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Ida Bagus Sedhawa, the headof BAF committee, explained tothe press on Monday, June 1st

2010, that the 2010 BAf will beofficially opened by IndonesianPresident, Susilo BambangYudhoyono, on Saturday, June 12th

2010 at 8 pm local time in ArtCenter Denpasar. .

The opening ceremony of the32nd BAF will be filed with a co-

Agence France-Presse

GENEVA - The UN HumanRights Council was set on Tues-day to consider setting up an in-ternational probe into Israel’sdeadly interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla during an urgentdebate on the incident.

“The Council will be holdingan urgent debate on the Gaza flo-tilla incident this afternoon,” aspokeswoman for the 47-memberstate assembly, Claire Kaplun,said in a statement.

The request was made by statesfrom the Arab League and theOrganisation of the Islamic Con-ference (OIC), Kaplun told AFP.

Pakistan, Sudan and the Pales-tinian delegation also tabled adraft resolution for the debateseeking condemnation of the raidand aiming to set up an interna-tional probe, according to a copyreleased here.

It called for an “independentinternational fact finding missionto investigate violations of inter-national law resulting from theIsraeli attacks on the flotilla ofships carrying humanitarian assis-tance.”

The draft resolution also “con-demns in the strongest terms pos-

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Arabic and English-language newspapers in Dubai publishedon June 1, 2010 feature front page headlines on Israel’s deadlyraid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on May 31, 2010. The UNHuman Rights Council was set on Tuesday to consider set-ting up an international probe into Israel’s deadly intercep-tion of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla during an urgent debate onthe incident.

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Denpasar – The 32nd annual Bali Art Festival (BAF) 2010 will be held started from June 12th

through July 10th in Art Center Denpasar. The image of PKB as a market will be reduced byminimizing the number of sellers in Art Center. This year, the sellers don’t allow selling theirgoods in the Art Center area.

lossal play entitled “Anggada Duta”by the students of Indonesian ArtInstitute (ISI) Denpasar. This year’sBAF will be filled with 334 eventsconsists of 166 performances.

Art group from other countriesalso take part in the BAF. There arenine groups from seven countrieswhich are Japan, US, Canada, In-dia, Korea, Sweden, and Belgium.While there are 20 art groups from

other provinces in Indonesia are tak-ing part in the festival.

There are also 99 kinds of pa-rades and 72 kinds of competitions.

The opening parade will take thesimilar route with the last year BAFbut the main stage is moved to infront of Jayasabha building. The fin-ish of the parade is in front of BanjarBengkel, just before the Art Center.

The opening parade will star af-

ter Bali’s Governor, Made MangkuPastika, placed a symbol calledKayonan and sprinkle the holy wa-ter or tirta. The ceremony then con-tinued by the performances ofAdimerdangga and Siwa Natarajadance by the students of SMK 3Sukawati, Gianyar.

The theme of the 32nd BAF are‘’Sudamala: Mendalami KemurnianNurani” which means purifying yourheart. It is supporting the program ofBali’s Government “clean and green”

The participants from each areawill describe the things need to bedone to purify someone’s heart suchas praying or conducting ceremony,and others.(08)

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UN rights council setto consider probe on

Gaza boat raidsible the outrageous attack by Is-raeli forces” and called for the re-lease of all those detained inMonday’s operation.

Israeli commandoes boardedone of the aid ships bound for theGaza Strip in the pre-dawn raid thatleft at least nine passengers deadand sparked global outrage. Hun-dreds of pro-Palestinian activistswere also arrested.

Israeli Defence Forces blamedactivists on the ship for creating theconfrontation by attacking its sol-diers as they boarded the vessel.

Israel warned Tuesday it wouldprevent all aid ships from reachingbesieged Gaza, as activists voweda new attempt to defy the three-year-old blockade of the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.

UN High Commissioner forHuman Rights Navi Pillay con-demned Israel’s use of militaryforce as disproportionate, as theincident sparked widespread criti-cism when the council began itslatest two week session on Monday.

Israeli ambassador AharonLeshno Yaar urged the HumanRights Council “not to rush to con-clusions” until full informationabout the incident was known.

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DENPASAR - Pancasila is a sys-tem which provides opportunities forvarious thought, ideas, and dreams.Thus, Pancasila represents the consen-sus of society, a dynamic, reformist andready-to-accommodate needs of thetimes. Said Vice Chairman of the MPRRI Dr. Ahmad Farhan Hamid, MS.,when acting as a keynote speech, onPancasila Congress II, at UdayanaUniversity Campus, on Monday (31 /5) yesterday.

The existence of Pancasila whichcan accommodate modern time re-quirement actually is not unusual any-more. However, the interpretation stillneeds to be enriched to prevent weak-ening of Pancasila, its position and rolePancasila as an ideology that underliean open society, state and nation.

To affirm its position and role as anideology Pancasila can accommodatethe dynamics of change, then at thebeginning of reform in 1998, TAPMPR RI No. XVIII/MPR/1998 of TAP

In response to this, Tjok PutraSukawati and Head of Cultural Ser-vices of Gianyar Tjok Rai Widiarsawent against the presumption. Col-laboration of Gianyar Extravaganzaand Ubud Festival was done becauseof the bustles of Ubud customarycommunity over the coming months.On that account, the events that wereusually held separately, this yearwere conducted in collaboration.

Collaboration of the two majorevents as a means of tourism promo-tion, according to him, had gonethrough a number of processes suchas meetings for particular number oftime. Therefore, the Ubud Festivalusually organized by the communitywas then agreed to be conducted incollaboration with Gianyar Extrava-ganza presenting a number of nationalartists.

Gianyar Extravaganza in 2010 has

Denpasar (Bali Post)For the 12th time victims have

died of methanol poisoning inSanglah Hospital. This time it wasI Nyoman Kariana (54), citizen ofBanjar Gelogor Delod TunduhUbud, Gianyar. He admitted toSanglah Hospital on Sunday (30 /5) yesterday and died at around21:30 pm.

Meanwhile, one of the victimsis still hospitalized, Wayan Ekayasa(32) resident of Banjar Umaanyar,Pejeng, Gianyar Tampaksiring con-fessed to have been traumatized indrinking alcohol. The man, whoworks as a sculptor since he wasyoung, was used to drinking. If hedoes not drink wine for a day,Ekayasa admitted it was difficult tosleep.

Ekayasa resumed drinking winewith six of his friends in the stalls

Two tourism events heldTwo tourism events heldTwo tourism events heldTwo tourism events heldTwo tourism events heldin conjunction in Gianyarin conjunction in Gianyarin conjunction in Gianyarin conjunction in Gianyarin conjunction in GianyarGianyar (Bali Post)—

For the first time two calendars of events denoting a part of tourism promotion of GianyarRegency is held in conjunction. During these days, the two events namely Gempita Gianyar(Gianyar Extravaganza) and Ubud Festival had its own echo with the same magnitude for thebenefit of Gianyar tourism with different organizer. Collaboration of these two events had in-vited questions. Even, the disseminating issues told that the collaboration of the two events wasmade because one of the promotional events lacked of funding.

entered the third year. It posed a tour-ism promotional activity undertakenby the Jakarta businessmen bringingvisitors to Bali. The concept carriedby this year’s organization is differentfrom that of the previous years. In2010, the concept of Gianyar Extrava-ganza is cultural festival. Thus, it isvery suitable to be held in Ubud. Inthe meantime, Gianyar Extravaganzawill be held on July 2-3, 2010.

The main performance of thisyear’s Gianyar Extravaganza is dedi-cated to the concept of Balinese danceand music collaboration perfor-mances at open stage of AstinaSquare, Ubud. Featuring the title TriHita Karana, it displays the meaningof harmonious relations of man toGod, man to nature and among thefellow humans.

Well known musician and guitaristof GIGI Band, Dewa Budjana, will

serve as music director, in collabora-tion with teenage singer on-the-goGita Gutawa, Ayu Laksmi, Balinesemaestro dance Ketut Rina and OkaDalam, Jay Subyakto as art directorand be supported by more than 150performers from Gianyar. In addition,the Ubud Street Bash denoting a cul-tural carnival and street fashion willalso be held for the first time in themain street of Ubud.

Meanwhile, Tjok Wah by the col-laborative activity of Gianyar Extrava-ganza with Ubud Festival just hopedthat the implementation of these ac-tivities would not result in bad impres-sion. Especially, in the case of con-gestion problem that lately became themain problem in Ubud. In this matter,the committee was appealed to makepreparation thoroughly so that nonegative impression would appear inits implementation. (kmb16)

Pancasila Congress Phase IIInfluence of Globalization resulted in erosion of the Nation Identity

MPR regarding the revocation of TAPMPR RI No. II / MPR/1978 about P4that prevents a single interpretation ofPancasila.

Strengthen the commitment ofPancasila, the 1945 Homeland andUnity in Diversity, not intended to sa-cred Pancasila and the 1945 Constitu-tion, because they do not need sacred.But the difficulty would not providerationale for replacing the space withthe ideology of Pancasila other or evenchange the opening of the Constitutionof the Republic of Indonesia in 1945which contains the Pancasila as thebasis for the State.

Ahmad Farhan Hamid’s view thereis two aspects in the context of the po-sition of Pancasila present. First, theinternal aspect of the flow of under-standing of

Pancasila requires a serious effort tomake improvements. While the impactof regional autonomy has given raiseprovincialism that ethnic sentiment andreinforce the trend on local nationalism.While these two aspects, namely the

external aspect especially the impact ofglobalization. Besides the positive im-pact of globalization resulted in manynegative effects, not only the orientationon medical and social locations, but alsocan lead to erosion of identity and na-tional identity. It has colored the lives ofall the money each transaction social,political, either on the economy.

While the Bali Governor MadeMangku Pastika declared values ofPancasila has gradually faded inpeople’s lives. Former Bali Police chiefis then provided with a number of ex-amples clamor for elections across In-donesia. These conditions reflect thealready fading into the understandingof the precepts of Pancasila-4, whichdoes not admit any defeat elegant hap-pened. Nevertheless thankful his side,the five elections held in Bali every-thing went smoothly. The attitude takenby those who are not satisfied with

Election Commission policy whichfiled a lawsuit at the ConstitutionalCourt, has indeed reflects the apprecia-tion of the meaning of Pancasila. (sub)

Methanol Poisoningkilled the 12th Victim

around the village on Friday (28 /5) then. A total of six bottles of winewere finished by them. “We justmix it with soft drinks and did notmix it with anything else,” he said.Out of the six people who drank thatnight, Ekayasa is only the one whois entering the hospital.

Ekayasa started to feel the reac-tion of methanol poisoning a dayafter. “I was drinking at 17 o’clock,and felt my eyes blurred a day later.I realize now I cannot watch TV norcan I read SMS from my friends,”he said. He also complained of hav-ing blurred vision and shortness ofbreath.

He was later taken to Gianyar Pub-lic Hospital on Saturday (29 / 5) andthen referred to Sanglah HospitalSunday (30 / 5). Until yesterday hewas still in care at the Angsoka Roomat Sanglah Hospital. (Kmb24)

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One of the cultural parade in Bali. or the first time two calendarsof events denoting a part of tourism promotion of Gianyar Re-gency is held in conjunction. During these days, the two eventsnamely Gempita Gianyar (Gianyar Extravaganza) and Ubud Fes-tival had its own echo with the same magnitude for the benefit

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NEGARA - Long queues atGilimanuk Harbor happened again lastSunday (May 30) night. Indeed, this con-dition routinely occurred on Sundaynight. However, the queues on Sundaynight were also caused by the soaringnumber of domestic tourists going homefrom spending their holidays in Bali.

As a result, such long lines also causeda personal vehicle to crush another ve-hicle so that its rearview mirror crackedand front bumper damaged. “Thankfully,this incident could be resolved in the fa-milial atmosphere, if delivering to policethe matter would trigger long case,” re-vealed Mr. Wawan, one of the drivers ofvehicle.

