Fourteen foreigners were among those killed in the attack, the worst incident of its kind in Thai history. It dealt a fresh blow to a tourism industry recovering from the impact of political protests last year.

We are confident that the main motive for this crime was Thai author-ities destroying the human trafficking network, police chief Somyot Pump-anmuang told a news conference.

No group has claimed responsi-bility for the attack and police have repeatedly said they did not believe militants were involved, ruling out a motive of revenge for the repatriation in July of 109 Muslim Uighur people to China.

The Uighur issue is sensitive for the government and any link between the bomb and the deportation at Chinas behest could expose it to criticism that its foreign policy led to the blast.

Uighurs, who are mostly Mus-lim, say they flee Chinas western Xinjiang region due to persecution. Beijing rejects that. For the second time in a month, Somyot appeared with three thick blocks of banknotes stacked in front of him and said the 3 million baht ($83,000) was a reward for his investigators. While ruling out

international militants, Somyot said there may be a link between the blast and Thailands long-running political divisions through an individual hired to help the suspects in the attack.

That person may have been in-volved in bombings during political turmoil in 2010 and 2014, he said.

We cannot rule out this motive, that this may be politically driven, he said, giving no further details.

Authorities said on Friday a man they arrested in August - referred to both as Bilal Mohammed and Adem Karadag - had confessed and was the yellow-shirted suspect seen in security footage placing a backpack at the shrine moments before the blast. A second arrested man used a mobile phone to trigger the bomb, police have said. (rtr)

E X T O R -TION, black-mail and in-timidation are against the law in Indo-

nesia. Allega-tions of extortion

and black mail in recent cases involv-ing foreigners are at public issue, especially as they impact the image

of Bali as a tourist destination. Un-fortunately extortion and blackmail are not new in Bali.

Other than the case of a Badung traffic policeman asking for money to buy beer and money for the state that was made famous after images of the incident were uploaded onto You-Tube, Australians have also spoken out about a case of extortion alleged to have been committed by personnel

of the Kuta Police that resulted in the officers changing posts.

Most recently were the alleged extortion cases committed by an im-migration officer (even though the case was finally judged to be grati-fication rather than extortion) as well as another case that was filmed and uploaded to YouTube showing entrance ticket mafia operating in Kintamani.

Indeed this is all very embarrassing. Hiking the price of admission tickets to tourist areas may seem trivial, but the impact is tremendous. Kintamani relies very heavily on revenue from entrance ticket sales; therefore they regionally generated revenue is harmed by the actions of such unscrupulous employ-ees. Moreover, such actions impact the overall trust that tourists have towards tour guides who are the face of tourism

in Bangli and elsewhere. Officials of this cool town should respond to the daily complaints made by travelers. These complaints are not solely re-lated to ticketing issues either; lack of public toilets is another matter that could have serious impacts on tourism in the area if officials do not deal with the matter.

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LONDON - The new James Bond theme song, Writings On The Wall, was released Friday, with fans of singer Sam Smith hailing it as a classic, though others were less compli-mentary. The release comes a month before Spectre, starring Daniel Craig as Bond, is released in Britain and Ireland on October 26 before a worldwide release on November 6.

Bond legend Roger Moore, who starred in seven of the films, praised Smith on Twitter for his very haunting and wonderfully orchestrated song.

But a number of critics likened the song to Michael Jack-sons Earth Song and commented disparagingly on Smiths claim that it only took 20 minutes to write.

Grammy award winner Smith is the first British male solo singer to sing the 007 theme since Tom Jones sang Thunder-ball in 1965. The pressure to deliver a Bond song that stands against all the rest feels quite intense, the British singer told The Sun newspaper in an interview Friday.

The 23-year-old added that the movies director Sam Men-des had a say over the songs lyrics and made sure that Bond didnt sound weak, that he still sounded powerful.

Ajay Chowdhury of the James Bond International Fan Club said the song had automatically achieved classic Bond song status.

There are three types of Bond song: the big, bombastic showstopper exemplified by Shirley Basseys Goldfinger, the dark, melancholic, regretful ballad of which Nancy Sinatras You Only Live Twice is an example and finally, the heroic rock anthem like Paul McCartneys Live And Let Die, he said. Sam Smiths song belongs to the second of these categories.

Meanwhile, Stephen Jones, a music commentator, tweeted: Am I alone in thinking the new Sam Smith Bond theme is reminiscent of Michael Jacksons Earth Song? Numerous other tweets suggested that he was not. (afp)

The previous record holder was Hotel Transylvania which opened to $42.5 million in 2012.

It really is something the whole family can agree to see. There are laughs for adults, kids, and teenagers as well, said Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distribution for Sony.

According to the studio, an esti-mated 59 percent of audiences were female and 60 percent were under the age of 25. Paul Dergarabedian, a Senior Media Analyst for box office tracker Rentrak, noted that the film capitalized on early excitement for Halloween. Its also serving an audi-ence eager for more family friendly animated content.

This year hasnt been oversatu-rated with family animated films, it seems like virtually all have done well, he said.

The film, which cost around $80

million to make, features the voices of Adam Sandler, Mel Brooks, Selena Gomez and Kevin James and is the only animated feature on the market until Peanuts opens in November.

The Intern, a PG-13 rated work-place comedy starring Anne Hatha-way and Robert De Niro, took second with a solid $18.2 million.

Audiences for the Nancy Meyers written and directed film were 62 percent women and 88 percent over the age of 25. Significantly, 55 percent were over 50-years-old an audi-ence that doesnt typically rush out to see films on opening weekend.

Nancy Meyers is her own brand and I think that automatically ac-cesses an audience who looks at it and thinks this is a movie I want to see, said Jeff Goldstein, an execu-tive vice president at Warner Bros., of the veteran filmmaker known for

films like Its Complicated.Here we have a real hit, he

said.Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

took third place in its second weekend in theaters with $14 million a 54 percent drop from its opening. The film has brought in $51.7 million to date.

Everest, meanwhile, landed in fourth place with only $13.1 million after expanding nationwide. The fact-based adventure film opened only on IMAX and premium large format 3D screens last weekend.

The well-reviewed border drama Sicario is also dividing audience attentions. It cracked the top 10 with $1.8 million from only 59 theaters.

Hope isnt lost for Everest, though. Internationally, it has earned $73.7 million to date. Also, with a solid A CinemaScore, word of mouth should be strong in the coming weeks, despite the direct competition of next weeks The Walk, another vertigi-nous, event film that will take over IMAX screens. (ap)

Sam Smiths new Bond theme released

to mixed reviews

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This image released by Sony Pictures Animation shows Dennis, voiced by Asher Blinkoff, left, and Dracula, voiced by Adam San-dler, in a scene from in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Anima-tions Hotel Transylvania 2.

Hotel Transylvania 2 bites off September record

LOS ANGELES September has a new box office star in Hotel Transylvania 2. The PG-rated animated pic earned a robust $47.5 million in its debut weekend, making it the top September opener of all time, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday.

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Spain: Catalan secession parties triumph but face problems

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Thai national police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang (C) attends a news conference about the Bangkok blast which killed 20 people, including foreigners, as screen shows suspects, at the Royal Thai Police headquarters in central Bangkok, Thailand, September 28, 2015.

Thai police reiterate crackdown was motive for bombing

BANGKOK - Thai police reiterated on Monday the motive for a deadly bombing at a shrine in Bangkok in August was revenge for a crackdown on human trafficking and they again showed wads of cash that would be used as a reward for their investigators.

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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 Galungan, 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 beau-tifully 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.

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SEMINyAK - Demonstrat-ing an ongoing commitment to preserve its beautiful natural surrounds, Anantara Seminyak Bali Resort proudly took part in the annual International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) project on Seminyak Beach on 19 September 2015.

Ocean Conservancys In-ternational Coastal Cleanup project has developed over the past 28 years to become the worlds largest volunteer effort for ocean health. Each year millions of eco-friendly warriors from all over the world help to clear waste from the shores of lakes, streams, rivers and oceans. Thanks to these eco volunteers recording every article collected, Ocean Conservancy gains accurate insights into the manufactured items which are impacting our planets health.

For this years Interna-t iona l Coas ta l Cleanup ,

Anantara Seminyak Bali Resort, together with the Bali Hotels Association, as well as other resorts and local schools in Seminyak, gathered at 7:00 am to spend two hours cleaning Seminyak Beach. The Green Army covered a distance of two kilometres, picking up all kinds of rubbish along the way. Plastic bags, containers, cutlery, cans, cigarettes and household waste, along with abandoned shoes and fishing debris, were just some of the 11,965 items collected. The total trash haul weighed in at over 170 kilogrammes.

