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The dead included at least fiveforeign tourists whose nationali-ties were not immediately known.Bhim Sen Tuti, the region’s policechief, said “Their bodies are ly-ing on a trekking route outside Leh

Semarapura (Bali Post) –

The tradition which is passedon from generation to generationis still preserved by the Balinese.One of the examples is the tradi-tion which is held by the peoplein Besang Kawan Toh Jiwa inKlungkung regency which iscalled “mejaga-jaga”.

The “mejaga-jaga” is beingheld since long time ago and stillbeing carried out today. The tra-dition is the symbol to ask safety

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The “mejaga-jaga” procession which was held in in BesangKawan Toh Jiwa in Klungkung regencyContinued on page 6

Villager in Besangheld “Mejaga-jaga”

to the God and to balance BhuanaAgung (Universe) and Bhuana Alit(human being).

The tradition is held by carryingcows around the village accompa-nied by offerings made by the vil-lagers. The “mejaga-jaga” is heldonce a year every dead moon in Karotime (Hindus calendar). However,this year Tilem Karo fall on pasahwhere it is not good to carry out cer-emony, the “majaga-jaga” was heldon Sunday, August 8th 2010.

500 missing afterfloods in Indian Kashmir

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SRINAGAR, India – Rescuers dug through crushed homes and piles of mud Sunday search-ing for 500 people still missing after flash floods sent massive mudslides down remote desertmountainsides in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said. The death toll rose to 132 withabout 500 others injured.

town, and efforts are on to retrievethe bodies.”

Authorities until Saturday main-tained that no foreign tourists wereamong the dead or injured.

About 2,000 foreign tourists

were in Ladakh, a popular destina-tion for adventure sports enthusi-asts, when the storm hit Friday,burying homes and toppling powerand telecommunication towers.

Authorities were arranging spe-

cial flights to fly the tourists to NewDelhi from Leh on Sunday.

Tuti also said at least 500 Indi-ans were missing. “There may bemore people missing because of thevastness of the area.”

Thousands of army, police andparamilitary soldiers were clearingroads to reach isolated villages in theLadakh region cut off by Friday’spowerful thunderstorms, state policeChief Kuldeep Khoda said.

Foreign tourists assistIndian army personnelas they clear debris atChoglamsar village inLeh on August 8, 2010.Emergency teams inIndia’s remote Hima-layan region of Ladakhon August 8 struggledto deliver food and aidto survivors of flashfloods that killed morethan 130 people and lefthundreds missing. Acloudburst on August 6caused devastatingfloods that swept awayroads, buildings,bridges and powercables in a tide of rockand mud. Rescuers fearmany more victims mayhave died after beingburied.

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Mangupura (Bali Post)—Tourism sector becoming the

eminent element in Bali in fact onlyranked the third-largest. Bali Re-gional Office of the DirectorateGeneral of Tax Services noted thatthe sector becoming the mainstayof Bali Province was only able todonate 10 percent of the total taxrevenue.

Head of Bali Regional Office ofDirectorate General of Tax Ser-vices, Zulfikar Thahar, mentionedthat the first and second largest con-tributors came from financial ser-vices intermediary sector amount-ing to 14 percent and wholesale andretail trade sector, reaching 12 per-cent.

“Revenue from tourism sectorshould be explored further. This sec-tor poses the mainstay of theeconomy of Bali. My party is con-ducting a variety of ways to makethe tourism sector could provide themain contribution to government

The matter became one of thesubjects in the scientific seminar en-titled “Union in Tourism Industry”organized by the students of Depart-ment of Tourism Business Manage-ment Studies (KMBP) of academicyear 2009/2010 of Handayani Man-agement Institute (STIMI)Denpasar at Discovery KartikaPlaza Hotel, last Saturday (Aug 7).Speakers of the seminars consistedof Chairman of the Mediators As-sociation of Bali Industrial Rela-tions I Nyoman Subagia, Associa-tion of Indonesia Entrepreneurs(Apindo) of Bali Chapter I GustiKade Sutawa, and from the BaliRegional Federation of IndependentLabor Union IB Anom Mustika.

Chairman of Handayani Educa-tion Foundation, Denpasar, I.B. Gde

Besakih Temple has already beenvery famous around the globe. Thetemple situated at the Village ofBesakih, Rendang subdistrict,Karangasem Regency poses a complexof large temples consisting of 86 unitsof temple groups. The groups are di-vided into 18 public temples, 4 units ofCatur Lawa temples, 11 Padharmantemples, 6 non-Padharman temples, 29units of clan (dadia) temple, 7 templeshaving relation to clan temple and 11units of temple excluding that group.All of these temple groups were notbuilt all at once, but gradually. Whenwas Besakih Temple built? What kindsof temples are becoming integral partswith the Besakih Temple?

According to a lecturer of the HinduUniversity of Indonesia (Unhi)Denpasar, IB Dharmika, BesakihTemple was estimated to have beenbuilt by the King Wira Dalem KesariWarmadewa (913 AD) and then con-tinued by King Sri Kesari UdayanaWarmadewa having the spouseGunapriya Dharmapatni (ca. 1007 AD).Rapid advancement and developmentoccurred during the days of King DalemWaturenggong where the sage MpuKuturan and Danghyang Nirarthaplayed important role in this regard.

Dharmika added that BesakihTemple generally functioned as a sanc-tum for Hindu devotees to invokesafety. The temple was also a unifier ofthe community. “Besakih Templeserves a sanctum for the Hindus to in-voke safety. Similarly, it serves as aunifying agent of the devotees,” he said.

Meanwhile, he added that PenataranAgung was the biggest out of the 18groups in the Besakih Temple. Othertemples belonging to public templescomprised the Peninjoan Temple,Pengubengan Temple, Tirtha PingitTemple, Batu Madeg Temple, GelapTemple, Kiduling Kreteg Temple,Basukian Temple, Hyang HaluhTemple, Banua Kawan Temple,Merajan Kanginan Temple, Goa RajaTemple, Merajan Selonding Temple,Ulun Kulkul Temple, Bangun SaktiTemple, Manik Mas Temple,Pesimpangan Temple, Dalem PuriTemple, Ratu Pasek Temple, RatuPande Temple, Ratu PenyarikanTemple and Ratu Dukuh Temple.

Dharmika also observed that atBesakih Temple laid the Tirtha Templeconsisting of 14 units. Of course, thesetemples should also be known by devo-tees. The Tirtha Temple included theTirtha Pengayu-ayu Temple, TirthaManik Mas Temple, Sindu TunggangTemple, Tirtha Pediksan Temple, TirthaPutra Temple, Tirtha Pingit Temple, Giri

Seminar on ‘Union in Tourism Industry’:

AnticipatingAnticipatingAnticipatingAnticipatingAnticipatingthe booming ofthe booming ofthe booming ofthe booming ofthe booming offoreign workersforeign workersforeign workersforeign workersforeign workersMangupura (Bali Post)—

Various endeavors to improve the competence of the Indonesian workers should continue tobe carried out. It is not free from the threat of “invasion” of foreign workers getting more andmore serious.

Wirawibawa said the developmentof the global era increasingly ex-panded the opportunities for foreignworkers or expatriates to work in In-donesia. Such condition automati-cally narrowed the vacancies formore ‘native’ workers and it clearlybecame a threat and challenge.

Furthermore he added that inyears to come the expatriates wereexpected to be replaced by the na-tives to Indonesia. However, thequality of human resources of thisnation had to be increased. “Pursu-ant to the Act No. 10/2009 everyworker is required to have standardcompetency. Hopefully, it could beimplemented accordingly. This isone of the efforts to improve ourhuman resources,” he said.

In the seminar was also men-

tioned a number of added values thathad to be reserved in order to im-prove the quality of human re-sources. Among them, there wereforeign language acquisition andmastery of information technology.

Meanwhile, in relation to govern-ment regulations, Subagia explainedthat foreign workers could not belimited. Moreover, Indonesia hadmade agreements with several coun-tries to conduct cooperation activi-ties. He said that the number of In-donesian workers was not restrictedto work in other countries.

Most importantly, according toSubagia, the number of foreign work-ers would no more a threat to Indo-nesia, but a challenge. It was the chal-lenge to spur the quality improvementon our human resources. (ded)

Tax of tourism sector ranks the third in Balirevenue,” Zulfikar said in the midstof meeting on the government ac-counting standard composer for theASEAN member countries in Kuta.

According to him, marketingpractices undertaken by a number ofvillas through the Internet made thedata untraceable. It constituted oneof the causes of tax revenue fromtourism sector remained low.

“We are also committing enu-meration of foreigners having a Tem-porary Resident Permit (KITAS) viaNgurah Rai Airport ImmigrationOffice, Sisingamangaraja andDenpasar. I suspect the foreignersare impossible to utilize their KITASjust for a vacation, but also for thepurpose of opening a business,” hesaid.

Another problem was that thehotel operations owned by foreign-ers, but the land owned by nativelandowners. As a result, Zulfikarthen recognized that within this re-lation the landowners working as

employee became the cause of lowtax revenue collected from this sec-tor.

In responding to this condition,the Head of Bali Regional Office ofDirectorate General of Tax Serviceshad asked the House of Representa-tives to amend the Act governing theGeneral Rules and Taxation Proce-dures (KUP) so that electronic datacould be included as supporting dataof the tax collection.

“We’ve met Commission 11 ofthe House of Representatives to pro-pose in order the Act of KUP couldbe amended so that electronic datawould be mentioned in the Act. Atthe moment, electronic data have notbeen included in supporting the datain stipulating the outstanding data,”he explained. His party also addedthat tax revenue in Bali until August2 had reached IDR 1.74 trillion, orcovered 47.79 percent of the targetset up at the amount of IDR 3.64 tril-lion. (par)

Besakih TempleA sanctum where to invokesafety and unify devotees

Kusuma Temple, Tirtha TingkihTemple, Tirtha Lateng Temple, TirthaTegal Suci Temple, Tirta Toya SahTemple, Tirtha Sudamala Temple, TirtaEmpul and Tirta Sangku Temple. Thesetemples functioned and played a spe-cific role in every ritual held at BesakihTemple.

Ritual and oblationThere were many types of rituals and

oblations in the effort to purify theBesakih Temple. Dharmika said therituals might be conducted every day(Ngerahina), penyabran or particulartime (Kliwon, full moon, black moon),six monthly (temple anniversary), an-nually (patirthan/aci), ten yearly (PancaBali Krama), centennially (Eka DasaRudra), and millennially (MerebuBhumi). These rituals denoted a series,complete cycles and systems that couldnot be separated from one another.

For example, typical rituals held atBesakih Temple consisted of full moonin Sasih Karo (around July), andPengenteg Jagat ritual at Gelap Temple.In the dark moon of Sasih Ketiga washeld the Pengurip Bhumi at UlunKulkul Temple. Full moon of SasihKapat was held Ngusabha Kapat at thePadma Tiga of Penataran Agung. Onodd date coinciding with Sasih Kalimawas organized the Usabha Warga Siramat Batumadeg Temple. Then, on theblack moon of Sasih Kalima was heldPenaung Bayu ritual at Batu MadegTemple, on full moon of Sasih Keenemwas conducted the Penyeeb Brahmaritual at Kiduling Kreteg Temple. Onodd date coinciding with Kajeng inSasih Keenem was held the UsabhaPosya at Bangun Sakti Temple. Threedays before the implementation ofUsabha in Sasih Kapitu at the DalemPuri Temple was held the Petabuhanritual at Ulun Kulkul Temple.

