-sis by the Stockholm EnvironmentInstitute commissioned and re-leased by Oxfam, evaluated na-tional pledges to cut carbon emis-sions submitted after the 2009Copenhagen climate summit. Itfound that developing countriesaccount for 60 percent of thepromised reductions.

The analysis is complicated be-cause countries use different yard-sticks and baseline years for mea-

suring reductions.But the study calculated that

China, which has pledged to re-duce emissions in relation to eco-nomic output by 40-45 percent,will cut its carbon output twice asmuch as the United States by2020.

“It’s time for governmentsfrom Europe and the U.S. to standup to the fossil fuel lobbyists,”said Tim Gore, a climate analystfor Oxfam, the international aidagency.

Another keynote battle in Bonnwill be the fate of the Kyoto Pro-tocol, the 1997 accord whose pro-visions capping emissions by in-dustrial countries expire in 2012.

Wealthy countries falling underthe protocol’s mandate are resist-ing demands to extend their com-mitments beyond 2012 and setnew legally binding emissions tar-gets unless powerful emergingeconomies like China, India andBrazil accept similar mandatorycaps.

“The Kyoto Protocol uncer-tainty is casting even a biggershadow over the negotiations thanin years past, and is going to cometo a head,” said Jake Schmidt ofthe New York-based Natural Re-sources Defense Council.

Negotiators also must prepareoptions for the Durban conferenceon how to raise $100 billion a yearfor the Green Climate Fund cre-ated last December to help coun-tries cope with global warming.One source under discussion is alevy on international aviation andshipping, said Oxfam’s Gore.

“South African negotiators arehoping a deal on sources for long-term finance will be Durban’slegacy issue,” he said.

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But the 20th Century Foxprequel chronicling the formativeyears of the comic-book mutantsfound smaller audiences than thefranchise’s first four big-screenadventures, which featured olderversions of the X-Men.

Debut weekends for the last three“X-Men” flicks ranged from $85.1million to $102.8 million. The origi-nal “X-Men” opened 11 years agowith $54.5 million, but that wouldamount to about $80 million todayadjusting for ticket-price inflation.

Fox distribution executive ChrisAronson said the studio achievedits goal of opening the prequel atabout the same revenue numbers asthe original “X-Men.”

“This is just an excellent start inlaunching a brand new chapter of the`X-Men’ franchise,” said Aronson,dismissing comparisons to the $85.1million debut of Hugh Jackman’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” in 2009.

“You can’t compare this one to any

Reuters

LOS ANGELES – The MTV MovieAwards are turning into a free infomercialfor the “Twilight” movie franchise. For thethird year in a row, the vampire romance wasnamed best movie at the light-hearted — andfrequently X-rated — salute to Hollywood’sbiggest crowd-pleasers. “The Twilight Saga:Eclipse,” which led the field with eightnominations, ended up with five awards. Ina replay from last year Robert Pattinson andKristen Stewart won for best male and fe-male performance, respectively

The real-life couple won the award for bestkiss, which Pattinson celebrated by runninginto the audience to smooch his co-star TaylorLautner. Pattinson won an additional prize forbest fight — sharing the tubof gold popcorn with BryceDallas Howard and XavierSamuel. With categoriessuch as those, nobodywould ever confuse theMTV event with the self-congratulatory AcademyAwards. The real point ofthe show is to promote up-coming buzzworthy mov-ies targeted at MTV’syouthful demographic.

Indeed a sneak previewscreened of the fourth “Twi-light film, “Breaking Dawn,Part 1,” which opens No-


Culver City, Calif. – Fresh from leadingthe Cannes jury, Robert De Niro found him-self on stage at the Guys Choice Awards prais-ing Keith Richards’ “big brass balls” and tell-ing an audience that Sean Penn peaked with“Fast Times at Ridgemont High.”

De Niro played the dirty-mouthed elderstatesman at Saturday night’s Spike TV hon-ors, a sort of brash, puerile younger brotherto the MTV Movie Awards, which is airinglive on that network Sunday.