As a Green Globe Certi-fied hotel, Anantara Seminyak Bali Resort is committed to environmental, social and cul-tural preservation. The resort is constantly striving to find new ways to protect our precious planet, and this eco-friendly activity is just one of the many

local, national and international initiatives that the property is involved with.

Clinton Lovell, General Manager of Anantara Semi-nyak Bali and Executive Di-rector of Environment for the Bali Hotels Association stated, Thank you to Anan-taras green team and all the eco warriors who participated in the International Coastal Cleanup project this year. They successfully transformed the image of Seminyaks coast-line, enabling beach lovers to enjoy the pleasure of pristine sands. Even more importantly, it prevented a huge amount of rubbish from polluting the Indian Ocean. We hope that locals and tourists alike will take note of our achievements and be even more considerate about the items they purchase and how they dispose of their garbage, and go on to spread the word.

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in ICC 2015Yet another issue that needs serious attention is the number of unlicensed travel agencies that pro-vide transportation for for-eign tourists with private vehicles. Many tour guides operating mini-buses are caught red-handed and in some cases guides and drivers are tried in court. Many tourism transport cases however never make it to court because the perpetrators simply bribe the police officers who stopped them rather than face legal repercussions. Such extortion is one of many types that is directly related to tourism.

Allegations of extor-tions beyond the sphere of tourism are also common knowledge in some places. Aside from harbors like Gilimanuk, Padangbai and at the airport, widespread bribery is also present in freight harbours that often allow goods or even people to pass through without following procedure. For example, such cases often occur at night in the area around Ubungs cargo ter-minal. Many trucks and other vehicles carrying tons of goods pass through this urban area without having gone through the cargo terminal.

Police officers are not the only ones to be blamed, as overload trucks are clearly in breach of the law which has clear parameters for freight loads.

There is an equal amount of illegal activity on the ad-ministrative end of things, with indications of bribery being common place in the application process for drivers licenses, vehicle registration, unique license plate, passport applications and for arrangement of oth-er permits in government offices. This is also com-mon knowledge given that prices for driving license, vehicle taxes, passports and other licenses have been of-ficially announced and are often posted publicly in this government office. (asa)

BANGLI tourism is shocked by the publication of two videos entitled Extortion of Ticket Mafia in Kinta-mani that has been widely circulat-ing on the video sharing website You-Tube. In the two videos which have a duration of 2:05 and 2:36 minutes respectively, a tour guide is seen ex-pressing his anger towards a security guard and ticket booth attendant for not giving out the same number of tickets as the number of tourists who he was transporting.

Both videos were uploaded to You-Tube by Dompol Made on September 19. In the video entitled Extortion of Ticket Mafia in Kintamani, part 1, we see the angry tour guide in front of the ticket booth as he emotionally questions the discrepancy between the 8 tickets that were paid for and the 4 tickets that were issued. In the video, the tour guide also complaints that such fraudulent practices had been occurring repeatedly.

In response to the complaints of the tour guide, the old security guard in blue uniform later identified as Jro Dan-gka Glenoh then apologize. He argued that the four missing tickets could be collected at the ticket booth.

In Extortion of Ticket Mafia in Kin-tamani -part 2, several of the security

guards colleagues that had been inside the ticket booth, come out to defend him. The tour guide who remains quite emotional does not back down and goes on to say that this unscrupulous prac-tice that has been going on for some time, tarnishes the image of tourism in Bali.

After the release of the two videos, a number of Bangli legislators from the Bangli House of Representatives, immediately followed up on the case by conducting a raid at one of the Kintamani ticket booths on Monday, (Sep, 21).

The raid was led by the Chairman of the Bangli House of Representative, Ngakan Kutha Parwata, accompanied by Deputy Chairman Komang Carles and members of the Commission II. After the inspection of the ticket booth, Kutha Parwata then asked for clarifica-tions from Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, and security guard Jro Dangka Glenoh related to the extortion videos.

In his explanation, Jro Dangka Gle-noh admitted that the incident in the video happened on Saturday around two oclock in the afternoon. He did not deny that the tour guide was angry because at that time he only gave four tickets. (kmb40)

Collecting unlawful levies, for instance, is categorized as corrup-tion because this regionally gener-ated revenue should be going to the state treasury. If visitors purchase eight tickets, but they are only given four tickets, this means that four tickets have been leaked from the state revenue. If the levies are put into the pockets of the officers who collected them, then clearly this is a case of corruption because money that should have gone into

the government treasury is instead taken by an individual officer, he explained.

On that account, said Ashari, the inappropriate collection of levies can be categorized as a act of cor-ruption because the money is going to unscrupulous individuals. As for the case of blackmail or extortion related to overloaded freight or neglecting to report transport ve-hicles, this tends to fall under the category of general crimes.

Udayana University academic and Chairman of the Tourism Re-search Consortium, Anak Agung Putu Agung Suryawan Wiranatha, PhD., agrees that judiciary bodies and police authorities need to take decisive action related to extortion and blackmail. The blackmail and extortion cases that were up-loaded to YouTube are extremely detrimental to the people of Bali. This will have bad impact on the image of tourism in Bali which is the primary economic sector of the island, he said.

Wiranatha added that such incidents, including the reported allegations of blackmail by police officers, and immigration authori-ties committed against the Chinese traveler and public outing of the ticketing mafia in Kintamani on YouTube must be cracked down

on appropriately by relevant au-thorities.

Yes, if these cases turn out to be true, the perpetrators need to be arrested and punished so as to create a deterrent effect. Then both foreign and local tourists who have complained about such incidents need to be informed that their complaints have been followed up on, he said.

These cases need to be handled seriously, especially because of the visual evidence. These videos can also be used as initial evidence.

He emphasized that the car-rying out of appropriate legal procedures can also be used to counteract the negative market-ing that these incidents evoked. Obviously as a tourist destina-tion, such complaints cannot be ignored. (asa)

Extortion, blackmail, intimidation are illegal acts

IN rEFErENCE to extortion, blackmail and intimidation in terms of the law, Ashari Kurniawan, spokesperson for the High Court of Bali says that obviously such actions are illegal but the legal process used to address infractions must be approached carefully as cases can fall under corruption or general crimes. If there is a loss to the state, then it is considered corruption, whereas in the case of extortion or blackmail that does not direct-ly affect state finances then such cases are categorized as general crime. These are the broad legal parameters, he stated.

Extortion in Kintamani uploaded to YouTube

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Two videos entitled Extortion of Ticket Mafia in Kinta-mani has been widely circulating on the video sharing website YouTube.

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The celestial show, visible from the Americas, Europe, Africa, west Asia and the east Pacific, was the result of the sun, Earth and a larger-than-life, extra-bright moon lining up for just over an hour.

Images from France, Argentina and the United States, among oth-ers, capture the progression of the lunar eclipse to a striking red finale.

In Brooklyn, New York, crowds of people gathered on plazas and sidewalks, gazing up at the sky and trying to take photos with their smartphones -- though in other cit-ies, including Washington, cloud cover hid much of the spectacle.

While the phenomenon was not visible in any major Indian cities, stargazers equipped with telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the eclipse in the countrys remote northeast.

The event also led to speculation about an impending apocalypse among certain followers of the Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The fears are believed to have been stoked by a statement from Mormon author Julie Rowe, who regularly speaks to audiences about

upcoming worldwide calamities.Church officials were forced to

issue a statement warning against panic, saying that while members should be spiritually and physi-cally prepared for lifes ups and downs they should avoid being caught up in extreme efforts to an-ticipate catastrophic events.

The blood moon -- which so far has had no apocalyptic conse-quences -- appeared in stages across the planet as the satellite reached its closest orbital point to Earth, called perigee, while in its bright-est phase.

The resulting supermoon ap-peared 30 percent brighter and 14 percent larger than when at apogee, the farthest point -- which is about 31,000 miles (49,900 kilometers) from perigee.

Unusually, the Earth took posi-tion in a straight line between the moon and the sun, blotting out the direct sunlight that normally makes our satellite glow whitish-yellow.

But some light still crept around the planets edges and was filtered through its atmosphere, casting an eerie red light that creates the blood moon.

For people younger than 33, this

was their first-ever chance to see a super blood moon.