In the meantime, on the odd date co-inciding with Kajeng in Sasih Kawoluwas held the Pacayan or NgusabhaNyemeng at Ulun Kulkul Temple (per-formed in the morning). On the same day,at noon till night was held Ngusabharitual at Dalem Puri Temple. Three daysafter the implementation of Usabha cer-emony at Dalem Puri was resumed withanother Usabha Nyungsung at KidulingKerteg Temple. Three days after the ex-ecution of Usabha Nyungsung was con-tinued by Usabha Buluh at BanuaTemple. On the full moon of SasihKawolu was implemented the UsabhaSri or Usabha Ngeed at Banua. After-ward, on the full moon of Sasih Kadasawas held the Ngusabha Kadasa (Weseka)or Bhatara Turun Kabeh ritual atPenataran Agung of Besakih.

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Denpasar (Bali Post) –The Sanur residents’ effort to

save its beach preservation starts toshow results. 90 percent of the treesplanted in the mangrove grew well.

“Now we are planting again inother areas and change the deadones,” Head of SVF (Sanur VillageFestival) Committee, Ida BagusSidharta Putra, explained last Friday(6/8) in Denpasar.

According to Sidharta the plantedmangrove was not seen on the totalof planted (chasing plants) but onhow many grew (chasing growth).Sidharta who’s also Head of YPSsaid his side funded some fees forthose mangrove plantings.

The foundation was aware ofwhat’s done now can’t be enjoyed

Through this event, it is certainthere will be infrastructures devel-oped such as roads, water and elec-tricity which were hardly receivedfully by the Klungkung residentsespecially in Nusa Penida. Samesituation happened in Maluku yetafter Sail Banda was approachingits infrastructure was developedfurther as central governmentneeds to make sure it is support-ing the event. “The problem is, lotsof area wanted it too so this is adifficult battle,” Head ofKlungkung Region Development,A.A. Ngurah Agung mentioned.

With the Sail Nusa Penida,Ngurah Agung is optimise it willcause Klungkung land pier will befinished quickly as it is a support-ing infrastructure. Also the city’sarrangement that was plannedsuch as fish harbour construction,roads, minapolitan and water con-servation area for Nusa Penida, “Ifall are built, it will practically in-crease the people’s prosperity.”

What needs to be done now isthat Klungkung Region Govern-ment to win the centralgovernment’s heart in making SailNusa Penida 2012 comes true, “Inthe near time I will invite Fisheryand Sea Ministry to look overNusa Penida area.”

Sail Nusa Penida 2012 is beingplanned on the same time mola-mola fishes come by during Sep-

Workforce, Transmigration andResidency Agency Held “Job Fair Bali2010”

For this weekend (7/8 and 8/8) Baligovernment through Bali Workforce,Transmigration and Residency Agency(Disnakertransduk) held “Job Fair Bali2010” at GOR Lila Buana, Denpasarin order to get together the job findersand the worker finders (companies)face to face which also quicken theprocess of a job placement. It is pre-dicted, thousands of job seekers fromaround Bali who came to the event willfill in jobs offered by 32 companies.Head of Bali Disnakertranduk, I MadeArtadana, informed this to the report-ers on Saturday (7/8).

According to Artadana, this yearlyactivity is purposed to facilitate jobseekers to get jobs which suits theirtalents, willing, and skills also helpingthose companies getting what theywant and need as well. Besides that,this event is used to know what thetrend is or quality demanded nowadays,the kind of jobs and opportunities avail-

Motivation by SailMotivation by SailMotivation by SailMotivation by SailMotivation by SailNusa Penida 2012Nusa Penida 2012Nusa Penida 2012Nusa Penida 2012Nusa Penida 2012ApproachApproachApproachApproachApproach

Klungkung Region has a sea richness of it’s under water scenery which needs to be preservedas it’s something useful for the people. This potential is not yet developed and it is in Nusa Penida.So to push this so it can be used to increase the people’s economic growth, Klungkung Region willmotivate it by Sail Nusa Penida 2012 approach.

tember. This is a kind of fish onlyto be found in Nusa Penida watersand it has a huge size so it reallyattracts visitors.

According to Bagus Sudibya,this agency will be responsible forall Nusa Penida’s development.

Especially in tourism, BagusSudibya admitted have gonearound Nusa Penida and see what’spotential. If managed well, tourismcan be developed in different kindsand shapes, “We can see now, in-vestors keep coming, private oreven individuals brought by theregent himself. Besides a manage-ment, it is important Klungkunghas a spatial planning of its area(RTRW) and its details too(RDTR) specially for NusaPenida.”

Connecting to that Klungkunghas socialised a Nusa Penida wa-ter conservation area (KKP) infront of Bali Province Sea andFishery Agency, Bali ProvinceCoastal Resource and Sea Manage-ment Board, the Bali Natural Re-sources Conservation Centre(BKSDA) and more.

Based on the survey and re-search also socialisation in differ-ent levels done by Nusa Penida subdistrict in a Nusa Penida planningprogram of KKP forming betweenKlungkung Region Governmentwith The Nature Conservancy-Coral Triangle Center (TNC-CTC)

Bali, the under water of NusaPenida needs to be preserved. “Seethe sea of sea biota, seaweeds,coral reefs and more needs to beguarded and preserved by takingcare of the under waterenvironment’s conservation,”Ngurah Agung explained.

Besides Sail Nusa Penida, theconstruction for the island is veryimportant to be done like educa-tion, don’t only build school build-ings in Klungkung’s land. NusaPenida needs fairness even it’s anisland and it can attract Klungkungland’s students to go schooling inNusa Penida. “One of the schoolspopular subjects is machinerycourse. So, government shouldthink of making that kind of schoolin Nusa Penida which will attractthem to come to Nusa Penida,” aDwi Tunggal Fraction memberfrom House of Representatives,Wayan Mastra, mentioned. Forexample it needs good teachers toteach, complete supporting facili-ties and more. What’s more thereare lots of students stop going toschool. According to year 2007data, the number of ElementarySchool (SD) graduates reached5.991 yet those who continued toJunior High School (SMP) onlyreached 2.057, “This needs detailedresearch, is it because they did notcontinue it or they have moved to aSMP outside the region.” (bal)

90 Percent of Sanur’sMangrove Grew Well

straight away but it is needed for thefuture generation. The beach’s abra-sion gets worse and needs to be an-ticipated from now on. The beach’spreservation with its mangrove cansupport the shore’s economicgrowth.

YPS with governmental organi-zations and villages agreed to formMangrove Lovers Forum which willplan the 17 hectares Mertasari Beachto be green again. Besides that astandard operation procedure (SOP)will be made for companies or aninstitute who is going to plant themangrove needs to have a budget togrow the plants well.

Besides the mangrove conserva-tion, Sanur also has turtle conserva-tion. Sanur beach is the place turtle’s

eggs laid and hatched besides otherBali eastern beaches. The proofswere its new hatchlings were crawl-ing to the sea at Segara beach.

“Sanur beach was the placeturtle’s eggs laid and hatched fromyears ago. Those turtles are greenturtles (Chelionia mydas) and its sta-tus is rare and protected from itsextinction.”

It was said, its habitat damagedand being hunted always made badnews for the country’s environmentso a united people effort was doneto make these turtles eggs laid atSanur Beach guarded and saved, “Toguard the turtles preservation, I havemade a group of turtles savers sothose turtles still go back to the landand lay eggs at Sanur beach.” (par)

Amlapura (Bali Post) –Hundreds of kids in Karangasem

neglected, not schooled or becamecrushers. To lessen them and to cutthe chain of crushers, Karangasemneeds stopping houses to give coun-selling to captured crushers.

This was mentioned in the 62ndBali Post’s birthday discussion, Fri-day (6/8) at SWiB radio assembly hallat Karangasem. Central Counsellorfor United Women and Children Em-powerment Services (P2TP2A) whohave accompanied residents in thissocial situation, Ni Nyoman Suparnimentioned the stopping house.

Karangasem Regent, I WayanGeredeg and Head of House of Rep-resentatives I Gede Dana, and socialactivist Nyoman Sadra, BA also themanager of Ashram Gedong Gandhi,Candidasa, welcomed and agreed tothe idea.

According to Geredeg, it doesn’tneed to be huge which so it needsaround IDR 150 to IDR 200 Million,“There is a land already, we can useunused government lands instead be-ing a slump and grown by uncontrol-lable grasses.”

Suparni mentioned now hundredsof Karangasem kids are not schooled,neglected and becoming crushers andexploited by their parents to get in-comes by being beggars in the city.The crusher kids go around Amlapuramarket and at night market beggingdoor-to-door. These kids who usuallysay they are from Pedahan or MuntiGunung wears muddled clothes, hasdirty body and admitted not schooled.These crushers not only boys or girls,but also housewives with their littlechildren usually causes sympathy tobe given money, “Women and kidsare exploited by their head of fami-

Job Finder Meets Worker Findersable as well, “What’s more important,this activity is to lessen the number ofunemployment.”

Artadana explained, Job Fair 2010of course is useful for the government,companies and job seekers. To the gov-ernment this is an opportunity to col-lect data on available job opportuni-ties and its seekers also as a sugges-tion in developing prosperity of theworkforce area. Meanwhile, thosecompanies can do their recruitment ef-fectively and efficiently also knowingthe quality and dedication of its appli-cants on location if it suits or not. Thisevent also can be used for promotions,visual representation of products andmore. And for the job seekers, in thisevent they have many options suitingtheir education qualifications andskills. Also it will save up money andtime to find a job, “In this job fair itwill open many opportunities, fromstaffs to managers. The educationqualification needed is from HighSchool or same levelled until manykinds of graduates.” (ian)

Lessen Crushers, KarangasemNeeds Stopping HousePoverty Root Problem Needs“Treatment”

lies to crush. Grown man crushers arenot from Pedahan and MuntiGunung,”

All this time, the root to the prob-lem why they did this was never in-vestigated seriously according toNyoman Sadra, “Like treating an ill-ness, its source and what caused it,needs to be diagnosed. Then it istreated so its recovery will be easier.”

Suparni mentioned these crusherscan’t only be arrested then given lec-ture for couple of hours, then broughtback to Kubu head of sub district of-fice to be processed bringing themback home to Munti Gunung orPedahan. They will go back crush-ing.

Those crushers captured will bebrought to the stopping house acouple of days. In there they do coun-selling, asked what really happenedand its wants, “We hope to find thembecause they are not educated, not atall skilled and in poverty. We havemet this kind of people, after we edu-cate them we can make them ashousekeepers and until now they keepcontinuing working.”

Gede Dana mentioned, the cleanwater crisis problem at MuntiGunung and Pedahan needs to besolved so there is no more reason forthey to be lazy, not working and be-ing crushers, “A cubang built will beeffective for this kind of area.”

Plus, if the Karangasem govern-ment can seriously finish this poverty,the House of Reresentatives will ap-preciate and plot a budget for it, “Al-though the problem offered needs tobe clear and don’t let those budgetsget expired.”

This discussion was themed “Dig-ging Karangasem Potential, To EndPeople’s Poverty.”

