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A farmer replaces the plant destroyed by grasshopper and snail.

Pests Attack Crops in Buleleng Singaraja (Bali Post) –

If the rice field in Tabanan was attacked by mouse, the rice field in Buleleng is attacked by grasshopper and snail. The farmers are afraid that their rice will be dead before can be harvested.

The condition is happening in Subak Tengulun, Tukadmungga village in Buleleng. Several weeks after the rice was planted, the plant is attacked by grasshopper and snail. The leaf will be eaten and eventually the plant will die. The current data show that the grass-

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the second time this season. He predicted that 15% of his crops destroyed by the pests.

He said that he already conducted many efforts to prevent the spread of the pests, one of them is by using insecticide. However, the grasshopper and snail seem to be

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hopper and snail already attack more than 1 hectare of land. If the prevention steps are not conducted then the plague will spread to other villages.

Ketut Mardi, a farmer in Tukadmungga, said that the plague have been attacking their crops for

immune to the insecticide.

“The snail is very difficult to be killed because they are protected by their shell. We are also preparing ceremony to prevent the spread of the pest,” he added.

Since the pests spread, farmers always hunt the snail day and night in order to prevent the destruction of the crops. “Some of the farmers even are trying to sell the snail to the market but the price is very cheap,” Mardi added.(kmb15)

BCA Indemnifies the Money of Customers Denpasar (Bali Post)—

ATM fraud case towards a number of banks is now stirring the Bali’s community. In fact, victims of break-ins continue to grow until reaching 15-20 victims. Police and the bank were confused after knowing the case for the first time happened in Bali. Because from the existing number of casualties, the losses reach hundreds of millions of rupiah.

Spokesperson of Bali Police, Gde Sugianyar, when asked for his confirmation, last Wednesday (Jan 20), justified the increase of ATM fraud victim. “We do not know for

sure the number of victims. Clearly there are three banks becoming the target of skimming, namely BCA, Permata and BNI,” said Sugianyar to journalists last Wednesday.

The former Head of Balikpapan Sector Police explained he did not know surely about the number of victims because victims reported the case to many places. Some victims reported their case to Kuta Sector Police, Denpasar Metro Police and the Bali Police. “There are about 15-20 victims who have reported their case. The loss reached half a billion,” he said.

What are the measures of Bali Police in responding to this ATM

fraud? Sugianyar explained, his party should make coordination with the cyber crime team. Cyber crime team would conduct investigations related to this ATM fraud.

“Strongly alleged, transaction of money was made through ATMs,” he estimated.

It was in view of the withdrawal or transaction of the victim occurred on Saturday and Sunday.

“Well, these indications imply the transactions were done through ATMs. If transactions were conducted in the bank, it was not possible because the banks were closed on those days,” explained Sugianyar in the midst of the safety riding so-

cialization in Kuta last Wednesday.

Furthermore, it was explained similar cases have occurred overseas. Perpetrators were known to install a sophisticated tool to withdraw their victim’s money. The tool could track the data in ATM card and copy them. Even, the PIN number of victims could be detected.

On that account, incidents ensuing in Bali could be possibly like what happened overseas. “We are not sure what really happened, especially the cause. The crimes occurred in the ATMs because of the lack of security system such as the non-existence of CCTV,” he said.

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Bali News Revision of Denpasar Spatial Layout Plan

Open Green Space of 35 Percent Questionable Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Denpasar City administration planning to revise its Regional Regulation No. 10/1999 on Denpasar Spatial Layout Plan (RTRW), again takes a long time. Having been submitted to Bali Provincial Government for the verification, it must now be discussed again by the ranks of Denpasar House. Because, the submission of such regional regulation draft was done before the draft of RTRW Bali was validated. Ironically, some materias that have been contained in RTRW Denpasar should be reformed again because they must be adjusted to the materials as stipulated in the Regional Regulation of RTRW Bali.

To make the materials draft of RTRW Denpasar synchronous with RTRW Bali, Denpasar City Government sent back the revised draft to the ranks of Denpasar House. Even, the Commission B of Denpasar House has been discussing internally a number of issues arising in the regional regulation draft. “We in the commission have discussed some of the articles deemed necessary to be asked or discussed together,” said a member of Commission B, I Wayan Suadi Putra, when met last Wednesday (Jan 20).

Suadi Putra said one of the points that would become the question of the ranks of the House, namely the determination of green open space

(RTHK) reaching 35 percent. This determination would be done by seeing first real condition in the field today whether the current conditions of RTHK Denpasar sufficed the percentage or even vice versa. “We will confirm first the basic consideration to get RTHK at 35 percent,”said the representative of the people from Sidakarya.

This condition was also agreed by the Head of Commission B, Eko Supriyadi. However, Eko confessed the discussion on the materials of RTRW draft would be performed more seriously by special committee. Yet, at the moment the House has not formed a special committee that would discuss this regional

regulation draft of RTRW. “While waiting for the formation of the special committee, we in the commission discuss it in accordance with the work of committee,” said Eko Supriyadi last Wednesday.

Regarding to the making of Serangan-Tanjung Benoa toll road, Eko said, the commission did not discuss it specifically. Moreover, the problem of Serangan-Tanjung Benoa toll road has become the authority of Bali Provincial Government. “If there is a discourse rejecting the project, it does not represent an institution, or commission, but an individual opinion. Because, institutionally we do not discuss it,” explained Eko. (kmb12)

Reaching Thousands of Patients

JKBM Patients Overcapacity at Sanjiwani Hospital Gianyar (Bali Post)—

The number of patients who used the Bali Mandara Health Insurance (JKBM) coming into force at the beginning of January 2010 until last Wednesday (Jan 20) reached the thousands. And this number tended to progressively increase. This condition made the in-patient room of Sanjiwani Hospital overcapacity because it had limited patient bed. Consequently, the patients were to be left at inpatient room of higher class (class II) that actually should be treated at in-patient room of class III. Spokesperson of Sanjiwani Hospital, Gede Yudiarta, when asked his confirmation told since the application of JKBM program the number of patient indeed showed an increase. Pursuant to recent data, the number of JKBM patients at Emergency Room was

188 people, 518 outpatients, 285 inpatients and 219 patients that have gone home.

For patients using JKBM facilities, Sanjiwani Hospital could only accommodate as many as 86 patients in class III as defined in the guidelines. The amount has been already optimal. Actually, after the implementation of JKBM programs, Sanjiwani Hospital management has added a number of inpatient beds in some rooms. On average, each room could accommodate 6 to 8 patients.

Meanwhile, in relation to the JKBM program, there were 89 inpatients at Sanjiwani Hospital.

With a total capacity of 86 patients in the room of class III, some patients should be entrusted in class II room while waiting for the patients who checked out from the class III room. Yudiarta added, the surging number of JKBM patient

at Sanjiwani Hospital patients within several times ahead was predicted to increase. Such overcapacity problem has also been resolved by taking some solutions such as by entrusting some JKBM patients in several class II rooms at Sanjiwani Hospital.

Inpatient rooms at Sanjiwani Hospital belonging to class III consisted of Sahadewa Room with bed capacity for 24 patients, Nakula Room for 17 patients, Arjuna Room for 6 patients, Abimayu Room for11 patients, Mifas Room for 6 patients, and children room for 15 patients. To anticipate the increasing number of patients, Sanjiwani Hospital has alerted medical personnel to provide services to JKBM patients. Without addition of new medical staff, hospital management optimized the existing medical personnel and increased their mobility at the respective occupancy rates, he explained. (kmb16)

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A frame of billboard is seen in one of the road in Denpasar.

The placement of advertisement often become a problem in bid city such as Denpasar.

Three Offenders of Regulations Imposed with Sanction Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The Denpasar civilian security guards (Trantib) and public order officers (Satpol PP) imposed strict sanctions to offenders of regulations. Unfortunately, out of the six businesses summoned by the Trantib to attend misdemeanor trial (tipiring), only four businesses of three owners that met the summon. Meanwhile, two others were absent without clear reasons.

Civil Servant Investigator (PPNS) and Satpol PP of Denpasar, I Gusti Putu Alit Artika, met after attending the misdemeanor trial, last Wednesday (Jan 20), admitted the law violators were imposed with misdemeanor sanction. However, for the number and size of fines imposed to each offender would become the authority of judges in the Denpasar Court.

It was said, the three business owners who ran modern store business were sentenced a fine of IDR 300,000. This sanction was taken to provide a deterrent effect to businesspeople in Denpasar in order they complied with administrative

requirements. “Perpetrators ensnared were declared to have violated different regulations, according to the type of infringement,” he said.

Alit Artika recognized the violated regulations, including Regional Regulation No. 6/2001 on the building, Regional Regulation No. 9/2009 about a modern shop permit, and Regional Regulation No. 7/2005 on permit of business location (SITU) and disturbance permit (HO). Previously, when the team did the raid, many business locations were encountered inappropriate with the area utilization as intended. For instance, previously the business sold furniture, but today it has been transformed into a modern store, so its permit should be adjusted.

Meanwhile, for business owners that did not come last Wednesday, would be summoned again. These businesspeople ran their business on Jalan Teuku Umar and Jalan Letda Made Putra. “For those who did not come in the previous trial, we will summon them back,” said Alit Artika. (kmb12)

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Due to Kuwum Case

Sukaja to be Flunked

by Black Campaign Tabanan (Bali Post)—

After a group of Tabanan branch executive board Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (DPC PDIP) and branch advisory council made a visit to Central Executive Board (DPP) in Jakarta, the reason why I Wayan Sukaja was kicked from the position as regent candidate began to reveal. Allegedly, Sukaja was removed due to suspicion case of corruption on the Kuwum Bridge project, Marga. A whisper was delivered to the Chairperson of the PDIP Megawati mentioning that the former Head of Tabanan House might be involved in the case, even he could become a suspect if the prosecutor would re-open the case.

Head of the DPC PDIP Tabanan, Made Sudana, confirmed this matter when contacted via phone, last Wednesday (Jan 20). He said the Chairperson of DPP PDIP Megawati Sukarnoputri was still difficult to change the recommendation of volume II. The package of regent candidate—deputy regent candidate, Eka Wiryastuti—Komang Sanjaya, stayed to be maintained. Strong information mentioned Bridge, Marga, where he was made a witness in the case.

Sudana explained, his party, namely branch advisory council (Depercab) of DPC Tabanan and regional representative council (DPD) of PDIP Bali have met DPP PDIP at the secretariat on Jalan Lenteng Agung, 99, South Jakarta. His party was accompanied by Head of DPD PDIP Bali, AA Cok Ngurah Ratmadi alias Cok Rat. All members of the group met with Secretary General of PDIP, Pramono Anung.