From observations at Gilimanuk Har-bor last Sunday night, such sufficientlylong queues were caused by many tour-ist buses. Although ASDP transportationauthority operated 21 ships, but thousandsof vehicles dominated by tourist busesand the inter-provincial bus (AKAP) re-mained trapped in the queues. This bus-tling condition also led the officers ofGilimanuk Harbor to be overwhelmed.And the efforts of police and bus atten-dants to reduce the queues by divertingbuses to parking lot in front of the termi-

Congestion coming about last Monday morningwas getting more serious as traffic light at the cross-roads of Jalan Gatot Subroto and JalanCokroaminoto, Ubung once went out at around 8:00am Local Time. The congestion was also aggravatedby the hours of leaving for office. All vehicles head-ing for and out of the downtown seemed to slowdown and gather together on Jalan Gatot SubrotoBarat.

To resolve such traffic congestion, dozensof traffic police personnel of Denpasar MetroPolice assisted by patrol unit of West DenpasarPolice and officers of Transportation Serviceswent down to streets. They were made busy ar-ranging the traffic flows, especially at the in-tersection of Jalan Gatot Subroto—JalanCokroaminoto. Police officers were conse-quently forced to have morning ‘calisthenics’or to regulate traffic flows in the midst of thedrizzling rain.

Vehicles coming from the west, namely JalanGatot Subroto Barat, and vice versa were almostnot moving. Congestion occurred starting fromthe crossroad of Jalan Gatot Subroto - JalanBuluh Indah, at the intersection of Jalan GatotSubroto - Jalan Pidada - Jalan Bung Tomo, to

Bali PostMANGUPURA - Hundreds of

Angantaka villagers, last Monday (May31), led by Head of Angantaka CustomaryVillage made self-execution to the build-ings on the disputed land of Ketut Ngentegfamily located in front of the Banjar Puseh,Angantaka Village, Abiansemal. The execu-tion took place dramatically following aninternal conflict occurred in the family con-cerned involving two families, namely thatof Ketut Ngenteg and Wayan Darma.

Demolition of the building startedaround 1:30 pm Local Time. Customary vil-lagers in traditional outfits arrived at loca-tion after hitting the kulkul or split woodendrum. Village authority also employedheavy equipment such as bulldozer to fa-cilitate the dismantling. As long as the resi-dents did the demolition, the family of KetutNgenteg could only surrender watching.There was no opposition or hostility dur-ing the execution taking place.

The buildings demolished were angkul-angkul (entrance gate), garage, bathroomand kitchen that were claimed to be ownedby Wayan Darma who is the stepbrother ofKetut Ngenteg. The buildings on disputewere with an area of land approximately3.5 ares, while total extent of the land wasabout eight acres.

According to Head of Angantaka Cus-tomary Village, IB Nyoman Mayun, the dis-puted land belonged to communal land (vil-lage property) and was not inheritance land.Therefore, Ketut Ngenteg only had the rightto occupy it. Such land was later disputedby Ketut Ngenteg and was also going toexpel Wayan Darma from the house. Peace-ful mediation was done for many times at

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA — Attitudinal change offarmers in the Klungkung Regency convert-ing their paddy fields from planting rice toflower garden, in fact, is considered normaland not alarming for the development of riceproduction in the land of serombotan veg-etables. Instead, it is considered the intelli-gence of farmers seeing the potential and mar-ket opportunities is getting better.

“I agree with the consideration of farmersthat the flower cultivation is more promisingthan rice production,” said the Head ofKlungkung Agricultural, Plantation and For-estry Services (Distanbunhut) , WayanMuliarta, when asked for his confirmation,last Monday (May 31).

If the conversion was considered to bemore profitable for the economy of farmers,Muliarta admitted to support the endeavor offarmers. After all, he had confidence that notthe whole land would be converted intoflower garden. “The price of commodities isvolatile. When the production is abundant, theprice automatically drops. Then, when allfarmers convert to flower cultivation, simi-lar thing will occur automatically. Of course,farmers certainly do not want such a thing tohappen,” he said.

Traffic light goesTraffic light goesTraffic light goesTraffic light goesTraffic light goesout when raining,out when raining,out when raining,out when raining,out when raining,congestion inevitablecongestion inevitablecongestion inevitablecongestion inevitablecongestion inevitableBali Post

DENPASAR - The rain flushing Denpasar and surrounding areas since last Sunday(May 30) and until Monday (May 31) morning, caused traffic jams at some streets aroundDenpasar. The most severe traffic congestion ensued along Jalan Gatot Subroto Barat.

the central point of the intersection of Jalan GatotSubroto - Jalan Cokroaminoto, Ubung. Similarcondition also had an impact until on the junc-tion of Jalan Maruti - Jalan Cokroaminoto andcrossroad of Jalan Gatot Subroto - Jalan A. Yani,Lumintang. In such condition, motorists couldonly be patient. “Wow, traffic congestion is oc-curring everywhere. Absolutely, I can not findany alternative way to avoid this bottleneck,”said Gede Mardika, a travel driver who was stuckin traffic congestion on Jalan Gatot Subroto.

Expression of such travel driver representeda number of other motorists who complainedabout the traffic jams along Jalan Gatot SubrotoBarat, last Monday morning. “By and large, atthe beginning of the week there is no trafficjam like this. But because of rain, the trafficjams are inevitable,” said Agus, who just de-livered his son to school.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology,Climatology and Geophysics, the weather fore-cast of Denpasar on last Tuesday (Jun 1) morn-ing until this Wednesday (Jun 2), showed rainsthat potentially happened with temperature of24o-32o Celsius and humidity ranging between64-94 percent. (kmb)

Agricultural Services:Function conversion doesnot diminish rice production

Nevertheless, Muliarta still encouragedfarmers to stay using intercropping patterns.Some of the land should be used for growingrice, while the rest for flower and crops. Byimplementing the system, he believed it couldprotect farmers from price fluctuations.

He asserted that the plant conversion wasnot worried. Yet, it had to be recognized thatit remained to affect the output as a result ofreducing acreage. However, he could not callcertain numbers of acreage reduction and re-duced harvest proceedings. “If regarding todata, frankly speaking I do not rememberthem,” he admitted. To anticipate this condi-tion, Muliarta claimed to continue increas-ing the production boost. Previously, on av-erage the production could reach 6 tons ofrice per hectare, but in the future it was ex-pected to reach 6.5 to 7 tons per hectare. “Dif-ferent ways will be attempted to increase theproduction. So, it will not suffer a signifi-cant setback,” he said.

Previously, a number of farmers claimedto utilize their paddy fields for cultivatingflowers because they became more promis-ing. If paddy pant harvested within three-months, flowers could have been harvestedonly within 20 days. This farming conversiontook place in the region of Gelgel, Bajing,Selisihan and others. (kmb20)

Disputed land at Puseh Hamlet:Village authority holdsself-execution to houses of resident

the village level, as well as legal action incourt, but they never got a settlement.

This case was originally brought tothe Denpasar District Court that waslater won by Wayan Darma. Seeing this,Ketut Ngenteg did not keep silent andappealed. In the High Court, KetutNgenteg even won the case and decidedto perform an execution to the landowned by Darma.

“Actually, in the High Court Ngentegwon the dispute case. However, the villageauthority did not accept and kept defend-ing Wayan Darma. This land should be di-vided in two,” he said.

Meanwhile, different version wasproposed by Nyoman Sukarini, daugh-ter of Ketut Ngenteg. According to her,her family actually did not dispute theland if Wayan Darma asked for it. How-ever, it should be a good way. “As amatter of fact, if he requested it prop-erly we could provide it. If the disputeis unresolved like this, we can just sub-mit to our fate,” she said.

Still from the party of Ketut Ngenteg,Wayan Darma actually had no right to oc-cupy the land because Wayan Darma didnot belong to ayahan pokok (main custom-ary services). In addition, the lawsuit incourt was already won by Ketut Ngentegas the owner of the whole land. Unfortu-nately, after a protracted conflict and reso-lution in legal procedures, Wayan Darmapersisted in asking for his rights and theinvoked protection to the customary village.“Curiously, the village decision defendedWayan Darma. If so, it means the villageauthority does not respect the prevailinglaw,” she said. (ded)

Long queues ensue again at Gilimanuk HarborOfficers get overwhelmed

nal area of Gilimanuk did not help much.The end of the queues continued to growlonger and longer before midnight untilreaching one kilometer from the harbor.

“We tried maximum effort to keepthings running smoothly. Thankfully, ev-erything could run well this morning,”said Putu Suarta, Chief of Gilimanuk KP3Police, last Monday (May 31).

Based on information, the queue ofvehicles, chiefly student entourages us-ing tourist buses and then added with in-ter-provincial buses and vehicles of com-modities began to appear since Sundaynight (May 30) at 7:00 pm Local Time.At that time, the parking lot of the harborhad been fully occupied. Since the num-ber of vehicles was getting more and moreat that night, the end of queues graduallyentered into maneuver parking lot atabout 10:00 pm and the queues surpassedthe maneuver parking.

Meanwhile, Operations Manager ofASDP Gilimanuk, Ospar Silaban whenasked for his confirmation said the soar-ing number of vehicles making longqueue was caused by the return of domes-tic tourists after enjoying their holidaysin Bali using tourist buses choosing thenight time as the schedule of AKAP in-ter-provincial bus and vehicles of com-modities. (021)

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SEOUL - South Korea Tuesdaystepped up its campaign to holdNorth Korea responsible at the UNSecurity Council for sinking a war-ship, briefing visiting Russian ex-perts as an envoy held talks in theUnited States.

A team of Russian naval expertsarrived Monday to review the find-ings of a multinational investiga-tion team, which concluded lastmonth that a North Korean subma-rine torpedoed the South Koreanship in March with the loss of 46lives.

The Russians, including expertson torpedoes and submarines, willstay until June 7 to debrief inves-tigators, inspect the wreckage andvisit the site of the sinking near thedisputed Yellow Sea border, de-fence and foreign ministry officialssaid.

“Russia’s direct trust in our in-vestigation results will make thiscase clear, and it’s part of ourstepped-up effort to muster inter-national support,” one official toldAFP.

South Korea has announced aseries of reprisals including cuttingoff trade with its communistneighbour.

The hardline state furiously de-nies involvement and has re-sponded to the reprisals withthreats of war, sending regionaltensions sharply higher.

Rodong Sinmun, the rulingcommunist party newspaper, onTuesday accused the US and SouthKorea of faking evidence as “agolden opportunity to ignite thesecond Korean war”.

Seoul’s Munhwa Ilbo newspa-per said Tuesday the North hadmounted a cyber campaign — us-ing borrowed identities of SouthKorean Internet users — to spreadits claim that Seoul fabricated theevidence.

It said the aim was to give theimpression that many South Kore-

“We have precise information ithas planned a massive attackagainst Gaza to make up for its pastdefeats,” Ahmadinejad said in apublic speech in the western Iraniancity of Ilam that was broadcast liveon state television.

“I warn you that if this time youcommit a crime against any place,against Gaza, the storm of regionalnations’ fury will uproot you,” he said.

The hardliner, who has repeat-edly infuriated the world by hisanti-Israeli tirades, also lashed outat countries which he said “backedthe Zionist regime.”

Agence France-Presse

BAGHDAD - US military supportfor Iraqi efforts to secure Baghdad’sGreen Zone ended on Tuesday, in thelatest step in the American with-drawal from Iraq more than sevenyears after its invasion of Iraq.

The pullback marked the firsttime since 2003 that no US soldierswere present at any of the so-called“entry control points” to what is nowreferred to as the International Zone.

The event was marked with a cer-

AFP PHOTO/KIM JAE-HWAN

South Korea’s Capital Defense Command soldiers practice an anti-terror drill at Seoul on June 1, 2010. South Korea stepped up itscampaign to hold North Korea responsible at the UN Security Coun-cil for sinking a warship, briefing visiting Russian experts as anenvoy held talks in the US.

South Korea steps up effortsto haul North Korea to UN

ans do not trust the findings of theinvestigators.

The National Intelligence Ser-vice declined to confirm the report.

The South, with US and Japa-nese support, will ask the SecurityCouncil to sanction — or at leastto censure — the North for thesinking, one of the worst militaryattacks since the 1950-1953 war.

