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Monday, November 2, 2009 A worker is passing bay in the alley filled with fruits and vegetables sellers in Badung market.

The traditional market in Denpasar is one of the area that being developed in the city tour program but the lack of fund made the program not working properly.

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Judge orders 3 to trial in Anna Nicole drug case PAGE 12

Dog infected with rabies found in Gianyar Tenth of dogs eliminated Gianyar (Bali Post)-

A dog had been tested positively suffered from rabies in Gianyar. The test was conducted on the dogs which were suspected to suffer from the disease.

The government acted promptly and eliminated tenth of dogs in the area.

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Dewa Gede Putra Amerta, the head of Gianyar Animal Department, said that the infected dog was found in Blahbatuh district in Gianyar. The case was found on Friday, October 30th 2009 and it already being handled by the department.

Approximately, 30 dogs were eliminated in the area where the positive rabies case was found. The dog which was positive from suffering rabies owned by IB Mahardika and was brought from Tabanan. There is great possibility that the dog was infected in Tabanan While in Sukawati, three people were bitten by dogs. The victims were Mrs. Reki, Santo, and Rumi had been rushed to the hospital. The dogs bite them also had been captured and currently being examined in the lab.

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Denpasar - Some 18 monkey handlers have been recruited to prevent monkeys in the “Monkey Forest” in Ubud, Gianyar district, Bali, from interfering in the shooting of certain episodes of the “Eat, Pray, Love” film starring Julia Roberts.

“We don’t have any confirma-

tion about the schedule of the film shooting activity here but preparations have been made, such as assignment of security personnel and monkey handlers so that the shooting can be conducted safely,” Made Dana, a community figure of Padang Tegal village, Ubud, said here on Saturday.

He said it had been agreed with

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Hundreds of dogs were given vaccines on Sunday, October 1st 2009.

the film producer that the Monkey Forest which is one of Ubud’s tourist attractions would not be closed during the film shootings.

“But it all depends on further developments, If it is not possible to keep the forest open to the public, then perhaps there will be a temporary closure,” he said.

If the forest had to be closed tem-

porarily, the forest’s caretakers would make a prior announcement to be understood by all parties, he said. In addition, local indigenous parties were also prepared to conduct a small ceremony at Pura Dalem Agung in Padang Tegal area so that all the film shootings can run smoothly.

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Monday, November 2, 2009

Bali News Bali Still Has 402.523 Illiterates Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Based on statistical data 2008, the number of illiterates in Bali remained around 302,523 from 15 years old to old age. Meanwhile, the data owned by Bali Educational and Sport Services (Disdikpora) showed that in 2006 that illiterate of productive ages (15-44) was recorded 76,006. Thus was stated by the Head of Disdikpora of Bali, I Wayan Suasta, accompanied by Section Head of Non-formal and Informal Education (PNFI), Gusti Made Jelantik, last Friday (Oct 30).

He said that it needed motivation from all components in order the learner had high interest to learn. By doing so, the program of illiteracy eradication could run as expected.

According to him, the illiteracy eradication today was performed in cooperation with existing PKBM. Every 10 learners were provided with a tutor. Eradication of basic illiteracy in 2009 got fund allocation from central government (National Budget) for 25,000 illiterates. Meanwhile, the program for eradication of independent illiteracy targeted 1,500 participants of which fund originated in National Budget and a number of 3,777 participants got a fund originating in Bali Regional Budget.

Those who previously once attended basic level of literacy, later on would

be involved in independent literacy program leading to vocational skill added with the learning of reading, writing and calculating. “By doing so, their memory on reading, writing and calculating would become permanent,” he said.

This eradication of illiteracy was committed with PKBM, involving tutors, namely an academic tutor and skill tutor. They were from teachers of senior high school and graduates of Open University of Indonesia.

Within a week, it organizes two meetings. Every meeting lasts for two hours. “The program of basic illiteracy eradication take place for 6 months, while independent literacy took place for three months,” he said while mentioning the committing their svadharma (own task), tutors got enough salary. (08)

Bung Tomo Frisked

Teens of Prostitutes Arrested Denpasar (Bali Post)— Though the apparatus of West Denpasar Sector Police has frequently inspected the Bung Tomo complex, Jalan Bung Tomo, Denpasar, teens of prostitutes remained to operate at location. Seemingly, their existence made local residents restless and reported the condition to police station.

Led in person by Chief Agus Nugroho, the Bung Tomo complex was frisked, last Friday (Oct 29) night. A number of 20 personnel of Criminal Researcher, Traffic Patrol and Preparedness Service were assigned to commit the frisking. As a result, 13 prostitutes of old face could be arrested.

According to Chief Agus Nugroho, the frisking was performed in relation to the existence of Justiciary Operation. Similarly, it was also meant to respond the report of community where they felt restless due to the existence of Bung Tomo complex. “We started the operation from 10 p.m.,” said former Deputy Chief of Traffic Services of Denpasar Metro Police, last Friday (Oct 30).

Such frisking process ran flourishingly.

Prior to entering the area of complex, police officer has encircled from every corner. Several officers entered and performed the attack toward the hawkers of raw flesh.

As soon as they knew the coming of police officers, without mature thinking, they ran away.

Nevertheless, they could not escape because police officers have guarded every corner of the area and 13 prostitutes were arrested without resistance. The thirteen prostitutes were Sug (29) from Madura, Wat (30) from Jember, Mar (42) from Bondowoso, Niw (32) from Bondowoso, San (30) from Lombok and Sri (38) from Lombok.

More than that, other prostitutes arrested by police were Mil (27) from Pasuruan, Sum (46) from Banyuwangi, Sit (51) from Pamekasan, Dep (30) from Banyuwangi, Mus (41) from East Java, Ida (29) from East Java, and Sumi (46) from East Java, too. “We have carried out the probe. Having completed the preparation of the probe document, we will hand over the case to Denpasar Court,” he said. (kmb21)

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In order to anticipate the spread of bird flu, the officers from Denpasar Animal Department, give free cages to the seller in Payuk Market on Friday, October 30th 2009.

Dutch Investor Had Building Permit Gumang Hill Act as Reserve Area Amlapura (Bali Post)— The nature of Karangasem truly becomes “a game” of the officials in such lava land. Just imagine, forest area mentioned in regional legislation functioning as reserve area could be used for villa building. Even, the villa has obtained a building permit and issued by related institution in Karangasem.

The latest example is the development of Villa Candidasa on the west slope of Gumang Hill, Karangasem. Such two-floored villa in fact has had building permit (IMB). Whereas, Gumang Hill, including its slopes, belongs to reserve area pursuant to Regional Legislation on Detailed Plan of Spatial Layout No.8/2003 and Regional Legislation on Regional Spatial Layout Plan No.11/2000.

Those facts were pursuant to the findings of team of Karangasem Agency for Regional Development (Bappeda) making site inspection to Villa Candidasa on the west slope of Gumang Hill, Samuh Hamlet, Bugbug, Karangasem. Division Head of Spatial Arrangement and Regional Infrastructure, Ketut Sedana Merta led the team. The villa owned by Dutch investor, Hans van Hamer, has had building permit (IMB) NO.90/2008 dated September 15, 2008 under the name of submitter I Wayan Gunarsa, a resident of Samuh Hamlet. The Head of Public Works Services, I Wayan Arnawa, signed the permit. At that time, IMB was issued by Public Works Services, not handled by Integrated Permit Services (KP2T). “I was surprised when one of the workers presented its laminated IMB,” said one of the team members.

He admitted to be surprised because after rechecking in both Regional Legislations, in fact, it belonged to the area with reserve function. The map of spatial layout, denoting attachment or integral unity that was inseparable from the Regional Leg-

islation on Detailed Plan of Spatial Layout of Candidasa tourist resort, included the slopes of Gumang Hill. The map also mentioned that Gumang Hill posed an area functioning as a reserve. “But, how could investor obtain such building permit? It is our big question,” said one of the team members in surprise.

The team also stated that in the building permit was mentioned that the location was categorized into barren land, not functioning as reserve area. Actually, the area functioning as reserve was defined as an area or territory functioning as reserve in both regional legislations and not only forest but area protecting other areas, both as maintainer of nature scape or mountainous or hill ranges that should be conserved. Functioning as reserve can also be interpreted that the area could not undergo any transfer of function, moreover into location of physical building like house or hotel. Functioning as reserve could be also meant to protect the lower area as water absorption or to protect against landslide.

Head of Bappeda Karangasem, I Wayan Artha Dipa, contacted via phone in Jakarta also felt surprised that investor of Villa Candidasa has had building permit. He confessed to have not known how the process of issuing such permit was. Additionally, he stated that he never gave any recommendation. Similarly, he was never involved and asked about any consideration both in written and oral related to the issuance of building permit.

Public Relations and Protocol Officer of Karangasem Government, I Nyoman Suarjana, also made site inspection to the villa on last Friday. He was assigned to prepare some documentation.

Suarjana once met I Wayan Gunarsa. At that time, Gunarsa said that the 0.6 hectare of land where the villa was established belonged to the property of Bugbubg Village. (013)

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Impact of Climate Change on Bali

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Tourists Reluctant to Bask

Jembrana Rest Area Used for Indecent Activities

Bali just hosted the 31st meeting of International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Nusa Dua closed on last Thursday (Oct 29). The meeting inaugurated by Director of IPCC, Mr. Rajendra Pachauri, has yielded the fifth Assessment Report becoming reference for the upcoming meeting of UNFCCC in Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2009. What is implication of the meeting on Bali?

IMPORTANT issue resounding again in the 31st IPCC was the global warming driving the melting of ice in polar area. Of course, its implication is the rise of seawater’s surface so that there would be a part of land vanishing. Even, many tiny islands in the world, including in Indonesia, have sunk. Director of Wisnu Foundation, I Made Suarnatha, reminded that tiny islands in the world, including Bali are vulnerable to sink as the impact of climate change. This warning was exposed in a seminar entitled “Adaptation toward Climate Change on the Islands and Coastal Territory” held in Sanur coincided with the 31st IPCC in Nusa Dua. Quoting the Report of Climate Change Convention (UNFCC) 2005, the rise of sea surface of one meter will cause Maldives sink. In Grenada, the rice of 50 cm will sink 60 percent of its beaches. Similarly, small islands in Indonesia are under threat of sinking. “In Bali, Nusa Penida is predicted to sink,” said Suarnatha.

