There’s no better ending to the year just passing than the peace that has descended over Aceh province on the northern tip of Sumatra, a region for long decades embroiled in never-ending battles with government troops that left thousands dead in a bid for independence. It took a tsunami to change all that. Now that [...]

Playtime: Members of the Canggu Club’s Dramarama group pose for the camera before a performance of the play Santa’s Workshop. The seasonal production was produced and directed by Australian actress Heidi Da Silva.

SEMINYAK ~ A leading Australian private security company has been conducting a security audit of Bali to assist in making improvements to the safety and security of the island. “Bali has recognized that it simply can’t flourish without a viable tourism industry – it’s the island’s number-one revenue generator – and this realization is reflected [...]

Robert Goldman, M.D., Ph.D. and Ronald Klatz, M.D., D.O. Diabetes is a medical condition in which a person’s blood glucose (often called blood sugar) is too high. While the blood always has some glucose in it because your body needs glucose for energy to keep you going, too much circulating glucose can lead to problems [...]

Bali ‘Safe’: A leading Australian private security company has been conducting a security audit of Bali to assist in making improvements to the safety and security of the island. Read entire article… »

SEMINYAK ~ To bring wonderful new things into your life, you must first make space for them. To create more flow, give more. This explains how.   Case Study   A client, Peter, came from Jakarta, bringing just about every single problem or negative belief that I had come across in the past three years [...]

Name: Florentina Erika Age: 32 Occupation: Lecturer From: Yogyakarta Marital status: Married with one daughter Read entire article… »

A new species of insect, animal or plant is discovered every month in Borneo, conservation group WWF said this week as it warned that logging and plantations threatened the fragile “Heart of Borneo” ecosystem. Read entire article… »

HAMBURG ~ TUI, Europe’s leading travel and tourism group, has unveiled plans to axe thousands of jobs as part of a 250-million-euro (US$330-million) cost-cutting drive aimed at steering the group back to higher profits. At the same time, chairman Michael Frenzel rejected calls to sell off the ailing shipping division. TUI, whose group-wide earnings are [...]

Hopping over to Lombok last weekend at the call of Quinci Villa owner and major party queen Scott to celebrate a Quinci Qind of Christmas were some 300 guests from Jakarta, Bali and as far afield as South Africa. The fabulous bash was a tre-marvelous affair featuring a private concert performance by Indonesian Idol winner [...]

SUNNYVALE, California ~ Charlie Spring is a carpenter by day and an online sage by night. On typical evenings, the 40-year-old man from a New York State near the Canada border swaps building tools for a computer and joins a cadre of self-appointed pundits dispensing wisdom for free at Yahoo Answers. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang [...]

A new study provides yet more evidence that vitamin D, the so-called sunshine vitamin, may protect against the crippling neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS). Harvard University researchers who reviewed the medical data of more than seven million US military personnel found the risk of MS fell dramatically as the level of the vitamin circulating in [...]