The last, only the fifth re-corded since 1900, was in 1982, according to the NASA space agency, and the next will not be until 2033.

On top of the wow factor, the event was also of great interest for researchers.

Over a 24-day cycle, the temperature on the surface of our satellite normally var-ies between highs of about 121 degrees Celsius (250 degrees Fahr-enheit) in direct sunlight, and lows around minus 115 C in the dark.

These changes help researchers study the com-position of the crust, as rocks warm and cool slower than sand-like dust.

But on Monday, the eclipse saw that temperature shift happens much faster, allowing scientists to make detailed observations of the moons uppermost surface. (afp)

Super blood moon shines bright across the world

Peter Komka/MTI via AP

The perigee full moon, or super-

moon appears red on the autumn sky from the vicinity

of Salgotarjan, 109 kms northeast of Buda-pest, Hungary, early Monday, Sept. 28, 2015.

WASHINGTON - Skygazers were treated to a rare astro-nomical event Monday when a swollen supermoon and lunar eclipse combined for the first time in decades, showing Earths satellite bathed in blood-red light.

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

A so-called supermoon is seen above a statue of the Louvre museum, during a total lunar eclipse, in Paris, France, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015.

AP Photo/Sergei Grits

A so-called supermoon is seen at the finish of a lunar eclipse behind an Or-thodox church in Turets, Belarus, 110 kilometers (69 miles) west of capital Minsk, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015.

AP Photo/J. David Ake

The so-called supermoon passes behind the peak of the Washington Monument during a lunar eclipse, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015.

In addition, the emergence of drug use amongst high school and college students is seen to be caused

by young peoples vulnerability to these substances rather than hav-ing anything to do with the type of

school or curriculum. The circulation of drugs among

college and high school students is not because there is something wrong with the school per se. Rather the problem lies with the teachers, he said.

According to present data, people between the ages of 10-59 years old are subseptible to the influence of dugs. People between the ages of 16 and 23 years old experience emotion-al instability and are still searching for

their identity and are therefor more easily influenced by others.

This means that based on the existing data, those ages are vulner-able and easily influenced by drug traffickers and dealers, he said.

Young people who do not have a lot of supervision by their fam-ily are susceptible to the influence of drugs. Suastawa asserted that to prevent the influence of drugs from spreading in school or affect-ing individuals, individual must be

fortified at school, in the workplace and in their social environment so that our society as a whole can be protected form the damaging effects of drugs.

How can we do it? We can open a website on drug prevention, listen to or read about drug addiction mitigation as disseminated through the media and sourced from the BNN. Most importantly, we must instill an anti-drug mindset, he said. (kmb42)

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Tourists visit Menjangan Island using a boat from Pemuteran Village.

SINGARAJA - Buleleng, one among eight regencies and one mayoralty, is the largest in term of area in Bali. Covering almost one third of the total area in Bali, located in the northern part of the island of Bali. The docile nature of the sea and relatively calm waves, teeming with coral reef and variety of fish makes it a mecca for enjoy-ing what underwater has to offer, such as diving, snorkeling or just swimming.

One of famous diving spots in Buleleng is a tiny uninhabited island, Menjangan Island. As part of West Bali National Park, the sea around the island has been widely famous as the best site for diving in the archipelago.

The island can be reached from a village named Pemuteran Village, on which a jetty has been built for those who are eager to visit the island by motorized boat. The village is part of a new developed tourist resort of which the resort has been designed and developed as a quality tourist resort taking the model of Nusa Dua Tourist Resort only smaller in scale. The resort is named Batu Ampar Tourist Designated Area (Kawasan Wisata Batu Ampar). The main draw of this resort is Menjangan Island with its all tourist attractions and serene atmosphere.

Hotels and other facilities for tour-ists are gradually come to exist. In line with the planned, development of ho-tels and other facilities are controlled.

Establishments of star-rated hotels and currently a diamond starred hotel can be found in that area

To promote Menjangan Island, Buleleng Regent, Agus Suradnyana initiated an event which related with what this area has to offer, a sort of expo, called BBDF stands for Buleleng Bali Dive Festival.

The background ideas of this event are; firstly, Bali is part of the Triangle of Coral Reef which has greatest wealth of coral biology in the world. Secondly, the area of North Bali or Buleleng has the lon-gest coast and spreading out on the east and west. Thirdly, the Village of Pemuteran is the village which has potential of village develop-ment based of the coast.

The outlook and goals of this BBDF are said, firstly, to promote Buleleng as one of the best sites for diving. Secondly, stepping-up the awareness of the worlds and the villages community attention to participate in the conservation of the reef. Thirdly, promote the local art and culture of Buleleng in gen-eral and the Village of Pemuteran in particular and to the world.

The selection of the Village of Pemuteran as the venue for the event is not without any reason. The village has been granted 22 awards locally and internationally, among them there are three awards that have been recognized by the world namely reward by PATA Gold, Equator Prize and Millenium G2O.

The rehabilitation coral reef has become more effective by applying Biorock technology along with the participation of the village commu-nity in the effort concerned.

Indeed, the official name of this event is the Buleleng Bali Dive Festival, but in reality the programs are wider than just diving. Dur-ing the on-going event it will be highlighted by several programs which are related to the diving and conservation of the reef, among others are a workshop of biorock, photography under-water contest, painting of waters nature contest and art and culture parade. The Festival is slated to be held on the Village of Pemuteran from 23 26 October 2015. (nyoman suwela)

Teachers focus too much on academicsDENPASAR - High school and colleges aged youth are in-

creasingly involved in the rampant use and trafficking of illicit drugs. School authorities, lecturers and teachers seem to be plac-ing too oriented towards academic issues rather than emotional, social, spiritual and physical aspects. They are always focused on intelligence, and whether a student passes of fails, whereas the five aspects must be linked. Right now four aspects are be-ing neglected said the Head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Bali, I Putu Gede Suastawa on Monday.

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Madrid-based newspapers point-ed out that most voters backed par-ties opposed to independence with leading newspaper El Pais front-page headline proclaimed, The independents win the election but lose the referendum. Conservative Abc newspaper wrote Catalonia does not want to go.

With almost 100 percent of the vote counted, the Together for Yes group of secessionists headed by regional government president Artur Mas won 62 seats in the 135-member regional parliament Sunday, short of a majority and obliging it to seek support from the radical pro-independence Popular Unity Candidacy party known as CUP, which won 10 seats.

Mas claimed the victory gives his group enormous strength to push this project forward. But the CUP has pledged not to back Mas, setting the scene for tough negotiations.

The negotiations in the coming

days are crucial for the future of the secessionist movement, said Antonio Barroso, a London-based analyst with the Teneo Intelligence political risk consultancy. Mas still wants to lead the process and it is unclear whether he would al-low an alternative candidate to be elected PM without dissolving the pro-independence coalition.

The threat of Catalonia breaking away from Spain has dominated the countrys political scene for the past year and has been a constant source of dispute between Mas and the ruling conservative Popular Party of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, which rejects any possibility of Catalan independence as uncon-stitutional.

Rajoy must call general election by the years end with polls sug-gesting his party will lose its major-ity in the national parliament.

The Popular Party took a beating in the Catalan elections, winning just 11 seats, eight fewer than in the

previous legislature.The Popular Party and the So-

cialists, who won 16 seats, were overtaken by the anti-independence Citizens party, which won 25 seats, up from nine.

But Ines Arrimadas, the Citizens partys top regional candidate, said Mas should resign because the majority of Catalans turned their back on him.

Barclays Research analysts said in a note that although the inde-pendence parties had won more seats, they did not see secession as the most likely outcome because of the high political and economic costs, including exiting the Euro-pean Union. They also expected the region would win some conces-sions from the Spanish government which will emerge from the general elections later this year.

Many Catalans who favor break-ing away from Spain say their region, which represents nearly a fifth of Spains economic output, pays too much in taxes and receives less than its fair share of govern-ment investment. Independence sentiment grew during Spains near economic meltdown during the financial crisis. (ap)

LONDON Street artist Banksy has said he will send the material from his closed amusement park in England to France to help shelter refugees who are camped out there.

Banksy said on his Dismaland website Monday that all of the timbers and fixtures from the park are being sent to a refugee camp outside the northwest French port of Calais for the construction of shelters. Thousands of refugees are in the Calais area seeking entry into Britain. Coming soon ... Dismaland Calais, the artist said on his posting.