Has Been Perceived Before such disaster ensue, the impact of global warming and climate change has been perceived in Bali. Climate and season turned uncertain. Few days go, for instance, heavy rain and flood occurred in Gianyar and Jemberana. However, at the same time, extreme heat grilled southern Bali, especially Jimbaran, Pecatu and Nusa Dua. Condition of uncertain season definitely disturbed the planting pattern of farmers, chiefly farmers of cistern rice field, vegetable and crops. Insufficient water supply can cause their plants get sufferings before harvest season arrives. It excludes other impact of climate change bringing insects to farmers’ plant.

In tourism sector, tourists usually basking at Kuta Beach could not help being stifling hot of the sun. A number of foreign tourists met separately (Michael Lois from Australia and Jeans from Canada) admitted that matter. They could not help feeling the heat of beach sand spreading along 12 km turning hot as well.

Division Head of Data and Information of Meteorology, Geophysical and Climatologic Agency (BMKG) of Regional III Denpasar, Endro Cahyono, revealed that the rise of temperature in Bali actually has occurred since the midst of October 2009. The current temperature of Bali reached optimum heat of 33-34oCelcius.

Hendro said the rise of temperature in Bali was caused by position of the sun that was right over Bali Island, right 10o Southern Latitude.

He predicted the hot temperature exceeding that of regular days would last up to November together with other part of Bali entering the transitional season.

In different occasion, Yos WK Amertha from the Indonesia Association of Marine Tourism Entrepreneur (Gahawisri) confessed the scraping of beach and rise of seawater became a serious threat to marine tourism business. Moreover, the damage of coral reef was followed by extinction of a number of marine biota—becoming mainstay of marine tourism.

On the other hand, pursuant to the project of Ministry of Environmental Affairs, deficit of water in Bali has occurred since 1995, namely 1.5 billion m3 per year. Such deficit increased to 7.5 billion m3 per year in 2000. Afterward, it was estimated that in 2015, deficit of water in Bali would become 27.6 billion m3 per year. By observing several impacts of such climate change, there was no other choice but paying attention to the appeal of the 31st IPCC in Nusa Dua. Government, industrial community and community should unite to slow down the rate of global warming. It could be committed by maintaining forest, planting trees, saving water, reducing the use of inorganic substances and others. (gre)

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Negara (Bali Post)—

One of the assets of Bali Province in Jemberana is the rest area located at Rambut Siwi, Mendoyo.

Up to now, it is left unmanaged. Condition of building has been damaged and rarely passed through by vehicles. On that account, it is ideal to be used for filthy activities.

Based on observation of Bali Post, a number of buildings looked damaged and filled with the shits of fruit bats. People that originally would like to harness the place for unwinding in their long journey became reluctant to stop there. In the past time, it was once used as art market and restaurant, but they could not last longer as the location was tranquil and facing the attack of fruit bats.

Minimal lighting and silent situation made people reluctant to pass through the area. One of Mendoyo residents, Wayan Sukadi, frequently looking for grass around the area admitted that he often saw filthy scenes at such rest area. Even, personnel of civil servant (PNS) repeatedly engaged and alleged to commit filthy scenes at that rest area.

According to confession of Sukadi, his party did not know the identity of those people. However, when committing the filthy deed they still worn their uniform. The girl rode a motorbike, while the man drove black

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The rest area in Rambut Siwi is often being used as a place to conduct improper activities.

Avanza vehicle.

He admitted to have informed the immoral incident to village apparatus.

However, it did not give any responses and follow up on for that matter.

At noon, fingers could count the

number of couples engaging at location. However, at night, particularly on Saturday night, it would be more crowded, chiefly those of youngsters.

Residents around the rest area also gave similar comments. (sur)

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‘I hate whale meat,’ Japan’s PM confides Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japan’s Yukio Hatoyama has revealed he dislikes whale meat, a newspaper reported Saturday, in an unusual confession for the prime minister of a country that defies Western criticism of whaling.

“I hate whale meat,” Hatoyama said during a meeting with his visiting Dutch counterpart Jan Peter Balkenende on Monday at the prime minister’s office, the Sankei Shimbun reported.

The Netherlands is one of several anti-whaling countries that allows the radical environmental group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to AFP PHOTO/POOL/DAI KUROKAWA register a vessel in the country.

The group’s activists have re- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. peatedly harassed Japanese whaling vessels in Antarctic waters.

During the last hunt a Sea Shepherd vessel collided with a whaling ship, sparking allegations that the group was behaving irresponsibly.

Despite Hatoyama’s reported dislike of whale meat, however, he urged Balkenende to take action against the group over its attacks on Japanese whalers in the Antarctic, government officials said.

Japan hunts whales by using a loophole in the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling that allows “lethal research” on the creatures, but makes no secret of the fact that the meat often ends up on dining tables.

Tokyo often accuses Western critics of insensitivity toward its culture and heritage. Hatoyama’s centre-left government, which took office in October, has deviated little from the pro-whaling policies adopted by the previous administration, which had traditionally close ties with farmers and fishermen.

Berlusconi to stand trial, vows to cling to power Agence France-Presse

MILAN - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will stand trial on corruption charges, authorities said Saturday, as the premier defiantly insisted he would not step down even if found guilty.

A trial date was set of November 27 for the corruption trial, judicial sources said, following a top court’s decision earlier this month to strip Berlusconi of his immunity from prosecution.

But the scandal-plagued premier, whose political career has been marked by repeated battles with the law, said a conviction would only toughen his resolve to cling to office, in comments published Saturday.

“I still have confidence in the existence of serious magistrates who issue serious sentences, based on facts,” Berlusconi said, according to extracts of interviews he gave to journalist Bruno Vespa for a book.

“If there is a conviction at trial, we would be confronted with such a subversion of the truth that I would all the more feel the duty to resist (and stay) at my post to defend democracy and rule of law,” he said.

“We will go to court and we will win,” added Piero Longo, one of Berlusconi’s lawyers.

His corruption trial was sus-

pended last year after Italy’s parliament passed legislation giving the premier immunity.

But the Constitutional Court struck down the law on October 7, paving the way for legal cases against the 73-year-old premier to start up again. After the ruling, Berlusconi lamented he was “the person the most persecuted by the judiciary of all times, in all history.”

In the corruption case, Berlusconi is accused of paying his British former tax lawyer, David Mills, 600,000 dollars (400,000 euros) to give false evidence in two trials in the 1990s.

Mills, who was tried separately, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail over the case in February. The estranged husband of British Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell, Mills once admitted receiving the money from Berlusconi but said it had been “in recognition” for his work.

He later withdrew the statement and said the money was paid to him

by Italian shipbuilder Diego Attanasio. Berlusconi is also facing another, less high-profile court case which is due to start on November 16.

It involves allegations that his television empire Mediaset overcharged for television broadcasting rights, which prosecutors say led to a loss of revenue for Italian tax authorities.

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India marks 25 years since Indira Gandhi assassination Agence France-Presse

NEW DELHI - India paid tribute to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on Saturday, the 25th anniversary of her assassination, with politicians and ordinary citizens marking the occasion.

Premier Manmohan Singh and Gandhi’s daughter-in-law Sonia, leader of the ruling Congress party, who cradled Indira in her arms as she was dying, were among those who marked the occasion at memorial sites around New Delhi.

Indira Gandhi’s “contribution to nation building and national integration is unparalleled,” said Singh in a speech.

Sonia Gandhi’s son Rahul, a key force in the Congress party and a man touted as a potential prime minister, solemnly sprinkled flower petals on a monument dedicated to his grandmother, where multi-faith prayers also took place.

Visitors queued up to visit Indira Gandhi’s sprawling white bungalow residence, which was turned into a museum after the leader, known as India’s “Iron Lady,” was gunned down by her Sikh bodyguards in 1984.

“In our country there is no one like her,” one man told the CNNIBN network.

“She worked so hard but had to suffer,” said another visitor.

Congress asked members to observe two minutes’ silence to mark the death of Indira Gandhi, one member of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty that has dominated Indian politics for much of the time since India gained its independence in 1947.

Deadly anti-Sikh riots followed Gandhi’s assassination, which was carried out in revenge for her decision to send the army in to evict Sikh separatists from the religion’s holiest site, the Golden Temple, in Punjab. The state was racked by a violent insurgency at the time.

Indira’s son Rajiv Gandhi, who was himself slain by a Tamil Tiger bomber in 1991, was widely criticised for seeming to downplay the violence when he said: “There are always tremors when a great tree

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President of the All India Congress Party and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi (C) with her son and All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi (L) pay homage to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 25th death anniversary at her memorial in New Delhi on October 31, 2009.

falls.”

Only a handful of police officials have been punished and none of the Congress leaders accused of inciting the mobs has been successfully prosecuted.

Newspapers carried advertisements and ran retrospectives recalling Gandhi, India’s only female prime minister, who spent more than 15 years in office.

“A grateful nation will never forget your sacrifice,” declared an ad placed by the petroleum ministry, one of several government departments that funded notices

honouring Gandhi.

The Times of India ran an ad placed by Congress, quoting Gandhi as she spoke of her own demise.

“If I die a violent death as some fear and a few are plotting, I know the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassin, not in my dying,” she said.

“No hate is dark enough to overshadow the extent of my love for my people and my country.”

Editorials debated Gandhi’s tenure, with most contrasting her authoritarian tendencies with her role as a respected stateswoman.

Bolivian Catholics asked to forget human skulls Agence France-Presse

LA PAZ - Bolivia’s Catholic church has called on the faithful to stop using human skulls at special Mass celebrations, a practice they link to occult powers.

The Bolivian Episcopal Conference on Friday asked the overwhelmingly Catholic nation to cast aside the “growing” trend of seeking protection from bad luck by

making offerings of coca, cigars or drinks to human crania.

As much of the world celebrates Halloween and Mexico prepares for its Day of the Dead, Bolivian bishops had another festival on their minds, the Day of Skulls, which falls on November 8.

Known locally as Natitas, the festival, which is believed to be pre-Colombian, sees families

adorn skulls, sometimes those of relatives, with flowers, hats, candles and other decoration.

La Paz’s Archbishop Edmundo Abastoflor warned many of the skulls in fact belonged to “unknown people, obtained by grave robbing and later conserved, donated or even sold.”

