From the perspective of Bokir, 25, manager of a motorbike-rental shop in Kuta What are we here for? To achieve our destiny: being happy, having a wife and children and getting money. Do you believe in the Bing Bang theory that the now circa-13.7-billion-year-old universe and all that’s in it was created by a massive [...]

By Amy Chavez For The Bali Times A few weeks ago, while surfing off the bukit, Bali’s most southern reaches where the population is small and the waves big, I paddled my board out among a group of three young Japanese surfers who were obviously on their holiday. They chatted among themselves, not really giving [...]

By Robert Goldman For The Bali Times Longevity News and Review provides readers with the latest information in breakthroughs pertaining to the extension of the healthy human lifespan. These news summaries are compiled by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M; www.worldhealth.net), a non-profit medical society composed of 20,000 physician and scientist members from 90 [...]

GENEVA ~ The World Health Organisation has warned that so-called “electronic cigarettes,” which claim to be a nicotine replacement therapy, could in fact prove highly poisonous. “It’s 100 percent false to affirm this is a therapy for smokers to quit,” WHO anti-tobacco official Douglas Bettcher told journalists. “There are a number of chemical additives in [...]

GENEVA ~ The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says around half a million women die each year from complications in childbirth and 10 million more suffer life-long disabilities, while the issue of maternal mortality does not get the attention it deserves. “Globally, more than 500,000 women die each year because of complications related to pregnancy [...]

A chronic runny nose, taking paracetamol in infancy, and wheezing as a child are all conditions linked to the onset of adulthood asthma, a trio of studies reported. Babies who took the over-the-counter pain reliever paracetamol in the first year of life were fifty percent more likely to show symptoms of asthma by the time [...]

Octogenarians who walk an hour or more each day are less likely to die and or be prone to serious illness compared with less active counterparts, according to a new study. The research was carried out among 248 Italian volunteers, living in a mountain community, whose average age was 85.9 years. During the 24-month experiment, [...]

By Paulo Coelho The Bali Times August 1999 I must enjoy all the graces that God has given me today. Grace cannot be saved. There is no bank where we can deposit graces received and then use them later as we wish. If I don’t make use of these blessings, I shall lose them forever. [...]

The Killing Fields of Bali A “forgotten” genocide the CIA calls “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century” By Dr. Ronald Anderson For The Bali Times Disana,” he said, pointing down into a beautifully sculpted valley, but all I could see were the extraordinary contours of the ricefields stretching out far below [...]

Buffalo Cowboys: During the months from June to October, local attention turns to biweekly buffalo racing in villages around Jembrana Regency. Thousands of people turned out when The Bali Times visited on Sunday and took this vivid image in Mertasari village. The competition culminates with the Governor’s Cup in October.

DENPASAR ~ Around 1,000 people protested in Bali on Tuesday against a proposed anti-pornography law. Governor Made Mangku Pastika told the crowd the bill overlapped with existing legislation and trampled local customs in a country of ethnic, religious and cultural diversity. “The parliament should enforce other laws on the sex industry but don’t endorse a [...]

JAKARTA ~ Two Papuans out a group of 43 asylum seekers who fled Indonesia in 2006, sparking a diplomatic row with neighbor Australia, have returned to the remote region, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Hana Gobay and Yubel Kareni returned to the eastern province more than two years after they fled by boat to [...]