Seoul needs support from veto-wielding Council members, in-cluding Russia and China whichhave traditionally been close toPyongyang.

The foreign ministry in Moscowhas said it needs “100 percentproof” of the North’s involvement.

Seoul has also asked China tosend its own experts but Beijinghas not responded, according tolocal media, some of which saidthe offer had been rejected.

At a three-way weekend sum-mit, China’s Premier Wen Jiabaoresisted pressure from the Japaneseand South Korean leaders to pub-licly support the UN move or tocondemn the North. Wen insteadcalled for efforts to ease regionaltensions.

Despite China’s unclear stance,South Korea continued its cam-paign by sending Second Vice For-eign Minister Chun Yung-Woo, incharge of UN affairs, to the UnitedStates Monday for discussionswith US officials.

With the US government re-viewing how to step up its own ac-tions against North Korea, SouthKorean Foreign Minister YuMyung-Hwan said restricting cashflows to the North was an effec-tive punishment.

“If the cash inflow into NorthKorea is restricted, I think it willlower the possibility of nuclearweapons development and deterbelligerent behaviour,” he said ina BBC interview aired early Tues-day. South Korea estimates that itsown reprisals will cost the cash-strapped North 260-300 milliondollars a year.

US ends ‘overwatch’ of BaghdadGreen Zone checkpoints

emony inside the heavily-fortified com-pound for Iraqi government buildingsand a number of foreign embassies.

“The MPs (military police) wereworking with the Iraqi army, the Iraqipolice, the Iraqi traffic police, all the timeproviding overwatch,” said LieutenantColonel Marc Garcia, commander ofUS 336th Military Police Battalion.

“The difference is now we’re leav-ing and they have complete respon-sibility for the entry control points.”

Asked if Iraqi forces were ready tooperate without US supervision,

Garcia replied: “I’m confident thatthey are able to perform their mission.

“I think one of the demonstrationsof that was during the election,” headded, referring to Iraq’s March 7parliamentary poll when the only re-corded violence in the Green Zonewas a series of mortar attacks.

An Iraqi military delegation wasto have attended the ceremony but agroup of senior officers led by StaffBrigadier General MahmoudHussein Hamza arrived late and de-clined to speak to reporters.

AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE

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TEHRAN - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday thatIran has precise information that Israel plans to launch a “massiveattack” on Gaza in the wake of its deadly raid on an aid flotilla.

“This time if you back the crimesof the Zionist regime, the anger ofregional nations ... will not just belimited to the borders of Palestine,but will also put on trial you andthose who are accomplices in thecrime,” he said to cheering crowds.

Ahmadinejad criticised Washing-ton for adopting a “weak stance”against Israel for its deadly raid onthe Gaza aid flotilla.

“The US government has adopteda very weak and biased position. In-stead of condemning, it has spokenvaguely and sought to evade takinga stance,” he said, while some Euro-

pean countries had adopted a “good”stand.

On Monday, Israeli commandosraided an aid flotilla in internationalwaters of the Mediterranean headedto Gaza that left at least nine pro-Palestinian activists dead, accordingto the Israeli army.

The attack on the flotilla has trig-gered a fresh wave of tirades fromAhmadinejad against Israel.

The animosity between the Is-lamic republic and the Jewish statehas worsened under Ahmadinejad,who has repeatedly said Tehran’sarch-foe is “doomed to be wiped offthe map.”

Israel, for its part, has consis-tently demanded strong actionagainst Iran for pursuing its contro-versial nuclear programme and hasnot ruled out a military strike.

General Info Wednesday, June 2, 2010 5International

Denpasar

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

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

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

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

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

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

Badung

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

Bali International Medical Center (BIMC)Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excel-lent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Servicesfor tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance& Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone: 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta,Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com

International SOS Clinic BaliOpened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visi-tors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-houremergency medical service.Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - IndonesiaPhone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919E-mail : info@sos-bali.comttp ://www.sos-bali.com

Bali Nusa Dua Emergency ClinicJl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324

Kuta ClinicJl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268

Dental ClinicDr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, DenpasarPhone : 222 445, 234 375

DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324

Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4ABr. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

Australian Consulate GeneralJalan Tantular 32 Renon DenpasarPhone: +62 361 241118Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

The Czech RepublicJalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.286 465

France Consulate AgencyJalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.285 485

The Federal Republic of GermanyJalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.288 535

The Republic of HungaryJalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.287 701

Italian ConsulateJalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 005

Honorary Consulate of MexicoJalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.223 266

Honorary Consulate of The NetherlandsJalan Raya Kuta 127, BaliPhone +62.361.761 506

Honorary Consulate of SpainKomplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. JalanPatih Jelantik Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.769 286

USA Consulate AgencyJalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.222 426

Consulate General of JapanJalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.227 628

Honorary Consulate of BritishJalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.270 601

Swiss and Austria ConsulateJalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan IstanaGalleriaPhone +62.361.751 735

Honorary Consulate of BrazilJalan Legian No. 186, BaliPhone +62.361.757 775

Honorary Consulate of ThailandJalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.263 310

Embassy of IndiaJalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.241 978

Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf FinlandSegara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.282 223

Honorary Consulate of MalaysiaAlam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.752 520

Bangli

Bangli General HospitalJl. Kesumayuda 27, BangliPhone : +62 366 91521

Gianyar

Clinic MasJl. Raya Mas, UbudPhone : +62 361 974573

Toyo ClinicJl. Pengosekan, UbudPhone : +62 361 978078

Permata Bunda ClinicJl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, GianyarPhone : +62 361 942082

Ubud ClinicJl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, UbudPhone : +62 361 974911

Gianyar General HospitalJl. Ciung Wanara 2, GianyarPhone : +62 361 943049

Karangasem

Karangasem General HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai, KarangasemPhone : +62 363 21001

Klungkung

Klungkung General HospitalJl. Flamboyan 40-4, KlungkungPhone : +62 366 21371

Negara

Negara General HospitalJl. Gelar, NegaraPhone : +62 365 41006

Tabanan

Laboratorium ClinicJl. Gunung semeru No. 8, TabananPhone : +62 361 819260

Mengwi ClinicJl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, TabananPhone : +62 361 880550

Darma Kerti HospitalJl. Teratai 16, TabananPhone : +62 361 812359

Tabanan General HospitalJl. Pahlawan 14, TabananPhone : +62 361 811027

Praja Taxi : (0361) 289090Bali Taxi : (0361) 701111Ngurah Rai Taxi : (0361) 724724Pan Wirthi Taxi : (0361) 723366Komotra Taxi : (0361) 758855

Singaraja

Prodia ClinicJl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali0362 - 24-516

Singaraja HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali0362 - 22-573

Pet ClinicsKayumas: (0361) 226934Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518Sidakarya: (0361) 724492Pedungan: (0361) 720026

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Wednesday, June 2, 20106 News

US monitoring groups said thedeath of Yazid, who was the leaderof Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and itsliaison with the Taliban for threeyears, was announced by the groupin a message to jihadist websites onMonday.

“We have strong reason to be-lieve that’s true, and that (Yazid) waskilled recently in Pakistan’s tribalareas,” a US official said. “In termsof counterterrorism, this would be abig victory.”

Yazid, one of a number of Egyp-tians in the higher echelons of Al-Qaeda, was a founding member of thenetwork and a former treasurer to binLaden who was accused of channel-ling money to some of the Septem-ber 11 hijackers.

Yazid, also known as SheikhSaid al-Masri, would be one of thehighest profile Al-Qaeda leaderskilled since US President BarackObama took office.

“Al-Masri was the group’s chiefoperating officer, with a hand in ev-erything from finances to operationalplanning,” the US official said.

“He was also the organisation’sprime conduit to bin Laden and (Al-Qaeda number two Ayman)Zawahiri,” he said. “He was key toAl-Qaeda’s command and control.”

The Al-Qaeda message carriedby the SITE group that monitors Is-lamist websites did not say where orwhen Yazid was killed other than tospeak of his “martyrdom”.

But it said his wife, three of hisdaughters, his granddaughter, andother men, women and children werekilled along with him.

“His death will only be a severecurse by his life upon the infidels. Theresponse is near,” according to the

Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - A bank securityguard armed with a machine gunopened fire in a central China courtbuilding on Tuesday, killing threejudges and wounding three otherpeople before killing himself, statepress reported.

Qu Xiaojun, a guard forPostal Savings Bank, had delivereda sum of cash to a bank branchbefore going to the courthouse inthe city of Yongzhou in Hunanprovince to carry out the shooting,the Procuratorate Daily said.

Qu, who was believed to beabout 40 years old, then commit-ted suicide after the morning at-tack, it said, adding that the mo-tive for the shooting was not yet

Qaeda says top leader Yazid deadQaeda says top leader Yazid deadQaeda says top leader Yazid deadQaeda says top leader Yazid deadQaeda says top leader Yazid dead

This file photoobtainedcourtesy ofIntelCenter andoriginallyreleased onFebruary 6,2008 by al-Qaeda’s as-Sahab Media,shows MustafaAbu al-Yazid.

Agence France-Presse

KABUL - Al-Qaeda said its number three leader and Osama bin Laden’s one-time top moneyman Mustafa Abu al-Yazid has been killed along with several family members, in what would bea major blow to the global terror network.

message translated by SITE. Some US media reports said

Yazid was killed in a US drone strikein the Pakistani tribal areas on theAfghan border, where the UnitedStates has been waging a covert dronewar against militants in areas outsidedirect government control.

In the most recent such attack,local officials said six militants werekilled on May 22 in North Waziristan,a rugged area Washington labels a glo-bal headquarters of Al-Qaeda and themost dangerous place on Earth.

“Though these terrorists remainextremely dangerous and determinedto strike at the United States, the re-moval from the battlefield of top lead-ers like al-Masri is further proof thatthe tribal areas are not quite the safehaven Al-Qaeda and its allies thoughtthem to be,” the US official said.

Waheed Omar, spokesman forAfghan President Hamid Karzai, saidthe death of any “terrorist involvedin terrorism activities in either Af-ghanistan or Pakistan, or on the bor-ders, is a development (that) ad-vances the cause”.

But he added: “We are not sureof any significant impact of the kill-ing of one of the members of Al-Qaeda.

Analysts said several of Yazid’spredecessors as Al-Qaeda numberthree had been killed or captured,while there were rumours in 2008that he himself had been killed.

Yazid, 54, was among thosewhose assets were frozen by the USTreasury in the wake of the Septem-ber 11, 2001 attacks on the UnitedStates.

According to the FBI, it wasYazid who transferred funds viaDubai for Mohammed Atta, Marwan

al-Shehhi and Wal al-Shehri, threeof the hijackers who flew aircraftinto the Twin Towers and the Penta-gon.

Yazid, wearing thick glassesand a white turban, appeared in anumber of videos released by Al-Qaeda since he first emerged as headof Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in May2007.

A former member of the Is-lamic Jihad movement in Egypt, hehad close links with fellow EgyptianZawahiri and served time in jail overthe 1981 assassination of Egyptianpresident Anwar Sadat.

“This is one of the most sig-nificant blows against Al-Qaeda inrecent years and its impact will befelt by the group,” said Ben Venzkeof intelligence analysis groupIntelCenter.

He said Yazid ran Al-Qaeda op-erations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

According to Yasser al-Sirri,the director of the London-based Is-lamic Observatory, Yazid was bornin December 1955 in Egypt.

Sirri said at the time of Yazid’sappearance in May 2007 that he was“trusted by bin Laden, for whom heran businesses in Sudan” when thefounder of Al-Qaeda lived in exilethere before Khartoum expelled himin 1996.

“Yazid is known for his integ-rity and management skills, but hasnever taken organisational or mili-tary responsibility at the heart of Al-Qaeda, of which he was one of thefounders in 1989,” Sirri said.

Yazid’s last public statementwas on May 4, when he deliveredeulogies for the two top Al-Qaedaleaders in Iraq who were killed inApril.

AFP PHOTO / IntelCenter

Man kills three judges,commits suicide in China

known. Calls to the courthouse and to

the local government in the city ofYongzhou went unanswered.