Abastaflor urged practitioners of the Andean ritual to “let them rest in piece.”

International IMIGRATION Australian Consulate General Jalan Tantular 32 Renon Denpasar Phone: +62 361 241118 Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

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

HOSPITAL Bangli Bangli General Hospital Jl. Kesumayuda 27, Bangli Phone : +62 366 91521 Gianyar

Royal Danish & Norwegian Mimpi Resort Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 070 The Czech Republic Jalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.286 465 France Consulate Agency Jalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.285 485 The Federal Republic of Germany Jalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.288 535 The Republic of Hungary Jalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.287 701 Italian Consulate Jalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 005 Honorary Consulate of Mexico Jalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.223 266 Honorary Consulate of The Netherlands Jalan Raya Kuta 127, Bali Phone +62.361.761 506 Honorary Consulate of Spain Komplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. Jalan Patih Jelantik Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.769 286 USA Consulate Agency Jalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.222 426 Consulate General of Japan Jalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.227 628 Honorary Consulate of British Jalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.270 601 Swiss and Austria Consulate Jalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan Istana Galleria Phone +62.361.751 735 Honorary Consulate of Brazil Jalan Legian No. 186, Bali Phone +62.361.757 775 Honorary Consulate of Thailand Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.263 310 Embassy of India Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.241 978 Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf Finland Segara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.282 223 Honorary Consulate of Malaysia Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.752 520

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Its facilities have improved since the emergency ward had been built in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become a problem anymore since it has complete equipments. It is located on Jl. Kesehatan Selatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with : Phone : 227 911 – 15 Fax : 226 363 Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters for less serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, anemia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equipped to care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl. Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.

Phone : 223 036 Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit) Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.

Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private) Jl. Sudirman No 50, Denpasar Phone : 227 560, 234 824 In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medical evacuation company, that is: AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.

PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 24X, Kuta 80361.

Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768 One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that the Blood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh) Negative blood.

Badung Bali Medical Clinics There are some medical clinics that are well known by foreigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and operated : Bali International Medical Center (BIMC) Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excellent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Services for tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.

Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance & Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone : 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta, Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com International SOS Clinic Bali Opened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visitors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency medical service.

Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - Indonesia Phone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919 E-mail : info@sos-bali.com ttp ://www.sos-bali.com Bali Nusa Dua Emergency Clinic Jl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324 Kuta Clinic Jl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268 Dental Clinic Dr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, Denpasar Phone : 222 445, 234 375 DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81 Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324 Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4A Br. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

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News Typhoon smashes storm-weary Philippines Agence France-Presse

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Men dressed in drag attend the seventh annual gay pride parade in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009.

Thousands march in Taipei for gay marriage Agence France-Presse

TAIPEI - Thousands of people from Taiwan’s gay and lesbian community marched through the streets of Taipei on Saturday to demand recognition of same-sex marriage and equal rights, organisers said.

The island’s seventh annual Gay Pride Parade, with an estimated turnout of 25,000, also attracted supporters from neighbouring Hong Kong, Japan and South East Asian countries, they said.

“We urge the government to better protect gay human rights including same-sex unions so we can have the same legal rights as heterosexual couples,” said chief organiser Tung Chu-chu.

Rainbow flags, balloons and placards were in abundance as participants gathered in a square outside the presidential office, with dress varying from period costumes to swimming trunks.

“I hope the government will not only legalise same-sex unions but also allow us to adopt children,” said Nancy Chen, who pushed a stroller to highlight her call.

But Chen admitted that “it would take a few more years” for the general public to accept the idea before the legislation process can begin.

“Even though Taiwan is becoming more open-minded towards gays, many still think that gay people can have romantic relationships but not something as serious as starting families,” she said.

Taiwan’s cabinet in 2003 drafted a

controversial bill to legalise same-sex marriages and recognise the rights of homosexual couples to adopt children, the first in Asia to do so.

However, the law has yet to be passed and some gay groups have criticised the bill as a ploy to woo voters.

Some marchers, meanwhile, said they were here to enjoy the carnival mood and festivities.

“I think Taiwan is more liberal. The parade here is much more interesting and colourful,” said John Lee from Hong Kong as he posed for pictures in a ball gown.

Top Saudi cleric warns against politicising hajj Agence France-Presse

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia’s top cleric has warned against politicising the hajj amid a war of words between Riyadh and Tehran over the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, Ash-Sharq AlAwsat reported on Saturday.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh told the Saudi-controlled regional daily that making false claims about the hajj only confuses pilgrims and is sinful.

“Those who want to use the pilgrimage and spread falsehoods and propaganda for their personal goals and needs, doing this to take advantage of the occasion, are doing some-

thing forbidden by Islam,” he told the newspaper.

Earlier this month, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei alleged that Saudi Arabia, a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, might abuse the mainly Shiite Muslim pilgrims from Iran during the hajj, which begins in mid-November.

On Monday, Ahmadinejad warned that Tehran would “take the appropriate measures” if Iranian pilgrims are restricted, while Khamenei raised the issue of alleged “insults and mistreatment against some Shiite Muslims,” saying “the Saudi government must take action against such acts.”

After those remarks, Saudi Hajj

Minister Fuad al-Farsi said Iran “should not take advantage of the pilgrimage for political purposes and its own agenda.”

Regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran are regularly at odds over Iran’s claims of mistreatment of Shiite pilgrims to Mecca.

Several times during the 1980s, Iranian pilgrims mounted demonstrations in the holy city in western Saudi Arabia, and in 1987 Iranian pilgrims rioted, leading to more than 400 deaths.

The pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the five pillars of Islam, which the Koran holds as a once-in-a-lifetime obligation for every able bodied Muslim who can afford it.

MANILA - Typhoon Mirinae smashed through the Philippines overnight, killing eleven people and worsening floods in areas that were struggling to recover from recent deadly storms, officials said Saturday.

The typhoon, packing winds of up to 185 kilometres (115 miles) an hour, was the third major storm to hit the Philippines’ main island of Luzon in just five weeks, with the previous two claiming more than 1,100 lives.

In Manila, areas that have been flooded since Tropical Storm Ketsana struck in late September were hit with more heavy rain, while residents in other districts were forced onto their roofs to escape rising waters.

“We need help because the waters have risen. We need rubber boats and choppers,” Ariel Magcales, the mayor of Santa Cruz town on Manila’s outskirts, said in a radio interview.

“Some people are on the roofs of their houses.”

Military and police rescue boats worked to save people who were trapped by a flash flood, officials said.

One man was found dead and his one-year-old baby was missing after they were washed away while trying to cross an overflowing creek in a rural area on the outskirts of Manila, the military said.

Three people were reported dead and five others were missing in Laguna province just south of Manila, the local disaster monitoring office said.

Seven people died in the Bicol region, south of Manila, mostly from flash floods, local disaster monitoring officials said.

Another man was missing from a Manila slum district after his hut was washed away, while two others were missing in Batangas province south of Manila after their car fell into a river when a bridge collapsed, said civil defence spokesman Ernesto Torres.

Tropical Storm Ketsana, which struck on September 26, caused massive flooding in Manila.

Even before Mirinae hit, outlying districts that are home to more than a million people were expected to remain flooded into the New Year, raising concern among health experts of an outbreak of deadly disease.

Navy and coast guard boats had been sent to Santa Cruz to rescue people, according to Torres, who said Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro was heading to the area to check on the extent of flooding and damage.

“The waters were really high. It was like a flash flood. It was waist deep in our area but in other areas it went as high as the rooftops,” said traffic director Marlon Albay.

The highway to the town was covered by knee-high waters, preventing smaller vehicles from reaching it and prompting the military to send huge trucks to help residents, according to an AFP photographer.

Hundreds of residents in these areas were seen wading through the dirty waters.

Other towns in Laguna reported flooding, along with areas in the Bicol region further to the south, Torres said.

However, more than 115,000 people had been evacuated from vulnerable regions before the typhoon hit, which likely prevented more deaths, Torres said.

The typhoon caused power outages and knocked down trees across many areas of Manila, a sprawling city of 12 million people.

It also forced flights to be suspended on Saturday morning from Manila’s international airport.

Ferries, a popular form of transport in the Southeast Asian archipelago, were also cancelled, ruining travel plans for many who were hoping to head to their hometowns for the All Saints’ Day long-weekend public holiday.

As of 5:00 pm (0900 GMT), the typhoon had left Luzon and was charted 670 kilometres west of Manila, moving away from the country at 20 kilometres per hour, the government weather station said.

“The worst is over for Metro Manila,” said weather forecaster Nathaniel Cruz.

Dog infected...

From page 1 Putra Amerta said that Gianyar government had anticipated the spread of rabies by giving vaccine to the pets and eliminated the wild dogs.

The government had given 3,000 vac-

cines to Gianyar government and half of them were already being used.

As one of the tourism area in Bali, Gianyar should anticipate the spread of rabies because it could affected all aspects such as helath, security, and social.(kmb16)

In smoothing...

From page 1 Julia Roberts who arrived in Bali last October 15 was scheduled to stay on the “Island of Gods” for a month.

Some of the locations used for the film’s making are Ubud, Padangpadang Beach, Pecatu, Ungasan in

Kuta Selatan village and Badung district.

During the shooting, security was very tight at the shooting site. Journalists and the public have difficulty to take pictures when Julia Roberts and other players were in action, including difficulty to get statements from the film crew

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Indonesian president under pressure over corruption fight Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono vowed Friday to defend the country’s anti-graft agency after the arrest of two senior investigators, amid growing doubts about his war on corruption.

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

The president, re-elected in July on the back of promises to stamp out rampant graft in one of the world’s most corrupt countries, also ordered his police chief to publicly explain the arrests.

Yudhoyono entered the fray after Industry Minister Mohammad Suleman Hidayat warned that the scandal could hurt the country’s drive to attract foreign investment.

“If anyone wants to break up the KPK I will be on the frontline to fight them,” Yudhoyono said in a rare press conference, referring to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

He said it was important to resolve public “misperceptions” about a conflict between the police, prosecutors and the anti-corruption agency, but stressed that he could not interfere in the legal process.

The liberal ex-general earlier summoned ministers and officials to discuss the arrests Thursday of KPK investigators Bibit Samad Riyanto and Chandra Hamzah.

They have been under investigation for a range of alleged crimes including bribery and abuse of

power, but police have said that they were only taken into custody to prevent them talking to the media.