The unusual amusement park that closed Sunday after five weeks poked fun at consumer culture. Tourism body Visit Somerset says the exhibition brought 20 million pounds ($30 million) to the faded seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare. Officials say it drew more than 150,000 people. (ap)

ATHENS Greeces coast guard says it has rescued 922 people over the past three days as they attempted to reach eastern Aegean islands clandestinely from the nearby Turkish coast.

The coast guard said the migrants and refugees were picked up in 32 search and rescue operations from Friday morning to Monday morning off the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Agathonissi, Kalymnos, Kalolimnos, Kos, Symi and Rhodes.

More than 250,000 asylum seekers have passed through Greece so far this year. The vast majority are Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans fleeing conflict at home. Most cross to Greek islands in overcrowded inflatable dinghies and other boats, and then head north overland through the Bakans, aiming for the more prosperous European Union countries such as Germany, Austria and the Scandinavian nation. (ap)

Greek coast guard rescues hundreds of migrants, refugees

Banksy to send timbers from his UK theme park to refugees

Yui Mok/PA via AP, FileFILE - In this Aug. 20, 2015 file photo, a view of Dismaland , in Western-super-Mare, Somerset, England. An anarchic amusement park by street artist Banksy that mocked capitalism and consumer culture has brought an economic boom to a faded seaside town.

AP Photo/Manu FernandezA boy waves a pro-independence Catalan flag, known as the Estelada flag, and a European flag during a electoral rally for the Catalan regional elections in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015.

Spain: Catalan secession parties triumph but face problems

BARCELONA Pro-independence parties claim their victory in Catalan regional elections gives them a mandate to continue with plans to break away from Spain but opposition parties and the mainstream media noted Monday that parties opposed to independence took 52 percent of the votes.

BANGLI - In the series of the pujawali ngusaba kapat at the Ulundanu Batur Temple at Songan customary village whose peak is on Monday (Sep. 28), thousands of Hindu devotees joined the mape-pada procession in the temple area (Sep. 27). This is a ritual meant to purify the animals to be sacrificed on the peak of the ritual.

Jro Mangku Gede Ulundanu

Duuran, Songan customary village, accompanied by Chairman of the Ritual Committee Jro Lanang said that the mapepada procession, fol-lowed by Jero Dulu and the commu-nity, was held between 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. The procession was centered at the outermost courtyard of local temple.

The significance of the ritual is to purify all animals that will

be sacrificed at the peak of the ritual. We purify the animals and plants to be sacrificed in this procession. It is meant to invoke blessing of God controlling the animals and plants before we present them as offerings, he explained.

In addition, the procession was carried out as an expression of peoples gratitude to the Creator.

On Monday, the peak of the ngusaba kapat ritual began at 10:00 a.m. by holding ritual procession at kemulan, ibu, segara and pengang-ket shrine. After that, it was re-sumed with the piodalan or temple anniversary at 12:00 a.m. On Tues-day (Sep. 29) the ritual resumed by presenting bhakti penganyar started by Karangasem. Then, it is contin-ued by Buleleng, Wednesday (Sep.

30), Badung on Thursday (Oct. 1), Gianyar on Friday (Oct. 2), Tabanan and Jembrana on Saturday (Oct. 3), the municipality of Denpasar, Klungkung and Bangli on Sunday (Oct. 4).

Later on Monday (Oct. 5), the entire ritual will be closed with the processions of sweeping into the sea, mepewilangan and apologies. (kmb40)

Suka said that the ring road that runs along the Lovina tourist area needs to be improved. Indeed the infrastructure must be improved. In a discussion with the Head of the Culture and Tourism Agency, Kalibukbuk was said to be getting a jogging track so that guests can take advantage of this facility, said Suka

on Sunday (Sep. 27) during the opening of the Lovina Festival 2015.

The creation of the jogging track will include using paving block, ornamental gardens and street lights for night time run-ning. According to Suka, tourism activities do not end at sundown, and those nighttime

activities can be enlivened by nighttime en-tertainment and supported with street lights. As planned, it will be financed thought the regional budget along with some continua-tions from hoteliers in Lovina, he said.

The creation of a jogging track is also considered important based on the results of questionnaires disseminated to foreign travelers staying at Lovina. We distrib-uted questionnaires to find out what guts in Lovina desire. Many expressed a desire for a jogging track so that they can exercise every morning, he said. (kmb34)

GIANYAR - The government has asked that the collection data about foreign work-ers be intensified int eh region of Gyanyar. There have been indications that many companies here are employing foreign workers illegally, thereby impacting the revenues generated through the levies for foreign worker employment permits (IMTA).

Member of Commission III of the Gian-yar House of Representatives, Luh Sucin-ingsih recently addressed this issue saying that one of the problems is lack of data.

Foreign workers need to obtain a number of official documents prior to working in a company here. The company must also have an IMTA in order to be able to recruit foreign workers. Monthly levies charged for each foreign worker are USD 100 or USD 1,200 per year.

Unfortunately, some companies alleged-ly employ foreign workers without having the IMTA which obvisouly diminishes the potential amount of money that the govern-ment could be collecting. There are a lot of foreign workers working in Gianyar. For instance, one company in Ubud employs as many as three foreign workers, said Suciningsih, recently.

She also said that the IMTA levy is not a huge percent of the regionally generated revenue because the revenue obtained from the IMTA levies is mainly used for provid-ing training and development for workers in the region. Nevertheless, this matter must consistently get attention from the govern-ment. Potential IMTA levies are expected to be worked on as much as possible.

We will raise the question of the IMTA levy, in the working meeting. Obviously, we ask that data collection regarding foreign workers be done regularly and intensively so that the government is not misled, said the PDI-P politician. Head of the Gianyar Manpower Agency, Gede Widarma Suharta, not long ago mentioned that as of June the IMTA levy has collected around IDR 400 million from some 30 foreign workers. His institution targets the IMTA levy to reach approximately IDR 700 million by the end of the year. (kmb25)

Before the peak of Ngusaba Kapat rite at Ulundanu BaturThousands of devotees join mapepada procession

Collecting data about foreign workers is intensified

Lovina needs a jogging track

SINGARAJA - According to Headman of Kalibukbuk, Ketut Suka, the Lovina tourist area needs to have improvements made to the infrastructure, including the addition of a jogging track as a compliment to existing tourism facilities. The jogging track on the 3 kilometer long ring road should be utilized to improve the comfort of travelers vacationing in North Bali.

IBP/Dewa KusumaThe pier on Lovina Beach, Buleleng

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UNITED NATIONS - France said Sunday that it would ramp up foreign assistance, pumping in an extra four billion euros ($4.5 billion) per year starting in 2020.

President Francois Hollande, an-nouncing the aid boost at a United Nations summit on development, said the move would bring French aid to 12 billion euros annually.

However, he did not specify how the assistance would be divided and whether it would go to fight poverty or climate change.

France has been seeking greater commitments by wealthy countries to nations hardest hit by rising tempera-tures and sea levels as part of year-end negotiations in Paris aimed at a new agreement on climate change.

Hollande, meeting French am-

bassadors at a gathering in Paris last month, had said that France would boost aid but had not given a figure.

He made the promise as he an-nounced a new relationship between the French Development Agency and the Caisse de Depot, a public finance institution.

With a budget of around eight billion euros, Frances aid budget is 0.36 percent of GDP -- well below the goal set by rich countries of one percent.

One, the campaign backed by rocker Bono aimed at eradicating ex-treme poverty, welcomed Hollandes announcement but voiced hope the money would go to least developed countries.

After four years of aid budget

cuts, its high time for France finally to change course, said Friederike Roder, director of the One campaign in France.

Were waiting to know the details to see if France will be as exemplary as Francois Hollande has announced, she said.

The United Nations on Friday en-dorsed a goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030.

While political leaders widely sup-ported the goal, the United Nations has estimated that it will require up to $5 trillion per year -- a massive commitment.

Activists have voiced fear that climate assistance would simply be redirected from aid aimed at existing goals on health, education and other development areas. (afp)

Japans currency is the best-performing major unit this quarter, as a wave of global volatility driven by fears about a slowdown in China push investors into currencies seen as safe havens during times of turmoil or uncertainty.

The yens already quite undervalued against the dollar, said James Kwok, head of currencies at Amundi Asset Management.

The (Bank of Japan) is approaching the limit in doing quanti-tative easing and so is expected to reserve its powder for a more serious market rout in the future.

