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Madrid edges Granada 1-0, Atletico wins 2-0 at Eibar

Millions will tune in on Sunday to find out.

The Emmy Awards, the biggest honors in television, will be handed out at a star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles that could see some major surprises -- and maybe even a history-making win for black

women.“We’re going to see some new

winners in most of the top races, and that’s going to be great for Emmy fans,” said Tom O’Neil, a showbiz journalist who founded Hollywood awards prediction site Gold Derby.

One big question on everyone’s minds for this year’s 67th Prime-time Emmys, television’s version of the Oscars, is: will Jon Hamm of “Mad Men” finally win on his eighth try for his work as troubled ad man Don Draper?

Though the wildly popular AMC series about the sex- and booze-fueled world of 1960s Madison Avenue has won the coveted out-standing drama trophy four times, its leading man has come up empty every year.

Awards pundits say it would be a slap in the face if Hamm is once again overlooked.

“I think this is the year for Jon Hamm,” predicted Debra Birn-baum, executive editor of television at Variety.

“Certainly he is the sentimental favorite going into Emmy night,” she told AFP.

“Everyone loves a story like that and it would be great to see him get the Emmy he so richly deserves for creating such a fantastic iconic character.”

“Mad Men” faces stiff compe-tition in the best drama category from “Better Call Saul,” “Downton Abbey,” “Homeland,” “House of Cards,” “Orange is the New Black” and “Game of Thrones,” which earned an impressive 24 nomina-tions.

Birnbaum said despite the fierce competition, “Mad Men” may win again if only to ensure it goes out in style.

“It’s its last time to get nominated and as we saw last year, ‘Breaking Bad’ swept the Emmys because it was a fantastic show and it was its last chance to get nominated,” she said. (afp)

LOS ANGELES - Best-selling romance novelist Jackie Collins, whose first book was so steamy it was banned in some countries, died of breast cancer in California Saturday, her family said. She was 77.

“She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by her family, friends and the millions of readers who she has been entertaining for over 4 decades,” her family said in a state-ment, adding that she had battled breast cancer for more than six years.

“She was a true inspiration, a trailblazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words,” added the statement from her three daughters, Tracy, Tiffany, and Rory.

Her works included “The World is Full of Married Men,” “Confessions of a Wild Child,” “The Stud” and “Hollywood Wives.” The first, released in 1968, stirred up so much out-rage that it was banned from bookshelves in South Africa and Australia.

British-born Collins, who started out acting before focusing on writing, and her older sister, actress Joan Collins, famously found great success at trading on the Hollywood early-bad girl mystique they had, both on screen and off.

Jackie Collins wrote a series of novels starring main character Lucky Santangelo and many of her works found their way onto TV screens as movies or miniseries.

Joan Collins, 82, told People magazine she was “completely devastated” by the loss of her sister.

“She was my best friend,” she told the publication. “I admire how she handled this. She was a wonderful, brave and a beauti-ful person and I love her.”

People said the prolific author had been diagnosed with end-stage breast cancer six-and-a-half years ago, and “chose to keep her illness almost entirely to herself.”

Joan Collins herself just learned of her sister’s illness “within the last two weeks,” People reported.

“She was very shocked,” Jackie Collins recently told the magazine of Joan’s reaction to the news. “She had no idea. But she was great. We were emotional.”

Jackie Collins had lived in California for years, and was a naturalized US citizen. (afp)

Romance novelist

Jackie Collins

dies at 77

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In this image released by AMC, Jon Hamm portrays Don Draper in a scene from “Mad Men.” Hamm is nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding lead actor in a drama series. The 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, in Los Angeles.

’Mad Men’, ’Game of Thrones’ to

battle for Emmys gloryLOS ANGELES - Will blood-splattered fantasy epic “Game

of Thrones” finally take home top television honors, or will voters instead offer sentimental favorite “Mad Men” and its retro-cool advertising execs a golden send-off?

B A L I h a s changed from a

p r e d o m i n a n t l y agrarian island to one

where tourism has taken over. The Increasingly rapid growth of the tourism sector has boosted Bali’s

economic growth. However tour-ism has also caused the population to soar and given way to a massive amount of land being converted from agricultural use to built environment. Many people fear that the ensuing shortage of water could become a

source of conflict in the future. Director of the State Polytechnic

of Bali (PNB), Made Mudhina, said that population density and -worse still, covering earth with concrete has horrible consequences. “Be-sides which there is an increase in

environmental pollution, and the volume of solid and liquid waste continues to grow,” he said.

The growing population, he added, is obviously followed by the need for more and more water, that is rapidly depleting existing water

sources. “This increasing amount of human activity causes environ-mental pollution and impacts both surface and ground water,” said Mudhina.

“It is enabled by the hard work of all levels of our government and all the tourism stakeholders in Bali because we are a tourist destina-tion, so that the purchasing power and competitiveness of our society is still quite high. Our inflation is

even below the national inflation rate,” he said.

Sudikerta stated the realiza-tion of financial and physical activity of the government of Bali indeed has not been appro-priate with the target in the last

second quarter. Governor of Bali initially targeted the realization of 51 percent. However, due to the economic slowdown, the budget absorption only reaches 33.7 percent.

“But in this third quarter, the realization of financial and physical activity has increased dramatically to reach 48 percent,” he explained. Sudikerta reasoned that the prob-lems occurred in the financial re-alization because the partners like

to embezzle the physical activity funds at the end of the year. This issue must be closely watched by physical executor in Bali provincial government.

“Do not let them harm our administration. What has been stated in the contract must be implemented, do not embezzle the funds a t the end of the year. Otherwise, we will suffer losses and the administration is incoherent. The solution is by

imposing penalty on the culprit, so that we can achieve efficiency of the funds we have,” he said. (kmb32)

Water resources could become source of conflict

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Bali’s economy grows by 6.20 percentKUTA - Economic growth of Bali is said to be better than

the national economic growth because the national one only reaches 4.7 percent. In Bali, the current economy grows by 6.20 percent. It was conveyed recently by Deputy Governor of Bali, I Ketut Sudikerta.

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Cer-emony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Ga-lungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beauti-fully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

The origins of Jamu dates back to 15-16AD where the term “jamu” appeared in the New Java era. Jamu is Indonesia’s cure-all elixir. Throughout Indonesian ancient history, Jamu is believed to have profound healing quali-ties. The original Jamu recipes are highly guarded family secrets, passed down over generations. However, the tradition of using Jamu as remedy is no longer

familiar and common in today’s Indonesian modern society.

Paon Jamu Traditional Bever-age. Fresh and ready to drink Jamu in elegantly designed glass bott les is now available for consumption at Paon Doeloe restaurant or to go, for only IDR 25.000++ per 300ml bottle. One can choose from a range of Paon Jamus, each with its health benefits; Kunyit Asam

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Taman Bhagawan introduces Paon Jamu

TANJUNG BENOA - Taman Bhagawan introduces Paon Jamu. In continuing to cultivate heritage, tradition and culture, Taman Bhagawan in collaboration with Suwe Ora Jamu has revived Jamu; the Indonesian traditional herbal medicine, which is made from all natural in-gredients.

(Turmeric Tamarind) - Improves body circulation, boosts immune system, detoxifies and nourishes skin. Beras Kencur (Galanga Rice) - Improves stamina and relieves sore mucles. Alang Al-ang (Speargrass Root) - Reduces body heat, heals mouth ulcers & eases urination. Rosella (Roselle) - Helps protect immune system, lowers blood pressure and cho-lesterol level.

The Paon Jamu Signature Workshop consists of a jamu making method, unveiling be-hind the scene of how to make a jamu recipe. In the workshop, participants learn how to make jamu in the handiest way, under-standing the benefit of jamu and they may be able to make jamu themselves at home. Paon Jamu Signature Workshop is open for public and especially for those jamu enthusiast and those who have a curious mind and would love to learn about another side to Indonesian culture.

Half-Day Workshop is charged at IDR 850.000 and Full-Day Workshop at IDR 1.370.000 per person and is based on reservations minimum of two people. Paon Jamu Signature Workshop includes theory handout, certificate for your hard earned effort at Jamu making and a three-course set lunch, pre-pared at Paon Doeloe Restaurant with Jamu pairing to complete your Paon Jamu experience.

Ideal for couples, a group of friends and or corporate activity, Paon Jamu Signature Workshop is an engaging and educating ex-perience at understading the ben-efits of jamu and at gaining the pratical knowledge of the jamu making process, in a beautiful setting of Taman Bhagawan.

If one does not have hours to spend but wish to have a Jamu ex-perience, the Paon Jamu Dining Experience may be for you for lunch or dinner in a beachfront setting. Authentic Indonesian menu items have been thought-fully conceptualised to pair with Paon Jamu shooters in between each course, whilst its health benefits will be explained.

Pick-up and drop-off service from Nusa Dua, Tanjung Benoa and Jimbaran is available upon request for both Paon Jamu Sig-nature Workshop and Paon Jamu Dining Experience.

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Only six of the springs owned by PDAM have a significant water flow. Yeh He, Plegondan, Embukan are still flow-ing well with Tirtagangga, Abang having the largest water flow. Grubung spring in Rendang subdistrict, Iseh (Sidemen subdistrict) and Tauka springs are also flowing, though not to maximum capac-ity. “All the springs have a decreased discharge, with an average of a 40 percent decrease,” he said.

Under normal conditions, all the PDAM Karangasem springs produce about 800 liters of water per second. Such a discharge flow is said to be enough to supply about 29,000 homes. Obviously a decrease of 40 percent is having a nega-tive effect on the services being provided by PDAM. As a result, stated Baktiyasa, his company has received a lot of com-plaints, protests and various blasphemies since last month.

“It is the risk we have to face. We are ready to face insults from customers because we cannot control the weather,” he said.

Most customer complaints are com-ing from the subdistrict of Karangasem and Baktiyasa added that he understands people’s frustration. In response to cur-rent conditions, PDAM said that they

are providing water to its customers in rotating four hour shifts, so that all of their customers can continue to have access to water from PDMA.

“Our customers in Kubu do not have access to water because the pumps have dried out, though customers in other areas continue to receive water,” he said.

A number of PDAM Karangasem customers have been complaining for some time now. In rural areas, residents can still take advantage of other water sources. But for urban residents, the lack of water from PDAM is making them truly distraught.

Even though PDAM said that they are providing water in rotating shifts, in real-ity some areas, such as BTN Kertalangu, Subagan, are entirely without running water throughout the day.

One local resident, Ni Ketut Widiasti, stated on Wednesday that she is distraught about how to meet her daily need for water. “The water from PDAM has not been running for a long time. Is the water company still operating or has it gone bankrupt?” this housewife criticized.

Widiasti hopes that PDAM can give some answers because water is after all a very basic need that needs to be met everyday. (kmb31)

He hopes that all parties, but especially academics, research-ers and related agencies, will find a way out of this dilemma, so that the water crisis can be overcome.

Mudhina emphasized that it is very important to contribute ideas, especially concerning water resources and the environmental pollution control.

Mudhina is not alone in think-ing that measures need to be taken to avoid an even more serious problem with water in Bali.

Academic, Wayan Arya, said that there needs to be atten-tion placed on the condition of groundwater and other aspects of Bali’s natural environment. Moreover, many experts say that the conditions of water sources on the island of a thousand temples, is already not good. “Before it becomes more severe, a solution must be found. There needs to be a serious discussion with relevant agencies about coming to the res-cue of Bali’s water,” he said.

According to the Head of the Civil Engineering Department of PNB, they have been conducting research in some areas of Den-pasar and found conditions to be quite bad in some areas. “Do we have to wait for a seriously dire situation before we take action? There are some warning signs that need to be heeded,” said Arya.

Karangasem caseWater problems now occur

in every region of Bali. Pres-ently Karangasem is feeling the sting, yet the upstream catch-ment regions in the mountains of Karangasem, are still not receiving serous attention form the govern-ment. This important absorption region is even being dredged by quarry businesses.

Farmer, Wayan Sujana and other residents, along with the Chairman of the Alliance Caring for People’s Welfare (Apisemar), Nyoman Pasek, are worried about an even more severe water crisis occurring in the near future.

Currently, a number of water springs are running dry. Sujana pointed out that in the past, people could still swim in the rivers and large puddles near the fields be-cause the water was abundant and crystal clear. Now, farmers often have trouble just to get enough wa-ter to irrigate their paddy fields.

This season, farmers are scram-bling to get enough water to keep their crops alive and have had to stay up all night waiting for their turn to have access to the irrigation channel water flow. According to Sujana, the government should be more concerned about the situa-tion and take serious steps towards conserving the catchments areas in the mountains and upstream.

In addition to planting trees and

reforesting barren forests, the gov-ernment needs to stop the upstream areas from being continuously dredged. “If the government does not issue a strict policy aimed at rescuing the upstream regions or rainwater catchments, in the next five to ten years from, the water crisis will become a source of seri-ous conflict,” he said.

Already, small conflicts fre-quently occur between farmers (subak member) and the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) that takes its water from natural springs. In the future, similar conflicts over water could also occur between farmers and car wash or laundry companies or even with water bottling companies.

Nyoman Pasek from Pidpid shared similar opinions saying that rainwater catchment areas, as sources of water, need to taken into consideration through the creation of consistent government regula-tions and policies. For a long time, he has been saying that there are many illegal quarry activities tak-ing place in Karangasem, but his warnings continue to be ignored. Pasek suspects that the destruc-tion of rainwater catchment areas in the upstream of Karangasem is due to quarry activities and defor-estation, (caused in part by forest fires), that have contributed to the continued drying-up of springs in Karangasem. (rah/bud)

PDAM Karangasem’s water discharge downs 40 percent

AMLAPUrA - The prolonged dry season is seriously affecting the quality of service being provided by the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) in Karangasem, whose discharge of water has gone down by 40 percent. As a result the PDAM has received numerous complaints from its customers this month. Managing Director of PDAM Karan-gasem, I Gede T. Baktiyasa, said that the drought has resulted in a decrease of all the water sources managed by PDAM Karangasem.

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Water problems now occur in every region of Bali. Presently Karangasem is feeling the sting, yet the upstream catchment regions in the mountains of Karangasem, are still not receiving serous attention form the government.

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3Monday, September 21, 201514 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTraveling Monday, September 21, 2015

Some 6 million visitors are expected in Munich for the 182nd Oktoberfest, which runs through Oct. 4.

Ten of thousands are traveling to the feast via Munich’s main train station, which has also seen floods of refugees in recent weeks. On Saturday, however, only a few dozen asylum-seekers had arrived from Germany’s southern border and were quick-ly ushered away by police.

In contrast, hundreds of Okto-berfest revelers — many dressed in traditional Bavarian lederho-sen and dirndl dresses — walked from the train station to nearby Theresienwiese, site of the fes-tivities.

Munich police spokesman Si-mon Hegewald said the situation at the train station was calm and authorities were well prepared. Federal police said the number of asylum seekers crossing in from Austria has been declining in recent days to less than 2,000 on Friday.

Since Germany introduced border controls last weekend, most migrants who enter Ger-many are taken to the border town of Freilassing, where they

are put on buses and trains and distributed across the country. Officials said four more special trains were leaving Freilassing this weekend.

“Life in Munich will go on, and it has gone on for several weeks, despite the massive in-flux of refugees,” said Linda Benedickt, a 43-year-old writer from Munich. She was not overly fond of Oktoberfest, “because people spend an awful lot of money getting mindlessly drunk, but it is part of the city.”

Marc Reig, who had come from Sallent, Spain, to celebrate with friends at the Oktoberfest, showed compass ion for the asylum-seekers.

“Today and tomorrow we are celebrating, but we aren’t forget-ting the refugees,” said Reig, a 25-year-old physicist dressed in Bavarian lederhosen.

He and his friends plan to br ing Lego toys to re fugee children once they are done partying.

“We know the Bavarian gov-ernment is providing food and accommodation for them. But we want to have a present for some of the kids,” he said. (ap)

Visitors enjoy the 182. Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany in one of the beer tents , Saturday Sept. 19, 2015. The world’s largest beer festival will be held from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4, 2015.

