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Big ships operating on Madewi beach and very close with the shoreline

Fishermen in Madewi complaint

Big Ships Take Away All The Fish Negara (Bali Post) –

Fishermen in Madewi beach, Pekutatan, Negara, protested on the fact that many big ships are operating on the area. The big ships catch most of the fish so the local fishermen only receive small amount of fish.

Not only the fish that being catch by the ships but they also destroy the bait planted by the fishermen who wanted to catch shrimps are destroyed by the ships.

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away by the local fishermen but they keep coming back.

Usually, the big ships are catching fish on Jimabaran or Tabanan but the poor weather condition made the ships going to Madewi

Collecting Data, Police Stand by at Bank

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The information gained in the area, tenth of ships has been operating since last week on Madewi beach. The ships which are coming from Banyuwangi and Pengambengan in Java was driven

beach. Mizadi, the head of Setia Dewi Fishermen Association, said “the sea is belong to Indonesian people but they can not be selfish and not thinking other fishermen.”

The big ships made the income gained by the local fishermen decrease highly. The fishermen have reported the case to the government. However, until this moment there is no action taken by the authorized department. (sur)

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Denpasar - After the issuance of a warrant to conduct research by Director of Detective Unit of Bali Police, Andi Taqdir Ramhan Tiro, a number of detective officers were then descended into the field to check and find data to a number of banks.

Not only detectives, intelligence officers also stood by (in charge) at the bank to find out data about the success of criminal break the bank funds belonging to a number of customers, both of BCA, BNI, BRI, and the Bank Permata.

According to Taqdir, police have not succeeded in securing evidence either. “There is no evidence that we secure,” he explained. Police would

search data to the bank, so there were initial data for performing investigation. In the meantime, people were still coming to the police station to report the cases of loss of their funds in the bank. On last Friday (Jan 22), a customer of Bank Permata, Gusti Agung Ayu Ruth, 30, whose address on Jalan Kutat Lestari, Sanur, reported to the Directorate of Detective Unit of Bali Police.

When met in front of the Directorate of Detective Unit of Bali Police, the woman who was in brown shirts explained her money was taken out at Bank Permata until only remained to IDR 80,000. “I last withdrew my money on January 9 amounting to IDR 600 thousand,” she explained.

When the case of money theft be-

longing to customers through ATM soared, Ratih attempted to check her balance. How surprised she was at that time when found her balanced only left IDR 80,000. The case was then informed to the bank. By the bank, Ratih was advised to report the case to the police.

From the print-out of her book, Ratih whose address at Sanur found that her savings at Bank Permata once increased as much as IDR 5 million, whereas she never saved. “Transactions of her account occurred on January 16,” explained Ratih.

The sender of money to the account of Gusti Agung Ayu Ratih, in accordance with the print-out was on behalf of Yenny Prayoga. In fact, from the data of victim’s names of bank

burglary,Yenny Prayoga living in Kuta was a victim as well as clients of Bank Permata whose money was burglarized amounting to IDR 44 million by unknown man. Still about the report of Gusti Agung Ayu Ruth, based on the print-out received by victim on January 18 this transaction was done through an ATM of Bank Permata for four times. During the four-time transactions, withdrawals occurred to IDR 6 million.

Spokesperson of Bali Police, Gde Sugianyar, explained, such account burglary denoted a new mode. “Perpetrator did it by borrowing the account of other customer of the same bank for transferring money. Afterward, the borrowed account was taken out at a larger amount,” he said. (kmb)

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Bali News Case of ATM Fraud

Afflicts 34 Customers, IDR 478.3 Million Losses Denpasar (Bali Post)—

The number of ATM burglary victims in Bali, continued to swell. Until last Friday (Jan 22) evening, the number of victims has reached 34 people. However, the data of victims which have officially reported to the Police station as given by Bali Police amounted to 29 victims. Meanwhile, the rest were still in the process of examination in room of investigator.

Information gathered last Friday mentioned, there were two victims made a report to Denpasar Metro Police, on last Thursday (Jan 21).

They were Salahudin and Elektro.

They claimed to lose money at BCA’s ATM. “The loss suffered by the victims reached IDR 50.8 million,” said one of the officers last Friday.

Meanwhile, details of the existing data of victims in the Bali Police were 22 customers at Denpasar Metro Police, 4 customers at Bali Police, 1 customer at Buleleng Resort Police and the 2 customers at Gianyar Resort Police. “The total

number of temporary victims officially entered into the police counter were 29 customers,” explained Spokesperson of Bali Police Gde Sugianyar.

All the bank customers becoming the victims of ATM burglary occurred during the period of January 16-21, 2010. The total number of material losses suffered throughout victims reached IDR 478,337,300.

“In total, they were 8 victims of BCA, Bank Permata (9), BNI (4) and Citibank (1),” he explained to journalists last Friday.

Sugianyar added his party was still investigating and tracking the perpe-

trators of ATM break-ins troubling the communities. So far, the police could ask for information to a number of witnesses and checked all existing ATMs in Bali. Such checking was carried out to determine whether there was skimmer and spy cam installed by perpetrators.

In order to reveal what has become a public issue lately, his party also made cooperation with Headquarter of National Police. More than that, the cooperation was also made with banks and cyber crime division. “We still continue to track who did it,” he said while asking the public to be patient. (kmb21)

Two Couples of Love Affair Café Girls Captured Negara (Bali Post)—

Some cafe girls and two adulterous couple were capture by police last Friday (Jan 22). They were transported by police in an operation conducted by the Tourism Police Unit and the Security and Public Service (Samapta) of Jembrana.

Some hotels and cafes in the area of Negara city and Mendoyo were raided by police under leader of Chief of Tourism Police, Nengah Budiarma, accompanied by Chief of Security and Public Service, M. Didik Wiratmoko.

Some hotels when raided were empty, but in one of the lodges at Banjar Tengah, police found two couples alleged to be adulterous couple in the room. One of the couples was INS, 38, from Banjar

Anyar, Tegal Badeng Barat admitted to be with a woman who was not his wife NLA, 29, from Berawan Salak, Banyubiru. In the next room next, the officers also found a man of middle-aged claiming as a worker near the hotel. However, IKW, 44, was with a woman who was said as his second wife, KM, 33, from Banjar Rangdu, Pohsanten, Mendoyo.

When asked for identity cards, KM could not show it. They claimed to have a rest after work with a woman claimed as his second wife.

Police were eventually transported both to be examined further.

Meanwhile, in a boardinghouse of café girls at Delod Berawah, police captured five girls without a complete identity. They were migrant residents

from Banyuwangi, East Java. With face of just waking up, NF, 22, Hry, 23, Yy, 31, AK, 24, and AGL, 30, were finally transported to the Jembrana Resort Police. Police even knocked at the door of one of the rooms because the girl did not visit out even being asked gently. Finally after a few minutes and seduced by her friends, the girl was out of his room.

Chief Didik Wiryatmoko and Chief Nengah Budiarma with permission of Chief of Jemberana Resort Police, R. Ahmad Nurwakhid said the raid operation targeted inns and cafes meant to minimize criminal acts. The five café girls were charged with misdemeanor, while the two adulterous couples would be processed and requested to make a statement letter. (sur)

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A girl is seen using an ATM machine. The number of ATM burglary victims in Bali, continued to swell. Until last Friday (Jan 22) evening, the number of victims has reached 34 people.

Corpse of Mrs. X Found Naked at Cekik, Alleged to be a Victim of Robbery Negara (Bali Post)—

A female corpse was found lying naked on a couch blankly at the edge of the woods of West Bali National Park (TNBB), Cekik, Gilimanuk, last Friday (Jan 22) morning. In the neck of middle-aged woman’s body was found scars of rope bondage and a half of her tongue stuck and exuded fluid mixed with blood.

The report was received by a resident of Penginuman Hamlet, Misman, 50, at 08.30 am Local Time. Misman who is a fisherman passing on location when he was about to leave work to Labuan Lalang, Buleleng by bicycle. Misman put suspicion to naked figure woman lying on blank gazebo.

When he approached and checked the fat woman was already dead. The man then reported the incident to the TNBB officer. “I covered the corpse by newspaper and reported to TNBB,” he said.

Previously an employee of TNBB, I Wayan Suanegara, 38, also had seen the woman lying naked at 05.30 am Local Time when performing morning run. Because he considered her a crazy woman, this official ignored her.

When found, the woman who alleged

to be a robbery victim laid in naked position with her left hand above her head. An earring remained stuck in the ear. Police once explored the site but could not find any clothes and they only encountered a pair of sandals alleged to belong to the victim.

Chief of Detective Unit of Jembrana Resort Police, I Ketut Suparta, and Chief of Gilimanuk Harbor Police, Nyoman Suparta, said the identity of victim was not known and estimated she was a resident of outside Gilimanuk. Based on the results of medical examination at local community health center, there were no any signs of violence on the body. Only in the neck was found a sign of bondage of inner rubber tire.

Estimated, the victim died at early morning. Meanwhile, Chief of Detective Unit has not dared to make sure that the woman was a victim of homicide. His team descended directly to the scene and said the forensic medical report was required to ensure the cause of death. Later on, the victim was transported to Negara Hospital last Friday afternoon. (sur)

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BNN Officers Have Shaken Bali

Suspicion on a High Class Drug Dealer Denpasar (Bali Post) —

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The local is leading their cow to find food source through the beach. The people are looking for many solution to support their live and one of them by breeding cows.

After Danu Kertih Ritual

Batur Residents Plant 15,000 Trees Bangli (Bali Post)—

After a recent ritual ceremony named Danu Kertih pleaded safety for Bali was spiritually held, residents of Batur Kintamani with relevant agencies in Bangli, last Friday (Jan 22), planted 15 thousand trees of various species at Batur caldera. Precisely, it was around Genya and Pasar Agung Temple, Batur Traditional Village, Kintamani.

Jero Gede Batur Alitan said as an expression of sincere devotion (bhakti) to God, Hindu devotees did not only perform the ritual through invocation, but also realized

it through an obvious movement such as by conserving natural greening. It was expected that, after planting a million trees at the Batur caldera, within the next 5-6 years they

could successfully re-green the critical lands.

