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“The governor had agreed thatthe UDG will be held in Bali. Theevent will be held on the same timewith the Bali Art Festival in 2011,”he added.

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BANGKOK – Thai troopswith assault rifles enteredBangkok’s business district Mon-day to deter a protest march andprotect a key bank with razor wirebarricades, while anti-govern-ment demonstrators stockpiledpaving stones nearby in the tensecapital.

A leader of the “Red Shirt” pro-testers, thousands of mostly ruraldemonstrators camped out in the

Bali become the hostof the 9th UDGDenpasar (Bali Post) –

Bali will become the host of the 9th Utsawa Dharma Gita (UDG) which will be held in June2011. IBG Yudha Triguna, the spokesman of Bimas Hindu Bali, said that the UDG will bejoined by all representatives throughout Indonesia.

The opening ceremony will beheld at the same time and there willbe also the Indonesian HinduDharma Association conference.The governor hoped that the theme

will increase the life skills of theHindus and the song or kidung alsomust be more specific.

Through UDG, we can see thevarious cultures in Hindu as well as

the local color of the religion ineach area.

Yudha said “the in-depth under-standing of Hindus can also beachieved through UDG becausekidung is a tool to create better be-havior. The Hindus not only mustremember the holy lines but also musthave good behaviors. UDG also canincrease the relationship between theHindus throughout Indonesia.”(08)

Armed Thai troops patrol Bangkok business districtcapital since March 12 to demandthe dissolution of Parliament, ac-cused the troops of preparing thearea to be “a killing field.”

The government has declaredSilom Road, a thoroughfare stud-ded with bank headquarters andoffice buildings, off-limits to theprotesters who have camped in thecapital’s main shopping districtnearby for weeks in their bid to oustPrime Minister Abhisit Vejjajivaand hold new elections.

Protest leaders had called for a

mass rally Tuesday, with some in-dicating it may be staged in the busi-ness district, raising concerns ofmore clashes after savage fightinga week ago killed 25 people. How-ever, the protesters have oftenchanged their plans to keep secu-rity forces off-guard, and earlyMonday they appeared poised tolaunch their march a day earlier thanplanned.

Troops initially moved in toblock entry to Silom, resulting in atense face-off. The troops later

pulled back almost half its 2.5-ki-lometer (1.5-mile) length to protecta key target of the protesters, theheadquarters of the Bangkok Bankwhich was barricaded by razorwire.

Many of the demonstrators alsopulled back, but braced for battle.Protesters piled rudimentary weap-ons behind razor wire at the inter-section_ bricks pulled from thearea’s brick-lined pavements andstacks of bamboo rods.Continued on page 6

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A Thai women talks to a Thai armed soldier taking up position on the Silom road in the financial district of Bangkok on April19, 2010. Hundreds of Thai troops, many of them armed, were deployed on the streets of Bangkok early Monday to protect thecity’s financial heart from anti-government rallies. Military and riot police were deployed in the central financial district,known as Silom, close to the Reds’ current rally base in the capital’s commercial heartland.

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A number of existing facilities inthe discotheque was said to be dam-aged. One of them was the sound sys-tem installed at the scene. Not onlythat, a local security officer namedFerdi Hale was also reported to suf-fer from slashing injury, but not soserious. However, the case had beenreported to police station. ?Police arestill investigating the case furtherwhile pursuing the perpetrators,? saidone of the police sources rejecting tomention his name.

According to available informa-tion, the assault case happened twice.First, the attack was carried out by atleast 10 people suspected to be civil-ians, last Saturday (Apr 17) at 00:30am Local Time. They came to thescene and clashed with local securityofficers. The existence of a commo-tion at the scene made the membersof Mobile Brigade of Bali Police whowere on guard at the scene issuedwarning shots. ?There were about fiveshots fired by the members,? the

Singaraja (Bali Post)Residents of Bayad Hamlet,

Tajun Village, Kubutambahan Sub-district, last Sunday (Apr 18) morn-ing turned restless. Because, a localresident encountered hot smokesemanating from the ground locatedin the vicinity of Bukit PucakSinunggal Temple.

The smokes were first encoun-tered by Made Sutrawan, a residentof Bayad Hamlet who contracted theland owned by Ketut Kamiarsa. Onthe land, the witness used to makestatues from lava stones available atthe area. While working at around07:00 am Local Time on last Sun-

Denpasar (Bali Post)Population census (SP) con-

ducted by the Central StatisticsAgency (BPS) in each region, espe-cially in Bali had been started by thefield officers. In fact, the nationalpopulation census should be begunin May 2010. Since its implementa-tion precedes the national schedule,the census officers will be asked toavoid the double counting. Not onlythat, the officers must also ensurethat all citizens living in Bali hadalready been recorded accordingly.

This matter was confirmed by theHead of BPS of the RI Dr. RusmanHeriawan before a number of cen-sus officers in Denpasar, last Sun-day (Apr 18). Rusman Heriawanalong with a number of his staff hadthe opportunity to review and moni-tor the implementation of census atLebah Hamlet, Sumertha Village,East Denpasar.

Rusman Heriawan admitted theconcern related to the existence ofdata distinction between the dataobtained from the census and dataavailable at Civil Registration Of-fice in each region because themechanisms used by the agenciesand offices in each region wasslightly different. BPS collected thedata of residents based on the exist-ence of people at a particular place.Meanwhile, the service of each re-gion had the data based on demo-graphic administration, such as ID

Tabanan (Bali Post)Lately, there were more and more

Tabanan residents taking a shortcutto end their life by hanging himself.Due to his piles disease never got re-covered, I Ketut Noji, 70, a residentof Tanah Sari Hamlet, Pajahan Vil-lage, Pupuan, ended his life by hang-ing himself. He was found hangingin a hut located in the middle of agarden he cultivated, last Saturday(Apr 17).

Initially, there were no familymembers suspecting the victimwould do such reckless action. Lo-cal residents found the body of vic-tim at about 2:00 pm Local Time.He with a rigid body was suspendedon the hut?s rafter by means ofgreen plastic rope. At that time, thesituation was truly quiet and thevictim hung himself at the gardenbelonging to Sukadana from

Sky Garden attacked by civilians,

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Sky Garden Discotheque located on Jalan Legian, Kuta, Badung, again became an arena ofcommotion. A group of youths who alleged to be civilians assaulted and did vandalism for twotimes, namely last Saturday (Apr 17) and Sunday (Apr 18) early in the morning. In that attack,members of the Mobile Brigade of Bali Police had also warned by shots into the air. As a result,tens of perpetrators consisting of burly men ran helter-skelter.

source said.The shots made the perpetrators

fled helter-skelter. Therefore, nogreater commotion occurred. How-ever, in the next morning, a commo-tion broke out again. A group of civil-ians who alleged to belong to the sameperpetrators attacked to the sceneagain. On the second attack, they camein four. However, they carried sharpweapons and used a veil. ?The secondattack took place last Sunday (Apr 18)03:00 am,? he explained.

They went into the discothequeright away and made an attack andvandalism. Sound system was de-stroyed. Again, the perpetrators trig-gered the members of Mobile Brigadegive warning shoots. ?Well, at this timepolice fired the warning shots for threetimes. Previously, the wounded secu-rity officer (Ferdi Hale-ed) was allegedto have been attacked at the entrance.Therefore, before the perpetrators en-tered, the guard had time to try ban-ning them,? he explained.

What was the motive of the inci-dent? There were two versions devel-oped in the field related to the motive.First, the attack was allegedly due tomanagement reshuffle at Sky GardenDiscotheque. Given, other than man-agement reshuffle, there was alsosome security officers discharged.Meanwhile, the second version men-tioned the attack was kindled by therejection where a friend of local secu-rity officer was not allowed to enter.

Meanwhile, other information saidthe attack had been anticipated by po-lice. Since the first incident, policehave added the forces to keep watchat the scene. However, because it wasraining heavily and the police tookshelter, then the perpetrators took ad-vantage the moment to attack for thesecond time.

At the same time, Chief ofDenpasar Metro Police I Gede AlitWidana was not willing to givemore comments related to the inci-dent. (kmb21)

Hot smokes emanate from theground, Tajun residents turn restless

day, Sutrawan saw the smokes risingfrom the earth. At the beginning, hethought the white smokes were ofcigarette. After investigated further,in fact the smokes emerged from theearth. Sutrawan was very curious sohe dug at the location until the depthof fifty centimeters. In fact, the deeperhe dug, the bigger the smokes ema-nating. More strangely, the deeper hedug the hotter the smokes were.

The emanating smokes from theground were translucent. They wereodorless but hot. Local residentsclaimed to have boiled a chicken eggin a container above the smokes. Asa result, the chicken egg in the water

was cooked. Seeing the incident, thelocal residents reported it to the Headof Kubutambahan subdistrict, MadeSuyasa, who is also a figure of TajunVillage.

Made Suyasa directly came downto the location to see the natural phe-nomenon as well as to assuage theunrest of residents. At the location,Suyasa recited a carol and lead theresidents to pray so that they con-tinue to survive without any inter-ference or whatsoever. Althoughconsidered as an ordinary naturalevent, Suyasa kept on asking localresidents to make an exorcism ritein the form of Manca Sata. (kmb15)

Census officers asked toavoid double counting

cards. ?BPS recorded the number ofpopulation based on de facto wherethe residents lives everyday at par-ticular location without consideringwhether they had ID card or not,?he said.

However, such differences couldbe minimized by using the censusdata obtained the activity altogether.Moreover, the enumeration of theexistence of residents through popu-lation census was based on the ex-istence of people living in one area.?This census is conducted with agreat care, so that it could avoid anydouble counting or residents thatwere not enumerated at all,? saidRusman Heriawan last Sunday.

It turned important, he said, inorder to have the same reference ofdemographic data. When the resultsof the census were shared, there wasno difference in terms of numbers.It was a kind of comprehensive ef-fort to address the problem.

Meanwhile, the Head of BPSDenpasar, Wayan Suta, admitted toavoid double counting, his partyhad divided each hamlet into anumber of census blocks. Throughthese systems, his party had confi-dence the officers would not bedoing double counting or no resi-dents would be left behind. How-ever, his party admitted some of-ficers would come again and again,when the visited the house showedno occupants. (kmb12)

Due to piles, a man hangshimself in the garden

Bantiran. Allegedly, the victim wasunder severe depression becausethe piles he suffered did not recover.Residents who found the body ofthe victim immediately reported thecase to Pupuan Police. Later on,police together with medical officerof Community Health Center di-rectly came down to the crimescene for examining the conditionof the victim.

