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Aquino, the son of Philippine democracy icons, promised to battle corruption in his campaign

Mumbai plans world’s tallest apartment block

against his closest opponent, ousted leader Joseph Estrada.

Congressional leaders who Agence France Presse

MUMBAI – An Indian property group on Tuesday unveiled plans to build the world’s tallest residential tower in Mumbai, the country’s booming financial capital.

Lodha Developers said the tower would be 117 storeys high, and would be built by New Yorkbased Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, the famed architects of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris and the Bank of China building in Hong Kong.

“At 1,450 feet (442 metres), the

counted results of the May 10 election said Tuesday that Aquino garnered more than 15 million votes — about 5.7 million ahead of Estrada.

Congress will officially proclaim Aquino’s victory on

Wednesday.

Aquino, a 50-year-old bachelor and economics graduate, will officially become this Southeast Asian nation’s 15th president on June 30.

He will replace Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

tower will be the tallest of its kind,” Abhisheck Lodha, managing director of Lodha Developers, told reporters as he presented a scale model of the complex.

Called “World One”, it will be located in a central district of Mumbai on the plot of a defunct textile mill, and should be completed by 2014. The tower will contain more than 300 apartments and the site includes large green spaces, cafes and an open-to-air observatory.

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A depiction of a proposed residental tower is displayed at a press conference in Mumbai. An Indian property group on Tuesday unveiled plans to build the world’s tallest residential tower in Mumbai, the country’s booming financial capital.

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Bali News Siyut coastal region:

Due to devoid of institution:

Used as leper settlement during Dutch colonialism

Disaster proposal fund worth IDR 7 billion ascertained not to be materialized

Behind the story on the drowning of two teenagers from Bangli town, Ketut Wirajaya and Febri Kristian Aduardo due to be drifted by waves, last Saturday (Jun 5), at Siyut Beach located in Siyut Hamlet, Tulikup Village, Gianyar Regency retained a history forgotten by society of Gianyar and Bali in general. Since the Dutch colonial era, Siyut Beach has become a strategic area. What does it look like?

Among the coastal areas in Gianyar Regency, Siyut Beach is one of the beaches located at the easternmost coast, denoting the frontier between Gianyar and Klungkung Regency.

Frontier area of both regencies is also separated by a river whose water flows swiftly enough. The beach having quite vicious wave condition and no rocky stones has undergone severe erosion since around 1975.

This is based on the removal of leper hospital existing on the Siyut seashore, Temesi Village to Tangtu region, Denpasar. I Gusti Ngurah Wira Suteja, a resident of Siyut Village, Tulikup, Gianyar, revealed the hospital that was locally known as ?chamber? indeed had a story as a settlement of the lepers built by Dutch government. At that

location, there was a house equipped with a village hall, trinity village temple, graveyard and its merajapati shrine.

Any residential occupant who died at the settlement would be made a funeral rite directly at the cemetery of Leper Hospital, he explained.

The hospital currently does no longer exist. Wira Suteja said that the settlement of the lepers was 1 km from the current shoreline. Obviously, the hospital had gone on account of being swallowed by waves or abrasion after the removal carried out in 1975.

As a matter of fact, abrasion case has occurred in the coastal region of Gianyar since that year, and up to these days it remains to happen. Before the hoarding performed by investors, the condition of Siyut coastal area was very

poor. River streams and wave lunges have eroded the land belonging to local community. In this regard, Regency Government gave up in tackling the increasingly ferocious abrasion. Ultimately, an investor having the land on the edge of the beach did a landfill by approval of local government.

Now, the Siyut Beach area turns more tranquil than ever before. Although it was a residential area of the lepers along with their graveyard as final resting place, now it looks ordinary. The region is already buffeted by abrasion and no single fact or evidence is left from the existence of such Leper Hospital. Only steep waves remain visible so that people who would like to take a bath should be immensely careful. (dar)

Kebo Iwa and Cultural Performance

Semarapura (Bali Post)

The desire of Klungkung Regency to obtain disaster financial assistance worth IDR 7 billion from the central government through the state budget in 2010 is estimated not to be materialized. Because, until now Klungkung Regency has no regional agency as regional apparatus unit (SKPD) like the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB). In fact, based on Act No. 24/ 2007 concerning with disaster management, regional government is required to have BNPB with officials having the rank being equal to Regional Secretary.

It was recognized by the Head of Klungkung Office of National Union and Public Protection (Kesbanglinmas), Gede Kesumajaya, when asked for his confirmation, last Monday (Jun 7).

Admittedly, Klungkung very much needed such disaster funds considering Klungkung was one of the disaster prone areas. In relation to the fund of IDR 7 billion proposed to central government, among others, would be intended for rehabilitation of irrigation networks, including the handling of coastal erosion. ?On that account, we always propose the disaster fund to central government. At the same time, regional budget also allocates it each year,? said Kesumajaya.

He mentioned, in order the proposed disaster funds to central government could be realized, Klungkung Government was preparing the establishment

of an institution (BNPB?ed). The institution would involve relevant agencies such as regional secretary, legal division and some others. Establishment of the institution needed careful assessment as it related to human resources and supporting infrastructure.

It was said the importance of establishing such institution aimed at facilitating the withdrawal of fund if central government provided disaster fund that should be made through a separate account with its own management as well.

It did not include in the regional budget that was later on used globally. ?Indeed, the result of our proposal is unclear.

Hence, in the year 2010 through the regional budget of Klungkung we remain to allocate funds for disaster management worth IDR 500 million. Although considered wasteful because the funds were unused, we keep on allocating it because no one could predict when disaster happens,? he added.

He added, the number was much smaller than the budget in 2009 where at that time disaster fund was allocated as much as IDR 1 billion.

However, no single amount was withdrawn because there were no suitable disasters in Klungkung Regency meeting the criteria for the disbursement of the fund. ?The recent disasters were categorized into the small ones so that they were only assisted with the funding of social assistance,? he said. (kmb20)

Documentary film of Gianyar in the 32nd BAF Snatcher takes action, Gianyar (Bali Post)

Documentary film posing a new material presented in the 32nd Bali Arts Festival (BAF), Gianyar Regency will feature two documentary films. They consist of documentary film on Kebo Iwa and Performance of Gianyar Regency. These two works will be screened in the BAF event.

Head of Gianyar Cultural Services, Cokorda Rai Widiarsa P., last Monday (Jun 7), admitted that the two documentary films that would be performed had been made by one of the art communities existing in Gianyar Regency. Selection of Kebo Iwa as the title was inspired by his persona as a governor of Amangkubumi originated in Blahbatuh who was willing to make sacrifices for the sake of archipelagic unification. In addition, Kebo Iwa featured was also the mascot

of Gianyar Regency.

In the 32nd Bali Arts Festival (BAF), Gianyar will get involved in 19 activities. Among them, there are nine compulsory and ten additional activities. In compulsory activities Gianyar will participate in the gong kebyar of children, adolescent and women category. Meanwhile, there are four other activities of womanhood, parade and industry exhibitions. In addition, Gianyar Regency should also fill some additional activities in the event.

For the annual cultural fiesta, Gianyar is almost fully abounded with cultural calendar of events. Cok Rai admitted, other than making preparation for the appearance of Gianyar in this BAF, the Gianyar Regency itself would also hold two simultaneous events at the end of this June, namely the Gianyar Extravaganza and Ubud Festival. Complete-

ness of the activity did not certainly interfere with participation of Gianyar in the upcoming BAF. In addition, these activities had also been accompanied by a sponsor of each activity. ?Although we have abundant activities, Gianyar is completely ready for the participation in the 32nd Bali Arts Festival in Denpasar,? he explained.

Meanwhile, for the preparation of the 32nd BAF, Gianyar allocated funds amounting to IDR 1.4 billion from the regional budget and assistance from Bali Province worth IDR 150 million allocated for all activities. Then, regarding to readiness of Gianyar envoys in the 32nd BAF, though without the specific performance, socialization of activities had been conducted in seven subdistricts in the form of performances coinciding with the local temple anniversaries, he said. (kmb16)

IDR 1.7 million vanished Denpasar (Bali Post)

Ni Wayan Sukantari, 22, a resident who lives on Jalan Nuansa Utama Selatan Gang 18 No. 3 Jimbaran, South Kuta, Badung, suffered from a bad luck, last Friday (Jun 4). When she was passing through Jalan Pulau Buru, near the bridge of Pekambingan, Denpasar, she was snatched by criminal. A bag containing some valuables was successfully taken away.

Information in the police, last Monday (Jun 7), explained that the action took place when the victim would like to go home. Victim came on the scene by motorcycle. Well, as soon as passing on the scene, apparently the passage of victim was dogged by the snatcher. Perpetrator was also riding a

motorcycle, but his identity was unknown.

Incidentally, the atmosphere on the scene was truly quiet, and it was taken advantage by perpetrator. Motorcycle of victim was approached and then snatched her bag by force. ?The mugging incident took place so quickly.

Without the knowledge of the victim, her bag was directly seized. As consequence, victim was shocked and tried to defend her possession. However, the perpetrator eventually managed to take it away,? he said.

The contents of her bag were Nexian handphone, driving license C, Bank Mandiri ATM card, car insurance, jade bracelet and cash worth IDR 950,000. Victim also claimed to experience material losses reaching IDR 1.7

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Indonesian youths play football at the beach in Jimbaran on resort island of Bali, on June 7, 2010. The onemonth event of the 19th FIFA World Cup will begin on 11 June in South Africa.

AFP PHOTO/SONNY TUMBELAKA

Alilla Villa Security Robbed Guest’s Money Tabanan (Bali Post)-

One of the guests from Alilla Villa, located at Banjar Dukuh, Kelanting Village, Kerambitan, reported has lost money. After being investigated through, the robber was someone from the inside, a security named Dewa Putu Karisma (21). The security was suspected to have stolen the Swiss guest?s money because of wanting to get money without any hard work.

The incident happened quite long on Friday (4/6) at 2.30 pm wita. Around 5.30 pm wita, Chief Security I Gede Putu Darma Wiasa got a call from the supervisor about stolen guest?s money.