It was said, the effort would not succeed if the local residents residing around the planting area did not have the same concern. For that purpose, the activity was only intended to plant the seeds, but also how to make the plants alive and grow well. They were very important to him so the aim of noble movement could give beneficial results to humanity. “Only with love those trees planted would be able to grow and provide benefits to us all,” he said.

Thief in Action at Sanglah Hospital Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Patients’ watchers at Sanglah Hospital are often become victims of theft. One of them is I Nyoman Sastra Edi (33), resident of Taman Mutiara Jimbaran Residential No. 16 A Taman Mumbul, South Kuta, Badung.

The victim’s bag was stolen by a thief on Thursday (21 / 1) at 06.00 a.m.

This event shows that robbery still haunts many in the Sanglah Hospital. In fact, local officials said that it is difficult to monitor because of the perpetrators of theft were so clever to take an advantage of the situation. Despite the searches that have been conducted, there are some that were successfully

uncaught.

Information compiled on Friday (22 / 1) yesterday, Sastra was previously in the Angsoka room of Sanglah Hospital. He put his bag in the room then the victim went straight to bed and fell asleep. Once awakened at 06.00 a.m., the victim was really shocked. The bag containing wallet, some valuables and important papers, had disappeared from where it was first placed. The victim was directly conducting a search around the crime scene after knowing about it, however, no avail.

Victims claimed to have suffered loss of 3.7 million rupiah. Without hesitating, the victim reported the case to the nearest police station. ‘’The police are still investigating,’’ said one of the

police officers yesterday.

Meanwhile in a separate place, a case of theft experienced by Veronika Fransiska (31), residents who live in Banjar Uma Pondok Korsika 51, Kuta. The victim admitted thieves burglarized her home on Thursday (21 / 1) at about 09.00 a.m. A strong allegation has been made that the perpetrator entered the victim’s house by prying windows.

After the successful entry, the perpetrators directly drain the properties of the victim. All rooms any randomized and there has been a known loss of three units of mobile phones and Rp 4 million rupiah in cash. This case was also reported to the police. (kmb21)

Bali is now under a spotlight of officials from the National Narcotics Agency (BNN).

They are now having a thorough search in Bali based on a suspicion of the presence of a high class drug dealer doing his business in this area. The information circulated; there are indications that the Island of a Thousand Temples is having a dealer which is syndicated internationally. Allegation was corroborated by the aborted smuggling of drugs from abroad in several times. ‘’There are some targets that are hunted by the BNN members here. Currently, they will continue to investigate,’’ said the Head of Drugs Division of Denpasar’s Police Headquearter, Kompol Nyoman Sukasena, accompanied by its Public Relation Officer, Kompol Made Mundra, on Friday (22 / 1).

It is stated that his department has secured a car spare part seller on Jalan Wahidin, West Denpasar, whose initial was SE (42). This guy immediately became the target of operations (TO) of National Narcotics Agency (BNN),’’ he said.

SE was arrested later on Thursday (21 / 1) at his house in Jalan Gunung Tangkuban Perahu, Denpasar. BNN troops raided the house around 9:00 p.m. Without resistance, the car spare part seller was successfully arrested.

When the police conduct a search, they found evidence of fake “Ineks” (a type of narcotics) and clipped plastic bags. In addition, there were also scales found.

In addition to securing false “Ineks”, the police managed to find the original type of psychotropic MDMA (similar to “Ineks” in powder form) weighing 0.29 grams. ‘’We’ve brought that evidence to Denpasar and Lab to be proven positive that it was the kind of “Ineks” MDMA in powder form,’’ said Sukasena.

When the BNN officer handed him to Drugs Division of Denpasar’s Police Headquearter, SE still insisted that he was not a drug dealer. But from the evidence that was found in his house, police believe SE is a dealer.

Surprisingly, in addition to the original drug, the suspect also saved counterfeit goods. Are there indications that MDMA was mixed with “Ineks” by SE to be able to multiple the benefit? ‘’I also wonder, why did the defendant’s store a large amount of fake “Ineks”? Was he also circulating fake drugs or did he used the “ineks” to mix and make counterfeits?’’ affirmed Kompol Sukasena. (KMB) Head of Bangli Agricultural and Forestry Services, I Wayan Sukartana, on the occasion welcomed the greening program performed by Batur Customary Village. According to Sukartana, in the last few months Batur residents did tree planting very intensely at a number of critical areas in the caldera of Batur.”This activity is very important, not only to save the environment, but also in connection with the Hindu concept of Tri Hita Karana,” stated Sukartana. (kmb17)

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15 whales die beached in NZ, 33 coaxed to sea AP

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Rescuers in New Zealand managed to coax 33 beached whales back out into deep waters Sunday, but another 15 of the pod died, a conservation official said.

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In this July 16, 2007 file photo, master operators at local television station Radio Caracas Television.

Anti-Chavez channel removed from cable AP

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan cable television providers stopped transmitting a channel critical of President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, after the government cited noncompliance with new regulations requiring the socialist leader’s speeches be televised on cable.

Radio Caracas Television, an anti-Chavez channel known as RCTV that switched to cable and satellite television in 2007 after the government refused to renew its over-the-air license, disappeared from TV sets shortly after midnight.

RCTV was yanked from cable and satellite programming just hours after Diosdado Cabello, director of Venezuela’s state-run telecommunications agency, said several local channels carried by cable television have breached broadcasting laws and should be removed from the airwaves.

Cabello warned cable operations on Saturday evening that they could find themselves in jeopardy if they keep showing those channels.

“They must comply with the law, and they cannot have a single channel that violates Venezuelan laws as part of their programming,” he said.

Several channels have not shown Chavez’s televised speeches when he orders all media to air them — a requirement under new regulations approved last month by the telecommunications agency, Cabello said.

RCTV did not broadcast a speech by the president to his political supporters during a rally early on Saturday. The station’s removal from cable and satellite television prompted a cacophony of protests in Caracas neighborhoods as Chavez opponents leaned out apartment windows to bang on pots and pans.

Others shouted epithets and drivers joined in, honking car horns.

“They want to silence RCTV’s voice,” said Miguel Angel Rodriguez, the channel’s most popular talk show host. “But they won’t be able to because RCTV is embedded in the hearts of all Venezuelans.”

The U.S. Embassy in Caracas expressed concern about the decision.

“Access to information is a cornerstone of democracy and provides a foundation for global progress. By restricting yet again the Venezuelan people’s access to RCTV broadcasts, the Venezuelan government continues to erode this cornerstone,” Embassy spokeswoman Robin Holzhauer said. Venezuela’s telecommunications agency has said in the past week that under new rules, two dozen local cable channels including RCTV must carry government programming when officials deem the measure necessary, just like channels on the open airwaves already do. Chavez often uses the measure to force all the country’s TV channels and radio stations to broadcast his speeches.

Cabello said Saturday that other violations committed by cable channels include failing to warn viewers of sexual and violent content as well as broadcasting more than two hours of soap operas during the afternoon, which should be mostly dedicated to children programming.

He did not specify which TV channels have purportedly violated the law, but RCTV said it was the target. It accused the agency of pressuring cable providers to drop channels that are critical of the government. The agency “doesn’t have any authority to give the cable service providers this order,” RCTV said in a statement. “The government is inappropriately pressuring them to make decisions beyond their responsibilities.”

In denying RCTV a renewal of its over-the-air broadcast license, Chavez accused the station of plotting against his government and supporting a failed 2002 coup.

In August, Chavez’s government forced 32 radio stations and two small TV stations off the air, saying some owners had failed to renew their broadcast licenses while other licenses were no longer valid because they had been granted long ago to owners who are now dead.

Officials said they planned to take more stations off the air. Government figures say that as of 2008 about 37 percent of Venezuelan homes received cable television.

The 48 pilot whales stranded Saturday at Port Levy on South Island, but scores of volunteers joined Department of Conservation workers to refloat them off the shallow, muddy inlet, said the department’s community relations manager, Grant Campbell.

It was the third mass stranding on the New Zealand coast this summer. Some 125 pilot whales died in the two other beachings, while 43 were returned to the ocean.

Campbell said that in the latest incident, residents were quick to help after spotting the whales ap-

parently feeding in the inlet before they stranded.

“It’s a very, very shallow bay in Port Levy, very muddy, so whether they were chasing food and got caught in the shallows, we don’t know,” he told The Associated Press.

Whales in the pod were up to 17 feet (5 meters) -long, while a few calves were between 3 feet (1 meter) and 5 feet (a meter and a half) -long, Campbell said.

Local Ted Howden said the pod stranded twice. Residents helped the whales back out to open waters Saturday, but by Sunday morning they

were all back on the beach, he told TV One News.

More than 80 people rallied to aid the mammals, and as the tide flowed in Sunday, “they began floating and we were able to push them out, and away they went,” Howden said.

By later Sunday, the survivors had been shepherded into deeper waters by a couple of boats and were swimming away, Campbell said.

Specialists will carry out autopsies on two of the dead whales Monday, before the 15 dead mammals are buried high up the beach, he said.

Large numbers of whales become stranded on New Zealand’s beaches each summer as they pass by from Antarctic waters on their way to breeding grounds. Scientists have been unable to explain why whales become stranded.

Haitians mourn their dead; another survivor found AP

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Hundreds gathered for the funeral of the archbishop of Haiti’s stricken capital Saturday, a rare formal ceremony that captured the collective mourning of a shattered nation where mass graves hold many of the dead.

Meanwhile, as the U.N. said the Haitian government had declared an end to searches for living people trapped in the rubble, yet another survivor was saved. Rescuers said they reached Wismond Exantus by digging a narrow tunnel through the wreckage of a hotel grocery store where he was buried for 11 days.

Exantus, who is in his 20s, was placed on a stretcher and given intravenous fluids as onlookers cheered. He later told The Associated Press he survived by diving under a desk during the quake and later consuming some cola, beer and cookies in the cramped space.

“I was hungry, but every night I thought about the revelation that I would survive,” Exantus said from his hospital bed.

Authorities have stopped short of explicitly directing all teams to halt rescue efforts, and hopeful searchers continued picking through the ruins. But U.N. relief workers said the shift in focus is critical to care for the thousands living in squalid, makeshift camps that lack sanitation. While deliveries of food, medicine and water have ticked up after initial logjams, the need continues to be overwhelming and doctors fear outbreaks of disease in the camps.