Chief of Pupuan Police S.Irianto, last Sunday (Apr 18), saidthat according to the examinationof the doctor, it was found no signsof violence in the victim?s body. Al-legedly, the victim was purelyhanged himself. Given, the victimwas found with the tongue protrud-ing, releasing semen and feces aswell. On that account, he was de-clared to have committed a suicideby hanging himself. (kmb14)

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According to Budarga, when metin the treatment room, he told theincident took place around midnightwhen one of the residents asked forhelp to move his father sufferingfrom mental illness into the car. Asplanned, the patient was about to betaken to Bangli Mental Hospital.Unfortunately, while helping hold

Negara (Bali Post)Recently, bad weather often oc-

curred in the Bali Strait, like theheavy rains accompanied by strongwinds. Even, on last Saturday (Apr17) afternoon, the weather was verybad. Such condition madeGilimanuk Harbor Authority in-creased discernment and instructedall helmsmen to be vigilant.

According to one of the officersin Gilimanuk, the bad weather con-dition made the crossing control of-ficer confused. The heavy rainshowering the Bali Strait could limitthe visibility of the helmsmen so itwas very dangerous for shipping ac-tivities. Meanwhile, strong windsblowing from the south could dragthe ship out of the path.

In the meantime, the Head ofGilimanuk Harbor Authority, Dewa

Like inseparable two sides ofa coin, the extravagance of Balitourism indeed offers the brightside and dull side. The rapid de-velopment of tourism industry isbelieved to have successfully po-sitioned itself as the drivingforces of the Bali?s economy intoa better direction. However, onthe other hand, the developmentof the tourism industry with avariety of supporting industriesundeniably also results in highlydestructive potential of naturaland cultural environment of Bali.For the sake of tourism, every-thing is explored all out so thatBali will slowly but surely loseits identity.

The sweetness of Balitourism?s honey has made the hu-mans sleep soundly and negligentto protect natural and cultural en-vironment truly becoming thecentral point of Bali tourism it-self. When Bali no longer showsoff the original face, what addedvalue could be offered to conjureup foreign tourists in order theykeep on choosing Bali as theirfavorite destination?

Such apprehensiveness andself-criticism soared out in thetourism panel entitled ?How toManage Tourism Benefiting Bali(Nature, Culture and BalineseHuman)? was co-organized byBali Travel News and Interna-tional Bali Post at Griya Santrian,Sanur, last Saturday (Apr 17). Thediscussion lasting for some twohours featured the speakers suchas Gusti Kade Sutawa from KutaExecutive Club, Chairman of theSociety of the Indonesian Profes-sional Convention Organizers(SIPCO) Putu Juarez R Putra,Chairman of the Society of TriHita Karana Gede Suarsa and atourism practitioner IBSurakusuma. The four resourcepersons described a variety ofideas and constructive solutions inorder to maintain the continuity ofBali tourism survival without hav-ing outraged the natural and cul-tural environment of Bali believed

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Initially he would like to lend a hand, but bad luck approached Ketut Budarga, 46, a residentof Gianyar. Budarga is a policeman on duty at the Blahbatuh Police, Gianyar. He had to betreated at Sanglah Hospital after his right thigh was stabbed by a madman.

the patient of mental disorder, with-out being realized he seemed to carrya knife and plunged it directly to-ward Budarga and his friend.Budarga and his friend were injuredand rushed to hospital due to bleed-ing to Gianyar Hospital, whileBudarga was referred to SanglahHospital.

Head of Trauma Centre ofSanglah Hospital, KuningAtmadjaya, said the patient was op-erated at around 03:00 am. Therewere several small muscles andblood vessels cut off, but not too se-rious, said Kuning. Until last Sun-day, Budarga was still being treatedat Sanglah Hospital. (san)

THK conception infringed,tourism potentially harms Bali

as the main pillar of the triumphof tourism in Bali.

IB Surakusuma asserted thebeautiful nature and culture ofBali as well as a decent charac-teristic denoted a good combinedtourist attraction package makingBali develop to become a world?sfavorite tourist destination. Sincetourism had a very strong influ-ence in increasing the Bali?seconomy, the tourism was con-tinuously driven to grow in har-mony with a variety of physicaldevelopment of tourism facilities.If physical development was notwell controlled, the natural envi-ronment of Bali would be ex-ploited indiscriminately.

Genuinely the Tri Hita Karanaconception guiding the Balinese tobecome wise people has no longerbeen obeyed. Like mushroomgrowing in the rainy season, thehotels and tourism facilities ap-peared in numbers everywherewithout paying attention to luan-teben (upper-lower course) con-ception that previously strictly up-held by humans in Bali. ?Just forthe sake of pursuing the blessingsof tourism, people have a tendencyto behave permissively. If contin-ued, it would certainly have anegative impact on the survival ofBali,? he reminded.

A tourism practitioner betterknown as Gus Lolec asserted, theBali tourism must be absolutelymanaged properly and profession-ally, either in the context of pre-serving the environment, culture orBalinese human integrally. In or-der to realize this commitment, ofcourse, it was required a regulatoryinstruments enforced and imple-mented consistently and responsi-bly. ?If the nature, culture and hu-man characteristics of Bali havegone, then Bali is not more thanSingapore. Destination manage-ment touted ever was in the rightdirection and very urgent to beimplemented. Therefore, it nolonger dwells at the level of dis-course,? he asserted.

Similar opinion was expressed

by Gusti Kade Sutawa from KutaExecutive Club. In order to savethe nature, culture and people ofBali integrally against the devel-oping tourism undermining wildly,this General Manager of PuriSaron hotel urged that the Tri HitaKarana concept should be imple-mented consistently and conse-quently. In addition, Bali shouldhave an agency or association car-ing and working in real terms forthe rescue of Bali. ?Ideally, thereis an agency or competent partieshaving the power to control this,?he stated firmly. (ian)

Bad weather in BaliStrait, harbor authorityincreases the awareness

Nyoman Kari, last Sunday (Apr 18),said the condition was not too dis-turbing the shipping activities at BaliStrait so the operation was notclosed, but his party did instruct thehelmsman to always remain alert.

His party requested to alwayspay attention to the latest weatherconditions. ?If the condition is in-deed hazardous to the safety of theship, the shipping will be post-poned,? he said. Similarly, his partykept an eye on every movement ofthe ship and continued to coordinatewith the captain. According to him,his party made a weather report ofthe Bali Straits to the captain. How-ever, since the weather condition atthe Bali Straits was difficult to pre-dict, they must remain alert to thesituations or adapt to the weatherconditions. (021)

After the finding of teenager?sright foot cut of woman at SesehBeach not long ago, currently it wasfound a body without the identityat the same beach last Sunday (Apr18). The body arrived at mortuaryof Sanglah Hospital transferred byan ambulance of Kapal Hospital ataround 2:00 pm Local Time.

Mr. X dies at Seseh BeachAccording to the official, the

condition of such unidentified malebody had rotted because it wasfound floating in the sea. Allegedly,the body was one of the drowningvictims. Until last Sunday, the bodywas entrusted at mortuary ofSanglah Hospital to wait for furtherexamination. (san)

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Another 216 people are listed asmissing after the quake struck lastWednesday, the official Xinhua newsagency said, though rescue opera-tions across the ruined town ofGyegu in Qinghai province’s Yushucountry were being scaled down asthe focus shifted to aid distribution.

Tents, food and water were be-ing delivered to quake victimsacross the county seat of Gyegu, aswell as further into the mountain-ous region.

President Hu Jintao flew to Yushuover the weekend to comfort survi-vors and examine relief distribution.Hu vowed to rebuild homes andschools, and urged continued effortsto save anyone still alive under thecrumpled remains of buildings.

In a rare moment of hope, res-

AP

JERUSALEM – Israel must rec-ognize that the world will not putup with decades more of Israelirule over the Palestinian people, thecountry’s defense minister said inunusually frank remarks Monday.

Ehud Barak’s comments, on theoccasion of Israel’s Memorial Day,come against the backdrop of se-vere friction between the U.S. andIsrael’s hawkish government overan impasse in peacemaking.

Last week, President BarackObama issued a surprisingly pes-simistic assessment of peacemak-ing prospects, saying the U.S.couldn’t force its will on Israelisand Palestinians if they weren’t in-terested in making the compro-mises necessary to end their de-cades-old conflict.

Barak told Israel Radio on Mon-day that Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu’s government has“done things that didn’t come natu-rally to it,” like adopting the visionof two states for two peoples andcurtailing settlement construction.

“But we also shouldn’t deludeourselves,” he added. “The grow-ing alienation between us and theUnited States is not good for thestate of Israel.”

The way to narrow that gap is toembark on an Israeli diplomatic ini-tiative “that doesn’t shy from deal-ing with all the core issues” divid-ing Israelis and Palestinians, he said.

These issues — chiefly, the sta-

AFP

JOS, Nigeria (AFP) – The Ni-gerian army said Monday it hadaverted an attack by suspectedMuslim extremists on a mainlyChristian village in the flashpointcentral Plateau State, killing twogunmen.

The pair were part of gang thatplanned to raid Bisichi village, on theoutskirts of Jos, the capital of Pla-teau, where hundreds of people havebeen killed in ethno-religious vio-lence, a military commander said.

The attack early Monday wasfoiled by members of a military

AP

Israeli soldiers stand guard on a roof during a service marking Me-morial Day at the Western Wall.

Israeli defense ministersays occupation must end

Reuters

Ethnic Tibetan women rest amid the ruins of their destroyed house in the earthquake-hit Gyegu town

China quake deathChina quake deathChina quake deathChina quake deathChina quake deathtoll nears 2,000toll nears 2,000toll nears 2,000toll nears 2,000toll nears 2,000Reuters

YUSHU, China (Reuters) – The official death toll from an earth-quake on China’s remote Tibetan plateau last week reached 1,944 onMonday, but rescuers dug out two more survivors who had beentrapped under rubble for more than 100 hours.

cuers pulled two people alive from awrecked building after spending 123hours trapped in the rubble, statetelevision said.

Taiwan’s Red Cross Society senta 20-person medical relief team toQinghai on Sunday to help quakesurvivors with expertise and sup-plies, a Red Cross official said onMonday.

Many tents have been set up in theopen areas of the city, includingGyegu’s main square, a sportsground and a horse-racing track.Military troops and Buddhist monksare providing meals for the victimsand medical teams are on hand.

“We hope they (the government)can provide us food and clothes,”said Suona Jiaxi, an ethnic Tibetanlike the vast majority of people in

Yushu.“If the government can take care

of us, then we can live a little betterthan before,” the 33-year-old said.

The harsh conditions on the Ti-betan plateau — Gyegu is about4,000 meters (13,000 feet) above sealevel — mean reconstruction is ur-gent. Temperatures drop belowfreezing at night and strong windsare frequent. Cold, snowy weatheris forecast for the next few days.

In heavily Tibetan neighborhoodsof town, some quake survivors saidthey still largely had to fend forthemselves, gathering food and wa-ter and building their own makeshifttents.