Sudana said, Pramono expressed his concern with disputes in Tabanan. In principle, said Sudana, Pramono shared

the same views with the DPC and the Depercab to maintain the position of Tabanan regent candidate for Sukaja.

Pramono delivered the results of a survey conducted after the special working meeting of the branch (Rakercabsus) by DPP, Sukaja was ranked the highest. Thus, he was really desired by society and entitled to get a mandate to lead the region. However, he said, the most determining was Megawati.

After meeting with Pramono, Sudana said not all groups could meet in person with Mega. Only the Head of the DPD PDIP Bali Cok Rat and the Secretary General Pramono Anung were allowed to face. After the triangle meeting between Mega, Pram and Cok Rat, Megawati insisted on replacing Sukaja with recommended package of volume II. Sudana admitted he did not to know the reason because he was outside and only Cok Rat and Pram were dealing with Mega.

However, rumors disseminating mentioned Sukaja was flunked be-

cause of corruption allegation case on the Kuwum Bridge project, Marga.

There were groups whispering Megawati that the case could be reopened and Sukaja could be named as a suspect. Actually, the case already had legal power and Sukaja was only as a witness. It was the black campaign that made Sukaja dumped with the issuance of recommendation of volume II No. 3117/IN/DPP/I/2010 dated January 14, 2010 on the revocation of the previous recommendation letter No. 3017/IN/DPP/XII/2009 regarding to recommendation for Sukaja-Eka, and then replaced with the new recommendation for EkaSanjaya emerging surprisingly.

Related to such corruption allegation case on Kuwum Bridge, Head of Tabanan Attorney, Ni Putu Indriati, asserted Sukaja was only as a witness, while the defendant was Wayan Wetra Suyasa sentenced to one year in prison, but still appealed to the Bali High Prosecutor. “Sukaja was only as a witness in the case,” she said. (kmb14)

Responding to Disappointment of Rabies Committee Executive Prepares Emergency Fund Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Provincial Government of Bali stays serious in eradicating the rabies cases on the Bali Island, despite the budget cuts happen to rabies prevention. The reduction of proposed funding by rabies committee will be taken from the emergency funds while waiting for the stipulation of revised budget.

“Budget reduction does not necessarily mean Bali Provincial Government is not serious in handling rabies,” asserted Spokesperson of Bali Province, I Putu Suardhika, last Wednesday (Jan 20) on responding to the disappointment of Bali House Special Committee on Rabies trimming the budget from IDR 6 billion to IDR 2.9 billion.

According to Suardhika, if budget allocated exhausted in the middle of the term, it would be covered by funds taken from emergency fund and could be re-budgeted in the revised budget. Unfortunately, Putu

Suardhika did not specify further about the real money that would be deducted from the emergency fund.

“Its withdrawal is based on necessity and its administration procedures will not be complicated,” he said while stating to agree with the Bali House Special Committee that rabies cases needed prompt treatment so as not to damage the image of Bali as a tourist destination.

His party has confidence the budget would not exhaust before the time, though also used for animal health as a whole. His belief was not without a reason. The reason, the vaccine has been provided by free of charge, so the government of Bali Province would be unnecessary to spend money again. Possibly, the sectors required the funds would be for field officers of elimination, and officers of vaccination. These expenditures items were believed not to trigger the problem.

Suardhika added, the efforts to

eradicate rabies disease in the island of the gods required the support of various components, both public and groups of animal care.

Without participation and support of all Balinese community, rabies eradication efforts would not produce maximum results. Suardhika also reminded the community of dog owners to treat their animals well in order to prevent the spread of rabies. If they were pet dog, they should be tied up and treated with the best in terms of food and health.

As reported previously, Head of Special Committee , Putra Nyoman Astawa, admitted to feel disappointed with the Bali Provincial Government policy cutting the budget of rabies prevention. Trimming funds from IDR 6 billion to IDR 2.9 billion was said as the indifference of the executive in realizing the desire to make Bali free from rabies in the year 2012. (015)

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Residents Protest against Landfill of Sidayu Beachside Semarapura (Bali Post)—

Sidayu Customary Villagers complained to Klungkung Regency Government following the dredging and the landfill activities at the area of Sidayu Beach. If neglected, local residents worried that their coastal border would shrink so that people lost a place to carry out spiritual activities such as melasti. Therefore, local residents asked Klungkung Regency to act immediately in order to anticipate the occurrence of any inconveniences in the future.

Complaints of local residents were submitted through the Head of Sidayu Customary Village, Nyoman Karma, together with his apparatus, Ketut Suarjana, to the Deputy Regent of Klungkung who is also the Team Leader of Klungkung Justiciary Team, Tjok. Gede Agung. In their complaints, the Head of Sidayu Customary Village did not want Sidayu coastal area experience the same fate as other region.

This coastal area is often used for ceremonial activities. “It is now still under dredging and landfill stage. Therefore, prior to construction began, residents expected the government through

the team soon followed up to location as anticipative endeavor,” asserted Karma before the Deputy Regent.

When asked for confirmation, last Wednesday (Jan 20), Deputy Regent Tjok. Agung admitted he had ordered Klungkung public order officers (Satpol PP) to follow up the complaints of residents. Deputy Regent praised the endeavor of customary village immediately reporting any activities potentially harmful to society in their area. Consequently, the anticipation could be taken early before the development process went further. “Like at Sengkiding area, we received no information but suddenly an illegal villa has been built there. In fact, the team thought the invasion ofvilla only occurred at coastal area,” asserted Tjok Agung.

On the other hand, Satpol PP of Klungkung Regency directly conducted a site inspection. Yet, the dredging and landfill work have accomplished.They did not encounter any activities around Sidayu Beach.

Satpol PP only found the land that was filled and alleged to belong to a resident from Denpasar that would like to build a tourist lodge. (kmb20)

After the Fire

No Budget Allocated for Penataran Temple Restoration Semarapura (Bali Post)—

Restoration of Penataran Agung Temple inKlungkung indicated no sign of improvement following a great fire afflicting the temple in last July 2009.

Government of Klungkung Regency did not allocate any budget to help the transit temple of Ida Betara Besakih in the 2010 budget. It was visible from the shortage of budget allocation as stipulated in the budget plan of Klungkung being under discussion stage between the executive by the legislature.

Non-allocation of budget in financial year 2010 was caused by the committee of temple restoration did not make coordination or audience with the Klungkung Regency during the budget allocation process and put it into the Budget Working Plan (RKA). The committee composing of some figures of Klungkung Palaces, Semarapura Customary Village and some leaders of working units in Klungkung Regency as well as legislators had just made audience before Klungkung Regent, Wayan Candra, last Tuesday (Jan 19).

Accepted by Candra Regent, DeputyRegent, Tjok Gde Agung and Secretary, Ketut Janapria, the representatives of the Committee made audience together with ofTjok. Agung Semaraputra, Tjok. Bagus Oka and Head of Semarapura Customary Village, Nyoman Rena. “The committee board should be revised because its formation was not acknowledged by the regent. Meanwhile, the decree of committee should be handled by the regent,” asserted Deputy Regent Tjok Agung, last Wednesday (Jan 20) yes-

terday.

Admittedly, the committee making audience to the Regent when the preparation process was complete and has been discussed. However, according to Tjok Agung, Klungkung Regency was truly committed to help the restoration of Penataran Temple.”There remains opportunity to allocate fund taken from some working units. Most importantly, the committee formation should be completed first,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Development Committee, Cok. Bagus Oka, mentioned the matter on committee revision was not a crucial issue. To improve it, Agung Bagus said that there were two options, where the first options was the decree of Committee must be handled by the regent who formed the committee. The second option, the committee established was maintain as it is where the regent only gave acknowledgement.

“Possibly, the second option ha great opportunity to be selected, namely maintaining the current committee and the regent only gives acknowledgement. In essence, it will not become a burden for government,” asserted Cok Bagus while mentioning the relation with the budget of the Klungkung Regency where committee would follow the procedures and government budgeting mechanism.

Meanwhile, according to the committee’s proposal, the estimated budget required to restore the temple would reach IDR 4.925 billion. Previously, the Penataran Agung temple experienced terrible fires last year. Until now, it was unknown the exact cause of such fire. (kmb20)

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Friday, January 22, 2010

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Aus PM calls for perspective over Indian attacks AFP

SYDNEY (AFP) – Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Thursday urged India to keep perspective on a string of attacks on Indians in Australia, a day after New Delhi warned the violence could damage ties between the two nations.

Rudd, speaking to reporters in Adelaide, said the attacks were regrettable and had become “difficult matters” for both countries, but insisted they should be kept in “context.”

“Obviously these are difficult matters in India, they are difficult matters in Australia,” he said after incidents including the fatal stabbing of an Indian-born student in Melbourne that have inflamed diplomatic tensions.

“We are working through them in a practical and effective way over time,” he said, adding that 100,000 Indians are currently studying in Australia.

Rudd said he accepted that, “regrettably” there had been violent incidents recently.

But he urged that they be viewed in the context of “broader incidences of violence to students of other ethnic backgrounds ... against Australian students,” or violence more generally in the

nation’s larger cities.

The prime minister said the vast majority of Indian students were embraced by the Australian community and faced no problems while studying Down Under.

“I think it’s important to keep all this into its context,” Rudd stressed.

The comments came as Canberra moved to calm the situation after Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna on Wednesday warned of harm to Indian-Australian relations after a taxi driver was attacked in the town of Ballarat on Friday.

“It is very unfortunate that this should keep repeating, which does not augur well for our bilateral relations,” Krishna told reporters in New Delhi.

The victim of the latest assault suffered bruising to his upper body and swelling to his face after being assaulted by four passengers aged between 16 and 18.

Simon Overland, the police commissioner of the state Victoria where many of the attacks have taken place, has admitted that police began to realise two years ago there was a problem involving crime against Indians.

“I have said from day one undoubtedly some of these attacks have a racist motive,” he said.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with the foreign press in Jerusalem

New Israeli demand complicates US peace mission AP

JERUSALEM – Washington’s Middle East envoy faced a new obstacle Thursday as he launched his latest attempt to revive IsraeliPalestinian peace talks: Israel wants to keep troops on the West Bank’s border with Jordan even if a deal is reached.

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An activist burns an image of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest in New Delhi.