“It doesn’t mean the government will order them to stop. In case there is the slightest sign of life, they will

act,” U.N. spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said. She added that, “except for miracles, hope is unfortunately fading.”

All told, some 132 people have been pulled alive from beneath collapsed buildings by international search and rescue teams, she said.

Experts say the chance of saving trapped people begins diminishing after 72 hours. One mother still missing her children said it’s too soon to give up.

“Maybe there’s a chance they’re still alive,” said Nicole Abraham, 33, wiping away tears as she spoke of hearing the cries of her children — ages 4, 6 and 15 — for the first two days after the quake.

Only a small number of funerals have been held since the 7.0-magnitude quake struck, with most people buried anonymously and without

ceremony in mass graves on the outskirts of the city. An estimated 200,000 people died, according to Haitian government figures cited by the European Commission. The United Nations said Saturday the government had preliminarily confirmed 111,481 bodies, but that figure does not account for corpses buried by relatives.

While the two-hour ceremony was held for Msgr. Joseph Serge Miot and vicar Charles Benoit, who also perished in the Jan. 12 earthquake, people in the crowd of about 2,000 wept for deeply personal losses.

“We feel like we have lost everything. Our child, our country, our friend,” said Junior Sant Juste, a 30year-old father whose 3-year-old daughter died when his home collapsed.

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A man is rescued by a French search and rescue team after being trapped in rubble for 11 days

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

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

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

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

Phone : 223 036 Fax : 268 690.

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

Phone : 222 142.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 150 bodies recovered from wells after Nigerian massacre: official AFP

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A visitor looks at a collage made of pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and North Korean military

NKorea threatens war after South’s strike warning AP

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened war Sunday after South Korea warned of launching a pre-emptive strike if the North was preparing a nuclear attack — the latest salvo in a battle of rhetoric despite signs of improved cooperation across the militarized frontier.

The North’s military said it would take prompt and decisive military action against any South Korean attempt to violate North Korea’s dignity and sovereignty and would blow up major targets in the South, including its command center.

“Our revolutionary armed forces will regard the scenario for ‘pre-emptive strike,’ which the South Korean puppet authorities adopted as a ‘state policy,’ as an open declaration of war,” the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said in a statement carried by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency.

The North’s warning came in response to the South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young’s remarks last week that the South should launch a pre-emptive strike on North Korea if there was a clear indication the country was preparing a nuclear attack.

A South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae dismissed the North’s statement Sunday as a predictable reaction.

Kim made similar remarks in 2008 when he was chairman of South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, prompting North Korea to threaten South Korea with destruction.

Analysts in South Korea said the North’s latest statement reflected its intolerance of any chal-

lenge to its own security and the authoritarian regime leader Kim Jong Il but that the war of words was unlikely to derail attempts to improve relations.

“The North has sent a clear message that it was ready for cooperation with South Korea, but it won’t tolerate it if South Korea touches on the prestige of its leader or its system,” said analyst Paik Hak-soon of the private Sejong Institute think tank near Seoul.

The North’s isolated communist regime has reached out to the U.S. and South Korea in recent months in what could be an attempt to ease some of the pressure of U.N. sanctions imposed on the North after it conducted a nuclear test last year, its second to date.

North Korea quit international talks on ending its nuclear programs in April last year, but has indicated its willingness to return to international disarmament negotiations if the sanctions are lifted.

In a sign of the conflicting signals from Pyongyang, the North’s military renewed in Sunday’s statement the country’s commitment to improve inter-Korean relations.

Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Seoul’s Dongguk University, said the South — led by a conservative government which has been more cautious in engaging

Pyongyang than preceding more liberal administrations — was also giving mixed signals.

“South Korea appears to have not decided whether to grab the hand of North Korea’s conciliatory gestures,” Koh said.

Last week, the two Koreas held talks on developing their joint industrial complex in the North’s border city of Kaesong, the most prominent symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. On Friday, the North unexpectedly offered to hold discussions between military officers in Kaesong this Tuesday to discuss border crossings, customs, and the use of mobile phones and the Internet for South Korean companies in the complex.

South Korea plans to accept the North’s demand for dialogue but ask Pyongyang to set another date as the two sides had already agreed to meet on Feb. 1 in Kaesong to discuss the complex.

“There is no reason to oppose the North’s proposal and we plan to reply on Monday,” a South Korean official said. He asked not to be identified because no official decision has been made yet.

More than 110 South Korean factories at Kaesong employ some 42,000 North Korean workers to make everything from electronics and watches to shoes and utensils, providing a major source of revenue for the cash-strapped North.

JOS, Nigeria (AFP) – At least 150 bodies were recovered from wells after Muslim-Christian clashes in central Nigeria, a village head said Saturday, taking the unofficial death toll past 450.

“So far we have picked 150 bodies from the wells. But 60 more people are still missing”, Umar Baza, head of Kuru Karama village near the city of Jos, told AFP by telephone.

“We took an inventory of the displaced people from this village, sheltering in three camps, and we realise that 60 people can still not be accounted for,” he said.

Kuru Karama is a Muslim enclave in a Christian region 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of Jos. The head of the Muslim volunteer team for the victims’ burial, Mohammed Shittu, said: “now we have 150 bodies in all, taken from the wells as from Thursday.”.

At least 364 Muslims died in the clashes, according to figures provided

by Muslim leaders, a spokesman for global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Saturday.

“As of yesterday (Friday), at least 364 Muslims have died in Jos, including those found in wells in Kuru Karama. This information was provided by Muslim officials in Jos,” the HRW’s Eric Guttschuss told AFP by telephone from Washington.

“The Christian Association of Nigeria said that they have not compiled their estimates on death toll. Hopefully, they will do that before the weekend runs out,” he said.

But earlier this week a Christian leader, the reverend Chung Dabo, secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Jos, told AFP that 55 Christians had died..

The unofficial death toll is estimated at 464.

Earlier Saturday in a statement, HRW urged Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to order “an immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents” of Kuru Karama.

Dozens of them were “stuffed down wells or in sewage pits,” HRW said in the statement.

The state government has given no official death toll for the violence, which broke out last Sunday in Jos, capital of Plateau State, and spread to nearby towns and villages.

Some 18,000 people fled the fighting to take refuge in military barracks, churches and mosques around the city, according to the Red Cross, as the government called in the army to restore order.

An AFP reporter in Jos Saturday saw scores of residents fleeing the city in cars and buses.

Religious leaders and medical workers said they had counted 288 bodies

by Wednesday, before the dead started to be recovered from Kuru Karama.

Another 26 bodies were found and buried Saturday in a Jos cemetery.

HRW quoted witnesses as saying groups of armed men — believed to be Christians — attacked the largely Muslim population of Kuru Karama on Tuesday morning.

“After surrounding the town, they hunted down and attacked Muslim residents, some of whom had sought refuge in homes and a local mosque, killing many as they tried to flee and burning many others alive,” the statement said.

Christian and Muslim leaders in Plateau State have both said the unrest owed more to the failure of political leaders to address ethnic differences than inter-faith rivalries.

Jonathan pledged that the ringleaders responsible for the violence would be brought to justice, and ordered the army to take over security of the affected regions and sensitive neighbouring areas.

Jos has been a hotbed of religious violence in Nigeria, whose 150 million people are divided almost equally between followers of the two faiths.

An estimated 200 people were killed in religious clashes in the city in late 2008.

Business was slowly picking up in Jos Saturday with more more shops opening and roadside hawkers displaying their wares, while long queues of residents scrambled for water at public taps.

Although no military patrols were visible, checkpoints still remained.

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Six wounded in ambush near US mine in Indonesia: police Agence France-Presse

TIMIKA - At least six people were wounded Sunday in a shooting ambush near US company Freeport McMoRan’s massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia’s eastern Papua region, police said.

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Indonesian police remove packs of seized marijuana from a house in Serang Banten Province on January 23, 2010. Indonesian police arrested five people and confiscated about one tonne of marijuana, valued at around 1.5 billion rupiah (166,667 US dollars) from a house in Serang.

Police arrest 13 ATM scam suspects Antara

JAKARTA - The Special Team of the national and regional police has arrested 13 suspects in money theft through hacked banks’ automatic teller machines (ATM), a police spokesman said.

National Police Spokesman Insp.

Gen. Edward Aritonang said here on Saturday that the suspects were arrested in Bali, Kalimantan and Medan (North Sumatra).

“They are arrested in Bali, Kalimantan and Medan. There were 13 suspects,” he said.

Police also confiscated evidence such as duplicators, ATM cards, stickers, personal identification numbers (PIN), bank account numbers, computers and a certain amount of money.

Based on questioning it was known that the suspects had used four modus operandis in stealing

bank customers’ money at large banks’ ATMs. In their modus operandi, the suspects installed a skimming device into the ATM slots to copy information stored on the magnetic strip of customers’ cards and a spy camera to detect their PINs. Besides, they also designed something in the ATM slot so that it would cause customers’ cards to be stuck when they were inserted. In this case, they put a fake hot-line sticker for customers’ complaints that enable them to act as they were from banks’ customer services and asked the customers identity and PINs. The third modus operandi was that the suspects installed tweezers to squeeze customers’ cards and placed bogus operators to help remove the squeezed cards stole the customers’ cards’ information.

The fourth modus operandi was

that the suspects copied information on the cards, including their PINs and then sold them Rp1 million for each data to ATM hackers.

Edward said that police had up to Saturday received reports money theft from 36 bank customers which were scattered in Bali, Kalimantan and Jakarta. They were customers of national banks such as Bank Mandiri, Bank Central Asia (BCA), Bank BNI, Bank BII and BRI. Previously, some bank customers in Bali have reported that their money has been stolen by ATM hackers.

They installed ATM skimming devices and spy cameras to steal information stored on the magnetic strip of customers’ ATM cards and duplicated them to rob customers’s accounts. Bank Indonesia said that the potential losses in the ATM scams of at least four national banks could reach Rp5 billion.