Han Chinese quake survivor,Zhang Zhaojun, who is married to aTibetan woman, said governmentaid had been sporadic.

The 30-year-old said his familyhad only received a tent on Sunday.Earning less than a thousand yuan amonth by gathering and selling Ti-betan herbs, he sees a bleak futurefor him and his neighbors.

AFP/File

Policemen stand guard at the police headquarters in Jos in March 2010.

Nigerian troops foil sectarian attacktask force deployed in the area fol-lowing recent violence.

“Our guys were on regular patrolwhen they they received a distress callthat the village was about to be at-tacked, so when they approached thevillage and in a shoot-out that fol-lowed, two of them (the gang) weregunned down,” Brigadier GeneralDonald Oji told AFP by phone.

A manhunt has been launched forthe rest of the group which fled in thepre-dawn encounter.

“What would have been a majorsetback to peace was averted,” Oji, themilitary spokesman for the area said.

A home-made rifle was recovered

along with military-issue ammuni-tion. In what appeared to be a re-prisal for earlier violence, herdsmenfrom the mainly Muslim Fulani clanlaunched a wave of attacks on fiveChristian villages in March, slaugh-tering more than 500 people accord-ing to state officials.

Oji said the population of Bisichivillage, about 20 kilometres southof Jos, is a mixture of Christians andMuslims.

Jos has long been the centre ofethno-religious violence in a coun-try whose 150 million populationis divided almost equally betweenChristians and Muslims.

tus of contested Jerusalem, finalborders and a solution for Pales-tinian refugees of the war aroundIsrael’s 1948 independence —have been negotiated multipletimes in the past 16 years.

The pursuit of that big-pictureprogram and “broad willingness toreach an agreement” has allowedIsrael to get past the friction withthe Americans over settlement con-struction in the past, Barak said.

The Israeli defense minister dis-missed talk of an imposed U.S. so-lution — an idea that’s been fieldedrecently in Washington.

But he warned that while Israelis militarily strong, it needs inter-national legitimacy as well.

“The world isn’t willing to ac-cept — and we won’t change thatin 2010 — the expectation that Is-rael will rule another people fordecades more,” he said. “It’s some-thing that doesn’t exist anywhereelse in the world.”

Palestinians aspire to a state oftheir own, he said, and “there is noother way, whether you like it or not,than to let them rule themselves.”

Barak heads the Labor Party, theonly political party in Netanyahu’sgovernment that is not consideredhawkish. But in his three years as de-fense minister, Barak has not eventaken down the two dozen settlementsatellites that Israel promised the U.S.it would dismantle in 2003. Dovishcritics have accused him of makingLabor a fig leaf for the Netanyahugovernment’s hawkish policies.

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Denpasar

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

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

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

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

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private)Jl. Sudirman No 50, DenpasarPhone : 227 560, 234 824

In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medicalevacuation company, thatis:AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah RaiNo. 24X, Kuta 80361.Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that theBlood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh)Negative blood.

Badung

Bali Medical ClinicsThere are some medical clinics that are well known by for-eigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and oper-ated :

Bali International Medical Center (BIMC)Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excel-lent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Servicesfor 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 BaliOpened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visi-tors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-houremergency medical service.Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - IndonesiaPhone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919E-mail : info@sos-bali.comttp ://www.sos-bali.com

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The nature of the blast was notclear, police official Haroon Khansaid. However, several suicide at-tacks have hit the Taliban-riddledregions near the Afghan border inrecent days, including two attacks inthe Kohat area that killed around 50people over the weekend.

The Police Public School was insession when the explosion went off.The school is run by a police wel-

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Pakistani firefighters try to extinguish a burning oil tanker after bomb explosions in Takhta Beg

AP

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – An explosion struck Monday near a school run by a police foundation inthe northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said. There was no immediate word on casualties.

fare foundation, which tries to raisemoney to help families of police of-ficers.

Also Monday, suspected Talibanmilitants in the northwest detonatedtwo bombs that destroyed a pair ofoil tankers along a vital supply routeused by NATO and U.S. forces inAfghanistan.

No one was wounded, but the firealso engulfed a flatbed truck and

nearby shops in the Takhta Beg areaof the Khyber tribal region, local of-ficial Iqbal Khan said

Alleged Taliban militants and or-dinary criminals frequently attackvehicles along the supply route thatruns through the famed Khyber Passinto Afghanistan. The U.S. andNATO say their Afghan operationshave felt limited impact, but they areestablishing alternate routes.

AP

ADELAIDE, Australia – TheU.N. refugee agency expressedconcern Monday that Australia isusing holding newly arrived asy-lum-seekers in detention centers.

The government suspended refu-gee applications from Afghans andSri Lankans on April 9, saying thesituations in those countries hadimproved.

The new policy says the suspen-sions will be reassessed in three tosix months. Until then, new asylum-seekers will be housed in detentioncenters. The government has al-ready been forced to open new cen-ters to cope with an overflow ofarrivals.

But the U.N. said Monday thereshould be alternatives to detentionfor those who posed no security risk.

UNHCR concern as Australia detains asylum-seekers“The combination of mandatory

detention, suspension of asylumclaims and the geographical isola-tion of detention facilities ... allwithout any effective judicial over-sight — is a deeply troubling set offactors,” said Richard Towle of theU.N. refugee agency.

Detention is likely to have anegative impact on the physical andmental health of asylum-seekers,particularly those who have beentortured or traumatized before arriv-ing in Australia, the U.N. said.

It particularly criticized the re-mote location of a new detentioncenter to be opened at Curtin airforce base in the state of WesternAustralia. The federal governmentannounced Sunday that the facility,which had been used for the samepurpose under the previous admin-istration, would house up to 300 Sri

Lankan and Afghan asylum-seekerswhose applications were on hold.

The government is struggling tocope with illegal boatloads of asy-lum-seekers who have filled an off-shore detention center and fueled apolitical debate over immigrationpolicies.

The current government relaxedimmigration regulations in 2008, re-ducing the time would-be refugeesspend in detention before their ap-plications are processed and drop-ping a requirement that they mustrenew visas every five years.

The opposition claims that thosechanges led to the tenfold increasein illegal boat people in 2009 overthe previous year. They say the il-legal arrivals drain money and re-sources and that they should applythrough the established U.N. refu-gee process.

AFP

LONDON (AFP) – Britain’s banon flights in its airspace due to thevolcanic ash cloud will remain untilat least 0000 GMT Tuesday, air au-thorities confirmed.

“Conditions around the move-ment of the layers of the volcanic ashcloud over the UK remain dynamic,”the National Air Traffic Services(NATS) said in a statement, addingthat they would update their assess-ment at around 0800 GMT.

“Anyone hoping to travel shouldcontact their airline before travellingto the airport.”

The group said it was keeping inclose contact with the nationalweather service, and the Civil Avia-tion Authority.

Britain keeps flightban in place

The statement added: “We areworking closely with government,airports and airlines, and airframe andaero engine manufacturers to get abetter understanding of the effects ofthe ash cloud and to seek solutions.”

For its part, the Met Office said itwould produce forecasts of the ashcloud four times a day.

“Weather patterns continue toblow volcanic ash towards the UK,”it said.

“Over the weekend, Met Officeobservations have detected dust inthe atmosphere and on the ground.A research aircraft has recently en-countered dust during its flight.”

The service said it would be“looking for weather windows thatwill allow air space restrictions to belifted”.

“I’m worried about the force allo-cation pattern here. It looks greaterthan necessary for just guarding theSilom area,” said a protest leader,Nattawut Saikua. “They are making itinto a killing field.”

Another protest leader, WengTojirakarn, said there had never beenany intention to penetrate into Silom.“Some people might have mentionedit, but it’s merely a personal opinion,”he said.

The Red Shirts claim BangkokBank has close ties to the government.They have protested in front of thebuilding previously on a smaller scale.

Earlier in the morning, soldiers alsopatrolled one of the city’s most famoussex-bar strips, Patpong Road, and anentertainment area for Japanese tour-ists, which are just off Silom.

Some took positions atop buildingsafter searching for possible snipers andalong a skywalk running several hun-dred meters (yards) above the road.Others guarded bank buildings, ATMmachines and entrances to subway andoverhead rail entrances.

A number of those returning towork on Silom after the long Thai NewYear holidays expressed support forthe troops.

“I’m opposed to the idea of thedemonstrators entering Silom. Every-thing will collapse. The economy willcollapse,” said Kritsana Chumkong, a38-year-old office worker.

The government accuses “terror-ists” armed with guns and other weap-ons of orchestrating the earlier vio-lence and says weapons were stolenfrom the military that have not beenreturned.

The protesters consist mainly ofpoor rural supporters of former PrimeMinister Thaksin Shinawatra and pro-democracy activists who opposed themilitary coup that ousted him in 2006.

They believe Abhisit heads an ille-gitimate government because it cameto power through a parliamentary voteafter disputed court rulings ousted twoelected, pro-Thaksin administrations.The conflict has been characterized bysome as class warfare, pitting the

Armed Thai...From page 1 country’s vast rural poor against an

elite that has traditionally held power.A main target of the Red Shirts has

been Gen. Prem Tinsulanonda, whothe loyalists say was a key leader inthe military coup.

Prem is the president of the PrivyCouncil, which advises the Thai king,and also serves as an adviser to theBangkok Bank, one of the largest inThailand.

The protesters claim that Premhelped arrange financing through theBangkok Bank for a golf course thatencroached on the Khao Soi Dao Wild-life Sanctuary in southeastern Thai-land. That allegation, plus other accu-sations of shady business deals be-tween Prem and the bank, have beendenied.

Abhisit has come under increasingcriticism for failing to clear the pro-testers, but the government spokesmansaid Saturday there were no immedi-ate plans for a crackdown because toomany people were camped in the areato use force.

The Red Shirt protesters, formallyknown as the United Front for Democ-racy against Dictatorship, want Abhisitto dissolve Parliament and call newelections. They were initially campedin a historic district of Bangkok, and afailed attempt by security forces onApril 10 to flush protesters from thatneighborhood erupted into the worstpolitical violence Thailand has seen in18 years.

At least 25 people were killed, in-cluding senior military officers. Morethan 800 people were wounded, in-cluding about 300 soldiers.

Since then, the protesters have con-solidated in Bangkok’s main shoppingarea, raising the stakes as they scareoff tourists and rattle the stock mar-ket. Retailers and hotels say they havelost tens of millions of dollars.

Police have issued 24 arrest war-rants for Red Shirt leaders accusedof inciting violence, but so far nonehas been arrested. An attempt to ar-rest one leader Friday was thwartedwhen he climbed over a hotel bal-cony and was lowered by rope to acrowd of fellow Red Shirts, whohelped him escape.

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More than 120 ethnic Tamils ex-pressed both relief and concern asthey left the dock in Merak, a portin southern Java, after months ofnegotiations over their demands tobe resettled in Australia as refu-gees.