Palestinians rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand, made just before U.S. envoy George Mitchell arrived in Israel on Wednesday.

Mitchell has been laboring without success for a year to get both sides back to the negotiating table, and Netanyahu’s new demand made his mission even more formidable.

Netanyahu said Israel must maintain a presence “on the eastern side of a prospective Palestinian state” to keep militants from using the territory to launch rockets at Israel’s heartland. The eastern side of such a state would be the part of the Jordan Valley that lies in the West Bank.

Saeb Erekat, a confidant of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,

Russia responds to U.S. missile plans for Poland Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will strengthen its Baltic fleet in response to U.S. plans to deploy Patriot missiles in Poland, Russian state news agency RIA reported on Thursday, citing an unnamed senior navy official.

“The surface, underwater and aviation elements of the Baltic Fleet will be strengthened,” RIA quoted the unidentified Russian navy official as saying.

The United States is dispatching the missiles to Poland after dropping an earlier plan to de-

ploy interceptor missiles in the NATO nation as part of an anti-missile system in Europe.

“In connection with the plans to install the Patriots on Polish territory in the next 5 to 7 years, there may be significant changes in the approach to define the tasks and the military potential of the Baltic Fleet,” RIA quoted the same source as saying. A spokesman for the Russian navy declined to comment.

Warsaw said this week it would station the Patriot missile battery in the northern city of Morag, near Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad.

A high-ranking source in Poland’s Foreign Ministry said Warsaw was not overly concerned about Russia’s reported plan.

“Let’s stay calm. Such strengthening, even if it becomes true, is no direct threat to Poland,” the source told Reuters.

“The Russians have known about the Patriots for at least two years. So there is no reason to react to unofficial comments.”

Based in Kaliningrad, Russia’s westernmost territory, and in Kronstadt near St Petersburg, Russia’s Baltic Fleet includes surface ships, diesel-powered subma-

rines, a military aviation wing, search and rescue vessels and landbased vessels. The flagship is the destroyer Nastoychivy, which entered service in 1993.

Poland and the United States signed a deal in November that paves the way for the deployment of a U.S. Patriot missile battery on the U.S. ally’s territory.

Poland, perturbed what it says is Russia’s more assertive foreign policy, has long complained that it hosts no U.S. troops or major military installations despite sending troops to help in U.S.-led missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

called the demand “absolutely unacceptable.”

“The borders of the state of Palestine will be Jordan,” Erekat told Israel Radio. “The Jordan Valley is ours, is Palestine. Why do they insist on being on our territory?”

The Palestinians have refused to sit down with Israel until it stops all construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, saying it is eating up lands they claim for their future state. Israel, which captured both areas in 1967, has slowed settlement construction in the West Bank, but has applied no restrictions in east Jerusalem, which Netanyahu hopes to retain.

Israel also says negotiations should begin immediately with no conditions, but the Palestinians accuse Israel of heaping plenty of conditions of its own, including the demilitarization of a future Palestinian state, the retention of east Jerusalem and now, a military presence along Jordan’s border.

To stake out these positions “and then tell us, come negotiate: Negotiate on what, Mr. Netanyahu?You left nothing to negotiate,” Erekat fumed. The hard-line Israeli leader heads a coalition largely opposed to the sweeping territorial concessions that would be necessary to clinch a peace deal with the Palestinians. He himself had long refused to endorse the concept of Palestinian statehood, doing so only in June under intense U.S. pressure.

Mitchell is to meet with Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials on Thursday, and with Palestinian officials in the West Bank on Friday.

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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

Clinic Mas Jl. Raya Mas, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974573 Toyo Clinic Jl. Pengosekan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 978078 Permata Bunda Clinic Jl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 942082 Ubud Clinic Jl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974911 Gianyar General Hospital Jl. Ciung Wanara 2, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 943049 Karangasem Karangasem General Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai, Karangasem Phone : +62 363 21001 Klungkung Klungkung General Hospital Jl. Flamboyan 40-4, Klungkung Phone : +62 366 21371 Negara Negara General Hospital Jl. Gelar, Negara Phone : +62 365 41006 Tabanan Laboratorium Clinic Jl. Gunung semeru No. 8, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 819260 Mengwi Clinic Jl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 880550 Darma Kerti Hospital Jl. Teratai 16, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 812359 Tabanan General Hospital Jl. Pahlawan 14, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 811027 Singaraja Prodia Clinic Jl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 24-516 Singaraja Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 22-573 Pet Clinics Kayumas: (0361) 226934 Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121 Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018 Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518 Sidakarya: (0361) 724492 Pedungan: (0361) 720026

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

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News S.Lanka opposition alleges post-poll coup plan AFP

COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s main opposition said Thursday it feared President Mahinda Rajapakse would use the military to remain in power if he was defeated in next week’s elections.

Opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka accused the government of pushing senior army commanders to appear on state-run television to express their public support for Rajapakse.

“By getting very senior officers to side with the president, the government is preparing the ground to hold on to power by using the army to suppress the people’s will,” Fonseka’s spokesman

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Prince William, center, talks with Richard and Diane Fox, left, who survived 2009 Victorian bushfire

Prince William meets Australian wildfire survivors AP

MELBOURNE, Australia – A somber Prince William met Thursday with emotional survivors of last year’s deadly wildfires in southern Australia, doling out comforting words and occasional kisses to those who turned up to greet him.

The 27-year-old prince’s trip to Victoria state, on the last day of his Australia tour, came two weeks shy of the first anniversary of the fiery disaster that has become known as Black Saturday, when hundreds of blazes raced across huge parts of the state, killing 173 people and destroying more than 2,000 homes.

William was clearly moved by the experience, speaking later at a reception in Melbourne about the impact it had on him.

“Today on the outskirts of Melbourne, I was privileged to see the spirit of Australia in its purest, most magnificent form,” he said. “The stories of suffering I have heard today inevitably made me think about the ongoing tragedy of Haiti. Our thoughts and prayers remain with everyone there.”

Earlier, the prince wore a yellow ribbon to honor those affected by the fires and greeted locals at a relief center in the closeknit community of Whittlesea, which has served as a hub for survivors who once lived in the devastated surrounding towns.

There, the second in line to the British throne quizzed Victorian Premier John Brumby about the fires, and looked through a book of photos showing the damage from the blazes.

“It’s terrifying what it can do, isn’t it?” he said.

Debbie Morrow told the prince about losing her home. He asked about her family, who now live in a caravan and shed.

“He was very concerned and wanted to know if we would be rebuilding,” she said.

Another woman burst into tears and

thanked William for supporting those affected by the fires.

“Not at all,” he told her. “It is a privilege to be here.”

Hundreds turned out to greet the prince, who stopped to shake hands and pose for pictures outside the center.

“We didn’t lose family or any friends, so we consider ourselves very lucky,” said Bronwyn Hocking, 30, who moved to Whittlesea after her home, near the blackened town of Kinglake, was destroyed in the blazes. “The royal family have been really supportive of Australia and everyone, and we just want to wave and say thank you.”

The prince then traveled to nearby Flowerdale, where he met about 200 residents at a temporary village set up outside the devastated town.

William got to work, putting on an apron and helping to cook a barbecue lunch for locals.

The sight of the charred landscape made an impact on the prince.

“I could not believe it when we drove through,” he said. “The vast scale of it all.

It really brings it home.”

The prince has had a packed itinerary on his unofficial three-day tour of Australia.

He spent his first two days in Sydney, where he visited a local Aboriginal community, met with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, stopped by a military base and enjoyed a barbecue feast along the city’s glittering harbor.

He is scheduled to return to Britain on Friday.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake told reporters.

Rajapakse called Tuesday’s vote two years ahead of schedule to benefit from the government’s defeat of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels after decades of ethnic warfare on the island.

But he faces a surprise rival to power in Fonseka, the former general who led the troops to victory in May. The two fell out over who deserved credit for crushing the rebels, and allegations that Fonseka was himself planning a coup after being sidelined.

Military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara denied that senior officers were being dragged into the election battle.

Vietnam under fire over jailing of dissidents AFP

HANOI (AFP) – Vietnam Thursday came under fire from the United States and activists after jailing a group of dissidents for up to 16 years for trying to overthrow the communist regime.

“The accused had already been convicted in the pages of the newspapers before the trial started,” said Shawn McHale, director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at Washington’s George Washington University.

After a day-long trial in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday, human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh, 41, French-trained computer expert and blogger Nguyen Tien Trung, 26, Internet entrepreneur Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, 43, and Le Thang Long, 42, were convicted of “activities aimed at subverting the people’s administration.”

Thuc received a 16-year sentence, Trung seven years, while Dinh and Long each got five years, prompting swift criticism from Britain and the US. “Nobody should be imprisoned for peacefully expressing their opinions. Freedom of expression and the free flow of ideas are essential for a flourishing economy and society,” British foreign office minister Ivan Lewis said.

“Verdicts like these only serve to harm Vietnam’s international standing.”

US ambassador Michael Michalak expressed concern “about the apparent lack of due process in the conduct of the trials” and urged the immediate release of the four, along with other “prisoners of conscience.”

The convictions “also raise serious questions about Vietnam’s commitment to rule of law and reform,” he said.

Months before the trial began state-linked media reported that the accused had all admitted their guilt.

Some observers see their case as linked to next year’s Communist Party Congress, when highranking leadership posts will be determined. It was the most high-profile case in a series of arrests and convictions of dissidents and bloggers over

the past year.

London-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International said the convicted men were “prisoners of conscience” and said they should be immediately released.

“The trial made a complete mockery of justice, disregarding fundamental human rights such as the principle of presumption of innocence and the right to defence,” said Brittis Edman, Amnesty’s Vietnam researcher.

“The prosecution gave no evidence to support the indictment,” Edman added.

McHale, in an emailed response to questions from AFP, said the indictment “strained belief.”

Judge Nguyen Duc Sau convicted the men of a well-organised non-violent campaign, in collusion with “overseas exile reactionary organisations,” aimed at overturning the government with the help of the Internet.

Trung’s supporters have set up a website where they denounced “this sham of a trial”.

The US-based Vietnam Reform Party, which Vietnam calls a “terrorist group”, issued a statement Thursday which said the convictions showed Vietnam was being held back by its current system.

“In a country where the legal system is an extension of the ruling Communist Party, charges and trials against democracy activists are nothing but a crackdown on political freedom and Vietnam’s progress,” said the group, also known as Viet Tan. The case sends a message that political pluralism outside of the ruling party will not be tolerated, McHale said. But even though one-party rule may continue for a long time, a more pluralistic environment is evolving.