Like that show, the Guys Choice stage on

‘X-Men’ mutants weaken with $56M prequel debut‘X-Men’ mutants weaken with $56M prequel debut‘X-Men’ mutants weaken with $56M prequel debut‘X-Men’ mutants weaken with $56M prequel debut‘X-Men’ mutants weaken with $56M prequel debutAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Young X-Men don’t have the same box-officesuperpowers as their older selves. “X-Men: First Class” had a solidNo. 1 opening with a $56 million weekend, according to studio esti-mates Sunday.

of the other `X-Men’ movies, exceptmaybe” the first one, Aronson said.“Something like `Wolverine’ is a to-tally unfair comparison because thathad a bonafide worldwide star in HughJackman and arguably the most popu-lar character in the `X-Men’ stable.”

The prequel presents a rising castof new talent rather than the estab-lished stars of the franchise’s pre-vious chapters.

“X-Men: First Class” featuresJames McAvoy and MichaelFassbender as Marvel Comics mu-tants Professor X and Magneto,roles originated by Patrick Stewartand Ian McKellen in the characters’older years.

The prequel follows their first meet-ing, early alliance and eventual fallingout as they take opposite approachesin their dealings with ordinary humansfearful of the superpowered mutants.The movie added $64 million from 74overseas markets for a worldwide to-tal of $120 million.

REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

Cast members Zoe Kravitz, Kevin Bacon, January Jones, James McAvoy, and Michael Fassbender (L-R)pose at the premiere of “X-Men: First Class” in New York City May 25, 2011.

“Twilight” sequel shinesbrightest at MTV awards

vember 18. Other exclusive clips were shownof the supernatural thriller “Super 8,” whichopens Friday, and “Harry Potter and the DeathlyHallows, Part 2,” which opens July 15.

The awards are determined by fans’ onlinevotes, which probably accounts for JustinBieber’s win in the best jaw dropping mo-ment category for his 3D concert film “NeverSay Never.” The Canadian teen idol beatseemingly edgier scenes from such films as“Black Swan” and “127 Hours.” The produc-ers of “The Social Network” probably willnot lose too much sleep wondering whyAaron Sorkin’s Oscar-winning script lost thebest line from a movie category to the criti-cal bomb “Grown Ups.” The winning quote,“I want to get chocolate wasted,” was utteredby child actress Alexys Nycole Sanchez.

De Niro plays elderstatesman at Guys Choice

the Sony lot was populated by Hollywoodtypes with something to promote — mostlysummer movies.

Justin Timberlake leered at his “FriendsWith Benefits” co-star Mila Kunis as shetook the “Holy Grail of Hot” trophy, whilehis “Bad Teacher” co-star Cameron Diazkicked off the show with a monologue.

“Mr. Popper’s Penguins” star Jim Carreyshared an unprintable story about how hebecame a funnyman through a painful en-counter with an uncle.

“I’m actually kind of a geek that waywhen I come out to these things,” Carrey saidbackstage. “It’s half to just be creative anddo some crazy, blow-out thing and half be-cause I like seeing people that are in my busi-ness. Kind of cool.”

Richards took the night’s final honor, alifetime achievement trophy previouslygiven to the likes of Clint Eastwood. Hehoisted the Brass Balls award, which re-sembles a giant dumbbell with spheres ontwo sides.

“I mean, I’ve had a few awards in mytime,” the rock legend said backstage. “Withthe balls it’s like where to put them? It’s easyto pick them up but where are you going toput them? I’ve got to figure that out with thewife.”

Penn led a “Fast Times” reunion onstage,joined by Forest Whitaker, Judge Reinholdand other cast members. Mark Wahlberg wasnamed “Guy of the Year” and his Oscar-nominated “The Fighter” took “Guy Movieof the Year.”