“I don’t know where I’ll betaken but I’m happy to leave thisplace,” one of the migrants, Raju,26, told AFP.

The migrants have been on theirboat or camped at the docksidesince October when they were in-tercepted by the Indonesian navyas they tried to reach northern Aus-tralia.

They have said they are fleeingpersecution in Sri Lanka followingthe end of the country’s civil warin May, but their refugee claimshave not been processed by theUnited Nations.

Australia earlier this month saidit would temporarily stop process-ing asylum claims by Afghans andSri Lankans in response to a sharprise in the number of asylum seek-ers reaching its shores by boat.

Latif, 21, said he still wanted togo to Australia but knew it was im-

AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY

Two Indonesian workers maintain instalations on a skycraper in Jakarta on April 16, 2010. Black cam-paigns launched by foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) had incurred a loss of about US$1.2billion to the country‘s paper and pulp industries, a pulp businessman said.’

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JAKARTA - The United Statesand Indonesia are scheduled toconduct a joint military exercisedubbed “Cope West 10” at theHalim Perdanakusuma Air Basein eastern Jakarta April 19 through23, 2010.

“Three US Air Force C-130Hercules and approximately 77 air-men from the 374th Airlift Wingat Yokota Air Base, Japan, and oneC-130 from the Indonesia AirForce are scheduled to participatein exercise Cope West 10,” a pressstatement from the US embassyhere said on Monday.

Although Indonesia hostedCope West 09 last year, this is onlythe second such exercise stagedbetween Indonesia and the USsince 1997 and symbolizes grow-

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BANGKALAN - The Bangkalanregency administration of Madura,will propose to name the road on theSurabaya-Madura Bridge(Suramadu) after the former EastJava Governor H.M. Noer.

Bangkalan Regent Fuad Aminsaid the proposal to name the 11.4-km road on Suramadu after theformer East Java Governor, came

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JAKARTA - Black campaignslaunched by foreign non-govern-mental organizations (NGO) had in-curred a loss of about US$1.2 bil-lion to the country‘s paper and pulpindustries, a pulp businessman said.

“The black campaign has dis-rupted the market of Indonesian pulpand paper products in the world,”chairman of the Indonesian Pulp andPaper Industries Association (APKI),Mansyur, said here on Sunday.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Two people takinga shortcut on a runway in Indonesiawere killed when struck by a planeMonday, an official said.

The Tobago 10 light aircraft wascoming in to land at an airstrip outside

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MERAK - Sri Lankan migrants who have refused to leave theirboat in Indonesia for six months boarded buses bound for a deten-tion facility Monday as they finally agreed to be relocated.

RI, US air force toconduct joint exercise

ing military cooperation betweenthe two countries.

Cope West is a bilateral tacticalairlift exercise involving the USand Indonesian air forces.

The exercise is designed to ad-vance interoperability between thetwo air forces and allows for the ex-change of techniques related to air-lift air land and air drop delivery spe-cific to US and Indonesian aircraft.

Cope West also promotes re-gional stability through coopera-tion and unity of purpose, as wellas enhances combined readinessand interoperability, reinforces theUS commitment to the Pacific, anddemonstrates US capability to con-duct tactical airlift operations in abilateral environment, according tothe statement posted on the officialwebsite of the US embassy inJakarta.

possible.“After six months at the port, I

don’t wish to be here anymore. Lifehere is hard... people keep fallingsick,” he said.

“I want to go to Australia butnow I know it’s not possible. I wantto go to America or New Zealand.

“I don’t want to stay in Indone-sia... finding work will be hardhere. I also don’t want to go backto Sri Lanka. There’s nothing therefor me, no house, nothing,” headded.

The migrants are expected to betaken to the Australian-fundedTanjung Pinang immigration de-tention centre on Bintan Island,near Singapore, where their asylumclaims will be assessed by the UNrefugee agency.

“The negotiations were toughbut after our humane approachesthey agreed to go,” foreign minis-try official Sujatmiko told report-ers.

“I ask countries which thinkthey can help them to come for-ward so their fates can be deter-mined more quickly. Hopefully theprocess will be smooth,” he added.

Suramadu road to be named after former governorfrom the people to remember hisservices.

“We will propose the road onSuramadu to called Jalan RayaMohammad Noer,” Fuad Amin saidin Bangkalan Sunday.

Fuad added that he will submitthe proposal to the local legislativeassembly (DPRD) for approval.

“We wish to name the Suramaduroad after him because during theprocess of land clearance, it was him

and myself who had made thegreater effort, particularly in relocat-ing the 37 gave from the foot ofSuramadu,” he said.

Fuad also said that the former EastJava governor also had contributed agreat deal as he was the longest serv-ing (24 years) Bangkalan regencyofficial. Fuad also said he will notonly propose to name the road ofSuramadu after the former East Javagovernor, but the Suramadu itself.

Plane kills two on runway in IndonesiaJakarta when the two local residentsrode in front of it on a motorcycle, saidcivil aviation department director gen-eral Herry Bhakti Singayuda.

“The plane couldn’t avoid them...It hit the motorcycle and instantlykilled the two,” he said.

A flight instructor and student on

on board the aircraft suffered seriousinjuries and were rushed to hospital.

Singayuda blamed officials at thegovernment-run flying school forfailing to prevent keep nearby resi-dents from driving on the runway.

“It should be a restricted zone,”he said.

Indonesian industries suffer US$1.2billion due to black campaign

He said that the disrupted marketof pulp and paper products was thanmade use of by South American pulpand paper industries.

“But now, Indonesia has begun togradually win back the market it haspreviously lost,” the APKI chairmansaid.

Mansyur said that foreign NGOshad launched the black campaignsto destroy Indonesia‘s very competi-tive pulp and paper industries.

“The NGOs are aware of the factthat Indonesia`s pulp and paper in-

dustries are of good quality and com-petitiveness in the world market,” hesaid.

Therefore, Indonesia should beable to take advantage of the presentmomentum in the world market.

“After all, the price per ton of pulpand paper products in the worldmarket has increased by US$50 toUS$800 per ton. The price increasesby an average of US$20-30 per tonin almost every two months. Lastmonth, the stood only at US$600 perton,” Mansyur said.

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Bali Today

In the meeting with the house,the governor said that the transpor-tation tools are very important indeveloping tourism in Bali. He ex-plained that currently there is therule no 8 in 2000 which regulatethe number of used motorcyclesthat can enter Bali.

However, the rules for touragency can not stand on its own sothe government urged all of the lo-cal government to create the rulesand breakthrough to develop tour-ism in Bali. “New tourism sitesshould be developed such as envi-ronmental or spiritual tourism,” thegovernor added.

IBP

DENPASAR – The volcanicashes which come out from the Vol-cano in Iceland made almost all ofthe flights in Europe canceled. Thecondition is affecting Bali where al-most all of the tourists from Europecancel their trip to Bali.

From the data in the airport, 732passengers cancel their trip due to the

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TAMPAK SIRING - PresidentSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono saidpolitical stability and domestic or-der were important preconditions foreconomic development over the nextfive years.

The president made the statementwhen opening a national workingmeeting of key central and provin-cial government officials namely allcabinet ministers, provincial gover-nors, regional legislative council(DPRD) chairmen, state enterprise(BUMN) chiefs, and state institutionleaders, at Tampak Siring Palacehere on Monday morning.

“No country can make real devel-opmental progress without politicalstability,” the head of state said.

The President said that besides

Antara DENPASAR - A landslide

killed one resident and injured twoothers at Kesimpar village, Abangsub district, Karangasem district, 85km from Denpasar, Sundayevening.

“The disaster happened onSunday evening (April 18), after in-cessant heavy rainfall over the pastfew days,” Nyoman Karta, a localresident, said, here Monday.

The three victims were tak-ing a bath in a river when the land-slide hit from a 50-meter high cliff,he said.

The dead villager was identi-fied as I Nyoman Rai (35), whilethe injured were Ni Nyoman Munir(40) and Ni Nyoman Sari (35), whowere rescued by local residents andrushed to Amlapura hospital,

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Denpasar – Bali’s Governor, Made Mangku Pastika, said thathe agree with the proposal by the member of Bali House of Rep-resentative to create a rule that regulate the minimum age fortourism vehicles.

In order to achieve the goal, theremust be good cooperation betweenall regencies and cities in Bali.

The governor also planed to de-velop the development in all part ofBali not only in certain area likewhat happened in the past fewyears. “I am agrees that the certainareas give special benefit or bonusfor tourists so they wanted to visitthe tourism sites,” the governorsaid.

The governor thinks that every-body must be committed to developBali. The equipments also must beprepared to make Bali as the worldtourism destination.

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Karangasem. Meanwhile, in early April, a

landslide killed two persons atGedekan, Giripurno village,Ngadirejo sub district, TemanggungDistrict, Central Java.

The victims were identifiedas Sucipto (60) and his son, AnasSobirin (11). The landslide occurredat around 10 pm Western IndonesianStandard Time (WIB) and buriedSucipto’s house.

Ngadirejo Police Chief Ad-junct Commissioner Sumarsono saidthe landslide was triggered by inces-sant heavy rains which had fallen inMount Sindoro’s slope area sinceMonday.

Local residents and policepersonnel evacuated the two victimsand rushed their bodies to a nearbycommunity health post.

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Staffs of airlines talking at the phone while waiting for the passenger to check in at Ngurah RaiAirport.

volcano eruption. Moh. Dimyati, thepublic relation in Ngurah Rai Airport,said that the airlines that canceledwere Singapore Airlines 254 pax ev-eryday, Korean Airlines 20 pax,Cathay Pacific 338 pax, dan Thai Air-ways. The data was the one from thelast three days.

The current condition in NgurahRai Airport is still normal, there is nolong queue in the departure terminals.

“The situation is still normal. There isno high increase of passengers in theinternational departure terminal,”Dimyati

On Monday, April 19th 2010,United Nation World Tourist Organi-zation (UNWTO) stated that at least63,000 flights were canceled due tothe volcanic ash from EyjafjallajokullMountain. The cancel was done for thesake of safety of the passengers.(iah)

Political stability essential to carryout economic development

political stability, security and orderwere also important requirements forthe process of economic develop-ment.

“With political stability, security,and order, I am sure Indonesia willhave a great chance to make eco-nomic progress in the next fiveyears,” the president said.

He added that other factors suchas legal certainty, economic effi-ciency and a favorable business cli-mate, the right policies and regula-tions would ensure the success ininfrastructure and economic devel-opment in the country.

“If incidents like the recentTanjung Priok riot happen in a num-ber of places, it will disturb the in-vestment climate in the country,” thepresident said.