“I think that the government (and in particular the Communist Party) misfired on this one,” he said.

Unlike in the 1990s, the Vietnamese government has a hard time controlling what its citizens read and think as they travel more widely and explore the Internet, he said.

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From page 1 With these incidents, Sugianyar hoped people would not panic. For customers who have not changed their PIN number, it was suggested doing so immediately and regularly.

“This should be done to avoid hackers,” he added.

Money Indemnified

Victims of ATM fraud were unnecessary to feel restless on responding the existence of these horrendous incidents. Money of bank customers, especially customers of BCA has been indemnified by the bank. This was revealed by Chief Operating Officer of BCA

Hassanudin, Paul Mudjiangtoro, when asked for his confirmation last Wednesday.

On responding to the horrendous trend of ATM fraud, Paulus from BCA Hassanudin Branch has made coordination with its central office. And they judged it was not the customers fault. “We do not know why. Obviously, we indemnify the customer’s money by 100 percent,” he said.

How many victims have received such indemnification? Paul said his party did not know for sure. “Estimated, there were about 15 customers. We (BCA of Hassanudin Branch—ed) only covers the area of Denpasar, Tabanan, Ubud and Gianyar. Meanwhile, Kuta office is different,” he said. (kmb21)

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Indonesia eyes pet market for endangered tigers Agence France-Presse

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Indonesian police aboard an armoured vehicle arrive as warring Amungme tribe leaders hold peace talks to end a deadly tribal war in Kwamki Lama in restive eastern Papua province on January 20, 2010 as the police have been authorised to take action in the Amungme tribal feud. Two tribesmen and a 13-year old boy died in separate clashes which started early January allegedly over adultery committed by a man and woman from two families from the Amungme tribe in the village, Mimika district deputy police chief Jeremias Routini said.

Bows and arrows, spears and machetes are traditionally used by Papuan tribes to settle their disputes.

Thousands of East Java workers reject ACFTA Antara

SURABAYA - Thousands of workers from various districts in East Java hit to the streets here on Thursday to protest against the implementation of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA).

The protesters, grouped in the National Workers Association (SPN) from the districts of Gresik, Sidoarjo, Pasuruan, Mojokerto, Jombang, and Surabaya staged their protest rally outside the East Java Provincial Legislative Assembly (DPRD) on Jalan Indragiri to reject the implementation of the free trade agreement.

Sudarmadji, the coordinator of the rally, said ACFTA would pose a serious threat to the workers in East Java because the domestic products were feared to be less competitive than the Chinese products that continued to inundate domestic markets.

“The government should anticipate it because ACFTA will only make the people miserable,” Sudarmadji said in his oration in front of DPRD office building.

While in Semarang, Central Java, thousands of workers grouped in the Kota Semarang Labor Movement (Gerbang) also staged similar rally on the same day to protest against the ACFTA. The protesters started their rally in front of the Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) office on Jalan Ahmad Yani from where they marched to the Provincial Legislative Assembly (DPRD) building under tight police security.

Gerbang coordinator Nanang Setiyono in his oration said the free trade agreement with China would only deliver the people to the clutches of imperialism.

“For a developed country like China, the free trade agreement is certainly profitable but for Indonesia it is a serious threat because it will

have a negative impact on domestic industries which are less competitive than those of other countries,” Nanag Setiyono said.

He said adherence to the free trade agreement could cause the closure of many local industries and mass lay-offs and thus worsen the unemployment problem.

“Therefore, we resolutely reject free trade agreements of any kind, including the one with China, and ask the government to stop it,” Nanang said.

Central Java Provincial Legislative Assembly deputy chairman Bambang Sadono came out of the building and met the protesters. He said the workers’ aspiration would be taken as an input by the assembly which would take up the matter with the central government.

“Central Java Governor Bibit Waluyo will today send a letter to the central government and ask for a postponement of the free trade agreement,” Bambang told the demonstrators.

Privatization will raise electricity price Antara

JAKARTA - The program of privatizing or liberalizing authority in controlling the electricity sector in Indonesia, may eventually lead to an increase in the price of electricity (TDL) as setting the rates will be entirely left to the market mechanism.

“Leaving the management of the power sector to independent power

producers would only raise the price of electricity,” general chairman of PT PLN’s labor union Ahmad Daryoko told a panel discussing Electricity Law no 30 of 2009 at the Constitutional Court building in Jakarta Wednesday.

He said if the management of the electricity sector is left to the IPPs (independent power producers), there would be several other companies taking part in the production

process reaching the consumers.

Giving an example he said that the rate in Indonesia reached 7 US dollar cents per kwh, in the Philippines, following privatization, the rate reached 20 US dollar cents per kwh. In this context, Ahmad said he will seek the assistance of a British expert in explaining Indonesian authorities the dangers and risks if the power sector in Indonesia is left to the IPPs.

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has hatched a plan to save Sumatran tigers from extinction by allowing people to adopt captive-born animals as pets for 100,000 dollars a pair, officials said.

The forestry ministry said the plan could be put into practice as early as this year despite reservations from environmentalists, who say the focus should be on protecting habitats for the remaining 200 tigers in the wild.

“We’re not selling or renting tigers. We’re only authorising people to look after them,” forestry ministry conservation chief Darori told AFP. “These people will have to follow certain conditions. The tigers will still belong to the government.”

He said interested owners would have to “deposit” a billion rupiah (108,000 dollars) for a pair of tigers, which he called a “guarantee towards conservation”.

The minimum area required to keep a pair would be around 60 square metres (646 square feet), although something the size of three football fields would be better, ministry officials said.

The animals’ health would be monitored by government experts and mistreatment would be punished by fines or jail terms.

“Let’s think of the tigers’ new homes as mini-zoos,” Darori said.

Another ministry official, Didi

Wuryanto, dismissed fears the scheme could put a price on the heads of the few remaining wild tigers, which are nearing extinction due to habitat loss on their native Sumatra island.

Much of the jungle which the tigers call home has been destroyed by rampant illegal logging overseen by the forestry ministry, forcing the animals into lethal competition with villagers.

“The chances of people trapping Sumatran tigers alive in the wild and selling them are very low because of the high risk of getting caught and people finding out about it,” Wuryanto said.

He said there were about 30 captive-born tigers in Indonesia.

“This idea of selling the tigers to the public came about after several wealthy businessmen proposed buying them,” Wuryanto said.

Greenpeace Southeast Asia forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said the government might not like to admit its plan amounted to selling critically endangered tigers as pets, but that was what would happen.

“Whatever the term used, this is the same as selling tigers. The government doesn’t care about tigers, only about people with money,” he said. “This isn’t the solution to save tigers. The correct solution is to save the forests first.”

Activists also said the forestry ministry, seen as one of the most corrupt organs of the Indonesian government, could not be trusted to administer a tiger trade.

Government to pay special attention to five domestic industries Antara

JAKARTA - The government is to pay special attention to the conditions of five domestic industries following the implementation of the ASEAN-Cina Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA), a minister said.

The five industries are iron and steel, textiles and garments, base organic chemicals, furniture and energy-saving lamps, Industry Minister MS Hidayat said at a hearing with House Commission VI here Wednesday.

Without measures to protect them from ACFTA’s impact, the industries could become underutilized, be forced to lay off workers or even to close down.

In regard to the iron and steel industry, ACFTA called for the reduction to zero percent of existing tariffs on such products as HRC, concrete iron, CRC, wire rods, wires, nuts and bolts.

But a few trade defense instruments such as anti-dumping rules were already in place for HRC

from five countries - China, India, Thailand, Taiwan, and Russia.

In addition, adherance to Indonesia’s National Standardization (SNI) code would be required for imported HRC, steel plates, zinc plates, aluminum-zinc-covered rolls, and concrete iron, he said. On imported nails, a trade safeguard would apply, while imported iron and steel products could enter the country only via certain ports.

To be hit worst by ACFTA in the textile product industry were cloth and garments intended for the domestic market as well as the products of small and medium enterprises. About the base chemical and wood-panel furniture industries, he said they were now already reducing their outputs. “If ACFTA’s zero- percent tariff is implemented, these industries might close down,” he added.

ACFTA’s impact on the shipbuilding industries, he said, would be an increase in Chinese imports.

This would also happen because the domestic industries were able to produce only 618,000 DWT per year.

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Bali Today GWK Foundation offer investment to government Antara

DENPASAR – Garuda Wisnu Kencana foundation (GWK) offered a chance to Bali Government to invest their fund in the form of local obligation in the foundation. The investment is needed to preserve the cultural value of Bali.

Gde Ardika, the founder of GWK foundation, said “we offered the chance for Bali Government to take part in conserving the values of Bali.” In a meting with the member of Bali House of Representative, he said that GWk in Ungasan village is to make it as the icon of Bali in business and culture.

“The idea of the establishment of the area is to combine business and culture in the image of Bali’s tourism,” he added.

Ardika explained that in order to finish the project which was built since 23 years ago, the fund needed is IDR2.5 billions.

“With the need of that much fund,

we offered the government to help,” Ardika said.

While that head of Commission I in Bali House, I Made Arjaya, said that the offer need to be analyze thoroughly. “The offer is quite reasonable but we need to analyze it because we found out that the GWK is owned by corporation and foundation. It is quite confusing for us,” he added.

The analysis will consider the business aspect and the effect of GWK in preserving Bali’s culture.

GWK was built in 1997 and it is a statute in Ungasan Hill in Jimbaran.

The statue is being built by I Nyoman Nuarta, a Balinese artist, which the total height is 145 meters. The statute is taller than Liberty which is 46 meters.

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Garuda Wisnu Kencana foundation (GWK) offered a chance to Bali Government to invest their fund in the form of local obligation in the foundation. The investment is needed to preserve the cultural value of Bali.

Telkomsel launched TM1000 President to open program for Bali and Lombok users world environment ministers meeting IBP

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Balinese dancer talking using TM1000 program that being launched by Telkomsel for Bali and Lombok customers.

DENPASAR – Telkomsel give cheap price called “Talk Mania” which is only 1,000 rupiah for simPATI users in Bali and Lombok. However, it can be used for only 30 minutes talk time.

The special package is the modification from “Talk Mania 2,000” which gives the talk time for one hour. The package can be used by the customers since January 21st through March 31st 2010.