AP Photo/Matt Sayles

Keith Richards and Robert De Niro are seenonstage at the Spike TV Guys Choice Awardson Saturday, June 4, 2011, in Culver City, Calif.

International Tuesday, June 7, 2011 13Science

The U.N. General Assembly willtake up the issue next week as it as-sesses progress in fighting the dis-ease — first reported on June 5,1981 — that has infected more than60 million people and claimednearly 30 million lives. Guiding themeeting is groundbreaking new datathat shows early treatment of the hu-man immunodeficiency virus, orHIV, can cut its transmission to asexual partner by 96 percent.


WASHINGTON – Apple chiefexecutive Steve Jobs is taking abreak from medical leave on Mon-day to preside over the opening ofthe company’s annual conferencefor software developers. And in abreak from Apple’s usual practiceof shrouding its events in an air ofmystery, the California gadget-maker this time revealed ahead oftime what it plans to announce atthe event in San Francisco.

Sort of. In a press release, Applesaid Jobs and other executives will

Reuters

NEW YORK - Children of di-vorced parents often fall behindtheir classmates in math and so-cial skills and are more likely tosuffer anxiety, stress and low self-esteem, according to a new study.

Researcher Hyun Sik Kim, ofthe University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the study showedthat the detrimental effects on thechildren do not start until after theparents begin divorce proceed-ings.

“People tend to think thatcouples go through intense mari-tal conflict before the divorce,”Kim, a PhD candidate in sociology,he said in a statement. “My origi-nal prediction was that children ofdivorce would experience negativeimpacts even before formal divorceprocesses began. But my studyfinds that this is not the case.”

The findings, published in theAmerican Sociological Review,are based on data that tracked thedevelopment of 3,585 studentsfrom kindergarten through fifthgrade to examine the impact be-

Children of divorce scoreworse in math, social skills

fore, during and after the divorce.Kim compared the progress of

children whose parents were go-ing through a divorce with young-sters from stable families. Hefound that developmental prob-lems continued after the divorce.

“This study reveals that thesenegative impacts do not worsen inthe post-divorce stage, althoughthere is no sign that children ofdivorce catch up with their coun-terparts, either,” Kim explained.He added that math studies wereparticularly sensitive to impact ofdivorce.

“Reading is not that cumulative.But with math, you must under-stand previous things to develop.For example, if I do not understandthat one plus one is two, then Icannot understand multiplication.”

He attributed the developmen-tal setbacks of the children to sev-eral factors, including the stress ofliving with bickering and poten-tially depressed parents, unstableliving arrangements and beingforced to divide time between par-ents and economic hardship froma drop in family income.

Apple poised to introduce iCloudunveil the next generation of Lion,the software that powers Macintoshcomputers, and iOS 5, the next ver-sion of the mobile operating sys-tem for the iPad, iPhone and iPodTouch.

And one more thing: iCloud.Apple described the previously un-known iCloud as its “upcomingcloud services offering” but pro-vided no further details of whatawaits at the annual WorldwideDevelopers Conference.

“iCloud was almost a throwawayline in the press release,” saidMichael Gartenberg, an analyst for

technology research companyGartner. “But that’s getting the mostscrutiny because we don’t knowanything about it.”

According to multiple reports,iCloud would allow for streamingof music hosted on Apple serversin the Internet “cloud” to variousdevices — from computers tosmartphones to touchscreen tablets.

The New York Times reported onFriday that Apple has nearly com-pleted talks with the major musicpublishers over the new cloud mu-sic service after sealing deals withthe four major record labels.

The Los Angeles Times saidiCloud will initially be offered forfree to iTunes users, allowing themto listen to music hosted on Appleservers on a Web browser or an

Internet-connected Apple device.Apple will eventually charge asubscription fee of around $25 ayear for the service, the newspa-per said.

AP Photo/AIDS/LifeCycle, Susan Goldman

In this photo released by AIDS/LifeCycle, more than 2,500 riders from 11 countries begin their 545-mileride from San Francisco to Los Angeles in the AIDS/LifeCycle Ride, Sunday, June 5, 2011, the same day30 years ago that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first cases of AIDS.