More easing would tend to weaken the yen.This is a period where uncertainty dominates the foreign-

exchange market, Osamu Takashima, a Tokyo-based strategist at Citigroup, told Bloomberg News.

In the United States, Fed boss Janet Yellen said last week she expected to raise near-zero rates before the year is out, giving a boost to the dollar. But it faced selling Monday as markets look to US jobs data later in the week.

Dollar-selling sentiment emerged after the dollar climbed to 121 yen level following Yellens remarks, said Minori Uchida, head of global markets research at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.

But in general, trading is range-bound as players are more or less on the sidelines ahead of major events, said Uchida.

On Friday the Commerce Department said the US economy grew 3.9 percent in April-June, up from the 3.7 percent originally stated thanks to a boost in investment and consumer spending.

Attention will now turn to next Fridays non-farm payrolls results, with a strong figure likely to reinforce calls for an early rate move. (afp)

GENEVA - Swiss competition authorities said Monday they were investigating UBS, HSBC, Deutsche Bank and four other banks on suspicion of price fixing in the precious metals market. The Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) has today opened an investigation against two Swiss banks, UBS and Julius Baer, as well as against the foreign financial institutions Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Mitsui, it said in a statement.

It said it had indications that the banks had possibly con-cluded illegal competition defying deals in the trade of precious metals like gold, silver and platinum.

COMCO in particular suspects possible price fixing deals, especially in connection with Spreads, which is the difference between the bid and asking price, it said. The statement gave no further details. Some of the banks under investigation were already hit by massive fines earlier this year after pleading guilty to US charges of conspiring to rig Libor interest rates. (afp)

Swiss authorities probe seven banks for price

fixing in metals market

France announces 4 billion-euro boost in aid

Yen picks up on China worries ahead of key US data

AP Photo/Koji SasaharaA man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015. Asian stocks were mostly lower Monday following Wall Streets loss last week as investors looked ahead to Chinese and U.S. economic data.

TOKYO - The yen picked up Monday as worries about China overshadowed currency markets before US data this week which may give clues about the timing of an interest rate rise this year.

TABANAN - Tabanan is famous as the rice granary of Bali. Unfortunately, farmers here do not enjoy the benefits of this nickname because their bargaining power is so small when dealing with middlemen and owners of capital.

Due to having no bargaining power, a number of farmers are reluctant to cultivate their land. Moreover, often trouble accessing enough water, causing frequent crop failure. The development of tourism and the problems frequently faced by farmers in the area many have been forced to convert their agricultural land.

Between 2009 and 2015, approxi-mately 600 hectares of land on Tabanan has been converted paddy forleds to other uses. In 2009 there were 22,562 hectares of paddy fields, while in 2015 there are 21,962 hectares. The Head of the Tabanan Agriculture Agency explained that paddy fields are not also built on but are sometimes used to land

other crops. Although farmers in Tabanan are

provided with fertilizer, rice seeds, and tax relief from the government, this cannot make up for water short-ages that those downstream often face. Dewa Putu Wisnu Wesnem, a farmer from Tegal Mengkeb village, East Sele-madeg, complaints about the matter of persistent water shortages saying that he hopes that financial assistance for farmers will be not generalized, given that the needs of farmers in each region are different.

Our farmers, for instance, are in need of water rather than fertilizer and rice seeds. How can we plant if there is no water? asked Wisnu.

Due to lack of water, approximately 78.8 hectares of paddy fields in Tabanan are experiencing light, moderate and severe levels of drought and about 515 hectares are threatened with drought. (kmb24)

One agrotourism business own-ers, Ari, explained that his location is usually visited by families and travelers on the weekend. They usually rent a tent to spend the night in the area provided, said Ari.

Food and beverage are provided at the location. If visitors do not want to spend the night outdoors in a tent, they also have the option of sleeping in a rented room. Over the weekend, visitors can enjoy

activities like riding a bicycle, vari-ous games for children, strawberry picking and fishing in the pond.

According to Ari who has been deeply involved in agrotourism since 2009, most visitors come on holidays. School students usually come after graduation or at the end of term and commonly come here as part of an organized activity, explained Ari.

One of the families that was re-cently enjoying the weekend at Ari agrotourism location was the Su-martana family. Sumartana and his wife said that they choose to spend their holiday enjoying agrotourism in Bedugul so that they can relax and release the tension of the busy urban atmosphere and also because it allows them to teach their children about getting close to nature.

Here children can play and ride a bike without fear or traffic. The air is quite fresh and they can even pick strawberries, he said.

He spends a weekend at the lo-cation by renting a tent. Although the evening air makes it quite cold for sleeping in a tent, Sumartana said that he does not mind because they are given firewood to make a bonfire. (kmb24)

Bedugul agrotourism: get closer to nature

Tabanan agriculture has no bargaining value

IBP/FileThe farmers are working in the field.

IBP/Wira SanjiwaniOne of the locations for camping in Bedugul area.

BEDUGUL is famous for its natural attractions. Other than the Bo-tanical Garden and the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple, Bedugul has also started to develop agrotourism and nature tourism as an alternative offer for traveller wanting to relive stress and get closer to nature.

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The stampede on Thursday dur-ing a ritual stoning of the devil near the holy Saudi city of Mecca killed 769 people, the worst disaster to strike the annual Muslim pilgrim-age in a quarter of a century.

At least 144 Iranians died in the crush -- the highest confirmed toll among foreign nationalities -- sparking a war of words between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Indonesia, the worlds most pop-ulous Muslim-majority country, initially indicated only a handful of its citizens died in the stampede but the death toll crept up over the weekend, and the religious affairs ministry confirmed Monday that it now stood at 41.

In addition, 10 Indonesians were being treated for their injuries in hospital while a further 82 remain missing, although senior ministry

official Abdul Djamil said it was not clear if they were caught up in the stampede.

He said that it was taking time to work out the number of Indonesian victims as Indonesian officials were only given access to morgues two days after the stampede, and the teams were having trouble identify-ing bodies against their own records of pilgrims.

This means we have to race against time because the longer we wait, the harder it is to identify the hajj pilgrims who have died, Djamil said in a statement.

Many pilgrims bodies were

mutilated in the crush, and Djamil said that officials were identify-ing Indonesian victims through such methods as checking clothes and hajj ID bracelets against their records.

Our team has been working hard day and night to look for the pilgrims whose whereabouts are still unknown, and to identify the pilgrims who died, he added.

Indonesia, home to around 225 million Muslims, gets the largest annual hajj quota from Saudi Ara-bia, this year receiving 168,000 places. Other countries with sub-stantial numbers of pilgrims killed

in the accident include Morocco, Egypt and India.

The Saudi Arabian interior min-istry said it assigned 100,000 po-lice to secure the hajj and manage crowds at the event, which drew almost two million faithful. But pilgrims blamed the stampede on police road closures and poor crowd management in searing temperatures.

For years, the hajj was marred by stampedes and fires, but it had been largely incident-free for almost a decade after safety improvements and billions of dollars worth of infrastructure investment. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesian For-eign Minister Retno L.P. Marsu-di has proposed that her country will host an interfaith dialog to boost cooperat ion within Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey, and Australia (MIKTA) to combat terrorism.

The minister put forth the pro-posal during the MIKTA foreign ministerial level meeting on the sidelines of the 70th United Na-tions General Assembly in New York on September 26, 2015, ac-cording to a press statement from the Foreign Affairs Ministrys office received on Monday.

Marsudi noted that interfaith dialog plays an important role in the persuasive approach to

handling acts of terrorism.The Indonesian foreign min-

ister also proposed to eliminate terrorism and tackle foreign terrorist fighters (FTF) through intelligence cooperation and information exchange among MIKTA countries.

Indonesia is always commit-ted to the fight against terrorism, as it needs to be handled compre-hensively through prevention, early detection, legal action, and rehabilitation, she remarked.

The minister also expressed the commitment of the respec-t ive countries to supporting a new agreement on climate change that is expected to be reached at the conference of

the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)/COP-21 in Paris from November 30 to December 11, 2015.

Marsudi pointed out that In-donesia had already conveyed the Intended Nationally Deter-mined Contributions (INDC) to the secretariat of UNFCCC on September 24, 2015.

Indonesia is committed to voluntarily reducing emissions by 29-41 percent in 2030, with the support of the international community.

The meeting was the fourth foreign ministerial level meeting of the MIKTA countries since 2013. (ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesian En-vironmental Affairs and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya has urged the government of Singapore to adopt a wiser and fairer approach to the ongoing forest fires razing the Sumatran and Kalimantan forests.