Monica, the Swiss guest, told that she had lost some foreign money that was left at room 1/4. Wiasa then tried to find out what happened.

Another security, Komang

Suaba, admitted having saw Dewa Putu Karisma coming out from room 1/4. Dewa Karisma was then called abruptly. At first, Karisma did not admit anything but after a long interrogation, he admitted that he have stolen the Swiss guest?s money. Karisma admitted it?s easy to go in because the door to the room was not locked while Monica had gone out from the villa to enjoy the beach?s beauty.

Chief Security Wiasa then reported the case to Kerambitan Police Station. Public Relations Officer for Tabanan Police Station, Police Commissioner Endung Hardanto, on Monday (7/6) stated that the robber is in Kerambitan Police Station?s jail cell and waiting to be legally processed further. Karisma has violated section 362 of the Criminal Code on stealing. (kmb14)

Death Row

Akah Pakraman Village Will Carry Out Mider Bhuana Ceremony Semarapura (Bali Post)-

Every week a resident died.

This has caused Akah Balinese traditional (Pakraman) Village, Klungkung residents to have suspected something is not right.

This made them to decide in tackling it in a micro cosmos (niskala) way which is by ?mider bhuana? ceremony. The ceremony is purposed to cleanse the world in hoping the death row does not hap-

pen again.

On Monday (7/6), Head of the village, Mangku Made Kasta confirmed the death events had happened and also confirmed about the ceremony. ?If I?m not wrong, there were nine people died in a short space of time. That?s why our residents had the idea to do mider bhuana,? Mangku Kasta stated.

It was said the mider bhuana will happen at Buda (Wednesday)

Kliwon Pahang, 16th June 2010.

The ceremony will be carried out just like ?ngangkluk merana? ceremony which is for when there are pests attacking the rice fields or disturbance at sea for the fishermen. It will start from the east (Pura Dalem = Temple to pray God Shiva as who ends life), south (village border), west (Pura Rajapati) and north (village border). (kmb20)

Drunken Fisherman Died Hitting Fence Negara, DenPost

Suspected drunken fisherman Ahmat Slamet (39) from Dusun Durenan RT 002 RW 001 Pakel Village, Licin Sub district, Banyuwangi died hitting a garden fence in Dusun Munduk, Pengambengan Village, Negara last Saturday (5/6) evening at 11 pm.

From the information given, Slamet was coming very fast from the north and was under influenced, driving a Honda motorbike with plate number P 2513 EQ.

While going in a steep turning point, the driver who brought Iskandar and Mayur as well could not control the bike and so it hit a garden fence. The driver died on location as they were not wearing helmets. The other two had minor injuries.

Head of Traffic Jembrana Police Resort, Adjunct Police Commissioner Nyoman Nuryana joined with Unit Chief for Accidents, Second Inspector Putu Werdiana, confirmed the accident last Sunday (6/6) as permitted by the Jembrana Police Resort. (021)

Bridge It No Go Plans to Build a Bali Bridge Between Sanur and Tanjung Benoa Hits a Ministerial Snag.Continuing efforts to build a bridge linking Sanur-Serangan Island-Tanjung Benoa have been delivered a set back due to a regulation issued by the Minister of Transportation, Freddy Numberi, stipulating that the minimum under-bridge clearance for the proposed cross-channel span is 44 meters. Current plans and costings for the Bali project only provide for a clearance of 33 meters.

Quoted in the Bali Post, the Chairman of Commission II of Bali’s Provincial House of Representatives, Putu Agus Suradyana, said, “this means the Minister has defeated the project.”

While refusing to assign any hidden motives for the Minister’s ruling, Suradyana said he will seek further clarification from the Minister’s office. “A clearance of 44 meters beneath to proposed Tanjung Benoa – Serangan bridge

is not in conformance with the master plan of the Benoa Port supported by the governor’s letter of January 21, 2008, which also includes technical considerations,” explained the legislator.

The Bali head of the Transportation Department, Made Santa, admitted that the realization of the “short-cut” bridge connection Denpasar with Tanjung Benoa presents many challenges in trying to balance various competing interests. On the one hand, the bridge can not be so high as to interfere with the flight course of planes taking off and landing at Ngurah Rai International airport. On the other hand, the bridge must provide an under-bridge leeway sufficient to permit handling ships of up to 20,000 gross tons docking at the Benoa port.

In order to address this impasse, the provincial government is undertaking the construction of a cruise ship port at Tanah Ampo on Bali’s East Coast at Karangasem.

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Police: Dutchman confesses to killing Lima woman Associated Press Writer

LIMA, Peru – Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, has confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room last week, a police spokesman said.

Peru’s chief police spokesman, Col. Abel Gamarra, told The Associated Press that Van der Sloot admitted under police questioning Monday that he killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30.

The broadcaster America Television reported that Van der Sloot killed Flores in a rage after learning she had looked up information about his past on his laptop. It said it had access to details of the confession but did not cite its source.

Gamarra would not provide details of the confession. Nor would the chief of Peru’s criminal police, Gen. Cesar Guardia, when the AP reached him by telephone. Guardia said only police director Gen. Miguel Hidalgo could authorize the information to be divulged.

Hidalgo’s cell phone rang unanswered.

Asked about the Van der Sloot

confession, a brother of the victim, Enrique Flores, told the AP “we are not going to make any comment.

This is in the hands of the police, of the justice system.”

Van der Sloot’s confession came on his third full day in Peruvian police custody, on the eve of a planned trip to the hotel in which he was to participate in a reconstruction of the events leading to Flores’ slaying, Gamarra said.

Flores, a business student, was found beaten to death, her neck broken, in the 22-year-old Dutchman’s hotel room.

Police said the two met playing poker at a casino.

Police released video on Saturday from hotel security cameras that shows the two entering Van der Sloot’s hotel room together at 5 a.m.

Saturday and Van der Sloot leaving alone four hours later with his bags.

Police say Van der Sloot left the hotel briefly at 8:10 a.m., returning to the room with two cups of coffee and bread purchased across the street at a supermarket. Gamarra said the case would now be turned over to prosecutors to present formal charges and Van der Sloot will be assigned to a prison while he awaits trial.

Australian Parliament House trashes Obama mugs CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s Parliament House gift shop trashed 200 Barack Obama commemorative mugs — though not because the U.S. president has twice canceled visits.

The mugs were destroyed Monday after a customer pointed out the president’s name had been misspelt “Barrack.”

A government official, who declined to be named citing departmental policy, said the error had been made by an official who ordered the mugs from a manufacturer.

Alan Thompson, head of the Department of Parliamentary Ser-

vices, told The Canberra Times newspaper the error was embarrassing.

“He’s a very important head of state. We take a lot of pride welcoming people like President Obama and we won’t be having them on sale,” Thompson was quoted as saying Tuesday.

Obama has twice canceled scheduled trips to Australia this year. He first bowed out so he could stay in Washington to shepherd his health reforms through Congress. He canceled a trip scheduled this month so he could concentrate on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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President Barack Obama

Reuters – New Japanese leader Naoto Kan speaks to journalists during a news conference at his official residence

Japan’s new PM says he’ll honor base deal with US TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s incoming government named its new Cabinet on Tuesday, keeping core members in place to address the country’s deep economic and foreign policy issues but adding several fresh faces to win back voters ahead of upcoming elections.

Prime Minister-elect Naoto Kan, whose administration will officially be sworn in Tuesday evening, chose to maintain the bulk of the existing Cabinet, including the country’s powerful foreign and defense ministers. But he also added some new, younger members as he seeks favor with voters angered by the former government’s broken campaign promises and financial scandals.

“With freshness and professionalism, we would like to create a government that is thoroughly clean and accountable,” said new Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihito Sengoku.

Among the new picks are Renho, a well-known celebrity and former television announcer who was featured in the media as she grilled bureaucrats in public budget debates last year. The former model, who at 42 will be the youngest member of the new Cabinet, goes by one name and will be minister of administrative reforms.

Kan, who previously served as finance minister, will be replaced by former subordinate Yoshihiko Noda, who favors financial discipline and is against heavy public spending or more borrowing by Tokyo.

Noda must take the lead in crafting the government’s new strategy

on fiscal reform, which is expected by the end of this month. Japan has the largest public debt among industrialized nations, at 218.6 percent of its gross domestic product in 2009, according to the International Monetary Fund.

He has said he sees the Greek debt crisis as a warning for Japan’s tattered public finances.

Japan’s sixth prime minister in four years, Kan was to be officially be sworn in later Tuesday in a ceremony with Emperor Akihito.

The plain-spoken Kan, known for his sometimes fiery temper and for exposing a government coverup of HIV-tainted blood products in the mid-1990s, was elected prime minister in a parliamentary vote last week to replace Yukio Hatoyama, who said he would step down last week amid voter dismay over his broken campaign promises and perceived weakness as a leader.

Hatoyama and powerful ruling party insider Ichiro Ozawa led the Democratic Party to a historic victory last year and initially enjoyed broad popular support. The party’s approval rating also suffered as both men got caught up in funding scandals.

The retention of the foreign and

defense posts are especially important given increased tensions in the region after the alleged sinking of a South Korean patrol ship by a North Korean submarine two months ago, as well as Tokyo’s continuing negotiations over a controversial U.S. Marine base on the southern island of Okinawa.

Kan’s reputation and common roots — in contrast to several of the previous leaders who all hailed from politically elite families — could boost the DPJ’s fortunes, analysts say.

“What the Japanese public wants is a government that solves problems for them. They want a government that works for them, not lofty promises,” said Sheila Smith, a senior fellow at Council on Foreign Affairs in Washington.

Recent polls show that the Democrats have already won back a measure of voter trust.

A poll published Tuesday in the national Sankei newspaper showed that 57 percent of recipients have high expectations for the new government, and support for the party has recovered to 31 percent, versus 18 percent from before Hatoyama stepped down.

The Sankei survey was conducted through random telephone interviews of 1,000 eligible voters.

It did not give a margin of error, but that sampling size would normally have a margin of about 5 percentage points.

