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JAKARTA - Police have interrogated 15 witnesses in connection with a suicide bomb blast at the Bethel Injil Sepenuh (GBIS) church in Solo, Central Java, on Sunday.

“So far, we have interrogated 15 wit-nesses in connection with the bomb blast at the GBIS church,” Chief of the Public Relations Division at the Indonesian Po-lice Headquarters Anton Bachrul Alam said here on Sunday.

Anton asked the public to report to the police if they happened to know the characteristics of the suicide bomber believed to be 30 years old.

“The suicide bomber wore white shirt,

black trousers, and canvas shoes. We have yet to arrive at the conclusion about which terrorist group the suicide bomber belonged to,” he said. Police would look into the motive behind the suicide bomb blast which left one person killed and 22 others injured, he said.

It was believed the dead victim was the suicide bomber. Nineteen of the injured were taken to dr. Oen hospital and three others to Brayat Minulyo hospital in Solo for treatment.

According to chief of the Oen hospital`s intensive care unit dr. Rudi Handoyo, 11 of the 19 bomb blast victims treated at the hospital had to undergo medical operations and eight others out-patient treatment.

“We dare to target that e-KTP can be applied starting in October because the supporting equipment is ready. However, it is impossible for us to implement it this Septem-ber,” Narendra said.

In the fourth week of Septem-ber, he said, the consortium or the

winning bidder would still conduct a test on the four units of machine. After the consortium accomplished the test and declared the readiness to operate, his party would start to provide the e-KTP services to so-ciety of Denpasar. “Prior to be offi-cially launched, we indeed require

a series of test first,” he said. Nevertheless, Narendra did not

deny if the application of e-KTP in the city of Denpasar was still far from previous expectations. Previ-ously, of the 33 units of machine promised by central government, his party just received four units. It did not matter and his party remained optimistic if the e-KTP could be enforced in each subdistrict as of next October. “Yes, we are optimis-tic. Moreover, a unit of machine has been prepared in each subdistrict so the e-KTP can be applied. If we wait for the other 29 machines to imple-

ment the program, we may have to wait very long,” he said.

According to Narendra, so far the remaining 29 machines had no clarity when it would be distributed. Even, the Regional Coordinator I could not ascertain the arrival of the rest of the machine. “I have called the Regional Coordinator frequently. But, he could not ensure when the promised remaining machines would arrive,” he said while adding that socialization related to the e-KTP implementation had been carried out in respective subdistrict.

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Villagers gather after a bomb went off in a church, not in photo, in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011.

Police interrogate 15 witnesses in Solo bombing

e-KTP ready to be enforced on October

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A woman gets his retina data captured during making e-KTP. Head of the Denpasar Population and Civil Registry Office, Nyoman Gde Narendra, targeted the implementation of electronic citizen identity card (e-KTP) in Denpasar City could be enforced from October 2011.

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DENPASAR - Head of the Denpasar Population and Civil Reg-istry Office, Nyoman Gde Narendra, targeted the implementation of electronic citizen identity card (e-KTP) in Denpasar City could be enforced from October 2011. Even, some supporting machines of the e-KTP had already arrived in respective subdistrict.

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Importers from Hong Kong re-corded as the biggest buyer of any kind jewelry and handmade gems from Bali. It is followed with Singa-pore and Australia in accord with Sta-tistic Central Institution (BPS) Bali. Silver jewelry market featured with gold and manmade gem of Balinese craftsman. They are indeed sending to Hongkong at most, said Wayan Wijaya, businessman and exporter of Bali gems from Gianyar.

Bali jewelry craftsman is able to

create art commodity in accord with foreigners taste so most of them ex-

Hongkong, Singapore, and Australia.

sophisticated facilities of them. BPS Bali mentioned export realization of gem in this area along June 2011 was about 36,7% as it bought by Hong Kong, 25% of them bought by Sin-gapore, 13,39% of them bought by Australia, and the rest of them sold to another countries.

According to local residents last weekend, the water level in the dam shrank but it was categorized to be normal and on that account

-sequence, the subak areas usually getting water from the dam could not grow rice. Mr. Andi, 56, a local resident, said though the subak at Palasari was close to water sources it could only harvest for one time. They could not enjoy the water from the dam since position of the subak area was parallel to the dam.

“Nowadays, the water is de-liberately not drained and may be opened in next December. Then, it will only be enjoyed by other vil-lages, while local farmers here only get one planting season,” said Andi whose land located near the dam. The farmers at his location chose to breed cows as side job other than farming. When entering the dry sea-son, the water was really low and

bed. Of course, it would become a fortune for the locals to harvest the

-ited to do so by using nets.

“Occasionally, some people were still desperate to search for fish by means of net whereas it has been prohibited by the dam’s authority,” he added. In the mean-time, some residents from another hamlet installed pipes to irrigate their ponds.

the Head of Ekasari Village, IGM Dharma Wiryadhi. According to the village head from Palasari Hamlet, there was an axiom saying if this village breastfed other villages

the dam’s water for their subak. The irrigation was even enjoyed by other villages on lower land under Ekasari. Conversely, the

-ferent forms, such as tourism and

Admittedly, there were some farmer groups utilizing the pipeline to drain water from the dam for their fresh water ponds. For instance, the Tirta Pusaka Wahana Giri group

was capable of supplying carp and

“Although we install the pipes

interfere with the water. The water discharge remains normal and this has been lasting since long time ago,” said Wiryadhi. The village

However, the authority allowed pedam. Yet, the income generated was small as visitors would only be crowded on holidays. “The revenue obtained from fishing attraction was only about IDR 250,000 per day on Galungan or Kuningan festivity. It will turn quiet on usual days,” he added.

farming, the community around the Ekasari Village also preferred to grow teak cultivation. Since he led the village, dozens of hectares of land owned by local residents had been planted with teak. Other

considered easier.

DESPITE many years’ experience handling the tasks as ranger on Komodo Island, West Manggarai, it does not necessarily mean if Mardzuki, 21, is im-mune against the attack of Komodo dragon. On Saturday (Sep 24), Mardzuki who is the resident of Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai, Flores, NTT, had to be rushed to Sanglah Hospital as bitten by the dragon, an ancient creature he usually encountered in his daily life.

When met in the Ratna treatment room of Sanglah Hospital on Sunday (Sep 25), he said the incident occurred precisely on Saturday (Sep 24) morning. At that time, he was performing his duties as a ranger. “My task was ushering

Komodo dragon,” he said. When about to return to the accommodation, a dragon suddenly intercepted

Mardzuki in front of the entrance. Mardzuki who had been getting accustomed to interacting with the giant lizard did the things he used to do and ascertained to scare the dragon with a stalk of tree branch. “I drove it by swinging the tree branch. However, the Komodo was not running away, even it lunged toward me,” said Mardzuki.

The Komodo beat his left leg. As a result, he suddenly shocked and fell

him escape from the Komodo’s bite and drove that protected animal. Since the bite of Komodo dragon was hazardous and the saliva contained thousands of

aid before referred to Sanglah Hospital for further treatment. Mardzuki arrived on Saturday afternoon and until last Sunday was still in care. (san)

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The Palasari Dam which is located Ekasari Village, Melaya Subdistrict in Jembrana Regency

Subak at Palasari cannot utilize Palasari damNegara (Bali Post)—

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Hongkong Being Biggest Importer of Bali Jewelry

A ranger bitten by Komodo dragon

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The komodo dragons ar being fed by their keepers.

3International Bali News Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Price of tomato dropped fromIDR 6,000 to IDR 700 per kilogram.Drop in prices has been continuingsince the past few weeks. Actu-ally, the quality of harvest is pretty

-able, many farmers are reluctantto harvest. They prefer to let theirtomatoes rot,” said Smaraputra,one of the tomato farmers, Sunday(Sep 25).

This man said the drop in theprice of tomatoes was discourag-ing the farmers because many localfarmers relied on their livelihoodfrom farming vegetables, whereone of them was tomato. Dropin price was also felt to be themost severe. Since the price wasso cheap, many collectors disap-peared. This circumstance madethe farmers confused because theplanting costs incurred was highenough. One hectare of tomatoland averagely cost up to IDR 15million. Most expenses were used

to purchase seeds, fertilizers and

we must increase the use of waterfrom Municipality Waterworks(PDAM),” said Smaraputra. When

-culty to return the planting capital.Even, it only wasted energy whenthey should harvest their vegetablebecause when picked up the tomatowas not salable.