Thousands head to Munich’s Oktoberfest

MUNICH — The beer is flowing again at Munich’s fabled Oktoberfest. Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap into the first keg Saturday with two blows of his hammer and the cry of “O’zapft is!” — “It’s tapped!”

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Made Romo, for instance, a silver entrepreneur from Celuk village said that the rupiah de-preciation reaching IDR 14,000 per US dollar has an impact on the increasing number of orders from overseas that reaches 70 to 80 percent. “Since rupiah goes through the current condition, all the customers double their orders, with dominant market like the US, Europe and now Australia has a good market,” he said.

However, he admitted that this condition cannot be enjoyed by other SMEs, particularly at Celuk village, Sukawati, because only a few craftsmen can meet interna-tional production standards, such as the provision of production machines. “Production machine is one of the standards for the international export market as a guarantee for the ability to meet the target of orders,” he said

In the meantime, the SMEs at Celuk village predominantly work on their production manually. So, if there are large numbers of or-der, it’s hard enough for them to

meet the target. “Now, most of our SMEs still rely on manual works, without using machine. However, if there are machines, it will be certainly more effective and efficient. However, the SMEs are predominantly not willing to invest in the machinery procure-ment,” he said.

Seeing this condition, he hoped that all the SMEs, especially sil-versmith, can be more active to get together to exchange information and open a network. “We cannot move alone, so that I hope the other SMEs can later run together, and want to invest so as to meet the existing standards,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head of the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba, did not deny the fact that most SMEs in Gianyar have not been able to meet the international export standards. This condition, ac-cording to him, does not only happen to silver businessmen, but also to the SMEs engaged in timber industry.

“Many of our SMEs are unable

SEMARAPURA - Nusa Penida Festival becomes a means to promote the potential of the islands in Klungkung County. Related to this, the Nusa Penida Festival will be jazzed up by surfing contest as a medium to promote the existence of surfing tourism. The Lembongan Surf Team (LST) will complete the excitement of the festival held for the second time.

The LST leader, I Wayan Lena, said that the contest is very har-monious with the Nusa Penida Festival featuring a maritime theme. Related to funding, the surfing contest in the Nusa Penida Festival 2015 is supported independently.

Merger of the LST established in 2001 with 60 members is based on consideration that it feels to have been called to grace the Nusa Penida Festival 2015. “We use independent fund originating from sponsors in the form of cash and goods. We get borrowing of speed boat, consumption and the prize for the winners in the form of surfing products in Lembongan, Bali and product of international company,” said I Wayan Lena.

When asked about the advantages of Lembongan Beach so that it deserves to be tested for the surfing, Lena explained that the waves on Lembongan beaches are suitable for all surfers, both beginner and advanced surfers. The rest, according to Wayan Lena, the beaches in Lembongan are close to tourism facilities such as lodging and restaurant so that surfers do not have to go far to rest and eat after surfing.

As additional information, the beaches in Lembongan, Nusa Penida, are visited by many surfers from around the world. This surfing water sport spreads over several locations in Nusa Penida like Jungutbatu Beach having four spots such as Shipwreck, Razors, Laceration, Play-ground, Dae and Ceningan has one spot at Mahana Point. (dwa)

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Many SMEs have not enjoyed rupiah depreciation

GIANYAR - Depreciation of rupiah reaching IDR 14,000 per US dollar should become a moment to reap huge profits for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). However, in reality this condition has not been enjoyed by all the SMEs in Gianyar, such as the silversmith in Celuk, Sukawati. It happens because most of them are unable to meet international production standards.

to penetrate international market standards because they do not meet production standards. It happens due to the lack of ma-chinery on employers of silver handicraft and the absence of Certification of Timber Legal-ity for the SMEs engaged in

the wooden craft industry,” he explained.

Regarding this condition, he admitted to have regularly made dissemination so that the SMEs are ready to compete in global market. Unfortunately, he said that the SMEs have minimal

interest in attending such exten-sion activities. “We have often organized dissemination but the attendance does not reach ten percent of craftsmen invited. Well, when this condition hap-pens who wants to be blamed?” he said. (kmb35)

Nusa Penida Festival to be jazzed up with surfing contest

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BEIJING — More than 150 students fell ill in northwest China after breathing in smoke from a mock air defense evacu-ation drill, state media reported Sunday.

Smoke was used to make Fri-day’s drill at Yifu Experimental Middle School in Gansu province more realistic, but the volume generated was too large, said the official Xinhua News Agency. It said Friday’s drill was jointly organized by the school and Tianshui city’s Civil Air Defense Office.

The Gansu Daily reported that more than 150 students had been treated, with complaints including coughing, vomiting, fever and bleeding in the diges-tive tract. It said 142 were still under observation Saturday and nine were in serious condition. Calls to the school and authori-

ties in Tianshui rang unanswered Sunday.

Cities across China, including Beijing and Shanghai, sounded air raid alarms Saturday as part of an annual education day to raise awareness of national defense.

It was unclear if the drill was part of that or sirens and gather-ings across the country Friday to commemorate the 84th an-niversary of the 1931 “Mukden Incident” that led to the Japanese occupation of China’s northeast and eventually the brutal inva-sion and conquest of much of the country.

China has been increasingly drawing attention to Japan’s wartime aggression as it seeks to stir up nationalism and highlight its role fighting Japan during World War II, which it feels has not been sufficiently recognized by the West. (ap)

1. Questionable chlorine: Unlike other aid agencies, WHO bought the disinfectant locally in Sierra Le-one. On several occasions, officials at Kenema Government Hospital discovered the chlorine had ex-pired or that the containers had their tags ripped off and expiration dates were missing. In an email, WHO’s Sierra Leone representative called for a criminal investigation into the defective disinfectant, which is key to limiting exposure to the virus.

2. Health care workers at risk: More than 40 health staffers died; 20 were infected during the delayed con-struction of an Ebola clinic meant to relieve pressure on Kenema’s hospi-tal. Many weren’t properly trained on how to use protective equipment and worked in an Ebola ward so danger-ous that aid agency Doctors Without Borders called for its closure.

3. Delayed construction: The Red Cross offered to build an Ebola clinic in Kenema, but no one in Sierra Le-one’s government or WHO could tell them where to build it. By the time it opened, the outbreak in Kenema

already had peaked.4. No body bags: At the beginning

of August 2014, an internal WHO report noted “supplies of body bags have completely run out,” vital infor-mation since the bags limit exposure to the corpses of Ebola victims, which are highly contagious. Later that month, an aid official attempting to pick up about 100 body bags at the airport was stymied for hours by gov-ernment bureaucracy. After finally being released, the bags were delayed yet again — this time overnight — when the driver couldn’t reach a sleeping police superintendent for clearance through a checkpoint.

5. Tight-fistedness: WHO re-sponders were so constrained by bu-reaucracy that Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan intervened, writing in an email that logistics experts in West Africa were getting only a couple hundred dollars a week to cover thousands of dollars in expenses for basics like protective rubber boots and disinfectant.

6. Shaky power supply: A gen-erator being used by WHO at the

hospital’s laboratory was so unstable one expert feared it might damage the equipment and alerted his colleagues to the potential problem in an Aug. 4 email. The problem was not dealt with and, four days later, the labora-tory was hit by a blackout.

7. Weak leadership: WHO of-ficials on the ground in Kenema repeatedly called on their superiors to intervene, warning that the agency’s failure to seize control meant it was being sidelined.

8. Doctored data: A WHO out-break expert noted in an email that the U.N. agency’s official count of Ebola cases was being altered by a Sierra Leonean official to match his government’s statistics, a practice that spread confusion back in Kenema.

9. No transportation: Despite a fleet of more than 50 new Land Cruisers parked at U.N. headquar-ters in Freetown, WHO responders didn’t have enough vehicles to track the spread of the virus. One WHO official suggested Sierra Leonean responders requesting motorbikes for travel to villages buy bicycles instead.

10. Infighting: Philippe Barboza, WHO’s Ebola coordinator in Ken-ema, described the tension between his agency and the U.S. epidemic monitoring company Metabiota as verging on “open conflict” and dete-riorating so much he recommended WHO’s outbreak team be pulled from the city. (ap)

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 file photo, a health worker sprays a colleague with disin-fectant after working inside a morgue with people suspected of dying from the Ebola virus, in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone.

10 critical mistakes in last year’s

Ebola outbreakKENEMA — An Associated Press investigation has found

that the World Health Organization and other responders faced avoidable obstacles in their efforts to stop the spiraling Ebola outbreak last summer in Kenema, a pivotal seeding point for the virus and a microcosm of the messy response across West Africa. Their work was hampered by poor management, lack of basic protective gear and bureaucratic infighting, according to internal WHO emails, documents and AP interviews. Here are 10 critical mistakes:

150 students ill in China after breathing

in smoke at drill

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Residents run through colored smoke as they move to an air raid shelter during an air raid drill in Nantong city in eastern China’s Jiangsu province Friday, Sept. 18, 2015.

Chief of Karangasem Munici-pal Police, Iwan Supartha, said on Wednesday (Sep. 16) that the raid team consists of the element of local government, Municipal Police, Integrated Licensing Office (KPPT), the Office of Nation Unity, Politics and Community Protection (Kesbangpolinmas) and Manpower Agency, first directly targeted the location of foreign diving service at Bias Lantang Kelod, Purwakerti, Abang. However, the diving service

named Sab Dive managed by Fabian B, a French citizen, has not owned a spatial utilization permit (IPR). “He said that the permit is still being processed,” said Iwan. His IMTA and immigration documents have been declared complete.

The team of local government then resumed the raid to Fine Dive Service at adjacent location. The diving service managed by local resident named Nyoman Sariana is declared to have owned complete

permit. Likewise, the IMTA and im-migration document are declared to be complete as well. Then, the raid team heads for a house inhabited by a Spaniard named Rosa P. Appar-ently she does not have the IMTA and immigration documents. This 34-year-old foreign citizen grounds to make a survey for investment at the location. However, the team is not easy to believe her. It is a com-mon reason for many foreign diving services telling they only make a survey, so that they consider it un-necessary to submit the IMTA.

Based on these findings, Iwan al-leged that many employees of other foreign diving services are working without having the IMTA. Thus, the raid will be done periodically in the tourist attractions that offer diving

services in Karangasem like in the area of Amed, Tulamben and Candi-dasa. Related to the result of the raid, those that have not submit their IPR, IMTA and immigration documents are requested to immediately submit it. The IPR is directly submitted to Municipal Police, IMTA to Man-power Agency and immigration documents to Kesbangpolinmas.

Iwan added that the raid by the team of local government poses a follow-up to the complaints of local diving service providers against for-eign diving services. So far, Karan-gasem better known as the underwa-ter natural attractions is flooded with illegal foreign workers.

Such condition is inseparable from the weak control of local government. As a result, local

employees get marginalized due to losing in competition. Recently foreign diving services attempt to monopolize the diving services in Karangasem. Foreign diving ser-vices utilize their kinship from the same country because the majority of the divers are foreigners. In ad-dition, foreign workers also grab all the job opportunities ranging from diving instructor, equipment services and the driver.

This issue has been repeatedly discussed in the executive meeting after being criticized by a number of legislators at the Karangasem House of Representative. So, after a serious discussion, the government of Karangasem established a team to handle the problem in the field. (kmb31)

DENPASAR - Chief of Den-pasar Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Reinhard, together with the investigators can reveal the black-mail case experienced by Zhang Tao from China in a short time. The investigators have determined the individual employees of the Ngurah Rai immigration officers with the initials HR and Wh as the suspect. They have been formally arrested at the Denpasar Police Headquarters from Saturday (Sep. 19). “They

have been arrested. We charged them with three articles, namely Ar-ticle 368, 365 or 335 of the Criminal Code,” said Reinhard.

According to him, the two sus-pects were allegedly committed blackmail and theft crime with violence or robbery with threaten-ing. He charged with Article 365 of the Criminal Code, because based on the results of investigation the suspect is alleged to have stolen as much as IDR 2,200 and the victim

suffered violence. “It happened in the toilet where the victim was deliberately led to the location. The money was taken in the vic-tim’s wallet. It is the statement of the victim when examined,” said Reinhard.

“According to the victim, his money was taken in the toilet as much as USD 2,200 and then in the counter of immigration was taken again as much as 200 yuan,” he said.

As reported, the investigation of the blackmail case allegation at the Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, is being intensified by the Denpasar Police Investigation Unit. Reinhard told that his institution has got the evidence related to the case. On that account, it will be enhanced to investigation process.

Chief of Bali Police, Sugeng Priyanto, when asked about the development of the blackmail case told that the investigation is under-

way. To that end, he asked in order the investigators can be given the opportunity to carry out their duties. The 33-year old victim, Zhang Tao, from China reported the blackmail case experienced at the Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, Saturday (Sep. 12) to the Ngurah Rai Airport Police. To the officer, Zhang admitted to have been blackmailed as much as hundreds of yuan by individual official in the international arrival terminal. (kmb36)

Blackmail case

Immigration officers arrested

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The U.S.A.T Liberty shipwreck is one of the favorite dive spot in Tulamben, Karangasem.

Municipal Police find illegal foreign workers in diving operators

AMLAPURA - Protests against the invasion of foreign work-ers in diving services are seriously responded by Municipal Police of Karangasem and other relevant agencies. They move directly to a number of diving service providers at Amed and surrounding areas. As a result, Municipal Police found some foreign diving operators having no permit of foreign worker employment (IMTA).

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BUSINESS

Millions of Spaniards are scrap-ing by on benefits, family handouts or working cash-in-hand as they wait for the apparent economic rebound to create the hundreds of thousands of jobs the government is promising.

Experts say that these jobs are being created -- but that the prob-

lem is many of them only last a few days.

Since leaving school, 22-year-old Pichel from the northwestern Galicia region has racked up train-ing certificates in finance and busi-ness, but has received no decent job offers in Spain.

“You can get a contract for three

weeks or three months. You’re happy, but you quickly realise that there is no job security,” he said.

Spain’s government is forecast-ing the economy will grow by 3.3 percent this year, one of the stron-gest rates in the eurozone.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in 2012 passed reforms making it easier for firms to hire and fire as part of his austerity reforms.

Now he has promised a million jobs would be created over the

2014-2015 period.Pichel and others his age find

that hard to imagine. Opposition parties and labour unions dispute the diagnosis given by the con-servative government, which is preparing to fight for re-election in December.

Spain’s unemployment rate remains extremely high at more than 22 percent. One in every two eligible workers under the age of 25 is out of work.

“Every month in Spain 1.5 mil-lion contracts are signed. That’s 18 million a year. So what’s going on? These are contracts for just a day’s or a week’s work,” said Manuel Lago, an economist in the major union CCOO.

“Employment in Spain is very seasonal. Jobs start getting cre-ated shortly before Easter and the unemployment rate goes down all summer” before ticking back up in August. (afp)

SINGAPORE - More than 20 countries are waiting to join the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), its designated president said Saturday as he al-layed concerns it was aimed to challenge US and Japanese influence in the region.

The number could bring the AIIB on a par with or even surpass membership in the Japan-led Asian Development Bank (ADB), which currently has 67 members, 19 of them outside of the Asia Pacific, according to its website.

“We have 57 countries (which are potential founding members) and to my knowledge...more than 20 countries are on the waiting list,” AIIB president-designate Jin Liqun told delegates of the Singapore Summit conference, without naming them.

“That makes it more than 70. I’m sure there will be more countries which will be interest-ed,” added Jin, a former Chinese vice finance minister who was put forward by Beijing to head the bank and was elected in August by the prospective founding members.

The AIIB has been viewed by some as a rival to the Washington-based World Bank and the Manila-based ADB, which has been headed by Japan, its biggest donor, since it was founded in 1966.

The US and Japan -- the world’s largest and third-largest economies, respectively -- have notably declined to join the AIIB although they are members of the ADB, but Jin said the door is open to both.

“It takes longer for some countries to reach their internal consensus in making their deci-

sion,” he said.“We’ve been very much patient.