Syaiful Bachri, the Sales and Customer Service General Manager for Bali and NUsa Tenggara area, said that the users of “Talk Mania 1,000” will also received a bonus 30 SMS. “Only by paying 1,000 rupiah, the customers can make multiple phone calls for 30 minutes duration,” he added. However, the SMs bonus only can be used for other Telkomsel users such as simPATI, Kartu AS or Kartu Halo which in total there are 82 million people.

In order to use the package, simPATI users only must sent an SMS by typing TM (space) 1000 to 8999 on 1 pm through 12 am local time. After the package is active, the customers will receive an SMS that confirm the use of “Talk Mania 1,000”.

Bachri said that Bali and Lombok are potential market, especially when the development of tourism made the economics condition in the area increase rapidly. (iah)

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DENPASAR - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is expected to open the 11th meeting of world environment ministers which will take place in Bali February 21-26, 2010.

“The meeting under the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) will be attended by at least 5,000 people from 192 countries,” Bali environment office spokesman AA Gede Alit Sastrawan said here on Thursday.

Alit Sastrawan said various preparations and coordination meetings with central committee would continue to be made because such an effort was intended to declare Bali the first Green Province in Indonesia.

“Bali’s condition in environmental preservation is still better than other provinces in Indonesia,” Alit Sastrawan said.

According to him, it was because environment condition in Bali was still good with green

forest and green rice fields across the island.

“The people of Bali in their daily life strongly uphold the concept of so-called Tri Hita Karana, namely the harmonious relation among the local people with their environment and God,” Sastrawan said.

Meanwhile, Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika had instructed all district heads and mayors to intensify clean environment movement in the province.

The governor has instructed all district heads and mayors to re-activate “Clean Friday” movement at all government and private offices.

In addition, the governor also called on commercial area and public facility officials to make better trash management.

With various preparation efforts, the world’s environment ministers’ meeting in Bali is expected to be successful to declare Bali as a Green Province.

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Poor weather condition, restaurants low on fish stock Antara

GIANYAR – Several restaurants in Bali are started to low on fish supply. The condition is because most of the fishermen in Bali could not go to the sea because of the poor weather condition.

The restaurants mostly located in tourism sites such as Kusamba beach in Klungkung and Lebih beach in Gianyar. Ni Nyoman Widiari, the owner of restaurant in Lebih beach, said “we had not received fish from the fishermen for two days.”

Most of the restaurants are trying to find the fish to Kedonganan where most of the fishermen sell their fish, but even so, most of them also didn’t found as many fish as they expect.

Widiari said that the kind of fish that can be baked is very limited. The limited amount of fish make she can not fulfill the demand of the customers. “If they order boiled fish, was can make it because the fish is very easy to find in the market,” she added.

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Ingredients * 350 gr beef * 1/2 coconut * 3 pieces of garlic * 4 pieces of red chili peppers * 1 spoon brown sugar * 10 grams corriander * 10 grams kencur * 1 lime * galanga * 1 teaspoon shrimp paste * salt and pepper.

Directions Shred beef, shred coconut. Slice garlic and brown it.

Heat shrimp paste a little bit. Mix lime juice garlic, chili pepper, brown sugar, corriander, kencur, galanga, shrimp paste in a blender. Mix evenly the beef and coconut with the spice mix. Add salt, pepper, and orange juice. Form thumb-sized pieces from this mix, and stick each on a skewer. Barbecued until done. (http:/ /asiarecipe.com)

Waitress busy preparing fried fish order from customers. The restaurants that serving fish as their main menu start to feel difficult finding fishes in the market as the poor weather conditions in Bali still continues.

Most of the restaurant owners hope that the bad weather can end soon so the fish supply will become normal again.

The high waves approxi-

mately 2.5 meters high were hitting some of the restaurants on the beach. The waves didn’t kill anyone but damage some of the restaurants.

Perkedel Ingredients * 1 chicken * 250 gr of bread flour * 40 gr of sagu * 80 gr of onion * 8 pieces of shallots * 1 egg * salt and pepper

Directions Remove bones from the chicken, cut very thinly Cut onion into very small pieces Grind shallots Evenly mix all the above with bread flour Add salt and pepper Make mix into small discs about 2-2.5 inch in diameter Heat oil in a pan Put each disc and fry until dark golden. (http:// asiarecipe.com)

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Ubud Village UBUD Village is a traditional village supervising 13 Banjar (group of community) and 6 custom countryside. It is located in Ubud sub district, Gianyar Regency and about 20 km from Denpasar Town. Ubud Vilage can be reached within 30 minutes or 15 minutes from Gianyar Town and this place is situated in the high land about 300 meter above sea level.

Ubud is surrounded by the good temperature compare with other regions in Bali where the temperatures are relative cool that is ideally for everyone to stay in this beautiful place. This village is occupied 9.800 peoples which most of them are Hindu. They able to keep the environment naturally so that way this place usually used by many tourist/people/actors to get the art inspiration.

Ubud Village is also well known as a culture village where we easily find the local community presenting traditional cultures from the ritual up to the traditional dance performances. This village own the rich culture with the history heritage of all big actors, especially all famous artists, for example I Gusti Nyoman Lempad (1862 - 1978), Anak Agng Gede Sobrat

(1919 - 1992), I Gusti Made Deblog (1910 - 1968), afterward caught up by others like, I Gusti Ketut Kobot, Ida Bagus Made, Dewa Putu Bedil, Ida Bagus Rai and others. The popularity of all above artists follows to give the inspiration to all west artists to live in Ubud Bali. In year 1920’s, two European artist people that are Rodolf Bonnet from Dutch and Walter Spies from Germany inscribe the new history of artistic growth paint the countryside of Ubud.

Second, the European artist introduce the European esthetics technique especially illumination area, shadow, perspective and anatomy. All local artists permeate the new technique matching with value and base on local mind fixed take the traditional so that able to give the separate identity by the name Ubud. Ubud Village progressively famous as a born area of all painters because the existence of the cooperation between Tjokorda Gede Agung Sukawati and Rudolf Bonnet to form the Pita Maha.

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BUSINESS Obama to propose size limits for banks Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will on Thursday propose new limits on the size of US banks after spending billions of tax-payer dollars to bail out “too-big-to-fail” firms, a senior official said.

The measures would place sweeping new restrictions on a sector seen as responsible for sparking the largest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

“A couple of months ago the president began discussing with his economic team the need to include in financial reform more specific and stronger provisions to limit the size and scope of financial institutions” the official told AFP. The proposals aim “to cut down on excessive risk taking” among the largest banks, after crises at a handful of the largest firms threatened to choke the flow of cash to the US economy. “(On Thursday) the president will announce a series of measures that address size and scope” of the institutions the official said.

Obama’s first year in office was dominated by efforts to rescue banks that were exposed to massive loses on the sub-prime

mortgage market.

The official, who asked not to be named, said the new measures would limit banks’ ability to use their own cash to buy such financial instruments, so-called proprietary trading.

“The proposal will include size and complexity limits specifically on proprietary trading,” the source said.

Facing widespread voter anger over state take-overs of the troubled firms, Obama earlier this month proposed a tax on big banks and warned the banking industry not to block or water down his planned regulatory reforms.

“It is both in the country’s interests and ultimately in the financial industry’s interest to have updated rules of the road to prevent abuse and excess.”

The new measures will have to be approved by Congress before becoming law.

Global economy to grow 2.7 pct in 2010: World Bank Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The global economy is poised to grow 2.7 percent this year after shrinking in 2009, the World Bank said Wednesday in a report highlighting risks to a “fragile” recovery.

The World Bank said the nascent recovery from the worst crisis since the Great Depression was “expected to slow later this year as the impact of fiscal stimulus wanes.”

“Overall, these are challenging times,” said Justin Lin, World Bank chief economist.

“The depth of the recession means that even though growth has returned, countries and individuals will continue to feel the pain of the crisis for years to come,” he said.

Key impediments to growth are troubled financial markets and sluggish private sector demand amid high unemployment, the Washington-based development lender said in its “Global Economic Prospects 2010” report.

Overall, global gross domestic product (GDP) — a broad measure of the output of goods and services that fell by 2.2 percent last year — is expected to expand 2.7 percent in 2010 and 3.2 percent in 2011.

Growth would be led by developing countries, whose economies would have “relatively robust” growth of 5.2 percent this year and 5.8 percent in 2011, after managing to buck the global downturn with 1.2 percent growth last year.

China’s massive economy would con-

tinue to be the primary engine, with growth at 9.0 percent this year and the next. South Asia would post a 6.9 percent expansion in 2010, including a 7.5 percent rise in India.

Growth would be more moderate this year in Sub-Saharan Africa (3.8 percent), in Latin America (3.1 percent) and in eastern and central Europe and Central Asia (2.7 percent).

Rich countries, impacted the most by the global financial crisis, would not recover so quickly.

Developed economies, which experienced a 3.3 percent plunge in GDP last year, were projected to grow 1.8 percent in 2010 and 2.3 percent in 2011.

The United States, the world’s biggest economy and the epicenter of the financial crisis that triggered the downturn, would see 2.5 percent growth in 2010 and 2.7 percent in 2011.

Hans Timmer, an author of the report, said data indicates that unemployment will only get worse.

“Actually growth this year is not even strong enough to generate the jobs for the new people that are coming on the global jobs market, let alone that you need to create employment for the people who have lost their jobs in 2009,” Timmer said at a news briefing.

The projected modest global expansion this year should mean a rebound in world trade volumes that plummeted 14.4 percent in 2009.

AFP PHOTO/ LIU Jin

A man walks past a billboard promoting fashion goods along a street in Beijing on January 21, 2010. China’s red-hot economy expanded by 8.7 percent in 2009 but inflation surged towards the end of the year, according to government data released Thursday that laid bare the risks of overheating.

China posts scorching growth but prices heat up Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - China’s red-hot economy expanded by 8.7 percent in 2009 but inflation surged towards the end of the year, according to government data released Thursday that laid bare the risks of overheating.

Gross domestic product in the world’s thirdlargest economy returned to double-digit growth in the fourth quarter of 2009 at 10.7 percent, and surpassed the government’s target of eight percent for the year.

That target is seen as crucial to foster job creation and stave off social unrest in China’s population of 1.3 billion people. Analysts said China was on track to overtake Japan as the world’s number two economy.

But China’s biggest rise in inflation in 13 months underlined the broader challenges of breakneck growth, and came as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund warned anew that the country could face an economic bubble.

“The year 2009 was the most difficult time for China’s economic development in the new century,” Ma Jiantang, commissioner of the National Bureau of Statistics, told a press conference.