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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12 dead, scores missing in Bangladesh ferry accident AFP

DHAKA (AFP) – At least 12 people, including 10 children, drowned and scores more were missing after a packed ferry capsized in northeastern Bangladesh on Tuesday, officials said.

The accident happened in Sunamganj district, about 140 kilometres (85 miles) north of the capital Dhaka, district administrator Kamrul Alam told AFP. “The bodies of six schoolgirls, four small children and two women have been recovered so far,” Alam said, adding that the ferry was overloaded.

He said a search-and-rescue operation was under way, with many of the ferry’s 60 to 70 passengers still missing.

About 40 children on board the small passenger ferry were on their way to school, said district police chief Golam Kibria.

“Their relatives are gathering on the banks of the river now, they are very concerned,” he told AFP. Some adult men on the small, single-deck vessel managed to swim to shore, he said.

Five people rescued from the boat had been sent to the local hospital after nearly drowning during the accident, he added.

Boat and ferry accidents due to lax safety standards and overloading are common in Bangladesh, which is criss-crossed by 230 rivers.

At least 16 people died last month in a boat accident after an overloaded ferry sank in Kishorganj district.

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An overcrowded Bangladeshi ferry in Dhaka.

Australian PM could lose looming election: polls Reuters

CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could lose elections later this year after a dramatic fall in support, two new opinion polls found on Monday, putting pressure on the government to reach a deal on its new mining tax.

Support for the ruling Labour government dropped three points in a month to 47 percent on a twoparty basis, a Nielsen poll in Fairfax newspapers found, showing Rudd was losing votes as he pushes for a controversial 40 percent tax on mining profits.

Tony Abbott’s conservative opposition was on a election winning 53 percent, the poll found, although the Greens were big winners in the drop in primary support for the government, up two points in the month to 15 percent.

“The mining tax is bleeding Labour nationally, not just in affected areas,” Age newspaper political editor Michelle Grattan wrote. “The results emphasize the government’s need to sort out its final position soon, but Rudd has been in no hurry.”

Voters also appeared to back the opposition’s hardline stance

on asylum seekers, while there was also dissatisfaction with the government’s scrapping of a carbon emissions scheme.

Financial markets have so far shown little reaction to polls showing a slide in support for Rudd. Sydney’s benchmarket share index was down around 3 percent and the Australian dollar was also under pressure on Monday, but this was linked mainly to concerns over the global economy and European debt worries.

The next election is likely around October this year, and will be partly fought over the new mining tax, which underpins Rudd’s strategy to boost retirement incomes and wipe out the fiscal deficit by 2012/13.

There are unlikely to be major differences on many core economic policies, but the opposition has promised to abandon the tax if it wins office, while also refusing to consider an emissions trading program.

A second poll, a Newspoll commissioned by the mining industry and published in the Australian newspaper, was conducted in nine key marginal seats, and found the mining tax could cost Rudd the next election.

It found 48 percent opposed the mining tax, while only 28 percent were in favor, while almost one in three said they were less likely to vote for Labour because of the tax.

The Nielsen poll found despite the fall in government support, Rudd remains preferred prime minister with 49 percent support, compared to 39 percent for Tony Abbott.

Pollster John Stirton said the results appeared to signal a protest vote against Rudd, but a protest that is now big enough to tip Labour out of office if it continued through to election day.

Rudd acknowledged the results on Monday and said he now needed to work harder to explain his policies, although he stood firm on his plan for the mining tax, which is due to start in July 2012.

“The reason for this reform, the reason for this big reform, is to keep our economy strong and globally competitive for the future.

That is why we are doing it,” Rudd told Australian radio.

“The other reason, of course, is to ensure that all Australians get a fair share from the resources which they, the Australian people, ultimately own.”

Bomb kills 2 US troops; NATO losses at 23 for June Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan – Two more American troops were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the military said, extending a spike of bloodshed into a second day and pushing the NATO losses in the country to 23 in just over a week.

The latest deaths came as insurgents step up bombings and other attacks ahead of a major NATO operation in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar that Washington hopes will turn the tide of the nearly 9-year-old war.

Monday was the bloodiest day this year for international forces in Afghanistan, when seven American troops, two Australians and a French Legionnaire were killed in five separate insurgent attacks in the south and east of the country. Two civilian contractors training police, an American and a Nepalese, also died in a brazen suicide attack Monday in the southern city of Kandahar.

NATO said two service members were killed Tuesday in a makeshift bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, and the U.S. military confirmed they were Americans. They provided no further details. The deaths took the toll on NATO forces to 23 in June, including 13 Americans, according to a count by The Associated Press.

Half of the Monday deaths — five Americans — were in a single blast in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. spokesman Col. Wayne Shanks said without giving further details. It was a grim reminder the insurgents can strike throughout the country — not simply in the south, which has become the main focus of the U.S. campaign.

Two other U.S. troops were killed in separate attacks Monday in the south — one in a bombing and the other by small arms fire.

NATO said three other service members were killed in attacks Monday in the east and south but gave no further details. The French government announced one of the victims was a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion killed by a rocket in Kapisa province northeast of Kabul. Three other Legionnaires were wounded.

“I think we’re just seeing a hard day in theater,” Lt. Gen. David Hurley, the acting commander of Australia’s defense forces, said in Canberra, announcing his nation’s 12th and 13th deaths in

Afghanistan among some 1,500 troops.

Monday was the deadliest day for NATO since Oct. 26, when 11 American troops were killed, including seven who died in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan. The crash was not believed a result of hostile fire.

U.S. commanders have warned of more casualties as the alliance gears up for a major operation to secure Kandahar, the former headquarters of the Taliban and the biggest city in the south with a half million people.

Last December, President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan to try to stem the rise of the Taliban, who have bounced back since they were ousted from power in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Obama has shifted the focus of the U.S. campaign against Islamist terror to Afghanistan from Iraq, where the U.S. is expected to draw down to 50,000 troops by the fall.

“There are a lot of troops in action, a lot going on at this present time, and this has just been a difficult day for us,” Hurley said. Afghans were also caught up in Monday’s wave of violence.

Five Afghan private security guards were killed and four others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Ghazni province, the Interior Ministry said. Two Afghan security guards were killed and two wounded a gunbattle with insurgents in another part of the province, it said in statement.

Afghan special forces backed by U.S. helicopter gunships battled with insurgents for 12 hours overnight Monday in a remote Taliban-controlled region of northwestern Badghis province, said the commander, Maj. Zainudin Sharifi. Afghan troops counted the bodies of 23 militants on the battlefield on Tuesday morning, he said, adding there were no casualties on the Afghan side.

As fighting escalates, the Afghan government is reaching out to the insurgents in hopes of ending the war.

Last week, President Hamid Karzai won endorsement from a national conference for his plan to offer incentives to the militants to lay down their arms, and to seek talks with the Taliban leadership. The leadership has so far publicly shunned the offer, and the U.S. is skeptical whether peace can succeed until the Taliban are weakened on the battlefield.

Mumbai plans...

From page 1 “This is to meet the aspirations of the global Indian and to establish a landmark for the city,” Lodha said. “We are trying to create the Rockefeller Centre-type experience.”

The base price of an apartment in the tower starts at 75 million rupees (1.63 million dollars) while luxury multi-storey properties could cost up to 10.5 million dollars.

The tower will cost about 440 million dollars to build, the Lodha

group said, adding apartment sales would start later this month.

Sky-high property prices in Mumbai have continued to rise through the global economic downturn, though the city is plagued by severe water shortages and poor infrastructure. City residential rates have risen about 30 percent in the past six months, analysts say.

India’s economy recorded 7.4 percent growth for the year to March, official data released last month showed.

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Indonesia’s smoking toddler cuts back to 15-a-day Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - A chain-smoking Indonesian toddler has cut back to 15 cigarettes a day thanks to “therapy focused on playing”, a child welfare official said Tuesday.

Two-year-old Ardi Rizal shocked the world when a video of him smoking a cigarette appeared on the Internet last month and drew attention to Indonesia’s failure to regulate the tobacco industry.

Six months after his father gave him his first cigarette, the overweight boy from Sumatra island was smoking 40 a day and threw violent tantrums if his addiction was not satisfied.

Child welfare officials called in to try to wean the toddler off cigarettes said that when they played with him he did not smoke as much.

“The boy has been able to reduce his cigarette intake significantly, very quickly, after the treatment,” National Commission for Child Protection chairman Seto Mulyadi told AFP. “The therapy focused on playing — we occupied him with toys so that he forgets cigarettes,” he said. Ardi developed his nicotine addiction while spending his days at a traditional market where both of his parents worked, Mulyadi said.

Simple toys and someone to play with were enough to take his mind off cigarettes, at least for a while. The therapists also encouraged Ardi to associate cigarettes with bad things.

“The boy likes singing songs so we tell him that if he continues smoking, he won’t be able to be a singer one day, and it works,” Mulyadi said.

“It’s much easier to help kids like him than teenage tobacco addicts.” Ardi’s case has highlighted the tobacco industry’s aggressive marketing to women and children in developing countries like Indonesia, where regulations are weak and many people do not know that smoking is dangerous.

Cigarette consumption in the Southeast Asian archipelago of some 240 million people soared 47 percent in the 1990s, according to the World Health Organization.

Indonesia’s biggest cigarette manufacturer, PT HM Sampoerna, is an affiliate of Philip Morris International.

President presents 179 environmental awards Antara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono presented 179 environmental awards on the occasion of the World Environment Day commemoration at the State Palace here on Tuesday.

The awards were given in three categories, namely “Kalpataru” for individuals and groups; “Adipura” for 140 districts and cities; and “Adiwiyata Mandiri” 2010 for 25 schools.

The awards were presented personally by the president, who was flanked by Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta, to the awardees.

The theme of World Environment Day this year is “Many Species One Planet, One Future,” according to Minister Hatta.

He said the theme was crucial for Indonesia where biodiversity was still being overexploited threatening the proper functions and order of the ecosystem.

Biodiversity is an element that forms the environment and functions as the main support for the human survival and welfare, according to him.