As you know, the door is open to all of the countries and if they make a decision just pick up the phone, make a call and we can handle the rest of the business,” he said, referring to the US and Japan.

Of the 57 AIIB potential founding members, 50 have already signed, including Australia, while the seven others have until the end of the year to affix their signatures.

The bank will be based in Beijing and will have a capital of $100 billion, with $20 billion paid initially. It is expected to start operations next year.

China will be the biggest shareholder with 30 percent. Among non-Asian participants, Germany is the largest shareholder with 4.5 percent, followed by France with 3.4 percent and Brazil on 3.2 percent.

Jin said the AIIB is not aimed at challenging the ADB and the World Bank for influence in Asia as the region’s funding requirements are so massive.

He cited ADB estimates that Asia’s infra-structure demand could reach $730 billion per year by 2020, vastly exceeding available resources from existing multilateral lenders.

“Creating AIIB has never been about challenging existing institutions. The world stage is spacious enough to allow many actors to perform,” Jin said. (afp)

Spain’s economic recovery masks lingering jobs crisis

MADRID - Data shows Spain’s economy recovering, but tell that to Javier Pichel: this summer he packed and left for the only place he could find a decent job -- Germany.

Over 20 countries on ‘waiting list’ to join AIIB

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

Jin Liqun, president-designate

of the Asian Infrastructure

Investment Bank (AIIB)

smiles during a business meet-

ing in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday,

Sept. 9, 2015.

However, this needs to be proved based on the results of the investigation. “Obviously we are still conducting further investiga-tions. Whether this case qualifies as criminal or not needs to be veri-fied and police have been examin-ing the case,” affirmed the Chief of the Gianyar Police, Farman.

Farman asserted that so far his ranks are still conducting an examination of the four people confirmed to have been involved in the ceremony that took place at a hotel in Ubud. “We have sent a letter to the immigration office to determine whether the gay couple are registered for a flight or not, and this will continue to be inves-tigated and eventually there will be a case conference,” he said.

When asked whether any re-lated institutions have reported that they felt that this case was abusive or not, Farman said that so

far there have been no such reports but insisted that the police need to follow up on the case based on the findings so far. “Later, we will also bring in a team of experts from the PHDI, FKUB and others that are relevant in this case,” he explained.

Chairman of the Interfaith Communion Forum (FKUB) of Gianyar County, Cokorda Partha Sunia, assessed that the problem of this case relates to the fact that a series of marriage celebrations by gay couples is a violation of norms. Moreover, the activity involved a religious procession in the form panglukatan or purifi-catory rite for non-hindu people. “This falls into the category of religious harassment. Purifica-tory rites conducted by the hotel guests using ritual paraphernalia were officiated over by a priest. This should not have happened,”

he said.Cokorda Partha Sunia added

that in order to carry out a purifi-catory rite procession, the couple needed to first for though a sudi wedani (conversion rite) followed by the issuance of sudi wedani certificate by the Hindu Dharma Parishad of Indonesia (PHDI). “Complete purification Hindu rituals should only be performed by Hindus. This should be noted,” he said.

Responding to this incident, Cok Partha Sunia highlighted the importance of the role of the Tourism Office and Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PRHI) in improving supervision. Besides, other relevant institutions such as the PHDI and customary village middle assembly (MMDP) must also play an active role in disseminating information about what can and cannot be include in cultural tourism. “In the future, there should be clear guidelines in terms of cultural tourism, set out by business players so that things are not taken too far,” he said. (kmb35)

BANGLI - After fire incident in the forest conservation area of Mount Abang, Kintamani, the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) Bali declared that in accordance with the map-ping, the most fire-prone point is forest area in the lower part of Mount Batur.

Section Head of the Conserva-tion for Region II at the BKSDA Bali, Ketut Catur Marbawa, said on Sunday that forest condition at the foot of Mount Batur is the driest and much overgrown by susceptible grasses to fire. “Forest condition at the lower part of Mount Batur is dry so that it is the most prone to fire,” he explained.

To avoid any subsequent fire, added Marbawa, the forest has been monitored, and reservoir has been prepared. “At least there are ten reservoirs in the forest area of Kintamani. Eight reservoirs are located in the upper forest area and two others in the bottom area. The

water availability will we continue to be monitored,” he said.

Before the fire engulfs, the fire care community has also been established. It is intended to facilitate coordination and ac-celerate fire extinguishing. The forest area of Mount Abang near Penelokan tourist attraction, said Marbawa, it does not belong to fire-prone point. “Forest condition in the Penelokan area excludes the fire-prone point. It can be seen from the trees remaining to still look green. So, if there is a fire, it is not possible to be caused by the friction of trees,” he said.

He added that the fire can possi-bly be caused by the friction of trees and people’s action. Nevertheless, his institution remained to hope that participation of wider com-munity in the forest conservation of Kintamani can be continuously improved. “The role of community needs to be improved,” he hoped. (kmb45)

Forest condition of Mount Batur most

prone to fire

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The forest in Batur which was caought by fire is seen in the picture.

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Gianyar Police held meeting with the Hindus Organisation member to discuss the purification rite held in the region.

Police still investigating gay

purificattion rite case

GIANYAR - The ranks of the Gianyar Police are still investi-gating the panglukatan or purificatory rite that was conducted by a gay couple with the initials TM and JT, on Saturday (Sep. 12). After coordinating with relevant agencies, the case will possibly be considered to be an insult to religious symbols.

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The five hotspots were found in the villages of Karang Tinggi, Pematang Tiga and Taba Penanjung, said Anjas-man, weather analyst of the Fatmawati Airport’s meteorology office.

“We suspect the fires occur in local farmers’ land, and they cause haze,” he added.

Bengkulu City, the provincial capi-tal, has been shrouded by haze, he noted.

Earlier, the local meteorology office said the districts of Rejang Lebong and Lebong in Bengkulu Province, were enveloped by haze from forest fires.

The two districts are located near the borders of Jambi and South Su-matra Provinces, where many hotspots were detected.

In the meantime, Chief of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Willem Rampangilei has set a target of one month to extinguish forest fires that have blanketed South Sumatra Province in haze.

The deadline is in accordance with instructions from President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), Rampangilei said on Friday.

Starting Sept 11, the agency has intensified efforts to put out forest and plantation fires in South Sumatra.

Based upon data received from satellite monitoring, the number of hotspots on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan have decreased signifi-cantly, the new chief said. (ant)

JAKARTA - The Indonesia Cor-ruption Watch (ICW) has indicated that losses to the State incurred on account of corruption showed a downward trend in the first semester of 2015.

“On an average, the State exche-quer suffers a loss of about Rp2.7 trillion every semester, but in the first semester this year, this figure was only Rp1.2 trillion,” ICW researcher Wana Alamsyah said here on Saturday.

He said that the average figure, arrived at as a result of investigations by law enforcers (APH), was already nominal but the loss detected after investigations into cases of corrup-tion in the first semester of 2015, was

much lower.During these six month, the law

enforcers investigated 308 corrup-tion cases involving a loss of Rp1.2 trillion to the state. On an average, the number of cases in a semester is 253.

“So while there was an increase in the number of cases, the loss incurred by the state showed a decline,” he said.

He also explained that the perfor-mance of the law enforces in the first semester of 2015 had also declined.

Till the beginning of this year, law enforces were only able to bring 50.6 percent of the 2,447 cases from the investigation stage to the prosecution

phase, he said.The amount involved in the cases

that reached the investigation level in 2010-2015 was Rp29.3 trillion.

Of the 2,447 cases, law enforcers were only able to bring 1,254 cases to the prosecution level from the in-vestigation stage, accounting for just 50.6 percent of the reported loss, or Rp18.3 trillion.

The remaining 1,223 cases (49.4 percent) were still in the investiga-tion stage, and involved an amount of Rp11.04 trillion.

“So, the law enforces were only able to take half of the corruption cases to the prosecution level,” he added. (ant)

PARIGI - Police will continue to hunt the Santoso-led terrorist group in Poso, Central Sulawei, until all members have been ar-rested by the end of this year, ac-cording to National Police Chief General Badrodin Haiti.

“We will continue to hunt San-toso and arrest him before the end of this year,” Haiti remarked at Sail Tomini 2015 on Kayubura beach in Parigi Moutong district on Saturday.

He noted that the terrorist group, led by Santoso, continues commit-ting terror acts against security personnel and the public.

Haiti said the terrorist group

has killed three residents of Parigi Moutong district.

Therefore, the National Police chief noted that his forces will continue to pursue the terrorists, anticipating they will be appre-hended in 2015.

But he asserted that the killing of three Parigi Moutong residents by the terrorist group did not disturb Sail Tomini on September 19.

“The security situation in Cen-tral Sulawesi, especially in Parigi Moutong, was safe and stable be-fore and after the Sail Tomini main event,” the former police chief of Central Sulawesi noted. (ant)

REUTERS/Beawiharta

People ride their motorcycles as haze shrouds a street near Bagan Siapi-Api port, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, September 19, 2015.Five hotspots indicating forest and plantation fires, were detected in Central Bengkulu District, Beng-kulu Province, on Sunday.

Santoso pursuit to finish this year

State losses due to corruption declining

Five hotspots detected in BengkuluBENGKULU - Five hotspots

indicating forest and plantation fires, were detected in Central Bengkulu District, Bengkulu Province, on Sunday.

Over the past four years the government has adopted unpopular austerity policies as it complied with the terms of a 78 billion euro (then $102 billion) bailout Portugal received in 2011 during the eurozone financial crisis. With the frail economy showing signs of recovery, the government argues that Portugal cannot afford a return to borrow-and-spend policies.

The center-left Socialists, while promising to stick to eurozone spending rules, want to ease aus-terity and spur consumption that they say will make the economy grow faster.

The governing Social Demo-cratic Party and Popular Party, and the Socialists, are together expected to collect more than 70 percent of the vote, as in previ-

ous ballots.Moderate parties have tradi-

tionally held power in Portugal and even though austerity policies are at the heart of the election, Portugal has not witnessed the rise of any radical parties like Syriza in Greece, or Podemos in neighboring Spain.

Recent economic news has given heart to the government. After three years of recession, the economy grew 1.5 percent in the first half of the year compared with 2014. Also, the jobless rate, which hit a record 17.7 percent in 2013, has continued to slide, fall-ing to 12.1 percent in July. That’s the lowest rate since 2010.

“If we stay on the path we’ve been following, we won’t need any more bailouts,” Prime Min-

ister Pedro Passos Coelho said during a live radio debate last week.

The Socialist Party says it can give the economy a bigger push by reducing personal taxes and reversing government workers’ pay cuts, thereby encouraging people to spend more. “Now’s the time to turn the page on austerity,” Socialist leader Antonio Costa said. “Our goal is to ease the tax burden.”

The Socialists dispute the unemployment statistics, saying short-term training programs and mass emigration in recent years mean the figures give a false picture. Portugal’s 9.7 million eli-gible voters will elect lawmakers to a four-year term in the 230-seat Parliament in Lisbon. (ap)

TEHRAN — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani told the United Na-tions’ nuclear chief Yukiya Amano on Sunday that his agency should be fair in its implementation of a nuclear deal reached between Iran and the world powers, according to a report on Rouhani’s website.

Amano arrived in Tehran earlier in the day to discuss outstanding issues; it was Amano’s second visit to Iran in the past three months.

“Under the deal, we will volun-tarily carry the additional protocol and we hope you have a fair obser-vation on implementation of the deal,” Rouhani told Amano. “The agency will have an effective role in implementation of the deal.”

The Iranian president also re-iterated that Iran has no intention of developing a nuclear weapon.

“Over the past years and during monitoring and snap inspections by the agency (it is) persisted that Iran has had no diversion from its peaceful nuclear program,” he said.

Amano replied that his agency’s work in Iran and elsewhere is “based on impartiality and persist-ing on facts.”

Amano’s visit comes less than a month before an Oct. 15 deadline to gather information on allegations that Iran had in the past tried to build atomic weapons. A final U.N. assessment is due in December.

The West suspects Iran’s nuclear program has a secret military di-mension. Iran denies the charge saying its nuclear activities have peaceful purposes like power gen-eration and cancer treatment. (ap)

KATHMANDU — Security was stepped up in Nepal on Sunday ahead of the proclamation of the Himalayan nation’s new federal constitution following a decade of political infighting, with fresh threats and violence coming from smaller political parties and ethnic groups.

Thousands of officers were guarding the streets and checking passengers on highways, said police official Kamal Singh Bam. Police have responded to reports of bombs being found in Kathmandu but they all turned out to be a hoax. A small protest of about 50 people in Kathmandu was quickly dispersed by police and two people were de-tained. Police were under orders to stop any protests.

Security was particularly high around the Constituent Assembly building in the capital, where President Ram Baran Yadav will officially proclaim the new consti-tution later on Sunday. Opposition parties called a general strike to protest the constitution, but it had little effect on the traffic and mar-kets remained open.

Schools and offices are closed because Sunday and Monday were declared a public holiday to cel-ebrate the constitution, Nepal’s first complete political framework since monarchy was abolished in 2006. The key part of the charter, passed on Wednesday after a decade of bick-ering and violent protests, sets the country up as a secular federation of seven states, each with a legislature and chief minister.

However, some ethnic and re-ligious groups say lawmakers ig-nored their concerns over how state borders should be defined. They

want more states, including ethni-cally-based ones, bigger territory for larger groups and more seats for ethnic minorities in parliament and government.

Laxman Lal Karna, a senior leader of the Madhesi ethnic group in southern Nepal, said the new constitution failed to address many of the issues and that protests will continue. The violence has left at least 44 people killed, including police, over the last several weeks.

“It was initially agreed by these big parties that there would be an autonomous Madhesi state with judiciary independence, but all that agreement has been crushed,” Karna said. The three main politi-cal parties backing the constitution have made a fresh appeal for Mad-hesi to join talks.

“They may disagree with the size and makeup of these provinces but that is not a really big issue,” Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said Saturday.

There are more than 100 ethnic groups in Nepal and some want states named after them. These groups say the constitution still limits their representation. Though members of the parliament would be chosen through a proportional representation vote to ensure that minority groups are represented, the groups say the number needs to be increased. The main parties say those issues can be fixed later.

“The constitution is not some-thing that cannot be absolutely changed. It can always be amended later when needed,” said Khadga Prasad Oli of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist Lenin-ist. (ap)

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In this Sept.17, 2015 photo, portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, right, greets opposition Socialist Party leader Antonio Costa, left, at the beginning of their second political debate in Lisbon.

Can austerity win an election? Portugal offers an insight

LISBON, Portugal — Can a center-right government that has cut pay and pensions, enacted steep tax increases and slashed public services win re-election? In Portugal, just maybe. The country began the official campaign period for its Oct. 4 general election Sunday, and opinion polls in recent weeks have suggested the center-right coalition government is roughly level with the main opposition Socialist Party.

UN nuclear chief arrives in Iran

Nepal steps up security ahead of constitution proclamation

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stantly natural water debit during the year. Waterfall voice around the charming

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Gitgit Waterfall

The Spaniard had conceded the title when he crashed out of the previous race at Silverstone and is adamant nothing that happened at Misano changes that situation.

“It’s too far, the gap is too big,” he said. “Sixty-three points are too much for five remaining races. “My target for me is just to try to

win these five races and honestly I will push my 100 per cent and try to prepare for next season.

“If I can win these next five races then it will be enough [to satisfy me] at the end of the season.” Marquez emerged as race leader at Misano for Honda when he changed onto slick tyres at the right time as the mid-race

shower moved on, but was convinced that the Yamaha riders were faster.

“[Jorge] Lorenzo made the mis-take but again he was the fastest guy on the track for me, especially in dry conditions,” said Lorenzo. “In the wet, Valentino was faster.”

Marquez could still - math-ematically - walk away with a third MotoGP title this season, despite being 63 points behind frontrunner Valentino Rossi in the standings, as 125 points remain available. But the odds are against him, as no rider in MotoGP/500cc history

has been able to come back from a similar points deficit in normal circumstances.

The only exception is 1992, when Mick Doohan, with a 53-point advantage, had to miss three races with an injury, and the crown went to Wayne Rainey, albeit only by four points.