Three policemen and three mine workers were hurt in the ambush on a convoy of buses and land cruisers heading to the coastal city of Timika from the Grasberg mine, senior police officer Mada Aksanta told reporters.

“We’re combing the area of the incident to gather evidence... we’re still investigating who the perpetrators are,” Aksanta said.

One of the employees was a foreigner who received a wound near his left eye from flying glass, he added. Papua province police spokesman Agus Riyanto told reporters the foreigner is a US national and the man was being flown, along with two injured policemen, to a hospital in Jakarta for treatment.

“The national police and the military are still chasing (the shooters),” he added. Freeport spokesman Mindo Pangaribuan said nine people were injured in the shooting but declined to say how many

The air force to buy warplanes from Brazil Antara

New VoA system to be implemented in February Antara

JAKARTA - Indonesia is to implement a new and more lenient Visaon-Arrival (VoA) system for citizens of many countries starting in February 2010, a Culture and Tourism Ministry official said.

“The new VoA service will improve Indonesia’s image as a world destination and hopefully encourage more foreign tourists to visit Indonesia. Tourists can be issued visas in 15 minutes on board their flights, before landing on Indonesia soil,” I Gde Pitana, director of marketing at the ministry, said here Saturday. .

He said the VoA service was designed for foreigners coming to In-

donesia for holidaying, social, business or official visits.

The new policy was expected to increase the flow of tourists to Indonesia and thus also the country’s foreign exchange earnings.

“We are optimistic that the program will receive a good response from tourists,” he added.

The citizens of more than 50 countries were eligible for the VoA facility, namely Japan, South Africa, Algeria, United States, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech, Cyprus, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, India, England, Iran, Ireland, Hungary, Italy and Iceland.

Other countries were Germany, Cambodia, Canada, South Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Libya, Liechthstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Maldives, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, Oman, Panama, France, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, China, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Swiss, Taiwan, Tunisia, and Greece.

By paying US$25 for the VoA facility tourists can stay in Indonesia 30 days and extend their visa for another 30 days without having to exit Indonesia first. Previously, the permissible length of stay was only 10 days with an extension possible only after leaving the country.

Freeport employees were.

“Three required hospitalization for treatment of injuries that are not life-threatening, and the other six were released after treatment of minor injuries,” he said in an email.

Production at the Grasberg mine was not affected, he added.

The attack is the latest in a string of mysterious ambushes on the road linking the mine with Timika.

Australian mine technician Drew Grant was killed in an attack on July 11 last year, while a Freeport security guard and a policeman were killed the following day.

The Freeport mine sits on some of the world’s richest gold reserves and the US Company’s local subsidiary is the largest single taxpayer to the Indonesian government.

Papua, a resource-rich region on the western end of New Guinea Island, has been the site of a low-level separatist insurgency since its incorporation into Indonesia in the 1960s.

YOGYAKARTA - The Indonesian Air Force (TNI AU) would buy ‘Super Volcano’ warplanes from Brazil this year to replace OV-1s, Air Force Chief Vice Marshal Imam Sufaat said here Saturday.

“We plan to buy 16 ‘Super Volcano’ planes or a squadron. We have submitted the budget to the government for the warplanes’ purchase, hopefully it will be approved,” Sufaat said at the Air Force Academy (AAU) here on Saturday.

The plan was part of the Air Force’s efforts to rejuvenate its weaponry especially its war planes and to enforce the country’s Air Force strength, he said.

In addition to Brazil-made planes, TNI AU is expected to receive three Sukhoi jet fighters from Russia.

“Hopefully the three Sukhoi jets will arrive before October 2010.

With the additional three Sukhois, TNI AU will have a total of 10

Sukhoi jets,” he said.

TNI AU has submitted a total budget to buy 16 Sukhois or one squadron. However, its realization took time and needed funds, he said.

“The procurement of Sukhois needs a big amount of funds because they are expensive. However, we hope that the government could realize the procurement in order to strengthen the Air Force,” he said.

He also said that TNI AU has had a road map of zero accident to prevent plane accidents in the future.

However, he added, the most important thing that all Air Force personnel should apply ‘safety first culture’.

In line with the instruction of the Indonesian Defense Force headquarters, TNI AU has also intensified patrol in border areas, according to him. Russia‘s Sukhoi aircraft making company on August 21, 2007 announced the sale of six Sukhoi jetfighters consisting of three Sukhoi SU-30MK2 and three SU-27SKM to Indonesia worth USD300 million.

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Bali Today BLH Promote Friendly Waste Disposal System DENPASAR – Bali Environment Department (BLH) cooperate with hotels and restaurants in Bali will apply waste water garden (WWG) technology. The technology is being introduced in Bali in order to preserve the environment.

AA Gede Alit Sastrawan, the head of BLH Bali, said “the WWG program had been applied in some hotels in order to handle the dangerous waste and prevent the damage in environment.”

He said that the cost of applying the technology is not too expensive.

The users only must build a place to put the waste and plant various kinds of trees around it. The trees chosen are the one that can absorb and decompose the waste naturally.

Alit Sastrawan explain that Bali adopt the system from Canada and had been tested in several places. The tests

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People cleaning Kuta Beach from debris. Badung Government has been trying to clean up the debris on Kuta beach. The government added three more heavy equipments in order to clean the garbage which has been pilled up since two weeks ago.

Badung Government Utilize Heavy Equipments

Cleaning Kuta from garbage Antara

DENPASAR – Badung Government has been trying to clean up the garbage on Kuta beach.

The government added three more heavy equipments in order to clean the garbage which has been pilled up since two weeks ago.

Wayan Suteja, the head of Badung Garden Department, said “hopefully by the addition of the equipments, the garbage spread on Kuta beach can be clean in two days.”

The officers will cooperate with the seller around the beach in order to get rid of the garbage.

“The garbage will be gathered in front of the cemetery in near the beach then trucks will carry the garbage to Suwung waste dis-

posal,” Suteja added.

However, he can not assure that the activities done by the officers will completely clean the beach because the strong winds still occur. Suteja said “the strong wind will still occur and there is a chance that the waves will bring garbage to Kuta once again.

The big waves often bring many garbage including big log and woods that are very difficult to carry.

Te poor weather condition made the beach is not too crowded with tour-

ists. The tourists who often sunbathe or surf on the beach chose to go somewhere else. They are disturbed with the pilled of garbage and the smell of it.

The poor weather condition also made fishermen throughout Bali can not go to the sea. An officer in Kuta beach said that he found three dead turtles on the beach and seven others were dying since the poor weather condition happened in Bali.

Bali customs stop French tourist carrying heroin Antara

DENPASAR - Bali customs officers on Saturday detained a French tourist who had tried to bring in a quantity of heroin via

Ngurah Rai airport.

The customs office investigation division’s chief, Bagus Endro Wibowo, confirms the arrest but could not yet give further details on the case.

Other sources said the suspect,

identified as AS, was caught carrying 0.78 kilograms of heroin and two injection tools inside his pocket after he disembarked from a flight from Bangkok, Thailand.

were done in Beratan Lake in Bedugul and Batur Lake in Kintamani, Bangli.

“The waste in the waste compound will be purified by the trees so it will not harm the environment,” he added. All people especially the one who live on the rivers bank can also use the similar technology. They can also take part in preserving Bali’s environment.

Jro Gede Karang T. Suarshana, the owner of Bali Tropic Resort & Spa, had been applying the WWG technology for liquid and solid waste since 2004. The water from the process is used to water the garden which is 1.8 hectare.

By using the water from the WWG process, the hotel can save 10 million rupiah per month on water bill.

The other advantage is the remains of the solid waste can also be use as the fertilizer.

Telkomsel BIS tariffs discount up to 40 percent IBP

DENPASAR – The significant rise of Telkomsel’s BlackBerry customers made the biggest cellular operator cut its BlackBerry internet service (BIS) tariffs up to 40 percent. This program will be expiring on March 31, 2010 and applies for all the packages that offer

by Telkomsel BIS. VP Product Lifecycle Management Telkomsel Rachel Goh, at the statement received by International Bali Post on Sunday, said last year the growth of BlackBerry customers were increase significantly. The growth of Telkomsel’s customers on that year was around 600 percents compared to the 2008. According to Rachel, Telkomsel was able to add 19,000 new users every month. Telkomsel is now serving around 260,000 BlackBerry users. ‘’This numbers made us the biggest one in Indonesia,” stated Rachel.

Rachel explained the increase customers show BlackBerry users trust on Telkomsel. This is not only because the registration to use Telkomsel’s BIS is easy, but also because Telkomsel of-

One of Telkomsel customers using his BlackBerry.

The significant rise of Telkomsel’s BlackBerry customers made the biggest cellular operator cut its BlackBerry internet service (BIS) tariffs up to 40 percent.

Telkomsel

fers a cheap tariff schemes for every packages that being offer to customers. There are three kinds of packages that can be chosen by customers. The first one is calls BlackBerry lifestyle that only offer unlimited chatting and social networking. This package cost IDR2,000 per day and IDR15,000 per week and IDR45,000 per month. The second package is BlackBerry Business which offer unlimited push mail and chatting. This package is a little bit expensive comparing to the first one. The package cost IDR3,000 per day and IDR20,000 per week and IDR80,000 per month. The last one is BlackBerry unlimited for full service that cost IDR 6,000 per day and IDR45,000 per week and IDR180,000 per month.

Besides offering three BIS packages, Telkomsel also launch a bundling package between BlackBerry Bold 9700 with Telkomsel’s BIS worth IDR5,790,000. The buyer of this package will get free BlackBerry unlimited service in the first month and 50 percent discount on the fifth and sixth month. (iah)

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Balinese Culture

Spiritual Journey for Human and Soul Escape from a daily bustles can give a refreshing ambience for body and mind. Whether it is a silent break or leisure activity, of course it will energize and endow with new spirit and experience. A journey to other beautiful places, for instance, is a good idea to consider. Moreover, the journey also contains a spiritual theme. It is definitely double-benefits in a single step further.

Balinese people known as religious community have a tradition to immortalize their clan relationship.

Through generations, they maintain the relationship in order the following generations could pay homage to their ancestors accordingly other than the Almighty God. A medium used to gather all members is a clan temple. There are several clans growing in Bali such as pasek, senggu, pande, sangging, arya and so forth. Today, they have spread out throughout Bali and even outside Bali. Although they have migrated, they remain to get in touch with the family of origin, especially family temple.