Since tomatoes were not harvested,they were finally scattered on theplantation area. Even, some began todry up. Farmers were also reluctant tocultivate their land anymore because

plummeting,” he sighed. Farmers ex-pected the price could return to normalbecause the crop yields and qualitywere pretty good. Other than tomato,the price of vegetable commoditiesalso declined. Farmers worried if theprice drop would continue, while theplanting cost never dropped. (udi)

Singaraja (Bali Post)—The annual Sail Indonesia (SI)

held at Lovina tourist resort wasrequested to be evaluated and re-viewed by Commission B of Bule-leng House. This measure was un-dertaken because a number of tour-ism perpetrators, such as hoteliersand restaurateurs, acknowledged ifthe event was not too favorable fortourism businesspeople.

Chairman of Commission Bof Buleleng House, Putu MangkuBudiasa, said on Sunday (Sep 25)the measure to review the SailIndonesia was not just a discourse.His party would review the programrelated to the lack of impact on thetourism advancement in Buleleng.With the expenses taken from theregional budget, the Buleleng Cul-tural and Tourism Agency shoulddare to set a target to be achieved inevery organization of Sail Indone-

and it should bring in a positive-

get,” he explained.Mangku Budiasa said that in

the implementation of Sail Indo-nesia, the Cultural and TourismAgency should always cooperatewith the Indonesian Hotels andRestaurants Association (PHRI)of Buleleng Regency. This co-operation was very important

equally. On the one hand, theAgency made the Sail Indonesiaa means of promoting the tourismpotential in Northern Bali andvice versa the PHRI as tourismperpetrator should get benefitswhen the SI participants arrivedat Lovina. But in reality, thePHRI complained because theparticipants of Sail Indonesia did

not use hotel accommodation dur-ing the Sail Indonesia took place,whether PHRI and the Culturaland Tourism Agency have madecooperation or they worked inde-pendently,” he said.

Previously, tourism perpetra-tors at Lovina pleaded not to get a

the implementation of the SailIndonesia at Lovina. Hundreds ofthose participants were expectedto sleep in local hotels or eat inrestaurants. On the contrary, theyate and slept in their yacht. Even,those participants were rarely in-terested to take tours to the touristdestination in Northern Bali orpurchasing distinctive souvenirsof Buleleng handicraft. Converse-ly, the participants were only at-tracted to watch the entertainmentof traditional arts. (kmb)

Price drops, farmers let their tomatoes rot

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A farmer is harvesting her tomato plants. The decline prices of tomato make the farmers re-luctant to sell their crops.

Tabanan (Bali Post)—Vegetable farmers at Candikuning Village, Baturiti, encoun-

ter another misery. In the great harvest season this year, theprice of tomato commodity declines sharply. As a result, manyfarmers are reluctant to harvest. Even, some farmers let theirtomato plants be withered and slipshod.

Being unprofitable to tourism

Sail Indonesia asked to be re-assessed

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Tourists are enjoying their time on Lovina Beach where the Sail Indonesia will be held.

International4 Tuesday, September 27, 2011 News

Abbas’ popularity has skyrocketed since he asked the U.N. on Friday to recognize Pal-estinian independence, defying appeals from Israel and the United States to return to peace talks. His request has pushed the region into uncharted waters, and left the international community scrambling over how to respond.

Thousands of people crowded Abbas’ West Bank headquarters in the city of Ramallah to get a glimpse of the 76-year-old president upon his return from New York. Abbas was unchar-acteristically animated, shaking his hands and waving to the audience.

Abbas compared his campaign to the Arab Spring, the mass demonstrations sweeping the Arab world in hopes of freedom, saying that an independent Palestinian state is inevitable.

“We have told the world that there is the Arab Spring, but the Palestinian Spring is here,” he said. “A popular spring, a populist spring, a spring of peaceful struggle that will reach its goal.”

He warned that the Palestinians face a “long path” ahead. “There are those who would put out obstacles ... but with your presence they will fall and we will reach our end.”

The Palestinians want an independent state

in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.

Israel says it’s ready for peace talks, but has rejected Palestinian calls to freeze construction of Jewish settlements in lands claimed by the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also rejected Palestinian demands that the borders between Israel and a future Pales-tine be based on the 1967 pre-war lines.

Abbas last week asked the U.N. Security Council to grant the Palestinians full U.N. membership. The Security Council is expected to study the request for several weeks before making a decision, though the U.S. — Israel’s closest ally — has promised to veto the request if it proceeds.

As an alternative, the Palestinians say they will seek lesser observer status in the General Assembly — short of full statehood but a posi-tion that would allow them to join international bodies where they could push their agenda against Israel.

The U.S., like Israel, says it is committed to Palestinian independence, but that direct negotiations, not a U.N. vote, is the only way to resolve the conflict.

Reuters

PARIS - French President Nico-las Sarkozy’s conservative govern-ment lost its majority in the Senate to the left on Sunday, officials said, in a historic defeat that deals him a blow just seven months before a presidential election.

For the first time since 1958, the right-dominated upper house swung to a left-wing majority as the body’s membership underwent a major generational change of guard.

Early results from the indirect

elections showed left-wing candi-dates took at least 23 seats from the ruling conservative party, securing them an absolute majority.

The shift to the left, which UMP Senate leader Gerard Larcher had described as having “seismic” con-sequences ahead of a presidential election next April, drew howls of joy from left-wing supporters at a meeting in Paris.

“The 25th of September, 2011, will go down in history,” Jean-Pierre Bel, head of the Socialist group in the Senate, said on LCI television.

“The results of this Senate election represent a real comeuppance for the right.”

The left’s victory followed a series of wins by Socialist candi-dates in local elections in the same regions where tens of thousands of municipal officials -- empowered as so-called “super voters” in the Sen-ate poll -- cast votes on Sunday.

SYMBOLIC SETBACKA left-leaning Senate will not be

able to derail Sarkozy’s legislative plans but the loss of a longstanding bastion for the right is a symbolic setback especially when taken to-gether with his persistently poor poll ratings.

Sarkozy has become slight-ly more popular in the past few months, but he remains one of the least well-liked presidents in post-war France and faces a tough battle for reelection in a two-round vote scheduled for next April.

French voters are depressed about their economic prospects, unemployment remains stubbornly high and a European debt crisis has invited intensive scrutiny of France’s public finances.

Such worries have overshadowed Sarkozy’s foreign policy victories, notably France’s role in the toppling of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.

Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya — Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday. She was 71.

One of Kenya’s most recogniz-able women, Maathai won the Nobel in 2004 for combining envi-ronmentalism and social activism. She was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, where over 30 years she mobilized poor women to plant 30 million trees.

Edward Wageni, that group’s deputy executive director, said Maathai died in a Nairobi hospital late Sunday. Maathai was in and out of the hospital since the beginning of the year, he said.

In recognizing Maathai, the Nobel committee said that she had stood up to a former oppressive re-gime in Kenya and that her “unique forms of action have contributed to drawing attention to political oppression.”

Maathai said during her 2004 acceptance speech that the inspira-tion for her life work came from her childhood experiences in rural Kenya, where she witnessed for-ests being cleared and replaced by commercial plantations, which de-

stroyed biodiversity and the capac-ity of forests to conserve water.

Although the Green Belt Move-ment’s tree planting campaign did not initially address the issues of peace and democracy, Maathai said it be-come clear over time that responsible governance of the environment was not possible without democracy.

“Therefore, the tree became a symbol for the democratic struggle in Kenya. Citizens were mobilized to challenge widespread abuses of power, corruption and environ-mental mismanagement,” Maathai said.

President Abbas declares ‘Palestinian Spring’ Associated Press Writer

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Thousands of Palestinians cheering and waving flags gave Presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas a hero’s welcome in the West Bank Sunday, as he told them triumphantly a “Palestinian Spring” had been born following his historic speech to the U.N. last week.

AP Photo/Bernat Armangue

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, left, are seen during Abbas’ welcoming ceremony at the government com-pound, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011.

French left seizes Senate majority, hurts Sarkozy

AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, Pool

French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives on Liberty Island to take part in a ceremony in anticipation of the 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 in New York.

First African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize dies

AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim, File

In this file photo of Aug. 28, 2006 Wangari Maathai, Noble Peace Laureate and conservation hero-ine, is seen in Nairobi, Kenya.