Otherwise, the championship leader with five races to go has always claimed the title, even with smaller points margins than this year. In 1995, Doohan had only 10 points’ advantage over Daryl Beat-

tie and in 1998 only 12 points over Max Biaggi.

Rossi has never led by as little as his current 23-point margin over Lorenzo at this stage in any of his title-winning seasons.

His biggest margin with five races to spare was 112 points in 2005 and his smallest was 25 points in 2009, again over Lorenzo.

On that occasion it actually grew to 45 points by the time the season ended at Valencia, with Rossi hav-ing clinched the title in the penulti-mate race at Sepang. (rtr)

CHICAGO — Spain’s Javier Gomez won his third straight world triathlon championship Saturday, finishing second behind country-man Mario Mola in the ITU World Triathlon Series finale.

Gomez and Mola traded the lead several times on the final lap of the run until Mola made a final move and outkicked Gomez

over the final few hundred me-ters at Grant Park in downtown Chicago.

Mola finished the 1,500- meter swim in Lake Michigan, 40-kilo-meter bike ride and 10-kilometer run in 1 hour, 44 minutes, 53 seconds, coming in just 4 seconds ahead of Gomez. South Africa’s Richard Murray in 1:45:35. Mola

finished second in the series stand-ings. France’s Vincent Luis was third.

Gomez is the first man to win three straight triathlon world championships and five overall. He also won in 2010 and 2008. The top American finisher Sat-urday was Ben Kanute of nearby Geneva in 20th. (ap)

GLASGOW - Brothers Jamie and Andy Murray claimed a tense four-hour doubles rubber against Australian pair Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Groth on Saturday to put Brit-ain 2-1 up and on the verge of a first Davis Cup final since 1978.

In Brussels, Argentina go into the final day leading Belgium by the same margin in their semi-final after Leonardo Mayer and Carlos Berlocq beat Steve Darcis and Ru-

ben Bemelmans 6-2 7-6 (2) 5-7 7-6 (5) in a four hour marathon.

The Murrays kept their vocifer-ous home supporters on the edge of their seats at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena before triumphing 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-7 (6-8) 6-4.

“It was an incredible match, to come back from the disappointment of losing the fourth set,” Andy Mur-ray, ranked third in the world, told the BBC.

“We kept creating chances, we stuck together like brothers should and managed to come up with enough good returns.”

Older brother Jamie, the doubles specialist, said: “We let it slip a bit but we kept fighting and got right back on it. It was so good, it was so noisy, it was magic.

“Scottish people don’t get the chance to see Andy play very much and when they do they let him

know it.”Andy Murray won the open-

ing singles on Friday 6-3 6-0 6-3 against Thanasi Kokkinakis and plays Australian No.1 Bernard Tomic on Sunday’s deciding day.

Tomic, who beat Dan Evans on Friday to square the tie, lies 20 places below Murray in the world rankings.

While Argentina lead into the reverse singles, Belgian number

one David Goffin will take heart from Meyer having gone through two tiring matches in two days -- even if the Argentine sounded confident.

“It’s been four hours, two days, long matches but I have energy,” said Meyer, who beat Darcis in four sets with two tie-breaks on Friday. “Davis Cup is like this, and I love playing in Davis Cup.”(rtr)

Marquez: Misano win doesn’t save 2015 MotoGP title bid

ReIGNING MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez insists winning San Marino Grand Prix has not altered his belief that his title defence is over. Marquez took a strategic victory in a dry-wet-dry race at Misano but remains third in the standings and 63 points behind championship leader Valentino Rossi.

Britain’s Murray brothers win tense doubles against Australia

Gomez wins third straight world triathlon championship

Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP

Anastasia Abrosimova, of Russia, is helped off the course after finishing the Elite Women’s Championship at in the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015.

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Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain celebrates win-ning the San Marino Grand Prix in Misano Adriatico circuit in central Italy, September 13, 2015.

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But Keylor Navas thwarted Granada’s forward before Benzema tilted the match in Madrid’s favor 10 minutes after halftime with a close-range header to put the Santiago Bernabeu crowd at ease. Madrid has 10 points, one more than Atletico and Barcelona, which can reclaim the league lead against Levante on Sunday.

Torres and Angel Correa both went on as second-half substitutes and inspired Atletico to a 2-0 win at Eibar, leaving Diego Simeone’s side ahead of Barcelona on goal difference. Valencia drew 0-0 at home with nine-man Real Betis after Dani Ceballos saw his second booking in the 48th, as Betis held on to take points despite having a player sent off early for a second straight match.

Espanyol needed a 90th-minute header from Hernan Perez to secure a wild 3-2 win at 10-man Real So-ciedad, whose Jonathas had leveled it 2-2 in the 86th. Sociedad had goalie Geronimo Rulli sent off with a direct red card for fouling Marco Asensio in the 41st.

In the capital, Madrid’s Cristiano

Ronaldo saw his scoring run end after eight goals in his previous two matches. But Navas, who had been seconds away from being sent to Manchester United at the close of the summer window as part of Madrid’s failed transfer for David de Gea, extended the club record to a fifth consecutive clean sheet.

“I had the chance to stay where I wanted to be and I will give it my all to remain here,” Navas said. “It was complicated because you know it is an awkward situation. But that is the past and I try to focus on the present, which is all that matters.”

The son of the Syrian refugee tripped by a Hungarian journal-ist accompanied Ronaldo on the pitch before the match, receiving applause from the crowd. During that pre-game introduction, Ma-drid’s and Granada’s players wore t-shirts supporting the thousands of refugees fleeing to Europe from the Syrian war.

Madrid also invited his father Osama Abdul Mohsen and brother to the match. Osama Abdul Mohsen had arrived to the capital earlier this week after a Spanish football

academy offered to help them re-build their life. Granada’s promis-ing performance was a surprise at Madrid, where last season it lost by the humbling score of 9-1.

Granada coach Jose Sandoval said his team had been motivated by tweets published by Madrid which had asked its supporters to guess how many goals the team would score. “They showed a lack of respect for us, they underestimated us,” Sandoval said. “I am pleased with the looseness my players showed today. If we had had some luck we could have gotten a differ-ent result.”

The visitors’ best opportunity came in the 20th when striker Youssef El Arabi had a goal waived off for a questionable offside call. Navas had his turn to rush out and smother Isaac Success’ effort in the 39th. Success went close in the 53rd when he chipped the ball over the bar after El Arabi set him up.

The Nigerian forward was left to rue his miss moments later when Benzema broke the deadlock by nodding in Francisco “Isco” Alarcon’s cross from inside the

WASHINGTON — The Co-lumbus Crew clinched a Major League Soccer playoff berth Sat-urday after Ethan Finlay and Kei Kamara scored in a 2-1 win over D.C. United.

Tyson Wahl beat Sean Franklin to a ball deep in United territory and passed it to Finlay, who beat a defender inside the box before blasting a left-footer past Bill Hamid to give Columbus a 1-0 lead in the 27th minute.

Kamara, who leads the MLS with 21 goals, raced behind the defense and put away a pass from Tony Tchani to make it 2-0 in the 47th minute.

A hand ball in the box by Chris

Klute set up a penalty by Chris Rolfe that pulled D.C. United within one in the 68th, but a later goal was called offside.

In Montreal, Didier Drogba, Johan Venegas and Dilly Duka scored as a 10-man Impact beat New England 3-0 in a driving rainstorm to end the Revolution’s winning streak at six games.

The Impact are undefeated in four games since Mauro Biello re-placed Frank Klopas as coach. They are sixth in the Eastern Conference, two points ahead of New York City FC for the final playoff spot.

Montreal went down a man in the 72nd minute when Marco Donadel, already on a yellow card, slid into

defender Andrew Farrell. But only 4 minutes later, Drogba slipped a pass to Duka on the left side to extend the Montreal lead.

New York City’s Ned Grabavoy scored two second-half goals and set up another in a 3-1 victory over the San Jose.

Grabavoy scored in the 51st and 63rd minute for his first two goals of the season. David Villa scored another goal with an assist by Gra-bavoy two minutes later as City took a 3-0 lead.

Quincy Amarikwa scored in the 72nd minute for the Earthquakes. Chris Wondolowski scored from a penalty in the 76th minute to cap the scoring. (ap)

MILAN - AC Milan coach Sinisa Mihajlovic said he would have pinned Carlos Bacca to the wall over a failed “rabona”, had the Colombian forward not gone on and scored the winning goal in Saturday night’s game against Palermo.

Bacca, who also scored Milan’s opening goal, missed a clear to put them 2-1 ahead when he tried “ra-bona” where the kicking foot is

wrapped behind the standing leg.“The rabona is permitted, but you

have to score, otherwise you need to be pinned to the wall. Fortunately, he scored another goal later on,” said the famously hard-to-please Mihajlovic after Milan’s 3-2 win at San Siro.

“There’s no doubt that we played well but we need to do better in a number of situations and we conceded two daft goals,” he added.

“We do not know how to control a game, so we must always push and aim to control the situation with stronger possession. The first half was very good and we ran no risks apart from the goal.

“I get the feeling that when we’re in the lead, we’re happy to settle or we’re afraid to win. We need to believe more and when our opponents are struggling we need to kill off the match.” (rtr)

BERLIN - A doping study com-missioned by the European soccer body UEFA has revealed a higher than expected rate of conspicuous levels of testosterone that in some cases could potentially point towards doping, German broadcaster ARD said on Saturday. However, UEFA said the study did not provide “any scientific evidence” of potential dop-ing in football.

The broadcaster said that along with the British Sunday Times news-paper it had seen the study conducted by 12 European anti-doping labs where more than 4,000 urine samples from about 900 top players between 2008 and 2013, mainly from the Eu-ropean leagues, were tested.

ARD, which said the samples were anonymous, will screen its full programme on Sunday. A total of 68

players returned samples that showed conspicuous levels of testosterone, the broadcaster said, which represented a percentage of 7.7 compared to 1.3 percent of conspicuous levels in older tests.

Higher levels of testosterone can occur naturally in some cases but can also be the result of doping. “This study does not present any scientific evidence of potential doping in foot-ball especially due to the presence of confounding factors, the lack of standardisation procedures among the 12 laboratories and the quanti-fication of steroid profiles when the samples were collected,” said UEFA in a statement to Reuters.

“Furthermore, there was an in-ability to perform a second analysis (B sample) as required now by the WADA international standards for

laboratories.”“The study simply shows that the

introduction of steroidal biological passport in football would be ben-eficial by offering further analysis possibilities in case of atypical test results.

“UEFA has had a very thorough anti-doping programme for many years with over 2,000 tests a year and only two occurrence of positive tests, both for recreational drugs, which proves that doping in football is extremely rare.”

The German broadcaster and the English newspaper had claimed in August the world athletics body IAAF had failed to follow up on hundreds of suspicious doping tests, prompting the launch of an inves-tigation with results expected in November. (rtr)

UEFA-commissioned doping study reveals many conspicuous results-ARD

Mihajlovic fumes over “daft” goals and failed rabona

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

AC Milan’s Carlos Bacca (C) challenges Jesus Juan (R) and Gary Medel (L) of Inter Milan during the Italian Serie A soccer match at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, September 13, 2015.

BUENOS AIRES - Carlos Tevez scored twice for Boca Juniors on Saturday but the main talking point from their 3-1 win over Argentinos Juniors in a stormy Argentine league game was his studs-up challenge that left defender Ezequiel Ham with a broken ankle.

Boca’s win was overshadowed by the incident in the 76th minute where Tevez and Ham both went for a loose ball.

Television replays showed Tevez going in with his foot raised and slamming it into Ham’s ankle, leav-ing the Argentinos defender writhing in agony.

Ham suffered an “exposed fracture of the right ankle” and would require surgery, his club said.

Tevez, who last season was top scorer for Italian side Juventus as they won Serie A and reached the Champi-ons League final, was not sanctioned for the incident.

“I went for the ball, I didn’t have bad intentions,” he said in a television interview. “I’m sad because I didn’t want to hurt the lad, I’ve never hurt anyone playing football, this is the first time. “I’m going to visit him and

apologise.”Argentinos coach Nestor Goros-

ito did not accept Tevez’s version of events. “It wasn’t unintentional,” he told the club’s website.

“We were three metres from the incident and you could see it ... Those who have played football know these things.” The first half ended in controversy with Argentinos’ Andres Franzoia having a goal disallowed and Tevez then putting Boca ahead almost immediately.

Players surrounded the referee as they left the field and Argentinos forward Reinaldo Lenis was sent off after clashing with Boca’s Nicolas Lodeiro.

Tevez scored again the 53rd minute before Ham pulled one back for the home side three minutes later.

Jonathan Calleri made it 3-1 just before the final whistle to seal the win for Boca, who lead the 30-team table with 55 points from 25 games and are five clear of San Lorenzo.

Cristian Rodriguez scored in the last minute goal to give fourth-placed Independiente a 2-1 win over Nueva Chicago in another of Saturday’s games. (rtr)

AMSTERDAM - This season’s surprise package Heracles Almelo moved to the top of the Dutch league with a 2-1 victory over champions PSV Eindhoven at the Polman Stadion on Saturday. Heracles have 15 points from six matches, one more than second-placed PEC Zwolle and two ahead of Ajax Amsterdam, who play their game in hand on Sunday against Excelsior Rotterdam.

The defeat brought PSV crashing back to earth after their 2-1 midweek success over Manchester United in the Champions League. Goals before halftime from Mark Fledderus and Thomas Bruns delivered the win for Heracles after Luuk de Jong had given the visitors the lead inside two minutes.

The defeat was the first for PSV in the league since they were beaten by Feyenoord in March. PEC Zwolle shot up to second with a 2-1 victory over

ADO den Haag. They, too, came from behind to claim the points.

Mike Havenaar continued his early season scoring form to put Den Haag ahead, but a goal 20 minutes from time by Sheraldo Becker brought the home side level.

He then turned provider for striker Lars Veldwijk to net his sixth of the season to give PEC the win.

Willem II bagged their first victory of the campaign with a 3-1 success over Utrecht, Erik Falkenburg and Robbie Haemhouts scoring either side of an own goal from Utrecht’s Louis Nganioni.

Midfielder Nacer Barazite had briefly brought the visitors level just after halftime, but that parity lasted only five minutes before Nganioni put the ball into his own net. FC Twente remain third-bottom after a 0-0 draw at fellow strugglers Cambuur, who sit one place below them. (rtr)

Boca Juniors’ striker Carlos Tevez follows the ball during their Ar-

gentine First Division soccer match against River Plate in Buenos Aires

September 13, 2015.

Tevez tackle leaves opponent with broken ankle

Heracles top Dutch league after win over PSVCrew clinches playoff berth

with 2-1 win over DC United

AP Photo/Francisco Seco

Syrian young boy Zaid, left, looks at Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo ahead a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Granada at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015.

Madrid edges Granada 1-0, Atletico wins 2-0 at Eibar

BARCELONA — Karim Benzema scored to help Real Madrid eke out a 1-0 win over Granada on Saturday and take the overnight lead of the Spanish league, while Fernando Torres netted one goal and set up another to lift Atletico Madrid into second place. Granada’s disciplined defense and the solid goalkeeping of Andres Fernandez held Madrid in check, while the visitors’ attack matched their star-studded hosts chance for chance in an evenly-contested first half.

six-yard box.“I would have liked to have

scored more goals, but you have to give credit to Granada,” said Madrid coach Rafa Benitez, who is undefeated in five matches at this new club.

At Eibar, Correa scored the first

ball he touched in the 62nd, deftly separating from a defender to score after Torres chased down a long ball and laid off for the Argentine. Correa returned the favor by play-ing Torres through for him to lift the ball over sliding ‘keeper Asier Riesgo in the 77th. (ap)

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But Keylor Navas thwarted Granada’s forward before Benzema tilted the match in Madrid’s favor 10 minutes after halftime with a close-range header to put the Santiago Bernabeu crowd at ease. Madrid has 10 points, one more than Atletico and Barcelona, which can reclaim the league lead against Levante on Sunday.