So, actually, what I want to say is that it should also have a fair outlook with regard to it (forest fire problem). The change (in the air pollution index in Sin-gapore) is occurring hourly. It is frequently going up and down.

What does it mean? It means that Indonesia has been making efforts (to extinguish the fires). We do not stay idle. Moreover, they said the government is shameless and irresponsible, the minister stated after speaking at a discussion on Ecosystem management, hydrology and rehabilitation after peatland eco-system fires, held on Sunday.

Minister Nurbaya referred to a statement on Indonesias forest fires posted by the Singaporean foreign minister on social media.

What I want to say is that I hope he would have a wiser ap-proach in viewing the problem since Indonesia has been work-ing hard and is not staying idle. How many thousands of military and police personnel, among others, have been deployed by the president, she affirmed.

The minister pointed out that her office has also been moni-toring the air pollution index in Singapore as part of its respon-sibility, and the government has been making serious efforts to

extinguish the forest and planta-tion fires.

The ongoing haze from Su-matras and Kalimantans forest fires has affected the lives of millions across Indonesia, Ma-laysia, and Singapore

The problem has drawn strong criticism from Singapores For-eign and Law Minister K. Shan-mugam, who expressed h i s discontent through a Facebook post on Thursday night, while referring to the shocking state-ments made by senior- level

officials from Indonesia, with a complete disregard for our people, and their own - PSI lev-els in parts of Indonesia are at almost two thousand (PSI above 350 is considered hazardous in Indonesia).

How is it possible for senior officials in the government to issue such statements without any regard for their people, or ours, and without any sense of embarrassment, or a sense of responsibility? wrote the Sin-gaporean minister. (ant)

Indonesian stampede toll hits 41, officials race against time

JAKARTA - The number of Indonesians killed in a stampede at the hajj rose to 41 Monday with scores more still missing, an official said, warning Jakarta faces a race against time to identify its citizens who died.

Singapore should be wiser, fairer in viewing forest fire

Indonesia proposes to host interfaith dialog

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Workers clean the body of a Garuda Indonesia Airbus A320 aircraft inside Hangar 4 of PT Garuda Maintenance Facility (GMF) Aero Asia at Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta, September 28, 2015. The new Hangar 4 of PT GMF Aero Asia has capability to maintain 16 narrow body aircraft in one time, according to local media.

The observatory, named Astro-sat, was launched from Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, said the Indian Space and Research Organization, or ISRO. Astrosat will attempt a deeper study of the universe, especially star systems.

Indias junior science minister, Y.S. Choudhury, said the launch of the observatory was part of Prime Minister Narendra Modis vision for Indias space program.

Last September, India joined an elite club when it successfully guid-ed its Mars Orbiter Mission, called Mangalyaan, into orbit around the red planet. Only the United States, the former Soviet Union and the European Space Agency had done that before.

In December, India launched the countrys heaviest rocket, weighing 630 tons. India, which is striving to become a player in the multibillion-dollar space market, has successfully launched lighter satellites in recent years, but has faced problems sending up heavier payloads.

The launch vehicle that put Ast-rosat in orbit also carried satellites from Indonesia, Canada and the United States.

The Astrosat, which has a mis-sion life of five years, will send its data to a control center in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. Astronomy institutes across the country will also have access to the data, ISRO said.

India, known as much for its

crushing poverty as for its techno-logical prowess, has used research in space and elsewhere to help solve problems at home, from gaug-ing water levels in underground aquifers to predicting cataclysmic storms and floods.

Indias $1 billion-a-year space program has helped develop satellite, communication and remote sensing technologies that are being used to measure coastal soil erosion, assess the extent of remote flooding and manage forest cover for wildlife sanctuaries.

They are giving fishermen real-time data on where to find fish and helping to predict natural disasters such as a cyclone that barreled into Indias eastern coast last year. Early warning informa-tion allowed Indian officials to evacuate nearly a million people from the massive storms path. (ap)

MALE Police in the Maldives said they were seeking help from the United States and Australia in the investigation into a blast Monday on President Yameen Abdul Gayooms speedboat as he returned home after preforming hajj in Saudi Arabia. Gayoom escaped unhurt from the blast, but his wife, an aide and a bodyguard were injured.

Police official Hamdhoon Ra-seed told reporters that authorities had asked for help from the U.S. and Australia as they conduct an investigation into the blast. He did not elaborate.

The Maldives, known for its luxu-rious island resorts, has been rocked by political infighting and disputed elections in recent years, but it is not known for serious political violence such as bomb attacks.

Cabinet Minister Mohamed Sha-reef said the blast occurred Monday morning as the boat reached the main jetty in the capital of Male. Gayooms wife, Fathimath Ibrahim, and an aide suffered minor injuries, while a bodyguard sustained more

serious injuries, he said.Shareef said the cause of the

blast, thought to have happened in the engine room, was not known. Boating accidents and fires are common in the Indian Ocean ar-chipelago state.

We are not ruling out anything, whether it is an accident or an attempt on the presidents life, Shareef said, adding that investiga-tors were inspecting the boat and watching video of the blast.

Gayoom left the hospital in the afternoon after being monitored for several hours, while his wife remained hospitalized with a back injury. The countrys international airport is on a separate island and a short boat trip is needed to reach the capital island.

Ahmed Hamdhoon, a local jour-nalist who was on the jetty to cover Gayooms arrival, said he heard a huge blast as soon as the boat docked. The right door of the boat fell on the jetty and there was heavy smoke. People were screaming, he said. (ap)

WARSAW, Poland Russias ambassador to Poland has partly backtracked from an accusation that Poland bears some blame for starting World War II because of its policies in the 1930s, words that outraged Poles. Sergey Andreev said Monday he had no intention of offending the Polish nation and added: I regret that I wasnt sufficiently precise.

He spoke to reporters after being summoned to the Foreign Ministry following comments in a TV inter-view Friday that sparked the uproar.

World War II began after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sealed a secret pact in 1939 to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe. Millions of Polish citizens died in the conflict. Andreev on Fri-day described Soviet actions under dictator Josef Stalin as an act of self-defense, not aggression.

Polish policy led to the disaster in September 1939, because dur-ing the 1930s Poland repeatedly blocked the formation of a coalition against Hitlers Germany. Poland was therefore partly responsible for the disaster which then took place, Andreev said.

Polands Foreign Ministry issued a statement of strong protest on Satur-day, accusing Andreev of undermin-ing historical truth, and summoned

him for a meeting Monday with a director of the ministrys department on Eastern affairs.

During the conversation it was noted that these statements are un-true and contrary to the findings of Polish and Russian historians, Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski said in a statement.

Andreev was also reminded that even the Soviet Union eventually condemned the secret Molotov-Rib-bentrop pact that carved up Eastern Europe and set the stage for World War II, Wojciechowski said.

The American Jewish Committee denounced the ambassadors original comments as absurd, noting that the Soviet Union and Germany were allies at that start of the war until Hitler turned on Stalin in 1941 and that Poles were murdered by both occupying states.

Ties between the two Slavic neighbors have never been easy since Poland rejected Soviet-backed communism in 1989 and embraced the West. Relations have faced new strains since Russia annexed Crimea, an action Poland has strongly con-demned.

In his interview on Friday Andreev said relations are the worst they have been since 1945, and on Monday he said he sticks by that opinion. (ap)

Maldives seeks US, Australian help in blast investigation

Russian ambassador says he regrets words that offended Poles

AP Photo/Arun Sankar

Indias Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C30) lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, South India, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015. PSLV-C30 mission included the launching of Indias space observatory satellite. ASTROSAT.

India successfully launches its first

space observatoryNEW DELHI India successfully launched its first space

observatory and six satellites into orbit on Monday, officials said, the latest step forward for a country looking to become a major player in the lucrative space market.

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It was important for me to get a good start as Marc is very good over the first two laps. He gave everything to follow me and perhaps he went too far, Lorenzo told reporters.

It would definitely have been harder if he had continued and after that I just had to keep going and keep the distance from Dani.

Rossi pushed hard over the last five laps and got ahead of Pedrosa momentarily on several oc-casions but the Honda rider responded to retain second place. It was a disappointing race for world champion Marquez who set a lap record in qualifying but crashed out on lap two.