Police Chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri denied there was a conspiracy against the KPK. “I will take action against my personnel if they were involved in trying to engineer the investigation,” he told a press conference.

The case against the two officials has been front-page news for weeks, along with the ongoing trial of sacked KPK chief Antasari Azhar for allegedly masterminding the murder of a businessman earlier this year.

All the KPK officials deny any wrongdoing and Azhar, a former prosecutor, has angrily complained that he is being framed.

Industry minister Hidayat said the latest police action against the KPK raised questions about legal certainty in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and needed to be resolved quickly.

“I am worried that this could affect the investment climate amid the government’s efforts to increase investment,” he was quoted as saying

by Dow Jones Newswires.

The Indonesian media has been full of speculation that the police and

the Attorney General’s Office are trying to cripple the KPK, which has had success in rooting out high-level corruption since it was set up in 2004.

“The police and the Attorney General’s Office have denied that they are trying to cripple the KPK but the facts say the opposite,” said Danang Widoyoko, coordinator of the independent Indonesian Corruption Watch.

“The police arrested the suspended leaders of the KPK based on weak evidence... They arrest them first and find the evidence later.”

Until now, Yudhoyono, 60, has avoided making any comment on the unfolding drama, except to back the legal process.

But the president was forced to respond when he was mentioned in secretly taped phone conversations involving prosecutors and the relative of a corruption suspect.

One of the people in the tapes reportedly cites Yudhoyono as supporting a plot to sabotage the anti-graft commission.

The authenticity of the tapes, which have been widely reported in the local media, has not been confirmed but Yudhoyono has called for an investigation.

After the tapes were made public the Attorney General’s Office recommended dropping the case against the two KPK investigators, but police arrested them two days later.

National stakeholders suggest four Malaysian man faces death penalty ways to tackle climate change for Indonesian maid murder Antara

JAKARTA - National environmental stakeholders such as academics, entrepreneurs and activists have suggested four ways to tackle the negative impact of climate change, an official said.

The suggestions were presented during a discussion on mitigation of climate change held as part of the National Summit 2009 at the Pacific Place, Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

“We are suggesting four ideas, namely betterment of forest management, promoting renewable energy, allocate funds to support green programs and create good cooperation between the government and people in handling the issue,” the discussion’s facilitator, Agus Purnomo, said here on Friday.

Purnomo, who is chief of the National Board for Climate Change’s secretariat, said the implementation of better forest management can help reduce carbon emissions, one of the factors in climate change in the world.

Oxygen produced by Indonesia’s forests can

play an important role in reducing excessive carbon gas emissions into the air.

“However, several matters, namely the clear definition of the forests’ function, preventive action against forest fires and clearer measurement of borders with land owned by local people need to be accomplished first to make the gas emission reduction program a success,” said Agus.

As to the promotion of renewable energy among the people, Agus stated all partcipants in the discussion suggested that the government provide a budget to support the program.

The government opened the 3-day National Summit 2009 on October 29 with the participants consisting of all national stakeholders in the government and society to discuss a 20102014 national roadmap.

The meeting has three main topics, namely economy, people’s welfare and law and bureaucratic reforms. The summit is expected to produce recommendations to accelerate infrastructure development across the country over the next five years.

Agence France-Presse

KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian man faces the death sentence after being charged with the murder of his Indonesian maid who was severely beaten and locked in a toilet, officials said Friday.

In the latest of a series of maid abuse cases that have prompted Indonesia to temporarily ban domestic workers from coming here, 36-year-old Mautik Hani from Surabaya died from her injuries in hospital, a week after being rescued.

Her employer, 35-year-old market vendor A. Murugan, his wife and mother were arrested but only Murugan was brought to court Friday to face a murder charge.

“The investigation showed he had subjected her to a lot of abuse and there were many injuries on her body,” prosecutor Manoj Kurup told AFP, adding that Murugan faces death by hanging if convicted.

“We are not charging the wife and the mother,” he added, but declined to say why or give further details.

Hani was discovered at her employers’ home last week, found by another Indonesian cleaner hired to replace her who noticed a foul smell coming from a locked bathroom. Police said when she was found, her arms and legs were bound and she had bruises all over her body. Among her injuries was a serious wound to her right leg through which the bone could be seen.

Local papers reported Hani had been abused by her employers almost daily during the two months she worked at their home. One of Asia’s largest importers of labour, Malaysia depends heavily on domestic workers, mainly from Indonesia, but has been criticised for its lack of action to protect their rights and regulate their working conditions.

Indonesian maids typically work seven days a week for as little as 400 ringgit (113 dollars) a month.

In May, Kuala Lumpur announced plans for new laws to protect domestic workers from sexual harassment, non-payment of wages and poor working conditions.

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Bali Today Over thousand Yogis to discuss Global Warming in Bali Antara

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The photo shows tourist watching a ritual ceremony that being held in one of the temples in Bali.

Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika admitted he was “jealous” of Malaysia because the neighboring country was able to attract up to 22 million foreign tourists in 2008. Bali which was much more famous internationally had just set a target of attracting two million foreign tourists in 2009

Bali Governor ‘jealous’ of Malaysia ability to attract foreign tourists Antara

DENPASAR - Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika admitted he was “jealous” of Malaysia because the neighboring country was able to attract up to 22 million foreign tourists in 2008.

Bali which was much more famous internationally had just set a target of attracting two million foreign tourists in 2009, Pastika said at a workshop themed “Terrorism Prevention in Bali Tourism Environment”.

The Island of Gods as a tourist destination that is quite popular to the international community actually had many places of interest in addition to its unique society and culture.

Bali Island which was sometimes called “heaven” by

the international community had beaches, mountains, lakes and even rivers which provide beautiful panoramas, Pastika said.

But despite these assets, Bali was not able to draw more than or the same number of foreign tourists as Malaysia, he said.

Malaysia’s success in attracting foreign tourists in large quantities was thanks to its (capable) human resources, guaranteed security and good infrastructure, according to Pastika.

The governor who is a

former Bali police chief promised to prioritize development in three important areas in Bali, namely human resources, education and people’s health.

The security issue must also be tackled so that the safety and comfortable condition of Bali will become an attraction for the international community to visit this area, he said, adding that infrastructure construction should be accelerated, so that it can attract more than ten million foreign tourists in the years to come.

DENPASAR - More than one thousand yogis from India and other countries are to attend the second International Bali-India Yoga Festival here next December 3-10 during which they will contribute ideas to deal with global warming, the event’s organizer said.

“The Yogis’ solutions are expected to prepare mankind for the impact of the global warming that is to happening now,” said Dr Somvir, chairman of the Bali-India Foundation in Denpasar.

He said the yogis were expected in their own way to contribute ideas for application by everybody to minimize fatalities caused by the impact of global warming.

Beside the yogis, everybody according to their professions and skills must actively participate in the efforts to find the best solution in dealing with global warming, he said.

Some 1,500 yoga practitioners were expected to attend the

second International Bali-India Yoga Festival in Bali, Somvir said.

One of the topics to be discussed at the meeting was global warming and what could be done by man to mitigate its impact.

The festival’s venue would be in Banjar Gunung Sari, Tegal Linggah village, Sukasada sub-district, Buleleng district, North Bali, 80 km north of Denpasar.

Dr. Somvir who relinquished his Indian citizenship to become an Indonesian citizen and has been living in Bali ever since warned that mankind must respect Mother Earth.

Efforts must be made to preserve the environment, a greening movement should be set up, and construction of high-rise buildings should be stopped, he said.

Every inch of land should be planted with trees that could provide benefits for human life, and save the world and its contents.

Sustainable forest areas in an ideal limitation would be able to prevent floods, landslides and droughts, said Dr. Somvir.

Bali design micro hydro and solar power plants Antara

DENPASAR – Bali Government design water electrical power plant or micro hydro and solar cell.

I Gusti Nyoman Sura Adnyana, the head of Bali Public Work Department, said “the plan is one of the methods to anticipate the need of electricity in Bali.”

In addition to anticipate the electrical crisis, the power plants are also needed to supply electricity to remote area in Bali. There are several remote hamlets that haven’t received the luxury of electricity at this moment.

Sura Adnyana said that in order to develop the micro hydro power plants, the department already analyzed and studied several rivers and dams in Bali such as Telaga Waja River, Ayung River, and Telaga Tunjung dam.

“The rivers and dams in Bali are possible to develop the micro hydro power. However, we are still having trouble in funding of the project,” he added. There is another problem occur in the development plan. The rivers or dams are available in the area where electricity is abundant and the remote hamlets didn’t have any access to the electricity source.

If the possibility of power plants is able to be developed, then

the problem of the lack of power could be solved but the remote area is still having difficulties in getting the electricity.

The hamlets usually located in the mountain areas so it is very difficult to place electricity poles. For the area that didn’t have any rivers or water, the government plan to build solar power. The area such as Karangasem is very difficult to develop micro hydro power so the need of solar power is crucial.

Sura Adnyana said that the solar powers will not only being developed in Karangasem but also in Buleleng and Nusa Penida. “Bali Government had placed 695 solar panels which are the support from Indonesian Government and 45 panels from the government. The availability of electricity will help to increase the welfare of the people in the village because most of the people work as craftsmen,” he added.

There is great hope that the development of power plants will affect tourism in Bali. The need of electricity for hotels and other tourism facilities can be fulfilled. Based o the data from Bali Electrical Company (PLN), 45 villages in Bali didn’t receive electricity yet and the waiting lists for the electricity are 40,000 people. PLN planed that in 2010, the waiting lists will be around 10,000 people.

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Balinese Culture Timus Cake for the Rice

Julia Roberts’ film producer warned not disturb shrines’ sanctity Antara

DENPASAR - The chairman of Bali’s Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia (PHDI), I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, hopes the making of a film starring Julia Roberts in Bali will not disturb the sanctity of the region’s religious shrines.

“During the shooting of the film ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ for almost two weeks in Bali, PHDI and I were never invited to meet with the producer, or even asked to coordinate,” Sudiana said in Denpasar.

He also said he had not received any report from regional PHDI officials about where the film shooting was taking place.

“They might not be involved as well, but I hope there is supervision by the Pakraman village administration to maintain the sanctity of all the shrines and other holy sites,” he said.