Torres and Angel Correa both went on as second-half substitutes and inspired Atletico to a 2-0 win at Eibar, leaving Diego Simeone’s side ahead of Barcelona on goal difference. Valencia drew 0-0 at home with nine-man Real Betis after Dani Ceballos saw his second booking in the 48th, as Betis held on to take points despite having a player sent off early for a second straight match.

Espanyol needed a 90th-minute header from Hernan Perez to secure a wild 3-2 win at 10-man Real So-ciedad, whose Jonathas had leveled it 2-2 in the 86th. Sociedad had goalie Geronimo Rulli sent off with a direct red card for fouling Marco Asensio in the 41st.

In the capital, Madrid’s Cristiano

Ronaldo saw his scoring run end after eight goals in his previous two matches. But Navas, who had been seconds away from being sent to Manchester United at the close of the summer window as part of Madrid’s failed transfer for David de Gea, extended the club record to a fifth consecutive clean sheet.

“I had the chance to stay where I wanted to be and I will give it my all to remain here,” Navas said. “It was complicated because you know it is an awkward situation. But that is the past and I try to focus on the present, which is all that matters.”

The son of the Syrian refugee tripped by a Hungarian journal-ist accompanied Ronaldo on the pitch before the match, receiving applause from the crowd. During that pre-game introduction, Ma-drid’s and Granada’s players wore t-shirts supporting the thousands of refugees fleeing to Europe from the Syrian war.

Madrid also invited his father Osama Abdul Mohsen and brother to the match. Osama Abdul Mohsen had arrived to the capital earlier this week after a Spanish football

academy offered to help them re-build their life. Granada’s promis-ing performance was a surprise at Madrid, where last season it lost by the humbling score of 9-1.

Granada coach Jose Sandoval said his team had been motivated by tweets published by Madrid which had asked its supporters to guess how many goals the team would score. “They showed a lack of respect for us, they underestimated us,” Sandoval said. “I am pleased with the looseness my players showed today. If we had had some luck we could have gotten a differ-ent result.”

The visitors’ best opportunity came in the 20th when striker Youssef El Arabi had a goal waived off for a questionable offside call. Navas had his turn to rush out and smother Isaac Success’ effort in the 39th. Success went close in the 53rd when he chipped the ball over the bar after El Arabi set him up.

The Nigerian forward was left to rue his miss moments later when Benzema broke the deadlock by nodding in Francisco “Isco” Alarcon’s cross from inside the

WASHINGTON — The Co-lumbus Crew clinched a Major League Soccer playoff berth Sat-urday after Ethan Finlay and Kei Kamara scored in a 2-1 win over D.C. United.

Tyson Wahl beat Sean Franklin to a ball deep in United territory and passed it to Finlay, who beat a defender inside the box before blasting a left-footer past Bill Hamid to give Columbus a 1-0 lead in the 27th minute.

Kamara, who leads the MLS with 21 goals, raced behind the defense and put away a pass from Tony Tchani to make it 2-0 in the 47th minute.

A hand ball in the box by Chris

Klute set up a penalty by Chris Rolfe that pulled D.C. United within one in the 68th, but a later goal was called offside.

In Montreal, Didier Drogba, Johan Venegas and Dilly Duka scored as a 10-man Impact beat New England 3-0 in a driving rainstorm to end the Revolution’s winning streak at six games.

The Impact are undefeated in four games since Mauro Biello re-placed Frank Klopas as coach. They are sixth in the Eastern Conference, two points ahead of New York City FC for the final playoff spot.

Montreal went down a man in the 72nd minute when Marco Donadel, already on a yellow card, slid into

defender Andrew Farrell. But only 4 minutes later, Drogba slipped a pass to Duka on the left side to extend the Montreal lead.

New York City’s Ned Grabavoy scored two second-half goals and set up another in a 3-1 victory over the San Jose.

Grabavoy scored in the 51st and 63rd minute for his first two goals of the season. David Villa scored another goal with an assist by Gra-bavoy two minutes later as City took a 3-0 lead.

Quincy Amarikwa scored in the 72nd minute for the Earthquakes. Chris Wondolowski scored from a penalty in the 76th minute to cap the scoring. (ap)

MILAN - AC Milan coach Sinisa Mihajlovic said he would have pinned Carlos Bacca to the wall over a failed “rabona”, had the Colombian forward not gone on and scored the winning goal in Saturday night’s game against Palermo.

Bacca, who also scored Milan’s opening goal, missed a clear to put them 2-1 ahead when he tried “ra-bona” where the kicking foot is

wrapped behind the standing leg.“The rabona is permitted, but you

have to score, otherwise you need to be pinned to the wall. Fortunately, he scored another goal later on,” said the famously hard-to-please Mihajlovic after Milan’s 3-2 win at San Siro.

“There’s no doubt that we played well but we need to do better in a number of situations and we conceded two daft goals,” he added.

“We do not know how to control a game, so we must always push and aim to control the situation with stronger possession. The first half was very good and we ran no risks apart from the goal.

“I get the feeling that when we’re in the lead, we’re happy to settle or we’re afraid to win. We need to believe more and when our opponents are struggling we need to kill off the match.” (rtr)

BERLIN - A doping study com-missioned by the European soccer body UEFA has revealed a higher than expected rate of conspicuous levels of testosterone that in some cases could potentially point towards doping, German broadcaster ARD said on Saturday. However, UEFA said the study did not provide “any scientific evidence” of potential dop-ing in football.

The broadcaster said that along with the British Sunday Times news-paper it had seen the study conducted by 12 European anti-doping labs where more than 4,000 urine samples from about 900 top players between 2008 and 2013, mainly from the Eu-ropean leagues, were tested.

ARD, which said the samples were anonymous, will screen its full programme on Sunday. A total of 68

players returned samples that showed conspicuous levels of testosterone, the broadcaster said, which represented a percentage of 7.7 compared to 1.3 percent of conspicuous levels in older tests.

Higher levels of testosterone can occur naturally in some cases but can also be the result of doping. “This study does not present any scientific evidence of potential doping in foot-ball especially due to the presence of confounding factors, the lack of standardisation procedures among the 12 laboratories and the quanti-fication of steroid profiles when the samples were collected,” said UEFA in a statement to Reuters.

“Furthermore, there was an in-ability to perform a second analysis (B sample) as required now by the WADA international standards for

laboratories.”“The study simply shows that the

introduction of steroidal biological passport in football would be ben-eficial by offering further analysis possibilities in case of atypical test results.

“UEFA has had a very thorough anti-doping programme for many years with over 2,000 tests a year and only two occurrence of positive tests, both for recreational drugs, which proves that doping in football is extremely rare.”

The German broadcaster and the English newspaper had claimed in August the world athletics body IAAF had failed to follow up on hundreds of suspicious doping tests, prompting the launch of an inves-tigation with results expected in November. (rtr)

UEFA-commissioned doping study reveals many conspicuous results-ARD

Mihajlovic fumes over “daft” goals and failed rabona

REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

AC Milan’s Carlos Bacca (C) challenges Jesus Juan (R) and Gary Medel (L) of Inter Milan during the Italian Serie A soccer match at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, September 13, 2015.

BUENOS AIRES - Carlos Tevez scored twice for Boca Juniors on Saturday but the main talking point from their 3-1 win over Argentinos Juniors in a stormy Argentine league game was his studs-up challenge that left defender Ezequiel Ham with a broken ankle.

Boca’s win was overshadowed by the incident in the 76th minute where Tevez and Ham both went for a loose ball.

Television replays showed Tevez going in with his foot raised and slamming it into Ham’s ankle, leav-ing the Argentinos defender writhing in agony.

Ham suffered an “exposed fracture of the right ankle” and would require surgery, his club said.

Tevez, who last season was top scorer for Italian side Juventus as they won Serie A and reached the Champi-ons League final, was not sanctioned for the incident.

“I went for the ball, I didn’t have bad intentions,” he said in a television interview. “I’m sad because I didn’t want to hurt the lad, I’ve never hurt anyone playing football, this is the first time. “I’m going to visit him and

apologise.”Argentinos coach Nestor Goros-

ito did not accept Tevez’s version of events. “It wasn’t unintentional,” he told the club’s website.

“We were three metres from the incident and you could see it ... Those who have played football know these things.” The first half ended in controversy with Argentinos’ Andres Franzoia having a goal disallowed and Tevez then putting Boca ahead almost immediately.

Players surrounded the referee as they left the field and Argentinos forward Reinaldo Lenis was sent off after clashing with Boca’s Nicolas Lodeiro.

Tevez scored again the 53rd minute before Ham pulled one back for the home side three minutes later.

Jonathan Calleri made it 3-1 just before the final whistle to seal the win for Boca, who lead the 30-team table with 55 points from 25 games and are five clear of San Lorenzo.

Cristian Rodriguez scored in the last minute goal to give fourth-placed Independiente a 2-1 win over Nueva Chicago in another of Saturday’s games. (rtr)

AMSTERDAM - This season’s surprise package Heracles Almelo moved to the top of the Dutch league with a 2-1 victory over champions PSV Eindhoven at the Polman Stadion on Saturday. Heracles have 15 points from six matches, one more than second-placed PEC Zwolle and two ahead of Ajax Amsterdam, who play their game in hand on Sunday against Excelsior Rotterdam.

The defeat brought PSV crashing back to earth after their 2-1 midweek success over Manchester United in the Champions League. Goals before halftime from Mark Fledderus and Thomas Bruns delivered the win for Heracles after Luuk de Jong had given the visitors the lead inside two minutes.

The defeat was the first for PSV in the league since they were beaten by Feyenoord in March. PEC Zwolle shot up to second with a 2-1 victory over

ADO den Haag. They, too, came from behind to claim the points.

Mike Havenaar continued his early season scoring form to put Den Haag ahead, but a goal 20 minutes from time by Sheraldo Becker brought the home side level.

He then turned provider for striker Lars Veldwijk to net his sixth of the season to give PEC the win.

Willem II bagged their first victory of the campaign with a 3-1 success over Utrecht, Erik Falkenburg and Robbie Haemhouts scoring either side of an own goal from Utrecht’s Louis Nganioni.

Midfielder Nacer Barazite had briefly brought the visitors level just after halftime, but that parity lasted only five minutes before Nganioni put the ball into his own net. FC Twente remain third-bottom after a 0-0 draw at fellow strugglers Cambuur, who sit one place below them. (rtr)

Boca Juniors’ striker Carlos Tevez follows the ball during their Ar-

gentine First Division soccer match against River Plate in Buenos Aires

September 13, 2015.

Tevez tackle leaves opponent with broken ankle

Heracles top Dutch league after win over PSVCrew clinches playoff berth

with 2-1 win over DC United

AP Photo/Francisco Seco

Syrian young boy Zaid, left, looks at Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo ahead a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Granada at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015.

Madrid edges Granada 1-0, Atletico wins 2-0 at Eibar

BARCELONA — Karim Benzema scored to help Real Madrid eke out a 1-0 win over Granada on Saturday and take the overnight lead of the Spanish league, while Fernando Torres netted one goal and set up another to lift Atletico Madrid into second place. Granada’s disciplined defense and the solid goalkeeping of Andres Fernandez held Madrid in check, while the visitors’ attack matched their star-studded hosts chance for chance in an evenly-contested first half.

six-yard box.“I would have liked to have

scored more goals, but you have to give credit to Granada,” said Madrid coach Rafa Benitez, who is undefeated in five matches at this new club.

At Eibar, Correa scored the first

ball he touched in the 62nd, deftly separating from a defender to score after Torres chased down a long ball and laid off for the Argentine. Correa returned the favor by play-ing Torres through for him to lift the ball over sliding ‘keeper Asier Riesgo in the 77th. (ap)

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plantations protecting the rain forest around the waterfall and in this place we often met the wild monkey to get the water from this waterfall.

Gitgit Waterfall is one of the famous tourist destinations in Bali which is lo-cated in Gitgit countryside, Sukasada sub district and about 10 Km from Singaraja Town or about 70 Km from Denpasar. It is set at height land about 300 meters above sea level.

Beside of Gitgit, there is another impor-tant spot point like the monument for hero struggle of Singaraja resident who dead on the battle against the Dutch colonialist. This monument is called Bhuwana Pangkung Bangka. This Monument is extant monument and idol of people struggle action against the Dutch colonization. This monument is located in Gitgit countryside and Sukasada sub district and about 17 Km from Singaraja Town.

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Gitgit Waterfall

The Spaniard had conceded the title when he crashed out of the previous race at Silverstone and is adamant nothing that happened at Misano changes that situation.

“It’s too far, the gap is too big,” he said. “Sixty-three points are too much for five remaining races. “My target for me is just to try to

win these five races and honestly I will push my 100 per cent and try to prepare for next season.

“If I can win these next five races then it will be enough [to satisfy me] at the end of the season.” Marquez emerged as race leader at Misano for Honda when he changed onto slick tyres at the right time as the mid-race

shower moved on, but was convinced that the Yamaha riders were faster.

“[Jorge] Lorenzo made the mis-take but again he was the fastest guy on the track for me, especially in dry conditions,” said Lorenzo. “In the wet, Valentino was faster.”

Marquez could still - math-ematically - walk away with a third MotoGP title this season, despite being 63 points behind frontrunner Valentino Rossi in the standings, as 125 points remain available. But the odds are against him, as no rider in MotoGP/500cc history

has been able to come back from a similar points deficit in normal circumstances.

The only exception is 1992, when Mick Doohan, with a 53-point advantage, had to miss three races with an injury, and the crown went to Wayne Rainey, albeit only by four points.

Otherwise, the championship leader with five races to go has always claimed the title, even with smaller points margins than this year. In 1995, Doohan had only 10 points’ advantage over Daryl Beat-

tie and in 1998 only 12 points over Max Biaggi.

Rossi has never led by as little as his current 23-point margin over Lorenzo at this stage in any of his title-winning seasons.

His biggest margin with five races to spare was 112 points in 2005 and his smallest was 25 points in 2009, again over Lorenzo.

On that occasion it actually grew to 45 points by the time the season ended at Valencia, with Rossi hav-ing clinched the title in the penulti-mate race at Sepang. (rtr)

CHICAGO — Spain’s Javier Gomez won his third straight world triathlon championship Saturday, finishing second behind country-man Mario Mola in the ITU World Triathlon Series finale.

Gomez and Mola traded the lead several times on the final lap of the run until Mola made a final move and outkicked Gomez

over the final few hundred me-ters at Grant Park in downtown Chicago.

Mola finished the 1,500- meter swim in Lake Michigan, 40-kilo-meter bike ride and 10-kilometer run in 1 hour, 44 minutes, 53 seconds, coming in just 4 seconds ahead of Gomez. South Africa’s Richard Murray in 1:45:35. Mola

finished second in the series stand-ings. France’s Vincent Luis was third.

Gomez is the first man to win three straight triathlon world championships and five overall. He also won in 2010 and 2008. The top American finisher Sat-urday was Ben Kanute of nearby Geneva in 20th. (ap)

GLASGOW - Brothers Jamie and Andy Murray claimed a tense four-hour doubles rubber against Australian pair Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Groth on Saturday to put Brit-ain 2-1 up and on the verge of a first Davis Cup final since 1978.

In Brussels, Argentina go into the final day leading Belgium by the same margin in their semi-final after Leonardo Mayer and Carlos Berlocq beat Steve Darcis and Ru-

ben Bemelmans 6-2 7-6 (2) 5-7 7-6 (5) in a four hour marathon.

The Murrays kept their vocifer-ous home supporters on the edge of their seats at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena before triumphing 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-7 (6-8) 6-4.

“It was an incredible match, to come back from the disappointment of losing the fourth set,” Andy Mur-ray, ranked third in the world, told the BBC.

“We kept creating chances, we stuck together like brothers should and managed to come up with enough good returns.”

Older brother Jamie, the doubles specialist, said: “We let it slip a bit but we kept fighting and got right back on it. It was so good, it was so noisy, it was magic.