Ma said a government stimulus package worth four trillion yuan (586 billion dollars) “held back the economic decline and achieved the recovery and rebound of the national economy”, as the global economy went into a tailspin.

“We need to prevent the overly fast increases in prices and keep a close eye on the trend in prices,” the official added, but said he believed inflation in 2010 should be “mild and controllable”.

China’s consumer price index, the main gauge of inflation, rose 1.9 percent year-on-year in December. Authorities are already clamping down on bank lending and hiking borrowing costs to keep a lid on price pressures.

“Policymakers will need to move soon to stop the economy from overheating,” said Brian Jackson, a Hong Kong-based strategist at Royal

Bank of Canada.

“We have already seen some initial steps in the direction of tighter policy, but higher rates and a stronger currency will also be part of the package.”

China’s urban fixed asset investment, a measure of government spending on infrastructure and a key driver of the economy, rose 30.5 percent in 2009 while overall fixed asset investment rose 30.1 percent, Thursday’s data showed.

Industrial output from China’s millions of factories and workshops rose 18 percent in the fourth quarter, and 11 percent for all of 2009.

Retail sales jumped 15.5 percent in 2009.

This week, Premier Wen Jiabao signalled that Beijing was carefully monitoring the risks associated with its hefty pump-priming of last year.

“We must ... closely watch changes in supply and demand in the market, form an accurate judgement of the situation and increase the precision and effectiveness of macroeconomic policies,” he told a cabinet meeting.

Wen’s comments signalled a break from the government’s oft-stated goal of maintaining stability in macroeconomic policy, and could have broader repercussions for a world economy increasingly reliant on Chinese growth.

The 10.7 percent growth in the final quarter of 2009 was the best result since the second quarter of 2008.

It followed revised growth of 9.1 percent in the third quarter, 7.9 percent in the second quarter and a revised 6.2 percent in the first three months of last year.

The full-year figure exceeded analyst expectations, but was down from 9.0 percent in 2008 and was the slowest full-year increase in eight years.

IHS Global Insight economist Ren Xianfang said she expected China to grow by 9.9 percent in 2010 and soon overtake Japan in the global economic rankings.

“I think it will happen this year,” Ren told AFP. Japan releases its own GDP data for the fourth quarter of 2009 on February 15.

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Entertainment

Madonna Gives Career Advice To Adam Lambert AMERICAN Idol sensation Adam Lambert has a new mentor in pop superstar Madonna, after she gave him career advice during a guitar lesson at her New York home. The singer was stunned when he discovered his guitarist was Madonna’s guitar teacher, and thrilled when he was invited round to her house for a music lesson.

Lambert says, “It was the first time I can remember getting super starstruck... I had a great conversation with her. My guitar player is her guitar teacher and we were both in New York and he said, ‘Would you like to come over?’

“I went to her house... and she came in in, like, no makeup, yoga wear, just totally Zen...

She walked into the room and her presence is very powerful... and, at first, I could tell she was kinda checking me out... and the first thing I said to her was, ‘Oh my God.’ “I talked to her about celebrity and how to deal with it all and she gave me a couple of words of wisdom - she said, ‘Just keep your eye on the prize, put your blinders up and don’t get sidetracked with all the extra fuss.’”

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Judge: Gun stays as evidence in Ja Rule’s NYC case RAPPER Ja Rule lost a bid Wednesday to keep a loaded gun found in his luxury car from being used against him in a weapons-possession case. Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers rejected the platinum-selling artist’s argument that the gun was found during an unjustified police stop of his Maybach sports car after a July 2007 concert. His lawyer, Stacey Richman, said outside court she disagreed with the judge’s decision and would pursue other avenues to fight the charges.

Prosecutors said the traffic stop was proper because the chauffeured car was speeding and had a suspended registration and no insurance. Richman said authorities were looking for reasons to pull over Ja Rule and other rappers after the show, a claim prosecutors denied. After stopping the $250,000 to $400,000 car, police said they smelled marijuana and found a .40-caliber semiautomatic gun in the rear driver’s side door.

Carruthers threw out the rapper’s statement to police that he had “a little bit of weed” in his pocket.

He isn’t charged with drug possession. The gravelly-voiced Ja Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, rose to fame in the late 1990s. He had a series of hit collaborations with artists including Ashanti and Jennifer Lopez, and his album “Pain is Love” was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for best rap album. He also has appeared in films including 2001’s “The Fast and the Furious.”

If convicted, the 33-year-old faces up to four years in prison.

AP Photo/Felipe Dana, file

Ja Rule poses for photographers as he arrives to the Fashion Rocks event in Rio de Janeiro.

James Cameron Honored By PETA Brooke Mueller Hospitalized For Suspected Pneumonia BROOKE Mueller Hospitalized For Suspected Pneumonia. Charlie Sheen’s estranged wife Brooke Mueller was admitted to a California hospital on Wednesday, suffering a fever and suspected pneumonia according to online reports.

Mueller checked herself into a medical center in Sherman Oaks after her temperature soared to a dangerous 105 degrees Fahrenheit, TMZ.com reports. Shortly after being admitted Sheen paid his spouse a visit, despite a restraining order banning him from having any direct contact with her.

The medical emergency comes just two days before the couple is due in court to dispute the order. Their bust-up stems from Sheen’s arrest on Christmas morning after a nasty dispute with Mueller in Aspen, Colorado. He faces charges for second-degree assault, menacing and criminal mischief for the incident, after allegedly threatening Mueller with a knife. The Two and A Half Men actor faces up to eight years for the menacing charge, the most serious of the three, in addition to a fine of between $2,000 and $500,000.

MOVIE maker James Cameron has landed another honor - for his portrayal of aliens in “Avatar”. Animal rights group PETA has handed the director a Proggy Award for Outstanding Feature Film for “the inspiring message in his blockbuster”.

A PETA spokeswoman says, “Viewers will recognize how the plight of ‘Avatar’s’ catlike Na’vi people, who are faced with being driven off their land by a greedy corporation, closely echoes the real-life plight of animals on earth, many of whom continue to be torn away from their homes and families and locked up in cages in zoos, circuses, and laboratories.

“PETA also applauds the movie’s stunning special effects, which beautifully illustrate how unnecessary it is to subject animals to the stress of a film production.” The group’s Senior Vice President Lisa Lange adds, “We hope viewers will come away from ‘Avatar’ with a new way of looking at the world around them and the way we treat our fellow earthlings. “For helping animals with the positive message of this film, James Cameron is PETA’s ‘King of the World.’

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Friday, January 22, 2010

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Experts may have found bones of English princess Associated Press Writer

LONDON – She was a beautiful English princess who married one of Europe’s most powerful monarchs and dazzled subjects with her charity and charm. Now an international team of scientists say they think they’ve found the body of Princess Eadgyth (pronounced Edith) — a 10th-century noblewoman who has been compared to Princess Diana. “She was a very, very popular person,” said Mark Horton, an archaeology professor at Bristol University in western England. “She was sort of the Diana of her day if you like — pretty and full of good works.”

Horton is one of a team of experts working to verify the identity of some bones found bundled in silk at Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany. Should the skeleton be positively identified as belonging to Eadgyth, it would be oldest remains of any English royal discovered so far. Experts say her closest competitors — the bones of various Saxon royals in Winchester Cathedral in southern England — are so hopelessly jumbled together that no single person can be identified.

“If (Eadgyth’s) skeleton is intact then, yes, as far as I’m aware, it would be the earliest identifiable remains from Anglo-Saxon England,” said Simon Keynes, a professor of Anglo-Saxon history at the University of Cambridge. The skeleton was uncovered as part of a wider research project into Magdeburg Cathedral, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) west of Berlin. The elaborate 16th-century monument in which the body was found was long

thought to be empty. When archaeologists opened the monument in 2008, they found a lead coffin bearing her name and carrying a nearly complete set of bones wrapped in silk.

Horton said the skeleton belonged to a woman between 30 years and 40 years of age. But there is some doubt as to whether it is the late royal: Historians believe Eadgyth’s body was moved several times — a common practice as far as the bodies of saints and royalty were concerned. “The inscription (on the coffin) says she’s been moved twice previously,” Horton said, adding there’s archaeological evidence of at least two more moves.

It was possible that the bones were lost and swapped with someone else’s during any one of the moves, he said. “Quite often they scooped up any old bones and put them in,” he noted. Tests will now be performed to figure out the age of the bones and where they come

Amazon offers new royalty program for Kindle books Associated Press Writer

SEATTLE – Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday it will begin offering do-it-yourself authors and publishers a bigger cut of book sales on its Kindle e-reader — but with strings attached aimed at keeping prices down for consumers. The company said that starting in June, it will offer users of its e-

AP Photo/Ben Margot, file

In this Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos displays a Kindle during an interview in Cupertino, Calif. Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, it will begin offering authors and publishers a bigger cut of book sales on its Kindle e-reader — but with strings attached aimed at keeping overall prices down.

book self-publishing program, the Kindle Digital Text Platform, royalties on book sales of 70 percent after delivery costs. With those costs equaling less than 6 cents per book, Amazon said authors will be able to earn $6.25 per copy on a book that sells for $8.99, rather than the old rate of $3.15.

To qualify for the new rate, authors and publishers must meet several criteria. The book’s list price must fall between $2.99 and $9.99 and be at least 20 percent below the lowest price of the physical edition of the book. It also has to sell on Amazon for the same price, or less, as it does with competing book sellers. Finally, it has to be available everywhere the author or publisher has intellectual property rights.

Amazon said the new structure will not apply to books published before 1923 and will only be available for books sold in the U.S., initially.

And since it only applies to content published through the Kindle Digital Text Platform, it won’t affect royalty rates on books from major publishers such as Random House Inc. or Scholastic Inc. Amazon would not disclose what percentage of books available for the Kindle — which number more than 400,000 — are self-published through the platform.

Amazon has plenty of reason for wanting to keep a lid on e-book prices as it faces multiplying competition in the e-book market. Barnes & Noble Inc. is looking for a slice of e-book sales with its Nook device and Sony Corp.

from, including strontium isotope analysis — a technique that measures the ratio of strontium isotopes in a person’s tooth enamel to determine where they grew up. Because different isotope ratios correspond to different kinds of geographic locations, the technique can help pinpoint where a person lived.

“Strontium is the smoking gun if you like,” Horton said. Gareth Williams, a curator at the British Museum, said the technique was “fairly highly regarded” among archeologists and should be able to show whether the skeleton’s owner grew up in Germany or England, for example. Keynes said if the skeleton could be shown to come from western or southern England there would be little doubt it was Eadgyth.