Activities Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for August 31 through October 5, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, 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 Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered 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, sail-ings, 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 beautifully 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

31 Aug Buda Umanis Tambir Sari Bankar Titih Temple Kapal

12 Sep Purnama Ketiga Gunung Sari Temple LombokPauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarKawitan Arya Gajah Para Tianyar KarangasemPedarman Arya Telabah BesakihBukit Mentik TempleGunung Lebah Batur Kintamani

14 Sep Buda Keliwon Matal Village Temple SukawatiMerajan Agung Batuyang - batubulanPasek Gelgel Bebetin Temple Sawan - bulelengMaspahit Temple Sesetan - Denpasar SelatanPasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran - TegalalangPanti Pasek Gaduh Temple SesetanMerajan Pasek Kubayan Wangaya GedePedarman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

24 Sep Tumpek Kandang Puseh Temple GianyarLuhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - TabananMerajan Pasek GelgelTegal Gede Badung

27 Sep Tilem Ketiga Ulun Kulkul TempleUlun Kulkul Besakih

28 Sep Buda Wage Menail Tarukan Temple Cemenggaon SukawatiMr. Pasek Dangke Bambang - BangliPenataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja - GianyarPuseh Menakaji Temple Peninjoan - BangliMerajan Agung Temple Blangsinga - BlahbatuhKawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh GianyarKawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal Mengwi

4 Ock Anggar Kasih Perangbakat Bukit Buluh Temple Gunaksa - KlungkungTirta Sudamala Temple Bebalang - BangliPaibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit - sawan - BulelengPasek Gelgel Temple Pangi Dawan - KlungkungGunung Tengsong LombokDalem Benawah Temple Benawah - GianyarDalem Temple Bitra - GianyarDalem Temple Banyuning Timur - BulelengDalem Pauman Batan Getas Pauman Batan Getas Titih DenpasarTengah Padang TegalalangMerajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - Pupuan TabananKawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Adat Pagan DenpasarHyangaluh/Jenggala BesakihMerajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan GunaksaMr. Pasek Gelgel SelulungMerajan Pasek Subrata MedahanMerajan Pasek Munggu MungguTengkulak Temple Tulikup - GianyarPenataran Badung Ogang Sidemen

5 Ock Buda Umanis Perangbakat Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak SiringRambut Siwi Temple JembranaBatu Bolong Temple Canggu - KutaPasek Marga Klaci Temple TabananAgung Pasek Temple Dauh Waru JembranaRatu Pasek Temple Sangsit Sawan - BulelengPasek Tangkas Darma R. TabananVillage Temple Banyuning BulelengSrijon Temple TabananMr. Pasek Gelgel Lebah PangkungMerajan Pasek Gelgel PatemonTirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak SiringDadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba TegalalangPedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel TabananPuncak Mundi Nusa Penida

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UBUD - Maya Ubud Resort & Spa will host “Wonderful Colors by Trio Masters”, a painting exhibition featuring 30 masterpieces by three Bali based talented artists – Suminarto, Yung Min and Ida Bagus Alit for the month of October 2011.

The artworks on show will present a diversity of visions, techniques, ideas and emotions by each master. They include impressionistic and realistic works by Suminarto, one of Indonesia’s most respected master painters. Suminarto has found inspiration for his work in the unique character and beauty of the faces of Bali, which he believes are influenced by the nature of Bali, the religious and cultural activities of the people.

Yung Min combines wild imagination and precision in his painting, creating out of the ordinary composition between fantasy and reality. His outstanding acrylic paintings are created by brushing the colors layer by layer to get the effect and texture that close to perfection.

While Ida Bagus Alit works feature naïve style which are inspired from the tra-ditional shadow puppet paintings of Mahabharata and Ramayana epics. His unique paintings fascinate artistic community for their humor. His works has been praised, not only locally but also in USA, Japan, Germany, Singapore and Switzerland.

“Wonderful Colors by Trio Masters” exhibition will be held in the Lobby area of Maya Ubud Resort & Spa from October 1st to 31st, 2011.

Wonderful Colors by Trio Masters

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6 News International

All 24 Vietnamese crew mem-bers landed on Friday at Ha-noi’s Noi Bai international airport,Nguyen Truong Son, deputy gen-eral director of the Hoang Son LtdCo, told AFP.

“We had to pay the pirates $2.6million. The money was from ourown company,” said Son, whose

port city of Haiphong.The European Union’s anti-

piracy naval force reported onJanuary 20 that the Hoang SonSun, a 22,835-tonne bulk carrier,

Agence France Presse

Nearly four decades afterthe end of a war which dividedVietnam, a debate over nationalreconciliation between formerfoes has been rekindled by ten-sions with China.

Despite government policiesdesigned to woo its wartime op-

abroad -- those linked to the oldUS-supported regime in SouthVietnam still feel stigmatised bycommunist authorities.

But recent anger at Beijing’sperceived aggression in SouthChina Sea territory has led tounprecedented public recognition

to the country’s giant northernneighbour.

Vietnam, which has a compet-ing claim with China over sover-eignty of the potentially oil-richParacel and Spratly island groups,has objected to what it describedas Chinese harassment of its shipsin the disputed waters.

The issue has stoked national-ist sentiment and in July protest-ers in Hanoi -- the communistnorth’s historic heartland -- heldaloft the names of 74 South Viet-namese troops who died in a 1974battle with Chinese forces in theParacels.

a kind of honour” for soldiersfrom the south, said NguyenXuan Dien, a Hanoi scholar whojoined the anti-China demonstra-

tions, which were unusual inauthoritarian Vietnam.

“I think that the state of Viet-nam should have done that beforethe people,” said Le Hieu Dang,67, an underground communistagent in South Vietnam duringthe war who now works with theHo Chi Minh City FatherlandFront, a coalition of state-linkedsocial and other organisations.

Inspired by the action in Ha-noi, he and other intellectualsin Ho Chi Minh City, formerlySaigon, held their own tribute toall Vietnamese “who died for theterritorial integrity of the nation”in battles against China.

A South Vietnamese navyveteran of the Paracels battle saidthis recognition was “a very goodsignal”.

“These people died protectingthe country, not protecting theSaigon regime.”

On the edge of Ho Chi MinhCity lies a cemetery containingthe graves of hundreds of SouthVietnam’s war dead.

Communist military unitsbased on the burial ground afterthe war were removed in recentyears and the public has been al-lowed to mourn in private.

But the site bears scant resem-

-- occasional maintenance has notstopped tall grass from encroach-ing and while some graves arecared for and adorned with bright

and crumbling.

Associated Press Writer

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyanrevolutionary authorities saythey have discovered a massgrave containing the remainsof 1,270 inmates killed by the

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This photo, provided by the US Navy, shows Somali pirates travelling on their speedboat in Indian Ocean.

Agence France Presse

was believed to have been capturedabout 520 nautical miles south-eastof Muscat.

but Vietnamese-owned.

Somalia, outwitting internationalefforts including constant patrolsby warships and tough sentencingof convicted pirates.

According to Hans Tino Hansen,managing director of Denmark-based Risk Intelligence, the sizeof ransoms paid has steadily risento about $5 million for an average-

sized merchant vessel.Son said the repatriated Viet-

namese sailors will undergo healthchecks.

“We know that some might havebeen affected, physically and men-tally,” he said, but gave no detailsabout the piracy attack or the treat-ment of the crew.

Somali pirates hold at least 49vessels and more than 500 hostages,according to the monitoring groupEcoterra. The United Nations reg-

of 2011.

a 1996 prison massacre.The site was found near Tripo-

li’s Abu Salim prison, where thevictims were killed on June 26,1996, after protesting conditionsat the facility.

The announcement was madeSunday by Dr. IbrahimAbu Sahi-

ma of the government committeeoverseeing the search for victimsof the former regime.

He says investigators foundthe grave two weeks ago aftergetting information from cap-

-nesses.

As reported earlier, replace-ment of conventional citizen iden-tity card to electronic one througha national program was executedto avoid the dual ownership of

identity card or counterfeitingof identity card. This electronicidentity card would be equippedwith a single identity number orSIN. (kmb13)

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A man sells petrol at a station outside Hanoi September 22, 2011.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7Indonesia Today International

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JAKARTA — A 47-year-old housewife who recently started using Islamic alternative cures emerged tearfully from an exor-cism, speaking of newfound tran-quility after a turbulent time in her life. Also, her abdominal pains are finally easing.

Suratmi, who suffers from an ovarian cyst, has been taking a mix of herbal treatments harking back to the dawn of Islam, as well as undergoing exorcisms at a clinic in Jakarta.

She is among a growing number of Muslims in Southeast Asia turn-ing away from Western medical care in favor of al-Tibb al-Nawabi, or Medicine of the Prophet, a loosely defined discipline based on the Quran and other Islamic texts and traditional remedies.

“I heard that so many people have been healed, so I hope Allah can help me. I followed His path here,” said Suratmi, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

The trend in Islamic treatments, cosmetics and toiletries is often as-sociated with fundamentalists who charge that Western, chemically laced prescriptions aim to poison Muslims or defile them with insulin and other medicines made from pigs. Members of terrorist groups have been involved in Islamic rem-edies as healers and sellers, while some clinics are used as recruiting grounds for Islamist causes.

But the bulk of those seeking out Islamic clinics, hospitals and pharmacies appear to be moderate Muslims, reflecting a rise in Islamic consciousness worldwide.

“Islamic medicine carries a cachet that, by taking it, you are reinforcing your faith — and the profits go to Muslims,” says Sidney Jones, an expert on Islam in South-east Asia with the International

Crisis Group.These Islamic products have

become a big business with a cus-tomer base in Southeast Asia alone of roughly 250 million Muslims.