Beyond the pedarman or main temple at Besakih, the mother temple of Bali, nearly all clans have branch temple in regencies across Bali. On that account, they will gather on the festival. Every year, there are always temple anniversary

whether at branch temple or at Besakih and other temples. This opportunity will become a memorable reunion among the same clan and tighten their genealogical relationship. If a clan has at least three clan temples, they would attend the anniversary for three times a year.

Outside the clan temple, the Balinese also pay homage at public temples on the anniversary of the temples or Galungan and Kuningan festivity. These become a moment of spiritual journey. Due to their enthusiasm, devotees from distance places usually have been ready early in the morning. Other than intended to get cooler ambience, it is also meant to avoid long queue under heat of the sun.

Some public temples below offer challenging spiritual journey.

The Tanah Lot Temple with magnificent view in Tabanan located in the sea can be reached only at low tide. During the temple festival, local authority usually issues a tidal chart that can help devotees to schedule their worship. Secondly is Lempuyang Temple in Karangasem. It really needs fit stamina, as devotees should climb the mountain of 1.174 meters above sea level and pass through more than 1,500 steps. Another ‘challenging’ one is Menjangan

Temple. It is located within the Bali Barat National Park, Buleleng Regency. With some 30-minute sail from Labuan Lalang, devotees will arrive at Menjangan Island.

Lately, a tradition developed where after performing ngaben cremation, the procession is ended by meajar-ajar or pilgrimage of the soul. Together with the representation of the purified soul, the family will visit temples located at mountain area (Gunung) that usually choosing Dalem Puri temple at the temple complex of Besakih and a temple located near the sea (segara). The most visited temple for the latter category is Goa Lawah Temple located in Klungkung. In this procession, these two destinations represent two sites in the mountain-seaward orientation and it is then called as nyegara-gunung.

Thus, Balinese people perform their spiritual journey regularly all the year round. This has social and spiritual dimension. Socially, they stay to maintain familiar relationship by meeting their big family from many places. Then, they spiritually get in touch with their predecessors in the togetherness spirit through the worship. At least, they could say hello and gratitude for the guidance endowed. (BTN/punia)

Various Traditional Servings Many Balinese food events have taken a valuable adventure to people, chiefly young generation, to an ancient tradition of Balinese culinary. Bali Food Festival in relation to Bali Arts Festival, THK Awards, Gajah Mada Festival and other events have enriched the appreciation of the locals and tourists about Balinese food. In the midst of engulfing delicacies from outside Bali and Indonesia Balinese food in fact local foods could win the heart of those tourists.

Aside from the expertise to prepare and process the ingredients behind such delicacies, the serving also plays important role. Balinese food served in traditional serving will reflect the whole entity of Balinese food.

Ingredients, process, display and serving tool entirely represent this whole entity.

The tools used to serve gets influence from the availability of oblational containers or the making of various offering and the easy serving of food on daily occasion. For example, there are ingke—plate made from plaited palm’s rib, tekor—banana leaf whose one end affixed by bamboo pin or semat, takir—small container made from banana leaf where both ends affixed by bamboo pin and usually used to contain sambal, fried bean, nut, grated coconut and so forth and tatakan busung—the base made from coconut leaf inspired by the base of oblation. (BTN/punia)

Photo caption: Various Balinese food servings using natural container like (1) tekor, (2) takir, (3) ingke and (4) tatakan busung.

Sambal Goreng Ati Ampela Ingredients * * * * * * * * *

4 pairs of chicken’s livers and gizzards 5 pieces of shallots 3 pieces of garlic 5 pieces of red chili peppers 4 cm lengkusa 10 gr shrimp paste 1 cup of coconut milk 1 board of petai salt and pepper.

Directions Cut liver and gizzards into bite sized pieces Skin shallots and garlic. Brown shrimp paste.

Grind finely shallots, garlic, red chili peppers, shrimp paste. Brown these spices with galanga, mixing them evenly. Add liver and gizzard pieces, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix evenly and add coconut milk, let it simmer for 3 minutes. (http://asiarecipe.com)

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Pulaki Temple is a famous temple among the Hindu people in Bali located in Singaraja regency, north part of Bali.

There are the group of monkeys dwell the hill forest around the temple and it usually standing around the temple in the day time. The beautiful beach with black sand and calm seawater is one of the fascinations to visitor to come to this temple. We can find the beautiful hill bank and beaches along

the coastal road.

It is located in Pulaki Village, Seririt Sub District, Singaraja Regency, north part of Bali. It is just 3 hours drive from Bali’s International Airport or 1 hour drive from Singaraja town. It is strategically set in the main road from Singaraja to Gilimanuk with the group of monkeys as the identity for the traveler who wants to visit this temple. (www.balistarisland.com)

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BUSINESS Pressure for bank reforms to rise at Davos meets Agence France-Presse

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File photo taken on March 24, 2009 shows sale signs in the window of a clothing store on Oxford Street in central London.

Britain to exit recession, but faces bleak recovery: economists Agence France-Presse

LONDON - An end to Britain’s longest recession on record will likely be confirmed this week but recovery for the debt-ridden nation — facing an election this year — will be far from smooth, economists warned.

The Office for National Statistics will on Tuesday publish data expected to reveal that Britain exited recession in the fourth quarter of 2009, analysts have widely forecast.

A return to growth between October and December last year after six quarters of negative output will see Britain following all other major economies out of recession.

Economists predict growth of 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter.

However, the future for the British and wider global economy is far from rosy, with the IMF and the United Nations recently warning of a possible renewed or “double-dip recession” this year.

Those worries have been heightened in Europe, where several nations — notably Greece and Portugal — are struggling to cope with soaring public debt.

“It’s definitely worth pointing out that, even if we do exit recession, the hard work will only just be beginning,” said Colin Ellis, an economist at Daiwa Capital Markets Europe.

“Shrinking the massive budget deficit, getting private sector employment growing and generating genuine wage growth will be big challenges over the next few years.”

Ellis also told AFP: “There is

a risk of a double-dip (recession) during 2010.”

British state borrowing worsened to a record deficit in December, official data revealed last Thursday, sparking speculation about public spending cuts and taxation hikes in the months ahead.

Britain has borrowed 119.9 billion pounds (136.7 billion euros, 193.3 billion dollars) in its current financial year which began in April, compared with 63.6 billion pounds recorded at the same stage of last year.

The government meanwhile predicts that it will have to borrow a record 178 billion pounds during 2009/2010.

The state of Britain’s troubled economy has become the key battle ground ahead of a general election due by June and which is likely to see Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party defeated by the main opposition Conservatives, according to recent polls.

Whichever party wins power, Britain faces a decade of economic pain, experts warned.

“The UK economy has moved out of a decade of debt and into a decade of painful readjustment,” analysts at financial group Ernst and Young warned in a key report published earlier this month.

“After years of relying on do-

mestic spending and borrowing the economy now needs to rebalance towards saving and exporting, or risk stagnating,” said the study by the group’s Independent Treasury Economic Model (ITEM) Club.

Gross domestic product (GDP) will meanwhile “struggle” to reach 1.0 percent this year, they said.

“The UK is facing another challenging year,” added chief economic adviser Peter Spencer.

“We are no longer in a position to borrow — the massive debts that we racked up in the last decade now need to be repaid. The consumer is completely cashed out — with consumer spending likely to increase by just 0.4 percent this year.”

The economy, which is also struggling with high unemployment caused by the financial crisis, has contracted for six quarters in a row — its longest recession since records began in 1955.

Finance minister Alistair Darling recently admitted that Britain’s recession would be deeper than thought — with the economy predicted to have shrunk 4.75 percent in 2009 compared with a prior official estimate of 3.5 percent.

The nation’s economy is expected to grow by 1.0-1.5 percent in 2010, Darling added, matching his previous forecast.

ZURICH - Pressure for bank reforms is set to grow at a gathering of the world’s elite at Davos this week, shortly after US President Barack Obama set the stage with an offensive against Wall Street excesses.

However, emboldened by a growing economic recovery, bankers — who were conspicuously missing from last year’s World Economic Forum meeting in the Swiss mountain resort — are set to fight back in vocal fashion, experts said.

Excessive risk taking by the banking industry has been cited as one of the causes of the recent financial and economic crises and regulators have been tasked by top politicians to draw up new rules to rein the banks in.

But as the world slowly emerges from recession — the worst since the Great Depression — opposing voices from banks on these new rules are growing louder.

“The lobbying is getting very strong and the political will can be diluted quickly,” warned Cedric Tille, professor of economics at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva.

“It’s urgent to put these reforms in place,” said Tille, a former economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Proponents of the reform would find an ally in Obama, who announced plans on Thursday to prevent banks or financial institutions in the United States from owning, investing in or sponsoring hedge fund or private equity funds.

The new rules would force firms to choose between activities such as trading in stocks and sometimes risky financial instruments for their own benefit — and traditional activities, like making loans and collecting deposits.

The Group of 20 (G20) leading developed and emerging economies has also asked for new rules to clean up the sector, with more stringent requirements on capitalization and debt ratios due to be introduced by the end of 2012.

Rainer Skierka, an analyst at Bank Sarasin, noted that the new rules were unpopular since

they could generate costs and cut the profit margins of banks.

In addition, banks would be required to set aside more money as capital — reducing the funds they could use for investment to generate better returns.

“Banks are doing intense lobbying as the new demands on capital reduces their profits,” said Tille.

Bankers are likely to be more vocal in their lobbying against the reforms, said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight.

“A lot of bankers can’t wait to get out of the control of governments. Some feel so stifled,” he said.

“They are going to do everything they can to resist the reforms. They will be more vocal this year,” he added.

Bankers and finance ministers are to sit together on Wednesday to discuss “structural deficiencies (that) persist in the regulation of systemic financial risk,” according to a programme of the Davos meeting circulated by organisers.

On Saturday, the focus will be on how the largest financial institutions in the world should be regulated.

Central bankers like the European Central Bank’s JeanClaude Trichet as well as Egypt’s Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali and French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde, are expected to pile on the pressure, analysts said.