Deadly shootings are ex-tremely rare in China, where pri-vate gun ownership is banned.However, some bank security per-sonnel who handle transport ofcash are armed with guns.

The incident followed a spateof bloody attacks on young school-children around China since lateMarch that have left 17 peopledead, including 15 students, andscores injured.

Experts say the senseless as-saults reveal a China struggling tocome to grips with rapid socialchange following decades ofbooming economic growth.

The UN Security Council inNew York later called for an im-partial investigation into the at-tack and the immediate release ofall civilians.

In Geneva, Pillay underlinedher broader concerns about theimpact of the Israeli blockade onhuman rights in Gaza.

“The blockade lies at the heartof so many of the problems plagu-ing the Israel-Palestine situation,as does the impression that the Is-raeli government treats interna-tional law with perpetual disdain,”she said.

Israel is frequently the subjectof special debates and condemna-tion by the UN’s top rights assem-

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bly for issues such as settlementbuilding in occupied territoriesand abuse against Palestinians.

A similar special session earlylast year led to a UN human rightsinvestigation into Israel’s 2008-2009 military offensive in theGaza Strip.

The fact-finding mission led byformer international war crimesprosecutor Richard Goldstoneconcluded that both Israel andGaza’s Hamas rulers committedwar crimes and possible crimesagainst humanity.

Israel has resisted one of thekey demands of the mission’s re-port, to carry out a probe into theallegations.

Agence France Presse

SYDNEY – A woman diedfrom horrific burns after a man sether alight at an Australian petrolstation on Tuesday, in a gruesomescene that prompted police to urgewitnesses to seek counselling.

The 42-year-old woman wasstabbed before she and her carwere engulfed in flames at aMelbourne gas station, with wit-nesses reporting that her allegedattacker told them to “let herburn” when they tried to inter-vene.

The woman was rushed to hos-pital with burns to nearly all of herbody and died hours later, theAustralian Associated Press re-ported.

A 41-year-old man, believed tobe the woman’s partner, was ar-rested at a nearby church after atwo-hour stand-off with heavilyarmed police, AAP said.

He was taken to hospital withminor injuries, and police are

Man sets womanon fire in Australia

waiting to interview him, it said.“Victoria Police are concerned forthe welfare of the many witnessesto this morning’s incident,” policesaid in a statement.

“Police encourage people toseek counselling.” A truck driverwho was part of the morningrush-hour traffic passing the gasstation said he stopped and racedover to help the burning womanwith a fire extinguisher, but wasdriven back by a man with aknife.

“(He was) telling her to burn,”the man told Fairfax Radio Net-work. “At this stage she was stillrolling around or laying near thecar.”

“The car was completely en-gulfed, she was completely en-gulfed, there was just black smokepouring out.” Another man thendrove his vehicle at the knifemanso people could help the woman.“I obviously scared him a bit andhe ran off,” the man told FairfaxRadio.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

ALARM bells not wedding bellsare ringing over Indonesian propos-als to demand a 55,000-dollar “se-curity guarantee” from foreign menwho marry Indonesian women.

Enraged brides-to-be are threat-ening to flee the country and marrytheir boyfriends abroad if the gov-ernment approves the plan, which ispart of a wider marriage law reformbeing pushed by Muslim conserva-tives.

And befuddled foreign groomsare asking why they are being tar-geted when stories of foreign menbeing exploited by gold-diggingwomen are rife in the SoutheastAsian country.

The proposal requires foreignmen wishing to wed Muslim women— it will not apply to Christians orBuddhists or Hindus — to put a guar-antee of 500 million rupiah (55,000dollars) into a bank.

If the couple divorce, the wife willbe entitled to take the money. If theystick together for at least 10 years,

AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY

Indonesian students attend a protest against Israel’s attack in Jakarta on June 1, 2010. Hundres of Indone-sian student protesters held a peace demonstration against Israel’s assault on an aid convoy sailing to Gaza.

Since 7 am Tuesday hundreds of people have converged on the HotelIndonesia traffic circle and then marched peacefully to different locationsin the city to protest the violence and loss of life when Israeli commandosstormed the flotilla in international waters Monday, killing at least ninepro-Palestinian activists in a pre-dawn raid.

The protesters brought posters and banners with calls “Do not preventhumanitarian aid reaching Palestine.”

In addition, the protesters also urged the international community totake stern action against the Israeli aggression in Monday’s storming ofGaza-bound aid ships.

Also seen among the protesters were Indonesia’s red-and-white flagsand Palestinian black-white-green-red flags of different sizes.

According to the Metro Jaya Police Traffic Management Center, thepeaceful rallies that would last until 12.00 would also be staged in front ofthe United States Embassy in Medan Merdeka Selatan Street in CentralJakarta. Meanwhile, AFP reported that United Nations Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon was “shocked” by the naval assault on a convoy carryinghundreds of pro-Palestinian activists in international waters.

As tens of thousands of people protested across the world, Ban calledon Israel to “urgently” explain the raid reported to have killed up to ninepeople, many of them Turks.

AFP said the UN Security Council went into an emergency session atwhich Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu charged that Israel had“lost all legitimacy.”

Britain, France, Russia and China — four out of the five veto-wieldingSecurity Council members — called for the blockade of Gaza to be liftedand for an independent inquiry.

Even the United States, Israel’s traditional ally, hinted that the blockadeshould at least be eased.

Turkey, the Jewish state’s chief regional partner, scrapped joint war gameswith Israel and recalled its ambassador, while Prime Minister Recep TayyipErdogan described the raid as “inhuman state terror”.

Antara

JAKARTA - President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono Tuesdaycalled for a halt to debates onPancasila as the basic principlesof the state saying it had servedas the basic values of the Indone-sian nation since the country pro-claimed its independence.

“It is not proper to debatePancasila as the basic principles ofthe state any longer. This is impor-tant because MPR RI (the People’sConsultative Assembly) in 1998through its decree No. 18/MPR/1998 has declared it the basic prin-ciples of the state. Let’s stop debat-ing Pancasila as the basic principlesof the state because the debate iscounter productive and a historical,”

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JAKARTA - Hundreds of people staged anti Israel rallies at variouslocations in Jakarta on Tuesday to protest that country’s raid on anaid flotilla sailing to Gaza on Monday.

Stop debating Pancasila as state ideologyhe said in his address marking thefounding father Soekarno’s speech onJune 1, 1945 at the parliament build-ing on Tuesday.

Also present at the event wereVice President Boediono, formerpresident Megawati Soekarnoputri,former vice presidents Jusuf Kalla,Try Sutrisno and Hamzah Has, MPRChairman Taufik Kiemas and a num-ber of cabinet ministers.

In his 30-minute address, PresidentYudhoyono said Pancasila, along withthe 1945 Constitution, the UnitaryState of the Republic of Indonesia andUnity in Diversity were four main pil-lars of the nation and state which werepart of the national life all the time.

“When we link Pancasila to trans-formation and reformation, reforma-tion is actually continuity, change,

and something still relevant (to thepresent condition) the more so be-cause we inherit the four pillarsfrom our predecessors and thus, wemust maintain their continuity. Wecan do new things to make the lifeof the state better without abandon-ing the basic values. It is for thisreasons that Pancasila serves asan important pillar we have agreedupon since Indonesia proclaimed itsindependence,” he said.

For its part, the President calledon the nation to use the commemo-ration of the founding father’s speechon June 1 as a momentum to under-stand the great ideas of Soekarno, thehistory of declaring Pancasila thebasic principles of the state and howthe present Indonesian generationscould actualize the ideas.

Can’t buy love? Indonesia thinks foreign men shouldthey can claim it as “shared property”.

“The provision... is intended toprotect the rights of women and theirchildren if their husbands neglect, failto provide for, leave Indonesia se-cretly... divorce or do anything whichharms their interests,” the bill says.

Love-struck couples are outraged.“How ridiculous... the government

wants to sell me off,” sniffed 36-year-old events organiser Roslina, who isplanning to tie the knot with her Ger-man boyfriend, Christopher, in Sep-tember.

“My future husband will pay theamount but that’s not the point. We’lldefinitely marry abroad if this be-comes law.”

A 24-year-old model who de-clined to be named said she and herboyfriend, also from Germany, werebeing unfairly discriminated against.

“It looks like the government hasno respect for Indonesian women. It’scrazy to penalise only foreign men.Why not charge local men who marrythree or four wives but can’t afford

it?” she said.Her 39-year-old boyfriend, a

banker who declined to give his name,said: “It’s a clear statement by thegovernment that it owns its people andit sells them on the meat market.”

“Maybe we’ll also see cataloguesin the future of women who are onthe market for sale. Maybe I can openan office abroad and start marketingIndonesian women,” he added sarcas-tically.

Female student Masyita agreed:“People say that love is priceless, butyou have to pay a penalty if you fallin love in Indonesia. But don’t worry;it’s only 500 million rupiah... socheap, aren’t we?”

The proposal, spearheaded by thereligious affairs ministry, will be sentto parliament for approval by the endof the year, an official said.

The guarantee is designed to stopforeigners entering fake marriages inorder to set up businesses or buy prop-erty in their wives’ names, and to en-sure that women are financially se-

cured against divorce, ministry offi-cial Nasaruddin Umar said.

“When the women are no longerof use, it’s usually goodbye to them,”he added without providing figuresor research to back up his statement.

“Marriage is pure and sacred; itshouldn’t be tainted by lust or per-sonal interests. We want to protectour women.”

The plan has drawn mixed re-sponses from the country’s clerics,women’s groups and lawmakers.

Clerics in the world’s most popu-lous Muslim-majority country havethrown their weight behind the draftbill.

Critics say it will only encouragepeople to “live in sin” outside ofwedlock, leaving women more vul-nerable.

“I applaud this proposal. We’veheard many cases of foreigners mar-rying our women and then desertingthem and their kids with nothing,”Indonesian Council of Ulema chair-man Amidhan told AFP.

But lawmaker Iskan Qolba Lubissaid: “People want to marry becausethey’re in love so why are we makingthings difficult for them? It’s also dis-criminatory. We wouldn’t be happyif other countries did the same to us.”

Nia Schumacher of Melati World-wide, a group which lobbies for theinterests of people in mixed mar-riages, said the proposal would leadto an exodus of “runaway brides”.

“Or the couples may not registertheir marriages or skip marriage al-together and co-habit instead. Is thatwhat the government wants?” sheasked.

Some women’s rights activists saythe plan treats women like a commod-ity and discriminates against foreignmen.

“We clearly reject the proposal. Itlowers the dignity of women and notall foreign men have that muchmoney,” Association of IndonesianWomen in Multinational Marriages(Srikandi) co-chairwoman EmmyliaHannig said. (Agence France-Presse)

8 InternationaWednesday June 2, 2010

Bali Today

Speaking at the FIABCI con-gress at the Grand Hyatt Hotel inNusa Dua, Pastika announced, “In2014 the Miss World contest is go-ing to be held in Bali.”

Proudly pointing to the largenumber of international meetingsscheduled for Bali, Pastika told hislisteners that Bali is known inter-nationally as “the island of love.”

“Bali is known as the Island ofGods and Island of Peace and De-mocracy, now Bali is the island ofLove. Julia Roberts, in the movieEat, Pray and Love found true lovein Bali,” explained the governor.

He hoped that by the interna-tional events that being held inBali, more tourists will visit theisland because tourism is essential

Bali to Host2014 MissWorld Contest.

Antara

DENPASAR - Assosiation ofAsia Pacific Advertising Media(AAPAM) will carry out Asia PacificMedia Forum 2010 in Nusa Dua,Bali. The forum which goes by thetheme “Reinventing Consumer Cul-ture” will be held started on June 2nd

through June 5th 2010.Thomas Franky, the spokesman of

Asia Media Forum, said that 27 speak-ers will take part in the event. All ofthem are the experts in their field.

“Through the forum, the profes-sionals in communication and me-dia can meet the brand owner in or-der to explore their innovation andstrategy to face the media industry

Bali - While the exact dateof U.S. President Obama’svisit to Indonesia and Bali re-mains unclear, Detik.com re-ports that U.S. Under Secre-tary for Democracy and Glo-bal Affairs, Maria Otero, re-vealed during her recent visitto Jakarta that Obama’s Indo-nesia visit would commenceon June 14, 2010.