The industry’s advertising is as gimmicky as any in the West.

Capitalizing on the popularity of U.S. President Barack Obama, who spent four of his childhood years in Indonesia, one company produces a popular anti-stress concoction called Obahama — in a corruption of an Indonesian phrase for herbal medicine.

Siwak-F, also exported to the Middle East, is hailed as “tooth-paste just like the Prophet used to use.”

The industry also is going high-tech. Malaysia’s Petronas Univer-sity of Technology is developing an application for mobile devices to query what Islamic remedies are recommended for anything from toothaches to depression, says Han-ita Daud, one of the developers.

Like much of Islamic medicine, it’s grounded on the saying that “Allah did not create a disease for which he did not also create a cure.” This is taken from Prophet Moham-med’s teachings known as hadiths, which along with the Quran make frequent references to diseases, remedies and healthy living.

What is termed classical Islamic medicine developed in medieval times when it far outshone that in Christian Europe, and exerted a significant influence on it.

Practitioners say many ingredi-ents in today’s treatments were used in Mohammed’s time, including honey, olive oil, bee pollen, dates and black caraway — which one ad claims is “a cure for every disease but death.”

In Indonesia, Islamic alterna-tive healing really took off after a government promotional campaign in 2009, says Brury Machendra,

owner of the Insani Herbal Clinic in suburban Jakarta where Suratmi and up to 400 other patients per month seek treatment.

Only one such clinic existed in the Depok suburb two years ago, but now there are 20, with 70 others waiting for government permits.

Machendra, who also is sec-retary-general of the Traditional Herbal Medicine Association of Indonesia, says most Indonesian Muslims don’t doubt conventional medicine. But he says Indonesia’s health services are so poor and ex-pensive that many people seek out alternatives.

His clinic offers herbal medicine, a bloodletting treatment known as bekam and exorcisms in which a white-gloved therapist places a hand on a patient’s head while chanting verses from the Quran.

An exorcism costs about $12, while Machendra’s government-certified herbal products such as the purportedly anti-cancer BioCar-noma and anti-diabetes BioGlukol go for no more than $5 for 60 capsules.

He acknowledges that clinics such as his benefit from traditional Muslim rules forbidding certain ingredients and that many funda-mentalists “tell people not to go to infidel doctors and say that buying Western medicine is forbidden.”

Jemaah Islamiyah, an al-Qaida-linked militant network that is essentially banned in Indonesia, is believed to have links to some herbal manufacturers and operate many of the country’s Islamic medi-cine clinics, International Crisis Group says.

But Jones says the clinics are aimed more at building solidarity among Islamists rather than recruit-ing militants.

Some doctors are trying to bring Muslim elements into the Western tradition.

The Bell 412 chopper was on the way to a Newmont Mining Cor-poration exploration camp on Sumbawa Island in West Nusa Tenggara province when it went missing over the weekend.

Rescue official Ida Bagus Budisma says the wreckage was found Monday in a valley 50 miles (75 kilometers) from the town of Sum-bawa Besar. He says the bodies of both people on board were being evacuated.

Neither of those killed were Newmont employees.Transportation accidents are common in Indonesia, a sprawling

archipelagic nation of 17,000 islands.

Antara

JAKARTA - PT Mandala Airlines, Saratoga Group and Tiger Airways have signed a conditional purchase agreement and various other commercial as well as legal documents.

The signing of all the documents was done on Friday (September 23), PT Mandala Airlines said in a press statement received here on Saturday. Under the agreement, Saratoga Group would act as a fi-nancial investor and Tiger Airways as a corporate strategic investor.

Saratoga would be the major-ity shareholder controlling 51 percent of the company`s shares and Tiger Airways 33 percent.

The rest of the shares was to be held by concurrent creditors and old shareholders. With the sign-ing of the agreement, all parties had moved closer to a settlement of Mandala`s restructuring.

The Mandala`s press state-ment did not mention the value of Saratoga`s 51 percent and Tiger`s 33 percent stakes. Mandala is currently still in the process of restructuring in accordance with Indonesian laws.

The next stage would be fulfill-ing transaction requirements need-ed including the government`s approval so that Mandala could immediately fly again.

Before Manadala could operate again, all of the processes had to be completed in 90 days` time.

Tiger Airways Holdings Ltd. CEO Chin Yau Seng said “we are glad we have reached an agreement on this transaction and hope Man-dala can operate again soon.”

Sandiaga Uno, one of the founders of the Saratoga Group, said “we are very glad about the finalization of the transaction documents and hope Mandala can operate again soon.”

Diono Nurjadi, president di-rector of Mandala Airlines, said he was also relieved that the long process to arrive at the deals had been completed.

“We thank all parties that have helped in the process and the gov-ernment, especially the director general of air transportation, for their full support throughout the process ,” he said.

Diono also expressed hope that Mandala`s plan to fly again could be realized soon. After the change in Mandala`s ownership, the new airline company would follow a Tiger Airways business model, namely offering low cost fares on routes to international and domes-tic destinations that can be reached in five hours` time. Mandala had previously stated it would be using Airbus A320 planes.

AP Photo/Irwin Ferdiansyah

In this photo taken on Aug. 20, 2011, Suratmi, left, receives a treatment at Insani Herbal Clinic in Depok on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia.

Islamic healing is on the rise in Southeast Asia

wreckage of

helicopterAssociated Press

JAKARTA — A rescue official says the wreckage of a helicop-ter hired by a U.S.-mining giant and the bodies of both people on board have been found central Indonesia.

8 InternationalTuesday, September 27, 2011

Bali Today

“Success in the devel-opment of a tourism sitecould be seen from thedevelopment of the localeconomy and improve-ments in the welfare of thelocal people,” the Presi-dent said at the commis-sioning of the Moaro-jambi Temple Complexas an integrated historicaltourism site.

The president hopedthat with its inaugura-tion as an integrated tour-ism area, the MoarojambiTemple Complex wouldgive a chance to the localtourism to develop andlocal people to improvetheir welfare.

Accompanied by FirstLady MrsAniYudodyono,the president said thatIndonesia had since thepast several years initi-ated the development ofancient heritage tourismas announced in the Bud-dhist Borobudur Templein 2007.

The idea was welcomedby otherASEAN membercountries. Now the eventshad been held in Cam-bodia and Los whih alsoowned temples belongingto the ancient civilization,he said.

Yudhoyono said that theJambi regional govern-ment’s plan to develop theMurojambi temple com-plex should be supported,after all, the temple had

been registered by theUNESCO as one of theworld’s historical heri-tages in 2009.

According to Wikipe-dia, the eight temple-likestructures appear to beBuddhist, and were prob-ably built around the 14thcentury.

Archaeologists con-clude that the site was thecenter of Old Jambi, thecapital of ancient Malaykingdom which reignedsupreme about ten centu-ries ago.

The capital was siegedand destroyed in 1377 byarmies from Burma, nowMyanmar.

For centuries, the sitehad been lost and forgot-ten deep in the jungle,only to be rediscovered in1920 by a British militaryexpedition team.

Muara Jambi templecomplex covers an area of12 km2, along the side ofBatanghari river.

There are eight maintemples in the complex,all of them are located in

by walls. Three of themare already renovated.

In 1982, a 32-centime-ters tall female bronzestatue was found at KotoKandis, in the Muara Sa-bak sub district.

It is believed to be thegoddess Laksmi, holdinga lotus bud in her left

IBP

In honor of Indonesia’s Na-tional Batik Day on October 2nd,Quiksilver Indonesia is proud toannounce the release of their newQuiksilver and RoxyAuthentic SurfBatik collections for men, women,teens and kids, available now in allQuiksilver, Roxy, Sogo and Seibustores throughout Indonesia.

Quiksilver Indonesia is theleader in creating and developingbatik products in the surf industryin appreciation of Indonesia’s fas-cinating centuries-old cloth makingtradition, adapting it to fashionableand comfortable modern day ap-parel as more and more people areproudly wearing batik in casualeveryday life.

FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

A policeman guarding in Kuta Beach on Monday, September 26, 2011. Bali’s police depart-ment intesifying security of tourism objects amid the bomb at Solo.

Tourismdevelopment

local economiesAntara

President Susilo BambangYudhoyono said that developmentof tourism should be carried out comprehensively so that it

local people’s welfare.

Quiksilver releases authentic surf Batik collection

“This is our second year ofproducing and releasing our batikcollections in Indonesia in cel-ebration of National Batik Day,and we’ve seen the popularity ofbatik grow by leaps and bounds,not only in Indonesia but worldwide. Batik as a way of decorat-ing fabric is both an art and a craft,

produced here in Indonesia, so asa way to both celebrate and honorthis ancient tradition this year wehave a beautiful new Quiksilverand Roxy Authentic Surf Batikcollection to offer to our custom-ers,” said Quiksilver SEA CEOPaul Hutson.