Regulators have cautioned that reining in banks is becoming a key issue, particularly now that governments have shown that they were willing to bail out ailing banks in a financial crisis.

“Before the crisis, you didn’t know how states were going to behave in the event of a crisis,” Switzerland’s central bank chief Jean-Pierre Roth observed recently before he retired.

“After the crisis, the head of a major bank knows that in case of a major crisis in the future he can count on state backing, and that’s the parameter that has changed fundamentally.”

The pre-crisis ambiguity had broadly encouraged greater prudence, he added. Roth cautioned that its loss now posed a “fundamental problem,” hence the need for regulation to take over.

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Bloody frontlines of Afghanistan arrive in Sundance Agence France Presse

PARK CITY, Utah – The bloody frontlines of America’s war in Afghanistan have been transplanted to the Sundance Film Festival thanks to a gripping documentary vying for honors here.

“Restrepo,” is a visceral account of a year spent embedded alongside 15 American soldiers stationed at a remote mountain outpost in the Korengal Valley, where Taliban attacks are almost a daily occurrence.

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s film is an intimate portrait of soldiers at war, capturing the chaos of battle, the spartan living conditions and the boredom of moments when the bullets aren’t flying.

While accounts from journalists embedding with US forces are nothing new, few reporters or filmmakers have spent an entire yearlong rotation with a unit as Junger and Hetherington did between 2007 and 2008.

“Actually no journalist has done that, not for an entire deployment,” said Hetherington, a photographer who won the World Press Photo Competition in 2007 for his picture of an exhausted soldier following a battle in Korengal.

“We just did something very obvious, and we decided to spend a very long time with them, as much as we could,” he told AFP. “There are 22 million American families with sons or brothers or husbands that have served or are serving in the military and they want to know what those people go through. This film shows it.”

Junger, a regular contributor to Vanity Fair magazine and best-selling author of “The Perfect Storm,” said the idea of the film “was to make a movie that was completely about the soldiers’ experience.”

“They can’t ask a general, ‘Why are we in the Korengal Valley, Sir?’ So we did not interview generals.

They can’t talk to politicians, they can’t see their families so we didn’t do any of that in the movie,” Junger explained.

“We didn’t even want an outside narrator.” The only voices in the film are those of the soldiers, 24/7.

“They let us into their lives and they accepted the fact that we would film everything and they never hid anything from us,” Hetherington said.

Nothing was off-limits, not even the death early in the documentary of soldier Juan Restrepo, whom the base the troops are defending is named after.

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A US soldier from the Provincial Reconstruction team (PRT) Steel Warriors frisks an Afghan villager. The bloody frontlines of America’s war in Afghanistan have been transplanted to the Sundance Film Festival thanks to a gripping documentary vying for honors.

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Alec Baldwin accepts the best actor in a comedy series award at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, in Los Angeles.

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‘Inglourious Basterds’ wins SAG film award Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – While Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock’s chances for Academy Award gold were advanced with their trophies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the blockbuster “Avatar” may have felt a touch blue.

The computer-assisted performances in James Cameron’s “Avatar” didn’t make the cut for SAG nominations.

But the groundbreaking sci-fi film remains a strong best-picture contender for the Oscars in March.

For Bridges of “Crazy Heart,” Bullock of “The Blind Side” and for SAG supporting-acting honorees Mo’Nique of “Precious” and Christoph Walt of “Inglourious Basterds,” there’s reason to suspect the Oscar ceremony will be a happy rerun of Saturday’s SAG Awards and last Sunday’s Golden Globes.

All four were recognized at the Globes, as well, while “Avatar” was named best drama and Cameron won as best director.

He will face competition from director Quentin Tarantino, whose

“Inglourious Basterds” won the SAG Award for best ensemble performance, which can be a precursor to the top Oscar award. Last year, SAG’s movie cast award was presented to “Slumdog Millionaire,” which went on to win the best picture Oscar.

“It was an honor to be part of it, Quentin,” “Inglourious Basterds” cast member Eli Roth said in accepting the award for his fellow actors in the off-kilter World War II revenge saga.

Bullock declined — strenuously — to look ahead. “Shhhhh. Shhhhh.

Shhhhh,” Bullock said backstage when she was asked to speculate on her Oscar chances. She won for her portrayal of a tenacious real-life mom, Leigh Anne Tuohy, who helped a youth in need, future American football player Michael Oher.

“I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I ever considered myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough,” she added. Although respected by his peers, Bridges has largely been bypassed for major awards.

“I love being an actor — pretending to be other people and getting into the shoes of other folks,” said Bridges, who plays a hard-luck, hard-living country singer in “Crazy Heart.”

Waltz was honored for his role as an enthusiastically ruthless Nazi.

Mo’Nique’s trophy came for her searing portrayal of an abusive mother in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire.”

On the TV side of the SAG Awards, the cast of AMC’s 1960s Madison Avenue saga “Mad Men” won the trophy for best drama series ensemble for the second year in a row, while 19 cast members of Fox TV newcomer “Glee,” about misfits in a high school singing club, accepted the award for best comedy series ensemble.

US telethon raises more than 58 million for Haiti Agence France Presse

NEW YORK – A US telethon to help earthquake victims in Haiti has raised more than 58 million dollars, setting a new donation record by the general public, organizers announced.

“The public has set a new standard of giving for a relief telethon with ‘Hope for Haiti Now,’ and the donations continue to come in — people can still contribute 24/7 via phone, web and text,” said Lisa

Paulsen, president and chief executive officer of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, a non-profit organization providing philanthropic support to “Hope for Haiti Now.” The event led by Hollywood actor George Clooney was broadcast by all major television networks in the United States.

It featured performances by Wyclef Jean, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce, Coldplay, Bono, Jay-Z, and Rihanna.

Internet social networks Facebook

and MySpace contributed to funds collection. The January 12 earthquake has left more than 111,000 Haitians dead and about 500,000 homeless, according to the latest figures released.

Handout photo from MTV shows Sacha Baron Cohen, Jennifer Aniston and John Cusack at the Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief telethon in Los Angeles, California.

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Smokers with cancer could quit and double survival Associated Press Writer

LONDON – People with early lung cancer who quit smoking could double their chances of surviving, a new study says. Until now, there has been little proof that quitting smoking after developing lung cancer makes any difference to survival.

British researchers analyzed previous data from 10 studies examining how long smokers survived after being diagnosed with lung cancer. People with lung cancer who continued smoking had a 29 to 33 percent chance of surviving five years. But those who kicked the habit had a 63 to 70 percent chance of being alive after five years. The research was

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Smokers diagnosed with lung cancer should not assume they have been handed a death sentence, as quitting tobacco even at this stage can greatly boost their survival chances, doctors said on Friday.

Astronauts finally get Internet access in space Associated Press Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In a high tech first — really, really high — astronauts in space finally have Internet access.

Space station resident Timothy (TJ) Creamer had been working with flight controllers to establish Internet access from his orbital post ever since he moved in last month. On Friday, his effort paid off. He posted the first live Twitter post truly from space.

“Hello Twitterverse!” he wrote. “We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s” Before, orbiting astronauts had to send such Twitter updates by e-mail to Mission Control in Houston. Then controllers posted the tweets.

The International Space Station crew can now use an on-board laptop to reach a desktop computer at Mission Control, and thereby browse the Web. This remote

Internet access is possible whenever there is a solid high-speed communication link.

It’s expected to provide a big morale boost. “Long-duration astronauts, they commit to spending months away from family and friends. It’s a pretty unique state of isolation,” said NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries. “We expect this to enhance morale and productivity.”

The astronauts will be subject to the same Internet access guidelines as other on-the-job government employees, namely no interfering with work.

Is NASA worried the astronauts might spend too much time online, more than 200 miles up? “These are highly driven individuals,” Humphries said with a chuckle, “so they’re going to get their work done first.”

The astronauts already had an Internet Protocol phone for private calls to family and friends. Creamer is one month into a five-month mission. He is sharing the space station with another American, one Japanese and two Russians.

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The International Space Station is visible in this photo taken by an STS-129 crew member on Atlantis November 25, 2009 soon after the station and shuttle undocked in this photo released by NASA.

published Friday in the BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal.

Lung cancer is the top cancer worldwide, and the prognosis is usually poor. Only about 7 percent of patients make it to five years, though about 20 percent of patients are diagnosed early enough to be treated.

“The message is you should never give up on giving up (smoking),” said Amanda Parsons, of the U.K. Centre for Tobacco Control Studies at the University of Birmingham, who led the study. “Even at the stage where you have been diagnosed with early stage lung cancer ... if you give up smoking, your body can still partially recover and your risk is reduced,” she said.

While some doctors recommend lung cancer patients quit smoking, not all do. Some doctors and nurses “think it is inhuman to dwell on the matter — that it adds to feelings of guilt and takes away a lifelong comfort from the dying patient,” wrote Tom Treasure of University College London and Janet Treasure of King’s College London in an accompanying editorial in the BMJ. They said patients and their families should now be told about the study results, “because the potential benefit is great.”

The research might also provide some clues on how smoking causes cancer. Scientists aren’t sure if tobacco smoke or nicotine affect lung cancer once it has developed, though there is some evidence they may speed up the disease.

Knowing how cigarettes impact cancer could potentially lead to new treatments, Parsons and colleagues wrote. The study was paid for by the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research U.K. and other governmental bodies.

Seismologists: Another earthquake threatens Haiti nitude seven just three months apart in 1999.

Schwartz warned a similar scenario could take WASHINGTON – Another earthquake is place in Haiti.

The Enriquillo fault zone, which runs along threatening to hit Haiti with as much, if not more force than the massive temblor that leveled Port- the southern portion of the island of Hispaniola au-Prince, seismologists said, urging the coun- shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, could generate a tremor measuring up to 7.2 — try to rebuild with strict norms.

Aftershocks have already rattled the impov- slightly higher than the original quake — accorderished Caribbean nation in the days following ing to Eric Calais, a seismologist at Purdue Unithe January 12 quake that killed over 110,000 versity.