In response to Coordinating

Minister for Economic Affairs HattaRajasa’s presentation about theprogress of national economic devel-opment since 1999-2009, the Presi-dent said there was significant im-provement but he called on all par-ties not to be satisfied about whathad been achieved so far.

In his presentation at the meeting,Hatta Rajasa explained that up to2014 economic growth would reach7 percent, and the unemploymentrate would be 5-6 percent with anincome per capita of US$4,500.

The meeting would focus on fourthings, namely Indonesia’s eco-nomic development over the nextfive years, an evaluation of pro-people programs, law enforcementand justice for the people, and ef-forts to achieve the Millennium De-velopment Goals (MDGs) by 2015.

Balinese Culture

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9al

In accordance with coastal villagers, black moonfalling around March is an auspicious time. Why?Because villagers will welcome the coming of tiny fishlocally known as ipun or teri nasi in Bahasa Indonesia.These herds of fish are just born in the waves and theylead to river streams. People will struggle to catch themin front of the waves or on the gully of river. Becausethey are small and translucent, of course most of themwill survive from that capture. This fresh fish is trulydelicious and can be made into various servings. Oneof them is by boiling in grated coconut sauces or ipunmebasa nyuh.

Ingredients:250g ipun, ½ cup of grated coconut, ½ cup of

coarsely grated coconutSpices: 4 cloves shallot, 2 cloves garlic, 1 large chili

(sliced), 2 small chilies, 1 slice turmeric, 1 slice sandginger (kencur), 1 slice ginger, 1 pc salam leaf, 1 pckaffir lime leaf, ½ tsp salt, 1 tbsp cooking oil, 250 ml ofwater

Method:· Cleanse the fish and drain thoroughly.· All spices are ground and then stir-fry until

smelling fragrant. Put the fish into the spice on thefrying pan. Pour the water and add the two kinds ofgrated coconut and some salt. Stir them for a while andwait until running dry. Take out and it is ready to serve.(BTN/punia)

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BALI - Indonesia should build domestic connectivity ina bid to step up competitiveness and economic growth,Coordinating Minister for Economy Hatta Rajasa said hereon Monday.

“Before developing regional connectivity in SoutheastAsia, Indonesia should first build domestic connectivityto step up its competitiveness and economic growth,” HattaRajasa said in his presentation at national coordinatingmeeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono atTampak Siring Palace here on Monday.

According to him, connectivity building in the nextfive years should be accompanied with infrastructure de-velopment because it was part of the 2015 ASEAN Com-munity plan.

Hatta added that to step up competitive power and in-frastructure development, the government should alsoimprove the work force because its dependency ratio hasdropped in the past 15 years.

“Supported by the improvement in economic growthin East Asian countries, the work force in in South Koreaand Japan has started to improve,” Hatta Rajasa said.

He explained that in its next four-year developmentprogram, the government would also go ahead with sus-tainable development with green development which progrowth, pro poor, and pro job.

“Therefore we have to make efficiency for the sake ofenergy development and waste management in infrastruc-ture development,” Hatta Rajasa said, adding that it wasalso part of the United Indonesia Cabinet II program to buildan inclusive, sustainable, and fair economy.

Thus in his presentation at the national coordinatingmeeting,

Hatta Rajasa explained that up to 2014 the economic

FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

Vice President RI Boediono (left) talking withCoordinating Minister for Economy HattaRajasa (right) during the national coordinatingmeeting with President Susilo BambangYudhoyono at Tampak Siring Palace. Indone-sia should build domestic connectivity in a bidto step up competitiveness and economicgrowth, Coordinating Minister for EconomyHatta Rajasa said here on Monday.

Connectivity needed to improve competitivenessgrowth would reach 7 percent, and unemployment rate 5-6percent with an income per capita of US$4,500.

Present in the meeting were all cabinet ministers, gover-nors, provincial legislative councils (DPRD) chairmen, stateenterprises (BUMN) leaders, and state institution officials.

It will focus on four things concerning Indonesia’s eco-nomic development over the next five years, an evaluationof pro-people programs, law enforcement and justice forthe people, and efforts to achieve the Millennium Develop-ment Goals (MDGs) by 2015.

Except for various mouth-watering foods, Balinesecommunity also has a treasure of delicious cakes.Among those cakes, some are made for oblations, whilesome others for consumption. One of them is mancacake. This dry cake can be used to fill oblation andconsumed as refreshment.

At glance, it resembles to a large-sized tablet. Sincethe inner part is spongy makes it feel so light. It is justlike a rice chip sprinkled with rich of red and white ricegrains as can be found on gipang cakes. On the firstbite, it will taste rather crunchy and very sweet. But, becareful as its colorful grains may fall off. Have nicerefreshment until the last bite! (BTN/punia)

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Manca Cake:Light but nice for refreshment

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GUA Lawah or Bat Cave is one of favorite places of interest in Bali andit is located near of hilly bank so it is called reef of Middle hill. This cave islocated in Pasinggahan countryside, Dawan sub district, Klungkung Re-gency, east part of Bali and about 1,5 hours from Denpasar Town. There isa nature cave dwelt by thousands of tail bat located at north side fromJeroan/center of Gua Lawah Temple . Meanwhile the main road fromKlungkung to Amlapura is just in front of the temple. This cave is appositeto the beautiful beach with black sand along the coastal area.

Pursuant to the papyrus of Dwi Jendra Tattwa, the Gua Lawah’s name isGua Lelawah, the name which is given by Danghyang Nirartha (a priest over-spread the Hindu teaching in Bali) when he stop in this place on his Tirtha Yatratrips. He arrive at a cave which is a lot of bats hang on and its unbroken voiceclamor as hymn to add the beauty of the cave. Therefore this cave is named byGua Lawah/Bat Cave. On the above cave is growth by the flower trees with it’ssmelt fragrance and stimulus the peace mind of Danghyang Nirartha, so that heovernight stay for some nights in this place. From the cave we see also thebeautiful coast with the blue ocean with Nusa Penida Island as a backdrop.Gua Lawah Temple History

According to the chronicle of Bendesa Mas, it mentions that the elabo-rations of Mpu Kuturan (a Hindu priest who come from Java) then he livein Bali which has been hosted in Silayukti, Padang Bai. He also buildssome temple like Gua Lawah Temple.

According to the Papyrus of Dwijendra Tattwa, it narrates that afterDanghyang Nirartha stay some nights at Goa Lawah, then he build aKahyangan Temple on the ground. It means that Danghyang Nirartha ex-tends the Palinggih or temple building existing at Gua Lawah Temple.

Temple festival at Gua Lawah is basically divided into 2 types that isPiodalan ceremony, and Ngusaba ceremony. On this event, many Hindupeople from entire of the island come and pray. Gua Lawah is a place ofinterest in Bali and opened for visitors who wish to see the temple closely.(www.balistarisland.com)http://static.panoramio.com

Gua Lawah

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11

BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

BERLIN - Germany tempo-rarily re-opened six airports shutbecause of volcanic ash, before an-nouncing fresh closures at all buttwo of them until 2:00 am Mon-day (0000 GMT).

Takeoffs and landings at allairports including Frankfurt, oneof Europe’s busiest hubs, wouldcease at 8:00 pm (1800 GMT),except at Berlin Tegel and BerlinSchoenefeld, the air safety agencyDFS said Sunday.

At the German capital’s twoairports in eastern Germany, flightswould continue until 10:00 pm Sun-day and a decision would be takenshortly before then on whether theycould continue to operate, a DFSspokesman said.

Earlier, six airports — Erfurt,Leipzig and Hanover plus Frankfurtand Berlin’s two airports — werere-opened for limited operations.Which flights were allowed de-pended on their intended direction.

The authorisation followed aweather forecast from the VolcanicAsh Advisory Centre in London,one of six centres worldwide set upby the International Civil AviationOrganisation, the DFS said.

A ban on all flights in Ger-man airspace had paralysed all air-ports in Europe’s biggest economy.

At Frankfurt temporary bedshad been set up for some 700 tran-sit passengers unable to leave theairport, while blankets and coldand hot food were distributed.

Tens of thousands of Ger-man hol idaymakers werestranded worldwide, unable to flyhome. Tour operators laid oncoaches to bus tourists homefrom Spain, while in Germanyrail operator Deutsche Bahn pro-vided extra trains.

Achieving this would require theregion’s energy guzzlers to invest anextra 80 billion dollars a year to makepower, industry and transport sectorsmore efficient and develop renewableenergy, the World Bank said.

Success also depends on the re-gion finding the political will for bigchanges as well as transfers of financ-ing and technologies from developedcountries, the Washington-based lendersaid in a regional energy report.

“Major investments in energy ef-ficiency and a concerted switch to re-newable sources of power... could si-multaneously stabilise greenhouse gasemissions, increase energy securitywhile improving local environments,”the report said.

But the World Bank warned timewas running out and urgedpolicymakers in energy-hungry China,Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,Thailand and Vietnam to act quickly.

“While many East Asian coun-

Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - China has movedto further curb real estate specula-tion by telling banks they will beallowed to refuse additional mort-gages to buyers who own two ormore properties.

The move comes soon afterthe government last week raised theminimum down payment for sec-ond home purchases as authoritiestry to rein in the market with theeconomy growing at a blisteringpace.

Under the new rules, an-nounced at the weekend, banks canalso refuse loans to people who can-not prove they have lived and paidtaxes for at least one year in the citywhere they intend to buy, the StateCouncil, or cabinet, said.

Last week the State Councilraised the minimum down paymentfor second home purchases to 50

AFP PHOTO DDP/ THOMAS LOHNES

Aerial view taken on April 18, 2010 shows the airport in Frank-furt/Main, western Germany. - Germany temporarily re-openedsix airports shut because of volcanic ash, before announc-ing fresh closures at all but two of them until 2:00 am Mon-day (0000 GMT).

Six German airportsre-open temporarily

Chancellor Angela Merkel hadto undergo a nightmare journeyback from a visit in the UnitedStates involving stopovers in Lisbonand Rome, and forcing her to skipthe funeral of Polish president LechKacynski on Sunday.

Lufthansa and Air Berlin,Germany’s two biggest airlines,joined other airlines in questioningthe lock-down, saying it was notbased on proper testing and thattheir aircraft were undamaged afterflying through the ash.

“Not one single weather bal-loon has been sent up to measurehow much volcanic ash is in the air,”Air Berlin chief executive JoachimHunold told the Bild am Sonntagnewspaper.

Lufthansa spokesman KlausWalter told Bild: “The flight ban,made on the basis just of computercalculations, is resulting in billion-high losses for the economy.

“In future we demand that re-liable measurements are presentedbefore a flying ban is imposed.”

Lufthansa flew 10 aircraft —without passengers — from Frank-furt to Munich on Saturday,Lufthansa spokesman WolfgangWeber told AFP. Air Berlin flewthree flights.