“If you can tell that scientifically, then wow,” he said. Eadgyth grew up at the dawn of the 10th century, a period during which her half brother King Athelstan extended his rule over all of England and drew on his

AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz

In this April 1, 2009 file photo, textile pieces taken from the ‘Editha Casket’ are under a microscope at the state office for the preservation of monuments and archeology in Halle, eastern Germany. Experts say they may have found the body of England’s Princess Eadgyth, more than 1,000 years after she was carted off to Germany to marry an ambitious Saxon duke.

sisters to cement his influence among foreign rulers.

“He’s well known for having a superfluity of half sisters, and he married them off to the ruling houses of the rest of the known world,” Keynes said. Eadgyth was destined for Duke Otto of Saxony, a warlord’s son who

would eventually rise to become the first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. Tradition holds that she and her younger sister Adiva were both presented to Otto, who was invited to pick which one he liked best.

Eadgyth’s looks and charm won out over her sister’s youth.

UN climate report riddled with errors on glaciers Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world’s most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful. The errors are in a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N.-affiliated body. All the mistakes appear in a subsection that suggests glaciers in the Himalayas could melt away by the year 2035 — hundreds of years earlier than the data actually indicates.

The year 2350 apparently was transposed as 2035.

The climate panel and even the scientist who publicized the errors said they are not significant in comparison to the entire report, nor were they intentional. And they do not negate the fact that worldwide, glaciers are melting faster than ever. But the mistakes open the door for more attacks from climate change skeptics. “The credibility of the IPCC depends on the thoroughness with which its procedures are adhered to,” Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, told The Associated Press in an e-mail. “The procedures have been violated in this case. That must not be allowed to happen again because the credibility of climate change policy can only be based on credible science.”

The incident follows a furor late last year over the release of stolen e-mails in which climate scientists talked about suppressing data and freezing out skeptics of global warming. And on top of that, an intense cold spell has some people questioning whether global warming exists. In a statement, the climate change panel expressed regret over what it called “poorly substantiated estimates” about the Himalayan glaciers.

“The IPCC has established a reputation as a real gold standard in assessment; this is an unfortunate black mark,” said Chris Field, a Stanford University professor who in 2008 took over as head of this part of the IPCC research.

“None of the experts picked up on the fact that these were poorly substantiated numbers. From my perspective, that’s an area where we have an opportunity to do much better.”

Patrick Michaels, a global warming skeptic and scholar at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, called on the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, to

resign, adding: “I’d like to know how such an absurd statement made it through the review process. It is obviously wrong.” However, a number of scientists, including some critics of the IPCC, said the mistakes do not invalidate the main conclusion that global warming is without a doubt man-made and a threat.

The mistakes were found not by skeptics like Michaels, but by a few of the scientists themselves, including one who is an IPCC co-author. The report in question is the second of four issued by the IPCC in 2007 on global warming. This 838-page document had chapters on each continent. The errors were in a halfpage section of the Asia chapter. The section got it wrong as to how fast the thousands of glaciers in the Himalayas are melting, scientists said. “It is a very shoddily written section,” said Graham Cogley, a professor of geography and glaciers at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, who brought the error to everyone’s attention.

“It wasn’t copy-edited properly.”

AP Photo/Channi Anand, file

This Feb. 1, 2005 file photo shows an aerial view of the Siachen Glacier, which traverses the Himalayan region dividing India and Pakistan, about 750 kilometers (469 miles) northwest of Jammu, India. A U.N. warning that Himalayan glaciers were melting faster than any other place in the world and may be gone by 2035 was not backed up by science, U.N. climate experts said Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, an admission that could energize climate change critics.

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Friday, January 22, 2010

International

Federer in regal form to charge into third round Agence France - Presse

MELBOURNE – Roger Federer imperiously took his place in the Australian Open third round with a straight sets demolition of hapless Romanian Victor Hanescu on Thursday.

Watched by Britain’s Prince William in the official box, the world’s number one ripped through the 47th-ranked Hanescu in just one hour 39 minutes, winning 6-2, 6-3, 6-2.

Federer, bidding for his 16th Grand Slam title and fourth Australian Open here over the next fortnight, will now play Spanish 31st-seed Albert Montanes in Saturday’s third round. It was a stunning set of statistics for Federer in Thursday’s match.

He broke Hanescu’s serve five times and didn’t drop his own serve, while hitting 52 winners, 28 of them with the forehand.

Federer dominated the match points 96 to 64. Hanescu has still to take a set off Federer in their four meetings as the Swiss legend stepped up a gear after his muddling opening round performance against Russian Igor Andreev on Tuesday.

His opening set loss to

Andreev was the first time he had dropped a set in a first round Grand Slam match since the 2003 US Open. Federer made his intentions known from the outset, breaking Hanescu’s opening service and again in the eighth game to take the set in 34 minutes.

The Swiss great strolled through the second set, reeling off another service break in the eighth game to take a 2-0 sets lead.

He broke Hanescu in his opening two service games of the final set to coast to victory in quick time.

Federer is on track to face either former finalists, Lleyton Hewitt or Marcos Baghdatis, in the fourth round and a potential quarter-final with Russian sixth seed Nikolay Davydenko.

(AFP/Paul Crock)

Roger Federer has imperiously taken his place in the Australian Open third round with a straight sets demolition of hapless Romanian Victor Hanescu, winning 6-2, 6-3, 6-2.

Relaxed Venus happy to keep Pistons pump in fourth homework to a minimum quarter to upset Celtics Reuters -

MELBOURNE - An almost lackadaisical Venus Williams remained on track for a potential Australian Open semi-final showdown with younger sister Serena on Thursday, though it is doubtful she even knows. The seven-times grand slam winner, who beat Austria’s Sybill Bammer 6-2 7-5 on Hisense Arena, said after the match she rarely does any homework on her future opponents and does not even devise any specific tactics to negate their strengths.

As a matter of fact, she spends very little time thinking about tennis once she leaves the court.

“For the most part, my approach is really to try to execute my game,” Williams told reporters on Thursday.

“Obviously it’s important to know how your opponent plays,” she suggested rather oxymoronically. “I haven’t given it any thought yet. My plan is just to focus on my game.”

A perplexed media pack followed up the statement, which the world number six then clarified that she really only figured out how her opponent was playing shortly before the game. “In

the five minute warm up you figure out what they’re doing. You gotta figure it out quick and be smart about it.” Williams, who next plays either Croatia Karolina Sprem or local favourite Casey Dellacqua in the third round, then also said she was not overly concerned about how she was playing.

“I don’t necessarily put a lot of importance on if I played well one day or not. It’s really about obviously winning the match and then improving for the next day. So if I have a good day or not as good a day, I just put that behind me and get ready for the next match. So I’m not into, ‘oh, well, I’m in form so I’ll do well’; or ‘I’m not in form, oh, my God.’” The tall American, who completed a degree in fashion design while on the tour and has established a clothing label and interior design business, also said she had no problem switching off from tennis totally after a match. “I’m a really relaxed person, so I have no problem when I’m done with my match for my mind to be off of tennis,” she said. “I don’t really focus on the next match and have nerves beforehand. That’s just a personality thing.”

Venus Williams of the United States returns the ball to Austria’s Sybille Bammer on her way to winning their Women’s singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010.

(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft )

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DETROIT - The Detroit Pistons dominated the fourth quarter to upset the Boston Celtics 92-86 on Wednesday, Rodney Stuckey leading the assault with 27 points and 11 rebounds. The third-year point guard also added six assists while forward Charlie Villanueva scored 10 of his 19 in the decisive final session to help the Pistons pull away.

During the spell, Detroit (15-26) scored 13 straight points to turn a five-point deficit into a 84-76 edge with less than four minutes remaining. “I wanted to win this game very badly, it’s a good way to start this homestand,” Villanueva told reporters after his team captured the first of six successive games in Detroit.

“I was just into the game, trash talking a little bit. I was fired up.” Rasheed Wallace scored 16 points and had seven rebounds for the visitors but his return to Detroit was not a winning one as the Celtics (27-13) lost a third straight game. Wallace joined the Pistons in 2004 when he helped lead the team to an NBA championship but departed to join Boston as a free agent last July.

“I was excited to see Rasheed but I’m excited for every game,” Pistons coach John Kuester told reporters. “I think the players enjoy playing quality teams like Boston but I think they understand that we’re in a stage now where we just have to work hard.”

Nothing came easy for Boston as the team struggled on 43 percent shooting and committed 18 turnovers.

Playing in his second game since missing three straight with a sore foot, Wallace tried in vain to help the Celtics withstand the continued absence of Kevin Garnett. Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo scored 21 points each for Boston, who led 56-48 at halftime

lead before Detroit made a second-half charge. The Celtics recovered and trailed 8884 before Richard Hamilton added a jumper and two free throws. The Pistons have won four of five since a brutal 13-game losing streak. Dealing with an inconsistent lineup due to injuries, the home team played without Tayshaun Prince, Ben Gordon and Will Bynum.

(AP Photo/Duane Burleson)

Detroit Pistons’ Charlie Villanueva (31) lands on Boston Celtics’ Kendrick Perkins (43) while trying to defend a shot in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, in Auburn Hills, Mich. Villanueva was called for a foul on the play. The Pistons defeated the Celtics 92-86.

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Nigeria advance, Egypt maintain perfect record Reuters -

BENGUELA/LUBANGO - Nigeria thrashed Mozambique 3-0 to join champions Egypt in the knockout phase of the African Nations Cup from Group C on Wednesday. Six-times champions Egypt saw off Benin 2-0 in Benguela to top the standings with a perfect record and nine points.

Nigeria have six while Mozambique and Benin were eliminated with one point each.

The Pharaohs will play their quarter-final against the secondplaced team in Group D in Benguela while Nigeria will be in Lubango to face the top side from that group. Cameroon, Zambia, Tunisia and Gabon will battle it out for the two spots on Thursday.

Egypt, who stretched their unbeaten run at the Nations Cup to 16 matches, were barely bothered by a toothless Benin side in Benguela.

Defender Ahmed Al Muhammadi unleashed a longrange cross that caught Yoann Djidonou off guard in the seventh minute to put the Pharaos in front.

Ahmed Raouf’s header was parried

away by Djidonou, only for Emad Motaeb, to latch on to the ball and make it 2-0 after 23 minutes. In a lively game played against the monotonous drone of plastic horns, Benin posed little threat in attack and only had one clear chance after the hour that was denied by a fine Essam El Hadari save.