“Earthquakes in this region tend to repeat people, left nearly 610,000 homeless and injured scores more. On Wednesday, a magnitude 5.9 themselves in sequences,” he said in an interview, temblor struck a people already scrambling to noting that similarly large temblors have shaken Haiti at least four times in the past three centurebuild their tattered lives.

But more are likely on their way. The US ries, including those of 1751 and 1770, which Geological Survey (USGS) estimated on Thurs- completely destroyed Port-au-Prince.

“Port-au-Prince must be rebuilt according to day that there was a 25 percent probability that one or several magnitude 6 aftershocks could strict seismic norms.” Some nuclear plants that strike in the coming weeks, although they will can resist magnitude 8 earthquakes are now being built, he noted. space out more and more over time.

The USGS said an in-depth evaluation of the If the devastating magnitude 7 quake that hit nearly two weeks ago freed much of the tension quake risk for Haiti and other Caribbean counaccumulated on one portion of the Enriquillo- tries would provide the basis to establish and Plantain Garden fault zone, another segment east improve construction norms in order to eventuof the epicenter and adjacent to Haiti’s capital ally erect more resistant buildings.

Port-au-Prince has barely moved, according to the USGS. Yet part of this fault zone accumulated more strain due to the sliding of North American and Caribbean tectonic plates that could unleash all that strength at any moment without warning.

The geological agency based its predictions on preliminary measures of deformations using radar, satellite and aerial imagery.

“We just know from other earthquakes worldwide and from the history of Haiti that large earthquakes can occur close in time,” USGS seismologist David Schwartz told AFP/MINUSTAH/File/Marco Dormino AFP. “Not one of us would be sur- The seaport of Port-au-Prince was damaged by the earthquake on January 12. Seismologists say another earthprised.”

Citing Turkey, which experi- quake is threatening to hit Haiti with as much, if not more enced two earthquakes above mag- force than the massive temblor that leveled Port-au-Prince.

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Anthony leads Nuggets past Hornets Associated Press Writer

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Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina covers his head with shirt as he plays Marin Cilic of Croatia in their Men’s singles fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday Jan. 24, 2010.

Del Potro, Safina out; Nadal, Murray to meet Associated Press Writer

MELBOURNE, Australia – U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro’s bid for back-toback Grand Slam titles ended in a fourth-round, five-set loss to No. 14 Marin Cilic on Sunday.

Justine Henin’s run in her first Grand Slam tournament in two years continued with a 7-6 (3), 1-6, 6-3 win over fellow Belgian Yanina Wickmayer, placing her on course for a quarterfinal match against Nadia Petrova.

Petrova, who had a stunning 6-0, 6-1 win over U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters in the third round, made it back-to-back upset victories when she ousted third-ranked Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 to reach the final eight.

Maria Kirilenko added another big Russian name to her list of victims when No. 2 Dinara Safina retired from their fourth round match when was down 5-4, serving at 30-40. Safina, who reached the final here last year, limped off the court with what appeared to be either the recurrence of a back problem or an upper leg injury.

Kirilenko ousted 2008 champion Maria Sharapova in the first round. Del Potro had an upset win over top-ranked Roger Federer in the U.S. Open final last September, ending the Swiss star’s streak of five straight titles in New York.

The 21-year-old Argentine was the first man since Novak Djokovic won the 2008 Australian Open to interrupt the Federer-Rafael Nadal domination of men’s Grand Slam titles, and started the season’s first major with the No. 4 seeding and among the favorites.

The four other leading men are still here. For now.

Defending champion Nadal and Andy Murray held off two of the tallest men and biggest servers in tennis earlier on Rod Laver Arena to set up a quarterfinal meeting.

Nadal, who beat Federer in the 2009 final, had a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 win over 6-foot-10 Ivo Karlovic of Croatia, the tallest man on the tour.

No. 5 Murray overcame 6-foot-9 American John Isner 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-2 to reach the final eight in Australia for the first time. The 22-year-old Scot hasn’t dropped a set in four matches.

In an afternoon match at Hisense, 2008 Wimbledon semifinalist Zheng Jie set another national mark by becoming the first Chinese player to reach the quarterfinals at Melbourne Park with a 7-6 (6), 6-4 victory over Alona Bondarenko. She next plays Kirilenko.

Henin, who is unranked and playing on a wild-card entry in her second tournament since returning from a 20-month retirement, said she missed tennis too much not to come back.

“It’s been great moment for myself,” Henin said. “It’s a great feeling to be back, been a great fight and thank you.”

The seven-time Grand Slam winner dominated the first-set tiebreaker after saving three set points in the 12th game. After dropping the second set, Henin broke Wickmayer’s serve to open the deciding third set and was on top after that.

Del Potro struggled most of the way through the 4hour, 38-minute match against Cilic, who exacted a measure of revenge with the victory. The 21-year-old Croat lost to del Potro in the fourth round here last year and in the U.S. Open quarterfinals.

Del Potro had been bothered by right wrist pain that forced him out of a warmup tournament and was undoubtedly weary from a five-set, second round win over James Blake — the longest of the tournament in terms of total games at 62.

He said the wrist and the foot were only part of the problem. What hurts? “The whole body.” The increased expectations on him weren’t a bother, he said.

“No, I really enjoyed that pressure. The crowd is unbelievable with me. They support me every match, every point,” said del Potro, who plans to go home and recover. “I was down in every match, and they help me to keep fighting, like today. I really like it, that pressure.”

When del Potro hit his last backhand long, Cilic sank to both knees, arms in the air. He volleyed the ball high into the stands, where his most vocal supporters were cheering wildly.

“Today was my best so far,” Cilic said. “Physically I think (del Potro) was tired and he struggled, but I was feeling really good ... and I had some crazy fans.”

Cilic, who converted four of his 16 breakpoint chances, will next play the winner of a big-serving duel between former No. 1 Andy Roddick or 2007 Australian Open finalist Fernando Gonzalez of Chile.

Nadal only dropped serve once against Karlovic, to surrender the second set. In the third and fourth sets, he broke the Croat in the third games to get on top early.

He showed plenty of emotion after earning a breakpoint in the third set, screaming out “Vamos!” and spinning around as he ripped his left elbow back and raised his left knee.

DENVER – Carmelo Anthony scored four of his 30 points in overtime and added 11 rebounds and the Denver Nuggets beat the New Orleans Hornets 116-110 on Saturday night for their season-high sixth straight victory.

Kenyon Martin added 20 points and 14 rebounds, and Chauncey Billups had 20 points and nine assists, and Arron Afflalo had 19 points, hitting two 3-pointers in overtime.

Chris Paul had 26 points, seven in overtime, and 10 assists for the Hornets. Darius Songaila added a season-high 20 starting in place of the injured David West.

Afflalo’s second 3-pointer came right after Paul pulled the Hornets to 108-106 with his only 3-pointer of the night.

Anthony rolled his ankle after landing on Devin Brown’s foot with 1:04 left, but stayed in the game and hit two free throws to give Denver a 113-106 lead.

The Nuggets led 101-99 with 24 seconds left in regulation, but Paul hit a shot to tie it with 18 seconds left.

Anthony missed two shots in the final seconds that would have won it in regulation.

Stojakovic hit three 3-pointers in the third quarter as New Orleans surged ahead, but the Nuggets came storming back. Anthony hit a turn-

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Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin, left, works the ball inside for a shot as New Orleans Hornets forward Darius Songaila defends in the first quarter of an NBA basketball game in Denver on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. around and after New Orleans miss, Martin’s putback dunk made it 7572 with 2:59 left in the frame.

Denver led 79-78 heading into the fourth.

West, the Hornets’ second-leading scorer, missed the game after spraining an ankle against Minnesota on Friday night. Songaila started in West’s place and scored eight points in the first quarter to help New Orleans take a 33-32 lead.

Relaxed Armstrong hits the beers Down Under Agence France Presse

ADELAIDE, Australia – A relaxed Lance Armstrong swigged beer with his new team-mates on Sunday after a successful hit-out at the Tour Down Under, their first race together.

Armstrong finished the six-stage race around Adelaide in 25th place, a slight improvement on last year’s 29th as he gears up for his attempt on an eighth Tour de France title in July.

“Having a beer with Team RadioShack,” he tweeted. “Good week here at Tour Down Under.”

Armstrong joined the new RadioShack outfit from Astana, moving with team boss Johan Bruyneel who masterminded all of his record seven Tour de France victories between 1999 and 2005.

Bruyneel said Armstrong was in better condition than last year, when he returned from a three-and-a-halfyear retirement, and also happier with his new team.

Armstrong famously fell out with Astana team-mate Alberto Contador last season in a feud that came to the boil during the Tour de France, when he placed third behind the Spaniard.

“Lance is good. He’s a lot different than last year. Physically his form is a lot better, he feels good in the bunch and he feels good in the team so that’s three things that are better than last year,” Bruyneel said.

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US cyclist Lance Armstrong waits for the start of the sixth and final stage of the Tour Down Under in Adelaide. A relaxed Armstrong swigged beer with his new team-mates after a successful hit-out at the Tour Down Under, their first race together.

Armstrong earlier said he was happy with the trip, although it was too early to make any predictions for the rest of the season.

“It’s still so early. Not much can be taken from here in terms of what happens in the summer, in fact nothing,” he said.

“The main thing is we got good racing in, which equals good preparation mixed with no bad luck: illness, injuries, crashes. Smooth trip, good weather.”

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US loses to Honduras 3-1 in World Cup warmup Associated Press Writer

CARSON, Calif. – The United States opened its 2010 schedule of World Cup warmups with a resounding thud.

Fellow World Cup qualifier Honduras thoroughly outplayed a second-string U.S. lineup, winning an exhibition game 3-1 Saturday night.

Defender Jimmy Conrad was ejected by Mexico referee Benito Archundia in the 17th minute for his second yellow card, given for an off-the-ball foul in the penalty area. Carlos Pavon, who put a penalty kick over the crossbar during last October’s World Cup qualifier, converted his kick this time in the 19th.

“It’s tough to fight back, especially a man down,” said left back Jonathan Bornstein, the closest to a regular in the U.S. lineup. “The match just didn’t go our way this time.”

Before a pro-Honduras crowd of 18,626, Jerry Palacios split the defense to beat goalkeeper Troy Perkins with a 6-yard header off Pavon’s cross in the 37th following a long ball by Emilio Izaguirre.