“The planes were analysed andshow no signs of damage, not eventhe slightest scratch on the cockpitglass, the fuselage or the engines,”Weber said.

Peter Ramsauer, traffic minis-ter, rejected the criticism, tellingBild that any other decision but toclose German airspace would havebeen “irresponsible”.

Germany’s national researchcentre for aeronautics and space(DLR) said that scientists wouldtake to the skies on Monday to mea-sure the ash at heights of up to10,000 metres.

World Bank says EastWorld Bank says EastWorld Bank says EastWorld Bank says EastWorld Bank says EastAsia could stabiliseAsia could stabiliseAsia could stabiliseAsia could stabiliseAsia could stabiliseemissions by 2025emissions by 2025emissions by 2025emissions by 2025emissions by 2025Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - East Asia could stabilise its greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 while maintainingeconomic growth by investing heavily in energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies, the WorldBank said Monday.

tries are taking steps in these directions,accelerating the speed and scaling upthe efforts are needed to get on to a sus-tainable energy path,” it said.

“The window of opportunity isclosing fast, because delaying actionwould lock the region into a long-last-ing high-carbon infrastructure.”

If countries act, regional carbonemissions could stabilize by 2025 andbegin to decline, said the bank, whichprovides financial and technical aid todeveloping nations.

It said carbon emissions could belimited to 9.2 gigatonnes a year by 2030— 37 percent lower than the WorldBank’s estimated level if governmentsstick to their current climate changepolicies.

Achieving the target dependslargely on China, which accounts for80 percent of energy consumption and85 percent of regional carbon emis-sions, it said.

The world’s third-largest

economy will need to reduce its car-bon emissions as a percentage of eco-nomic growth by an even greater mar-gin than currently planned, the banksaid.

It called that a “daunting goal,”given that China is still a developingcountry relying on energy-intensive,heavy-polluting industries.

It also noted that major policy andinstitutional reforms as well as biglifestyle changes would be neededthroughout the region to achieve thegoal.

“Developing countries will needto avoid the carbon-intensive path andwasteful lifestyles followed by indus-trial countries in the past,” the bank said.

On the upside, the shift to cleanenergy offered developing countries thechance to “leap-frog to the next gen-eration of new technologies, create lo-cal manufacturing industries to drivedown costs and become global tech-nology leaders.”

China steps up efforts tocurb property prices

percent and set a minimum 30 per-cent deposit on first homes biggerthan 90 square metres (970 squarefeet).

The latest moves highlightgrowing concern in China that theproperty market is overheating, af-ter prices in major cities rose 11.7percent year-on-year last month,the fastest since the survey waswidened to 70 cities in July 2005.

The State Council also re-newed a pledge last week to rein inrunaway prices by increasing thesupply of land for construction, ac-celerating the building of affordablehousing and cracking down onspeculative activity.

But Royal Bank of Canada se-nior analyst Brian Jackson said themeasures would not be as effectiveas higher interest rates.

“I have very strong doubts thatis going to be enough to get the re-sults they want in terms of slowing

down the property market and even-tually they will have to use blunterinstruments,” Jackson told AFP.

China is trying various waysto prevent the growth of assetbubbles as the nation’s economysurges — it grew 11.9 percent in thefurther three months of the year —and keep a lid on inflation.

Beijing has been clampingdown on bank lending which hasbeen blamed for fuelling speculativeinvestment in the property sector.

Policymakers have raisedbank reserve ratios twice this year— effectively limiting the amountbanks can lend — and increased in-terest rates on benchmark three-month and one-year Treasury bills.

Analysts have forecast inter-est rate hikes as early as this monthas well as a loosening of exchangerate policy, which has effectivelypegged the yuan to the dollar sincemid-2008.

Entertainment InternationalTuesday, April 20, 201012

Top-selling trio Lady Antebellumwere the dominant winners, grab-bing five trophies, including songand single record of the year forcrossover hit “Need You Now,” whilealso snapping Rascal Flatts’ seven-year run as best vocal group. “Weare having a blast tonight,” singerCharles Kelly told the crowd afterwin No. 4. “We love you all. We willnever forget this night.”

Meanwhile Lady A came into theawards ceremony at the MGMGrand with a leading seven nomina-tions and had won five of seven pos-sible (they got two trophies for theirsingle record of the year win becausethey also produced the record, andalso got two trophies for their songof the year win because they com-posed “Need You Now”). Best budMiranda Lambert had three trophieson the night. She beat Lady A’s self-titled debut for album of the yearwith “Revolution.” It was the secondtime she won the honor; her “CrazyEx-Girlfriend” won album of the

AP Photo/Matt Sayles

Carrie Underwood accepts the award for Entertainer of the Year at the 45th Annual Academy of CountryMusic Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 18, 2010

KIEFER Sutherland foughtback tears as he wrapped hit show24 - because leaving the series af-ter nine years was “much moredifficult” than he anticipated.Bosses at U.S. network Fox an-nounced last month that the actionshow’s current eighth season willbe its last. Sutherland recentlyfilmed his final scenes as JackBauer - and it was an emotionalmoment for the star.

He tells Britain’s Friday NightWith JonathanRoss TV show,“It’s been thegift of a life-time. It’s a bit-tersweet situa-tion. We believeit was right toend the seriesbut we were notprepared for theemotional reac-tion. Weworked with thesame people for14 hours a day,five days aweek for nineyears and theybecome likeyour family. I

WHO famously underwent astaggering 10 plastic surgery proce-dures in one day (a breast enlarge-ment, among them) - unveiled herpost-surgery bikini bod last week-end in Las Vegas. Though the 23-year-old “Hills star” -whose breastsare now a size “E” or “F” and le-gally cannot undergo any more sur-gery - was all smiles as she showedoff her new assets, several plasticsurgeons tell UsMagazine.com shefaces a slew of post-surgery woes.

“The excessive weight of theimplants in these extreme augmen-tations almost always leads tochronic lower back pain and signifi-cant drooping of the breasts,” saysNew Jersey-based Dr. Lyle M. Back.“Often, the entire balance of thespine can be thrown off, resulting inchronic neck strain, painful shoul-ders and even a stooping posture.”

San Francisco plastic surgeonDr. Joel Beck she also may havetrouble breastfeeding. “If the breastsare too big, the baby can’t latch onto get a mother’s milk,” he says. AsMontag ages, he adds, “the implantswill thin the [skin] tissues and re-quire a breast lift.” The implants areso oversized, they could even “erodethrough the skin and be exposed,mandating [their] removal,” adds Dr.Beck.

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Carrie Underwood made history at the Academy of Country MusicAwards on Sunday night, becoming the first woman to win entertainerof the year twice. Underwood won the show’s top honor last year. Thisyear, she beat out Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, the Zac Brown Band,Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, George Strait and Keith Urban.

year in 2007. She also beat Lady Ain the video category with “WhiteLiar” in awards given out Saturdaynight.

Lambert didn’t get to say muchwhen she won album of the year. Shestarted to address the crowd, thenstopped short to make sure producerFrank Liddell got a moment in thespotlight. But as soon as he startedto issue thank yous, he was cut offand the camera panned away, elicit-ing boos from the crowd. After acommercial break, she came back onstage to perform her latest single,“The House That Built Me,” and gotanother chance to speak when shewon top female vocalist, beating outthe likes of Swift and Underwood.The tearful Lambert was in disbeliefat her win.

Lady A also had a connection toone of the night’s other winners,Luke Bryan, who nabbed top newartist. Lady A’s Kelley and DaveHaywood helped their good buddywrite his hit, “Do I.”

Kiefer SutherlandEmotional At End Of ‘24’

spent more time with them thanmy family.

“The very last day, it was hardshooting it and the second theycalled the last wrap I watched re-ally tough guys fall apart. It wasreally moving. I thought I had pre-pared for it, I went to say a fewwords to the crew about how muchthis time had meant to me and mybottom lip went - as much as youthink you can prepare for a mo-ment like that it was much more

difficult than Ithought.”

But the staris delightedwith the end-ing. He adds,“There’s avery touchingmoment. Idon’t thinkme or theother actorthought itwould be.That last mo-ment actuallyworked well,we’re proudof it and itworked reallywell.”

Heidi Montag’s Enormous BreastImplants Could Eventually Erode, Droop

International Tuesday, April 20, 2010 13Life Style

“Scientists are discovering and de-scribing an astonishing new world ofmarine microbial diversity and abun-dance, distribution patterns and sea-sonal changes,” said Mitch Sogin of theMarine Biological Laboratory inWoods Hole, Mass., leader of the In-ternational Census of Marine Microbes.The Census of Marine Life, which isscheduled to be reported Oct. 4 in Lon-don, has involved more than 2,000 sci-entists from more than 80 nations.

The decade-long census has dis-covered more than 5,000 new formsof marine life. Researchers thinkthere may be several times that manyyet to be found.

Previous updates have focused onlarger creatures, such as a city ofbrittle stars off the coast of NewZealand, an Antarctic expresswaywhere octopuses ride along in a flowof extra salty water, the deepestcomb jellyfish ever found and TheWhite Shark Cafe, a deep PacificOcean site where sharks congregatein winter. Now the researchers haveturned to the tiniest of things, someof which burrow in the sea floor.Remotely operated deep-sea ve-hicles discovered that roundwormsdominate the deepest, darkest abyss.Sometimes, more than 500,000 canexist in just over a square yard of softclay. Only a few different types havebeen studied.

AP Photo/Bob Andersen and D. J. Patterson, Census of Marine Life

This undated handout image provided by the Census of Marine Lifeshows, the acantharians are one of the four types of large amoebaethat occur in marine open waters. Their fragile skeletons are made ofa single crystal of strontium sulfate that quickly dissolves in the oceanwater after the cell dies. If the Census Bureau thinks it has it;s handsfull counting Americans, imagine the problems of scientists trying totally everything living in the oceans, including microbes so small theyseem invisible. « Read less

Counting sea life,Counting sea life,Counting sea life,Counting sea life,Counting sea life,sometimes little things are bigsometimes little things are bigsometimes little things are bigsometimes little things are bigsometimes little things are big

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – If the Census Bureau thinks it has its hands full counting Americans, imagine what scientistsare up against in trying to tally every living thing in the ocean, including microbes so small they seem invisible. Andjust try to get them to mail back a form. The worldwide Census of Marine Life has four field projects focusing onhard-to-see sea life such as tiny microbes, zooplankton, larvae and burrowers in the sea bed. Tiny as individuals,these life forms are massive as groups and provide food that helps underpin better-known living things.

There are also 16,000 or morespecies of seaworms. There areloriciferans, which the scientists call“girdle wearers” because of hindshells resembling a corset. And thereare hundreds of types of tiny crusta-ceans. “Such findings make us lookat the deep sea from a new perspec-tive,” says researcher Pedro MartinezArbizu of the German Center forMarine Biodiversity Research. “Farfrom being a lifeless desert, the deepsea rivals such highly diverse eco-systems as tropical rainforests andcoral reefs.” Consider zooplankton,the tiny, often transparent animalsthat some call sea bugs. They form avital link in the food chain.