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Presidential secretary for publicrelations Hong Sang-pyo an-nounced that the shake-up also in-cluded the ministers of knowledgeeconomy, education and five otherdepartments. It did not affect theministers of foreign affairs, defenseand unification.

Kim Tae-ho, a former governorof South Gyeongnsang province,was nominated to replace ChungUn-chan as prime minister, Hongsaid. The appointment is subject toparliamentary approval.

The prime minister is thenation’s second-highest official, butis largely a ceremonial position with

AFP

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel’s navy on Sunday fired warning shotstowards a Lebanese fishing vessel in the Mediterranean, a militaryspokeswoman said.

“Warning shots were fired after a Lebanese fishing boat entered aclosed zone,” she said without confirming whether the boat had en-tered Israeli territorial waters.

After the shots were fired, causing no damage or injuries, “the Leba-nese boat changed course,” she added.

Relations between the two countries have been particularly tensesince Tuesday when Israeli and Lebanese troops clashed along theborder, in a deadly exchange of fire which killed two Lebanese sol-diers and a journalist, as well as an Israeli officer.

The standoff was sparked when Israeli troops tried to cut down atree on the border, prompting the Lebanese to open fire towards them.

AFP

BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) –Australia’s opposition leader TonyAbbott on Sunday promised “realaction” instead of “gutless spin” ifvoters topple embattled Prime Min-ister Julia Gillard in this month’selection.

The Liberal Party leader unveiledhis plans to govern ahead of theAugust 21 poll by savaging Gillardand pledging jail time for peoplesmugglers, a halt on wasteful gov-ernment spending, to restore a bud-get surplus and lower taxes.

Spotlighting Labor Party rifts thathave battered Gillard since she be-came Australia’s first woman leaderafter ousting Kevin Rudd in abackroom coup six weeks ago,Abbott touted his own party’s unity,fiscal prudence and experience ingovernment.

“I am asking for your support toend the waste, to pay back the debt,to stop the big new taxes, to stop theboats and to help struggling fami-lies,” he told ecstatic supporters.

He charged that Labor’s immigra-tion reforms had attractedboatpeople while government hadrun up a budget deficit by squander-ing billions of dollars on wastefulstimulus measures aimed at fightingthe global financial crisis.

“Our task is nothing less than tosave Australia from the worst gov-ernment in its history,” he told thecrowd in Queensland state, wherethe results in crucial marginal seatswill swing the election.

Accusing the government of in-competence, he promised “real ac-tion” if he is elected, compared to

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An Israel warship patrols in the Mediterranean SeaVideo. Israeland Lebanon bury their dead after border flare-up.

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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean President Lee Myung-baknamed a former provincial governor as his new prime minister onSunday as part of a Cabinet reshuffle.

little decision-making power.Lee also replaced the ministers of

culture, agriculture, health and wel-fare, employment and labor, and aspecial minister handling politicalaffairs.

The reshuffle came less than twoweeks after Lee’s ruling Grand Na-tional Party won parliamentary by-elections which were seen as a ref-erendum on public support for thepresident.

It also came amid tension withNorth Korea over large South Koreannaval drills off the west coast, includ-ing spots near the two countries’ dis-puted sea border.

The exercises, which end Mon-day, were aimed at strengtheningSouth Korea’s ability to counter anyNorth Korean provocations follow-ing the March sinking of a SouthKorean warship that killed 46 sail-ors.

North Korea — which has deniedinvolvement in the sinking —warned last week it would “counterthe reckless naval firing projected bythe group of traitors with strongphysical retaliation” and advisedcivilian ships to stay away from themaritime border.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs ofStaff said no unusual military activ-ity has been detected in the North.

Seoul has said it will launch moremilitary exercises with the UnitedStates on Aug. 16 following jointnaval drills last month in waters offSouth Korea’s east coast.

Australia opposition launchespoll bid as PM founders

AFP

Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott

Labor’s record of “all talk but noaction.”

“Let’s bury an era of gutless spinand give our country a fresh start,where politicians say what theymean and do what they say,” he saidin a speech analysts said was shorton vision.

Abbott, a devoutly Catholic fit-ness fanatic often dubbed the “MadMonk,” has been tipped by fouropinion polls in the past week totopple Gillard.

A rank outsider when the cam-paign began three weeks ago, hispopularity has soared as the singleatheist Gillard was battered by anavalanche of damaging body blowsthat have overshadowed her bid towin her own mandate to rule.

A day after her attempt to burythe hatchet with Rudd went awrywhen photos revealed visible ten-sions between the two, Abbott capi-talised on the rift that has seen

Gillard’s campaign descend intowhat he branded a “soap opera”.

“Why give the Labor Party a sec-ond chance when it wouldn’t giveits own leader one?” he said, point-edly drawing attention to Rudd’sruthless ouster.

As Abbott spoke, Rudd hit thecampaign trail in a Brisbane shop-ping mall, with the awkward taskof reviving support for Labor andthe woman who deposed him.

Outlining his plans for his firstthree months in office, Abbottlargely repeated already-stated po-sitions, but announced one new mea-sure aimed at appealing to votersworried about immigrant arrivals.

He pledged prison terms of atleast 10 years for repeat peoplesmugglers, highlighting the fact that150 boats carrying 7,000 peoplehave arrived on Australia’s shoressince Rudd won power three yearsago.

Hotel Activities Monday, August 9, 2010 5International

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

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TAXIS

IMIGRATION

Denpasar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Monday, August 9, 20106 News

Half of an entire town was un-der water and an estimated 2,000more people were missing in thelatest deluge in a summer that hasseen China’s worst seasonalflooding in a decade.

Terrified residents fled to highground or upper stories of apart-ment buildings after a debris-blocked river overflowed duringthe night in the northwesternprovince of Gansu.

Worst hit was the county seatof Zhouqu in the province’sGannan Tibetan Autonomous Pre-fecture, with the official XinhuaNews Agency reporting half of itunder water. Many houses col-lapsed and streets were coveredwith a yard (meter) of mud andwater after the early morninglandslides, it said.

The landslides struck afterheavy rains lashed the countrylate Saturday and the BailongRiver overflowed, Xinhua quotedthe head of Zhouqu county,Diemujiangteng, as saying,

“Now the sludge (thick mud)has became the biggest problemto rescue operations. It’s too thickto walk or drive through,” he wasquoted as saying.

State broadcaster China Cen-tral Television said the death toll

AP

SAN FRANCISCO – Califor-nia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,who twice vetoed legislation thatwould have legalized same-sexmarriage, has surprised gay rightssupporters by urging a federaljudge to allow gay couples to re-sume marrying in the state with-out further delay.

Lawyers for Schwarzenegger,Attorney General Jerry Brown,two gay couples and the city ofSan Francisco all filed legal mo-tions Friday asking Chief U.S.Distr ict Court Judge VaughnWalker to implement his rulingstriking California’s voter-ap-proved same-sex marriage ban asunconstitutional.

“The Administration believesthe public interest is best servedby permitting the court’s judg-ment to go into effect, thereby re-storing the right of same-sexcouples to marry in California,”the Republican governor’s law-yers said on his behalf. “Doing sois consistent with California’slong history of treating all peopleand their relationships with equaldignity and respect.”

In his 136-page decision over-turning Proposition 8 Wednesday,Walker said he was ordering thestate to cease enforcing the 22-month-old ban. But he agreed tosuspend the order until he couldreview the briefs submitted Fri-

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Damaged houses are seen after a rain-triggered landslide hit Shuanghe village in Hanyuan county,Sichuan

AP

BEIJING – Rubble-strewn floodwaters tore through a remote corner of northwestern China onSunday, smashing buildings, overturning cars and killing at least 127 people.

in the province was at least 127,with about 2,000 people missing.Power, water and communicationswere cut in affected areas in thesouthern part of the province,about one-third of whose residentsare ethnic Tibetan, and it was notknown how many of the missingwere in danger or simply out ofcontact.

The devastation was worsenedby the blockage of the river up-stream, which created a 2-mile (3-kilometer)-long lake that overfilledand sent massive waves of mud,rocks and water crashing down onthe town, ripping houses from theirfoundations and tearing six-storyapartment buildings in half.

Explosive experts were flyingto the scene by helicopter to de-molish the blockage and safelyrelease potential flood waters.Tents, boxed meals and medicalsupplies were being rushed to thearea, where more rain was forecastthrough Wednesday.

CCTV said 45,000 people hadbeen evacuated, but the region’sremote, mountainous location washampering the emergency re-sponse. Heavy equipment couldnot be brought along the narrowaccess roads, forcing rescuers torely on shovels, picks and buck-

ets, while scattered stones eitherbarred the way or caused tires torupture. Pictures showed streetscovered in layers of mud andstones, shattered buildings andcars washed downstream.

CCTV reported Premier WenJiabao was had flown toJiuzhaigou in neighboringSichuan province and was head-ing to the disaster area to overseerescue work.

The Lanzhou Military AreaCommand in the provincial capi-tal dispatched 2,400 soldiers tohelp with rescue efforts. Morethan 1,000 firefighters and mili-tia members from the surroundingarea were also being sent to aidrelief efforts, Xinhua said.

Around China, the country’sworst flooding in a decade haskilled more than 1,100 people thisyear, with more than 600 stillmissing. The floods have causedtens of billions of dollars in dam-age across 28 provinces and re-gions.

Overall this year, about875,000 homes have been de-stroyed, 9.61 mill ion peopleevacuated, and 22 million acres(8.76 million hectares) of cropsruined, according to thegovernment’s flood control office.

Schwarzenegger:Let same-sexweddings resume now

day.The measure’s sponsors have

asked the judge to keep the ban ineffect unti l their appeal ofWalker ’s rul ing invalidatingProposition 8 is decided by highercourts.

They argued in court papersfiled earlier this week that resum-ing gay marriage now would causelegal chaos if the U.S. 9th CircuitCourt of Appeals or U.S. SupremeCourt eventually reverse Walker’sruling.

It was unclear when the judgewould decide whether to grant astay that would prevent marriagelicenses from being issued to gaycouples during the appeals pro-cess.

If he does clear the way forsame-sex couples to wed, lawyersfor sponsors of Proposition 8 saidFriday they would seek an emer-gency order from the 9th Circuitto prevent that from happening.

The governor and attorney gen-eral almost always defend statelaws when they are challenged, re-gardless of their personal views.But in this case, bothSchwarzenegger and Brown re-fused to participate in fighting thelawsuit aimed at overturning theban, even though they both werenamed as defendants.

That left the job of defendingProposition 8 to its backers, a coa-lition of religious and conservativegroups known as Protect Marriage.

Nyoman Sujana, the head ofBesang Kawan Toh Jiwa village,said “there is a rule in our villagewhere ceremony can not be carriedout on pasah.” The ceremony wasstarted on 7 am local time. All ofthe villagers took part in the cer-emony which was started by

The injured were being treatedat an army hospital and severalmakeshift clinics in and aroundLeh, the worst-hit town, Khodasaid. Officials said the missingpeople included 28 army soldiers.

Rescuers still had not reachedabout 5,000 people inChoglamsar, a village on Leh’soutskirts, because of mudslidesblocking the road, police officerNawang Tsering said.

Mohammed Deen Khan, a so-cial activist who tried to reachthe village on Saturday, said themud was about 15 fee t (4 .5meters) high in some places. Hesaid authorities were facing ashortage of bulldozers and heavy

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“pecaruan” on the junction on thevillage.