The “Kalpataru” awards for the environmental pioneer category were among other things given to Djohan Riduan Hasan from Girimaya, Bukit Intan sub district, Pangkal Pinang, Bangka Belitung Province (Sumatra Island), for his contribution to rehabilitate former-tin mining-site critical land. Another recipient of “Kalpataru” was Mateus Bere Bau from Kewar village, Lamaknen sub district, Belu District, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province, for his service in planting and caring trees in arid and rocky areas for the last 35 years.

Mahyidin from Aneuk Laot, Sukakarya sud district, Sabang, Aceh Province, also received “Kalpataru” Award, for helping rehabilitate mangrove forest.

The two other awardees were Kholifah from Kedung Ringin village, Beji sub district, Pasuruan District, East Java Province, for pioneering in organic agriculture since 1999 by developing bio-pesticides and fertilizers; and Ujang Solikhin, an army soldier, from Kertasari village, Ciamis sub district, West Java, for turning wastes into alternative energy in the form of organic charcoal briquette to replace kerosene.

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Indonesian pro-Palestinian activists Ferry Nur (L) and Muhendri Muhtar (3R) greet family members after arriving at the Foreign Ministry office in Jakarta on June 7, 2010. Five Indonesian activists, including a journalist, who were in the Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces, arrived home in Jakarta on June 7.

Indonesian census turns up woman ‘aged 157’ Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Estimates of the size and composition of Indonesia’s booming population may remain just that despite an ongoing census, if the “discovery” of a 157-year-old woman is anything to go by.

Census officials have said they believe the woman’s claims to have been born in 1853, when Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” debuted in Venice, the Crimean War erupted and San Francisco got its first street signs at intersections.

“There’s no authentic data

to prove her age but judging from her statements and the age of her adopted daughter, who’s now 108 years old, it’s difficult to doubt it,” statistics bureau official Jhonny Sardjono said Monday.

The only person verified to have lived past 120 years of age was Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122.

South Sumatran villager Turinah would be fully 25 years older than Calment when she died, according to officials. Even more incredible, she still works around the house and has smoked clove cigarettes all her life, Sardjono said.

“Despite her age she still has an incredible memory, clear sight and has no hearing problems. She speaks Dutch quite fluently,” he added. Indonesia was a Dutch colony for hundreds of years until 1945. He said Turinah burnt all her identification documents to avoid being linked to an alleged communist coup in 1965.

Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country with a population of around 240 million people.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said the census results will be important for future governance.

Indonesian prison authorities red-faced over jailbreak Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesian police are hunting 26 prisoners who escaped from a jail in restive Papua province on the weekend after most of their guards failed to report for duty, an official said Monday.

The prisoners including robbers and rapists used a rope to scale a four-metre (13-foot) outer wall at Abepura prison, Jayapura district, on Saturday, Abepura prison chief Liberti Sitinjak told AFP. “I’m extremely embarrassed.

Our officers are not disciplined.

Only three of the seven guards turned up for duty that day,” he

said. “The prison isn’t properly secured... the wire fence separating the wall and building is damaged so the prisoners could run away easily.”

He said more prisoners were “waiting their turn” to climb the wall when guards finally spotted them and put an end to the breakout.

Eighteen other inmates escaped from the same prison last month amid reports of a bitter rivalry between wardens over who should be running the jail.

Police have set up roadblocks around Jayapura and along the border with Papua New Guinea in a bid to catch the escapees.

“We’re also carrying out an internal investigation to see if our officers were unprofessional and need to be expelled,” Sitinjak said.

Indonesia’s prison system is riddled with corruption, drug abuse and disease, according to independent monitors. Human rights experts say inmates in Papua, including political prisoners, are often abused and tortured. Papua’s ethnic Melanesian majority has waged a low-level separatist insurgency for decades but foreign reporters and aid workers are denied access to investigate claims of genocide and crimes against humanity.

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Bali Today Economic unification in ASEAN to be realized by 2015 IBP

DENPASAR - ASEAN member states plan to unify their economies five years earlier than it’s initially plan. The ten members countries agree to make the economic unification by 2015. The Indonesia Ambassador to ASEAN I Gde Ngurah Swajaya stated during his trip to Bali.

“The ASEAN member countries are preparing to become an economic entity like the Eurpean Union in Europe. But ASEAN unification will not have single currency like EU,” explain Swajaya who was born at Bondalem, Buleleng.

Further he explained that ASEAN would become a single market. No duties would be imposed any more on trade among member countries.

There will be zero import tariffs among ASEAN countries and this is expected to lower the prices of their goods. Besides cutting import tariffs to zero percent, he said, the agreement would also give opportunity to industries outside ASEAN to build plants in the region.

“ASEAN is to become a production center for world industries. Automotive and other industries must have a production base in one of the ASEAN member countries,” he said. According to Swajaya, the economic unification would benefit the ASEAN

member countries because thereby international investment would flow into the region.

Along with investment, job opportunities would also increase in the region, he said while noting that the ASEAN region was a vast market of about 500 million people.

ASEAN’s economic unification would also mean liberalization of the services sector. Manpower in ASEAN member countries could then work anywhere in the region.

“We will then no longer be able to prevent people from other ASEAN member countries to come to Indonesia to work, provided they meet international certification standards, like medical practitioners and hoteliers,” he said.

The economic unification policy would pose both opportunities and challenges to the people in each ASEAN member country to achieve the highest possible professional quality standards. (kmb18)

Rural tourism in Badung:

Pangsan Village as a pilot project Development of tourism sector in Badung Regency is expected to become motivator of a variety of existing socio-economic potentials.

In addition, it is also intended for the welfare and intellectual life of Badung society.

Therefore, Badung Regency began to develop and pioneer the community-based cultural tourism, as well as to pay attention to environmental aspects. “It is one of the destination development models that can protect the culture of community, to preserve the environment and to involve the public directly.

As the result, Badung started building rural tourism,” said the Head of Badung Government Tourism Office, Made Subawa, recently.

It was also said that the current rural tourism was one of the flagship programs of the Tourism Office of Badung Regency. As a flagship program, it was expected to open new job opportunities in rural areas, to tackle poverty, to invite the community to implement the behavior of Clean and Healthy Living (PHBS).

“Based on monitoring in the field, there are currently a number of villages that have the potential to be developed into rural tourism.

One of them is Pangsan Village,” he said.

Pangsan Village has panoramic and pristine views and various tourist attractions such as rafting and trekking. Rafting has a mileage of 2.5 hours, while two lines of trekking have

relatively hard trekking level with a distance of 5 km and soft-trekking with a distance of about 2 km.

The atmosphere of the route to location of rafting and trekking activity is also very beautiful. Because, when having a promenade around the field, you will be presented with unique attraction of plowing rice fields by Bali cow, planting rice, harvesting rice and other integrated attractions. All of these activities have been perfectly packed into a single entity called Simantri (integrated farming system).

“This is what we have developed at Pangsan Village, so that this village becomes a pilot project for the Bali Provincial Government which is currently developing a variety of programs that also involves plantation, animal husbandry and fishery, including the processing of livestock waste that can produce gas and energy used directly by households,” he said.

In addition, you can also enjoy the attractions of traditional cooking (ngelawar / mebat) which can then be served in person. Meanwhile, traditional arts and a number of existing homes are also ready for accommodation if guests want to stay at this village. “Pangsan Village also has a number of public figures who have enough experience in the field of tourism, so they are ready to accompany a guide,” concluded Subawa. (BTN/015)

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Performance during the Bali’s Art Festival. Bali will welcome a new season this June. It’s the 32nd annual Bali Arts Festival (BAF). This event shows off some stunning treasures of Balinese arts from the classical to contemporary ones and involves school children to the elderly.

Bali Arts Festival 2010:

A festive extravaganza for all communities Immediately, Bali will welcome a new season this June. It’s the 32nd annual Bali Arts Festival (BAF). This event shows off some stunning treasures of Balinese arts from the classical to contemporary ones and involves school children to the elderly. For the whole month, Balinese community and visitors will have an extravaganza. So, do not miss it!

Balinese artists, community and visitors from around the world will come together and indulge their art appetite in the season of art performances on the bijou island of Bali.

It really belongs to them. Participating artists in the festival have made their best preparation finalized through ‘preliminary session’ of Bali Arts Festival held by regencies/city across Bali. Of course, they would like to show off their best for the sake of their respective region.

Perhaps, the most attractive and wanted program in the festival is the gamelan orchestra and dance shows. One of the objectives of the arts festival is to preserve the ancient or classical arts once existed in Bali. Without this endeavor, many dance and gamelan composition treasures owned by Bali may have come to the edge of extinction. Young generation tends to leave their tradition and gets absorbed in living their life with daily routines. So, the presence of festival will revive those dormant arts. It is something like new rendezvous between the arts themselves with their former spectators and young generation.

Gamelan composition like Gong Kebyar always draw myriad of spectators through the years. As if the dynamic tones and lively spirits of the composition could have conjured up every single spectator in the amphitheater. Or dance-drama taking the sequels of Mahabharata or Ramayana all the times had some humorous interludes. It drove people to guffaw. Seemingly, to local people, without seeing these performances would be incomplete.

Meanwhile, another kind of dance called

Joged Bumbung is no less attractive to see.

This social dance can be said as an interactive dance as the beautiful dancer will have a session where she invites one of the spectators to join the dance. This invitation is shown by offering shawl to the appointed audience. All regions across Bali have this Joged Bumbung dance with slightly different version. The dance itself is merely intended for entertainment purpose.

Other than performances above, it also presents some kid traditional games and gallivanting shows. According to local tradition, the latter is intended to exorcise the evil spirits from the territory of customary village. For the show, customary villager or art troupe dances a barong effigy supported by two players. It is performed from one entrance gates to another throughout the village where every family will offer some oblations and in exchange they will obtain holy water to be sprinkled within the house compound and to the entire family members for the unseen (niskala) security.

Hindu psalmody known as kekawin or kidung also jazzes up the festival. It is presented through Utsawa Dharma Gita event or literally means the festival of the songs on dharma. This involves participants of adult and school children. Other than deepening of religious teaching, it also aims at implanting the love to religious literature and entertainment.