In Indonesia to pave theway for President Obama’svisit, Otero met with counter-parts at the Indonesian Depart-ment of Foreign Affairs andmembers of local c i t izengroups the U.S. Presidentwishes to engage in dialogueduring his coming visit.

IBP/ist

The Miss World 2010 contest

Nusa Dua -GovernorMade Mangku Pastika usedan appearance at the open-ing of the 61st World RealEstate Congress (FIABCI)to formally announce thatBali will host the Miss WorldCompetition 2014.

for the people of Bali. The devel-opment of economics in Bali de-pends on the development of thetourism world.

If more tourists come to Bali thenthe income of the people will alsoincrease and it will also increase thewelfare of the inhabitants of Bali.

The governor urged everyone totake part in maintaining the secu-rity level so every internationalevents which is held in Bali can becarry out successfully. It will givegood image in the internationalworld and can attract more touristsvisited Bali.

Obama toArrive inIndonesiaon June 14

Asia Pacific MediaForum 2010 held in Bali

challenge,” he added.Among the speakers are Ragnar

Kruse (CEO of Smaato), JeffreySeah (CEO of SMV SEA) andJonathan Carson (CEO of NielsenTelecom).

AAPMF is the event for execu-tives and managers from advertising,media, brand owner, Research Com-pany and others to meet and sharetheir experiences. Franky said “theforum is also to discuss the dynamicof media industry in the world.”

There will be also Student MediaForum in the event. The event filledwith discussion for academic peopleand is held by International Adver-tising Association (IAA) and Boardof Advertising Indonesia.

Are you getting bored with culturalattractions offered by Bali? Do notworry, forget it for a while. Simply di-vert your attention to more light thingsto see around Bali. Activities of farm-ers in the rice field, for instance, willhave various attractions. From the dawnuntil the nightfall, they are loyally cul-tivated their land beyond doing otherside jobs.

With the subak system inheritedfrom some a thousand years ago, theycultivate their land with regular irriga-tion. The system can survive because itadopts modern techniques, too. Both gohand in hand in keeping with the mod-ernization. Mechanization and agricul-tural technology are in one side, whileancient tradition in another side. It wasMpu Kuturan who introduced the ritualguidance for subak through his famouspalm-leaf manuscript DarmaningPemaculan featuring the preparation ofseedlings up to storing the post-harvesthusked rice in granary. Other than ob-serving their daily works, visitors canalso see their ‘struggle’ against disturb-ing birds. When they are preparingsome seedlings, some spotted doveswill steal the sprouts. Farmers areforced to cover the newly seedlings byalang-alang grass until they reach somefive to six days old. Another enemy isthe slow white heron along with itsfriend. Though such long-legged birdsdo not eat the sprouts but they disturbenough because usually walk aroundhaphazardly in the seedling area wheretheir prey like small frogs or grasshop-pers go. Probably, your coming throughbird watching can keep those birdsaway from seedling area.

When the paddy plant has bearyoung fruit, cereal eater birds will comewithout invitation. They consist of sev-eral families like scaly breasted munia,white-headed munia. In a large crowd,

Bird watchingAdmiring another charmof Paradise Island

they ordinarily like to suck the youngmilky content of the rice, moreover ifit belongs to local variety like stickyrice. The latter is more delicious. If thisattack is neglected or gets less atten-tion within few days the entire paddymay be empty. Therefore, farmers at-tempt to dismiss them by generatingvarious sounds. Some of them can becarried out by making split bamboo log,propeller or even install some scare-crows at every corner. Of course, it willbe accompanied by installation of someropes to move them. To make easier inoverseeing the birds, farmer will evenbuild temporary high hut. But, a littlenegligence of farmer will be taken ad-vantage by those birds.

If you are lucky enough, your birdwatching may encounter some manyarbirds or golden weaver belonging tomunia family. Uniquely, this bird buildsa hanging nest on trees, bamboo highergrass or coconut made from plaitedgrasses. Moreover, this bird can alsomake a basinet for their baby. Whenthey grow older, they will be ready tosway on the stalk of rice. Some otherinteresting birds to see in the rice fieldare Javan kingfisher (Balinese: tenggek)with its blue feather and red or whitebeek, white breasted water hen(krekuwak) usually walk and slip intothe spaces between paddy plants.

In essence, local farmers do not havea habit to kill the annoying birds. Theyjust dismiss them by eco-friendly meth-ods such as by generating sounds manu-ally, by wind or even water. If the attackis rampant and considered stubborn, theywill hold ngelepeh ceremony by offeringsacrifice at Bedugul Temple. Hopefully,by offering some oblation gods master-ing the birds could control their subjects.Last but not least, have a nice bird watch-ing while looking closer at farmer’s ac-tivity in the rice field. (BTN/punia)

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Coconuts are widely used in Bali, for making sugar,alcohol,housing, utensils, temple offerings and charcoal.The grated flesh of the coconut is frequenly added tofood, it can also be squeezed in water to make coconutmilk. If freshly grated coconut is not available, driedunsweetened coconut moistened with warm water canbe used a substitute. To make fresh coconut milk, put 2cups of freshly grated ripe coconut into a bowl and add2 cups of lukewarm water. squeeze and knead thecoconut thoroughly for 1 minute, then strain throughcheesecloth into a bowl to obtain thick coconut milk.Repeat the process with another 1 cup of water toobtain thin coconut milk. Combine both for the coconutmilk called for in recipes in this book. Coconut milk canbe frozen , thaw and stir thoroughly before use. Adistinctive Balinese flavor is obtained by roasting chunksof fresh coconut in a charcoal fire until blackened on allsides. The charred exterior is then brushed off, the fleshgrated and coconut milk made in the normal way toobtain roasted coconut milk. The best substitute forfresh coconut milk is instant coconut powder. Combinethis with warm water as directed on the packet . For thericher, creamier flavor required for desserts and cakes,use canned (unsweetened) coconut cream.

A vivid yellow root of the ginger family, this has a veryemphatic flavor. Scrape the skin before using. If freshtrumeric is not available, substitute 1 tablespoon ofpowdered turmeric for 100g of the fresh root. To maketurmeric water, peel about 8 inches of fresh turmericroot, slice finely and combine with 1 cup of water.Process in a blender until very fine, or pound the slicedturmeric in a mortar and then mix with water and letstand for a couple of minutes. Strain through a sieve,pressing firmly with the back of a spoon to extract all thejuice. Store in a jar in the refrigerator. If fresh turmeric isnot available, combine 4 tablespoons of powderedturmeric with 1 cup of water and mix well.

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Everyday, the site is visited bymore than 1 million visitors and1,000 new advertisements.Tokobagus.com don’t ask any formof payment for placing advertise-ment and the buyer can directly con-tact the seller through thesite.(kmb18)

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Flood is seen in an area in Denpasar. During the high rain fall, many areas in Bali floodeddue to the bad drainage and the garbage. The lack of discipline made many people throwtheir garbage in to the river and it often cause flood.

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TIRTA Gangga is a beautifulpark with the huge water fountainand wide pond located at AbangSub-district, Karangasem Regencyin east part of Bali. Tirta GanggaPark is built in the year of 1948 bythe Karangasem King of AnakAgung Agung Angluerah KetutKarangasem. Before this park isfound, there is big wellspring foundin this area which the local societybelieve that this water come from theland is holy spring therefore theycall this place is Embukan meanswellspring. According to the localbelieve that this wellspring function-ing as a bath place for the god andalso used as drinking water for thelocal community from the nearestvillage. Therefore this wellspring issacrificed by local people and keepsthe park naturally. The King ofKarangasem has got an idea to im-prove this park into a good lookingand nowadays, it becomes one of thefamous tourist destinations in eastpart of Bali.

Tirta Gangga Park is also featuredby the wide public pool with the cooland clean water where it can be usedhttp://balijadevilla.com

Tirta Gangga Parkby everyone who visiting this place.It is situated on the foot Abang Hillwith cool temperature in particularnight time or morning time. The lushtropical garden are well surround thepark and big fish ponds are runningaway at another ponds to give the im-pression for every tourist who pay avisit to this beautiful park. Somebuildings and other decorations areintentionally made as according tothe spirit from Puri AgungKarangasem (Agung KarangasemPalace), so it can be said that be-tween Tirta Gangga Park andSukasada Park (Taman Sukasada)which is located at Ujung country-side is a union.

Tirta Gangga is strategically lo-cated beside of the main strait fromKarangasem to Singaraja Town andit is just 20 minutes from the localtown or 2 hours and 15 minutes fromDenpasar Town. You may also jointhe exciting tour to the east part ofBali that we call it by KarangasemTour and you will discover manyplaces of interest in east part of Baliincluding Tirta Gangga.(www.balistarisland.com)

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 11

BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

SHANGHAI - Chinalaunched a benchmark index for itNasdaq-style ChiNext board Tues-day, seven months after it created thenew market to support small com-panies with high growth prospects.

The ChiNext Index will “com-prehensively and objectively reflectthe overall price direction ofChiNext board stocks,” said theShenzhen Stock Exchange, whichhosts the board.

The index was down 1.27 per-

Opening talks in a friendly at-mosphere that belied relations thathave often been marred by disputes,Medvedev declared the sides wereworking on a new initiative to in-volve the European Union inRussia’s modernization drive.

“Today we have begun work-ing on this initiative and I hope itwill provide a significant impulseto our friendly, strategic relations,”Medvedev said as he greeted EUpresident Herman Van Rompuy fortalks in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.

Rompuy said the two-daysummit came at a “crossroads” inties — coming in the wake of theglobal crisis and being the firstsince the EU’s reforming LisbonTreaty took effect.

“The summit comes at a de-fining time both for the EuropeanUnion and Russia,” he said.

“We are maneuvering our waythrough the economic and financialcrisis with the aim of coming outstronger as a union, and Russia isalso at a crossroads.”

But Medvedev said Russia,whose economy shrank nearly eightpercent in 2009 but so far avoidedthe worst of the financial crisis, wasclosely watching how Europe man-ages its market woes triggered bySpain and Greece’s budget troubles.

“I want... to wish you andyour colleagues success in reforms

Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - China’s housing mar-ket problems are worse than those inthe United States before the globaldownturn as they could stoke publicdiscontent, a central bank adviser haswarned.

The comments were made beforeChina’s State Council, or cabinet, an-nounced it would “gradually reform thereal estate tax” — the first official signof a possible annual levy on residentialhousing aimed at reining in soaringprices.

“The housing market problem inChina is actually much, much morefundamental, much bigger than thehousing market problem in the US andUK before your financial crisis,” saidLi Daokui, a member of the bank’smonetary policy committee.

“It is more than (just) a bubble prob-lem,” he told the Financial Times in aninterview published Tuesday.

The property market in the UnitedStates collapsed as too many peoplewere unable to repay their high-risk, orsub-prime mortgages, leading to acredit crunch in which thousands losttheir homes and lending dried up.

China has recently introduced arange of measures to prevent thegrowth of asset bubbles and soaringproperty prices.

Authorities have tightened restric-tions on advance sales of new propertydevelopments, introduced new curbson loans for third home purchases, andraised minimum downpayments forsecond homes.

The latest tax plan was expected todiscourage property speculation andhelp replenish the coffers of local gov-ernments, which have been severelydepleted by an investment binge overthe past year, Chinese media reportshave said.

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ROSTOV-ON-DON - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hosted EU leaders Tuesday for asummit hoping to avoid customary bilateral squabbles and instead boost economic ties amid thefinancial crisis.

you are undertaking to coordinatethe issues on containing the globalfinancial crisis and those problemswhich now exist in certain Euro-pean states,” Medvedev said.

With Moscow and Brusselsboth humbled by economic worries,talks were set to gloss over geopo-litical disputes and work to smoothbumps in ties over trade, visas andEU concerns about its reliance onRussian energy supplies.

Past summits were marred byspats over issues such as humanrights abuses in Russia, the August2008 war in Georgia and Moscow’sire at perceived EU encroachmentinto its former Soviet fiefdom.