“Scottish people don’t get the chance to see Andy play very much and when they do they let him

know it.”Andy Murray won the open-

ing singles on Friday 6-3 6-0 6-3 against Thanasi Kokkinakis and plays Australian No.1 Bernard Tomic on Sunday’s deciding day.

Tomic, who beat Dan Evans on Friday to square the tie, lies 20 places below Murray in the world rankings.

While Argentina lead into the reverse singles, Belgian number

one David Goffin will take heart from Meyer having gone through two tiring matches in two days -- even if the Argentine sounded confident.

“It’s been four hours, two days, long matches but I have energy,” said Meyer, who beat Darcis in four sets with two tie-breaks on Friday. “Davis Cup is like this, and I love playing in Davis Cup.”(rtr)

Marquez: Misano win doesn’t save 2015 MotoGP title bid

ReIGNING MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez insists winning San Marino Grand Prix has not altered his belief that his title defence is over. Marquez took a strategic victory in a dry-wet-dry race at Misano but remains third in the standings and 63 points behind championship leader Valentino Rossi.

Britain’s Murray brothers win tense doubles against Australia

Gomez wins third straight world triathlon championship

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Anastasia Abrosimova, of Russia, is helped off the course after finishing the Elite Women’s Championship at in the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015.

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Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain celebrates win-ning the San Marino Grand Prix in Misano Adriatico circuit in central Italy, September 13, 2015.

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The five hotspots were found in the villages of Karang Tinggi, Pematang Tiga and Taba Penanjung, said Anjas-man, weather analyst of the Fatmawati Airport’s meteorology office.

“We suspect the fires occur in local farmers’ land, and they cause haze,” he added.

Bengkulu City, the provincial capi-tal, has been shrouded by haze, he noted.

Earlier, the local meteorology office said the districts of Rejang Lebong and Lebong in Bengkulu Province, were enveloped by haze from forest fires.

The two districts are located near the borders of Jambi and South Su-matra Provinces, where many hotspots were detected.

In the meantime, Chief of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Willem Rampangilei has set a target of one month to extinguish forest fires that have blanketed South Sumatra Province in haze.

The deadline is in accordance with instructions from President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), Rampangilei said on Friday.

Starting Sept 11, the agency has intensified efforts to put out forest and plantation fires in South Sumatra.

Based upon data received from satellite monitoring, the number of hotspots on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan have decreased signifi-cantly, the new chief said. (ant)

JAKARTA - The Indonesia Cor-ruption Watch (ICW) has indicated that losses to the State incurred on account of corruption showed a downward trend in the first semester of 2015.

“On an average, the State exche-quer suffers a loss of about Rp2.7 trillion every semester, but in the first semester this year, this figure was only Rp1.2 trillion,” ICW researcher Wana Alamsyah said here on Saturday.

He said that the average figure, arrived at as a result of investigations by law enforcers (APH), was already nominal but the loss detected after investigations into cases of corrup-tion in the first semester of 2015, was

much lower.During these six month, the law

enforcers investigated 308 corrup-tion cases involving a loss of Rp1.2 trillion to the state. On an average, the number of cases in a semester is 253.

“So while there was an increase in the number of cases, the loss incurred by the state showed a decline,” he said.

He also explained that the perfor-mance of the law enforces in the first semester of 2015 had also declined.

Till the beginning of this year, law enforces were only able to bring 50.6 percent of the 2,447 cases from the investigation stage to the prosecution

phase, he said.The amount involved in the cases

that reached the investigation level in 2010-2015 was Rp29.3 trillion.

Of the 2,447 cases, law enforcers were only able to bring 1,254 cases to the prosecution level from the in-vestigation stage, accounting for just 50.6 percent of the reported loss, or Rp18.3 trillion.

The remaining 1,223 cases (49.4 percent) were still in the investiga-tion stage, and involved an amount of Rp11.04 trillion.

“So, the law enforces were only able to take half of the corruption cases to the prosecution level,” he added. (ant)

PARIGI - Police will continue to hunt the Santoso-led terrorist group in Poso, Central Sulawei, until all members have been ar-rested by the end of this year, ac-cording to National Police Chief General Badrodin Haiti.

“We will continue to hunt San-toso and arrest him before the end of this year,” Haiti remarked at Sail Tomini 2015 on Kayubura beach in Parigi Moutong district on Saturday.

He noted that the terrorist group, led by Santoso, continues commit-ting terror acts against security personnel and the public.

Haiti said the terrorist group

has killed three residents of Parigi Moutong district.

Therefore, the National Police chief noted that his forces will continue to pursue the terrorists, anticipating they will be appre-hended in 2015.

But he asserted that the killing of three Parigi Moutong residents by the terrorist group did not disturb Sail Tomini on September 19.

“The security situation in Cen-tral Sulawesi, especially in Parigi Moutong, was safe and stable be-fore and after the Sail Tomini main event,” the former police chief of Central Sulawesi noted. (ant)

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People ride their motorcycles as haze shrouds a street near Bagan Siapi-Api port, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, September 19, 2015.Five hotspots indicating forest and plantation fires, were detected in Central Bengkulu District, Beng-kulu Province, on Sunday.

Santoso pursuit to finish this year

State losses due to corruption declining

Five hotspots detected in BengkuluBENGKULU - Five hotspots

indicating forest and plantation fires, were detected in Central Bengkulu District, Bengkulu Province, on Sunday.

Over the past four years the government has adopted unpopular austerity policies as it complied with the terms of a 78 billion euro (then $102 billion) bailout Portugal received in 2011 during the eurozone financial crisis. With the frail economy showing signs of recovery, the government argues that Portugal cannot afford a return to borrow-and-spend policies.

The center-left Socialists, while promising to stick to eurozone spending rules, want to ease aus-terity and spur consumption that they say will make the economy grow faster.

The governing Social Demo-cratic Party and Popular Party, and the Socialists, are together expected to collect more than 70 percent of the vote, as in previ-

ous ballots.Moderate parties have tradi-

tionally held power in Portugal and even though austerity policies are at the heart of the election, Portugal has not witnessed the rise of any radical parties like Syriza in Greece, or Podemos in neighboring Spain.

Recent economic news has given heart to the government. After three years of recession, the economy grew 1.5 percent in the first half of the year compared with 2014. Also, the jobless rate, which hit a record 17.7 percent in 2013, has continued to slide, fall-ing to 12.1 percent in July. That’s the lowest rate since 2010.

“If we stay on the path we’ve been following, we won’t need any more bailouts,” Prime Min-

ister Pedro Passos Coelho said during a live radio debate last week.

The Socialist Party says it can give the economy a bigger push by reducing personal taxes and reversing government workers’ pay cuts, thereby encouraging people to spend more. “Now’s the time to turn the page on austerity,” Socialist leader Antonio Costa said. “Our goal is to ease the tax burden.”

The Socialists dispute the unemployment statistics, saying short-term training programs and mass emigration in recent years mean the figures give a false picture. Portugal’s 9.7 million eli-gible voters will elect lawmakers to a four-year term in the 230-seat Parliament in Lisbon. (ap)

TEHRAN — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani told the United Na-tions’ nuclear chief Yukiya Amano on Sunday that his agency should be fair in its implementation of a nuclear deal reached between Iran and the world powers, according to a report on Rouhani’s website.

Amano arrived in Tehran earlier in the day to discuss outstanding issues; it was Amano’s second visit to Iran in the past three months.

“Under the deal, we will volun-tarily carry the additional protocol and we hope you have a fair obser-vation on implementation of the deal,” Rouhani told Amano. “The agency will have an effective role in implementation of the deal.”

The Iranian president also re-iterated that Iran has no intention of developing a nuclear weapon.

“Over the past years and during monitoring and snap inspections by the agency (it is) persisted that Iran has had no diversion from its peaceful nuclear program,” he said.

Amano replied that his agency’s work in Iran and elsewhere is “based on impartiality and persist-ing on facts.”

Amano’s visit comes less than a month before an Oct. 15 deadline to gather information on allegations that Iran had in the past tried to build atomic weapons. A final U.N. assessment is due in December.

The West suspects Iran’s nuclear program has a secret military di-mension. Iran denies the charge saying its nuclear activities have peaceful purposes like power gen-eration and cancer treatment. (ap)

KATHMANDU — Security was stepped up in Nepal on Sunday ahead of the proclamation of the Himalayan nation’s new federal constitution following a decade of political infighting, with fresh threats and violence coming from smaller political parties and ethnic groups.

Thousands of officers were guarding the streets and checking passengers on highways, said police official Kamal Singh Bam. Police have responded to reports of bombs being found in Kathmandu but they all turned out to be a hoax. A small protest of about 50 people in Kathmandu was quickly dispersed by police and two people were de-tained. Police were under orders to stop any protests.

Security was particularly high around the Constituent Assembly building in the capital, where President Ram Baran Yadav will officially proclaim the new consti-tution later on Sunday. Opposition parties called a general strike to protest the constitution, but it had little effect on the traffic and mar-kets remained open.

Schools and offices are closed because Sunday and Monday were declared a public holiday to cel-ebrate the constitution, Nepal’s first complete political framework since monarchy was abolished in 2006. The key part of the charter, passed on Wednesday after a decade of bick-ering and violent protests, sets the country up as a secular federation of seven states, each with a legislature and chief minister.

However, some ethnic and re-ligious groups say lawmakers ig-nored their concerns over how state borders should be defined. They

want more states, including ethni-cally-based ones, bigger territory for larger groups and more seats for ethnic minorities in parliament and government.

Laxman Lal Karna, a senior leader of the Madhesi ethnic group in southern Nepal, said the new constitution failed to address many of the issues and that protests will continue. The violence has left at least 44 people killed, including police, over the last several weeks.

“It was initially agreed by these big parties that there would be an autonomous Madhesi state with judiciary independence, but all that agreement has been crushed,” Karna said. The three main politi-cal parties backing the constitution have made a fresh appeal for Mad-hesi to join talks.

“They may disagree with the size and makeup of these provinces but that is not a really big issue,” Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said Saturday.

There are more than 100 ethnic groups in Nepal and some want states named after them. These groups say the constitution still limits their representation. Though members of the parliament would be chosen through a proportional representation vote to ensure that minority groups are represented, the groups say the number needs to be increased. The main parties say those issues can be fixed later.

“The constitution is not some-thing that cannot be absolutely changed. It can always be amended later when needed,” said Khadga Prasad Oli of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist Lenin-ist. (ap)

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In this Sept.17, 2015 photo, portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, right, greets opposition Socialist Party leader Antonio Costa, left, at the beginning of their second political debate in Lisbon.

Can austerity win an election? Portugal offers an insight

LISBON, Portugal — Can a center-right government that has cut pay and pensions, enacted steep tax increases and slashed public services win re-election? In Portugal, just maybe. The country began the official campaign period for its Oct. 4 general election Sunday, and opinion polls in recent weeks have suggested the center-right coalition government is roughly level with the main opposition Socialist Party.

UN nuclear chief arrives in Iran

Nepal steps up security ahead of constitution proclamation

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Millions of Spaniards are scrap-ing by on benefits, family handouts or working cash-in-hand as they wait for the apparent economic rebound to create the hundreds of thousands of jobs the government is promising.

Experts say that these jobs are being created -- but that the prob-

lem is many of them only last a few days.

Since leaving school, 22-year-old Pichel from the northwestern Galicia region has racked up train-ing certificates in finance and busi-ness, but has received no decent job offers in Spain.

“You can get a contract for three

weeks or three months. You’re happy, but you quickly realise that there is no job security,” he said.

Spain’s government is forecast-ing the economy will grow by 3.3 percent this year, one of the stron-gest rates in the eurozone.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in 2012 passed reforms making it easier for firms to hire and fire as part of his austerity reforms.

Now he has promised a million jobs would be created over the

2014-2015 period.Pichel and others his age find

that hard to imagine. Opposition parties and labour unions dispute the diagnosis given by the con-servative government, which is preparing to fight for re-election in December.

Spain’s unemployment rate remains extremely high at more than 22 percent. One in every two eligible workers under the age of 25 is out of work.

“Every month in Spain 1.5 mil-lion contracts are signed. That’s 18 million a year. So what’s going on? These are contracts for just a day’s or a week’s work,” said Manuel Lago, an economist in the major union CCOO.

“Employment in Spain is very seasonal. Jobs start getting cre-ated shortly before Easter and the unemployment rate goes down all summer” before ticking back up in August. (afp)

SINGAPORE - More than 20 countries are waiting to join the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), its designated president said Saturday as he al-layed concerns it was aimed to challenge US and Japanese influence in the region.

The number could bring the AIIB on a par with or even surpass membership in the Japan-led Asian Development Bank (ADB), which currently has 67 members, 19 of them outside of the Asia Pacific, according to its website.

“We have 57 countries (which are potential founding members) and to my knowledge...more than 20 countries are on the waiting list,” AIIB president-designate Jin Liqun told delegates of the Singapore Summit conference, without naming them.

“That makes it more than 70. I’m sure there will be more countries which will be interest-ed,” added Jin, a former Chinese vice finance minister who was put forward by Beijing to head the bank and was elected in August by the prospective founding members.

The AIIB has been viewed by some as a rival to the Washington-based World Bank and the Manila-based ADB, which has been headed by Japan, its biggest donor, since it was founded in 1966.

The US and Japan -- the world’s largest and third-largest economies, respectively -- have notably declined to join the AIIB although they are members of the ADB, but Jin said the door is open to both.

“It takes longer for some countries to reach their internal consensus in making their deci-

sion,” he said.“We’ve been very much patient.

As you know, the door is open to all of the countries and if they make a decision just pick up the phone, make a call and we can handle the rest of the business,” he said, referring to the US and Japan.

Of the 57 AIIB potential founding members, 50 have already signed, including Australia, while the seven others have until the end of the year to affix their signatures.

The bank will be based in Beijing and will have a capital of $100 billion, with $20 billion paid initially. It is expected to start operations next year.

China will be the biggest shareholder with 30 percent. Among non-Asian participants, Germany is the largest shareholder with 4.5 percent, followed by France with 3.4 percent and Brazil on 3.2 percent.

Jin said the AIIB is not aimed at challenging the ADB and the World Bank for influence in Asia as the region’s funding requirements are so massive.

He cited ADB estimates that Asia’s infra-structure demand could reach $730 billion per year by 2020, vastly exceeding available resources from existing multilateral lenders.

“Creating AIIB has never been about challenging existing institutions. The world stage is spacious enough to allow many actors to perform,” Jin said. (afp)

Spain’s economic recovery masks lingering jobs crisis

MADRID - Data shows Spain’s economy recovering, but tell that to Javier Pichel: this summer he packed and left for the only place he could find a decent job -- Germany.

Over 20 countries on ‘waiting list’ to join AIIB

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

Jin Liqun, president-designate

of the Asian Infrastructure

Investment Bank (AIIB)

smiles during a business meet-

ing in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday,

Sept. 9, 2015.

However, this needs to be proved based on the results of the investigation. “Obviously we are still conducting further investiga-tions. Whether this case qualifies as criminal or not needs to be veri-fied and police have been examin-ing the case,” affirmed the Chief of the Gianyar Police, Farman.

Farman asserted that so far his ranks are still conducting an examination of the four people confirmed to have been involved in the ceremony that took place at a hotel in Ubud. “We have sent a letter to the immigration office to determine whether the gay couple are registered for a flight or not, and this will continue to be inves-tigated and eventually there will be a case conference,” he said.

When asked whether any re-lated institutions have reported that they felt that this case was abusive or not, Farman said that so

far there have been no such reports but insisted that the police need to follow up on the case based on the findings so far. “Later, we will also bring in a team of experts from the PHDI, FKUB and others that are relevant in this case,” he explained.

Chairman of the Interfaith Communion Forum (FKUB) of Gianyar County, Cokorda Partha Sunia, assessed that the problem of this case relates to the fact that a series of marriage celebrations by gay couples is a violation of norms. Moreover, the activity involved a religious procession in the form panglukatan or purifi-catory rite for non-hindu people. “This falls into the category of religious harassment. Purifica-tory rites conducted by the hotel guests using ritual paraphernalia were officiated over by a priest. This should not have happened,”

he said.Cokorda Partha Sunia added

that in order to carry out a purifi-catory rite procession, the couple needed to first for though a sudi wedani (conversion rite) followed by the issuance of sudi wedani certificate by the Hindu Dharma Parishad of Indonesia (PHDI). “Complete purification Hindu rituals should only be performed by Hindus. This should be noted,” he said.