The Quiksilver men’s ModernBatik collection has strong tieswith traditional batik using motifs

yet with modern shapes and colors,whereas the Batik Pesisir collectionfeatures Chinese motifs such as

and fauna images; both collectionsare available in men’s and youth ba-tik shirts, polo shirts, t-shirts, boxer

The Roxy Eklektik and Le Ka-woeng collections for ladies andteens offer unique interpretationson traditional themes, the Eklektikhaving Polynesian inspired animaland plant motifs whereas the LeKawoeng get its influence fromthe fruit of the Kawung palm tree,

-cance. Both collections are avail-able in skirts, tops, shirts, longpants, dresses, and tees.

Balinese Culture

9International Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Babi Kecap(Pork Cooked in Soya Sauce)

Though Indonesia is an Islamic country, there is some pork available. It is hard to find and most restaurants don’t serve it because any restaurant that cooks pork would have to have completely separate facilities and equipment to prepare it or the restaurant would not be considered halal (clean).

Ingredients

1/2 kg (1 1/4 lb) fillet of pork -or leg of pork 1 tb Clear soya sauce 2 tb Plain flour 1/2 ts Powdered ginger 20 g (4 oz) button mushrooms 4 Cloves garlic

1 sl of root ginger, about 2 cm -(1”) across and 1/2 cm -(1/4”) thick

3 tb Dark soya sauce Pepper or a pinch of chilli -powder 2 tb water 2 tb Medium dry sherry or rice -wine (optional) 2 ts Lemon juice 6 tb Oil or pork fat

DirectionsThis, as its name suggests, is pork cooked in

soya sauce. It is a particular favourite with my own husband and children, who always know when it is about to appear on the table because the ginger and garlic frying in the sauce smell so deliciously savoury.

Cut the pork into small cubes. Put the flour into a bowl and add the clear soya sauce and ginger powder, mixing them well together. Coat the pork with the mixture and then let it stand for at least 30 minutes.

Clean and slice the mushrooms. Peel the garlic and ginger and slice them very thin; you can use these thin slices as they are, or cut them again into very tiny sticks.

Heat the oil or fat in a wok or thick frying pan and fry the meat, half of it at a time, turning it from time to time, for 5 minutes.

Repeat the process for the remaining half of the meat. The flour that coated the meat will tend to stay in the pan or stick to the bottom of it, but leave it there-it will thicken the sauce later. Now take most of the oil out of the pan, leaving only about two tablespoons which you then heat again. In this, fry the tiny slices of garlic and ginger and the mushrooms, stirring continuously, for i minute. Add the soya sauce, the water and the meat. mix well, season with pepper or chilli powder, and stir continuously for 1 or 2 minutes. just before serving, add the sherry or rice wine and the lemon juice. Serve hot.

This dish keeps extremely well in the freezer, and it is worth making a large quantity from, say, half a leg-of pork, which is much cheaper than buying pork fillet. If you are going to freeze your Babi Kecap, however, do not add the sherry or lemon juice at the time of cooking. To serve from the freezer, thaw the meat out completely and heat quickly on a high flame for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring or shaking the pan well all the time. Add the sherry or rice wine and lemon juice just before serving. (http://asiarecipe.com)

Probably, you have watched orare going to watch arja operetta orRamayana Ballet during the visitin Bali. It would be more conve-nient if it is enjoyed while havingdinner of Balinese cuisine. At thesame time, you watch the beautyof culture and taste the delicacyof local culinary. You may hearthe language spoken by playersor puppeteer was not understand-able. Of course, it is Balineselanguage.

As Japanese and Chinese, Ba-linese language also has its owncharacters. They consist of some18 main characters and 10 vowelsounds. Ordinarily, Balinese char-acters are used to write palm-leafmanuscript or lontar. Such char-acters are incised with sharp knifeor stylus. When the writing workshave completed, they should berubbed with a blend of oil andlamp shoot to blacken them. Sothey are visible easily. Since theworks were performed manually,the copying of a manuscript tooka long time.

At a glance, Balinese char-acters look like Old Javanese,Tamil (India). It is inseparablefrom historical aspect where theyhad similarity of genealogicallines. Today, Balinese charactersstill have restricted use, namelyat school for local subject fromelementary school to senior high

school. It is becoming the re-sponsibility of local governmentto preserve and develop Balineselanguage in order it could survivein the midst of the growth of otherlanguages like Bahasa Indonesiaand foreign languages.

Balinese language poses amedium and spirit of Balineseculture. To preserve Balineseculture should also simultaneouslymaintain and use of Balinese lan-guage in daily life. In other words,speaking Balinese language alsocharacterizes one of the identi-ties as a Balinese. Among theuse of other languages, Balineselanguage should remain to give aspace to grow and develop. Otherthan speaking and teaching it atschools, it should also accom-modate the need of modern com-munity or use in wider functionsof language.

Balinese community receivesabundant heritages of lontar orpalm-leaf manuscripts from thepredecessors retained by indi-viduals and museums. They carrymany aspects of knowledge,ranging from philosophy, localhealing, literature, architecture,agriculture, herbal practice, astrol-ogy and so forth. Therefore, if theycould be interpreted and presentedin popular language, they couldbecome attractive informationfor young generation and saleable

books for commercial needs. To-day, there is also a trend of poisingthe tradition with modern sciencenamely by re-interpreting theindigenous wisdoms that are rel-evant to the current time. Peoplewill get balanced inputs from thepast and current orientation.

Of course, such treasures willbe beneficial for the conserva-tion and future development ofBalinese culture because it staysin touch with its original roots.Young generation should be in-troduced to these roots at earlystage. Later, they will not losetheir identity and even could feelproud of it. Moreover, it couldgive them inspiration in making

performance, traditional architec-ture or herbal healings.

Thanks to modern technology,the writing of Balinese charactersnow can be made easy by BaliSimbar font. It is the innovativethinking of I Made Suatjana(1986) lies behind the composingof this font. His work has helpedthe writing of Balinese charactersin word processing applicationlike Microsoft Word. Hopefully,there would be more creativesoftware helping the developmentand learning of Balinese languageso it would not come into extinc-tion or be far left behind with themodern life. (BTN/punia)

Balinese Characters:

From Palm-leaf to Keyboards

Tuesday, September 27, 201110 InternationalDestinations

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Kuta, located in southern Bali, was a sleepy fishing village half a century ago, but it has slowly expanded since the 1960s after its long sandy beach was discovered by travellers from Asia and wandering surfers from nearby Australia.

Nowadays Kuta is quite busy and packed with varied accommodation from four-star hotels to budget hostels. Cheap bars and clubs make it a party centre, while local and international restaurants offer great dining. Kuta also offers shopping aplenty, from the chic beachfront ‘Discovery Shopping Mall’ and Kuta Square to the souvenir shops lining Jalan Kartika Plaza, Jalan Pantai Kuta and up to Legian and Seminyak – all within easy walking distance.

Kuta has its own beauty and attractions and remains one of Indonesia’s major tour-ist destinations; particularly during the peak season from July to August and the holiday season for Christmas and New Year: at these times Kuta will be fully booked by a local younger crowd, Asian travellers and Austra-lian teenagers who are intent on enjoying an affordable vacation in Bali.

Kuta

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11

BUSINESSInternational

Reuters

Boeing’s long-awaited dream machine became a com-mercial reality on Sunday when the lightweight plastic-composites 787

percent fuel savings to airlines struggling to avoid a new recession,and give passengers a more comfortable ride with better cabin air andlarge electronically dimmable windows.

-rier All Nippon Airways three years behind schedule after persistentdelays that cost Boeing billions of dollars.

“It took a lot of hard work to get to this day,” said Scott Fancher,vice president and general manager of the 787 program, at the outsetof two days of celebrations at the plane’s Seattle production plant.

The blue and white-painted long-range aircraft, which boasts agraceful new design with raked wingtips, will leave for Japan onTuesday and enter service domestically on October 26.

Boeing has taken orders for 821 Dreamliners, which will competewith the future Airbus A350, due in 2013.

The much-anticipated handover came a week after another major

contract dispute with the customer. ANA, the world’s ninth largestairline by revenues, plans to coax the airplane into service on domesticroutes before putting it on longer international routes like Frankfurt,Germany.

The aircraft goes 52 percent further than the all-metal Boeing 767which it is designed to replace while using 20 percent less fuel for

In a classic roll of the dice in the high-stakes aerospace industry,Boeing abandoned plans for a sound barrier-chasing “Sonic Cruiser”a decade ago and worked on lighter long-range jets as cash-starved

The resulting composites-based technology proved popular withairlines, forcing Airbus to turn its back on the aluminum airframe forits next generation of jets. Boeing expects this to become the standardfor future passenger planes.

program’s chief project engineer Mike Sinnett.The plane’s lighter weight allows airlines to operate routes even

w777 or 747, or the Airbus 380 superjumbo.