Moscow declared setting atimeline to abolish visas its prior-ity ahead of the summit, but the is-sue was only listed as one amongmany on a packed agenda Tuesdayand analysts said the sides were un-likely to make headway on the is-sue.

Russia, which has long soughtvisa-free travel for its citizens toEurope, has voiced growing irrita-tion over visa barriers while insist-ing the EU’s immigration problemsare at its southern, not eastern bor-ders.

The Kremlin is also eager forEU investment and technologyknow-how in modernising Russia’seconomy after the crisis showed upits dependence on oil and gas ex-

ports, most of which go to Europe. But the summit comes as the

EU faces deep internal divisionsover the Greek debt crisis and a sag-ging euro — developments thathave not gone unnoticed by Rus-sia, which holds nearly half of itmassive reserves in euros.

A top Kremlin official esti-mated that trade between the part-ners had dropped about 30 percentlast year. According to the EU, thebloc’s exports to Russia fell from105 billion in 2008 to 66 billion in2009.

European Commission chiefJose Manuel Barroso, who wasjoined by EU foreign policy chiefCatherine Ashton at the summit,hailed Russia’s bid for Europe’sknow-how in its modernizationdrive as a way to achieve “more,faster, better.”

“Looking at your politics andeconomics of the 21st century itseems crystal clear that the EU andRussia must be side by side in avery close partnership.”

At this 25th EU-Russia sum-mit, the bloc will be looking tomake headway on trade disputeswith its biggest energy partner, in-cluding anti-EU tariffs on timberexports and fees for trans-Siberianoverflights.

Brussels is also expected topush Moscow on its efforts to jointhe World Trade Organisation.

China launches index for Nasdaq-style boardcent, or 12.67 points, at 987.33 inearly trading. It had a base level of1,000 points.

China launched the growthboard in October to give small- andmedium-sized companies access tofinancing and encourage private eq-uity firms and venture capitalists toback start-ups.

Regulators hope the newgrowth enterprise market will helpfuel young companies and otherfirms with high-growth potential inthe world’s third-largest economy ina similar way to Wall Street’s

Nasdaq. As of Friday, there were 86

firms listed on the board with a totalmarket value of 383.5 billion yuan(56.1 billion dollars).

The index will eventually becomposed of 100 stocks that are se-lected based on their weight of mar-ket value of floatable shares andtrading volume.

Newly listed stocks will be in-cluded in the indices from their 11thtrading day until the number of firmslisted on the board reaches 100, theexchange said.

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Chinese migrant workers make their way along a housing con-struction site in Hefei, central China’s Anhui province on May 31,2010. China’s housing market problems are worse than those inthe United States before the global downturn as they could stokepublic discontent, a central bank adviser has warned.

China bank adviser says propertywoes more severe than US

A property tax is likely to be imposedon a trial basis in Beijing, Shanghai, thesouthwestern municipality of Chongqingand the southern city of Shenzhen byend-June, state media said previously.

China currently has no such levy onresidential property but does impose a1.2 percent tax on 70-90 percent of thevalue of commercial real estate.

The State Council also approved aplan to encourage the withdrawal of statecapital in “general competitive sectors”,in an apparent effort to reduce the amountof government-backed investment in thered-hot property market.

Li said recent moves by Beijing torein in the property market needed to bepart of a long-term push to bring highhousing prices under control, the Finan-cial Times reported.

He warned the high cost of housingcould hamper future growth by slowingurbanisation. Rising prices were also apotential political flashpoint, especiallyamong younger people who felt lockedout of having their own home. “Whenprices go up, many people, especiallyyoung people, become very anxious,” hesaid. “It is a social problem.”

He added that there were still signsthat the economy was overheating andrecommended modest increases in de-posit interest rates and the value of theChinese currency, the report said.

Official data showed real estate pricesin 70 cities jumped 12.8 percent in April,the fastest year-on-year rise for a singlemonth in five years.

At the Beijing Real Estate Expo inApril, the average price of a new apart-ment in the Chinese capital was 21,164yuan (3,100 dollars) per square metre,double that of last year, state media said.

That means a 90-square-metre (970square feet) apartment in Beijing wouldcost 1.9 million yuan, compared with theaverage per capita income of 17,175yuan in 2009.

Entertainment InternationalWednesday, June 2, 201012

China’s Premier Wen Jiabaoreached the accord with Japanesecounterpart Yukio Hatoyama duringa visit to Tokyo, where he was alsogiven a kimono-clad Hello Kittydoll, the country’s icon of cute.

The two leaders agreed that eachcountry will hold a festival or a spe-cial week next year to showcase theother’s screen offerings, such asanimation and TV drama series, aJapanese official said.

“We accepted the Chinese pro-posal because it’s a good offer,” theofficial said after the summit meet-ing. “It will be a good opportunityfor both of us to promote our cul-

Agence France Presse

SEOUL – Multiplex cinemaswill broadcast South Korea’s WorldCup matches live in 3D to lure fansaway from their televisions athome, an official said Tuesday.

Major chains like CGV, LotteCinema and MegaBox plan toshow the matches in three dimen-sions, especially those involvingthe South Korean squad, on around100 screens nationwide, accordingto Yonhap news agency.

They have signed deals withSBS, the Seoul-based broadcasterthat has the exclusive rights tobroadcast the tournament in Korea,Yonhap said.

FORMER Liberian President Charles Taylor’s defense lawyers onMonday opposed a request by prosecutors at his war crimes trial to callsupermodel Naomi Campbell as a witness, branding the move “a pub-licity stunt.” Prosecutors earlier this month filed a motion seeking tohave Campbell subpoenaed to testify about claims Taylor gave her“blood diamonds” at a reception in South Africa in 1997. But Taylor’slawyers said the evidence was “tangential to the real issues” againstTaylor and said prosecutors were trying to introduce it too late in thetrial — 15 months after they closed their case.

“For the prosecution to present such inferential evidence at this ad-vanced stage, as part of an obvious publicity stunt, would bring theadministration of justice into serious disrepute,” Taylor’s British law-yer Courtenay Griffiths wrote to judges. According to the prosecutionmotion seeking a subpoena, Campbell told prosecutors through her law-yer she does not want to get involved in the case and is concerned forher safety.

Prosecutors want Campbell to testify about Taylor’s alleged gift ofdiamonds along with actress Mia Farrow and another witness, CaroleWhite, who were both at the same reception in South Africa. In a written

statement to the court, Farrowsaid Campbell told her thattwo or three men woke her upand “presented her with alarge diamond which they saidwas from Charles Taylor.”White says she heard Taylorsay he was going to giveCampbell diamonds and sawthem being delivered.

Prosecutors sayCampbell’s testimony wouldprovide “direct evidence ofthe accused’s possession ofrough diamonds from a wit-ness unrelated to the Liberianor Sierra Leone conflicts.”Taylor, once one of WestAfrica’s most powerful men,is charged with 11 counts ofmurder, torture, rape, sexualslavery and the use of childsoldiers and terrorism in hisrole backing rebels in SierraLeone’s 1991-2002 civil war.An estimated 500,000 peoplewere the victims of killings,systematic mutilation or otheratrocities in that war, with someof the worst crimes committedby child soldiers who weredrugged to desensitize them. Itis unclear when judges will ruleon the prosecution request.

AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je

S.Korean cinemas to screen World Cup in 3D“People don’t come to theatres

when there’s a Korean match,” CGVmarketing official Park Hye-Youngtold Yonhap. “So we decided to showthe matches on our screens that arebest for watching sporting events.”

Going to the movies for a footballmatch is nothing new for South Kore-ans, who watched games in theatresfor free in 2002, when South Koreaco-hosted the tournament with Japan

Multiplex cinemas will broadcast South Korea’s World Cup matcheslive in 3D to lure fans away from their televisions at home. Major

chains like CGV, Lotte Cinema and MegaBox plan to show thematches in three dimensions, especially those involving the South

Korean squad, on around 100 screens nationwide, according toYonhap news agency.

and advanced to the semi-finals.This time, however, they will haveto pay.

“The audience will get a uniqueexperience through the surroundsound and quality screening,” saidLee Jung-A of MegaBox’s market-ing team. South Korea play Greeceon June 12, Argentina on June 17and Nigeria on June 23 in the groupstages.

AFP/FUTABASHA/File/Yoshito Usui

Japan, China launchJapan, China launchJapan, China launchJapan, China launchJapan, China launch‘cartoon’ diplomacy‘cartoon’ diplomacy‘cartoon’ diplomacy‘cartoon’ diplomacy‘cartoon’ diplomacyAgence France Presse

TOKYO – Putting aside their diplomatic rivalry, Japan and Chinaagreed on Monday to hold joint animation and TV drama festivals topromote grassroots cultural exchange.

tural exchange.”As part of his own effort to boost

cultural understanding, Wen said hehad enjoyed watching Japan’s Oscar-winning film “Departures”, which hadbeen recommended to him byHatoyama. The film, “Okuribito” inJapanese, depicting the esoteric prac-tices of an undertaker who works topreserve a person’s dignity after death,was named Best Foreign LanguageFilm at the 2009 Academy Awards.

Japanese screen cartoons, knownas “anime”, have won a progres-sively larger audience around theworld, including in China. A previ-ous administration in Tokyo set up

an annual prize for foreign comicsto promote “manga”, as they areknown in Japan, as an internationalartform.

Wen also attended a meeting ofleading figures in arts and culturefrom both countries, held at a To-kyo hotel, where he received theHello Kitty doll from manufacturerSanrio’s president Shintaro Tsuji.

“I hope Chinese children willmake friends with Japanese throughthis little Kitty,” said Tsuji, point-ing out that Hello Kitty dolls aredesigned in Japan but made inChina. Wen said his grandchildwould be happy with the gift.

A Chinese participant showed offcartoon portraits of both Wen andHatoyama, who was depicted look-ing like Astro Boy, a classic robotcharacter created by manga legendOsamu Tezuka.

The first (L) andthe latest 49thedition of the

comic bookcover of popularJapanese comic

“Crayon Shin-chan”, created

by Japanesecartoonist

Yoshito Usui.Putting aside

their diplomaticrivalry, Japan

and Chinaagreed on

Monday to holdjoint animation

and TV dramafestivals to

promotegrassrootscultural ex-

change.

AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file

In this May 20, 2010 file photo, NaomiCampbell arrives for the amfAR Cin-ema Against AIDS benefit, during the63rd Cannes international film festi-val, in Cap d’Antibes, southernFrance. Defense lawyers for formerLiberian President Charles Taylor areopposing a request by prosecutors athis war crimes trial to call supermodelNaomi Campbell as a witness, brand-ing the move ‘a publicity stunt.

Lawyers opposeNaomi Campbelldiamond testimony

International Wednesday, June 2, 2010 13Life Style

We all know that exercise and agood diet are important for health, pro-tecting against heart disease and dia-betes, among other conditions. Butwhat exactly causes the health im-provement from working up a sweator from eating, say, more olive oil thansaturated fat? And are some peoplebiologically predisposed to get morebenefit than others?

They’re among questions thatmetabolic profiling, a new fieldcalled metabolomics, aims to an-swer in hopes of one day optimiz-ing those benefits — or finding pat-terns that may signal risk for dis-ease and new ways to treat it.

“We’re only beginning to cata-log the metabolic variability be-tween people,” says Dr. RobertGerszten of Massachusetts GeneralHospital, whose team just took astep toward that goal.

The researchers measured bio-chemical changes in the blood of avariety of people: the healthymiddle-aged, some who becameshort of breath with exertion, andmarathon runners.

First, in 70 healthy people put on atreadmill, the team found more than20 metabolites that change during ex-ercise, naturally produced compoundsinvolved in burning calories and fat andimproving blood-sugar control. Someweren’t known until now to be in-volved with exercise. Some revved upduring exercise, like those involved inprocessing fat. Others involved withcellular stress decreased with exercise.

Those are pretty wonky findings, afirst step in a complex field. But theyback today’s health advice that evenbrief bouts of activity are good.