As of 2004, scientists had identi-fied about 7,000 species of zoop-lankton. Now they expect that todouble when they finish analyzingall the samples collected in the ma-rine census. Improved techniquessuch as DNA analysis have helpedunravel some errors along the way.DNA, of course, is the genetic codein the cells of each living creature.Tracey Sutton of the Virginia Insti-tute of Marine Science and col-leagues led by the SmithsonianInstitution’s G. David Johnson usedgenetics to show that three types offish thought to be different are re-ally one. They found that eventhough they look different, the

Mirapinnidae (tapetails),Megalomycteridae (bignose fishes)and Cetomimidae (whalefishes) arereally the same species. The tapetailsare the larvae and when they growup they become either the bignoses(girls) or the wehalefish (boys).

After studying samples takenfrom more than 1,000 sites, scien-tists concluded there may be as manyas 100 times more microbe generain the sea than they had thought. In-deed, a 2007 study in the EnglishChannel alone yielded 7,000 newgenera of microorganisms. Genus isthe category of life ranked betweenfamily and species. For example themammal family has many genera,such as homo (humans), canis (dogs)and equus (horse). What ocean mi-crobes lack in size they make up forin numbers. Marine census research-ers calculate there are a “nonillion”of them. Never heard of nonillion?Well, it’s a lot. It’s 1,000 times 1 bil-lion, times 1 billion, times 1 billion.

Of course no one can really envi-sion a number like that, so the re-searchers turned to the popular com-parison measure — the African el-ephant. A nonillion microbe cells,they say, is about the same weightas 240 billion African elephants —or the equivalent of 35 elephants forevery person on Earth. And that’sjust the microbes.

Associated Press Writer

GENEVA – Europeans shouldtry to stay indoors if ash fromIceland’s volcano starts settling, theWorld Health Organization warnedFriday as small amounts fell in Ice-land, Scotland and Norway.

WHO spokesman Daniel Epsteinsaid the microscopic ash is poten-tially dangerous for people when itstarts to reach the Earth becauseinhaled particles can enter the lungsand cause respiratory problems.

“We’re very concerned about it,”Epstein said. “These particles wheninhaled can reach the peripheral re-gions of ... the lungs and can causeproblems — especially for peoplewith asthma or respiratory prob-lems.” He also said Europeans whogo outside might want to considerwearing a mask.

Other experts, however, weren’tconvinced the volcanic ash wouldhave a major effect on peoples’health and said WHO’s warningswere “hysterical.” They said volca-

Experts differ on health risk of volcanic ashnic ash was much less dangerousthan cigarette smoke or pollution.

Volcanic ash is made of fine par-ticles of fragmented volcanic rock.It is light gray to black and can be asfine as talcum powder. During a vol-canic eruption, the ash can bebreathed deep into the lungs andcause irritation even in healthypeople. But once it falls from agreater distance — like from thecloud currently hovering above Eu-rope — its health effects are oftenminimal, experts say.

The Icelandic volcano thaterupted Wednesday has sent an enor-mous cloud of microscopic basaltash particles across northern Europe,grounding aircraft across continent.It is drifting above 20,000 feet (6,000

meters), high and invisible from theground.

“Not all particles are createdequal,” said Ken Donaldson, a pro-fessor of respiratory toxicology atthe University of Edinburgh, whohas studied the impact of volcanicash in people. “In the great schemeof things, volcanic ash is not all thatharmful.”

Donaldson said most Europeans’exposure to volcanic ash would benegligible and that only those in thenear vicinity of the Icelandic volcanowould likely be at risk.

“Once the volcanic particles arein the stratosphere, they’re gettingmassively diluted because there’s alot of air and other particles blow-ing around,” he said.

AP Photo/Brynjar Gaudi

Smoke and steam hangs over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokullglacier in Iceland, early Thursday April 15, 2010, which has erupted

for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shootingsmoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee

rising floodwaters.

Tuesday, April 20, 201014 InternationalSport

“For me this is very emo-tional, this is probably my favor-ite tournament. I love this tour-nament. To win here anothertime is a dream for me,” he said.“To win six times for me is un-believable. I never expect some-thing like that.” He improved to16-6 his record at the Masters1000 level as he claimed the 26thclay title of his career, havinglost his only two clay finalsagainst Roger Federer, in Ham-burg in 2007 and Madrid in2009.

“When you don’t win for awhile, and you are playing reallywell, you really want to win,”said Nadal. “You are focusedmore than ever. Maybe for thatreason I won easier than usual.But that’s not normal. I’m goingto have lots of problems on clay

(AFP/Valery Hache)

Spain’s Rafael Nadal hits a return to his compatriot Fernando Verdasco during the Monte-CarloATP Masters Series Tournament tennis match final in Monaco. Nadal won 6-0, 6-1.

Nadal targetsNadal targetsNadal targetsNadal targetsNadal targetsBarcelona afterBarcelona afterBarcelona afterBarcelona afterBarcelona afterMonte Carlo winMonte Carlo winMonte Carlo winMonte Carlo winMonte Carlo win

Associated Press Writer

PHOENIX – Andre Miller scored15 points in the fourth quarter and tiedhis career playoff high with 31 pointsas the short-handed Portland Trail Blaz-ers stole homecourt advantage fromPhoenix with a 105-100 victory overthe Suns on Sunday night. MethodicalPortland was a tough matchup for theSuns all season and it was no differentin Game 1 of their first-round playoffseries, despite the absence of the Blaz-ers’ scoring leader, Brandon Roy.

LaMarcus Aldridge added 22points and Nicolas Batum 18 for Port-land. Jerryd Bayless also had 18 forthe Blazers, 10 in the fourth quarter,but missed two free throws with 12.2seconds left to give Phoenix a shot totie. Steve Nash’s 3-point try was wellshort, though, and Miller’s two freethrows iced the victory. MarcusCamby grabbed 17 rebounds for Port-land, two shy off his career playoffbest. Roy is out for the series afterarthroscopic knee surgery, and theBlazers lost Greg Oden and JoelPrzybilla earlier in the season. ButPortland won two of three against theSuns, including a win at Phoenix whenthe Blazers didn’t have Roy.

The Suns, the NBA’s highest-scor-ing team at 110 points per game, nevergot into their usually fluid offense butstill led 87-85 after Stoudemire’s 16-footer with 4:57 to play. Miller, though,made his only 3-point attempt of thenight to put Portland ahead for good

Agence France - Presse

MONTE CARLO – Rafael Nadal will approach his home tournament on the Barcelonaclay with fresh confidence after securing a historic sixth straight Monte Carlo Masters titleon Sunday. The king of clay retained his crown by outclassing Spanish compatriot FernandoVerdasco 6-0, 6-1 to lift his first title in 50 weeks. In doing so Nadal became the first man inmodern tennis history to win one event six times in succession and he will now look to repeatthe trick in Barcelona.

in the future.” Verdasco, now 0-10 against

Nadal, again came away im-pressed. “He had an unbelievableday and he played really good. Hedidn’t let me attack him at all, withballs really high and deep,” saidVerdasco. “I also maybe didn’thave a good day. I was trying toforce things and made more mis-takes than usual. “Today was myfirst Masters final. I had normalnerves before an important match.But they were nothing special.”With volcano ash from Iceland cre-ating travel havoc and groundingair traffic across Europe, Nadal andhis team will have to make the 500-kilometre journey to Barcelona byroad.

He will receive a first-roundbye and is likely to face his firstmatch on Wednesday after bring-

ing his unwelcome trophy droughtto an end. The four-time RolandGarros champion returned to formwith one of the most brilliant ef-forts of his storied career, losing atotal of just 14 games and winningthree matches with the loss of justone game in each. Victory in thefinal was Nadal’s 32nd straight winat Monte Carlo and he remains un-defeated at the venue since 2003.

He dominated against Verdascowith seven breaks of serve while hisopponent committed 32 unforcederrors. The sixth-seeded challengerlooked threatening only once, in themarathon sixth game of the secondset, as he forced the fighting Nadalto save five break points to moveahead 5-1.

A game later it was all over onthe first match point as Nadal brokeback for victory.

(AP Photo/Paul Connors)

Portland Trail Blazers guard Andre Miller (24) shoots over Phoe-nix Suns guard Jason Richardson (23) during the first half ofGame 1 of an NBA first-round playoff basketball series Sunday,April 18, 2010 in Phoenix.

Miller’s 31 leads Blazersto 105-100 upset of Suns

88-87 4:28 from the finish, and thenAldridge sank two free throws to makeit 90-87 with 4:12 remaining. Nash’s22-footer cut it to 90-89, but Millermade two free throws, Aldridge tippedone in over Stoudemire, and Portlandwas up 94-89 with 3:37 left. Nash’s 3-pointer briefly cut the lead to 94-92, butBatum responded with a 3 of his own17 seconds later and Bayless made twofree throws to put the Blazers up 99-92with 1:29 to go.

The Suns missed repeated 3s be-fore Jason Richardson finally made oneto cut it to 103-100 with 12.5. AfterBayless missed two free throws, Nashdribbled upcourt and let it fly, but hisshot was not even close. Phoenix coachAlvin Gentry said his team would befine if it hit its shots, but the Suns shotjust 42 percent and were 9 of 24 in thefinal quarter, including 3 of 13 on 3s.Portland was the aggressor from theoutset while the Suns settled for jumpshots. The evidence was at the foul line,where Phoenix had just two attemptsin the first half.

The Blazers led 44-43 at the breakbehind Aldridge’s 13 points andCamby’s 12 rebounds. The Suns neverled by more than four in the third quar-ter. Channing Frye’s 10-foot jump hookwith 2.5 seconds left in the quarter gavePhoenix a precarious 72-70 lead enter-ing the fourth. Leandro Barbosa scored13 in eight minutes in the first half,when he made all five of his shots, threeof them 3s. He was scoreless in the sec-ond half.

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“We must get ready in a relaxedmanner, testing out and predictingit in our minds, because you playgames like this with your headmore than anything else. Would Icelebrate if scoring againstBarcelona? Of course I would atSan Siro, but at the Nou Camp Iwouldn’t celebrate in front of myold fans. Barcelona are the stron-gest side in the world right now, butevery match is different and wewant to write history.”

Eto’s believes Maicon’s goalagainst Juventus - a spectacularvolley - may prove the best of thecampaign but he feels Inter’s de-termination was the decisive fac-tor. “More than my goal, the keywas the hard work of all the team,”he said. “My goal just gave us thatextra bit of security. I think Maiconscored the best goal of the seasonso far. Aside from that, I was trulyimpressed with the heart the teamshowed. There aren’t many gamesleft and we must keep fighting, aswe can do this.”