Thirty years on, AIDSThirty years on, AIDSThirty years on, AIDSThirty years on, AIDSThirty years on, AIDSfight may tilt to treatmentfight may tilt to treatmentfight may tilt to treatmentfight may tilt to treatmentfight may tilt to treatmentReuters

CHICAGO/GENEVA - After 30 years of AIDS prevention efforts,global leaders may now need to shift their focus to spending more ondrugs used to treat the disease as new data show this may also be thebest way to prevent the virus from spreading.

“There had been for a long timethis artificial dichotomy or artificialtension between treatment versus pre-vention. Now it is very clear that treat-ment is prevention and treatment isan important part of a multifacetedcombination strategy,” Dr. AnthonyFauci, director of the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Dis-eases division of the National Insti-tutes of Health (NIH), told Reuters.

Fauci, who has made AIDS re-

search his life’s work, has a big roleto play in the discussion of the NIH-funded study made public on May 12.

“A month ago, we didn’t havethat data. People were still arguing.‘Well, we are not so sure if you treatpeople you are really going to pre-vent infection,’” Fauci said. “Thepolicy makers need to sit down andsay, ‘Now that we know this, is thisgoing to be enough incentive tochange around our policy?’”

That could mean redirecting, oradding to, global spending on fight-ing AIDS, particularly how muchis spent on education or other re-search versus antiretroviral drugsthat allow patients to live with thesuppressed disease for many years.

Tuesday, June 7, 201114 InternationalSport

After a goalless first half, the Mexi-cans scored four goals inside 12 min-utes early in the second and sent out aclear message they will not surrendertheir CONCACAF crown without afight.

Hernandez’s goals were hardlyamong the classiest he will score butthey were another reminder that the23-year-old, who scored 20 goals inall competitions in his debut seasonfor Manchester United, is becomingone of the sharpest poachers around.

It was also the perfect gift for themassive Mexican-American crowdthat turned out to welcome ‘El Tri’ toTexas. “Its unbelievable the supportthat we have from Mexicans who livehere,” Hernandez told reporters.

“You can see it here - 80,000 peopleand most of them in green shirts and itmeans a lot to us. “The most impor-tant thing for me is the three points, Idon’t care if I score, sometimes I won’t- the main thing is we won,” said the


TOKYO – Japan and BorussiaDortmund star Shinji Kagawa isback on Manchester United’s radarafter returning from a four-monthlayoff with a foot injury, accordingto a report.

Sir Alex Ferguson’s side are plan-ning to send a team of scouts to fol-low the 22-year-old attackingmidfielder at Dortmund games nextseason, the Japanese daily NikkanSports said.

“His goal of joining a big clubmay be realised within this year atthe earliest,” the daily said.

Kagawa, who scored eight goalsin 17 Bundesliga games after mov-ing from J-League side CerezoOsaka at the start of last season butbroke his right foot in January, is keento play for the English PremierLeague champions.

“If I get a formal offer, I’ll bestrongly interested in listening towhat they have to say,” Kagawa wasquoted as saying by an associate, ac-cording to the Nikkan Sports.

“The Premiership is one of the

Reuters

BERNE - Germany’s players,exhausted according to coachJoachim Loew, must pick them-selves up for one last fling as themarathon European season bowsout with a whimper on Tuesday.

The Germans, with six winsfrom six games in Group A, facetheir former coach Berti Vogts asthey make the long trip toAzerbaijan for a Euro 2012 quali-fier — probably the last thingthey would have wanted at thisstage of the campaign.

Germany are the only big gunsin action on a night of six lessthan mouth-watering ties, the oth-ers involving teams playing, atbest, for second spot in their re-spective groups.

Bosnia play their first home

AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK

Mexico’s Javier Hernández (L) is tackled by Salvador’s Marvin González during the 2011CONCACAF Gold Cup first round group match between El Salvador and defending championMexico June 5, 2011 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington,Texas.