Roger Espinoza made it 3-0 in the 53rd, slotting the ball in from 8 yards.

Clarence Goodson scored in the 70th for the 14th-ranked U.S., using an elbow to outleap goalkeeper Donis Escobar for a corner kick.

Goodson also scored against Honduras in last summer ’s CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal.

It was just the second time the Americans lost to Honduras at

home, but none of the players the U.S. used in this match are likely to be in the starting lineup for its World Cup opener against England on June 12. The regulars stayed in Europe with their clubs and Bradley used a group from Major League Soccer and Scandinavian clubs on winter break, players trying to earn roster spots as reserves.

This was the first of five planned warmups ahead of the World Cup. Most American regulars also will miss the Feb. 24 game against El Salvador at Tampa, Fla., but U.S. coach Bob Bradley should have a relatively full-strength roster for the March 3 match against the Netherlands in Amsterdam — the last game before he picks his 23-man roster. The Americans then probably will play a pair of exhibitions at home in May before heading to South Africa, where they also play Slovenia and Algeria in the first round.

Honduras, tied for 37th in the world rankings, is preparing to meet Chile, Spain and Switzerland in its first World Cup appearance since 1982. The Catrachos also were missing its Europe-based players.

Bornstein was the only U.S. starter held over from October’s qualifier at San Pedro Sula, when the Americans rallied for a 3-2 win that clinched their sixth straight World Cup appearance. Four days later, it was Bornstein’s injury-time goal against Costa Rica that gained a 2-2 tie — and put Honduras in the World Cup instead of Costa Rica.

Honduras used just three starters from October’s match against the U.S.

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Manchester United’s English forward Wayne Rooney (3rd L) scores the opening goal of their English Premier League match against Hull City at Old Trafford in Manchester. Rooney scored four goals in a match for the first time in his career to send United back to the top of the Premier League table on Saturday after a 4-0 win.

Fergie tells fans to forget finances and relish Rooney MANCHESTER, England – Sir Alex Ferguson has pleaded with Manchester United supporters to put their dissatisfaction with the club’s owners behind them and back his team as they attempt to retain their Premier League title.

Before Saturday’s 4-0 victory over Hull, which featured an astonishing four-goal performance from Wayne Rooney, Ferguson used his programme notes to appeal for United’s increasingly militant fans to cease their campaign against the Glazer family.

“The family of Manchester United is under pressure as a result of all the issues and controversies surrounding the ownership and financial situation of our club,” wrote Ferguson. “Some of our fans are clearly unhappy with the financial position, but we mustn’t allow the situation to become divisive.

“I could see our opponents rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of watching us fall out among ourselves if we don’t all think carefully about what we are doing.”

During the victory over Hull, which took United to the top of the table for

the first time in over three months, supporters sporadically broke into chants against the Glazers although Ferguson insisted that was no problem for his players.

“I don’t think it was dissenting against them at all and I don’t think it affected the players,” he said.

Instead, Ferguson focused upon Rooney’s performance, which took his season’s tally to 20 goals, three short of his personal best.

“Wayne’s goals were, without a doubt, the highlight,” said Ferguson.

“It’s the first time he has scored four for us and the first time a United player has scored four since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer some years ago.

“That was pleasing. He’s in great goal scoring form at the moment. I think he’ll better 23, I’m sure of that. He’s in great goalscoring form and that’s an encouragement for Wayne. He’ll want

to develop himself as a scorer and today there were some terrific finishes.”

Ferguson was also content with the return of England defender Rio Ferdinand for the first time since October.

He said: “I thought, apart from a spell with 20 minutes to go, that the back four looked very comfortable.

Rio’s presence, composure and balance stands out.”

United now stand top of the Premier League for the first time in over three months, the sort of position Ferguson insisted he wanted to be in at the start of the year.

“Goal difference could be important and it’s significant being top at this time of the season,” he added. “I know opponents have games in hand but they have got to win those games. We’re in the right place. It’s better being top in January than anywhere else.”

Francesco Totti: Destiny Called In Roma Win Over Juventus

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Honduras’ Jerry Palacios celebrates his goal during the first half of an international friendly soccer match against the United States, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, in Carson, Calif.

ROME - Roma captain Francesco Totti hailed his first ever goal against Juventus in Turin as “destiny” in the wake of his side’s thrilling late win against the Old Lady.

Totti started on the bench but was on within five minutes for the injured Luca Toni. He scored an equaliser in the second half from the penalty spot before John Arne Riise nodded a late winner in stoppage time.

“It was destiny, a goal that was worth three points and I’m so happy to have extended Roma’s lead over Juve. “The team spirit was crucial as we are going through a positive period and faced them openly to earn the win.”

The Roma legend clocked up another personal triumph by equalling the Serie A goalscoring record of former Lazio star Beppe Signori.

“I’m also pleased on a personal level to have matched the 188 goals scored by Giuseppe Signori.”

It was Totti’s first appearance of the year and he admitted he wasn’t expecting to come on so early having being named on the bench.

“I really didn’t expect it and didn’t even do a minute of warm up so I came off the bench cold.”

Asked for his opinion on the Milan derby, Totti preferred to focus on his own side’s climb up the table.

“It’s only normal that when you win then you look at what the other teams are doing but right now I’m only focused on Roma.”

Riise’s late winner capped a sweet night for Roma coach Claudio Ranieri who was sacked

by Juventus last summer to make way for the under fire Ciro Ferrara.

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AS Roma’s Francesco Totti shoots to score on a penalty during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and AS Roma at the Olympic stadium in Turin, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010.

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Yamaha: Rossi might consider F1 again

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Juan Manuel Lopez, left, connects against Steven Luevano during a WBO featherweight title fight on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 in New York. Lopez won via TKO in the seventh round.

Lopez knocks out Luevano to win featherweight belt Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – Juan Manuel Lopez wants to follow his idol Felix Trinidad as the next great Puerto Rican fighter, winning a handful of titles as he climbs through the weight divisions. JuanMa captured No. 2 in style on Saturday night.

He used a thudding right hand and a flush left hook to knock out Steven Luevano in the seventh round, taking his WBO belt in the main event of a featherweight doubleheader. Earlier in the night, fellow rising star Yuriorkis Gamboa defended his WBA belt with a second-round stoppage of Rogers Mtagwa.

“We saw the video and we knew the right was there for me all night,” said Lopez, who fought a more disciplined fight than his last time out, when he was taken to the brink by Mtagwa. “I could feel I was landing it, and I was very surprised he took so many punches. He took a lot of punishment.”

Luevano (37-2-1), who defended his title five times, struggled to keep his distance. He’s a counter-puncher by nature and never had a chance to throw a counter, wilting under JuanMa’s intense pressure.

The charismatic Puerto Rican staggered the champion early in the seventh before finally trapping Luevano against the ropes, unleashing a combination capped by a clean left near the corner. Luevano staggered to his feet by the count of 10, but referee Benji Esteves wisely waved it off.

“He’s a great fighter and a great hitter,” said Luevano, his left eye swelling shut. “I was blocking that right punch during the entire fight, and he got one in.”

Lopez (28-0, 25 KOs) had looked dominant at junior featherweight, and he was simply overwhelming at 126 pounds. He didn’t have to drain himself nearly as much to make weight and showed that he can be a force in a crowded division that includes Chris John.

“He fought a really intelligent fight,” said promoter Bob Arum, who would eventually like to put Lopez and Gamboa against each other. “Let’s see if there’s any featherweights left standing, I want to wipe them all out, so there’s nobody left but those two guys.”

The outcome certainly delighted a reunion of great Puerto Rican fighters.

Trinidad, the former five-time champion, drew the first big roar from a crowd of more than 5,000 that packed the smaller theater at Madison Square Garden. He was followed by another roar for former welterweight titleholder Miguel Cotto, whose late father was honored before the main event with a 10-bell salute and moment of silence.

Cotto, who is coming off a loss to Manny Pacquiao, was in town to work on an agreement to challenge 154pound titleholder Yuri Foreman on June 12. Cotto would be reclaiming his annual date on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade in New York.

Despite all the star power in the house, including former heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis, Gamboa (17-0, 15 KOs) may have stolen the show with his electrifying display.

The 2004 Olympic gold medalist from Cuba did damage with his first blow, a counter-punching left that stunned Mtagwa in the middle of the ring. Gamboa then knocked the granite-chinned Mtagwa down with 15 seconds left in the round, and the Tanzanian-born challenger never looked the same.

Gamboa dumped him again midway through the second round with devastating combinations, finishing the fight moments later when Mtagwa (26-14-2) was unable to get himself into a clinch to buy time.

“We knew he was fast but we felt we could handle his speed,” Mtagwa’s trainer Joe Parella said.

“The game plan was to go three rounds, battle through it, but Mtagwa got caught early.”

YAMAHA MotoGP team native if he leaves Yamaha. “The boss Davide Brivio has suggested greatest danger is Ferrari,” Brivio that Valentino Rossi’s strong per- said. formance in his Ferrari test this Ferrari team boss Stefano week could reawaken his interest Domenicali has said that Rossi in switching to Formula 1. would be an ideal candidate should Rossi has repeatedly insisted F1 rules change and allow teams to that he has now missed his chance run third cars. to join the F1 fray and that his occasional tests for Ferrari are only for his own entertainment.

But after Rossi lapped close to current F1 pace in a 2008 Ferrari fitted with GP2 slicks on Thursday, Brivio said he fears the seven-time MotoGP champion will start pondering his future again.

“I have to be worried about these excellent times because Valentino really could get the desire to change sport,” Brivio was quoted as saying by Gazzetta dello Sport.

Rossi’s Yamaha contract expires this season, and he has been linked with a switch to Ducati after voicing concerns about how long Yamaha AFP PHOTO/LLUIS GENE could continue giving Moto GP world champion Italian him and team-mate Jorge Valentino Rossi (C) poses with is Lorenzo equal status.

Ferrari technicians after a test session But Brivio reckons on a Ferrari F2008 at Catalunya’´s Ducati is no longer racetrack in Montmelo, near Rossi’s most likely alter- Barcelona, on January 21, 2010.