Like welcoming the New Year, this arts festival always offers the old and new ‘art products.’ Aside from the basic contents of the festival as mentioned above, it also gives opportunity to local handicrafts, painting exhibition, fashion shows, flower arrangement and Balinese traditional culinary festival. To sum up, Bali Arts Festival has some 100 hundreds of attractions for you to explore. It is the right rendezvous for art enjoyers from around the world while taking pleasure in the magnificence of Bali Island! (BTN/punia)

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Balinese Culture 15 writers take part in “Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2010“ Antara

DENPASAR – Fifteen of Indonesian writers will take part in “Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2010”(UWRF) which will be held in Ubud, Gianyar in October 2010.

Triyanto Triwikromo, one of the curator council in the event, said that the writers are , Kurnia Effendi (Jakarta), Medy Lukito (Jakarta), Nusya Kuswatin (Yogyakarta), Arif Riski (Padang), Zelfeni Wimra (Padang), Wa Ode Wulan Ratna (Jakarta), Andha S (Padang), Imam Muhtarom (Blitar), Wendoko (Semarang), Yudhi Heribowo (Solo), W. Hariyanto (Surabaya), Benny Arnas (southern Sumatera), Magriza Novita Syahti (Padang), Harry B Koriun (Riau), serta Hermawan Aksan (Bandung).

The writers were chosen by the COUNCIL OF UWRF 2010 in their meting in May 2010. The council consists of Triyanto Triwikromo, Balinese poet Cok Sawitri and M Aan Mansyur from Makasar. “There are various reasons why we chose those writers. Generally, they represent the pluralism of literature in Indonesia in term of regency, theme and others,” Triyanto said. They also represent the goal of UWRF 2010 to develop the young and female writers.

Triyanto said “the quality of the text is still the main consideration. The other quality outside the text is put on the back of the judgment list.” While M Aan Mansyur said that the interest-

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Balinese dancers perform during the Ubud Writers’ Festival that held annually on Ubud. ing part of the writers are the variety of year, we received the works from 105 the themes used by them. writers throughout Indonesia. The num“They are very brave, in their young ber is twice more compared to in 2009,” age they can develop the locals theme. she added.

The context of cultural history which The writers will be invited to Bali they use need to be appreciated,” he and their works will be translated into added.

English and will be published into fesHe said that the writers are very tival anthology 2010. They also will get brave in using the theme which is not the chance to meet famous writer such in their native land. The exploration of as Louis de Bernieres. the theme is very important in enrich One of the most famous works of the literature world in Indonesia.

Louis de Bernieres is “Captain Kadek Purnami, the community Corelli’s Mandolin” which is already development of UWRF, said that the translated into 11 languages and had process to select the writers for this year been put to a movie in 2001 starred is far more difficult than last year. “This by Nicholas Cage.

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A group of Indonesian scavengers salvage plastic cups and bottles for recycling at a remote garbage dump in Denpasar, on the resort island of Bali on June 5, 2010 as the world celebrate World Environment Day. The theme of World Environment Day 2010 is “Many Species. One Planet. One Future.” This theme reflects the important task of saving and conserving the different forms of life on the earth.

Ikan Bali (Bali Fish)

Ingredients * 1 Fish, about 650900g dressed Weight.

Preferably sea bass or Mackerel * 1 t Salt * Oil, for deep frying *2T Margarine or oil * 2 sm Onions, sliced * 1 t Sambal Oelek * 1/2 t Laos * 1/2 t Lemon grass * 3 T Tamarind juice * Pinch of ground ginger * 1 t Brown sugar * 1 T Sweet soy sauce

Directions Cut fish into serving portions and rub salt all over.

Feep-fry and drain on absorbent paper.

Heat oil and saute sliced onions until lightly brown.

Add sambal oelek, laos, lemon grass, tamarind juice, ginger, brown sugar and soy sauce. Heat thoroughly.

Place fried fish in deep serving dish and pour sauce over it. Serve with rice. (http://asiarecipe.com)

Indonesian Coconut Beef Ingredients * 1 1/2 lb Boneless sirloin steak, -trimmed * 3 tb Corn oil * 1 lg Spanish onion, sliced * 1 Garlic clove, crushed * 1 ts Ground ginger * 1 ts Ground cumin * 1 ts Ground coriander * 1 ts Chili seasoning * 2/3 c Shredded coconut * 2 ts Light-brown sugar * 1 tb Lemon juice * 1 1/4 c Beef stock * Thin slivers red bell pepper * Chopped green chilies * Small onion slices

Directions Cut steak in 1/2" thick strips.

Heat oil in a saucepan. Add Spanish onion slices and garlic and fry gently until soft. Add beef and fry, stirring, until brown.

Add spices to beef and cook 2 minutes. Add coconut, brown sugar, lemon juice and beef stock; stir well.

Simmer gently, uncovered, 30-35 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until mixture is thickened and dry. Stir mixture more frequently towards end of cooking time to prevent sticking. Garnish with slivers of bell pepper, green chilies and small slices onion. (http:// asiarecipe.com)

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Sanur Beach Sanur Beach is a beautiful white sandy beach with calm and warm seawater located in east part of Denpasar Town. The beach location in eastside and south part of Sanur Village is an edge of Indonesia Ocean. This place has famous since long time, especially when the happening of the Puputan Badung war on 20 September 1906, where that moment the Dutch colonist land its army in this coast. There is a stone monument found in this place as an inscription of Sri Kesari Warmadewa King with the palace in Singhadwala year 917, whereabouts now there are in Blanjong, southern part of Sanur Beach.

Sanur Beach is first time introduced by Belgium artist called A.J. Le Mayeur and his wife named Ni Polok which remains in Sanur since year 1937. He has performed his own masterpiece painting exhibition and start introduces Sanur as a tourist place in Bali. In south-east side, we can see the bunch of Nusa Penida Island and eastside we can see beautiful panorama of Bali strait with its Agung Mount as a backdrop. The tropical atmosphere sweep entire of Sanur Beach that makes it as an ideal place for relaxation. It is also blessed by the breathtaking view of sunrise that one is the fascination for tourist to visit and stay in this

place.

Sanur Beach is located only 4 km from downtown of Denpasar and it can be easily reached by car or motorcycle. It is many visited by foreign and local tourists especially on the weekend and holiday season. At the night of full moon, many people come to this place for relaxation, swimming or enjoy the beauty of coast. The Le Mayeur Museum is one of the art museums in Sanur also a lot of drawing the tourist enthusiasm to visit this place. As a tourist place in Bali, Sanur Beach is one of the alternative place to perform the event from local, national and also international. For example events are held in this place like Kite and Jukung Race. Other tourists facilities can be found in this place are the existence of hotels with international standard like The Grand Bali Beach Hotel, Bali Hyatt Resort, Sanur Beach Hotel and more. The various of this tourism facilities are mixed with other facilities for local resident are making the good combination tourist area which is different like Nusa Dua that is a closed area.

The art shop, accommodation from cheaper hotels until five star hotels, bar and restaurant are quite a lot available in this place. (www.balistarisland.com)

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BUSINESS Time is right for China to reform the yuan Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - The time is right for China to reform its exchange rate regime, and such a move would not have a major impact on the country’s economy, a government researcher was quoted Tuesday as saying.

The pressure on the yuan to rise has waned, which shows the currency’s rate is close to “a market balanced value”, said Fan Jianjun, a financial analyst at the Development Research Centre under the State Council, China’s cabinet.

“Advancing the exchange rate regime reform now will not lead to a sharp appreciation in the yuan and will not cause any significant impact on the real economy,” Fan told the China Economic Times in an interview.

“It is now the best time to push forward the reform of the yuan’s exchange rate regime,” he said.

Critics in Washington and Europe say the yuan, which has effectively been pegged to the dollar for about two years and now stands at 6.8 to the dollar, is artificially kept low to give Chinese exporters an unfair edge.

China insists its yuan policy is needed to protect jobs and Chinese leaders have repeatedly said the country would adjust its exchange rate policy at its own pace

— but Fan’s comments appeared to go far beyond the consensus view.

Fan said the central bank should gradually reduce its role in determining the yuan’s value, and instead focus its efforts on ensuring the healthy and steady growth of the overall economy, the third largest in the world.

“The central bank should go from being a decision-maker on the foreign exchange rate to a participant, or even just a supervisor,” he said, according to the report.

Swiss cuts 2011 growth forecast on eurozone debt woes Agence France-Presse

ZURICH - Swiss authorities on Tuesday cut the country’s growth forecast for 2011 to 1.6 percent from 2.0 percent, citing “increased external trade risks” arising from the debt crisis in the eurozone.

For 2010, however, the State Secretariat for Economics Affairs sees stronger growth than forecast earlier as it raised its forecast from 1.4 percent to 1.8 percent.

“While the growth prospects for 2010 are even slightly better than anticipated until now, the Gross Domestic Product forecast for 2011 in light of increased external trade risks in connection with the euro crisis will be low-

ered slightly,” it said.

The secretariat noted that Swiss exports — about 60 percent of which goes to the eurozone — would be hurt as European states tighten their belts.

“Restrictive financial policy in almost all euro countries at the same time is not likely to be possible without a damping efffect on the economy even if one considers that a reliable financial policy change could create trust in the financial markets and attenuate damping effects on demand,” it noted.

The secretariat also warned that the increase in value of the Swiss franc against the euro was another negative.

The “greatest economic risk for Switzerland is still likely to be

a suddenly excessive appreciation of the franc in relation to the euro,” it added.

The Swiss franc, traditionally a refuge currency, has been gaining against the euro, falling below the psychological barrier of 1.40 francs per euro last week.

The secretariat gave a bearish reading of the eurozone debt crisis, saying that the problem was far from over.

“Despite substantial rescue measures, the underlying financial problems of the affected countries have not yet been resolved.

“Far from existing only in the eurozone, the turbulences in the financial markets therefore form a latent risk,” it said, pointed to high indebtedness in Britain, the United States and Japan.

World’s top bankers meet in Vienna Agence France-Presse

VIENNA - Top international bankers and investors head to Vienna later this week for roundtable discussions on European financial integration and Europe’s role in the global economy.