With four races to go Rossi leads the cham-pionship with 263 points from Lorenzo on 249. Marquez is third with 184 points. I tried all I

could to get second but this was a difficult track for me, Rossi told reporters. Dani battled hard. He was able to respond every time I tried to overtake but it was a good battle.

Marquez looked strong ahead of the race and was the main threat for Lorenzo. With him out of the way then the stage was set for the Yamaha rider who took full advantage.

The fast and dry Aragon circuit suited Lorenzo more than Rossi who started down in sixth on the grid. The Italian made his way up to second but was faced with a stern challenge from Pedrosa. I knew I had to match his (Rossis) rhythm. He is better in these situations as it isnt my strong point, Pedrosa said. I managed to counter-attack whenever he moved ahead and I am happy to beat him.(rtr)

Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo of Spain writes on a white board as he

celebrates after winning the Aragon Mo-torcycling Grand Prix at Motorland race

track in Alcaniz, northern Spain, Septem-ber 27, 2015.

Lorenzo wins to close gap on Rossi in title race

Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo stormed to victory in the Aragon MotoGP after leading from the start to close the gap in the world champion-ship race to 14 points on leader Valentino Rossi who finished third. Lorenzo, second on the grid, got away quicker than Marc Marquez in pole and never looked back with a lead of 2.683 seconds at the end over Dani Pedrosa who just held off Rossi.

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TOKYO Japanese organizers on Monday proposed add-ing five sports to the program of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: baseball-softball, karate, skateboarding, sports climbing and surfing. The organizing committee approved the recommenda-tions from a list of eight finalists. Bowling, squash and wushu failed to make the cut.

The recommendation will be submitted to the International Olympic Committee, which will make a final decision in Rio de Janeiro in August 2016.

Under the Olympic Agenda 2020 program adopted by the IOC last December, host cities are allowed to propose one or more additional events for their games. The proposed new events would add 18 events and 474 athletes to the Tokyo Games.

This package of events represents both traditional and emerging, youth-focused events, all of which are popular both in Japan and internationally, the organizing committee said in a statement. This will serve as a driving force to further promote the Olympic movement and its values. Twenty-six sports had originally applied for consideration. The eight sports made a short list that was announced in June.

Baseball and softball have been out of the Olympics since the 2008 Beijing Games, and their proposed inclusion had been considered a virtual certainty because of the high popularity of those sports in Japan.

Under the recommendations, the mens baseball tourna-ment would consist of six teams and 144 total players, while the womens softball competition would have six teams and 90 players.

Karate would have eight mens and womens events and a total of 80 athletes; skateboarding proposes two street and two park events for 80 athletes; sports climbing has two events in bouldering, lead and speed combined for 40 athletes; and surfing would have two shortboard events for 40 competitors.(ap)

Tokyo recommends 5 additional sports for 2020 Olympics

AP photo/Junji Kurokawa, FileFILE - In this Jan. 24, 2014 file photo, former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who was officially appointed head of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic organizing committee, answers a reporters question following his ap-pointment by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a press conference in Tokyo.

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TABANAN - The Bali Butterfly Park is one of the popular attrac-tions in Tabanan County and the only one in this archipelago. This park also makes a breeding of but-terflies for scientific purposes and education in the future.

As the name implies, most of the land is covered by paranet in order the butterflies do not fly out of their collections and disappear. Various species of butterflies in Indonesia can be found here. Some of the well known butterflies include: butterfly of paradise (Ornithoptera

paradisea), the atlas moth (Attacus atlas), Sulawesi butterfly (Papilio gigon), Sumatra butterfly (Atro-phaneura nox), Stibociana coressia, Lexias aegle, Axchaeoattacus staud, Butterfly of Mt. Batukaru (Actias maenas), Morphonestira, Amathu siidae sp, and so on.

In addition to butterfly, the park also has a collection of other ani-mals such as scorpions, tarantulas and tiger beetles in a small build-ing on the right side of the flower garden. Similarly, it also has a col-lection of strange grasshopper in the

shape of leaves and twigs of wood brought in from outside Bali.

The park is managed by PT Ku-pu-kupu Taman Lestari. It spreads across the area of 1 hectare with netting area (closed area with para-net) on 3,700 m3. Each month the butterfly park releases at least 3,500 butterflies to its original habitat. Be-sides, the park also produces various kinds of handicraft made of a variety of insects such as: framed butterfly, framed beetle, key chain made from insects, bookmarks insertion, paperweight made of transparent

fiber containing butterflies, paintings made of butterfly wings, etc.

Development of the Bali But-terfly Park has been planned since October 1993 after the implemen-tation of International Butterfly Conference held on August 24-27, 1993 in Ujung Pandang (Makas-sar). Departed from the idea that biological resources in the form of butterfly were very abundant, it would be unfortunate if they went extinct. The park was then opened on December 17, 1996 by Mrs. Asiawati Oka, Chairman of the

PKK of Bali Province.The butterfly park is located on

Jalan Batukaru, Sandan Lebah ham-let, Wanasari, exactly 6 km to the north of Tabanan. This park is open every day from 8:00 a.m. through at 5:00 p.m. and the last ticket is sold at 4:00 p.m. Supporting facili-ties available are parking area, art shop combined with cafeteria and restrooms. Biodiversity must be preserved from the extinction in order it remains stable. Therefore, when you come to Bali, make a visit to this Butterfly Park.

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Being here and working with this group is wonderful, Fiorentina coach Paulo Sousa said. We have got conti-nuity, playing well at the back as well as up front. There are teams which have invested a lot, they have different aims to us, but I am not going to hold back and I continue to say that we can face anyone to win.

Inter had only conceded one goal in its first five Serie A matches but found itself 3-0 down after 23 minutes in a shambolic first half for the home side, which also had Joao Miranda sent off in the 31st minute.

Nothing changes for us, Inter coach Roberto Mancini said. We had our feet o n t h e g r o u n d already and

so this defeat doesnt serve as a lesson to us. Fiorentina moved above Inter on goal difference. It is the first time the Tuscan side has been top of Se-rie A since February 1999 after beating AC Milan.

Inter and Fiorentina both have 15 points, two more than Torino after it held on for a 2-1 win over Palermo despite ending the match with nine men.

Sassuolo, which drew 1-1 against Chievo Verona, is a point further back. Lazio also has 12 points after the capital

side came from behind with 10 men to win 2-1 at Hellas Verona for the first time in 24 years. Marco Parolo snatched Lazios late winner, minutes after the dismissal of defender Mauri-cio for a second yellow card.

Udinese also came from behind to win by

the same scoreline at Bologna, ending

a four-match los-ing streak, while 10-man AC Mi-lan lost 1-0 at Genoa. It was first against second at San

Siro, with Inter full

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confidence after winning its first five matches.

However, it got off to a dismal start as Samir Handanovic conceded an early penalty. The Inter goalkeepers first touch let him down as he failed to collect a backpass and then barged Kalinic over as he attempted to grab the ball back. It was the first time In-ter had been behind all season and it found itself 2-0 down in the 18th.

Handanovic flew to punch clear Ili-cics effort from distance but it looped up behind him and Kalinic reacted quickest to burst forward and help it in. I take my share of the responsibili-ty, Handanovic said. I made an error with the stop (for Kalinics first), but the penalty was one that is sometimes given and sometimes not. But it was a nightmare evening in all points of view. We need to forget tonight and

move forward.K a l i n i c

doubled his tally five minutes later, sliding in to turn home Marcos Alon-sos cross after the Spanish defender had waltzed past Ivan Perisic on the left flank.

Matters went from bad to worse for Inter as any hopes of getting back into the match evaporated with the dismissal of Miranda for hauling down Kalinic after a through ball had sent him clear on goal.

Inter pulled one back when Icardi headed Alex Telles free kick onto the base of the left post and then tapped home the rebound.

But Fiorentina restored its three-goal advantage in the 76th when Ka-linic won a tussle with Davide Santon and found Slovenias Ilicic, who drew defenders toward him before squar-ing the ball back for the Croatian to complete his hat trick. (ap)

The physical and competi-tive rat race that is the Premier League will hurt English clubs chances of progressing in the Champions League, Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has said.

United welcome German side Wolfsburg in Europes top com-petition on Wednesday having lost their opening encounter 2-1 to PSV Eindhoven, with Arsenal and Manchester City also los-ing their opening games to Dinamo Zagreb a n d

Juventus, respectively.Van Gaal, who saw his team

knock cross town rivals City off the top of the Premier

League table at the weekend, said English clubs have the

quality to prog-ress in Europe, but face a seri-ous disadvan-tage compared

with clubs from other countries.