“For aviation we believe this is as important as the 707 was withthe introduction of the jet age,” Fancher said.

He moved to head off any fears over the new materials, stressingtough composites were nothing like ordinary plastic.

“Plastic is what you have on the dashboard of your car. This isnot plastic,” he told reporters.

The 787 development program has been delayed seven timesdue to challenges with engineering, supply chain glitches and a58-day labor strike in 2008. [ID:nS1E78O09V]

“We have been waiting for the 787 for over 3 years as we ex-pected it in the summer of 2008,” said senior vice president SatoruFujiki who took part in negotiations to buy the 787.

“I can’t say the delayed delivery didn’t have any impact butANAand Boeing worked closely to mitigate it,” he said, adding Boeinghad provided alternative jets to meet the shortfall.

ANA has ordered a total of 55 Dreamliners worth $11 billion atcurrent list prices, including 40 of the 260-passenger 787-8 variantbeing delivered this week. #

ANAplans to take delivery of 4 planes in 2011 and an additional8 next year. “By the end of 2017 we will get all our 787’s so it iscatching up on all our deliveries.”

The Seattle Times reported on Sunday that 787 program costshad topped $32 billion due to delays. That estimate raised ques-tions, the newspaper said, over whether the new jet would makemoney for Boeing before “well into the 2020s, if ever.” Boeingdeclined comment.

People’s Bank of China Gov-ernor Zhou Xiaochuan also said

strives to keep growth on track andsteer clear of a “hard landing” forits economy, which is still growingat about 9 percent.

“There has been no major changein China’s overall economic situa-tion, so there is no need for a fun-damental change in the monetary

China Business News.With inflation still hovering

near a three-year high of over 6percent, China’s big challenge isin coping with the massive liquid-

spending sprees both at home and

Zhou said it was too soon to dis-cuss next steps for helping nationsthat use the euro common currencyout of their predicament.

eurozone countries” carrying outanti-crisis measures agreed onby their leaders in late July that

parliaments.“Before that, we can study op-

tions, but it is too early to say howto do the next step,” Zhou said.“First is to look at the choices anddecisions in Europe.”

The so-called BRICS groupingof leading emerging economies— Brazil, Russia, India, Chinaand South Africa — said last weekthey were ready to act through theInternational Monetary Fund and

stabilize the world economy.

gathered for World Bank and IMFmeetings in Washington, gave nodetails.

meetings downplayed any expecta-tions for Beijing to act as a “whiteknight” by using its massive foreignexchange reserves to help rescue in-

institutions.“Major developed countries

should, as soon as possible, presenta clear and credible medium-termadjustment strategy to boost market

posted on the central bank’s web-site.

Gao Xiqing, who heads thesovereign wealth fund China In-

vestment Corp., rebuffed sugges-tions his institution might be ableto rescue the troubled Europeaneconomies.

“As a company, we are respon-sible for maintaining a certain

to Europe and save someone. Wehave to protect ourselves,” the

as saying.Zhou downplayed the possibility

of a widening of China’s own dif--

rowing by local governments.Chinese local governments have

borrowed heavily to build subwaysand other infrastructure. That lend-ing soared after Beijing orderedmassive stimulus spending to fendoff the 2008 global crisis.

Many question whether theprojects will eventually pay forthemselves. But Zhou describedmost of the borrowing as “cost-effective.”

“China’s current debt ratio is nothigh. It is in a controllable range,”he said. “Of course, we do not ruleout risks for some projects, but theywill not cause systemic problems,”he said.

Reuters

The deterioratingoutlook for the world economy, andwhat retailers can do to cope, arelikely to be the dominant themes atthe annual World Retail Congressin Berlin this week.

Executives from companiesincluding France’s Carrefour , Brit-

-man Marcus and India’s RelianceIndustries , will be discussing a

Europe and the United States.Shoppers are curbing spending

amid fears major economies arefalling back into recession and a

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sovereign debt crisis in the euro

markets meltdown.Retailers are traditionally wary

of stepping into the political arenafor fear of alienating some of theircustomers. But as the outlook de-teriorates, they may become morevociferous in calling for policymak-ers to take action to boost growth,such as easing monetary policy orslowing down the pace of austeritymeasures.

Planet Retail research directorRobert Gregory thought much ofthe focus at the three-day confer-ence would also be on how com-panies can cope by, for example,

maximizing their potential in stillgrowing subsectors like onlineretailing and tapping relativelyundeveloped markets, like thosein Africa.

“Multichannel and best practicewill be among the major talk-ing points,” he said, referring tostore-based retailers’ attempts tointegrate their businesses with theinternet.

It will not all be doom andgloom either, as retailers will bepresent from fast-growing marketslike India and Brazil.

India’s Reliance Retail said lastweek it saw same-store sales rising

Entertainment InternationalTuesday, September 27, 201112

“If ‘Abduction’ works, he’s a movie star,” an individual with ties to the Lautner camp told The-Wrap Friday, before the movie’s box office numbers came in. And if it didn’t have a big opening? “Studios are certainly not going to greenlight a $50 million movie with him in the lead.”

With Lautner’s name leading the development of several studio tentpole projects -- notably Univer-sal’s “Stretch Armstrong” -- that sentiment could become an issue.

Certainly, with Lionsgate winning a bidding war for the

“Abduction” script, and produc-ing the film itself on a budget of around $35 million, the movie was a gamble for Lautner, too. Although he was a proven com-modity in the “Twilight” movies, he had never carried a film on his own. Lautner’s gamble illustrates how tricky it is to manage the ca-reer of a young actor who wants to be a movie star -- like now.

“If you’re 20 years-old, there’s no rush to be the only guy in the movie, because you’re the only guy it gets pinned on when it fails,” said an agent who handles

young actors. “And I don’t think at 20, whether you’re an actor or a student, anyone is ready for that pressure.”

Contrast Lautner’s career choices to those of his “Twilight” co-star, Robert Pattinson. Sure, Pattinson has made some ques-tionable decisions, including last year’s critical miss, low-budget romantic drama “Remember Me” for Summit.

But Pattinson also starred in the acclaimed drama “Water for Elephants,” surrounding himself with Oscar winners Reese With-erspoon and Christoph Waltz, and nominees Hal Holbrook and writer Richard LaGravenese. “Pattinson seems to be making choices that are based on artistic merit,” a high-profile film producer told The-Wrap. “Taylor is making choices on commercial merit.”

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt was unable to put the cat out of first place at the weekend box office.

Walt Disney’s “The Lion King” reissue was No. 1 for the second-straight weekend with $22.1 million, according to studio es-timates Sunday. That puts it just ahead of Pitt’s baseball drama “Moneyball,” a Sony Pictures release that opened at No. 2 with $20.6 million.

Debuting closely behind at No. 3 was the Warner Bros. family film “Dolphin Tale” with $20.3 million. “Dolphin Tale” stars Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman.

The 3-D reissue of 1994’s “The Lion King” has taken in $61.7 million since opening the previous weekend to a much bigger audience than expected. That’s on top of nearly $800 million worldwide the movie made in its original run and a 2002 re-release.

The film has done so well that Disney plans to leave it in theaters longer than the two-week run the studio initially planned as a prelude to its Blu-ray home-video debut Oct. 4, said Dave Hollis, Disney’s head of distribution.

The studio has not yet decided how long or how widely the film would play theatrically after the Blu-ray release, Hollis said.

“Consumers I think will be happy to consume it in multiple ways for this kind of franchise, as they have for the last 17 years,” Hollis said. “The Lion King” held up well despite a rush of four new wide releases this weekend.

“Twilight” co-star Taylor Lautner’s action tale “Abduction” opened at No. 4 with $11.2 million. The Lionsgate release casts Lautner as a teen hurtled into a world of espionage as he tries to uncover the mystery of his past.

Reuters

LOS ANGELES - Don’t look for Morgan Freeman at any Tea Party events anytime soon. Un-less he’s there to protest them. The “Invictus” star condemns the Tea Party political movement as “a racist thing” for trying to oust Pres. Barack Obama from office on Friday’s edition of “Piers Morgan Tonight.”

“Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term,” Freeman noted. “What underlines that? ‘Screw the country. We’re going to what-ever we can to get this black man outta here.’”

Dismissing Morgan’s sugges-tion that the Tea Party’s motiva-tions might be merely political, Freeman asserted, “It is a racist thing.”

The actor went on to say that the Tea Party agenda “just shows the weak, dark, underside of America … We’re supposed to be better than that.”