Responding to this incident, Cok Partha Sunia highlighted the importance of the role of the Tourism Office and Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PRHI) in improving supervision. Besides, other relevant institutions such as the PHDI and customary village middle assembly (MMDP) must also play an active role in disseminating information about what can and cannot be include in cultural tourism. “In the future, there should be clear guidelines in terms of cultural tourism, set out by business players so that things are not taken too far,” he said. (kmb35)

BANGLI - After fire incident in the forest conservation area of Mount Abang, Kintamani, the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) Bali declared that in accordance with the map-ping, the most fire-prone point is forest area in the lower part of Mount Batur.

Section Head of the Conserva-tion for Region II at the BKSDA Bali, Ketut Catur Marbawa, said on Sunday that forest condition at the foot of Mount Batur is the driest and much overgrown by susceptible grasses to fire. “Forest condition at the lower part of Mount Batur is dry so that it is the most prone to fire,” he explained.

To avoid any subsequent fire, added Marbawa, the forest has been monitored, and reservoir has been prepared. “At least there are ten reservoirs in the forest area of Kintamani. Eight reservoirs are located in the upper forest area and two others in the bottom area. The

water availability will we continue to be monitored,” he said.

Before the fire engulfs, the fire care community has also been established. It is intended to facilitate coordination and ac-celerate fire extinguishing. The forest area of Mount Abang near Penelokan tourist attraction, said Marbawa, it does not belong to fire-prone point. “Forest condition in the Penelokan area excludes the fire-prone point. It can be seen from the trees remaining to still look green. So, if there is a fire, it is not possible to be caused by the friction of trees,” he said.

He added that the fire can possi-bly be caused by the friction of trees and people’s action. Nevertheless, his institution remained to hope that participation of wider com-munity in the forest conservation of Kintamani can be continuously improved. “The role of community needs to be improved,” he hoped. (kmb45)

Forest condition of Mount Batur most

prone to fire

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The forest in Batur which was caought by fire is seen in the picture.

IBP/Manik

Gianyar Police held meeting with the Hindus Organisation member to discuss the purification rite held in the region.

Police still investigating gay

purificattion rite case

GIANYAR - The ranks of the Gianyar Police are still investi-gating the panglukatan or purificatory rite that was conducted by a gay couple with the initials TM and JT, on Saturday (Sep. 12). After coordinating with relevant agencies, the case will possibly be considered to be an insult to religious symbols.

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BEIJING — More than 150 students fell ill in northwest China after breathing in smoke from a mock air defense evacu-ation drill, state media reported Sunday.

Smoke was used to make Fri-day’s drill at Yifu Experimental Middle School in Gansu province more realistic, but the volume generated was too large, said the official Xinhua News Agency. It said Friday’s drill was jointly organized by the school and Tianshui city’s Civil Air Defense Office.

The Gansu Daily reported that more than 150 students had been treated, with complaints including coughing, vomiting, fever and bleeding in the diges-tive tract. It said 142 were still under observation Saturday and nine were in serious condition. Calls to the school and authori-

ties in Tianshui rang unanswered Sunday.

Cities across China, including Beijing and Shanghai, sounded air raid alarms Saturday as part of an annual education day to raise awareness of national defense.

It was unclear if the drill was part of that or sirens and gather-ings across the country Friday to commemorate the 84th an-niversary of the 1931 “Mukden Incident” that led to the Japanese occupation of China’s northeast and eventually the brutal inva-sion and conquest of much of the country.

China has been increasingly drawing attention to Japan’s wartime aggression as it seeks to stir up nationalism and highlight its role fighting Japan during World War II, which it feels has not been sufficiently recognized by the West. (ap)

1. Questionable chlorine: Unlike other aid agencies, WHO bought the disinfectant locally in Sierra Le-one. On several occasions, officials at Kenema Government Hospital discovered the chlorine had ex-pired or that the containers had their tags ripped off and expiration dates were missing. In an email, WHO’s Sierra Leone representative called for a criminal investigation into the defective disinfectant, which is key to limiting exposure to the virus.

2. Health care workers at risk: More than 40 health staffers died; 20 were infected during the delayed con-struction of an Ebola clinic meant to relieve pressure on Kenema’s hospi-tal. Many weren’t properly trained on how to use protective equipment and worked in an Ebola ward so danger-ous that aid agency Doctors Without Borders called for its closure.

3. Delayed construction: The Red Cross offered to build an Ebola clinic in Kenema, but no one in Sierra Le-one’s government or WHO could tell them where to build it. By the time it opened, the outbreak in Kenema

already had peaked.4. No body bags: At the beginning

of August 2014, an internal WHO report noted “supplies of body bags have completely run out,” vital infor-mation since the bags limit exposure to the corpses of Ebola victims, which are highly contagious. Later that month, an aid official attempting to pick up about 100 body bags at the airport was stymied for hours by gov-ernment bureaucracy. After finally being released, the bags were delayed yet again — this time overnight — when the driver couldn’t reach a sleeping police superintendent for clearance through a checkpoint.

5. Tight-fistedness: WHO re-sponders were so constrained by bu-reaucracy that Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan intervened, writing in an email that logistics experts in West Africa were getting only a couple hundred dollars a week to cover thousands of dollars in expenses for basics like protective rubber boots and disinfectant.

6. Shaky power supply: A gen-erator being used by WHO at the

hospital’s laboratory was so unstable one expert feared it might damage the equipment and alerted his colleagues to the potential problem in an Aug. 4 email. The problem was not dealt with and, four days later, the labora-tory was hit by a blackout.

7. Weak leadership: WHO of-ficials on the ground in Kenema repeatedly called on their superiors to intervene, warning that the agency’s failure to seize control meant it was being sidelined.

8. Doctored data: A WHO out-break expert noted in an email that the U.N. agency’s official count of Ebola cases was being altered by a Sierra Leonean official to match his government’s statistics, a practice that spread confusion back in Kenema.

9. No transportation: Despite a fleet of more than 50 new Land Cruisers parked at U.N. headquar-ters in Freetown, WHO responders didn’t have enough vehicles to track the spread of the virus. One WHO official suggested Sierra Leonean responders requesting motorbikes for travel to villages buy bicycles instead.

10. Infighting: Philippe Barboza, WHO’s Ebola coordinator in Ken-ema, described the tension between his agency and the U.S. epidemic monitoring company Metabiota as verging on “open conflict” and dete-riorating so much he recommended WHO’s outbreak team be pulled from the city. (ap)

AP Photo/Tanya Bindra, File

In this Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 file photo, a health worker sprays a colleague with disin-fectant after working inside a morgue with people suspected of dying from the Ebola virus, in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone.

10 critical mistakes in last year’s

Ebola outbreakKENEMA — An Associated Press investigation has found

that the World Health Organization and other responders faced avoidable obstacles in their efforts to stop the spiraling Ebola outbreak last summer in Kenema, a pivotal seeding point for the virus and a microcosm of the messy response across West Africa. Their work was hampered by poor management, lack of basic protective gear and bureaucratic infighting, according to internal WHO emails, documents and AP interviews. Here are 10 critical mistakes:

150 students ill in China after breathing

in smoke at drill

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Residents run through colored smoke as they move to an air raid shelter during an air raid drill in Nantong city in eastern China’s Jiangsu province Friday, Sept. 18, 2015.

Chief of Karangasem Munici-pal Police, Iwan Supartha, said on Wednesday (Sep. 16) that the raid team consists of the element of local government, Municipal Police, Integrated Licensing Office (KPPT), the Office of Nation Unity, Politics and Community Protection (Kesbangpolinmas) and Manpower Agency, first directly targeted the location of foreign diving service at Bias Lantang Kelod, Purwakerti, Abang. However, the diving service

named Sab Dive managed by Fabian B, a French citizen, has not owned a spatial utilization permit (IPR). “He said that the permit is still being processed,” said Iwan. His IMTA and immigration documents have been declared complete.

The team of local government then resumed the raid to Fine Dive Service at adjacent location. The diving service managed by local resident named Nyoman Sariana is declared to have owned complete

permit. Likewise, the IMTA and im-migration document are declared to be complete as well. Then, the raid team heads for a house inhabited by a Spaniard named Rosa P. Appar-ently she does not have the IMTA and immigration documents. This 34-year-old foreign citizen grounds to make a survey for investment at the location. However, the team is not easy to believe her. It is a com-mon reason for many foreign diving services telling they only make a survey, so that they consider it un-necessary to submit the IMTA.

Based on these findings, Iwan al-leged that many employees of other foreign diving services are working without having the IMTA. Thus, the raid will be done periodically in the tourist attractions that offer diving

services in Karangasem like in the area of Amed, Tulamben and Candi-dasa. Related to the result of the raid, those that have not submit their IPR, IMTA and immigration documents are requested to immediately submit it. The IPR is directly submitted to Municipal Police, IMTA to Man-power Agency and immigration documents to Kesbangpolinmas.

Iwan added that the raid by the team of local government poses a follow-up to the complaints of local diving service providers against for-eign diving services. So far, Karan-gasem better known as the underwa-ter natural attractions is flooded with illegal foreign workers.

Such condition is inseparable from the weak control of local government. As a result, local

employees get marginalized due to losing in competition. Recently foreign diving services attempt to monopolize the diving services in Karangasem. Foreign diving ser-vices utilize their kinship from the same country because the majority of the divers are foreigners. In ad-dition, foreign workers also grab all the job opportunities ranging from diving instructor, equipment services and the driver.

This issue has been repeatedly discussed in the executive meeting after being criticized by a number of legislators at the Karangasem House of Representative. So, after a serious discussion, the government of Karangasem established a team to handle the problem in the field. (kmb31)

DENPASAR - Chief of Den-pasar Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Reinhard, together with the investigators can reveal the black-mail case experienced by Zhang Tao from China in a short time. The investigators have determined the individual employees of the Ngurah Rai immigration officers with the initials HR and Wh as the suspect. They have been formally arrested at the Denpasar Police Headquarters from Saturday (Sep. 19). “They

have been arrested. We charged them with three articles, namely Ar-ticle 368, 365 or 335 of the Criminal Code,” said Reinhard.

According to him, the two sus-pects were allegedly committed blackmail and theft crime with violence or robbery with threaten-ing. He charged with Article 365 of the Criminal Code, because based on the results of investigation the suspect is alleged to have stolen as much as IDR 2,200 and the victim

suffered violence. “It happened in the toilet where the victim was deliberately led to the location. The money was taken in the vic-tim’s wallet. It is the statement of the victim when examined,” said Reinhard.

“According to the victim, his money was taken in the toilet as much as USD 2,200 and then in the counter of immigration was taken again as much as 200 yuan,” he said.

As reported, the investigation of the blackmail case allegation at the Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, is being intensified by the Denpasar Police Investigation Unit. Reinhard told that his institution has got the evidence related to the case. On that account, it will be enhanced to investigation process.

Chief of Bali Police, Sugeng Priyanto, when asked about the development of the blackmail case told that the investigation is under-

way. To that end, he asked in order the investigators can be given the opportunity to carry out their duties. The 33-year old victim, Zhang Tao, from China reported the blackmail case experienced at the Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, Saturday (Sep. 12) to the Ngurah Rai Airport Police. To the officer, Zhang admitted to have been blackmailed as much as hundreds of yuan by individual official in the international arrival terminal. (kmb36)

Blackmail case

Immigration officers arrested

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The U.S.A.T Liberty shipwreck is one of the favorite dive spot in Tulamben, Karangasem.

Municipal Police find illegal foreign workers in diving operators

AMLAPURA - Protests against the invasion of foreign work-ers in diving services are seriously responded by Municipal Police of Karangasem and other relevant agencies. They move directly to a number of diving service providers at Amed and surrounding areas. As a result, Municipal Police found some foreign diving operators having no permit of foreign worker employment (IMTA).

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Some 6 million visitors are expected in Munich for the 182nd Oktoberfest, which runs through Oct. 4.

Ten of thousands are traveling to the feast via Munich’s main train station, which has also seen floods of refugees in recent weeks. On Saturday, however, only a few dozen asylum-seekers had arrived from Germany’s southern border and were quick-ly ushered away by police.

In contrast, hundreds of Okto-berfest revelers — many dressed in traditional Bavarian lederho-sen and dirndl dresses — walked from the train station to nearby Theresienwiese, site of the fes-tivities.

Munich police spokesman Si-mon Hegewald said the situation at the train station was calm and authorities were well prepared. Federal police said the number of asylum seekers crossing in from Austria has been declining in recent days to less than 2,000 on Friday.

Since Germany introduced border controls last weekend, most migrants who enter Ger-many are taken to the border town of Freilassing, where they

are put on buses and trains and distributed across the country. Officials said four more special trains were leaving Freilassing this weekend.

“Life in Munich will go on, and it has gone on for several weeks, despite the massive in-flux of refugees,” said Linda Benedickt, a 43-year-old writer from Munich. She was not overly fond of Oktoberfest, “because people spend an awful lot of money getting mindlessly drunk, but it is part of the city.”

Marc Reig, who had come from Sallent, Spain, to celebrate with friends at the Oktoberfest, showed compass ion for the asylum-seekers.

“Today and tomorrow we are celebrating, but we aren’t forget-ting the refugees,” said Reig, a 25-year-old physicist dressed in Bavarian lederhosen.

He and his friends plan to br ing Lego toys to re fugee children once they are done partying.

“We know the Bavarian gov-ernment is providing food and accommodation for them. But we want to have a present for some of the kids,” he said. (ap)

Visitors enjoy the 182. Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany in one of the beer tents , Saturday Sept. 19, 2015. The world’s largest beer festival will be held from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4, 2015.

Thousands head to Munich’s Oktoberfest

MUNICH — The beer is flowing again at Munich’s fabled Oktoberfest. Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap into the first keg Saturday with two blows of his hammer and the cry of “O’zapft is!” — “It’s tapped!”

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Made Romo, for instance, a silver entrepreneur from Celuk village said that the rupiah de-preciation reaching IDR 14,000 per US dollar has an impact on the increasing number of orders from overseas that reaches 70 to 80 percent. “Since rupiah goes through the current condition, all the customers double their orders, with dominant market like the US, Europe and now Australia has a good market,” he said.

However, he admitted that this condition cannot be enjoyed by other SMEs, particularly at Celuk village, Sukawati, because only a few craftsmen can meet interna-tional production standards, such as the provision of production machines. “Production machine is one of the standards for the international export market as a guarantee for the ability to meet the target of orders,” he said

In the meantime, the SMEs at Celuk village predominantly work on their production manually. So, if there are large numbers of or-der, it’s hard enough for them to

meet the target. “Now, most of our SMEs still rely on manual works, without using machine. However, if there are machines, it will be certainly more effective and efficient. However, the SMEs are predominantly not willing to invest in the machinery procure-ment,” he said.

Seeing this condition, he hoped that all the SMEs, especially sil-versmith, can be more active to get together to exchange information and open a network. “We cannot move alone, so that I hope the other SMEs can later run together, and want to invest so as to meet the existing standards,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head of the Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba, did not deny the fact that most SMEs in Gianyar have not been able to meet the international export standards. This condition, ac-cording to him, does not only happen to silver businessmen, but also to the SMEs engaged in timber industry.

“Many of our SMEs are unable

SEMARAPURA - Nusa Penida Festival becomes a means to promote the potential of the islands in Klungkung County. Related to this, the Nusa Penida Festival will be jazzed up by surfing contest as a medium to promote the existence of surfing tourism. The Lembongan Surf Team (LST) will complete the excitement of the festival held for the second time.

The LST leader, I Wayan Lena, said that the contest is very har-monious with the Nusa Penida Festival featuring a maritime theme. Related to funding, the surfing contest in the Nusa Penida Festival 2015 is supported independently.