Then, a cow was carried aroundthe village. At the end of the cer-emony, the cow was butchered andthere is great hope that the bloodwill give safety to thepeople.(kmb20)

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earth movers.About 100 stranded foreign

tourists, mostly Europeans, wereevacuated from Pang vil lagenortheast of Leh, army spokesmanLt. Col. J.S. Brar said in Srinagar,the main city in Indian-adminis-tered Kashmir.

August is peak tourist season inLadakh, about 280 miles (450 ki-lometers) east of Srinagar. It is ahigh-altitude desert with a starkmoonscape-like terrain, and nor-mally received very little rain.

The deluge came as neighbor-ing Pakistan suffered its worstflooding in decades, with millionsdisplaced and about 1,500 dead.

Monday, August 9, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY

An Indonesian woman receives a package of cheap staple foods during a distribution to welcome themonth of ramadan in Jakarta on August 7, 2010. The most populous Muslim country, Indonesia along withMuslims around the world will start ramadan on August 11, when Muslim refrain from eating, drinking andhaving sex from dawn to dusk.

Antara

JAMBI - Greenpeace activistsunfurled a giant banner with textreading “APP-Stop destroying TigerForests” to protest alleged forest de-struction by pulp giant AsiaPulp&Paper (APP).

The banner was put up in an areaof active clearing by PT. Tebo MultiAgro (TMA), an affiliate of APP, inthe southern part of the BukitTigapuluh landscape last Thurday(Aug 5), according to a press state-ment of Greenpeace Southeast Asiain its official website.

“Greenpeace and KKI Warsi, aSumatra based NGO, urged the In-donesian government to take imme-diate action to stop further destruc-tion of this valuable forest that is cur-rently being logged for the expansionof the pulp and paper industry,” itsaid.

The Bukit Tigapuluh landscape isrecognized as one of the last refugesfor the critically endangeredSumatran Tiger and hosts incrediblebiodiversity including 660 plant spe-

Two of the suspects werenabbed in a raid on a house inSukasari village, and the three oth-ers were arrested respectively inCileunyi, Padalarang, and Subang,West Java, on Saturday, he said.

Prior to the arrests, electricalpower in the targeted areas was cutoff to anticipate any unwantedeventualities because the electric-ity could be used to detonatebombs, he said.

The police did not only arrestthe suspects but also seized bombssuspected to be “high explosive”from the suspects’ rented house inSukamulya village, he said.

West Java police’s bomb squadmembers detonated the seizedbombs and explosive materials in-side the rented house.

Earlier in the day, PresidentSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono dis-closed that he was under threat ofterrorist action during a workingvisit to Ciwidey, West Java.

“I received a report from secu-rity last night that certain elementswith bad intentions were lurkingin the Ciwidey area to do some-thing against me,” the Presidentsaid when inspecting a trainingschool for army recruits in WestJava.

But the head of state also saidterrorist elements would never pre-vail on Indonesian soil.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Four people weremissing Friday after one ofIndonesia’s most active volcanoserupted, spewing lava and hot ash,an official said.

“There was an eruption onMount Karengetang,” Surono, avulcanologist with Volcano andGeological Disaster Centre inJakarta, told AFP.

“Four people are still missingbecause of the eruption and oneperson is injured,” he said.

The eruption of 1,784-metre(5,853-foot) Mount Karangetang,

Antara

MANADO - Setia Permana, aHouse of Representatives (DPR)member, died when a boat whichwas to carry legislators to theBunaken Marine Park here was hitby a huge wave on Saturday.

Permana is a member of theDPR’s Commission III on legal andsecurity affairs from the IndonesianDemocratic Party of Struggle(PDIP) faction. He was to have apicnic with other Commission III

Four missing asIndonesia volcano erupts

on remote Siau island in NorthSulawesi province, was triggeredby heavy rain which caused thevolcano to spew lava and ash, hesaid. Surono said the missingpeople lived in the area.

Authorities had not evacuatedvillages near the volcano as theeruption had now ended and therewas no further danger, he said.

Vulcanologists say heavy rainshave been blamed for “dome col-lapse” volcanic eruptions.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific“Ring of Fire,” where the meetingof continental plates causes highvolcanic and seismic activity.

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BANDUNG - The Indonesian police in West Java arrested fiveterror suspects in four different places, the province’s police chief,Inspector General Sutarman, said.

“Never will terrorist elementsprevail on Indonesian soil. Theywill only succeed in victimizinginnocent people,” the presidentsaid.

The president said the terror el-ements that had targeted him weresuccessfully overcome by mem-bers of the presidential securityforce.

The police have been intensify-ing hunts of armed terror suspectsin various parts of the country, suchas Aceh, the outskirts of Jakarta,Banten, Central Java, and WestJava, since February.

On March 9, in Pamulang sub-district, Tangerang City, BantenProvince, the police gunned downthree terror suspects and arrestedthree others. The dead terror sus-pects were Dulmatin, one ofIndonesia’s most wanted terrorists,and two of his body guards.

Dulmatin, who was also in-volved in the 2002 Bali bombings,was shot dead in a raid on aninternet outlet in Pamulang.

Indonesia has been fighting ter-rorism in the country since the2002 Bali bombings that claimed202 lives, including 88 Australianholiday makers.

Two years before the terrorbombings in the resort island ofBali, Indonesia was rocked by theChristmas Eve bombings in 2000.

Greenpeace campaigns for protection of tiger forestcies, 200 species of birds and 60mammal species, including thehighly endangered clouded leopard,Malayan tapir, Sumatran elephantand the Orang utan.

The area is also home to the in-digenous peoples of the Orang Rimbaand Talang Mamak tribes.

“Greenpeace is here today to ex-pose APP’s false claims that it onlydevelops ‘least valuable degradedforests and denuded wasteland’. Thisis precious forest that houses richbiodiversity, carbon stocks and is thehome to the Orang Rimba and TalangMamak peoples. It should not bedestroyed for copy paper and glossymagazines,” said Zulfahmi, forestcampaigner for Greenpeace South-east Asia.

“APP and its parent companySinar Mas are not only underminingPresident Yudhoyono’s internationalcommitments to reduce greenhousegas emissions from deforestation butare also driving endangered specieslike the Sumatran tiger towards ex-tinction and making indigenous com-munities homeless,” he added.

Last week Greenpeace launchedits latest investigative report into theoperations of Sinar Mas.

Greenpeace gathered new photo-graphic evidence from aerial moni-toring, backed up by field analysis,to detail how the Sinar Mas groupcontinues to clear rainforest contain-ing priceless biodiversity and carbon-rich peatlands, despite public prom-ises it has made to clean up its act.

“Our recent survey shows that cur-rently about 500 Orang Rimba livein Bukit Tigapuluh forests. But nowthey are in danger as the forests whichthey depend on for their livelihoodsis already destroyed. In order to pro-tect the biodiversity and the interestsof our forest communities, defores-tation must end immediately,” saidRobert Aritonang of Warsi.

Greenpeace is calling upon theIndonesian government to extend therecently announced moratorium on‘new concessions on conversion ofnatural forests and peatlands intoplantations’ to include a halt to allclearing of forested areas within ex-isting concessions.

Legislator killed in boat accidentmembers at the Marine Park whenthe huge wave struck.

“The accident occurred when theboat which was used by the Com-mission III members, was hit by ahuge wave at the Bunaken pier,”John Sulangi, a protocol staff mem-ber of the local government, said onSaturday.

The accident took place at 12 amlocal time.

Besides Setia Permana, the wifeof Cipto, another Commission IIImember, also died in the accident.

A number of other lawmakerswere also injured in the accident,namely H Otong Abdurrahman,Dimyati Natakusumah, Abubakar AlHabsyi, Nudirman Munir, Nurdinand Cipto.

The Commission III team whichwas composed of 27 persons includ-ing staffers of the DPR secretariatwas conducting a two-day workingvisit to in North Sulawesi, having anaudience with the North SulawesiRegional police and the prosecutor’soffice.

8 InternationaMonday, August 9, 2010

Bali Today

‘’The occupancy rate of hotelrooms in Bali have significant rela-tion with the number of tourists thatvisit Bali. The numbers of tourists thatvisited Bali last month were increased12.12 percent,” said Chief of Bali’sStatistical center Ida Komang Wisnu.

He stated that Bali receive visita-tion from 228,045 foreign tourists onJune 2010 or increase about 12.12percent from last month.

The highest occupancy rate of starhotels in Bali are hotels in Tabanan,which are 71 percent, followed byBadung (67.58 %), Denpasar (60.25

Agence France-Presse

DENPASAR - The Indonesiangovernment is to vaccinate all dogson the holiday island of Bali to com-bat a raging rabies epidemic that hasleft 76 people dead over two years,an official said Friday.

Around 34,000 people have beenbitten by dogs on the island, whichis popular with western tourists, inthe first seven months of this yearalone, authorities said.

“We aim to vaccinate all dogs inBali by the end of this year to curbthe spread of rabies. We’ll start tomass vaccinate the dogs in late Sep-tember,” Bali animal husbandryagency Chief Putu Sumantra said.

“There are still hundreds of thou-sand of dogs that have not been vac-cinated. About 200 teams will bedeployed to work in 700 villages,”he said.

AntaraDENPASAR – Ten models be-

came canvas during the bodypainting event in Sanur VillageFestival (SVF) on Saturday.

On model’s body, painter dis-playing colorful acrylic paint tomake a good painting. The paint-ers exploring this ‘’unusual”canvas and created beautiful

Development of tourism sector inBadung Regency is expected to be-come motivator of a variety of exist-ing socio-economic potentials. In ad-dition, it is also intended for the wel-fare and intellectual life of Badungsociety.

Therefore, Badung Regency be-gan to develop and pioneer the com-munity-based cultural tourism, aswell as to pay attention to environ-mental aspects. “It is one of the des-tination development models that canprotect the culture of community, topreserve the environment and to in-volve the public directly. As the re-sult, Badung started building ruraltourism,” said the Head of BadungGovernment Tourism Office, MadeSubawa, recently.

It was also said that the current ru-ral tourism was one of the flagshipprograms of the Tourism Office ofBadung Regency. As a flagship pro-gram, it was expected to open new

AFP PHOTO/Sonny TUMBELAKA

Stray dog wander past Balinese people in Jimbaran village onthe resort island of Bali on August 6, 2010. The Indonesian gov-ernment is to vaccinate all dogs on the holiday island of Bali tocombat a raging rabies epidemic that has left 76 people deadover two years.

Tourist paradise Balisuffering rabies epidemic

Unlike the rest of mainly MuslimIndonesia, where people do not gen-erally keep dogs, Bali is a predomi-nantly Hindu island and dogs arecommon either as pets or strays.

Sumantra said that since 2008,about 300,000 dogs had been vacci-nated. Tens of thousands of straydogs had also been culled.

Bali health agency head NyomanSutedja said there were 34,000 casesof people being bitten by dogs in Balithis year compared to 28,000 dogbites in the whole of 2009.

“The rising cases of bites havemade us worry. We need more anti-rabies vaccines for people here,”Sutedja said.

The latest victim of rabies, a 43-year old Balinese woman, died onTuesday.

Australia and the US have issuedtravel warnings to tourists about theprevalence of the disease.