Asked if he was disappointed that Obama hasn’t taken a tough-er stance against the right-wing, Freeman, who endorsed Obama in the 2008 presidential elec-tion, admitted: “Kind of, but I understood that he was trying to hold onto his own promise that he would be president of all the people.”

Morgan Freeman says Tea Party is “a racist thing”

‘Lion King’ chases off Brad Pitt to remain No. 1

Casey Rodgers/AP Images for Time Warner Cable

In this photo taken by AP Images for Time Warner Cable, guests pose before a Time Warner Cable and Disney screening of “The Lion King” 3D at The El Capitan Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, in Los Angeles.

Lautner’s action career starts slowly in “Abduction”

Reuters

LOS ANGELES - So much for Taylor Lautner being a big action star -- at least for now. The “Twilight” hunk’s turn as a Jason Bourne-like mover and shaker in Lionsgate’s “Abduction” opened to just $11.2 million -- enough probably for the studio to make its money back, but not enough to launch Lautner into action-hero stardom.

REUTERS/Fred Prouser

Actor Taylor Lautner arrives for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) Annual Installation Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California August 4, 2011.

International Tuesday, September 27, 2011 13Science

According to Mail Online, physi-cists at CERN research institute near Geneva, Switzerland, conducted an experiment in which they sent a beam of neutrinos 500 miles from their facility to a lab in Italy. The scientists discovered the neutrinos had arrived 60 billionth of a second quicker than the speed of light.

The physicists themselves were bewildered, but their findings were checked stringently, and the results were based on three years of mea-surements. They put their results out to the scientific community so their conclusion could be confirmed.

In the United States, Fernilab has already performed its own ex-

periment, called MINOS, and also clocked the neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light back in 2007. The researchers did not release their findings, as the margin of error was greater than the one reported in the CERN experiment.

If the CERN findings are con-firmed, it will change everything we know about the basics of physics and essentially the way our world and the universe works altogether. Did you know that anything that goes faster than the speed of light also goes backward in time?

For years it’s been said back-wards time travel was not possible because of the fact that it is physi-

cally impossible to go faster than the speed of light. Imagine the possibilities if it was discovered that this theory is not true.

Throughout time, discoveries have been made that have changed the way we look at our planet and the entire universe. We can’t be so narrow-minded to assume that everything we’ve been taught up to this point about physics and the world we live in is correct and will not change in the future.

It wasn’t so long ago that we all thought out earth was flat and people believed if they sailed far enough they would fall off the edge of the world. This was believed for thousands of years; when it was finally discovered that our planet was actually round, it changed everything.

Reuters

People who eat fish a few times each week are slightly less likely to suffer a stroke than those who only eat a little or none at all, according to an international analysis. The omega-3 fatty ac-ids in fish may lower stroke risk through their positive effects on blood pressure and cholesterol, wrote Susanna Larsson and Nicola Orsini of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute in the journal Stroke.

Their analysis was based on 15 studies conducted in the United States, Europe, Japan and China, each of which asked people how frequently they ate fish, then fol-lowed them for between four and 30 years to see who suffered a stroke.

“I think overall, fish does pro-vide a beneficial package of nutri-ents, in particular the omega-3s, that could explain this lower risk,” said Dariush Mozaffarian, a Harvard School of Public Health epidemiologist whose research

was included in the analysis.“A lot of the evidence comes

together suggesting that about two to three servings per week is enough to get the benefit.” Vitamin D, sele-nium, and certain types of proteins in fish may also have stroke-related benefits, he added. Data for the analysis came from close to 400,000 people aged 30 to 103.

Over anywhere from a few years to a few decades, about 9,400 people had a stroke. Eating three extra servings of fish each week was linked to a six-percent drop in stroke risk, which trans-lates to one fewer stroke among a hundred people eating extra fish over a lifetime.

The people in each study who ate the most fish were 12 percent less likely to have a stroke than those that ate the least. Mozaffar-ian’s report separated the effects of different kinds of fish and found that people who ate more fried fish and fish sandwiches, not surprisingly, didn’t get any stroke benefit.

SOUTH Korea’s Samsung Elec-tronics, the world’s second-largest mobile phone maker after Nokia, said it had sold 10 million Galaxy S II smartphones worldwide since the device debuted in April. Sales of the new model, an upgraded version of the firm’s flagship smartphone, had doubled in two months after hitting the five-million mark in July, the company said on Sunday.

The new device was released locally on April 29 and in some Eu-ropean countries in May. It also went on sale in China in July before hitting

the US market in September. “In just five months the Galaxy S II has seen tremendous growth, reflecting strong support from carrier partners,” JK Shin, the head of the firm’s mobile device unit, said in a statement.

Shin said earlier this year that Samsung planned to sell globally more than 10 million of the phones, powered by Google’s Android op-erating system and spearheading the firm’s smartphone push this year. Sales at home amounted to 3.6 million followed by 3.4 million in Europe and 2.3 million in rest of

Asia, the company said.The firm, one of the world’s ma-

jor mobile phone sellers competing against companies like Apple, has sold more than 14 million of its Galaxy S smartphone which was released in June 2010.

Samsung and Apple are at log-gerheads in a series of patent lawsuits over the technology and design of their smartphones and tablet computers. Despite their legal battles, Apple is one of the biggest customers for Samsung’s chips and display screens.

Samsung says 10 million Galaxy S II handsets sold

Prospect of Faster-Than-Light Travel Could Open New World

In a startling new discovery, the European Organization for Nuclear Research says is has defied the law of physics and Albert Einstein’s time-tested theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

REUTERS/Matt Cardy/pool

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha look at the fish counter inside the fish shop “Fresh From The Sea” in Port Isaac, south west England August 21, 2011.

the risk of strokes?

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Juventus, who drew 1-1 at Catania, stayedunbeaten and share the Serie A lead with Udi-nese, who are also undefeated after a goallessstalemate at Cagliari. The two sides have eightpoints from four games. Promoted Atalantaremain the only other unbeaten team after a2-1 win over Novara with goals from MatiasSchelotto and Luca Cigarini.

They have the best playing record withthree wins and a draw but have only fourpoints after having six deducted before the

scandal. Genoa’s unbeaten record ended whenthey lost 2-1 at Chievo, who also beat Napoliin midweek.

Striker Rodrigo Palacio, recalled byArgen-tina last week after a three-year absence, putGenoa ahead just after halftime with his fourthgoal in as many games. Sergio Pellisier levelledfor Chievo in the 74th minute and DavideMoscardelli scored a stoppage-time winner.

Siena beat Lecce 3-0 helped by a brace fromEmanuele Calaio after Mattia Destro openedthe scoring, while Lazio and Palermo playedout a goalless draw.

ATTACKING FOOTBALL

Luis Henrique has promised to turn

Europa League elimination at the hands of

Slovan Bratislava followed by failure to

put him under pressure. The only excite-

Francesco Totti’s shot was pushed ontothe post by Antonio Mirante.

The second half was a different story asOsvaldo headed in from Aleandro Rosi’s

of the play but lost their grip towardsthe end. Parma poured forward but a

some desperate defending from NicolasBurdisso and Gabriel Heinze kept Roma’sgoal intact.

Juventus fell behind after 21 minutesat Catania, Alejandro Gomez supplyinga low cross which was turned into thenet by his fellow Argentine GonzaloBergessio.

Serbian striker Milos Krasic equalisedfour minutes after the re-start with a right-foot shot which was badly misjudged bygoalkeeper Mariano Andujar, anothermember of the Argentine contingent inthe Sicilian side.

Juve had a let-off late in the game whena mistake by Giorgio Chiellini set up achance for David Suazo but the Honduranwas foiled by Gianluigi Buffon.

Reuters

BERLIN - In-form BayernMunich host Manchester City intheir Champions League GroupA game on Tuesday knowingthat victory against the team thatlooks like their direct group rivalswill put them in the driving seat.Bayern go into their second groupgame in scintillating form, havingwon their last nine games in allcompetitions without concedinga single goal. They also won theirgroup opener at Villarreal twoweeks ago to lead the standings.

While Bayern have historicassociations with the city of Man-chester, they are linked to Unitedrather than City. United’s 1958 aircrash in Munich that decimatedthe team and the 1999 Champi-

snatched a last-gasp victory over

in Munich.But Bayern are more eager to

look ahead than back, with this

to be held in the Bavarian capitaland Bayern eager for a shot at a

currently in the only team that canbeat us is ourselves,” said Bayerncaptain Philipp Lahm after their3-0 league win over Bayer Le-verkusen on Saturday.

Bayern also saw the return ofDutch wingerArjen Robben, whohad been out since late Augustwith a groin injury. He could nothave hoped for a better comebackhimself as he scored the thirdgoal 12 minutes after coming on.Mario Gomez is also expected tostart again after playing againstLeverkusen, following a briefabsence due to a groin injury.

hugely motivated and I am veryoptimistic,” said club CEO Karl-

the favourites in the group to-gether with us so it would begreat if we could beat them onTuesday.”