Top figures such as European Central Bank President JeanClaude Trichet, Austrian central bank governor Ewald Nowotny and billionaire financier George

Soros are all scheduled to hold keynote speeches during the regular spring meeting of the Institute of International Finance (IIF) being held in the Austrian capital from Wednesday through Friday.

The meeting will be chaired

by IIF chief Josef Ackermann, head of Germany’s largest bank Deutsche Bank, with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban, Austrian President Heinz Fischer and Austrian Finance Min-

ister Josef Proell on the guest list.

The list of top bankers expected to attend include the head of British bank HSBC, Stephen King; Jiang Jianqing of China’s ICB; Jes Staley of JP Morgan; and Oswald Grübel of Swiss banking giant UBS. On the agenda are the financial crisis and possible global responses, as well as financial market reforms.

IIF is based in Washington and represents 400 banks in more than 70 countries.

German exports slump in April, trade surplus sheds 20 pct Agence France-Presse

FRANKFURT - Exports from Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, slumped in April and its trade surplus fell by more than 20 percent, data published on Tuesday by the national statistics office showed.

The value of German exports fell by a seasonally adjusted 5.9 percent from their level in March to 74.3 billion euros (88.9 billion dollars), while imports dropped by 7.3 percent to 61.2 billion, the Destatis office said.

German exports had soared in March and economists expected the April figures to show a decline without disrupting the trend that is headed upwards over the longer term.

The world’s second-biggest exporter after China posted an uncorrected trade surplus of 13.4 billion euros, down from a revised 16.9 billion euros the previous month.

The sharp drop in April exports “was the almost natural correction after an exceptionally strong month of March,” ING senior economist Carsten Brzeski said.

Germany has also been pressed by eurozone neighbours and the United States to boost domestic consumption and balance out a persistent trade surplus.

But “looking ahead, with strong global demand and the weak euro exchange rate, exports should continue to be the main driver of the German recovery,” Brzeski added.

Pressure on the euro against

other major currencies eased on Tuesday but the unit remained depressed a day after hitting a four-year low on deepening fears over Europe’s debt woes, Tokyo dealers said.

The single European currency traded at 1.1962 dollars in late Asian trading.

A steep drop by the euro since late last year has boosted many exports from the 16-nation eurozone, and the German economy ministry said on Monday that industrial orders gained 2.8 percent in April on a monthly basis.

That was the result of both stronger domestic and foreign demand, but the value of foreign orders has now reached levels seen before US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008, deepening the global financial crisis.

“The trend in German exports is clearly pointing further up,” Commerzbank economist Simon Junker said.

Berlin will probably have to depend on the country’s well-oiled export machine for a while, after unveiling on Monday deep spending cuts that could curb domestic demand.

By 2014, the government hopes to cut 86 billion euros in spending as part of its effort to reach an essentially balanced budget by 2016 at the latest.

“I think recent months have shown, in the case of Greece and other eurozone countries, how extraordinarily important sound finances are — they are basic conditions for stability and prosperity,” Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

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Aspire to host your own talk show?

Oprah wants you Regular people achieving extraordinary things.

“The landscape and acceptance of ordinary people on television is widely accepted ... Much in the way ‘American Idol’ finds unknown people (to be recording stars) there’s no reason we can’t find someone who deserves their own show,” he said.

Aspiring hosts can upload videos to Oprah.com under categories like traditional talk show, cooking, health and wellness, and interior design. It’s possible to also watch and vote on submitted videos. Inperson casting calls are AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file happening this month in FILE - In this May 3, 2010 file photo, Atlanta, Dallas and Orange Oprah Winfrey arrives at the MetropoliCounty, California. tan Museum of Art Costume Institute Sheletta Brundidge, a gala in New York. talk radio personality and blogger in St. Paul, Minn., plans to Associated Press Writer NEW YORK – Oprah Winfrey be in Dallas for the open casting, wants to give an undiscovered tal- pitching a show about marriage menent a chance to follow in her foot- tors. “People have professional mentors to guide them through their casteps on her new cable network.

The talk show host is teaming reers, so why not have marriage menup with reality TV producer Mark tors to help young couples who are Burnett on a show searching for the struggling with their new lives?” next big TV personality. “Your Brundidge said Monday.

Burnett said the most important Own Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star” will air on the Oprah advice he can give someone who Winfrey Network beginning in wants to be considered is to be real.

“Try to be authentically yourself.

January, the same month of Show energy,” he said. “Donald OWN’s launch.

Trump gave me the greatest advice Winfrey is ending “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in September 2011 with ‘The Apprentice’: Find people after 25 seasons. In a phone inter- with the greatest energy source ... view from Los Angeles, Burnett — you’ll be hard-pressed to show me the man behind such shows as someone who has their own show on “Survivor” and “The Apprentice” TV who is not energetic and who has — said the premise fits perfectly charisma.” The host of “Your Own into what people like to watch: Show” has yet to be announced.

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Demi Moore set to publish memoir in 2012 Reuters

NEW YORK – Hollywood actress Demi Moore is all set to go public in a memoir with details of her three marriages and showbusiness career spanning three decades.

HarperCollins said on Monday that it had bought world rights to a memoir by the actress that will cover her life and career. The book, as yet unnamed, is scheduled for release in 2012.

Business news website Crain’s New York.com quoted unidentified publishing industry executives with knowledge of the deal saying HarperCollins had agreed to pay more than $2 million for the book. HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis declined to comment on the reported price tag.

Moore, 47, has starred in a list of movies including “Ghost,” “Indecent Proposal,” and “A Few Good Men,” as well as some widely-panned films such as “Striptease” and “G.I. Jane.”

The actress has in the past acknowledged a troubled upbringing and difficult relationship with her alcoholic mother, Virginia King, who died from a brain tumor in 1998.

Moore was once one the highest paid actresses in Hollywood and in 1991 controversially appeared naked and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine.

Moore was married to singersongwriter Freddy Moore for five years from whom she took her surname before marrying actor Bruce Willis in 1987, a marriage that lasted 13 years and resulted in three daughters, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah. She married actor Ashton Kutcher, 32, in 2005.

AP Photo/Jason Redmond

Actress Demi Moore arrives at the ‘Killers’ premiere on Tuesday, June 1, 2010, in Los Angeles.

Marvin, youngest of Isley Brothers, dies at 56 Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO – Marvin Isley, the bass player who helped give R&B powerhouse the Isley Brothers their distinctive sound, has died at a Chicago hospital. He was 56.

Isley died Sunday morning at an inpatient hospice at Weiss Memorial Hospital, according to hospital spokeswoman Catherine Gianaro. She could not confirm a cause of death.

AP Photo/Magic Sound Productions

This picture provided by Magic Sound Productions on November 1984 shows Marvin Isley of the group Isley-Jasper-Isley. Marvin Isley, the bass player who helped give R&B powerhouse the Isley Brothers their distinctive sound, died at a Chicago hospital on Sunday, June 6, 2010, according to a hospital spokesperson. He was 56.

Isley stopped performing in 1996 after suffering complications from diabetes that included a stroke, high blood pressure, the loss of both legs and use of his left hand.

He joined his brothers’ band in 1973.

By that time, the Isley Brothers had established themselves with hits like 1959’s “Shout,” which sold more than 1 million records. Isley splintered off to form Isley-Jasper-Isley in the 1980s and returned to the Isley Brothers in the 1990s. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and their career has spanned six decades.

At one point there were five Isley brothers in the group, including Marvin.

Today, only Ronald Isley is touring full time after a three-year stint in federal prison for tax evasion.

The group’s hits included “Twist and

Shout,” later recorded by The Beatles, “Love The One You’re With,” and the Grammy-winning 1969 smash, “It’s Your Thing.”

In a 2001 interview, Marvin Isley told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he regretted spending decades ignoring his diabetes. “If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn’t have happened,” Isley said at the time.

In 2000, he settled a lawsuit against his older siblings stemming from a dispute over money from the estate of his deceased older brother, O’Kelly Isley, and from a $7 million plagiarism award against Michael Bolton relating to the group’s 1966 song “Love Is A Wonderful Thing.” Funeral arrangements were not immediately available.

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Secret Revealed: How Crocodiles Cross Oceans How did the world’s largest living reptile, the saltwater crocodile, reach so many South Pacific islands separated by huge stretches of water despite being a poor swimmer?

Apparently, like a surfer catching a wave, these goliaths can ride currents on the ocean surface to cross large areas of open sea, researchers now reveal.

The saltwater or estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is a ferocious giant that can grow at least 23 feet long (7 meters) and weigh more than 2,200 pounds (1000 kilograms).

These scaly monsters have been known to devour sharks, and even attack things they can’t eat, often assaulting boats in the mistaken belief they are rivals or prey, biting down with nearly 2 tons of pressure - powerful enough to crush bone or punch through aluminum hulls.

These deadly predators hunt in tropical areas throughout eastern India, southeast Asia, northern Australia, and on an untold number of the islands in-between. Although these crocodiles spend most of their lives in saltwater, they cannot be considered marine reptiles the same way sea turtles are, because the crocs rely on land for food and water.

There were already many anecdotal accounts of large crocodiles sighted far out at sea, but nothing confirmed. Now, for the first time, using sonar transmitters and satellite tracking, scientists now find that saltwater crocodiles actually do ride

surface ocean currents for long-distance travel, enabling them to voyage from one oceanic island to another.

“Because these crocodiles are poor swimmers, it is unlikely that they swim across vast tracts of ocean,” said researcher Hamish Campbell, a behavioral ecologist from University of Queensland in Australia. “But they can survive for long periods in saltwater without eating or drinking, so by only traveling when surface currents are favorable, they would be able to move long distances by sea.”

Crocodile river travel

Working at the remote Kennedy River in northeastern Australia, the team of scientists - which included the late Steve Irwin, “The Crocodile Hunter” - tagged 27 adult seawater crocodiles with sonar transmitters, employing 20 underwater receivers deployed along a 39-mile-long stretch of the river (63 km) to track the reptiles’ every move for more than 12 months. They found both male and female adult crocodiles undertook long-distance journeys, regularly traveling more than 30 miles (48 km) from their home area to the river mouth and beyond into open sea.