Meanwhile Barcelona are mak-ing their way to Milan for theirChampions League semi-final bybus. The Blaugrana were forced tochange their travel plans on ac-count of the volcanic ash thatspread from Iceland last week,bringing all aircraft to a standstill.

Eto’o geared up for BarcaEto’o geared up for BarcaEto’o geared up for BarcaEto’o geared up for BarcaEto’o geared up for Barcaafter Defeating Juveafter Defeating Juveafter Defeating Juveafter Defeating Juveafter Defeating JuveMilan -

Eto’o managed to make the game safe in injury time and, ahead of this week’s ChampionsLeague first leg against his former club Barca in Milan this week, he is keen to focus on their nextchallenge. “It was a difficult and tense game, but the important thing is we won and are nowawaiting Tuesday’s match,” he told Inter Channel.

Pep Guardiola and his players leftBarcelona’s training ground at2:45pm yesterday and arrived inCannes six hours later where theystayed the night.

Having already driven 634km,Barcelona will begin their journeyagain this afternoon and should ar-rive in Milan around 7:00pm. In all,the Champions League holders willhave clocked up 985km. Speakingto Sky Sports, Dani Alves said: “Iwould even walk to a ChampionsLeague semi-final.” His team-mate,Victor Valdes, added: “Travellingcannot be an excuse.”

Guardiola has named a strong20-man travelling party forTuesday’s Champions Leaguesemi-final first leg against InterMilan. Left-back Eric Abidal, whohas yet to receive the green light toreturn to action following a thighinjury, and 20-year-old reserve de-fender Andreu Fontas are the twonewcomers to the squad that tookon local rivals Espanyol on Sunday.The only players unavailable areSpain midfielder Andres Iniesta,who is set to be absent until mid-May with a hamstring tear, andUkraine international DmitrioChygrynskiy, who is ineligible.

“It is one of the most difficultmoments I have had to live, but lifehas shown me to never give up,” he

wrote on his facebook page.Guardiola hopes the midfielder willline up at the Bernabeu in theChampions League final. “He is sadand down - we want him back assoon as possible and let’s hope wecan take him to the final at theBernabeu,” the Barca coach said.“He trains morning and evening andtakes his profession as seriously asanyone. He doesn’t deserve this.”

Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinhohas gone out of his way to sing thepraises of Barcelona counterpartPep Guardiola ahead of the first-legof their Champions League semifi-nal. Mourinho was considered forthe Barca job before Pep Guardiolawas appointed two seasons ago butthe former Chelsea coach insiststhere is no chance of him ending upat the Nou Camp because ofGuardiola’s brilliance. He said: “Itotally agree when they say thatBarcelona president Joan Laportadid better in choosing Guardiola thanme. He’s certainly the best coach forBarca, and, as I told him myself inperson, I hope he will continue ascoach of Barca for ever.” He added:“Guardiola can be considered thebest coach in the world because hewon everything last season. If I wineverything again I can be consideredthe best. The best coach is the onewho wins most.”

Agence France - Presse

MADRID – Real Madrid strik-ing duo Cristiano Ronaldo andGonzalo Higuain grabbed a goalapiece as Real moved to within onepoint of leaders Barcelona at thetop of La Liga with a 2-0 home winover third-placed Valencia on Sun-day to set up a thrilling finale tothe title race. Barcelona’s 0-0 drawat neighbours Espanyol 24 hoursearlier had given Real a chance toclose the gap and Real capitalisedon the slip with Higuain netting his25th goal of the season after 25minutes before Ronaldo finishedthe game off on 77 minutes withhis 20th goal of the season.

With five games left Real arejust a point behind their arch ri-vals although if the two teams fin-ish level on points Barcelona, whoface Inter Milan on Tuesday in thesemi-final of the ChampionsLeague, will win the title due totheir superior head-to-headrecord. “Barcelona still have theadvantage but being second with83 points is good and they havethe pressure to deal with knowingwe are close,” said Guti.

“As far as the ChampionsLeague I have always said that Iwant Barcelona to lose and be-sides I have some great friends atInter.” It was a 16th league homewin of the season from 17 gamesby Real - with a defeat toBarcelona the only blemish - andHiguain is just two goals behindcompatriot Lionel Messi who hasscored 27 for Barcelona to lead

(AFP/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)

Real Madrid’s Argentinian forward Gonzalo Higuain celebratesafter scoring during the Spanish League football match RealMadrid against Valencia at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium inMadrid.

Title race on as Real go apoint behind Barcelona

the race for the ‘Pichichi’ or top-scorer crown.

Valencia, a massive 24 pointsbehind Real in third, are fivepoints ahead of fourth-placedSevilla following their eighth de-feat of the campaign and they willrue David Silva’s shot hitting thepost minutes before Ronaldograbbed the second goal. Therewas no Kaka again for Real withthe Brazilian still not fully fitwhile Sergio Ramos continued incentral defence in the absence ofEzequiel Garay.

For Valencia the spotlight wason midfielder Silva with the Span-ish international strongly linkedwith big-spending Real in the lo-cal media.

With eight minutes gone Rafaelvan der Vaart, who scored the win-ner in the 2-1 win over Almeriain midweek, shot wide with hisweaker right foot. Guti shouldhave scored on 19 minutes after agreat cut-back from Ronaldo butthe midfielder pulled his left-footed shot wide.

It was backs to the wall forValencia and Higuain struck on 25minutes with a neat turn to beat hisman before dispatching past formerReal goalkeeper Cesar Sanchez.Four minutes later Higuain set upvan der Vaart but the Dutchmancould not apply the finishing touchwith defender Alexis Delgadoblocking the effort on the line.Alexis was then in action at theother end on 33 minutes with hisheader forcing Iker Casillas into ascrambling save.

AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE

Juventus defender Fabio Cannavaro (bottom) fights for the ball with Inter Milan’sCameroonian forward Samuel Eto’o during their Serie A football match at San Siro stadiumin Milan, on April 16, 2010.

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But although teams may have dif-ficulties in getting personnel back tobase swiftly, with cars and equipmentlikely to be delayed too, Ecclestoneis sure that the Spanish GP will goahead as planned. “I am sure every-thing will be all right,” saidEcclestone in Shanghai. “There is noquestion of cancelling the SpanishGrand Prix. Of course, it is causingeverybody problems, but we will finda way to get everyone home.”

F1’s cars will not be able to returnto the team’s factories until the freightplanes that carry them can get out ofEurope, where they are currentlytrapped. If the flight delays continuefor a few more days then it is possiblethe F1 freight could be shipped directlyto Barcelona. And with the prospectof it taking weeks to sort commercialaircraft timetables out once Europeanairspace is open again, F1 teams areworking hard to ensure that their staffcan get back to base quickly.

A number of outfits, includingFerrari, McLaren and Lotus, havechartered their own aircraft to takepersonnel back to Europe. McLarenteam principal Martin Whitmarshsaid: “McLaren committed this morn-

McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh thinkshis team needs to push ‘very hard’ to improve its car ifit is going to keep its advantage at the head of the worldchampionship. After a brilliant 1-2 finish for JensonButton and Lewis Hamilton, McLaren grabbed the leadin both points tables and left early-season pace-settersRed Bull Racing and Ferrari ruing the missed opportu-nities of the opening flyaway races.

But despite wining two of the first four races,Whitmarsh thinks that McLaren must improve the speedof its car - especially in qualifying terms – if it is goingto catch up with Red Bull in particular. “We need todevelop our car quicker than the others,” Whitmarshtold AUTOSPORT. “I think Barcelona is a challenge. Iam sure the teams are going to step up with upgradeson the car, and we have to push very hard to see if wecan go there with a bigger step than the others. I think

Ecclestone downplays volcano ash threat

Bernie Ecclestone is convinced that the travel crisis caused by the exploding Icelandic vol-cano poses no threat to next month’s Spanish Grand Prix taking place

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone is convinced that thetravel crisis caused by the exploding Icelandic volcano poses nothreat to next month’s Spanish Grand Prix taking place. Withthe majority of the F1 circus trapped in Shanghai following thecancellation of flights back to Europe, questions have emergedabout whether the Barcelona race on May 6 will escape the travelchaos that has already forced MotoGP organisers to postponetheir next round in Motegi this weekend.

ing to a charter plane for Wednesdayto fly to Spain. We were the first tocommit to that and have said that if itis a big enough plane then anyone elsecan come on board. “We took the flyerand said that if it is half empty thenwe will bear the premium, so as longas we have got our team on it then weare happy for it to be full. I think someteams were hesitating this morning butthey are now jumping on board prettyquick. Hopefully, as Spain is about theonly place you can fly into, we canget them into Spain on Wednesday andonto coaches for Santander or roadroute home.”

Ferrari team principal StefanoDomenicali added: “Everyone is wait-ing to see what is going on. On thematerial side we know that either wemove all the stuff, or we keep it here.So either we do another race here orwe move altogether back to Europe!“Everyone is waiting to see the updatesand at the moment I would say thenormal flights we are booked on aretotally closed. To wait means we waithere for one week or 10 days, I don’tknow, but we are trying also to see ifwe can organise ourselves another wayof moving through a charter flight.

Whitmarsh says McLaren needs big pushin racing we are closer to the Red Bulls. In qualifyingwe are still behind the Red Bull. They are the fastest inqualifying and this is a development race now. We havegiven ourselves the foundation at the flyaways, but weare back into Europe.”

“We now have to really push hard and keep reli-ability, which you cannot take for granted, keep racingwell and keep developing the car. If we do that we canwin these championships. That is what we have got totry and do.” Whitmarsh has also praised the efforts ofhis team and drivers in helping deliver such a healthynumber of points in the first races of the year. “It istestament to the team and the drivers,” he said aboutthe fact his team was leading the championship despitenot having the quickest overall car. “I think here in quali-fying we had the second fastest car. I think here wewere slower still than Red Bull. I think weunderperformed in qualifying and didn’t make it easyfor ourselves.”

“We are a race team, I think we are not a bad raceteam. We don’t always get it right, but we make deci-sions and we get on with it. We have two drivers whoare great racers. They are part of the team and havemade a massive contribution, and I think the team as awhole has worked together to try and get the maximumnumber of points we can.” When asked whether Button’sgreat start to the year had surprised him, he said: “Idon’t think so. It is not surprise. Jenson has done a fan-tastic job with the team, and I think he is a mature worldchampion with a lot of experience. He has had sometough times in his career and has clearly learned fromit. How he has conducted himself in the team, how hehas formed a relationship with Lewis, how he operatesout on the track is just fantastic. Here we are, four racesin and he has won two of them.”

McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarshthinks his team needs to push ‘very hard’ toimprove its car if it is going to keep its advan-tage at the head of the world championship