Occupancy hotelsOccupancy hotelsOccupancy hotelsOccupancy hotelsOccupancy hotelsincreasing 4.17 percentincreasing 4.17 percentincreasing 4.17 percentincreasing 4.17 percentincreasing 4.17 percentAntara

DENPASAR – The occupancy rates in star hotels at Bali increase on average 64.56 percent onJune 2010. The increase is better around 4.17 percent compare to the last month occupancy ratethat only reached 60.39 percent.

%), Gianyar (58 %), Karangasem(47.54 %), and Buleleng (23.37)

If compared to the last month oc-cupation, hotels in Tabanan gained41.23 percent increased, Badung 5.81percent, Karangasem (1.67 %), andDenpasar (1.81 %)

On the June period, according toWisnu, only hotels in two regencies inBali experienced declined occupancyrates, which were Gianyar andBuleleng respectively decline 2.42percent and 11.34 percent.

Wisnu added that according to ho-tel classification, the three-star hotels

experienced highest raised 73.71 per-cent and the lowest are one-star hotelswith only 39.1 percent.

Meanwhile the average increasesof four-star hotels are 64.49 percent,five-star hotels reached 63.43 percentincreased and two-star hotel gained53.41 percent increase.

On the length of stay, foreign anddomestic tourists that vacationed inBali stay for an average 3.48 days. Hestated that the length of stay of tour-ists increased 0.11 percent compare tothe May figure which only reached3.37 day.

Rural tourism in Badung:Pangsan Village as a pilot project

job opportunities in rural areas, totackle poverty, to invite the commu-nity to implement the behavior ofClean and Healthy Living (PHBS).“Based on monitoring in the field,there are currently a number of villagesthat have the potential to be developedinto rural tourism. One of them isPangsan Village,” he said.

Pangsan Village has panoramic andpristine views and various tourist at-tractions such as rafting and trekking.Rafting has a mileage of 2.5 hours,while two lines of trekking have rela-tively hard trekking level with a dis-tance of 5 km and soft-trekking with adistance of about 2 km.

The atmosphere of the route to lo-cation of rafting and trekking activityis also very beautiful. Because, whenhaving a promenade around the field,you will be presented with unique at-traction of plowing rice fields by Balicow, planting rice, harvesting rice andother integrated attractions. All of these

activities have been perfectly packedinto a single entity called Simantri (in-tegrated farming system).

“This is what we have developedat Pangsan Village, so that this villagebecomes a pilot project for the BaliProvincial Government which is cur-rently developing a variety of pro-grams that also involves plantation,animal husbandry and fishery, includ-ing the processing of livestock wastethat can produce gas and energy useddirectly by households,” he said.

In addition, you can also enjoy theattractions of traditional cooking(ngelawar / mebat) which can then beserved in person. Meanwhile, tradi-tional arts and a number of existinghomes are also ready for accommo-dation if guests want to stay at this vil-lage. “Pangsan Village also has a num-ber of public figures who have enoughexperience in the field of tourism, sothey are ready to accompany a guide,”concluded Subawa. (BTN/015)

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Painters participated in the body painting contest at SegaraBeach, Sanur, Bali on Saturday, August 7.

Ten models became canvas forbody painting sensation

picture, likes fishes, lion, andbeach.

Jango Paramartha, one of thebody painter said to express an ideaon the body is not difficult, it is thesame like making painting oversheet canvas.

‘’No it is not difficult to paint-ing picture on a body. We only needconcentration because sometimes

the body moves,” said Jango whoalso known as cartoonist.

Even though the same withsheet canvas, painter has to be ableto follows the shape of the model’sbody.

‘’The painter has to be able tocreate something that fit to thetheme,” he said.

According to Nikita, one of the

body painting models, she reallyglad to be participates in this event.

Nikita admitted that she want to

be a body painting model becauseshe wants to give chance for thepainters to expressed their idea.

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Balinese people have an expression used to stateimprobable condition. They use the condition of taillessquail. For instance, if they have no money and want tobuy something luxurious or expensive, they will say “Iwill buy expensive X when the quail has a tail.” Quail is awild bird and it’s difficult to encounter its nest. However,today it has been cultivated widely for commercialneeds. As a result, it will be easy to obtain its egg, eitherat traditional market or stalls nearby.

If you used to taste the delicacy of chicken or duckegg, it’s time to try the small quail egg. Though it looksminimalist, it can offer you great delicacy. Coated withspiced-flour, it definitely becomes a luscious side dish.

Ingredient: 10 quail eggs, 3 tbsp starch flour, 3 tbspwheat flour, 6 tbsp rice flour and 1 sachet of spicedflour, some ½ glass of water

Spices: 3 cloves garlic (sublimated), ½ tsp coriander,½ tsp salt, 1 large chili (sliced thinly), appropriate palmoil to fry

Method:• Boil the quail eggs until cooked and peel away

its shell.• All flours are mix together and add a small

amount of water gradually. Attempt not to be too thick ortoo watery. Mix the spices into the flour batter thoroughlyand then put the quail eggs into the batter.

• Pre-heat the frying that has contained palm oil.Take the quail egg one by one that has been coated byflour batter and fry.

• Fry them until cooked or its color turnsbrownish. Take out and serve on platter. (BTN/punia)

Apart from being a tourist at-traction, Kuta Beach is also anatural habitat for sea turtles tolay their eggs. In 2002, the vil-lage of Kuta established a KutaBeach Security (Satgas Kuta)which has responsible for themanagement of coastal areas andalso maintaining comfort. “Atfirst we only assigned to be re-sponsible for managing the areaof Kuta Beach and provide con-venience for tourists, but then ourtask increase after a turtle ap-proached and laid their eggs here.We are also commited that any-one who comes here will be pro-tected,” said the head of KutaBeach Security, Gusti NgurahTresna which also known as Mr.Turtle. Seeing this, then, theymade insulation in the location ofthese turtles laid their eggs andit attracted the attention of theother parties, like ProFauna andBKSDA, which later merged toprovide assistance.

Every year, he continued, moreand more turtles are landed alongthe beach of Kuta. We, then, iso-lated them as we ever done be-fore. However, it was not safebecause the eggs are swept awayby a large wave that came sud-denly. Based on this experience,in 2005, the turtles came againand then we made a tub enclosurefor eggs. In this way, almost allthe eggs hatched in securely. Fi-nally, there is a help from theCoca-Cola and Quicksilver to

INGREDIENTS:225 gr shallots, peeled125 gr cloves garlic, peeled50 gr kencur root, peeled and chopped60 gr laos, peeled and chopped100 gr candlenuts125 gr fresh turmeric, peeled & chopped50 gr bird’s eye chilies, finely sliced50 gr chopped palm sugar150 ml coconut oil2 stalks lemon grass, bruised3 salam leaves250 ml water¾ tbsp salt

PREPARATION:Grind all ingredients except lemon grass, salam

leaves and water, coarsely in food processor. Place inheavy sauce pan, add all remaining ingredients andcook over medium heat for approximately 60 minutes oruntil water is evaporated and marinade changes togolden color.

Cool before using. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

”Mr. Turtle”, I Gusti Ngurah Tresna:Sea Turtle Conservation asanother Attraction in Kuta Beach

build a statue of a giant tortoiseas a place to save the turtle eggswhich established on June 19th,2010.

By continuing to implementconservation programs and alsothe release of hatchlings to thebeach, it was able to attract the at-tention of tourists. Even these ac-tivities can also slowly dim theimage of Balinese who are fondof consuming turtle meat. It wasproved by Gibbon Award whichwas awarded by animal lovers or-ganization based in New York. “Iam very proud of it. It also makes

us to have a desire to convey tothe world that this is a new attrac-tion, which is especially dedicatedto tourists on the Kuta beach. Atfirst there are only three thingsthat can be sold, those are waves,sunset, and white sands. But now,with the conservation activity andalso the release of turtle hatchings,it will be another attraction fortourists to visit the Kuta beach andalso as a promoting activity tosave the sea turtles. It is like “Mydream comes true,” he explainedat the end of the interview. (BTN/angga)

Flour-coated quail egg:Minimalist look, great delicacy

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Strategically located in MajorWisnu Street in Denpasar Bali andit is find it due to the location is inthe heart town. In the north sidethere are glorious temple ofJagatnatha, meanwhile in front ofit the Puputan Badung (BadungCourtyard) and four face statue(Catur Muka Statue) are located.The development of Bali Museumis begun by the existence of initia-tive how to vitally the heritage ofBalinese culture and taking care of,preserve and maintaining. The ini-tiative is based on the existence offeeling to worry, that there is symp-tom a kind of culture erosion, so thatthe cultural heritage become totallydisappeared, lose, what omit onlyphotograph and documentations.

Bali Museum save the Balineseculture heritage, emerge the found-ing plan a museum which afterwardbecomes the Bali Museum:

* The early planning of Bali Mu-seum founding was Governmentalfunctionary of Dutch, Bali King,Society Prominent, all artists like:WFJ Kroon (assistant of Dutch Resi-

Bali Museumdent), Curt Grundler (a Germany Ar-chitect), I Gusti Alit Ngurah(Bestuurder Penegara Badung), IGusti Bagus Jelantik (King ofKarangasem), I Gusti Ketut Djelantik(King of Buleleng), King of Tabanan,and all artists like I Gusti KetutKandel, I Gusti Ketut Rai. The Plan-ning is happened in year 1910 withthe elementary concept Bali Museumbuilding structure that was solidarityof the structure between temple build-ing (Sanctum) and Palace (Keraton).

* After agreed on the concept ofthe museum building structure,hence founded a mains buildingwhich deflect finished in year 1925.Because of the ancient object col-lection which had been collected isnot yet adequate and then during 7years (1925-1932), the mains build-ing stood functioned for the exhibi-tion purpose. All meritorious expertsin checking object taken as collec-tion of Bali Museum for example:DR.W.F. Stutterheim, G.I. Graider,G.M. Hendrikss, DR.R. Goris, andartist of Walter Spies

* Bali Museum in the beginningis handled by an institution that iscalled Bali Museum Institution andopened officially on 8 December

1932 with the name of Bali Museum* The management hereinafter by

institution of Bali Museum has beenreverted to Government of Indone-sia since 5 January 1966.

The object collections which are

kept in Bali Museum can be classi-fied become the prehistoric objectcollection like: the Grave Petrify(sarkopag), the object collectioncoming from history era like:stupika clay containing supersti-

tious formula Ye Te, the bronze stat-ues (Hindu and Budha statues) andethnography object collection likeKeris, Endek Cloth, and religiousceremony equipments (Sangku,Cecepan and Sidakarya mask).

Monday, August 9, 2010 11

BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

GENEVA - China’s high savingsrate is expected to fall substantially incoming years as its workforce shrinks,the population ages and social securityspending increases, a BIS report shows.

In research published by the Bankfor International Settlements on the“myth and reality” of China’s savingsrate, Ma Guonan and Wang Yi foundthat the Asian giant needs its popula-tion to spend more in order to sustainrapid economic growth in comingyears.

The researchers, who were writingin their personal capacity, also rejectclaims that Chinese state firms havebeen benefiting from high savingsthanks to exchange rate distortions andsubsidies designed to drive economicgrowth.

They point out that “lessadvantaged” and more efficient firmshave been the ones posting the greatestgains in earnings in recent years ratherthan state-owned companies.