Hernandez hat-Hernandez hat-Hernandez hat-Hernandez hat-Hernandez hat-trick as Mexicotrick as Mexicotrick as Mexicotrick as Mexicotrick as Mexicocrush El Salvadorcrush El Salvadorcrush El Salvadorcrush El Salvadorcrush El SalvadorBy Simon Evans

DALLAS, June 5 (Reuters) - Javier Hernandez scored a hat-trick as a rampant Mexicocrushed El Salvador 5-0 in front of 80,000 fans at Cowboys Stadium in their Gold Cupopener on Sunday.

striker.Hernandez and Mexico should

have found their way on to thescoresheet in the first half but theylooked hurried and anxious in front ofgoal, but once the first goal went inthey never looked back.

Efrain Juarez got the breakthroughin the 55th minute with a slightly for-tunate goal. Giovani dos Santos brokedown the right and slipped the ball intothe path of Juarez whose shot cameout off El Salvador goalkeeper MiguelMontes but ricocheted home offSuarez’s head.

Then Aldo De Nigris doubled theadvantage with a bustling effort threeminutes later, working past two de-fenders before firing home. Hernandezheaded home a cross from AndresGuardado to make it three and thestriker, known as ‘Chicharito,’ de-lighted the massive Mexican supportwith a fourth in the 67th — albeit witha rather scuffed shot from close range.

El Salvador’s defence was rippedopen far too easily and their coachRuben Israel will have a tough job toget his team to bounce back for theirnext game in Group A against CostaRica on Thursday.

In the final minute, Hernandez wasbrought down in the area by MarvinGonzalez, who was sent off, and thelittle forward rose to convert the spotkick. He did so with the coolest andcheekiest of chips, signing off with aclear signal of his confidence.

Mexico coach Jose Manuel de laTorre though seems determined to fol-low Hernandez’s club coach AlexFerguson in trying to keep his youngstriker’s feet on the ground. “He hadthe fortune to score three but as a re-sult of team play. That’s what forwardsare there to do,” he said.

Mexico face Cuba, who fell to a 5-0 defeat to Costa Rica earlier on Sun-day, in Charlotte on Thursday with Dela Torre likely to rotate his squad.

Final fling forexhausted Germany

Shinji Kagawa on ManUnited’s ‘radar’: report

match since emerging from an in-ternational ban when they host Al-bania, Sweden entertainneighbours Finland and the FaroeIsland take on Estonia. SanMarino will attempt to keep thescore respectable at home to Hun-gary and Luxembourg will havesimilar ambitions when they visitBelarus.

UEFA president Michel Platiniis a fervent believer in the rightof small nations to face their moreillustrious rivals but, once again,the lack of attractive matchescasts the format of the Euro quali-fiers in an unfavourable light.

The nine group winners will gostraight to Poland and Ukraine in2012 along with the best runners-up. The other eight second-placedteams play off for four moreplaces.

Japan andBorussiaDortmund starShinji Kagawa(pictured in 2010)is back onManchesterUnited’s radar afterreturning from afour-month layoffwith a foot injury,according to areport.

leagues I want to challenge,” saidKagawa, who once targetedBarcelona as his final destination. “Ifit is Man U, I’ll be still more eager togo and try how much I can do there.”

Manchester United first showedan interest in Kagawa late last yearbut backed off after he suffered theinjury in Japan’s Asian Cup semi-fi-nal win over South Korea in Janu-ary, the daily said. The Blue Samuraiwent on to lift a record fourth conti-nental title in his absence.

At that time, Spanish clubsVillarreal and Atletico Madrid as wellas Juventus and Tottenham were alsoreported to be interested in him.

British radio station talkSport re-ported that Manchester United hadbeen quoted a price of 20 millionpounds (24 million euros) forKagawa.

