SINGAPORE ~ Three-dimensional films, once blamed for making audiences nauseous, are making a comeback and are likely to become the future of cinema thanks to digital technology, Hollywood studio moguls say. The latest advances have enabled studios to use special effects and state-of-the-art projectors to create 3D films far superior to their predecessors, they said [...]

LONDON ~ A British Asian theatre group is giving Wuthering Heights a Bollywood makeover, moving the tragic love story from the misty moors of England to the scorched Rajasthan desert. Deepak Verma, a former star of popular British soap opera Eastenders, has turned the classic Emily Bronte novel into a stage musical with a Bollywood [...]

LOS ANGELES ~ Teen vampire film Twilight sunk its fangs into the North American box office at the weekend, scaring up US$69.6 million on its debut, final figures showed. The movie, based on Stephanie Meyer’s bestselling novel, follows the adventures of teenage heroine played by Kristen Stewart who falls in love with a classmate who [...]

From the perspective of Indah, a 25-year-old causal laborer from Kalimantan What are we here for? To build a big family. Do you believe in the Big Bang theory that the circa-13.7-billion-year-old universe and all that’s in it was created by a massive explosion of enormously dense matter at what may have been the beginning [...]

By William J. Furney The Bali Times I was jogging along the beach in Canggu when I stopped to seek tips from a man who was fishing by the deserted shore. In five years there, he hadn’t caught a thing, he said. So much for tips. But it struck me as extreme, that a person [...]

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 [...]

By Elizabeth Henzell For The Bali Times UBUD ~ Dr. Gunnar Yogi was a stellar student at school but it was his eldest brother who chose veterinary science as his career path and enrolled him at Udayana University in Bali. The dogs and cats of Bali would like to thank Dr. Yogi’s brother. In Australia, [...]

By Amy Chavez For The Bali Times Today I am giving Martha Stewart, American entrepreneur and home-decorating diva, a tour of my house in Bali. Martha, come in! Oh, watch out! Don’t step on the offerings! Yes, I know they’re right in the middle of the driveway. And yes, they’re on fire. No worries; it’s [...]

JAKARTA ~ Muslim clerics who claim to be protecting vulnerable women by backing a new anti-pornography law have come out in defense of a fellow preacher who has married a 12-year-old village girl. The issue of child brides for religious men in the mainly Muslim country has became a subject of national debate since little-known [...]

LONDON ~ The environment remains a top concern despite the financial crisis, according to a global poll published this week that finds 43 percent see climate change as a bigger problem than the economy. HSBC bank’s second annual report on environmental concerns reveals residents of a dozen countries surveyed would like to see their governments [...]

BADUNG ~ Bali’s most economically important regency, and home to much of its vital tourism industry, may rename its capital Mangupura, if the current regent gets his way. Regent AA Gede Agung has proposed that the capital – currently Bandung – be renamed but it was not known why a name-change is necessary. Participants at [...]

Top Spots: The Oberoi in Seminyak (pictured) has been voted one of Asia’s leading resorts, by Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Award 2008. Also in the just-released US travel magazine’s poll, Bali ranked second among voters for the best Asian island spot, behind the Maldives. The Four Seasons at Sayan and at Jimbaran Bay also [...]