China’s gross national savingssoared from 39.2 percent of output in1990 to 53.2 percent in 2008, far higherthan the United States, which saved just12.2 percent in 2008.

Even compared to other Asian gi-ants — Japan with 27 percent in 2007and India with 33.6 percent in 2008 —China’s share of savings as a percent-age of gross domestic product (GDP)is significantly larger.

Nonetheless, the population and so-cial trends that have underpinnedChina’s growth and savings rates arelikely tail off significantly over the nextdecade, the two Chinese researchersargued.

The frugal Chinese have come un-der fire from critics who claim thatBeijing fuelled a credit bubble in theWest by investing these savings abroad,especially in the United States.

Chinese holdings in US Treasurybonds reached 900.2 billion dollars inApril, making it the biggest holder ofsuch investments.

In the wake of the global slump,

Some 131,000 jobs were lost andthe unemployment rate remained stuckat 9.5 percent last month, officials said,as federal and local governmentsslashed jobs.

The private sector was unable tooffset a massive government layoff of143,000 census-takers, with firms cre-ating only a modest 71,000 jobs.

The figures were seen as yet an-other sign that the US economic re-covery is stagnating, and that the jobsmarket may take years to get back onits feet.

“The current pace of employmentis too slow to replace the more thaneight million jobs lost in the recession— not in the next year or two, perhapseven not in the next five years,” saidBart van Ark, chief economist of TheConference Board, a business researchfirm.

“It’s unlikely that industries such asconstruction and manufacturing willever return to pre-recession employ-ment levels.”

Analysts had predicted the ranks ofworking Americans would shrink by87,000 in July, pushing the unemploy-ment rate up to 9.6 percent.

Revisions to June figures also com-pounded the angst. The Labor Depart-

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

In this photo taken July 21, 2010, a Chinese migrant worker walkspast a make-shift wall with “luxury” written on, which encloses build-ings of high-end commercial and residential project under construc-tion in Beijing. China’s high savings rate is expected to fall substan-tially in coming years as its workforce shrinks, the population agesand social security spending increases, a BIS report shows.

US economy shedsUS economy shedsUS economy shedsUS economy shedsUS economy sheds131,000 jobs131,000 jobs131,000 jobs131,000 jobs131,000 jobsAgence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The US economy shed more jobs than expected in July, the Labor Depart-ment said Friday, heightening fears that the world’s largest economy will take years to fully re-cover from a crippling recession.

ment said 221,000 jobs had been lostversus the 125,000 earlier reported.

That piled pressure on PresidentBarack Obama to prove his economicpolicies are working ahead of Novem-ber midterm elections.

Speaking at a Washington sign-makers plant, Obama pointed to thedistance the private sector has traveledsince the depths of the recession.

“The fact is we’ve added privatesector jobs every month this year, in-stead of losing them, as we did for thefirst seven months of last year. That’sa good sign.”

But “the road to recovery doesn’tfollow a straight line,” he admitted.“Some sectors bounce back faster thanothers.”

Obama’s opponents leaped on thedata as evidence that massive eco-nomic stimulus spending had notworked.

“President Obama’s economic poli-cies have failed to create sustainablejob growth,” said Republican NationalCommittee chairman Michael Steele.

On Wall Street, markets reactedgloomily, with major stock indicestrading down heavily.

The Dow Jones Industrial Averagefell 160 points after the announcement

but later pared loses to finish the daydown 21 points.

For months investors have anx-iously awaited any clue of where theeconomy is headed, with data fre-quently providing a confused snapshot.

That trend appears to have contin-ued, leaving Obama and policy mak-ers facing tough choices aboutwhether new crisis measures areneeded.

The Federal Reserve’s rate-settingpanel meets on Tuesday, when it isexpected to ponder restarting stimu-lus policies.

But most analysts agree the cen-tral bank will shy away from any newmeasures unless absolutely necessary,to avoid using one of their few remain-ing policy levers.

“The central bank’s problem nowis that any additional monetary stimu-lus will require unconventional meth-ods,” said Ryan Sweet of Moody’sEconomy.com. “The cost and benefittrade-off of these are unclear.”

But Friday’s report prompted callsfor the Fed to keep record low inter-est rates.

“The Fed should remain dovish,”said analysts at Societe Generale.

AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

In this Aug. 2, 2010 photograph, Joseph Oeler Jr., 35, of Hollywood, Fla. waits in line at a job fairsponsored by National Career Fairs in Dania Beach, Fla. The US economy shed more jobs thanexpected in July, the Labor Department said Friday, heightening fears that the world’s largesteconomy will take years to fully recover from a crippling recession.

China’s savings rate to dropin coming decade

world leaders and economists havebeen asking China to spend more, ratherthan pin its economic growth on ex-ports to the West, in order to help ad-dress world trade imbalances.

Ma, a BIS economist and Wang,who is from the Chinese central bank,note however that the current savingstrend by Chinese households will notlast.

The swelling working population inrecent years has boosted savings in re-cent years, they note.

In addition, large-scale corporaterestructuring between 1995 and 2005increased job uncertainty, forcing work-ers to set aside more money in case theywere fired. The lack of a social safetynet also pushed workers to make “pre-cautionary savings.”

Beyond households, governmentsavings have also been increasing intandem, as more is being set aside tomeet pension needs which are expectedto rise significantly as the populationages.

However, these trends are expectedto be reversed in coming years.

“It is reasonable to assume that thelarge-scale labour retrenchment ob-served during 1995 to 2008 is by andlarge been behind us,” say the research-ers.

In addition, China is expected toenter into a phase of “accelerated popu-lation ageing within a decade.” Thismeans that the workforce will decline,leading to a fall in overall income andtherefore savings. At the same time, in-frastructure spending is expected tocontinue, in order to provide for theageing population and the urbanisationof the country.

“Taken together, a key implicationfrom these medium-term forces is thatChina’s saving rate is likely to plateaubefore long and may ease off notice-ably from the current 53 percent or evenhigher levels over the next 10 years.

“The marked U-shaped experienceof China’s saving rate over the past 25years also suggests that the prospectiveChinese saving rate can fall meaning-fully in the years ahead.”

Entertainment InternationalMonday, August 9, 201012

“It’s so appropriate this is outsideof a pub,” Thompson said as she re-ceived her award before a crowd ofwellwishers on Hollywood Boule-vard.

Laurie, who dated Thompsonwhen the pair were at CambridgeUniversity, said his friend’s talenthad been obvious even during theirstudent days. “She was the mostobnoxiously talented person — andstill is — that I’ve ever come across,”Laurie said. “Everything she did justoozed talent.”

“She said talented things, shewore talented clothes, she rode a tal-ented bicycle, she made talented

Agence France Presse

LONDON - British pop star Robbie Williams will marry his USactress girlfriend this weekend on an island off the California coast, anewspaper said Friday. The singer, 36 — who recently rejoined Brit-ish band Take That — is to tie the knot with Ayda Field, 31, in anintimate ceremony on Saturday, Britain’s Sun newspaper said.

The couple had kept the wedding a close secret and only told fam-ily and friends last week, said the report. The ceremony will takeplace on the island of Santa Catalina, 20 miles (32 kilometres) offLos Angeles.

In 1995, Williams parted company with Take That, a boy bandwhich dominated the British pop scene in the 1990s, and had a stringof romances with fellow pop stars and Hollywood actresses as hepursued a successful solo career.

But the pop star has calmed down since meeting Field in 2006, andhe popped the question to her last November live on an Australianradio show.

Wedding guests have been told to assemble early Saturday at asmall port and will then be ferried to the island, said the Sun. A sourcetold the paper: “They have tried to keep the guest list for the weddingas small as possible and have revealed only scant detail of the cer-emony to the lucky few who are invited.”

The news comes just weeks after it emerged that Williams wasrejoining Take That and that the band had been secretly recording anew album to be released in November.

Associated Press Writer

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Re-spected character actor SteveBuscemi says it’s only in his “wild-est” dreams that he saw himself as aleading man.

But that’s just what Buscemi(boo-SEH’mee) is in the new HBOseries “Boardwalk Empire,” set inProhibition-era Atlantic City, N.J.Buscemi stars as a politician maneu-vering his way through 1920s cor-ruption, violence and romance.

At a meeting Saturday of theTelevision Critics Association,Buscemi recalled thinking he was

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Doctors wantto keep Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalizeduntil at least Monday, after the 93-year-old actress went into shock dur-ing her recovery from a broken hip.

Gabor’s publicist JohnBlanchette said Saturday thatGabor had a bad reaction to mor-phine, but her condition has im-proved since she was switched to adifferent pain medication.Blanchette calls Gabor “a fighter.”

Gabor broke her hip July 17 asshe was lifting herself from bed intoa wheelchair that tipped over. TheHungarian-born actress’ conditionbegan to deteriorate after hip-re-placement surgery days later.

Gabor’s husband Prince Fredericvon Anhalt says Gabor appears de-pressed. He hopes the return homewill restore her spirit.

Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalizeduntil at least Monday

REUTERS/Fred Prouser/files

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor remainedin serious condition over the week-end at a Los Angeles hospital af-ter a car crash last week, accord-ing to reports December 2, 2002.

Robbie Williams to marry USactress this weekend: report

AFP PHOTO/BERTRAND GUAY

(FILES) This picture taken on June 22, 2003 shows British singerRobbie Williams performing in concert at Olympia in Paris in aworld tour to present his album”Escapology”.

Actor Steve Buscemi speaksabout his upcoming series

‘Boardwalk Empire’ at the HBOSummer press tour panel in

Beverly Hills, Calif. on Saturday,Aug. 7, 2010.

‘Boardwalk’ lead role is Buscemi’s dream come trueglad he’d read the excellent scriptbecause he would have been un-happy to lose the role.

“Boardwalk Empire,” starringBuscemi and Scottish actress KellyMacdonald, debuts Sept. 19 on HBOwith an episode directed by MartinScorsese, who’s an executive pro-ducer for the series.

AP Photo/Dan Steinberg

AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK

Emma Thompson honoredEmma Thompson honoredEmma Thompson honoredEmma Thompson honoredEmma Thompson honoredon Hollywood ‘Walk of Fame’on Hollywood ‘Walk of Fame’on Hollywood ‘Walk of Fame’on Hollywood ‘Walk of Fame’on Hollywood ‘Walk of Fame’Agence Farnce Presse

LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning British actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson was the toast of Tinseltownon Friday, receiving the 2,416th star on Hollywood’s “Walk of Fame” — outside an English-themed pub. Thomp-son, 51, was honored at a ceremony in front of the Pig ‘n’ Whistle attended by fellow actors Hugh Laurie of“House” fame and Maggie Gyllenhaal, her co-star in “Nanny McPhee Returns,” to be released later this month.

ActressEmma

Thompson(C) poses

with actressMaggie

Gyllenhaal (L)and Hugh

Laurie at herstar on theHollywood

Walk of Fameduring the

star presenta-tion cer-

emony infront of the

historic Pig ‘nWhistle

British Pub,August 6,

2010 in theHollywoodsection of

Los Angeles.

spaghetti. She is a truly remarkableperson, a very good friend, and Icould not be prouder.” Gyllenhaalmeanwhile gave a heartfelt tribute toThompson’s generosity.

“I’ve never seen Emma when shehasn’t given me a present and apresent for my daughter,” Gyllenhaalsaid. “She knows the name of everysingle person on the crew and theirchildren and their wives’ names.”