He assumed the movie’s producer had no understanding of conditions in Bali, but because they had not contacted PHDI, if anything happened, it would be their own responsibility.

Sudiana said if the scene of an episode of the film was a holy location, the producer should coordinate with

REUTERS/Murdani Usman

Hollywood actress Julia Roberts (R) accompanied by her guard during the filming of the movie “Eat, Pray, Love” at Ubud art market on the resort island of Bali October 20, 2009.

The chairman of Bali’s Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia (PHDI), I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, hopes the making of a film starring Julia Roberts in Bali will not disturb the sanctity of the region’s religious shrines.

When the rice in the field has turned yellow, it is time to harvest. Before harvesting the farmers will prepare an offering called byukukung, the last ritual on the rice field for the grain. One of the cakes that may be considered to be a compulsory one for this offering is timus.

The main ingredients of this cake are half-cooked rice flour and palm sugar. Simple method of making this cake is as follows. Make sugar sauce of palm sugar and rice flour. Pour boiling water onto the rice flour. Add sugar sauce to flour batter then wrap in banana leaf. Steam until well done and the cake will be

PHDI while at other locations, the local authorities and community should keep a watch on the filming activity.

“Do not let foreigners in Bali make members of the local community feel uncomfortable in their own land,” Sudiana said.

A number of film shooting activities in the movie are still associated with the religious life of Hindu society in Bali.

For example when in Ungasan, Kuta Selatan sub-district, Badung regency where they were shooting in a field. The movie team built a twostorey house with two months of preparation before the shooting began, with the atmosphere of a large

banyan tree and a shrine.

When the shooting is done, the house would be demolished and the site would be restored to its original condition. This is because the place is used for local community prayers every day.

“If in such a condition, then at least the shrine’s pengempon (guardian) or Pakraman village and the local PDHI should watch the activity so it does not disturb the shrine’s sanctity,” Sudiana said.

According to him, Julia Roberts’ movie-making is different from previous film-making activity in Bali when the PHDI was always involved to provide knowledge of what can and can not be done during film shooting in Bali.

brown and white. (BTN/029)

Mouth-watering Plecing Kangkung Succulence of kangkung or water spinach vegetable may tempt everyone’s appetite. Possibly, you need to taste it one day on visiting Bali.

Water spinach is one of the delicious and popular vegetables in Bali. Since almost cultivated across this island all year around, it is available at an affordable price. Just have a look at the serombotan, the native delicacy of Klungkung in Eastern Bali. It also makes use of water spinach as its ingredient along with others like sprout, long bean, eggplant and fried peanut.

However, some may prefer to use that of the Lombok variety, offering a larger and softer stem.

Plecing kangkung is another variant of this vegetable.

It is commonly served together with other dish like grilled seafood. Or it could be served independently along with good-tasting rice if one prefers not to consume meat.

Ingredients: 3 strings of water spinach, 2 tbsp fried peanut Spices: 2 cloves garlic; 3 small chillies; 2 medium-size tomato; 2 large chillies; 1 tsp palm sugar; ½ tsp grilled shrimp paste; ½ tsp salt; few drops of squeezed lime.

Method: 1. Wash the water spinach and remove any hard stem. Halve them lengthwise.

2. Boil them until convenient to eat or to taste. Take out and drain.

3. All spices (garlic, small and large chilli and tomato) are steamed until the skin of tomato getting moderately peeled off and then take out. Having added palm sugar, shrimp paste, salt and squeeze of lime to the tomato, pound them finely.

4. When already cool, the water spinach is mixed with the spices above. Later, sprinkle it with fried peanuts. Now, it’s ready to serve! (BTN/029)

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Taman Sukasada Ujung Karangasem

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Taman Sukasada or Sukasada Park is a beautiful park with big fish pond surrounds the old Karangasem Empire heritage building which is used by the Karangasem’s King for day relaxation or meeting place in their era. It is located in Ujung Countryside about 5 Km from Amlapura town. This park is originally met one pool only which is very Ghostlike and very secret called by Di Dirah and this pool at the period of I Gusti Gede Putu King (1849-1893) governance with his brother of Gde Oka (18491890) that the around of this pool is functioned as place of exile for the man who alleged to run the black magic (leak). At the period of I Gusti Bagus Jelantik governance which start to lead the Karangasem Kingdom in the year 1909, this pool area is extended and developed by some pools and also luxury building Bale Gili with European style (modern style), later then it is given the name called Taman Sukasada/ Sukasada Park Ujung Karangasem, that is estimate made in the year of twentieth.

This park is strategically located in the coastal side, south part of Karangasem town and founding a lot of wellspring around the area. If seen from the history aspect, most of all omissions from Karangasem Empire both for Lombok Island and also exist in Bali, altogether area consisted by the

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pool and Gili building which is exist in the middle of pool like Mayura and Narmada Park which are existing in west part of Lombok Island. We can say that this Sukasada Park as a mascot of tourist destinations in east part of Bali because Sukasada Park has been recognized until foreign countries since twenty’s year and more famous again in the year of thirtieth when all foreign tourist start to pay a visit to Bali. King of Karangasem I Gusti Bagus Jelantik who is known as Anak Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem is a Statesman, Man of letters as well as an architect. He has created a lot of building not even in the form of park but he also done some building which are exist in Puri Agung Karangasem (Karangasem Palace) like gateway which is looking like pagoda.

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It is located in Ujung Countryside, south part of Karangasem regency or about 2, hours from Bali’s International Airport. From Denpasar Town, we have to take the highway of Ida Bagus Matra’s Street and go to the east part of Bali until arrive at Karangasem town. The journey will take about 2 hours and turn right to the south part of Karangasem town. Taman Sukasada is right located in the costal side with beautiful old building and the right place to visit during your vacation in Bali. (www.balistarisland.com)

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BUSINESS Fed unlikely to change tack as recession ends Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The US Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise key interest rates this week or unwind emergency support as the economy starts a tough recovery from recession, analysts say.

Fed policymakers were expected to hold the base lending rate at near-zero and maintain a trillionplus dollar program to underpin the recovery at the conclusion of their two-day meeting Wednesday.

Economists and traders will be poring over the Federal Open Market Committee statement released after the meeting in search of signals for the direction of monetary policy.

“The Federal Open Market Committee will use its post-meeting statement to acknowledge the recession has ended and revise its nearterm forecast to reflect the better tone of the data,” said Joseph Brusuelas of Moody’s Economy.com.

The FOMC meeting comes after official data showed last week the economy grew for the first time in a

year in the third quarter, ending the worst recession in decades.

The stronger-than-expected 3.5-percent expansion in gross domestic product (GDP) likely will slow in the fourth quarter as government support measures wind down and unemployment continues to rise, economists say.

With nearly 10 percent of the labor force out of work, consumer spending — the main driver of the US economy and key to a sustainable recovery — remains challenged.

The FOMC has held its federal funds rate target at zero to 0.25 percent since last December in a bid to help kick-start the economy out of the worst downturn since the Great Depression.

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke recently signaled there was no hurry

to tighten monetary policy, saying action would be taken “when the economic outlook has improved sufficiently.”

The Fed often waits at least several months after unemployment, a lagging indicator of recovery, peaks before beginning to raise rates.

“The markets will undoubtedly look beyond the actual interest rate announcement, and focus instead on the tone and wording of the actual communique,” said Millan Mulraine, analyst at TD Bank Financial Group.

“In this regard, we expect the economic outlook to remain largely intact, with the Fed reiterating the improved outlook for the US economy, reflecting in part the encouraging tone in the recent economic reports, and in particular the policy-induced surge in GDP in Q3,” he said.

Economists underscored that

inflation continued to be tame amid the fragile recovery, well within the Fed’s comfort zone.

“The inflation outlook should also remain unchanged, with the committee noting that it expects inflation to remain ‘subdued,’ on account of the ‘substantial resource slack’ and stable longer-term inflation expectations,” Mulraine said.

The unemployment rate hit a 26year high of 9.8 percent in September, according to the latest official data, and is expected to reach double digits in the coming months. The government reports October labor data Friday, with most analysts expecting the jobless rate to rise to 9.9 percent.

A Fed staff projection used by policymakers at the September 2223 FOMC meeting showed unemployment holding as high as 9.25 percent by the end of 2010 and then falling to about 8.0 percent by the end of 2011.

Moody’s Brusuelas predicted the FOMC statement would conclude

that conditions will likely “warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period,” a phrase he noted had been in every statement since March.

“But the Fed may be ready to tweak it soon, which would be significant,” he said. “We will be watching to see if the Fed adjusts its commitment to keeping rates low for an ‘extended period,’ which may signal the central bank will remove some monetary stimulus earlier than anticipated.”

Such a minor change to the Fed policy outlook could provide support to the depreciating dollar, while appeasing inflation hawks, he said.

Some central banks have begun raising interest rates, such as Australia and Norway in October, putting additional pressure on the dollar.

“So far, I am reluctant to assume that the Fed will raise policy rates in response to this pressure. The magnitude of imported inflation, while not minimal, is small,” said Donald Ratajczak at Morgan Keenan.

Trade opens on China’s Nasdaq-style board Trading opened Friday on China’s long-awaited Nasdaq-style board, ChiNext, with all 28 listed small and medium-sized firms rocketing in early trade on fevered interest from investors. Trading in all shares on the board in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen was suspended at least once in the morning session as market circuit-breakers in place to curb rampant speculation were tripped.

Anhui Anke Biotechnology (Group) Ltd. was the biggest gainer, up more than 256 percent from its initial public offering price of 17.00 yuan at 60.53.

Movie production house Huayi Brothers Media Corp. soared 167.32 percent from its IPO price of 28.58 yuan at 76.40.

All shares were up at least 45 percent at one point in the session.

“The wild ride was expected just as it happened on the opening day of the Nasdaq,” said Wu Dazhong, a Shenzhen-based analyst at Shenyin Wanguo Securities.

“These companies need to find their real values on the new market — I don’t think the upward momentum will be sustained too long into the future.”

ChiNext is expected to give small- and medium-sized companies access to financing and encourage private equity firms and venture capitalists to back startups.

Regulators hope the new market will help fuel young companies and other firms with highgrowth potential in the world’s third-largest economy, following the example of Wall Street’s Nasdaq.

But there have also been worries that the new board may divert funds from the main boards and drag down stock prices.

The Shanghai bourse was up nearly two percent in afternoon trade Friday.