After seeing Dortmund lift theBundesliga shield from the bench, hecame back onto the pitch to play thelast three minutes of their final leaguegame of the season, a 3-1 home winover Eintracht Frankfurt. Manches-ter United scouts watched him at thematch, the Nikkan Sports said.

AFP/File/Patrik Stollarz

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“This is a total win,” said Wade,who led Miami with 29 points and 11rebounds. “You want to win the gameon the defensive end of the floor andwe got a stop.” Recent history says thisis a huge win for the Heat. The Game3 winner in a tied finals has won thechampionship all 11 times since the 2-3-2 format began in 1985.

The Heat are headed into Game 4on Tuesday night with a chance to dowhat they did in 2006: win it all onDallas’ floor. They’ll need to win thatgame and the next, on Thursday night.

“I feel like we did nothing but gethome-court advantage back,” Wadesaid. “But the next game is a big game.We have to bring our hard hats, under-standing it’s going to be tougher to winthat game than it was to win this one. Ibelieve in this team. If anyone can doit, I believe we can.”

With all its star power, many ex-pected Miami to be planning a victoryparade by now, especially after a solidvictory in Game 1. But the Heat blewa 15-point lead in the last quarter ofGame 2, and nearly did it again thistime, coughing up a 14-point lead. TheHeat recovered to lead 81-74 with 6:31left. Everyone knew the Mavericks’

AP Photo/David J. Phillip

Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade (3) runs into Dallas Mavericks’Jason Kidd (2) as Kidd goes up for a shot during the first halfof Game 3 of the NBA Finals basketball game Sunday, June 5,2011, in Dallas.

Wade, Bosh lift Heat to 2-1 lead in NBA finalsWade, Bosh lift Heat to 2-1 lead in NBA finalsWade, Bosh lift Heat to 2-1 lead in NBA finalsWade, Bosh lift Heat to 2-1 lead in NBA finalsWade, Bosh lift Heat to 2-1 lead in NBA finalsAssociated Press Writer

DALLAS – Dwyane Wade kept soaring and scoring, doing everything he could to get theMiami Heat a crucial win towards an NBA title. Chris Bosh and Udonis Haslem provided thefinal push. Bosh made a 16-foot, go-ahead jumper from the baseline with 39.6 seconds left andHaslem pestered Dirk Nowitzki the rest of the way as the Heat held on for an 88-86 victory overthe Dallas Mavericks on Sunday night for a 2-1 lead in the NBA finals.

comeback bid would be in Nowitzki’shands, but it didn’t matter. He stillscored 12 straight points — six freethrows, a layup, a dunk and a toughjumper — tying it at 86.

With under a minute to go, Wadegot the ball to LeBron James near thetop of the key. Haslem screenedNowitzki while Bosh got set, took thepass from James and ripped it throughthe net, quite a thrill for the Dallas na-tive who’d been 0-8 in his hometown.It was even more impressive consid-ering his left eyelid was swollen be-cause of an accidental poke by JasonKidd in the first quarter, and he’d beenmisfiring all series, even when his vi-sion was good.

“I don’t care if he missed 15 in arow,” James said. “He was wide openand that’s his sweet spot. ... It’s the trustwe have in each other’s ability, nomatter what the point of the game isat.” The Mavericks of course wentback to Nowitzki on its last twochances. And Haslem was right thereboth times for the Heat.

Right after Bosh scored, Nowitzkiwanted to take a shot near the foulline but had Haslem swarming himand Wade charging at him. He jumped

to shoot but twisted and threw towardShawn Marion near the 3-point lineon the right side. Marion had alreadytaken off toward the basket, so the ballwent into the front row instead.

After James missed a 3, Dallas had4.4 seconds left to go for the tie orwin. The inbounds pass went toNowitzki and he was alone againstHaslem just above the foul line.Haslem anticipated what Nowitzkiwas going to do and walked the fineline between disrupting the shot whileavoiding a foul.