Thompson, the only person to winAcademy Awards for acting andwriting following her Oscars for“Howards End” and “Sense and Sen-sibility,” dedicated her star to her latefather, the actor, writer and director

Eric Thompson. “He was a wonder-ful man and a great inspiration tome,” Thompson said. “He inspiredme to write for children withoutwriting for children.”

Thompson said she recalled herfather taking her to visit the Walkof Fame during the 1970s while hewas in Los Angeles to direct a stageproduction.

“We looked at all the stars and Iremember being really fascinated bythis, thinking, ‘What a lovely thingto do, put people’s names in thepavement where everyone walksabout all the time,’” Thompson said.“I was thrilled by that.”

International Monday, August 9, 2010 13Life Style

However, the University of BritishColumbia evolutionary geneticistwarned, the evolutionary jump carriesa deadly price tag: a high mortality rate.

In their research, scientists fromCanada and Europe removed marinestickleback fish from the ocean, putthem into ponds with gradually drop-ping temperatures, and studied themfor three years.

Over three generations, one peryear, the fish evolved to survive wa-ter 2.5 degrees Celsius below the limitfor their great grandparents, said thestudy released online and to be pub-lished in the September 7 issue of the

Agence France Presse

SINGAPORE - Five-year-oldSingaporean Timothy Lee has yetto enter primary school, but evenbefore his formal schooling beginshe is already attending classes sixdays a week. From Monday to Fri-day he goes to a normal kindergar-ten, but on Saturdays he takes spe-cial classes on phonics and abacuswith four other children at an “en-richment centre” to gain a founda-tion in reading and mathematics.

“Learning abacus is good forbrain development and helps himin addition and subtraction so thathe can get the answer faster,” saidhis mother Lynn, who works as anoffice administrator. Timothydoesn’t mind because everyoneelse does it.

“I don’t feel tired. I get to meetmy friends and we sometimes playgames in class,” he said. In a high-pressure education system whereraw test results matter more thananything else, parents are sparingno costs to arm their children forfuture competition and ensure theyqualify for the top two local uni-

Anxious parents fuelSingapore tutor boom

versities.While schooling is virtually free

at government schools where allSingaporean children go — inter-national schools are restricted toforeigners, with few exceptions —private tutors can cost parents hun-dreds of dollars per month.

They, in turn, put pressure ontheir children to do well in primaryand secondary school exams, cre-ating a spiral of expectations andpressure.

“It becomes more and more dif-ficult every year because childrenare getting better prepared for pri-mary school by their parents, andthe teachers and schools upgradetheir teachings with the greater ex-pectations,” said William Toh, oneof three founders of an educationweb portal.

Called KiasuParents.com — theword “kiasu” means overly com-petitive — it allows parents to com-pare notes on private learning cen-tres, with 21,000 members regis-tered since September 2007. Itclaims to get nearly two millionpage views every month from par-ents seeking the best tutors.

AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN

This photo taken on May 25, 2010 shows children attending theirpre-school class in Singapore. Five-year-old Singaporean TimothyLee has yet to enter primary school, but even before his formalschooling begins, he is already attending classes six days a week.

AFP PHOTO/GREENPEACE/NICK COBBING

Associated Press Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Apair of space station astronauts hadto hammer loose a stuck connectorduring an urgent spacewalk to re-store a crucial cooling system Sat-urday, then an ammonia leak eruptedand hampered the entire repair ef-fort.

Despite making one of the long-est spacewalks ever, DouglasWheelock and Tracy CaldwellDyson had to give up trying to re-move a broken ammonia pump andretreat inside.

Disappointed managers said twomore spacewalks now will be neededto replace the pump and get the In-ternational Space Station’s coolingsystem operating normally again.The original plan called for twospacewalks. Another spacewalk

AP Photo/NASA

In this image taken from video and made available by NASA astronautDoug Wheelock, foreground begins the first of two spacewalks to re-place a broken ammonia pump Saturday Aug. 7, 2010.

3rd spacewalk needed to restore cooling systemwon’t be attempted until Wednesdayat the earliest. Engineers huddled fol-lowing Saturday’s eight-hour, three-minute effort — the sixth longestspacewalk ever — to consider theiroptions.

“We will get through this prob-lem,” said space station program man-ager Mike Suffredini. “The challengeis to get through this problem beforethe next problem hits the other cool-ing system.”

The pump failure knocked out halfof the space station’s cooling systemlast weekend, leaving the orbiting labwith only one good cooling loop.Another breakdown could leave thestation in a precarious situation. Fromthe start, NASA described the repairwork as some of the most challeng-ing ever attempted at the 220-mile-high complex.

The latest trouble struck halfway

through Saturday’s spacewalk.Wheelock and Caldwell Dysoncould not get one of the four pres-surized ammonia hoses to come offthe disabled pump. “Wow. Thatthing is not budging,” Wheelocktold Mission Control.

A bit of ammonia coolant leakedout as the spacewalkers struggledwith the connections. Wheelocksaid the escaping ammonia re-sembled tiny snowflakes.

Lagging well behind by thispoint, the spacewalkers managed toremove three of the four hoses.Wheelock tried once more to dis-connect the balky line, banging thejammed button with a special tool.It worked. Mission Control eruptedin applause. “Awesome,” MissionControl radioed. But the exuber-ance was dampened by a stream ofescaping ammonia.

Climate change sparksClimate change sparksClimate change sparksClimate change sparksClimate change sparks‘quickest evolution ever’‘quickest evolution ever’‘quickest evolution ever’‘quickest evolution ever’‘quickest evolution ever’Agence France Presse

VANCOUVER, Canada – At least one fish species can adapt in just three generations to survive a sharpchange in temperature, researchers said in a study on the fastest rate of evolution ever recorded in wildanimals. “Our study is the first to experimentally show that certain species in the wild could adapt toclimate change very rapidly,” said Friday lead researcher Rowan Barrett.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B.The findings suggest at least some

animals may be able to change quicklyenough to survive predicted climatechange. Virtually all climate researchin peer-reviewed science journals pre-dicts global temperatures will gradu-ally rise by several degrees in comingdecades, accompanied by swings ofextreme cold and heat.

“But just because we’ve seen alarge evolutionary response, thatdoesn’t mean a natural population canadapt to climate change with no con-sequences,” Barrett told AFP Thurs-day. About 95 per cent of the fish popu-

lation died during the three-year study,with only five per cent developing atolerance for cold,” he said.

“The consequences of losing 95 percent might be catastrophic, because theremaining five per cent might not beable to sustain the population,” saidBarrett. He added: “We don’t know thegenetic basis of this trait.”

Barrett, who is moving to Harvardafter completing a PhD at UBC, saidmore research is needed to determinewhether such rapid evolution can oc-cur in other species and — mostcritically — to warming instead ofcooling.

This handoutphoto taken onJuly 12, 2009and released byGreenpeaceshows a sectionof thePetermannglacier. A giantpiece of ice,measuring 260sq km andthought to bethe biggestformation of itskind for 48years, hasbroken off fromthe PetermannGlacier, on thenorth-westcoast ofGreenland, onAugust 5, 2010.

Monday, August 9, 201014 InternationalSport

Todd Dunivant and LandonDonovan scored for the Galaxy,who are without a victory in sixof their last seven matches.Sergio Canales launched the playthat led to the deciding goal. Hisback-heel pass freed Higuain foran eight-yard shot that wasblocked by Galaxy goalkeeperJosh Saunders.

The long rebound fel l toAlonso, who fired inside the leftpost. The Galaxy had built a 2-0halftime lead before Higuainpulled Real Madrid level withtwo goals in the space of 10 min-utes.

In the 51st minute he redi-rected Cristiano Ronaldo’s crossfrom the left. In the 61st Higuaincollected a pass from FernandoGago and scored.

Higuain, who led Argentina

Alonso goal lifts Real 3-2 over GalaxyAlonso goal lifts Real 3-2 over GalaxyAlonso goal lifts Real 3-2 over GalaxyAlonso goal lifts Real 3-2 over GalaxyAlonso goal lifts Real 3-2 over Galaxy

Agence France Presse

LOS ANGELES - Englishmidfielder David Beckham said hehopes to return to the Los AngelesGalaxy in September even thoughdoctors have projected he wouldnot be healthy enough for a come-back until October.

The 35-year-old Major LeagueSoccer superstar suffered a torn leftAchilles’ tendon last March whileon loan to AC Milan in a Serie Amatch against Chievo.

Beckham told the Fox SoccerChannel on Saturday that he saw adoctor on Saturday and he wasgiven a prognosis for an Octoberreturn. “Two or three weeks beforethat,” Beckham said he told thedoctors. “It’s just about getting

Agence France Presse

LONDON - Blackburn goalkeeper PaulRobinson retired Sunday from internationalfootball despite being named in the Englandsquad to face Hungary at Wembley onWednesday.

The 30-year-old former Leeds andTottenham shot-stopper was included in FabioCapello’s squad named Saturday having beenleft out of the World Cup squad. Robinson,who will not be replaced in the squad forWednesday’s friendly game, now wants toconcentrate on club football.

“Only now have I been able to make thisdecision as previously I haven’t been in con-tention for selection,” he said. “I don’t seemyself as a number three or four keeper andfind that role very frustrating.”

Robinson added he believed it was “in thebest interest of myself and my club BlackburnRovers that I concentrate solely on my clubfootball.” He won 41 caps after making hisbow against Australia in 2003 and was num-ber one for the 2006 World Cup campaign.

But some high-profile mistakes saw himlose his way and his first-choice status asEngland missed out on qualification for Euro2008 under Steve McClaren.

Two errors saw him fluff a backpass fromGary Neville during a 2-0 defeat in Croatia,and he then palmed a long-range effort fromRoman Pavlyuchenko into the net in a 2-1 de-feat in Russia.

He joined Blackburn two years ago and ap-peared to have regained his best form, savingtwo penalties as the club reached the CarlingCup semi-finals by beating Chelsea in ashootout last season. But he missed the cutfor this summer’s World Cup as David James,Joe Hart and Robert Green were selectedahead of him.

AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON

Real Madrid forward Gonzalo Higuaín (C) beats LA Galaxy goalkeeper Josh Saunders duringtheir friendly at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on August 7, 2010. Real Madrid went onto win 3-2.

Agence France Presse

PASADENA - Xabi Alonso scored in the 72nd minute as RealMadrid rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles GalaxySaturday in a friendly football match that drew a crowd of 89,134at the Rose Bowl. Gonzalo Higuain added two goals for Real,who were unbeaten in their two-match tour of California.

with four goals during the WorldCup, finished Real Madrid’s tourwith three goals. Dunivant hadgiven the Galaxy a 1-0 lead in the40th minute.

Donovan converted a penalty inthe 45th to make it 2-0, afterRoyston Ricky Drenthe kickedGalaxy’s Juninho. From the spotDonovan beat Polish internationalkeeper Jerzy Dudek, who was re-placed for the second half by IkerCasillas, the captain of Spain’sWorld Cup championship team.

The Galaxy’s Clint Mathis,who said on Tuesday he was re-tiring, made his final professionalstart and played 27 minutes.

Mathis, who played 11 years inMajor League Soccer, earned 46caps for the United States, repre-senting his country at the 2002World Cup.