AP Photo/Journal Times, Scott Anderson

The scientists also discovered the “salties” always began long-distance travel within an hour of the tide changing, allowing them to go with the flow. They halted their journeys by hauling out onto the river bank or diving to the river bottom when the currents turned against them.

The researchers originally were just aiming to investigate the territorial habits of the crocodiles and how they divvied up land among themselves. “I never thought they would be making these long-distance journeys out to sea,” Campbell told LiveScience.

Slimmer iPhone with clearer screen due June 24 Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/Paul Sakuma

Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the new iPhone 4 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Monday, June 7, 2010, in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO – The next iPhone comes out June 24 and will have a higher-resolution screen, longer battery life and thinner design.

CEO Steve Jobs opened Apple Inc.’s annual conference for software developers Monday by demonstrating the iPhone 4, which will cost $199 or $299 in the U.S. with a two-year AT&T contract, depending on the capacity. The iPhone 3GS, which debuted last year, will still be available, for $99.

Some of the mystery surrounding Apple’s latest creation had been punctured in April, when the tech blog Gizmodo bought a lost iPhone prototype for $5,000 and posted pictures of the unit. Apple demanded it back, and authorities have been investigating whether a Gizmodo editor broke any laws.

“Stop me if you’ve already seen this,” Jobs said Monday as he started his demo.

The iPhone 4 is sleeker and more advanced than the original iPhone that came out in 2007. Like the iPhone 3GS, it comes in black or white, though it has a more angular look. Its front and back are covered with glass, and it is

rimmed with stainless steel that acts as part of the phone’s antenna.

It is about three-eighths of an inch thick; the iPhone 3GS is nearly half an inch. It can shoot high-definition video, catching up to some other smart phones. It has a gyroscope in addition to other sensors, to enable more advanced motion-sensing applications, such as games and mapping services.

The display on the iPhone remains 3.5 inches diagonally, but Jobs noted that it can show four times as many pixels — the individual colored dots that make up an image — as the previous screen. That makes for a sharper appearance.

One of the most noticeable changes is the iPhone’s new camera on the front that can be used for videoconferencing, in addition to a five-megapixel camera and a flash on the back. For now, the videoconferencing function, FaceTime, works only if both parties to the call have an iPhone 4 and are connected over Wi-Fi rather than a cell phone network. Jobs indicated that FaceTime will eventually work over cellular networks, saying Apple needs to “work a little bit” with wireless providers to make it “ready for the future.”

A West African dwarf crocodile rests under a heat lamp in a pool at the zoo on Friday, June 4, 2010 in Racine, Wis. Three crocodiles and one turtle are being housed indefinitely at the zoo but will not be on exhibit. These, and hundreds of other reptiles were discovered in a building on Milwaukee’s south side on May 13.

Millionaire’s test rocket reaches orbit on 1st try Associated Press Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A multimillionaire’s test rocket blasted off on its maiden voyage Friday and successfully reached orbit in a dry run for NASA’s push to go commercial.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket achieved Earth orbit nine minutes into the flight as planned, drawing praise from NASA, the White House and others eager for the company to start resupplying the International Space Station.

“This has really been a fantastic day,” said an exuberant Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder. He said Friday’s launch helps vindicate President Barack Obama’s plan to give private companies the job of ferrying cargo and ultimately people to the space station, freeing up NASA to aim for true outer space.

“This bodes very well for the Obama plan,” said Musk, the co-founder of PayPal. “It shows that even a sort of small new company like SpaceX can make a real difference.”

In a telephone news conference, Musk said celebratory margaritas were on his immediate radar. But he’s already looking ahead to the next Falcon 9 launch this summer and, hopefully, the first cargo run to the space station next year. Astronauts could follow within three years of the company getting a contract from NASA, he said, and quite possibly average citizens in five to six years.

“This is the dawn of a new era in space exploration, I think a very exciting era and one which I think will lead to the democratization of space, making space accessible to everyone eventually,” Musk said.

“Yeah, I think this is really a historic moment.”

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Rooney raring to go for England Agence France Presse

AFP PHOTO/ ANTONIO SCORZA

Brazil’ striker Kaka (R) shakes hands with teammate Robinho during a WC2010 friendly football match on June 7, 2010 at the National stadium in Tanzania, ahead of the WC2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa. Brazil won 5-1.

Robinho, Kaka lead Brazil, 5-1 over Tanzania Associated Press Writer

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Robinho scored two goals and Kaka added another as Brazil easily defeated Tanzania 5-1 Monday in its last warmup before the World Cup. Robinho scored first with a shot from inside the penalty area in the 10th minute and added to the lead with a header in the 33rd at the National Stadium. Substitute midfielder Ramires scored his first two international goals in the 52nd and in injury time, while Kaka chested in a cross in the 76th.

“There is still something missing. But we still have a week to go before the opener and we will work to get better,” said Kaka, who came into the match nursing a thigh injury but played the entire game.

Ta n z a n i a ’s l o n e g o a l w a s scored by Jabir Aziz from a corner kick in the 87th minute. Brazil started the match with all regulars except goalkeeper Julio Cesar, who is nursing a back injury and didn’t even travel from t h e t e a m ’s t r a i n i n g c a m p i n Johannesburg.

Brazil is in Group G at the World Cup and starts its schedule against North Korea on June 15 before facing Ivory Coast on June 20 and Portugal five days later.

Wi t h Ta n z a n i a P r e s i d e n t Jakaya Kikwete watching,

Robinho gave Brazil a 1-0 lead with a low shot from inside the area after a through ball from Kaka. He found the net again with a header after a cross by left back Michel Bastos.

Ramires eluded one defender before dribbling into the area and scoring his first international goal. Kaka made it 4-0 from inside the 6-yard box, receiving a cross from Maicon and turning the ball into the net with his chest. Ramires’ second goal was a header into the far corner in injury time against 108th-ranked Tanzania.

RUSTENBURG, South Africa – Wayne Rooney played down concerns over England’s lacklustre World Cup build-up and insisted he was raring to go ahead of the opening group C clash with the United States here on Saturday.

Fabio Capello’s side have looked unconvincing in their warm-up internationals against Mexico and Japan and that impression was confirmed by another disjointed display in the 30 win over South African Premier League side Platinum Stars on Monday.

England did however look much sharper once Rooney came on as a second half substitute and the Manchester United striker created his side’s second goal before claiming the third for himself.

“It was a good run-out, we needed to get the game in and to play 45 minutes felt good so I was happy,” Rooney said.

“I think we got out of it what we needed. I would have liked to have got a bit more of a game but I was happy with the 45 minutes.

“We are ready - these are preparation games for us for the big one now coming up on Saturday. I just can’t wait now. The sooner it comes, the better.”

Rooney’s input into Monday’s match came at a price with the striker picking up a booking for dissent and generally charging around in a manner which would have reminded many England fans of his conduct in the 2006 quarter-final against Portugal, in

which he was sent off before England lost out in a penalty shootout.

Team-mate Jermain Defoe however believes that Rooney cannot completely shed his aggressive, competitive edge.

“When you’ve got that fire in your belly as a player can be good,” Defoe said. “If you take that away from Wayne, then he won’t be the same player.”

Defoe backed Rooney’s view that England are ready to challenge at this World Cup, although he acknowledged they were still adjusting to the 1500m-plus altitude of South Africa’s high veldt.

“It was a really good work out.

With the conditions, the altitude and the heat, it made it difficult, but it helped with the fitness for what is ahead.

“You do notice the altitude here when you’re running around. It’s different, and we’re a lot higher here than we were in Austria but I’m sure we’ll get used to it in training.

“I don’t think we could be better prepared for a World Cup. I think everything we’ve done - the training, the fitness work - has been spot on.

“The hotel is brilliant. We’ve got everything we need, so the preparation has been good and, if you prepare right, you get results.”

Defoe added: “Everyone’s hungry. We want to win it. We’ll take each game as it comes, but I think we’ve got that winning mentality.

“We’re winning games and we want to take that into a tournament now.”

S.Africa ‘hot shot’ Mphela warns Mexico Agence France Presse

JOHANNESBURG – Lone South Africa striker Katlego Mphela promised on Monday he would take his hot form into the opening World Cup match against Mexico.

Mphela grabbed six goals for the host nation in five warm-ups last month, including two each against international football lightweights Thailand and Guatemala.

But the star linked with English Premiership outfit Birmingham City accepted goals would be much harder to come by against rivals who completed

an extensive build-up by defeating World Cup holders Italy 2-1 in Brussels.

“I have watched the Mexicans against England, Netherlands and Italy and they are good,” noted the striker who came to the fore during the dress rehearsal Confederations Cup last June.

“If I get a chance to score I will as the last five matches have done wonders for my morale and that of other players. We are ready for Mexico,” he told reporters.

“Our opponents can be sure of one thing - they are heading for a tough 90 minutes,” warned Mphela ahead of the Friday afternoon opening match at Soccer

City in the four-yearly international football showpiece.

Mphela sprang to prominence by scoring twice against winners Spain - including a brilliant free kick - in the Confederations Cup third-place play-off.

But as Bafana Bafana (‘The Boys’ in isiZulu) went into an eight-loss slump, Mphela also suffered as his predatory skills vanished and confidence plummeted.

There was even talk of the physically formidable 25-year-old being sacrificed for Benni McCarthy, but the West Ham striker could not match the fitness benchmark and failed to make the final 23-man squad.

AFP PHOTO / PAUL ELLIS

England’s Wayne Rooney shoots on goal during a friendly football match between Platinum Stars and England at The Moruleng Stadium near Rustenburg on June 7, 2010 ahead of the start of the 2010 World Cup football tournament.

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Hall of Famer Cowens urges LeBron to stay in Cleveland Reuters

BOSTON – LeBron James should remain with the Cleveland Cavaliers and eschew the freeagent market for the good of the league, the community, and most of all, himself, Hall of Famer Dave Cowens said on Monday.

James will soon become a free agent and speculation on where the two-times MVP will land has triggered a spirited guessing-game across the North American sporting landscape.