“Ten minutes of exercise has atleast an hour of effects on yourbody,” says Gerszten, who found

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – Cell phonecompanies are about to barrageconsumers with advertising for thenext advance in wireless networktechnology: “4G” access. Thecompanies are promising fasterspeeds and the thrill of being thefirst on the block to use a new ac-ronym.

But there’s less to 4G thanmeets the eye, and there’s littlereason for people to scramble forit, at least for the next few years.

Sprint Nextel Corp. is the firstcarrier to beat the drum for fourth-generation wireless technology.It’s releasing its first 4G phone, theEVO, this week.

In the fall, Verizon Wirelesswill be firing up its 4G network in25 to 30 cities, and probably willmake a big deal of that. A smallerprovider, MetroPCS Communica-tions Inc., is scheduled to intro-duce its first 4G phone around thesame time.

So what is 4G? Broadly speak-ing, it’s a new way to use the air-waves, designed from the start forthe transmission of data ratherthan phone calls. To do that, itborrows aspects of the latest gen-eration of Wi-Fi, the short-rangewireless technology.

New York –

When Neiman Marcus compilestheir list of the season’s best trends,it’s time to sit up and take some stylenotes. Whether or not your fall bud-get can accommodate a new pair ofleopard print Louboutin stilettos, thekey is knowing to buy animal print-anything. It’s as essential in yourwardrobe as a little black dress.

FWD101 A Roxanne Assoulin forLee Angel necklace is displayedat the Fall 2010 Neiman Marcusaccessories preview in New Yorkon Thursday, May 13, 2010

Get Fancy for Fall: Accessory Trends from Neiman MarcusHere’s a few more important Fall2010 trends highlighted at NeimanMarcus’ latest accessories previewon Thursday, May 13 in New York:

Military influences. From armygreen to epaulettes, brass buttonsand chunky boots with camouflageprints, tough military details are stillgoing strong. Fur. A controversialmaterial, yet designers can’t seemto get enough of it. Go for the fauxif your conscience and your walletpreclude purchasing the real thing.Look for fur-trimmed booties, curlyastrakhan-style fur purses and“Nanook of the North” fur vests.Lace. Leave it to the European de-signers to give us the best takes on

lace, whether it’s a spectacular laceprint rubber rain boot by Valentino(could soggy weather be more fash-ionable?) or a delicate Victorian-esque lace bootie by Dior.

Feathers. Manolo Blahnik’s so-phisticated d’Orsay sandals flutterwith feathers, while ostrich plumeslook luxe on everything from aLanvin handbag to an exclusive-to-Neiman’s feather stole by Ilana Wolf.A wardrobe of boots. That’s right,not a pair, but a full wardrobe ofboots are necessary for fall. Why?Because there are too many fantas-tic pairs to choose from, from tallwedge boots by Chanel and Marnito Alexander Wang’s anything-but-

boring flat boots with a killer sculp-tured heel. And Givenchy is stillmaking splurge-worthy buckled boo-ties that are guaranteed to be on ev-ery fashion editor’s must-have list forfall.

The structured handbag. Bulkyhobo bags are banished and sleek ischic with these proper purses. Pearls.Conservative, boring pearls are athing of the past with chunky, lay-ered designs by Vera Wang, AlexisBittar and Lanvin. But the bestpearls, mixing edgy black chain linkswith the pale glossy baubles, areRoxanne Assoulin for Lee Angel,though any mixed-media pearl con-coction can work, too.Fashion Wire Daily/Renata Espinosa

4G wireless: It’s fast,but outstripped by hype

For consumers, 4G means, in theideal case, faster access to data. Forinstance, streaming video mightwork better, with less stuttering andhigher resolution.Videoconferencing is difficult on3G and might work better on 4G.Multiplayer video games may ben-efit too.

Other than that, it’s difficult topoint to completely new uses for4G phones — things they can dothat 3G phones can’t.

Instead, the upgrade to 4G ismore likely to enhance the thingsyou can already do with 3G, saidMatt Carter, president of Sprint’s4G division.

“View it as the difference be-tween watching regular TV andhigh-definition TV,” Carter said.“Once you’ve experienced high-definition TV it’s hard to go backto standard TV. It’s the same sortof thing here.”

So the improvement from 3G to4G is not as dramatic as the stepfrom 2G to 3G, which for the firsttime made real Web browsing,video and music downloads prac-tical on phones. The introductionof 3G started in earnest about fiveyears ago, but it isn’t complete —AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA stillhave little rural 3G coverage, forinstance.

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Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – Ten minutes of brisk exercise triggers metabolicchanges that last at least an hour. The unfair news for panting newbies:The more fit you are, the more benefits you just might be getting.

some of the metabolic changes thatbegan after 10 minutes on the tread-mill still were measurable 60 min-utes after people cooled down.

Your heart rate rapidly drops backto normal when you quit moving, usu-ally in 10 minutes or so. So finding lin-gering biochemical changes offers whatGerszten calls “tantalizing evidence” ofhow exercise may be building uplonger-term benefits.

Back to the blood. Thinner peoplehad greater increases in a metabolitenamed niacinamide, a nutrientbyproduct that’s involved in blood-sugar control, the team from Mass Gen-eral and the Broad Institute of MIT andHarvard reported last week in the jour-nal Science Translational Medicine.

Checking a metabolite of fat break-down, the team found people who were

more fit — as measured by oxygen in-take during exercise — appeared to beburning more fat than the less fit, orthan people with shortness of breath, apossible symptom of heart disease.

The extremely fit — 25 BostonMarathon runners — had ten-fold in-creases in that metabolite after the race.Still other differences in metabolitesallowed the researchers to tell whichrunners had finished in under fourhours and which weren’t as speedy.

“We have a chemical snapshot ofwhat the more fit person looks like.Now we have to see if makingsomeone’s metabolism look like thatsnapshot, whether or not that’s goingto improve their performance,” saysGerszten, whose ultimate goal is bet-ter cardiac care.

Don’t expect a pill ever to sub-stitute for a workout — the newwork shows how complicated thebody’s response to exercise is, saysmetabolomics researcher Dr. DebbieMuoio of Duke University MedicalCenter.

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Bynum was diagnosed with ameniscus tear during the Lakers’first-round playoff series againstOklahoma City. He has started all16 of the Lakers postseasongames, but has been hindered bythe injury. Coach Phil Jacksonsaid Bynum will probably be lim-ited but remains likely to playagainst Boston. The best-of-sevenchampionship series starts Thurs-day in Los Angeles.

“I’m out there for whateverthey ask me to do, any amount ofminutes,” Bynum said. “You don’tcome this far just to say, ‘OK, Ican’t go any more.’”

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PARIS – Justine Henin dropped her first French Openset since 2005 on Saturday as the four-time champion’sduel with Maria Sharapova was suspended overnight, withthe tie poised for a tense, last set shootout. Henin won thefirst set of the third round clash 6-2 against her fellow formerworld number one, but Sharapova, whose best Paris per-formance was a 2007 semi-final appearance, came roaringback to take the second 6-3.

Agence France - PressePARIS – Four-time champion

Rafael Nadal clinched his 200thclaycourt win on Monday to move intothe French Open quarter-finals, but onlyafter undergoing a tough examinationby Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci. Secondseed Nadal claimed a 6-2, 7-5, 6-4 winand will face 19th seeded compatriotNicolas Almagro, who won an all-Spanish battle against seventh seededFernando Verdasco 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4,for a semi-final spot.

Third seeded Serbian NovakDjokovic also made the last eight witha 6-4, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 win over America’sRobby Ginepri. He will face Austria’sJurgen Melzer, who ended Russianqualifier Teimuraz Gabashvili’s runwith a 7-6 (8/6), 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 win. Nadalis bidding to become only the secondman to win five or more French Openmen’s titles, but he was distinctly un-der-cooked on Court Philippe Chatrier,dropping serve four times in a matchfeaturing 12 service breaks. Nadal in-sisted that his first round victory againstBellucci here in 2008 was a far tougherprospect.

“That was probably my hardestmatch of the 2008 tournament. I wascloser to losing a set then than I wastoday,” he said. “It was difficult.Bellucci is a very good player on clay,but I won in three sets. It was my bestmatch of the tournament.” Nadal, whoturns 24 on Thursday, broke his 22-year-old opponent in the first game ofthe match before the Brazilian hit back

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Lakers center Andrew Bynum has had fluid drained from hisright knee, days before the start of the NBA finals. He has startedall 16 of the Lakers postseason games, but has been hinderedby a meniscus tear

Lakers’ Bynum has kneeLakers’ Bynum has kneeLakers’ Bynum has kneeLakers’ Bynum has kneeLakers’ Bynum has kneedrained before NBA finalsdrained before NBA finalsdrained before NBA finalsdrained before NBA finalsdrained before NBA finalsAgence France - Presse

LOS ANGELES – LosAngeles Lakers center An-drew Bynum had fluiddrained from his right kneeon Monday, days before thestart of the NBA finals. “Itwas getting worse,” saidBynum, who hopes the pro-cedure will allow him to playeffectively in the finalsagainst the Boston Celtics asthe Lakers seek a secondstraight NBA crown. “Theswelling wasn’t leaving, sothey had to do it. I was doingthe treatment, but it wasn’tgoing anywhere.”

Nadal into French Openquarter-finals with 200th clay win

to level at 2-2. But the Spaniard tookimmediate revenge, claiming a doublebreak in the fifth and seventh gameson his way to pocketing the first set.

Twice in the second set, fellow left-hander Bellucci, beaten by the worldnumber two in the first round in 2008,gallantly retrieved breaks, but remainedunable to capitalise as Nadal stretchedto a two-sets lead. Bellucci droppedserve again in the opening game of thethird set, only for Nadal to hand itstraight back. The Spaniard recoveredto lead 3-2 and took the match after 2hr33min when Bellucci, whose high-riskstrategy sparked 40 unforced errors,netted a service return. Victory was par-ticularly sweet as it was at the same last16 stage in 2009 where Nadal was sentcrashing to a first Roland Garros de-feat by Robin Soderling.

Djokovic, scheduled to face Nadalin the last four, is convinced that theconfident way he swept past Gineprimakes him a threat both to the Span-iard and champion Roger Federer. Hewill face Melzer, the oldest man left inthe draw at 29, and who became thefirst Austrian to make the last eight sinceformer champion Thomas Muster in1998. “I think I have a good chanceagainst anybody on the court now,” in-sisted 23-year-old Djokovic, a semi-fi-nalist in 2007 and 2008. “It took metime to get into a rhythm, but I’m not amorning person. I lost focus, but I over-came it. I was aggressive, I was serv-ing well, and playing from all over thecourt.”

(AFP/Boris Horvat)

Spain’s Rafael Nadal serves during his men’s fourth round matchagainst Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci in the French Open tennischampionship at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Nadalclinched his 200th claycourt win on Monday to move into theFrench Open quarter-finals

Sharapova, Henin sizzle in drizzle, Serena survives

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Belgium’s Justine Henin returns the ball toRussia’s Maria Sharapova during theirwomen’s third round match in the French Opentennis championship at the Roland Garros sta-dium in Paris.

With darkness falling on a damp and cold Paris evening,play was called off, leaving the old rivals to return on Sun-day with the winner facing Australian seventh seedSamantha Stosur for a place in the quarter-finals.

Sharapova, who lost the first four games of the match, isbidding to avoid what would be her earliest exit from RolandGarros since her 2003 debut when she was defeated in thefirst round. Henin, playing in Paris for the first time since2007, dropped her first set here since the fourth round in2005; her last Roland Garros defeat was in 2004.

Top seed Serena Williams survived a health scare toreach the last 16.

The American, the 2002 champion, beat Russia’s 29thseed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 1-6, 6-2, but neededtreatment after going 0-5 down in the second set. She hadher pulse tested and temperature taken courtside, althoughshe did manage to compose herself to hit back to book afourth round clash with Israel’s Shahar Peer.

“I just ran out of a little energy. I’m fighting a cold andsickness. But I’m feeling better,” said 12-time Grand Slamtitle-winner Williams, who was told her problem could belinked to a bug doing the rounds at Roland Garros. “It wasa weird match. I wasn’t at my best. I was just happy to win,especially against a player who’s on the up and up.”