Beckham hopeful ofSeptember comeback

strength back in my calf.”At 12-3 with four drawn for 40

points, the Galaxy began the day withthe best record and highest point to-tal in the 16-team US league, whichdecides its champion in a Novemberplayoff.

The Galaxy play six of their finalseven matches on their home pitchin September and October, but ifBeckham can make an early recover,his debut could set up a showdownof superstars. Los Angeles will playhost to the New York Red Bulls,whose lineup now includes Frenchstar Thierry Henry, on September 24,and a Beckham return for that matchwould be a showcase event for MLS.The Red Bulls are 8-6 with threedrawn for 27 points, fourth-best inMLS.

David Beckhamof Los Angeles

Galaxy visitsReal Madrid

becnh beforethe start of their

pre-seasonfriendly soccer

match onAugust 7, 2010

at the RoseBowl in Pasa-

dena, California.

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Robinson retires fromEngland duty

(AFP/File/Greg Wood)

Blackburn Rovers goalkeeper Paul Robinson, seenin action against AEK Athens in Sydney on July 28,announced his retirement from international duty de-spite being named in the England squad to face Hun-gary at Wembley on Wednesday.

Monday, August 9, 2010 15International Sport

Radwanska, the fourth seed, de-feated Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova6-4, 6-2 to earn her first trip to a finalsince Beijing 10 months ago.Unseeded after falling to number 21in the world, Kuznetsova displayedher powerful forehand and capitalizedon Pennetta’s unprepossessing servicegame to win nine of the last 10 games.

“It’s good that I make it to a final,but it’s not enough,” Kuznetsova said.“Even winning a trophy is not enoughbut it’s one step forward.” Kuznetsovawon three times in 2009 to take hercareer total of titles to 12, but it hasbeen a battle for her in 2010.

Prior to San Diego, Kuznetsovahad reached only one quarter-final thisyear and she fell out of the top 20 forthe first time since February 2004.

“I lost my game,” she said. “It tooksome time to sort things out. I want tobe back and be strong. I don’t want tobe back and be number 12 or 15, that’snot my goal. I want to be higher and Ibelieve I can do it.” Kuznetsova’s vic-

Associated Press Writer

AKRON, Ohio – Tiger Woods logged an-other miserable round and then all but con-ceded the No. 1 spot in the world to PhilMickelson. In the third round of theBridgestone Invitational on Saturday, Woodshad five bogeys, a double-bogey and two bird-ies in a 5-over 75. He is 11 over — his worstscore in relation to par through 54 holes sinceturning professional in 1996.

Woods, whose personal life has been in tat-ters since revelations of infidelity last Novem-ber, has been the No. 1-ranked golfer in theworld for more than five years. But Mickelsoncan overtake him with a high finish — some-thing that Woods fully expects.

“Well, if Phil plays the way he’s supposedto this weekend, then he’ll be No. 1,” Woodssaid after completing third-round play atFirestone Country Club. Mickelson shot a 71to fall into a tie for 10th. He needs to finish atleast in fourth place alone to become No. 1.

A week before the PGA Championship andwith six weeks left to the Ryder Cup, Woods’game is in shambles. He actually drove theball slightly better on Saturday, hitting halfof the 14 fairways, but showed no consis-tency.

He was 1 over through six holes, but thenjerked an iron far to the left of the green andinto a large bunker next to the par-3 seventh.“Great swing!” he yelled at himself on the tee.

Woods then blasted out of the sand to 25feet above the hole and missed the par putt.On the eighth hole, he hit his drive into theright rough, advanced it further along in thehigh grass to the right, and then flubbed a chip

Agence France Presse

AKRON, Ohio - LeBron James thankedhis fans in Cleveland for their support on Sat-urday at a charity cycling event in his home-town, his first area visit since dumping theNBA Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat.Hundreds of people attended the two-timeNBA Most Valauble Player’s “King for Kids”celebration, which came a week after Jameswas criticized for a newspaper ad thankingAkron backers but not mentioning fans inCleveland.

“To the city of Cleveland, my fans in Cleve-land, my fans in northeast Ohio, I want to saythank you for the last seven years and the yearsthat continue to go in the future,” James said.

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Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia hits a forehand to Flavia Pennetta of Italy during their semifinalmatch in the Mercury Insurance Open at La Costa Resort and Spa on August 7, 2010 in Carlsbad,California. Kuznetsova won 6-4, 6-0 to advance to the final.

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CARLSBAD - Two-time Grand Slam champion SvetlanaKuznetsova beat fifth-seeded Flavia Pennetta 6-4, 6-0 Saturdayto reach the final of the 700,000-dollar San Diego Open final.The Russian will be playing in her first WTA final since a vic-tory in Beijing last October, and she’ll face the same opponentas she did then: Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska.

tory over Pennetta is projected to moveher back into the top 20.

The tight first set stayed on serveuntil the two traded breaks in the eighthand ninth games, Kuznetsova takinga 5-4 lead. Kuznetsova then brokePennetta in the final game as the Ital-ian hit a backhand long.

Pennetta’s serve deteriorated fur-ther in the send set and Kuznetsovatook full advantage. “It’s not my fa-vorite shot, of course,” said Pennetta,who had beaten French Open runner-up Samantha Stosur in the quarter-fi-nals.

“But when I am a little bit nervousand know I have to play really wellwith the serve, I start to get nervousand can’t get one in.” Radwanska,ranked 10th in the world, got the onlybreak of the first set in the seventhgame as Hantuchova double-faulted.

Hantuchova saved seven matchpoints in the seventh game of the sec-ond set before Radwanska was ableto put her away in the next game.

Miami Heat

basketball player

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his ride during

the LeBron

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Foundation, King

for Kids Bike-a-

thon, in Akron,

Ohio, Saturday,

Aug. 7, 2010.

‘King James’ thanksCleveland fans in homecoming

James signed a free agent deal with Miamilast month, joining pals Dwyane Wade andChris Bosh but leaving behind the Cavaliersfans who had adored him for years and hopedin vain he would bring the city a first NBAcrown.

Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert vowed histeam would win an NBA title before Jamesdoes and Cleveland baseball fans threw beerand peanuts at a man who wore a Heat jerseywith James’ name on it to a Cleveland Indiansgame, heckling him so bad police had to es-cort him away.

James cycled a mile with about 400 chil-dren and praised his hometown of Akron. “I’mable to give back to the city that I grew up in,the city that I love,” he said.

(AP Photo/Phil Long)

(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Tiger Woods adjusts his shirt afterfinishing the 18th hole during thethird round of the Bridgestone Invi-tational golf tournament at FirestoneCountry Club, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010,in Akron, Ohio. Woods is 11-over parafter three round.

Woods strugglesagain with 75

shot that came up short of the green. He hur-ried to the ball and quickly hit another chipthat ran 6 feet past the hole, then missed thatputt, settling for a double-bogey.

“Well, I drove it terrible, hit my irons ter-rible, didn’t putt well, and it added up to a lot,”Woods said later. The 75 was his worst third-round score in relation to par since the 2002British Open, where he shot 81.

Monday, August 9, 201016 SportI N T E R N A T I O N A L

Alonso has vaulted himself firmlyback into contention for the covetedcrown over the last two grands prixat Hockenheim and the Hungaroring,being controversially ‘gifted’ victoryin Germany by Ferrari team-mateFelipe Massa – earning the Scuderiaa date with the FIA World MotorSport Council (WMSC) in Parisearly next month for having trans-gressed the sport’s ban on team or-ders [see separate story – click here]– and then artfully staving off a de-termined challenge from SebastianVettel in a palpably faster Red Bullin Hungary last weekend.

Whilst he is still only fifth in thestandings behind Red Bull Racingduo Vettel and Webber andMcLaren-Mercedes compatriotsLewis Hamilton and Jenson Button,the Spaniard has closed to withinjust 20 points of the championshiplead, when at one stage he had lan-guished some 47 markers adrift ofthe top spot – and despite RBR’sfearsome Budapest pace, he is ada-mant that with 175 points still re-maining to play for between nowand season’s end and a resurgent

AS his rehabilitation from the leginjuries he suffered in a horrendousaccident at Sachsering last month con-tinues apace, Randy de Puniet has con-firmed that he is fully set on rejoiningthe MotoGP grid with LCR Honda inthe next outing at Brno.

Just 18 days on from the crash thatleft him with a fractured left tibia andfibula, the Frenchman is pressingahead with an intensive physical recu-peration programme, having under-gone an initial two-hour operation onthe Sunday night after the German GPto insert a titanium rod in his leg. Andhis goal is clear – to be back in actionagain in the Czech Republic nextweekend.

“[Laguna Seca was] the first GP Iwatched on TV since my debut,” the 29-year-old confessed. “It was a bit hard forme, but in the meantime it was good forme to take some rest. A couple of days af-ter the surgery I left the German hospital tobegin Hyperbaric Chamber sessions inSaint Marguerite Hospital in Marseilleunder the supervision of Dr. MathieuCoulange and his team. This machine in-creases both the pressure and oxygen lev-els, to help repair the tissues of the body ata faster rate.

“Then I moved to Cannes to pur-sue my re-education. I [underwent] ul-

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LCR Honda star Randy de Puniet continues his recovery

de Puniet ‘surprising’ doctors, eyeing Brno returntrasound sessions to strengthen mybones a little more. Last Monday, Imoved back home to Andorra, pursu-ing the ultrasound sessions with a do-mestic machine and I finally started todo some sports. Every day I go to thegym for cycling, and I am training thetop of my body with rubber bands andexercises.

“The doctors are always surprisedby the speed with which I am recover-ing, and I have to admit that I am assurprised as they are! I am using my

crutches less-and-less. I still hope tobe back for next Grand Prix, howeverthe final decision will be made at Brnonext Thursday when the circuit doc-tor together with Dr. Costa will exam-ine my leg and my overall physicalcondition.”

Prior to his German fall, de Puniethad been in a rich vein of form andlying fifth in the 2010 premier classriders’ standings. He has since slippedto eighth during his absence from thefray.

AFP PHOTO / HO / ERCOLE COLOMBO

This handout image released on August 7, 2010 shows Spanish Formula One driver FernandoAlonso with author of the book Ettore Colombo during the presentation of the book “ 20thWrooom” in Madonna di Campiglio.

Alonso: Key is to stay cool,not try to ‘win at all costs’

Double world champion Fernando Alonso has asserted thatthe ability to remain ‘cool’ and ‘calm’ and not be pressurisedinto trying to ‘win at all costs’ will ultimately decide the destinyof the F1 2010 title laurels – as he opined that consistent podiumfinishes should be enough to finish the job.]\

Ferrari defiantly back on-form, thebattle for glory is wide open.

“We have to be happy with whatwe have done to-date,” mused the 23-time grand prix-winner as he preparesfor the resumption of hostilities at theend of the month. “We have had somegood races and some disappointingraces as well, but overall we are in aposition in the championship nowwhere we are very close to the lead-ers. We are in a position where weare able to take the lead of the cham-pionship if we win one race. We arethere and we are still in the fight,which is the most important thing.

“It’s true that some races havegone better than others, just as therewere some lucky breaks and timeswhen bad luck seemed to follow usaround, but I believe these thingstend to balance out. Over the last tworaces, we have considerably reducedthe gap to the championship leader.There are five of us all within 20points, so it’s as if we are startingfrom square one; from now to theend of the championship, we canexpect seven finals and anything canhappen.