Cowens, a seven-times All-Star power forward with the Boston Celtics during the 1970s-80s, said he hoped James would try to win the NBA championship with the Cavaliers.

“If I was LeBron I would stay in Cleveland,” Cowens told Reuters on the eve of Game Three of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. “He can make his money anywhere, even in the smallest market in the NBA. “He could be in New Orleans, Utah, he’s still going to command his international fame and the dollars that go along with that.

“Why he would leave Cleveland,

I don’t know. He has no problems with the owner and the fans certainly want him.”

James will become a free agent next month and fans of several major-market clubs, especially New York, Chicago, and Miami, are hoping the Cleveland-area native jumps ship.

The 25-year-old has been with the Cavaliers for his entire seven-year NBA career and remains searching for his first championship.

Cleveland had the league’s best record this season (61-21) but were bounced in the second round of the playoffs by the Celtics. The Cavaliers also made the NBA Finals in 2007 only to be swept by San Antonio.

The team’s history of postseason pain has heightened speculation James will be on the move.

Cowens, 61, said the Celtics and the Lakers, the NBA teams with the

most titles, have a tradition of keeping players throughout their careers and James should take note.

“A lot of guys take pleasure in the fact they’ve only played for one team. With the Celtics, you had (Bill) Russell ...(John) Havlicek, the Jones boys (Sam and K.C.) and Larry Bird,” said Cowens, who played 10 of his 11 years in Boston.

“With the Lakers, there was Jerry West, Kobe Bryant and others. They played there and just stayed there.

“That’s something that’s good for the whole league, it’s good for the player and it’s good for the community.”

Cowens, who works in the Detroit Pistons’ front-office but will leave at the end of the month, predicted the NBA Finals, which are tied 1-1, will go the full seven games though he would not name a winner. “Who is going to win the title is anyone’s guess,” he said. “I have no idea.”

Mirza makes winning return after wedding Agence France Presse

BIRMINGHAM – India’s Sania Mirza made a winning return to action after her wedding to Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik as she defeated Chan Yung-Jan 6-1, 6-4 in the first round here on Monday. Mirza had taken several months off from tennis to focus on her personal life before controversially marrying Malik in April.

The tense nature of relations between India and Pakistan meant political groups in her homeland protested against the 23-year-old’s decision to marry Malik.

Mirza’s picture was burnt on the streets of

(AFP/File/Noah Seelam)

Indian tennis player Sania Mirza, seen here on May 6, made a winning return to action after her wedding to Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik as she defeated Chan Yung-Jan 6-1, 6-4 in the first round here on Monday.

Bhopal, where activists from the right-wing Hindu nationalist Vishwa Hindu Parishad party vowed to stop her competing in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October.

But, with the storm of controversy dying down, Mirza has been able to return to tennis and she quickly rediscovered her rhythm on the Birmingham grass-courts as she swatted aside Chan, a 20year-old from Taipei.

Meanwhile, Thailand’s Tamarine Tanasugarn, a Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 2008, cruised through as the 14th seed won 6-2, 6-2 against Lilia Osterloh of the US. Britain’s Laura Robson, who last week had to offer an abject apology for an interview she had given where she labelled some of her fellow players as ‘sluts’, advanced to the second round when her Swiss opponent Stefanie Voegele retired with a back injury in the second game of the second set.

Robson, a junior Wimbledon champion in 2008, had taken the first set 6-4 as the 16-year-old claimed the first WTA tour win of her young career.

Croatia’s Mirjana Lucic, a Wimbledon semi-finalist in 1999, gave a glimpse of a talent that seemed to have been lost for good as she beat Mariana Duque Marino 6-1, 6-2.

Lucic walked away from tennis in 2003 after falling out with her father and the 28-year-old, who had been ranked as high as 32nd in the world, is only now beginning to rebuild her career.

The 28-year-old has been playing largely on the ITF circuit in the USA, improving her ranking to 195th, and her win over Marino was her first in the main draw of a WTA Tour event for more than three years.

Sesil Karatantcheva, a Sofia-born Kazakhstani, continued her rehabilitation from a drugs suspension as she beat Britain’s Katie O’Brien 6-3, 6-4.

Karatantcheva reached the French Open quarter-finals in 2005 before earning a two-year ban after testing positive for nandrolone.

There was also success for Michelle Larcher De Brito, the Portuguese teenager best known for the ear-piercing scream she lets out before most strokes.

Larcher De Brito moved into the second round with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 win over Ekaterina Dzehalevich.

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Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James stands on the court against the Boston Celtics during the fourth quarter in Game 6 of their NBA Eastern Conference playoff basketball series in Boston, Massachusetts May 13, 2010.

Cyclist Landis hires LeMond lawyer: report Agence France Presse

NEW YORK – Floyd Landis, who last month admitted doping throughout his cycling career and accused Lance Armstrong and others, has hired a law firm that once represented US cyclist Greg LeMond, the New York Daily News reported.

Landis, formerly of US Postal and Phonak, caused a sensation last month when he admitted to systematic doping prior to being stripped of his Tour de France crown in 2006.

The American also accused seven-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, among other former teammates at the now defunct US Postal team, and the team’s manager Johan Bruyneel, not only of doping but also conspiring with an International Cycling Union official to have a positive Armstrong test suppressed.

Armstrong and Bruyneel have categorically denied all the accusations.

The newspaper cited “two people with knowledge of the situation” as saying Landis has received a “strongly-worded” letter from the office of Hein Verbruggen, a former president of the UCI who was accused by Landis of colluding to suppress a positive drug test for Armstrong.

Pat McQuaid, who took over as president of the UCI in 2006, confirmed that the letter had been sent from UCI’s general counsel.

“They are asking him to cease and desist from making statements he’s made about Mr. Verbruggen in the past few weeks because they are not true,” McQuaid told The News on Monday, according to a story posted on the newspaper’s website.

The Daily News said that Landis has hired the law firm of Wilson Sonsini

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Floyd Landis, who last month admitted doping throughout his cycling career and accused Lance Armstrong and others, has hired a law firm that once represented US cyclist Greg LeMond, the New York Daily News reported.

Goodrich and Rosati, a firm that represented three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond in various lawsuits, including a recent dispute with the Trek Bicycling Corporation. “He’s our client,” Mark Handfelt, a partner at the firm, told the newspaper.

According to the newspaper, a team of lawyers from the firm will advise Landis in the event he faces a criminal case or defamation lawsuit.

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‘Webber could have prevented the accident’ Whilst the majority of paddock observers pinned the blame on Sebastian Vettel for the collision between the two Red Bulls in Istanbul, one ex-F1 star suggests the immovable object should have given best to the irresistible force.

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Red Bull’s Australian driver Mark Webber walks in the paddock of the Istanbul Park circuit on May 30, 2010, after the Turkish Formula One Grand Prix. McLaren Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton won the race ahead of McLaren Mercedes’ British driver Jenson Button and Red Bull’s Australian driver Mark Webber.

Final preparations for World Cup in South Africa Agence France Presse

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa put the finishing touches to its World Cup preparations, rolling out the continent’s first highspeed rail link on Tuesday, as organisers told critics it was time to put doubts aside.

The three-billion-dollar Gautrain began whisking passengers from Johannesburg’s international airport into the uptown Sandton district, just three days before the tournament begins.

The 100-mile-an-hour link will be one of the key legacies of the tournament and is intended to show that Africa can build transport facilities to rival those of anywhere in the world.

“I have been in Johannesburg just for one hour — the airport and here — but I really thought this was a first world service,” Costa Rican football journalist Gustavo Jimenez told AFP as he stepped off the train at Sandton.

“That’s not only because of the facilities and the building, but also

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A ticketing machine for the Gautrain, South Africa’s first highspeed train, is pictured in Johannesburg in May. South Africa is putting the finishing touches to its World Cup preparations, rolling out the continent’s first high-speed rail link, as organisers tell critics it is time to put doubts aside.

because of how much effort they are putting in to helping users,” he added as a security guard helped him hail a taxi to take him to his hotel.

In fact, security guards outnumbered passengers, reflecting the desire by authorities here to deflect fears that a country with one of the world’s highest crime rates is no place to stage the world’s biggest sporting event.

Tickets from the airport to Sandton cost around 13 dollars, a small fortune for most South Africans but much cheaper than the cost of a taxi ride.

And while traffic snarl-ups mean the journey usually takes around an hour, the Gautrain will cover the distance in around a quarter of that time.

Strikes and subsidence problems have ensured that only the terminus at Sandton, a swanky suburb which is home to the Johannesburg stock exchange and a massive shopping mall, has opened in time for the World Cup. But the train will eventually take passengers into the central business district, the suburb of Rosebank and onto Pretoria, the seat of government.

The highway between Pretoria and Johannesburg is the busiest in the country and the journey can be a two-hour commute at rush-hour, but the same trip on the Gautrain should take just 42 minutes. Michael Bettendorf, a 27-year-old investment banker from Trier in Germany was another impressed passenger. “It’s more modern than the trains in Trier.

Bucking the general trend amongst paddock observers, ex-F1 star Gerhard Berger has pointed the finger of blame firmly at Mark Webber for the contentious and costly coming-together between the Red Bull Racing team-mates in the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul just over a week ago.

Following much debate and a degree of criticism that Red Bull’s immediate response was to back Sebastian Vettel – widely-regarded as the perpetrator of the incident, and a driver who some suggest is RBR’s favourite son, to the detriment of Webber – the Australian and German have since made up and agreed to put the disagreement behind them for the sake of team unity, in public at least.

However, ten-time grand prix-

winner Berger – the former coowner of Red Bull ‘junior’ outfit Scuderia Toro Rosso – has now waded into the argument by claiming that Webber squeezed Vettel until contact was inevitable, agreeing with Dr. Helmut Marko’s initial assessment that the immovable object should have let the irresistible force through.

“That Webber left him (Vettel) only the dirty bit of the track was at first legitimate,” the Austrian is quoted as having said by ESPN, “but when Vettel was half a car-length ahead, Mark needed to realise that he should give his team-mate some air to breathe. “Webber could have prevented the accident. Had Vettel been in a McLaren, then Webber could have done what he did. In that case, he must not give way.”