“He’s a great player, 7 feet, so he’sgoing to shoot over me,” Haslem said.“I’ve got to make it tough on him.”When the buzzer went off, Haslemswung his arms and screamed in de-light while a frenzied crowd of 20,340sighed in agony.

“Emotional game, fought back, andto fall short at the end is tough,” saidNowitzki who scored 34 points. “Butthey need two more. Hopefully we canplay a better all-around game and fi-nally get some shots to go down.”

Wade made 12 of 21 shots and wasat his dynamic best from the start,looking like the guy who lifted theHeat past Dallas and to the title in ’06.

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PARIS - If there was any doubt before, there isnow no question that Rafa Nadal can and most prob-ably will better Roger Federer’s record of 16 grandslam titles following the Spaniard’s French Opensuccess over the Swiss.

Sunday’s 7-5 7-6 5-7 6-1 victory for his record-equalling sixth Roland Garros crown and his 10thgrand slam title overall underlined why Nadal justwill not lie down even when the crowd and his owninitial form are against him.

Nadal endured his first five-set match on theParis clay in the first round but his play graduallyimproved over the fortnight so that when he cameup against Federer and his vocal fans in the final,the world number one was ready to flourish.

He slipped 5-2 down in the first set but roaredback and dealt with a 10-minute rain interruptionto down what had been a resurgent Federer evenon his least favourite clay surface.

Wimbledon starts in just two weeks and eventhough Novak Djokovic is a contender after his 41-match winning streak before being halted byFederer in the last four of the French, another Rafa-Roger final is equally likely.

“After winning a title like this, you go there witha different attitude, with very positive confidence,”Nadal told reporters. “So for me, winning heremakes me play Queen’s and Wimbledon with lesspressure.”

At 25, the only realistic blocks to Nadal reach-


BEIJING – China’s newly-mintedfirst Grand Slam champion Li Na, whowon the French Open title at the week-end, is not resting on her laurels —she’s already thinking about winninga second major title.

The 29-year-old Li, who beat de-fending champion FrancescaSchiavone of Italy 6-4, 7-6 on Satur-day at Roland Garros, also says shehopes her fellow Chinese players canbe inspired by her victory to realisetheir full potential.

“When you have the first one, natu-rally you will think about the secondone,” Li told the China Daily in aninterview published Monday. TheWuhan native, who is known as astrong player on hard courts, confessedshe was surprised that her major break-through came on the red clay in Paris.

“French Open title? No, I neverthought about it before,” Li admitted.Li is having a breakthrough season.

China’s Li Nasets sights onnext major title

She reached the finals of the Austra-lian Open in January — eventuallylosing to Kim Clijsters — before herhistoric win at the French, which gaveAsia its first ever Grand Slam singleswin.

When the new WTA rankings comeout on Monday, she will be the worldnumber four — equaling the Asianrecord set by Japan’s Kimiko Date-Krumm.

Li, who had never gone beyond thefourth round at Roland Garros beforethis year, said her storybook successat the French would help her through-out the rest of the year on the grassand hard courts.

“Now I have more confidence play-ing on other surfaces,” she told thepaper, as she prepares for Wimbledon,which begins in two weeks.

Li’s win has generated agroundswell of support in a countrywhere tennis still lags far behind bas-ketball, football and table tennis interms of popularity.

Nadal can beat Federer’s grand slam mark

ing 16 grand slams are injury, loss of confidenceand hunger or Federer racking up many more ma-jor titles of his own.

With Nadal in his way, though, the 29-year-oldSwiss is running out of time to greatly increase hissum and the Spaniard is set to play on for a fewmore years once fellow great Federer retires.

AP Photo/ Michel Euler

FILE - Sweden’s Bjorn Borg raises his trophyafter winning the French Open tennis title fora record fifth time at Roland Garros stadiumin Paris on June 8, 1980. At right, Spain’s RafaelNadal holds the trophy after defeatingSwitzerland’s Roger Federer Sunday, June 5,2011 in the men’s final of the French Open ten-nis tournament in Paris.