Nigeria, who needed only a draw to advance, waited longer before overcoming Mozambique. Peter Odemwingie, though, found the back of the net before and after the interval to dash Mozambique’s hopes of reaching the quarter-finals for the first time. The striker collected the ball outside the box and netted with a left-foot shot

which found its way between Kampango and his near post. Two minutes after resumption, Odemwingie struck again, turning in an easy chance after Yakubu Aiyegbeni broke down the left.

Obafemi Martins put the result beyond doubt four minutes from time when he hammered home a rebound.

Nigeria’s John Obi Mikel, left, challenges Mozambique’s Simao in their African Cup of Nations Group C soccer match at Tundavala Stadium in Lubango, Angola Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.

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Star skipper Eto’o backs Milan sweat on Nesta, Inter have midfield worries his Cameroon fighters Reuters -

ROME - AC Milan are sweating on defender Alessandro Nesta’s fitness while leaders Inter Milan have midfield injury worries for a derby that may have a huge influence on the Serie A title race on Sunday (1945).

Second-placed Milan’s hopes of winning the match to pull within three points of Inter with a game in hand will suffer a big blow if Nesta fails to recover from a leg muscle strain that forced him to come off in last weekend’s 4-0 win over Siena.

Nesta has frequently been described as Milan’s best close season ‘acquisition’ after returning from a careerthreatening back injury to help make up for the loss of retired captain Paolo Maldini this season.

The understanding the former Italy international has developed with Brazilian centre back Thiago Silva has been fundamental to Milan’s strong revival from a shaky start, which included a 4-0 defeat to Inter in the early-season fixture.

Milan also have other injury problems, but Nesta’s fitness seems to be their biggest concern given his influence and the cover they have in other areas. “Nesta is much more than just a player,” Gennaro Gattuso was quoted as saying by Thursday’s La Gazzetta dello Sport. Brazilian forward Alexandre Pato has failed to shake off a thigh

problem, which means David Beckham is likely to continue to deputise on the right of a front three even if Clarence Seedorf regains fitness.

Gianluca Zambrotta and Mathieu Flamini have knocks.

Inter coach Jose Mourinho is concerned about his midfield, as Thiago Motta and Dejan Stankovic are injury doubts and Sulley Muntari pulled up in training with a thigh problem on Wednesday. Mourinho joked that the Italian league should postpone the match because of these injuries after Milan managed to get a fixture rescheduled, irritating Inter and adding an extra dimension to the usual heated rivalry ahead of a San Siro derby.

Milan had their Italian Cup quarter-final against Udinese moved to Jan. 27, just a day before Inter face Juventus in the Cup on the same pitch, so they would have a free week before the derby like their city rivals.

AS Roma coach Claudio Ranieri may field new arrival Luca Toni up front alongside fit-again Francesco Totti for the first time in Saturday’s visit to his faltering former side Juventus (1945). Toni, on loan from Bayern Munich, helped in-form Roma go third by scoring twice in Sunday’s 3-0 win over Genoa. Ciro Ferrara, who replaced Ranieri in the Juve dugout just before the end of last season, is under pressure after his side dropped to fifth with last weekend’s 1-0 loss at Chievo Verona, their fifth defeat in seven league games.

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AC Milan are sweating on defender Alessandro Nesta’s fitness while leaders Inter Milan have midfield injury worries for a derby that may have a huge influence on the Serie A title race on Sunday

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LUBANGO, Angola – African superstar Samuel Eto’o is banking on fighting spirit driving Cameroon into the Cup of Nations quarter-finals on Thursday. The ‘Indomitable Lions’ tackle fellow former champions Tunisia at the new 20,000-seat Tundavala Stadium in this southern Angola town and the stakes are sky high.

Victory for four-time title holders Cameroon over the ‘Carthage Eagles’ and they are definitely through to the last-eight phase of the biennial African football showcase.

A draw might suffice, depending on what happens between leaders Gabon and lowly Zambia at Ombaka Stadium in Benguela; a loss will condemn one of the pre-tournament title favourites to a humiliating early exit.

But three-time African Footballer of the Year and Inter Milan striker Eto’o says the thrilling come-from-behind 3-2 victory over Zambia last Sunday rekindled his pride in the national team. “I was so proud to be Cameroonian that night, to be part of a team that displayed so much character and could rise to the occasion in the most difficult of situations,” said the ‘Lions’ captain.

“It was a very difficult match for us with Zambia playing so well and defeat stared us in the face midway through the second half, but we fought on knowing the implications of not securing maximum points.” The striker who succeeded long-serving defender Rigobert Song as skipper when French coach Paul Le Guen took control last August, played a central role in the re-

covery by scoring the second goal with a trademark clinical finish.

And Eto’o, who helped Cameroon conquer Africa in 2000 and 2002, and is the leading all-time Cup of Nations scorer with 17 goals, has reason to be hopeful against a Tunisian side that must triumph to survive the groupphase cull. The countries have clashed three times in the 53-year Africa Cup of Nations with a 1-1 stalemate in 1982 followed by Cameroon victories in a 2000 semi-final and a 2008 quarterfinal. It was 3-0 in Nigeria 10 years ago and 3-2 after extra time in Ghana two years ago after one of greatest games of a great tournament was settled by a Stephane Mbia strike on 92 minutes.

This Nations Cup may have kicked off with Ivory Coast the almost unanimous media favourites, but few rejected the possibility that Cameroon could go all the way and come within one title of six-time champions Egypt.

Captain and defender Karim Haggui accepts Tunisia came into the Cup wearing a work-in-progress tag as caretaker coach Faouzi Benzarti put his faith in youth after a shock failure to reach the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. “We have a young team in Angola that is improving with every game. Chances were missed in our draws against Zambia and Gabon due to inexperience,” confessed the sole survivor of the 2004 Cup-winning squad. “However, the outcome of this group is far from settled. We still have to face Cameroon and a win takes us through to the knockout stage,” added the 25-year-old ‘veteran’ of the ‘Eagles’ squad.

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Khan-Hatton Clash Moves Closer AMIR Khan’s switch to Golden Boy will speed up the chances of a showdown with Ricky Hatton “100%” according to the British world champion’s trainer Freddie Roach. WBA light-welterweight champion Khan, based in Los Angeles at Roach’s Wild Card Gym, is due to put his title on the line against Argentina’s Marcos Maidana in April but having left British promoter Frank Warren’s stable to sign with Oscar de la Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, the Hall of Fame trainer is expecting an all-British fight to be put in motion quickly.

“Yes, 100 per cent and it’s going to be a good fight,” Roach said as he attended a press conference to publicise his star fighter Manny Pacquiao’s WBO welterweight title defence against Joshua Clottey. Roach masterminded Pacquiao’s crushing second-

Suzuki’s chances of catching up with the other MotoGP manufacturers are being severely hamstrung by the current regulations - according to veteran rider Loris Capirossi

Capirossi: Rules hampering Suzuki SUZUKI’S chances of catching up with the other MotoGP manufacturers are being severely hamstrung by the current regulations - according to veteran rider Loris Capirossi. The Italian believes Suzuki has no chance of catching Yamaha, Ducati and Honda due to the restrictions on mileage and engine use that have been introduced to cut costs over the past year.

“You can’t test with the race riders, and the final straw is the absurd rule of six engines per season,” Capirossi told Motosprint. “How can you develop a new engine, or something else new, if you have to comply to such a rule? “We’ve had massive reliability problems already in the second half of 2009. So how can you develop an engine if it’s even sealed now? This is limiting for us.”

“They are working like crazy in Japan, at Sepang we’ll have a prototype with many things, but we’ll have only six days of testing in order to select the right material. If by Qatar, in mid-March, we haven’t been able to make this selection, then that means we’ll have to keep, for the entire season, an unsorted bike that hasn’t been developed, and this is neither nice nor fair. In fact, it makes no sense.”

“Nobuatso Aoki tests once a week, but not in the right conditions.

Suzuki have their own private track next to the factory, used especially for road production, it’s very quick

and it has impressive curves, but it’s all enclosed within a wall with no run-off areas, so it’s incredible dangerous for a MotoGP bike. That’s not the ideal circuit to develop it, while Suzuka or Motegi would probably cost 10,000 euros per hour!”

“In any case, to develop the bikes you need the team’s riders, the ones that race, because only they take it to the limit. If you lap three seconds slower you find out that some parts, which seemed to work in testing, won’t work in the race because you put stress on them under greatly different conditions. Once again, I blame the rule book, because it’s so wrong. The limits on sessions and engines are ruining this series badly.”

Capirossi does not believe the rules are achieving their aim of cutting costs either. “It’s true, the manufacturers wanted it, but they were wrong!” he said. “Sometimes you really can’t figure out what they want. This mess comes from the need to save money, but if you look

carefully, you don’t save much. For example, why do customer bikes cost even more than they used to?”

But despite his criticism of the regulations, Capirossi also acknowledged that Suzuki needed to manage its racing programme better.

“At the beginning, with the first 800cc, they had a good bike,” he said.

“The problem is that it’s still the same bike! They have never done a proper evolution of the engine. They never come up with truly crucial or revolutionary ideas. On top of that, they bring new parts only if they are certain they won’t break, and this slows down development. Perhaps we could improve with new parts, but they don’t bring them. It’s a matter of mentality, but they are changing.

Problem is, you need time. Until two years ago they had a project leader who came from the road production: he wasn’t the right person for a MotoGP race department. Now there are new chiefs, but you need patience to see some real results.

Amir Khan’s switch to Golden Boy will speed up the chances of a showdown with Ricky Hatton “100%” according to the British world champion’s trainer Freddie Roach

round knockout of Hatton in Las Vegas last May and following that fight advised the Englishman to retire and the American added: “Ricky asked me if I would train him when I was in the UK the last time and Ricky’s a good guy but I can’t say I think he should retire one moment and then train him in the next, so I won’t be training Ricky.

“But if he is going to fight again I would like Amir to fight him, yes.” As for Khan’s move to Golden Boy, Roach said: “I think it’s a very good move. They’re good operators and he’s happy with so as long as he’s happy with it I think it’s a good move.”

Khan was last in action in Newcastle in December when he scored a firstround knockout over Dmitriy Salita and Maidana would be the Bolton fighter’s second mandatory defence.

“Golden Boy has options on Maidana,” Roach said, “and we want to build that fight up and make it bigger. “Maidana’s a good fighter.”