Qiu Yanying, a Shanghaibased analyst at TX Investment Consulting, said he expected to see a pullback on ChiNext once investors calmed down.

“When the speculative trading ebbs, the market will fall into a correction. It’s too early to talk about when the correction will come — it depends on how long the enthusiasm can last,” Qiu said.

The first 28 companies to list on the board, ranging from software to medical equipment makers, raised about 16 billion yuan (2.3 billion dollars) in their IPOs — more than double initial forecasts.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission is due to meet Monday to consider IPO applications from three more companies.

Commission chairman Shang Fulin said at a launch ceremony last week that the opening of ChiNext was an “important step towards implementing the national strategy on promoting innovation”.

But he also cautioned investors to trade on the new board in a “rational” way, recognising that start-up stocks have potential for strong growth but are also characterised by unstable financial results.

“The growth enterprise market faces relatively higher risks of irrational and speculative trading and market manipulation,” he said.

The bourse on Friday reiter-

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Chinese company representatives with IPOs ring the bell during the launch of trading at the Nasdaq-style board, ChiNext, in Shenzhen, in southern China’s Guangdong province on October 30, 2009. ated trading rules — if the prices move up or down 80 percent during the first day, trading will be suspended until the final three minutes of the session.

Two other debut-day circuitbreakers were in place, under which trading is suspended for 30 minutes if shares in a company move up or down 20 percent from the opening price, and then another 30 minutes for a 50-percent shift.

ChiNext has said the restrictions will help curb risks, maintain market stability and protect investors.

Neil Katkov, senior vice president for Asia at global financial consultancy Celent in Tokyo, said ChiNext could have a troubled start, but success in the long run.

“In the short run, the venture board is going to be a bumpy ride — good for traders that thrive on volatility, but scary for buy and hold investors,” Katkov said.

“In the long run, the fundamentals of China’s growth economy mean the exchange stands a good chance of fulfilling its stated purpose of driving the development of new economy sectors such as infotech and biotechnology.” (Agence France-Presse)

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Sick Elton John postpones US gigs with Joel Agence France Presse

LONDON- British singer and pianist Elton John has postponed a string of concert dates due to a serious infection and flu, his official website said Sunday.

John, 62, has now delayed three concerts with Billy Joel in the US next month as well as the final few dates of his Red Piano world tour in Britain and Ireland which had previously been put on hold.

Promoters “were informed by management that Elton has been advised by his doctor to postpone these performances due to a serious case of e-coli Sir Elton John bacterial infection and influenza,” his website said.

The gigs affected are on November 4 and 7 in Seattle and November 10 in Portland but it is hoped that these will be rescheduled.

John has reportedly spent a couple of days at an exclusive London hospital where his partner David Furnish told the Mail on Sunday newspaper: “He’s OK — he’s fine.”

Polanski to make another bail bid: lawyer

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Anna Nicole Smith arrives with her lawyer Howard Stern for her hearing at the Supreme Court in Washington, in this February 28, 2006 file photo.

Judge orders 3 to trial in Anna Nicole drug case Associated Press

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PARIS- Roman Polanski will file a new request before a Swiss court to be released from jail while the Oscar-winning director awaits a decision on a US extradition request, his French attorney said Sunday.

“We will draw up a new request on Monday,” Herve Temime told AFP. The new request will offer “adequate guarantees” to reassure Swiss authorities that the Franco-Polish film director, who faces three-decadeold child sex charges in the United States, will not flee the country if he is released, Temime said.

The Swiss Federal Justice Office turned down Polanski’s last appeal on Friday, saying the risk that Polanski would escape the country was “still too high.”

Switzerland’s top criminal court rejected a similar request from the 76-year-old film-maker on October 20.

The court also found that Polanski’s bail offer of his chalet in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad was not in line with requirements set by the law. It then told Polanski that he could make a renewed bail offer to the Justice Office.

The director of “Rosemary’s Baby”, “Chinatown” and “The Pianist” has been regarded as a fugitive by US authorities since he fled the United States in 1978 after admitting to having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

He was detained by Swiss police acting on a US extradition warrant when he went to Zurich to collect an award at the city’s film festival last month. The United States has since formally asked Switzerland to extradite Polanski.

LOS ANGELES – Three key players in the troubled world of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith have been ordered to stand trial after a hearing that plumbed the drug-fueled depths of her final years and the alleged roles of her boyfriend and two doctors in feeding her addiction to prescription drugs.

A judge who heard sometimes shocking testimony about the flood of drugs provided to Smith ruled Friday there was sufficient evidence to try the defendants on charges of conspiring to give Smith sedatives and opiates.

Defense lawyers had argued that lawyer Howard K. Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and psychiatrist Dr. Khristine Eroshevich tried desperately to save the doomed model in her waning years, including a period when she gave birth to a daughter and lost her grown son to a drug overdose.

One of the last pieces of prosecution evidence introduced was a

transcript of an investigator’s interview of a Smith friend who said she saw Stern placing pills in her mouth.

“He poured them in her mouth like you would a bird,” Gina Shelley said in the interview.

Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry stressed that his ruling required only minimal proof that would cause a reasonable person to suspect the defendants committed the crimes. He dropped one charge that Eroshevich gave Smith placebos, finding there was not sufficient evidence.

With attorneys battling over whether Smith was addicted, the judge proclaimed, “I think you’ve

proven (Smith is) an addict.”

All three defendants pleaded not guilty, If convicted they each could face more than five years in prison.

A Dec. 11 arraignment was set.

Eroshevich was the only defendant to comment after the hearing.

“I understand that I have to go through this process,” she said.

Smith died of an accidental overdose of at least nine medications in February 2007 at a Florida hotel. The defendants were not charged with causing her death but were accused of conspiring to illegally provide her with controlled substances and supplying drugs to an addict.

Defense attorneys contended their clients did not know Smith was an addict and were trying to help her.

“Criminalizing a doctor’s efforts to help a difficult patient is problematic,” Kapoor’s attorney, Ellyn Garofalo, told the judge before his ruling. “A doctor’s even poor judgment is not criminal. Good faith is involved.”

Boyzone to record new album after singer’s death Agence France Presse

Roman Polanski

LONDON-Irish boyband Boyzone will record a new album as a tribute to band member Stephen Gately who died earlier this month aged 33, they said Sunday. Gately died of natural causes after suffering fluid on his lungs on October 10 at his holiday home on the Spanish island of Majorca.

Fellow Boyzone singer Ronan Keating told Sky News television: “We’re going to make the next album for Stephen... we have a couple of songs with Stephen’s vocal on it so that’s a saving grace.

“Thank God we have that — that’s very important to all of us and we know the fans would really appreciate that too.”

Boyzone came together in 1993 and enjoyed huge success with six number one singles in Britain including “No Matter What”, but split up in 2000 before reuniting seven years later.

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Transsexual Miss World contest aims to boost awareness Agence France Presse

PATTAYA, Thailand - Shimmering in a tight gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world’s most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand.

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Japan’s Haruna Ai smiles after being crowned Miss International Queen 2009 in Pattaya, Thailand. Ai won the event beating out Thailand’s Kangsadal Wongducsadeekul for the crown.

Haruna Ai, 37, beat off stiff competition from 20 other glamorous contestants at the Miss International Queen 2009 who came to the Thai beach resort of Pattaya from as far as Brazil and the United States.

“I am very, very, very happy,” a tearful Ai told AFP minutes after the previous title holder carefully placed a faux-diamond tiara on her head.

“I want contests like this to show everyone that they should love each other and live freely. The way of life in Japan is more traditional and transsexuals cannot live freely, but in Thailand they can do what they want,” she said.

The contest, which was called off last year because of political turmoil in Thailand, is taken just as seriously as more traditional pageants in a nation famed for its sexual tolerance.

Millions of Thais watched live on television late Saturday as the statuesque beauties — all of them born men — strutted their stuff at Tiffany’s Show Pattaya, billed as the world’s largest transsexual cabaret.

The first round saw them in kitschy national dress, with a US contestant resplendent in a feathered native American costume and a British entrant donning a Beefeater outfit with black satin leggings and Busby hat.

The lights then sank low as the contestants paraded elegant evening gowns and later modelled pink swimsuits, while giant fluorescent kites soared over the stage.

Japan’s Ai won 10,000 dollars, a year’s stay at a Pattaya hotel and a 500-dollar surgical voucher after judges picked her over runners-up Karngsadal Wongdusadeekul from

Thailand and Daniela Marques of Brazil.

While the audience may have whooped and cheered raucously, contestants and organisers said there was a serious side to the pageant — boosting public awareness of transgender issues.

“An event like this for us is something I can only hope for in the United States,” said US contestant Sunny Dee-Lite, 32, a party promoter from New York City who won the best evening gown gong.

Many participants had stories of discrimination.

Maggie Gao, from China, earlier this year won Miss World Shenzhen, a women’s beauty pageant in the southern Chinese city — but it then emerged that she was a man and the organisers withdrew her title.

Camilia Dzelma, 22, from Singapore, said her Muslim family had accepted her as she is and called for more transgender beauty pageants.

New Dinosaur Built Horror videogames scare up record sales Like a Sherman Tank Reuters

A HUSBAND and wife team of paleontologists has discovered a newfound species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana.

The duo, Bill and Kris Parsons of the Buffalo Museum of Science in New York, spotted the dinosaur’s skull on the surface of a hillside in Montana in 1997. Over the next few years, they retrieved more of the now nearly complete skull along with skin plates, rib fragments, a vertebra and a possible limb bone from the dinosaur species.

Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, the beast is a type of ankylosaur, or a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that resembled nature’s armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells).

“These were big dinosaur versions of a Sherman tank,” Bill Parsons said. “They were armored and they withstood whatever came at them, and they just kept going.” T. cooneyorum was about 15 to 20 feet (4.5 to 6 meters) in length.

And this dinosaur had its share of protection, with two sets of stubby horns, one on the cheeks and the other around its eyes, two thick domes at the back of the skull and thickened areas around the nasal region.

Bill Parsons suspects T. cooneyorum was covered with hundreds or even thousands of bony plates equipped with spikes and a tail tipped with a club, similar to other ankylosaurs. Such protection, along with a swinging clubbed tail, would have kept at bay any of the small dinosaurs around at the time, Parsons said.