Fourth seeded Serbian Jelena Jankovic, twice a semi-finalist, reached the last 16 with a 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) victoryover Ukrainian 27th seed Alona Bondarenko and next facesSlovakia’s Daniela Hantuchova, the 23rd seed. NadiaPetrova, the Russian 20th seed, beat French 19th seedArvane Rezai 6-7 (2/7), 6-4, 10-8 in a third-round matchthat had been suspended in darkness on Friday at 7-7 in thefinal set. Both players had already squandered three matchpoints, but in a deciding final set that contained 11 servicebreaks, the Russian two-time semi-finalist held her nerveand will next tackle second seed Venus Williams.

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“This is not the end of theroad for the five footballerswhose dreams I have cut short.There will be other opportunitiesto play for the national team,”stressed the 1994 World Cup-winning coach.

McCarthy played in only oneof four warm-up matches lastmonth, coming on as a second-half substitute in a bruising 2-1victory over Colombia at SoccerCity last Thursday. He saw littleof the ball and did not have anopportuni ty to increase hisrecord 32-goal haul for BafanaBafana (The Boys), who are inGroup A with Mexico and formerworld champions France andUruguay.

There were several other sur-prises as the squad was cut from28 players to the regulation 23with uncapped goalkeeper ShuaibWalters from unfashionableMaritzburg United getting thenod over Germany-based RowenFernandez. Bryce Moon was con-sidered the l ikeliest deputy

Agence France - PresseRIO DE JANEIRO – Controversial Brazilian

striker Adriano failed to appear at a police inter-view Monday in connection with alleged links toa drug-dealing gang that has been accused of mur-dering police officers. Adriano had been sum-moned for a 1700 GMT meeting to be quizzed bychief Luiz Alberto Cunha de Andrade.

But he did not show in person, instead send-ing his lawyer Adilson Fernandes to ask for themeeting to be delayed, a police spokesman toldAFP, adding that no date had been set for thefootballer to re-appear. The news could be a blowto Serie A side AS Roma, for whom the Flamengostriker — known as much for his goalscoring tal-ents as the controversy he courts off the pitch —will sign in June. Adriano, who has played for In-ter Milan, Fiorentina and Parma in Italy’s Serie Abut failed to make the cut for Brazil’s World Cupsquad, is suspected of being involved in financialdealings with members of a drugs gang run byFabiano Atanasio da Silva in the Vila Cruzeirofavela.

Da Silva has been accused of being involvedin the shooting down of a police helicopter onOctober 17, 2009, an incident which led to thedeath of three police officers. In October 2008 hewas also accused of the murder of a prison chief.According to local newspaper reports Adriano isalso being investigated after two controversialphotographs of the centre-forward came to light.On its front page O Dia daily published a pictureof Adriano making the initials ‘CV’ with his fin-gers. In Rio CV is also an abbreviation for theComando Vermelho criminal gang.

Another picture shows the 28-year-playerposing with a rifle. Both pictures are believed to

Bafana Bafana (The Boys,nickname of the SouthAfrican national footballteam) striker Benni McCarthypictured during a trainingsession in Johannesburg onMay 20. South Africa coachCarlos Alberto Parreira axedWest Ham striker McCarthyTuesday as he named his 23-man World Cup squad

Squad

Goalkeepers: Moeneeb Josephs (Orlando Pirates), Itumeleng Khune (Kaizer Chiefs), Shuaib Walters

(Maritzburg Utd)

Defenders: Matthew Booth and Siboniso Gaxa (Mamelodi Sundowns), Bongani Khumalo (SuperSport

Utd), Tsepo Masilela (Maccabi Haifa/ISR), Aaron Mokoena (Portsmouth/ENG, capt), Anele Ngcongca

(Racing Genk/BEL), Siyabonga Sangweni (Lamontville Golden Arrows), Lucas Thwala (Pirates)

Midfielders: Reneilwe Letsholonyane and Siphiwe Tshabalala (Chiefs), Lance Davids (Ajax Cape

Town), Kagisho Dikgacoi (Fulham/ENG), Thanduyise Khuboni (Arrows), Teko Modise (Pirates), Sur-

prise Moriri (Sundowns), Steven Pienaar (Everton/ENG), Macbeth Sibaya (Rubin Kazan/RUS)

Strikers: Katlego Mphela (Sundowns), Siyabonga Nomvete (Moroka Swallows), Bernard Parker

(Twente/NED)

South Africa axe striker McCarthy for World CupSouth Africa axe striker McCarthy for World CupSouth Africa axe striker McCarthy for World CupSouth Africa axe striker McCarthy for World CupSouth Africa axe striker McCarthy for World CupAgence France - Presse

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa coach Carlos Alberto Parreira axed West Ham striker BenniMcCarthy Tuesday as he named his 23-man World Cup squad. High-profile McCarthy had beeninvolved in a race against the clock to get fit and rediscover his old form after an injury-interruptedEnglish Premier League season with Blackburn Rovers and the Upton Park club. Brazilian Parreiratold a news conference here: “I am not going to talk about individuals who did not make the finalsquad. We applied five principles when making our choices.

rightback behind Siboniso Gaxabut the slot went to AneleNgcongca, possibly because theBelgium-based footballer can bedeployed in various defensive andmidfield positions. The other SouthAfricans who did not make it forthe June 11-July 11 tournamentwere predictable with leftback In-nocent Mdledle and left-sidemidfielder Franklin Cale left out.

Milan - Inter President Massimo Morattihas revealed that he likes the fact there is aloophole in Fabio Capello’s contract with En-gland. It’s no secret that Capello is Moratti’sNo 1 choice to replace Jose Mourinho whowill be unveiled at Real Madrid this after-noon.

At first it looked like an impossible mis-sion, but despite statements of intent,Capello’s contract was apparently never re-vised from the one he signed in 2007. Thatmeans he can free himself for just £4m afterthe World Cup in South Africa this summer.

Interviewed by Sky Italia last night,Moratti said: “It makes me happy that a Coachof Capello’s level is available. “We are doinga 360 degree view, there are other names un-der exam, not many but we aren’t thinkingabout making a decision in a hurry like ev-eryone thinks. “It’s a delicate decision thatrequires the right timing,” Moratti concluded.

The Italian media insist Fabio Capellocould go to Inter with just a £4m buy-outclause from his England contract. PresidentMassimo Moratti has named Capello as oneof the primary candidates to replace JoseMourinho at San Siro next season. DonFabio’s contract with the England FA runsuntil the summer of 2012, but LordTriesman’s sudden resignation increases theuncertainty.

New FA general secretary Alex Horne isset to meet the Italian to discuss what hap-pens after the World Cup. Capello had beenreportedly ready to scrap the buy-out clausein his contract and took out a verbal agree-

(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)

Inter President Massimo Moratti hasrevealed that he likes the fact there isa loophole in Fabio Capello’s contractwith England

Moratti: ‘I like knowingCapello is available’

ment with Lord Triesman, but with his de-parture there is nothing written down andInter aim to take advantage.

“I have read a lot and some friends ofmine rang me and said ‘Fabio, you are com-ing back?’” said Capello in his Press confer-ence. “I signed a contract with Brian Barwick.Afterwards I spoke with Lord Triesman aboutchanging something. Now I am waiting tospeak with the new chairman. I am reallyfocused on the World Cup. I want to reachthe Final. That is my target. The other thingsare absolutely out of my mind.”

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Controversial Brazilian striker Adriano,pictured in 2009, failed to appear at apolice interview Monday in connectionwith alleged links to a drug-dealing gangthat has been accused of murderingpolice officers

Police to quiz Roma-boundAdriano over gang links

have been taken when Adriano lived in Italy. A pressspokesman for the player told the paper Adrianohad simply posed with a “replica gun which is usedfor paintball”. Local police last took an interest inAdriano in April when he was called to explainwhy one of his motorbikes was registered to themother of a known drug dealer, Paulo Rogerio deSouza Paz, who is also a childhood friend. Thatcase has yet to be closed.

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And McLaren’s chief engineerTim Goss says the events of the af-ternoon show how strong McLarenis, and how well Hamilton and But-ton get on. “Both our drivers are

MARK Webber and SebastianVettel have been told by their teamthat they will not be allowed to takeany bad feelings from their TurkishGrand Prix clash into the next raceof the season - as Red Bull Racingchiefs vow to move quickly to tryand prevent the situation spirallingout of control. With neither driveraccepting responsibility for the ac-cident, and team chiefs in disagree-ment about who was to blame forthe crash that cost Red Bull Racingvictory in Istanbul, the outfit facesa huge distraction from its on-trackefforts.

And with the fallout from thecrash prompting fans and media tosuggest that the events of Turkeyshow that factions of the outfit arefavouring Vettel over Webber, the

McLaren has praised the ‘exceptional’ behaviour of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button in be-ing able to fight wheel-to-wheel without colliding

McLaren praises ‘sensible’ driversMcLaren has praised the ‘exceptional’ behaviour of Lewis

Hamilton and Jenson Button in being able to fight wheel-to-wheel without colliding. After a Turkish Grand Prix where RedBull Racing threw away a 1-2 finish when Mark Webber andSebastian Vettel collided, McLaren duo Hamilton and Buttonraced closely themselves for the lead before cruising home, eventhough they made contact when fighting for first place.

Red Bull vows to avoid driver falloutmatter is not going to be easy one todraw a line under. However, teamprincipal Christian Horner haspromised to move quickly to try andget the situation sorted as best he can- and has said he will do everythinghe can to not let tensions simmerbelow the surface.

“The most important thing, and Ihave had this situation before withdrivers in different formulas, is toget issues out into the open, dealwith them and that is exactly whatwe will do here,” Horner toldAUTOSPORT about how he in-tended to act on dealing with thematter. There is no animosity be-tween the drivers. They are bothcompetitive. They are both hungryanimals, and it is down to us to en-sure that they learn from this and it

doesn’t happen again.”Horner thinks both Webber and

Vettel will take on board the factthat they not only wrecked their af-ternoons in Turkey, but also thoseof the team they work for. “I thinkboth drivers will look at it, theywill reflect on it, and it is impor-tant they learn from it,” he said.“They represent a whole team andRed Bull when they are out theirdriving, and they know that whathas happened has cost not onlythemselves but the team, and RedBull, a lot of points.”

And although Red Bull’smotorsport advisor Helmut Markohas blamed Webber for the incident,Horner has adopted a more balancedview – claiming both drivers haveto share the blame. “They should

Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel have been told by their teamthat they will not be allowed to take any bad feelings from theirTurkish Grand Prix clash into the next race of the season - asRed Bull Racing chiefs vow to move quickly to try and preventthe situation spiralling out of control

never have been where they were onthe circuit,” he said. “It needs bothof them to realise. You need a bit of

co-operation from both, and theyboth played hard ball and we saw thenet result.”

very, very sensible,” said Goss.“They both handled themselves par-ticularly well on the circuit and withthe media. “We employ them to beaggressive racing drivers. They like

to fight; they are both world cham-pions and out to prove they’re thebest. But the way they have handledthemselves on the circuit has beenabsolutely exceptional so far thisyear.”

“There has been more than oneoccasion when they have been closeto one another like that, and the twoof them can race and avoid eachother - unlike our next-doorneighbours [Red Bull Racing] whoclearly threw an easy one-twoaway.” Although Red Bull Racing

has enjoyed a car advantage so farthis season, it has not been able tostamp its authority on the worldchampionship standings. Goss be-lieves the situation shows that suc-cess in F1 is not just about a goodchassis design - it is about how ateam works and how its drivers geton.

“You’ve got to have a quick carand you have to get it to the finish,”he said. “In this race Red Bull Rac-ing did not deliver, and they’ve not

delivered because their two driversare racing. Our two drivers were rac-ing, but I think that just shows howwell our two drivers can managethemselves on the circuit.”

When asked for his opinion on theRed Bull Racing accident, Goss said:“I’ve only read that neither driversays they are to blame. There is somegood footage of the incident, and youjust have to look at it and make yourown mind up. But I think Vettel hadenough room on the track.”