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With clouds gathering over thecircuit and light rain falling in partsof the lap around half-distance, itlooked at one stage like the fieldwould have to pit to change to theirwet-shod bikes. In the event, therain held off and Stoner was ableto hold his lead to the flag.

“I managed to build up a bit of agap and felt comfortable doing that,and then the race came, so that puteverything out,” said Honda rider

JENSON Button believes his McLaren team canstart to “dictate race pace” if it can improve its quali-fying speed in the upcoming races. Button finished inthird position in the Monaco Grand Prix, although helooked like the favourite to win the race at same stagesof the event.

The Briton is confident that if McLaren can raise itsgame in qualifying, it can start to win races from the front.

“There’s a real momentum within our team at themoment - I think we had a race car good enough towin in both Spain and Monaco; with a little improve-ment to our qualifying, I think we can start to dictaterace pace, which was something we were briefly ableto show at both of the last two races,” said Button in ateam preview.

“I’m still very pleased with my performance inMonte Carlo. It wasn’t a win, but it was nice to leadthe race and to be able to pull away comfortably. “Evenif the result didn’t match it, that sort of thing is alwaysnice to keep at the back of your mind.”

Button is also upbeat about his chances for the Ca-nadian Grand Prix, where he reckons McLaren willhave the speed to win.

“I’ve never won in north America and I think wehave the pace, the development and the momentum tohave a good shot at changing that next weekend. I’mreally looking forward to it.”

Team-mate Lewis Hamilton is also confident aboutthe team’s prospects for Montreal.”Our car should bewell suited to this track; we have a great engine, thebest KERS Hybrid system in the sport and excellenttraction out of slow corners,” he said.

“All in all, it’s set to be another good weekend forus – I’ll be looking for a strong result on Sunday.”

Stoner: Rain madewin ‘high pressure’

Catalunya - Casey Stoner said his run to victory in theCatalunya Grand Prix was a ‘high pressure’ experience as thethreat of rain at the Barcelona track kept him on his toesthroughout.

Stoner, who had passed Yamaha’sJorge Lorenzo to take the lead at theend of the first lap.

“I was starting to get very ner-vous. There was more rain fallingin some parts, and each lap youcame by there was a little bit moreor a little bit less and you didn’t re-ally know which corner it was go-ing to be raining heavily on.

“I didn’t really know what paceto run, I didn’t know how bad theconditions were. So I pretty muchmatched myself to the people be-hind, and it seemed to work. But itwas a high pressure race and to stayat the front was a little bit nerve-wracking.

“It would have been very easyto come down in those conditionsbut we managed to keep it on twowheels and bring it home.”

The Australian said he had beenconfident he had the race pace towin after topping all three practicesessions and only narrowly missingout on pole to Marco Simoncelli inqualifying, and had just tried to con-trol the race.

“We knew we had pretty goodrace pace - the bike, tyres and ev-erything were working pretty wellfor us on the hard compound allweekend,” Stoner said.

“We wanted to get to the front,so I tried to pass Jorge a couple oftimes, but he was braking quite hardon the first lap so we managed toget a better exit coming onto themain straight and got past Jorgequite easily.

“Then for the rest of the laps Ithought I’d just try and hold the pacewhere it was in qualifying and getsome consistent laps out while thetyres were good, because we have alot of degradation on this track andwe knew we were going to struggle alittle bit more at the end of the race.”

Repsol Honda Team’sAustralian Casey Stonercelebrates on the podiumafter winning at the Moto GPrace of the Catalunya GrandPrix at the Catalunya race-track on June 5, 2011, inMontmelo, near Barcelona.AFP PHOTO / JOSEP LAGO

Button: McLaren set to dictate race pace

AP Photo/Christian Lutz

McLaren Mercedes driver Jenson Button ofBritain steers his car during the qualifyingsession at the Monaco racetrack, in Monaco,Saturday, May 28, 2011.

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