Roma win at last, Juventus, Udinese stay unbeaten

AP Photo/Marco Vasini

AS Roma Daniel Osvaldo, of Argentina, center, celebrates with teammates after scoring against Parma during their Italian Serie A soccer match at Tardini stadium in Parma, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011.

Reuters

MILAN - AS Roma broke their duck under new coach Luis Enrique

charge at the sixth attempt. Striker Pablo Osvaldo’s second-half headerwas enough for ambitious Roma who still had to withstand a late pound-ing from the hosts.

Bayern eye group domination with win over City

AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson

Munich’s Arjen Robben of the Nether-lands celebrates after scoring his side’s

third goal during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between FC

Bayern Munich and Bayer 04 Leverkusen in southern Germany, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011.

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Wor ld numbe r 10 Tsongashowed he had a strong serveof his own, firing 14 aces pastLjubicic, and he broke six timesto secure his first t i t le sinceprevailing in Tokyo almost twoyears ago.

Ljubicic, who had not droppedserve on his way to the final,trailed 4-5 in the second set butheld serve to force a tiebreak thathe won 7-4.

The effort cost the Croat dearlyand he gradually ran out of steamagainst the 2008 Australian Openrunner-up.

Tsonga seals sixth title with Metz win over LjubicicReuters

METZ, France - France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga clinched his sixthATP title when he beat big-serving Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 6-3 6-7

Jo Wilfr ied Tsonga from France holds his tro-

phy after defeating Ivan Ljubicic from Croatia

in the f inal of the ATP “Open de Moselle” ten-nis tournament in Metz, eastern France, Sunday,

Sept. 25, 2011. AP Photo/Mathieu Cugnot

Tsonga, whose career hasbeen hampered by injuries,sealed the win when Ljubicicserved a double fault.

Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA — Tiger Woods hashired Joe LaCava to be his third full-time caddie. LaCava decided to leaveDustin Johnson, one of the most talentedyoung Americans, to go to work for theformer world No. 1 who hasn’t won inthe last two years. According to a storyposted on Woods’website Sunday night,LaCava approached Woods and hisagent, Mark Steinberg, about the job.

“This was an important decision,and I wanted to think about it care-fully,” Woods said in the story. “Also,out of deference for the FedEx CupPlayoffs, I decided to wait until theywere concluding to have substantivetalks. We then spoke to Joe and cameto an agreement.

“Joe is an outstanding caddie, and Ihave known him for many years. I’vepersonally seen the great job he did forFreddie (Couples). I’m anxious for usto be working together.” David Winkle,Johnson’s agent at Hambric Sports

was going to work for Woods and asearch for a new caddie would beginimmediately.

“Needless to say, Dustin and I werecompletely surprised, as they have en-joyed a great relationship and have been

very successful together,” Winkle said.“Nonetheless, we think highly of Joe,both as a caddie and a person, which is

wish him nothing but the best with hisnew employer.”

LaCava was the longtime caddie forCouples, a relationship that ended inthe summer because Johnson was look-ing for a caddie and Couples’ playingschedule was being reduced because ofhis health. Swing coach Butch Harmonrecommended LaCava to Johnson, andsaid Sunday night he was “shocked” bythe change.

“The thing that bothered me the mostwas T.W. not calling Dustin and askingif he could talk to Joe,” said Harmon,who used to work with Woods. “That’sthe way it’s done. I’m a little disap-pointed with the way Tiger handled it.But I’m not surprised.”

The post on Woods’ website saidhe talked to Johnson after LaCavainformed his employer he was leavingto work with Woods. The website storyalso said Woods spoke to Couples aboutthe decision.

Woods fired Steve Williams afternearly 13 years this summer after Wil-liams worked for Adam Scott whileWoods was recovering from a kneeinjury.

Woods to hire Dustin Johnson’s caddie

AP Photo/David J. Phillip

In this April 5, 2010, photo, Tiger Woods shakes hands with Fred Couples’ caddie, Joe LaCava, during a practice round for the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga.

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Vettel utterly dominated the majority of the race. The Red Bull man was a second per lap faster than his pursuers at first, and though the pack closed up with a mid-race safety car after Michael Schumacher clipped Sergio Perez and was launched into a violent accident - from which he emerged unhurt - Vettel had a cushion of backmark-ers behind him at the restart and was eight seconds clear again after just one lap.

McLaren driver Button started closing in with some very rapid late laps, but Vet-tel always appeared to have everything under control as he clinched his ninth win of the season.

Button had claimed second with a quick start, while Vettel’s front row partner team-mate Mark Webber got away slowly. Lewis Hamilton challenged Webber down

the inside in the second McLaren but ran out of space and fell as low as eighth, while Fernando Alonso took his Ferrari around the outside of everyone to grab third from fifth on the grid.

Webber twice passed Alonso on the road, having to get back ahead after the Ferrari reclaimed third in the first pitstops following an on-track exchange. But a bold dive into the Turn 10 chicane amid traffic on the restart lap secured Webber’s third place and he pulled away thereafter.

Hamilton had a highly eventful run to fifth. He quickly recovered from being wrong-footed on the first lap but then clipped Felipe Massa while racing with the Ferrari immedi-ately after the first stops. The McLaren picked up both wing damage and a penalty, while Massa was left with a puncture.

A fightback charge from Hamilton took him from a post-drive-through 15th to fifth in the end, helped by the safety car closing him onto the lead pack again. A string of DRS passes got him back into the top five, though having to pit for another set of tyres while those behind him did not meant Ham-ilton had to make a lot of his moves twice before his top five finish was secure.

Paul di Resta secured the best result of his Formula 1 career so far in sixth for Force India. A very long first stint and the ability to make his second and final stop just as the safety car came out got him ahead of Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg and the second Force India of Adrian Sutil. Massa fell to 20th following the clash with Hamilton, before clawing his way back through to salvage some points in ninth.

Perez’s Sauber was undamaged in the incident with Schumacher, which happened when the Mercedes was com-ing back through after a pitstop, and he finished 10th.

SINGAPORE, Sept 25 (Reuters) - A simmering feud between Formula One’s Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa threat-ened to explode on Sunday when the pair clashed again under the Singapore floodlights. Massa, already fuming from an incident in qualifying, was furious and con-fronted Hamilton after the grand prix during which the Briton’s McLaren had clipped his Ferrari while attempting to pass.

Hamilton collected a drive-through penalty for causing the collision but still finished the race fifth while the Brazilian, who limped back to the pits with a punc-tured rear tyre, was ninth and blamed Hamilton for “destroying” his race.

Massa was unable to mask his anger.

Spotting Hamilton sipping from a drinks bottle in front of TV camera crews and reporters in a roped-off media pen, he slapped his rival on the shoulder spinning him round before offering a sarcastic ‘thumbs-up’ sign and telling him ‘good job, very good job’.

A stony-faced Hamilton wisely thought better of responding, and immediately stalked off to his team’s motorhome without speaking to Massa or the media. Massa, though, was more forthright. Just 24 hours after having accused the Briton of “not using his mind” in qualifying, he again vented his anger.

“I told you yesterday that he cannot use his mind... even in qualifying, so

you can imagine in the race,” the Bra-zilian said. “In qualifying he tried to do a Superman on the out-lap, you know? And today he tries to do the same in the race.”

Sweat dripping from his face in the Singapore heat, Massa continued: “He could have caused a big accident. He touched my wheel on a straight -- 300 kph, and he punctured my tyres, so he destroyed my race.” “(He paid) for that because he had the drive-through, (but) that’s the problem. He doesn’t under-stand even paying for a problem,” said Massa.

NOTHING PERSONAL

“It is important the FIA (governing body) is looking, and penalises him all the time he is going in the car, because he cannot be thinking about it.” Massa looked exasperated when asked if he would speak to Hamilton about the situ-ation.

“I tried. But he don’t listen to me... he don’t listen maybe to even his father, so you imagine myself.” Hamilton, who has repeatedly had to defend his aggressive style while also making regular trips to the stewards, and Massa have been at odds since the Monaco Grand Prix in May.

The two collided in that race, with Massa retiring. The Brazilian, who lost out to Hamilton by a single point in the 2008 championship won by the McLaren man, called on the FIA after that to teach the Briton a lesson “or he will not learn”.

Furious Massa blasts Hamilton

Vettel on brink of title

AP Photo/Toru Takahashi

Sebastian Vettel moved to the brink of a second title by winning the Singapore Grand Prix, but Jenson Button’s runner-up finish meant the German was one point shy of the championship lead he required to wrap things up for 2011.

SebastianVettel

AP Photo/Tim Chong, Pool

Pit crew change tires for Ferrari driver Felipe Massa of Brazil during a pit stop during the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011.