To stay safe from the bigger brutes around, the ankylosaur may have flattened its body on the ground and pulled in its head, where head horns could protect the animal from a nasty neck bite, Parsons said.

But say a giant meat-eating dinosaur did pick a fight? Since carnivores like Acrocanthosaurus were bipedal, a hit to a single leg could do them in, the researchers suspect.

“If you hit a tyrannosaur or any big meat-eater in the knee or leg and you cripple one leg with the hit of a tail club, I have a feeling it has a few minutes before it topples over and its friends start eating it,” Bill Parsons told LiveScience.

What do Jigsaw from “Saw,” Freddy Krueger, and Jason from “Friday the 13th” all have in common, besides serial killing? Videogames, if the horror stars’ latest round of promotions are to be believed.

Horror videogames are having a record year as zombies, monsters, demons, and chain-saw wielding psychos fight against the consoles, making videogames the new home of horror for some.

Michael Pachter, video-game analyst for Wedbush Morgan Securities, said about $147 million worth of horror videogames have sold in the United States alone this year through September compared to $131 million in total for all of 2008.

Actor Kane Hodder, best known as the man behind Jason’s mask in the “Friday the 13th” movies, believes scary games have an advantage over horror movies as disillusionment sets in with horror movie remakes and recycling old horror themes.

“Whenever horror movies do well, Hollywood always rushes more into theaters and people get a little burned out on them,” said Hodder, who has worked in the videogame industry.

“But with games, there are fewer choices in the genre and they tend to be spaced out better.”

With Halloween this week, movies like “Saw VI,” “Paranormal State” and “Zombieland” are luring audiences seeking a scare to the movie theaters.

Haunted attractions have also risen across the United States, with these increasingly high-tech venues doing everything possible to make a scary scenario seem real, which includes hiring actors to jump out at people and using theatrical sets. But actor Robert Englund, who played Freddy Krueger in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” films, said videogames gave horror-seekers a different experience.

“Halloween gives fans the chance to dress up in costumes and celebrate horror, but videogames are the best way for fans to actually participate in these worlds,” he

told Reuters. For those looking for virtual scares this Halloween, there are some new options. Konami Digital Entertainment and Zombie Studios just released “Saw” on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in tandem with the new movie that features killer Jigsaw putting his victims in deadly contraptions to torture them.

“The game, itself, is very “Saw”-like because you get to make a bunch of different choices,” explained actor Tobin Bell, who plays Jigsaw in the new game and the six films in the series.

“Of course, the choices have consequences, which is very much like the films. What’s interesting for fans is that the game is set between the first and second films, so it will be a new experience for them.”

However the monster of the horror videogame genre remains Capcom’s “Resident Evil 5,” which was launched on Friday, March 13, this year.Video-game tracking firm the NPD Group said Capcom has sold 1.94 million copies of “Resident Evil 5” to date.

Michael Pachter, video-game analyst for Wedbush Morgan Securities, said about $147 million worth of horror videogames have sold in the United States alone this year through September compared to $131 million in total for all of 2008.

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It’s Venus against Serena in WTA Championships final Agence France Presse

DOHA- Defending champion Venus Williams and sister Serena will clash for the 23rd time in their careers on Sunday in the final of the 4.55 million dollar WTA Championships.

Venus, the world number seven, defeated Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 in her semi-final on Sunday while 2001 champion Serena, the new world number one, went through when Caroline Wozniacki was forced to retire.

Danish teenager Wozniacki, who came into the tournament carrying a left thigh strain, and who had struggled with cramps in the round-robin stage, was 4-6, 1-0 when a stomach strain forced to her to quit.

“Caroline is a great fighter and a new face on the tour,” said Serena, who has now won all four matches here including a three-set group win over her sister.

“I wasn’t playing great. I think it’s hard to play well against a player who’s injured and is so nice.”

Serena and Venus, who were later defeated in the doubles semifinals in three sets by Spain’s Nuria Llagostera Vives and Maria Jose

Martinez Sanchez, will be far from fresh.

Serena played her semi-final with a tightly-bandaged left thigh as did Wozniakci - while Venus needed treatment on her sore left knee in the first set of her clash against Jankovic. With fitness worries on her mind, Serena earlier on Saturday pulled out of next weekend’s Fed Cup final between the US and Italy.

Wozniacki, a US Open semi-finalist, admitted it was a match too far.

“I felt pain in my stomach muscle. I also had problems serving. But today after a while, the serve went over and also when I was hitting just regular groundstrokes, I started feeling it,” she said.

“So it was just too much for me to keep playing.”

For the 29-year-old Venus, it’s been a remarkable tournament.

She only squeezed into the last four having lost two of her three group

games and arrived in the semi-finals having spent five hours more on court than her Serbian opponent.

She was also forced into a fourth successive three-setter.

“It’s my last tournament of the year, so I am trying to give a thousand percent,” said world number seven Williams.

“I wasn’t feeling the ball very well in the first set, but I came back and had to make sure I played well against such a consistent player like Jelena.”

Venus believes playing her sister, who took her Wimbledon title in the summer, is the perfect way to end the season.

“It’s wonderful. I’m so excited. It’s the way I wanted to end the year,” said the American who dropped an early break, recovered to 3-3 in the opener before Jankovic broke in the 11th game to lay the foundation for the first set.

Parker, Ginobili and Spurs bat Kings aside Agence France Presse

SAN ANTONIO- Tony Parker scored 24 points and Manu Ginobili added 13 points and a Halloween holiday treat for Spurs fans Sunday as

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San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili, right, of Argentina, charges past Sacramento Kings forward Andres Nocioni, also of Argentina, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in San Antonio.

San Antonio notched a 113-94 NBA victory over Sacramento.

The Spurs, coming off a disappointing loss to Chicago, got a big night from Parker, who also contributed seven assists.

“We wanted to bounce back,” Parker said.

“The Bulls outplayed us last game. So we wanted to make sure we came out tonight with a lot of energy. And that’s what we did.”

San Antonio led by 16 at the half, and stretched that lead to 21 with one quarter remaining thanks in large part to Parker’s eight points in the third period.

But Ginobili was the talk of the night. He scored 13 points off the bench, but his most impressive feat was catching a bat that swooped toward the court and disrupted the game.

“That was amazing,” Parker said. “The legend continues with Manu. Unbelievable. ... He’s always doing crazy stuff.”

The bat appeared late in the first quarter. As players dodged out of the way, officials halted play before the bat circled away.

When it returned, Ginobili swatted it down with his hand, then carried it off the court.

The crowd cheered, and even a few Kings players clapped.

“When you can’t dunk anymore, you have to find a way to make it into the news,” said Argentina’s Ginobili, who was limited last season by an ankle injury. “So that’s what I did. I grabbed a bat. I didn’t think it was a big deal.”

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich called it a classic Ginobili moment.

“He never ceases to amaze me and he just did it again,” Popovich said. “The legend grows. It’s incredible on Halloween night. You would call someone a liar if they told you that story.”

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Serena Williams,left, and Venus Williams of the United States during their doubles match against Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez and Nuria Llagostera Vives of Spain at the WTA Tennis Championships, in Doha. They also will clash in single final.

Family man Federer returns to headline at home Agence France Presse

BASEL, Switzerland- Roger Federer returns after six weeks off resting and easing into his new role as a father of twin girls when he headlines at his home event, the Swiss Indoors, starting on Monday.

The world number one opted out of the recent ATP Asian sojourn after a gruelling mid-season, where he re-established ATP superiority with titles at Paris and Wimbledon plus a US Open final appearance.

The St Jakobshalle will miss out on a possible re-run of the US Open final, after ailing New York winner Juan Martin Del Potro withdrew with a lingering wrist injury.

The Argentine has not been the same player since he beat Federer for the trophy in September but the Tour continues apace, with Basel, the Paris Masters and the year-end World Tour Finals in London from November 22 to come as the 2009 campaign draws to a close.

Federer’s record 15 Grand Slam titles will be feted in suitablly highclass style on Monday’s opening day, with a ceremony featuring a performance by Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe.

The Catalan opera singer will be accompanied by the Opera Choir of the Theater Basel and the Basel Festival Orchestra, before Federer’s opening match against a qualifier.

“I’ve been back practising and training now for some time and all is going well,” Federer said in the run-up to the event he has won for the last three years.

“I feel much better. I’m looking forward to playing my hometown tournament.”

Federer made his last appearance on court in a Davis Cup win

over Italy the weekend after losing the US Open final.

Beijing champion and Shanghai semi-finalist Novak Djokovic makes his debut at the tournament in the main draw as second seed, with German Andreas Beck his first opponent.

Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez, a familiar face in Basel after taking the 2005 title and two runner-up spots, is seeded third, with a first-round match against American John Isner.

Croatian Marin Cilic takes the fourth seeding on a wild card after Del Potro’s pullout while Czech Radek Stepanek is seeded fifth ahead of Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka.

American James Blake will play as the seventh seed after an indifferent two events in Asia.

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Comeback kings Napoli stun Juventus as Milan win again Agence France Presse

ROME- Napoli fought back from a two-goal deficit for the second time in three days to shock Juventus 3-2 in Turin on Sunday and prevent Ciro Ferrara’s team from closing the gap on leaders Inter Milan.

Marco Borriello scored a brace as improving AC Milan moved up to fourth with a 2-0 defeat of newly-promoted Parma, who dropped to sixth.

Having scored two injury-time goals to earn a 2-2 draw at home to Milan on Wednesday, Napoli produced another dramatic and ultimately even more successful comeback. Marek Hansik scored a brace while substitute Jesus Datolo scored one and created one as Napoli moved up to fifth while second-placed Juve remain four points behind Inter.

Ferrara could not hide his disappointment. “This defeat is like a punch in the face which hurts, it hurts a lot,” he said.

“Already in the first half we took a lot of risks. After we went in front we didn’t play with the right intensity against a team like Napoli who never give up.

It means Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri is unbeaten in four matches since taking over from former Italy boss Roberto Donadoni. “Right now

I already want to start thinking about our next game against Catania, throw water on the fire, but we’ll still enjoy this victory, we did very well,” he said.

Napoli’s German Denis, the substitute hero on Wednesday with a goal deep into injury time, quickly turned to villain for the southerners.

Four times in the first 22 minutes he was presented with goalscoring chances but three times he headed wide from close range and with the fourth he failed to even make contact.

Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon also had to make a fingertip save to divert a dipping Salvatore Aronica shot over the bar as Napoli dominated. Finally Juve started to exert some pressure themselves and Felipe Melo shot inches wide after Diego teed him up.

The hosts then took the lead out of the blue as Zdenek Grygera cut in from the right onto his left foot and sent a delightful inswinging cross for veteran French forward David Trezeguet, who made an expert run

across the line and headed home as centre-back Hugo Campagnaro was guilty of ball-watching.

Juve doubled their lead on 54min after more poor defending from Napoli as Matteo Contini inexplicably headed a Trezeguet cross down to Sebastien Giovinco, unmarked on the edge of the six yard box, who gratefully accepted the gift.

Napoli did not let their heads drop, though, and were quickly back in the game as Hamsik rifled home at the back post from Datolo’s cross on 59min. And Datolo equalised five minutes later as Denis won another header at a corner finally directing one on target - with Buffon palming the ball away and Datolo sweeping home the rebound.

The winner came from a lightning counter attack with Ezequiel Lavezzi running at the heart of Juve’s backpedalling defence and feeding the overlapping Datolo out on the left and after Tiago failed to clear his cross, Hamsik followed up to fire high into the top corner from 12 yards.

Higuain leads Real to victory as Barca are held Reuters

MADRID- Argentine striker Gonzalo Higuain scored twice for 10-man Real Madrid in a 2-0 home win over Getafe on Sunday that eased the pressure on coach Manuel Pellegrini.

Real have 22 points from nine games and are one point behind La Liga leaders Barcelona after the champions were held to a 1-1 draw at Osasuna, Gerard Pique scoring in his own net in the last minute.

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Real Madrid’s Argentinian forward Gonzalo Higuain celebrates after scoring his second goal against Getafe during a Spanish league football match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.

Sevilla are third with 19 points after seeing off struggling neighbours Xerez 2-0. Alvaro Negredo opened the scoring with a fine individual effort before the break and Luis Fabiano secured the points at the end.

Pellegrini’s position was called into question after Real’s embarrassing 4-0 defeat by third-tier Alcorcon in the King’s Cup in midweek made it three games without a win. The impatient crowd, who had been whistling their own players, swung behind their team and Real improved with 10 men.

Marcelo crossed from the left in the 53rd minute and Higuain controlled on his chest before firing into the top corner. Three minutes later Getafe were caught in possession in midfield and on a swift counter-attack Higuain doubled the lead.

The 21-year-old Higuain, whose chances have been limited with all the recent arrivals at Real, was denied his hat-trick by the woodwork before being given a standing ovation when he was substituted near the end.

Barca became bogged down in the face of Osasuna’s pressing game at the Reyno de Navarra and they failed to break out of their straitjacket until late in the second half.

With the hosts tiring, Barca finally worked an opening when Lionel Messi fed Carles Puyol on the right of the area and the defender crossed low for Seydou Keita to slot in from close range after 72 minutes. The tireless Mali midfielder, who bagged a hat-trick against Real Zaragoza last weekend, has now scored six goals in La Liga this season.

Barca appeared to be cruising to victory but in the last move of the game Osasuna’s Javier Camunas crossed from the left and Pique gifted the home side a well-deserved point.

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Napoli’s Marek Hamsik of Slovakia celebrates after scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Napoli, in Turin’s Olympic stadium. Napoli won 3-2.

Benitez on backfoot after Reds flop at Fulham Agence France Presse

LONDON- Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez admits he has plenty of thinking to do after an already troubled season took another turn for the worse with a 3-1 defeat by Fulham here at Craven Cottage.

Sunday’s setback was Liverpool’s fifth reverse in just 11 Premier League fixtures and they trail leaders Chelsea by nine points, with champions Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham all ahead of them in the table.

Benitez also has Champions League qualification to secure and cannot afford another defeat on Wednesday away to French club Lyon, who earlier in the competition won 2-1 at Anfield.

Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres, the undisputed top talents in his squad, are both struggling for fitness so Benitez is not short of problems.

“In football you have to keep calm and try to find solutions,” the Spaniard insisted. “We have to think about what we have to do now.

We have too many injuries and I have to analyse how many players I have available.”

Torres netted a fine equaliser to cancel out Bobby Zamora’s opener for the home side but was taken off after 65 minutes with the score at 1-1. Not long afterwards substitute Erik Nevland put Fulham back ahead with a cheeky back-heel and Liverpool found themselves down to nine men after first Philipp Degen and then captain Jamie Carragher were shown straight red cards. United States international Clint Dempsey wrapped up the scoring late on.

Benitez attempted to justify his decision to rest Torres on the grounds a similar policy

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Liverpool’s Spanish Manager Rafael Benitez gestures during the English Premier League football match between Fulham and Liverpool at Craven Cottage, west London.. had worked last week against Manchester United, when he scored the first goal in a 2-0 victory. “We decided to play Fernando against United and that was difficult because he was not 100 percent fit. Afterwards he needed four days to recover,” explained the manager.

Benitez also made it clear he would appeal against both red cards, with Degen having been found guilty of a reckless lunge at Dempsey and Carragher hauling Zamora down to prevent him going clear.

“We will have to appeal. The first one was, for me, a yellow card and the other one it was clear that ‘Carra’ was kicking the ball. I saw it on a replay. Two incidents in a few minutes when we were losing was difficult to take.”

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Monday, November 2, 2009

Senna name back in Formula One Agence France Presse

ABU DHABI- The Senna family name will return to Formula One next season when Bruno Senna, nephew of the late three-times world champion Ayrton, races with the Campos Meta team.

Bruno Senna

The Spanish team confirmed Senna’s place in the team in a statement on Sunday.

Senna, runner-up in the 2008 GP2 series, said he was very happy to secure finally a drive in Formula One after months of speculation and weeks of talks.

He confirmed the news in a brief statement in which he said: “I want to thank everyone. After weeks of negotiations, we were finally able to close a deal.

“I am very content and want to share my happiness with the fans. It’s time to put my head down and prepare for next year. There is a lot of work ahead of me.”

Campos Meta chief executive officer Enrique Rodriguez de Castro said: “For Campos Meta, it is an extraordinary honour to return the name of Senna to Formula One. “The deal with Senna confirms and reenforces our prime objective of being not only the first Spanish Formula 1 team, but rather the first Iberian-American F1 team.

“The 2014 World Cup, the 2016 Olympics, and three drivers in F1 - it’s clear that Brazil is coming up!”

Ayrton Senna, who won the drivers world title three times, was killed in an accident at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

Bruno Senna added: “I’m absolutely delighted to fulfil a lifetime dream. Now it is time to set new targets. The project that Campos Meta 1 developed is designed to succeed both on and off the track.”

De Castro said he was surprised at the progress Senna had made from single-seater racing as a junior only a few years ago to reaching Formula One. He added: “We have followed him closely since his early days in minor series and testified how quickly he developed his speed and skills at GP2 to become one of the most promising up-and-coming drivers of his generation.

“It is astonishing how fast he is entering the F1 scenario after just a few years in motor racing.”

Edwards excited by prospects of Spies partnership Tokyo - Colin Edwards reviews the I seem to have qualified fifth and fin2009 season overall and looks forward ished the race in fifth lots! The four to working alongside MotoGP newguys out front at the moment are on comer Ben Spies next year. another planet. But we’re still workMonster Yamaha Tech 3 rider ing and are trying to keep up with Colin Edwards’ season has been an them.” impressive one to date, with the He continued, “Donington was Texan close to equalling his secondactually one of those races you wish best championship finish as the fiyou don’t ever have to race, because nal round of the 2009 season apit was raining basically the whole proaches at Valencia. time and we were on dry tyres. We Locked in a battle for fifth spot changed tyres right on the grid for a with Andrea Dovizioso, whom he soft front and soft rear that I hadn’t finished second behind at Donington used all weekend. We also made this year, Edwards could match his changes to the suspension of the 2004 championship finish with the bike on the grid, but it’s a bike we right result on November 8th. hadn’t run all weekend, so it was This year’s campaign is one the kind of a case of throw the dice and Colin Edwards 35 year-old feels has been a consissee what happens. Anyway, I got a tent one, with six top-five finishes on good feel for the bike and it was his satellite YZR-M1 paving the way for a potentially close. Dovizioso was just a little bit out there in front similar placement in the overall standings. of me and a couple more laps and I might have had it.”

“I’d say the 2009 season has gone on a pretty even Edwards admitted he had anticipated more podiums keel for me,” said Edwards. “We’ve made a couple of this year than the single one he has so far enjoyed at mistakes, I think in Japan we had an electrical issue go- Donington, but believes the introduction of Bridgestone ing on. The rain that happened at Donington was kind as sole tyre manufacturer has helped increase the comof a spike. Everything else I think has been pretty even; petition between riders.

Sport Fisichella: Force India return possible Abu Dhabi - Giancarlo Fisichella has not ruled out the possibility of returning to Force India next season, ahead of discussions with his Ferrari team about racing opportunities in 2010.

Although Fisichella’s only confirmed plans for next year are as reserve driver for Ferrari, the Italian openly said that he would be interested in a chance to carry on racing as well.

Speaking in Abu Dhabi ahead of last grand prix for Ferrari, Fisichella Giancarlo Fisichella said that he would sit down with his bosses after the season to look at what is on offer for 2010.

“After this race we will see what the possibilities are,” said Fisichella.

“We are now just talking about this race.

“So far, I am not thinking of racing with a new team. But if there is a good possibility to race with a team that has experience from the past then I prefer that. But to start from the beginning, like Force India last year, I think is difficult.”

When asked if there was a chance of him returning to his old Force India team, Fisichella said: “Why not? It is open. It could be Force India. There are a lot of teams without drivers so far.”

Fisichella’s move to Ferrari from the Italian Grand Prix has not delivered the results that he or the team had hoped for, and he admitted that he would be far from pleased if he ended the season having not scored a single point for the Maranello outfit.

“It is a bit frustrating,” he said. “I would be disappointed, but I am doing my best. It is not easy to jump from Force India and jump to the Ferrari car, which has completely different handling and completely different behaviour.

“I have driven for 14 years in F1 how I want and now I need to change, in braking and downshifting, my style of driving. I am doing my best. In the last couple of races, the race pace was good, the problem was the qualifying session. Here in the long runs I had the same pace as Kimi.”