The Premier League is a very

difficult league. To beat your

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ponent every week is not easy, it is always a struggle and a battle, the Dutchman was quoted as say-ing by the club website (www.manutd.com). Then you have to play again mid-week in the Champions League and that is the difference between all the clubs in Europe.

It is not predictable to say four teams in the Premier League shall overcome this group stage round, no, it is not like that. But I have to say that we have the teams to do it and we have the quality to do it.

Squad rotation is the key to European success, but even ring-ing the changes will not guarantee that English sides are fresher than

their European counterparts, the Dutchman added.

The difficulty is that all these (Premier League) players are in a rat race and that takes a lot out of the players, which is why you have to rotate and that is what I am doing now because I have to protect my players, the manager said. I say we have to play Sunday-Tuesday, Sunday-Wednesday, so between the matches we cannot recover all of the tiredness.

Then we have to play against a European squad who is willing to give everything against us. They dont have a rat race in their competition and that is the difference. (rtr)

CARSON, California For-mer Liverpool star Steven Gerrard scored his first goal since joining Major League Soccer to help the LA Galaxy beat FC Dallas 3-2 on Sunday and climb to the top of the overall league standings.

Giovani Dos Santos and Rob-bie Keane scored in the first half before Gerrard connected in the 57th minute as the Galaxy ended

their perplexing three-game score-less stretch with a barrage of goals from their talent-laden roster. All three of the Galaxys designated players scored in the same match for the first time.

The Galaxy (14-9-8) jumped to the top of the league standings with 50 points two points clear of the Vancouver Whitecaps and New York Red Bulls and three

points ahead of FC Dallas. Those clubs, however, all have games in hand on the defending MLS Cup champions.

Gerrard spent 17 years at Liv-erpool, scoring 120 goals in 504 appearances and leading the club to two FA Cup titles and one Champions League trophy. The 35-year-old former England captain had played eight games

for Los Angeles without scoring a goal since his MLS debut in July.

I didnt have a problem with my confidence, Gerrard said. I think the goal is important for the team. Were at the business end of the season, and its all about three points. Its not about individuals and tallies and who gets what.

Elsewhere, Matias Perez

Garcia scored in the 87th min-ute to lift San Jose past Real Salt Lake 1-0 and close within a point of Portland for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

Dominic Dwyer scored in the 79th minute to give Sporting Kan-sas City a 1-1 draw with Seattle. Obafemi Martins scored for the Sounders. (ap)

MONROVIA, Liberia Liberia goal-keeper Nathaniel Shermans career is in doubt after he suffered a serious eye injury walking into a glass panel at the team ho-tel ahead of an African Cup qualifier this month.

Sherman told The Associated Press that the freak accident caused the glass to shat-ter, damaging the retina of his right eye. He said he currently cannot see out of the eye, but hopes to recover after traveling to India for surgery.

Theres a possibility that I can get back on the pitch but right now I cannot say any-thing in my present condition, he said.

Sherman returned to Liberia last week to begin his recovery following an 11-day trip to Delhi for treatment.

The accident in the hotel lobby ruled the 24-year-old Sherman out of Liberias surprise 1-0 victory over Tunisia in African Cup of Nations qualifying in Monrovia days later on Sept. 5. That was Liberias first in-ternational at home in a year because of the Ebola outbreak. (ap)

WeST hAM UNITed should not be considered as part of the big guns of the Premier League despite their stellar start to the sea-son, manager Slaven Bilic has said. The Hammers find themselves third in the league table after pick-ing up 13 points from seven games, including high-profile away wins against Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City.

But West Hams home form has been inconsistent with defeats to Leicester City and promoted side Bournemouth.

They have found the back of the net 15 times in the league and are the joint-leading goalscorers along with Leicester.

We would love to be big guns, but lets be fair -- nobody said we are big guns before the season started, Bilic, who took over at Upton Park in the summer, told the clubs website (www.whufc.

com).Because of the away wins,

they are putting us there, but we are not the big guns. No, we have some really great players, but we have to work our socks off every single game, said the former Croatia manager added.

Bilic said the league has become more competitive as the quality of the smaller clubs has gone up due to the increased financial strength of English football.

(Jose) Mourinho said it best -- it is not a new world order, but this kind of money, the financial injection to smaller clubs in the Premier League has raised the quality of the teams. Every team has it now, Bilic said.

Before, in the Premier League, all the teams had energy. Now you have quality, now its difficult for the big guns. Every team is good enough, he added. (rtr)

SAINT-eTIeNNe missed the chance to close the gap on French league leader Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday as it fell to a surprise 4-1 defeat at home to a Nice side which ended the match with nine men. Hatem Ben Arfa scored two stunning goals for Nice af-ter Saint-Etienne defender Loic Perrin had cancelled out Vincent Koziellos fifth-minute opener.

Jean-Michael Ser i scored Nices other goal before team-mates Nampalys Mendy and Maxime Le Marchand were dis-missed in separate incidents.

Jean-Christophe Bahebeck missed a late penalty for Saint-Etienne, which remained four points behind PSG after the three-time defending champions victory at Nantes on Saturday.

Earlier, Marseilles miserable start to the season continued with a 2-1 home defeat to Angers. Montpellier recorded its first win of the season with a 2-1 victory over Lorient, while last years runner-up Monaco was held 3-3

at Guingamp. Nice was looking for a third successive win and Koziello got it off to the perfect start when he volleyed home Ricardo Pereiras cross from the left.

Saint-Etienne was struggling to get a foothold in the game but leveled when Fabien Lemoines 25-meter effort smacked against the crossbar and Perrin tapped in the rebound.

Ben Arfa restored Nices ad-vantage six minutes from half-time when he was left unmarked on the left side of the area to control Jeremy Pieds cross which home defender Florentin Pogba inadvertently headed on with a deft touch and smash a brilliant finish into the far side of the net.

The France wingers second was even more impressive as, in first-half stoppages, Ben Arfa beat five of his opponents before drilling across into the bottom left corner.

Ben Arfa had a part in Nices

fourth too as he led a counterat-tack and Valere Germain raced forward before setting up Seri who burst clear to send a deflect-ed effort past Stephane Ruffier in the 53rd.

Nice went down to 10 men nine minutes later when Mendy was harshly sent off after reacting poorly to a Lemoine tackle. The Saint-Etienne midfielder went back down clutching his face although Mendy had appeared to push his shoulder.

The visitors had another man sent off when Le Marchand was also controversially dismissed for bringing down Lemoine. Bahe-beck fired the resulting penalty woefully over the crossbar.

Marseilles players were booed off the pitch at halftime and at the end of the teams third defeat of the season. Part of Stade Ve-lodrome was closed after crowd trouble in Marseilles previous home match against Lyon. Angers is one of four teams on 15 points, five below PSG. (rtr)

West Ham are not big guns, says manager Bilic

Saint-Etienne hammered 4-1 at home by 9-man Nice in Ligue 1

AP Photo/Kim Raff

L.A. Galaxys Steven Gerrard (8) reacts to missing a shot on goal during the first half of an MLS soccer match against Real Salt Lake, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, in Sandy, Utah.

Steven Gerrard gets 1st MLS goal as Galaxy top FC Dallas

Liberia goalkeepers

career in doubt after freak accident

Constant domestic battle hurts English teams in Europe - Van Gaal

Action Images via Reuters / Jason Cairnduff

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal before the game.

Fiorentina crushes 10-man Inter 4-1 to move top of Serie A

Fiorentinas Nikola Kalinic cel-ebrates after scoring during the Italian Serie A soccer match against Inter Milan at the San Siro stadium in Milan,

Italy, September 27, 2015.

MILAN Inter Milans perfect record this season was left in tatters on Sunday after Fiorentina triumphed 4-1 at San Siro to move top of Serie A. Nikola Kalinic scored a hat trick and also won a penalty which Josip Ilicic converted for the fourth-minute opener. Mauro Icardi netted a consolation goal for 10-man Inter on the hour mark.

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Being here and working with this group is wonderful, Fiorentina coach Paulo Sousa said. We have got conti-nuity, playing well at the back as well as up front. There are teams which have invested a lot, they have different aims to us, but I am not going to hold back and I continue to say that we can face anyone to win.

Inter had only conceded one goal in its first five Serie A matches but found itself 3-0 down after 23 minutes in a sh