Merger of the LST established in 2001 with 60 members is based on consideration that it feels to have been called to grace the Nusa Penida Festival 2015. “We use independent fund originating from sponsors in the form of cash and goods. We get borrowing of speed boat, consumption and the prize for the winners in the form of surfing products in Lembongan, Bali and product of international company,” said I Wayan Lena.

When asked about the advantages of Lembongan Beach so that it deserves to be tested for the surfing, Lena explained that the waves on Lembongan beaches are suitable for all surfers, both beginner and advanced surfers. The rest, according to Wayan Lena, the beaches in Lembongan are close to tourism facilities such as lodging and restaurant so that surfers do not have to go far to rest and eat after surfing.

As additional information, the beaches in Lembongan, Nusa Penida, are visited by many surfers from around the world. This surfing water sport spreads over several locations in Nusa Penida like Jungutbatu Beach having four spots such as Shipwreck, Razors, Laceration, Play-ground, Dae and Ceningan has one spot at Mahana Point. (dwa)

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Many SMEs have not enjoyed rupiah depreciation

GIANYAR - Depreciation of rupiah reaching IDR 14,000 per US dollar should become a moment to reap huge profits for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). However, in reality this condition has not been enjoyed by all the SMEs in Gianyar, such as the silversmith in Celuk, Sukawati. It happens because most of them are unable to meet international production standards.

to penetrate international market standards because they do not meet production standards. It happens due to the lack of ma-chinery on employers of silver handicraft and the absence of Certification of Timber Legal-ity for the SMEs engaged in

the wooden craft industry,” he explained.

Regarding this condition, he admitted to have regularly made dissemination so that the SMEs are ready to compete in global market. Unfortunately, he said that the SMEs have minimal

interest in attending such exten-sion activities. “We have often organized dissemination but the attendance does not reach ten percent of craftsmen invited. Well, when this condition hap-pens who wants to be blamed?” he said. (kmb35)

Nusa Penida Festival to be jazzed up with surfing contest

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Cer-emony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Ga-lungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beauti-fully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

The origins of Jamu dates back to 15-16AD where the term “jamu” appeared in the New Java era. Jamu is Indonesia’s cure-all elixir. Throughout Indonesian ancient history, Jamu is believed to have profound healing quali-ties. The original Jamu recipes are highly guarded family secrets, passed down over generations. However, the tradition of using Jamu as remedy is no longer

familiar and common in today’s Indonesian modern society.

Paon Jamu Traditional Bever-age. Fresh and ready to drink Jamu in elegantly designed glass bott les is now available for consumption at Paon Doeloe restaurant or to go, for only IDR 25.000++ per 300ml bottle. One can choose from a range of Paon Jamus, each with its health benefits; Kunyit Asam

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Taman Bhagawan introduces Paon Jamu

TANJUNG BENOA - Taman Bhagawan introduces Paon Jamu. In continuing to cultivate heritage, tradition and culture, Taman Bhagawan in collaboration with Suwe Ora Jamu has revived Jamu; the Indonesian traditional herbal medicine, which is made from all natural in-gredients.

(Turmeric Tamarind) - Improves body circulation, boosts immune system, detoxifies and nourishes skin. Beras Kencur (Galanga Rice) - Improves stamina and relieves sore mucles. Alang Al-ang (Speargrass Root) - Reduces body heat, heals mouth ulcers & eases urination. Rosella (Roselle) - Helps protect immune system, lowers blood pressure and cho-lesterol level.

The Paon Jamu Signature Workshop consists of a jamu making method, unveiling be-hind the scene of how to make a jamu recipe. In the workshop, participants learn how to make jamu in the handiest way, under-standing the benefit of jamu and they may be able to make jamu themselves at home. Paon Jamu Signature Workshop is open for public and especially for those jamu enthusiast and those who have a curious mind and would love to learn about another side to Indonesian culture.

Half-Day Workshop is charged at IDR 850.000 and Full-Day Workshop at IDR 1.370.000 per person and is based on reservations minimum of two people. Paon Jamu Signature Workshop includes theory handout, certificate for your hard earned effort at Jamu making and a three-course set lunch, pre-pared at Paon Doeloe Restaurant with Jamu pairing to complete your Paon Jamu experience.

Ideal for couples, a group of friends and or corporate activity, Paon Jamu Signature Workshop is an engaging and educating ex-perience at understading the ben-efits of jamu and at gaining the pratical knowledge of the jamu making process, in a beautiful setting of Taman Bhagawan.

If one does not have hours to spend but wish to have a Jamu ex-perience, the Paon Jamu Dining Experience may be for you for lunch or dinner in a beachfront setting. Authentic Indonesian menu items have been thought-fully conceptualised to pair with Paon Jamu shooters in between each course, whilst its health benefits will be explained.

Pick-up and drop-off service from Nusa Dua, Tanjung Benoa and Jimbaran is available upon request for both Paon Jamu Sig-nature Workshop and Paon Jamu Dining Experience.

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Only six of the springs owned by PDAM have a significant water flow. Yeh He, Plegondan, Embukan are still flow-ing well with Tirtagangga, Abang having the largest water flow. Grubung spring in Rendang subdistrict, Iseh (Sidemen subdistrict) and Tauka springs are also flowing, though not to maximum capac-ity. “All the springs have a decreased discharge, with an average of a 40 percent decrease,” he said.

Under normal conditions, all the PDAM Karangasem springs produce about 800 liters of water per second. Such a discharge flow is said to be enough to supply about 29,000 homes. Obviously a decrease of 40 percent is having a nega-tive effect on the services being provided by PDAM. As a result, stated Baktiyasa, his company has received a lot of com-plaints, protests and various blasphemies since last month.

“It is the risk we have to face. We are ready to face insults from customers because we cannot control the weather,” he said.

Most customer complaints are com-ing from the subdistrict of Karangasem and Baktiyasa added that he understands people’s frustration. In response to cur-rent conditions, PDAM said that they

are providing water to its customers in rotating four hour shifts, so that all of their customers can continue to have access to water from PDMA.

“Our customers in Kubu do not have access to water because the pumps have dried out, though customers in other areas continue to receive water,” he said.

A number of PDAM Karangasem customers have been complaining for some time now. In rural areas, residents can still take advantage of other water sources. But for urban residents, the lack of water from PDAM is making them truly distraught.

Even though PDAM said that they are providing water in rotating shifts, in real-ity some areas, such as BTN Kertalangu, Subagan, are entirely without running water throughout the day.

One local resident, Ni Ketut Widiasti, stated on Wednesday that she is distraught about how to meet her daily need for water. “The water from PDAM has not been running for a long time. Is the water company still operating or has it gone bankrupt?” this housewife criticized.

Widiasti hopes that PDAM can give some answers because water is after all a very basic need that needs to be met everyday. (kmb31)

He hopes that all parties, but especially academics, research-ers and related agencies, will find a way out of this dilemma, so that the water crisis can be overcome.

Mudhina emphasized that it is very important to contribute ideas, especially concerning water resources and the environmental pollution control.

Mudhina is not alone in think-ing that measures need to be taken to avoid an even more serious problem with water in Bali.

Academic, Wayan Arya, said that there needs to be atten-tion placed on the condition of groundwater and other aspects of Bali’s natural environment. Moreover, many experts say that the conditions of water sources on the island of a thousand temples, is already not good. “Before it becomes more severe, a solution must be found. There needs to be a serious discussion with relevant agencies about coming to the res-cue of Bali’s water,” he said.

According to the Head of the Civil Engineering Department of PNB, they have been conducting research in some areas of Den-pasar and found conditions to be quite bad in some areas. “Do we have to wait for a seriously dire situation before we take action? There are some warning signs that need to be heeded,” said Arya.

Karangasem caseWater problems now occur

in every region of Bali. Pres-ently Karangasem is feeling the sting, yet the upstream catch-ment regions in the mountains of Karangasem, are still not receiving serous attention form the govern-ment. This important absorption region is even being dredged by quarry businesses.

Farmer, Wayan Sujana and other residents, along with the Chairman of the Alliance Caring for People’s Welfare (Apisemar), Nyoman Pasek, are worried about an even more severe water crisis occurring in the near future.

Currently, a number of water springs are running dry. Sujana pointed out that in the past, people could still swim in the rivers and large puddles near the fields be-cause the water was abundant and crystal clear. Now, farmers often have trouble just to get enough wa-ter to irrigate their paddy fields.

This season, farmers are scram-bling to get enough water to keep their crops alive and have had to stay up all night waiting for their turn to have access to the irrigation channel water flow. According to Sujana, the government should be more concerned about the situa-tion and take serious steps towards conserving the catchments areas in the mountains and upstream.

In addition to planting trees and

reforesting barren forests, the gov-ernment needs to stop the upstream areas from being continuously dredged. “If the government does not issue a strict policy aimed at rescuing the upstream regions or rainwater catchments, in the next five to ten years from, the water crisis will become a source of seri-ous conflict,” he said.

Already, small conflicts fre-quently occur between farmers (subak member) and the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) that takes its water from natural springs. In the future, similar conflicts over water could also occur between farmers and car wash or laundry companies or even with water bottling companies.

Nyoman Pasek from Pidpid shared similar opinions saying that rainwater catchment areas, as sources of water, need to taken into consideration through the creation of consistent government regula-tions and policies. For a long time, he has been saying that there are many illegal quarry activities tak-ing place in Karangasem, but his warnings continue to be ignored. Pasek suspects that the destruc-tion of rainwater catchment areas in the upstream of Karangasem is due to quarry activities and defor-estation, (caused in part by forest fires), that have contributed to the continued drying-up of springs in Karangasem. (rah/bud)

PDAM Karangasem’s water discharge downs 40 percent

AMLAPUrA - The prolonged dry season is seriously affecting the quality of service being provided by the Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) in Karangasem, whose discharge of water has gone down by 40 percent. As a result the PDAM has received numerous complaints from its customers this month. Managing Director of PDAM Karan-gasem, I Gede T. Baktiyasa, said that the drought has resulted in a decrease of all the water sources managed by PDAM Karangasem.

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Water problems now occur in every region of Bali. Presently Karangasem is feeling the sting, yet the upstream catchment regions in the mountains of Karangasem, are still not receiving serous attention form the government.

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Madrid edges Granada 1-0, Atletico wins 2-0 at Eibar

Millions will tune in on Sunday to find out.

The Emmy Awards, the biggest honors in television, will be handed out at a star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles that could see some major surprises -- and maybe even a history-making win for black

women.“We’re going to see some new

winners in most of the top races, and that’s going to be great for Emmy fans,” said Tom O’Neil, a showbiz journalist who founded Hollywood awards prediction site Gold Derby.

One big question on everyone’s minds for this year’s 67th Prime-time Emmys, television’s version of the Oscars, is: will Jon Hamm of “Mad Men” finally win on his eighth try for his work as troubled ad man Don Draper?

Though the wildly popular AMC series about the sex- and booze-fueled world of 1960s Madison Avenue has won the coveted out-standing drama trophy four times, its leading man has come up empty every year.

Awards pundits say it would be a slap in the face if Hamm is once again overlooked.

“I think this is the year for Jon Hamm,” predicted Debra Birn-baum, executive editor of television at Variety.

“Certainly he is the sentimental favorite going into Emmy night,” she told AFP.

“Everyone loves a story like that and it would be great to see him get the Emmy he so richly deserves for creating such a fantastic iconic character.”

“Mad Men” faces stiff compe-tition in the best drama category from “Better Call Saul,” “Downton Abbey,” “Homeland,” “House of Cards,” “Orange is the New Black” and “Game of Thrones,” which earned an impressive 24 nomina-tions.

Birnbaum said despite the fierce competition, “Mad Men” may win again if only to ensure it goes out in style.

“It’s its last time to get nominated and as we saw last year, ‘Breaking Bad’ swept the Emmys because it was a fantastic show and it was its last chance to get nominated,” she said. (afp)

LOS ANGELES - Best-selling romance novelist Jackie Collins, whose first book was so steamy it was banned in some countries, died of breast cancer in California Saturday, her family said. She was 77.

“She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by her family, friends and the millions of readers who she has been entertaining for over 4 decades,” her family said in a state-ment, adding that she had battled breast cancer for more than six years.

“She was a true inspiration, a trailblazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words,” added the statement from her three daughters, Tracy, Tiffany, and Rory.

Her works included “The World is Full of Married Men,” “Confessions of a Wild Child,” “The Stud” and “Hollywood Wives.” The first, released in 1968, stirred up so much out-rage that it was banned from bookshelves in South Africa and Australia.

British-born Collins, who started out acting before focusing on writing, and her older sister, actress Joan Collins, famously found great success at trading on the Hollywood early-bad girl mystique they had, both on screen and off.

Jackie Collins wrote a series of novels starring main character Lucky Santangelo and many of her works found their way onto TV screens as movies or miniseries.

Joan Collins, 82, told People magazine she was “completely devastated” by the loss of her sister.

“She was my best friend,” she told the publication. “I admire how she handled this. She was a wonderful, brave and a beauti-ful person and I love her.”

People said the prolific author had been diagnosed with end-stage breast cancer six-and-a-half years ago, and “chose to keep her illness almost entirely to herself.”

Joan Collins herself just learned of her sister’s illness “within the last two weeks,” People reported.

“She was very shocked,” Jackie Collins recently told the magazine of Joan’s reaction to the news. “She had no idea. But she was great. We were emotional.”

Jackie Collins had lived in California for years, and was a naturalized US citizen. (afp)

Romance novelist

Jackie Collins

dies at 77

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In this image released by AMC, Jon Hamm portrays Don Draper in a scene from “Mad Men.” Hamm is nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding lead actor in a drama series. The 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, in Los Angeles.

’Mad Men’, ’Game of Thrones’ to

battle for Emmys gloryLOS ANGELES - Will blood-splattered fantasy epic “Game

of Thrones” finally take home top television honors, or will voters instead offer sentimental favorite “Mad Men” and its retro-cool advertising execs a golden send-off?

B A L I h a s changed from a

p r e d o m i n a n t l y agrarian island to one

where tourism has taken over. The Increasingly rapid growth of the tourism sector has boosted Bali’s

economic growth. However tour-ism has also caused the population to soar and given way to a massive amount of land being converted from agricultural use to built environment. Many people fear that the ensuing shortage of water could become a

source of conflict in the future. Director of the State Polytechnic

of Bali (PNB), Made Mudhina, said that population density and -worse still, covering earth with concrete has horrible consequences. “Be-sides which there is an increase in

environmental pollution, and the volume of solid and liquid waste continues to grow,” he said.

The growing population, he added, is obviously followed by the need for more and more water, that is rapidly depleting existing water

sources. “This increasing amount of human activity causes environ-mental pollution and impacts both surface and ground water,” said Mudhina.

“It is enabled by the hard work of all levels of our government and all the tourism stakeholders in Bali because we are a tourist destina-tion, so that the purchasing power and competitiveness of our society is still quite high. Our inflation is

even below the national inflation rate,” he said.

Sudikerta stated the realiza-tion of financial and physical activity of the government of Bali indeed has not been appro-priate with the target in the last

second quarter. Governor of Bali initially targeted the realization of 51 percent. However, due to the economic slowdown, the budget absorption only reaches 33.7 percent.

“But in this third quarter, the realization of financial and physical activity has increased dramatically to reach 48 percent,” he explained. Sudikerta reasoned that the prob-lems occurred in the financial re-alization because the partners like

to embezzle the physical activity funds at the end of the year. This issue must be closely watched by physical executor in Bali provincial government.

“Do not let them harm our administration. What has been stated in the contract must be implemented, do not embezzle the funds a t the end of the year. Otherwise, we will suffer losses and the administration is incoherent. The solution is by

imposing penalty on the culprit, so that we can achieve efficiency of the funds we have,” he said. (kmb32)

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Bali’s economy grows by 6.20 percentKUTA - Economic growth of Bali is said to be better than

the national economic growth because the national one only reaches 4.7 percent. In Bali, the current economy grows by 6.20 percent. It was conveyed recently by Deputy Governor of Bali, I Ketut Sudikerta.