DENPASAR ~ The Bali Public Prosecutor is still waiting for presidential permission to investigate the regents of Karangasem and Buleleng over separate corruption allegations. “I hope to receive the president’s permission after Lebaran so we can make the examinations,” said special assistant (crime) from the Public Prosecutor’s Office Anom Susila on Tuesday. Susila said statements [...]

DENPASAR ~ Bali’s most popular southern tourist spots have been packed with domestic and foreign visitors over the recent week-long national holiday for Lebaran at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadhan. Crowds have ignored rough seas and scattered rain to frolic at Kuta Beach and also have thronged to Tanah Lot Temple. [...]

DENPASAR ~ Updated data from the Bali statistics bureau show that 20,000 more French people visited Bali in the seven months to July compared to the same period last year. Tourist numbers from France rose from 39,561 to 50,596, representing a 33-percent increase in visits in the January to July period, when a total 1,304,369 [...]

DENPASAR ~ The Regional Election Commission has confirmed that simultaneous elections will take place next year to elect the leaders and deputy leaders of five districts of Bali at a cost of around Rp59 billion (US$5.9 million). Commission chairman Ketut Sukawati said on Tuesday that preparations and budgeting were in hand for the May 4 [...]

By Anand Krishna For The Bali Times When we say “it depends,” we do not normally explain the “what” of it. We do not find it necessary to do so, and people are too busy to bother. So we get away with a blank cheque; we can fill it in ourselves. It depends on whatever; [...]

DELHI ~ Bali-bound actress Julia Roberts, in India to shoot parts of her new movie Eat, Pray, Love, has angered villagers near the location shoot who were barred from their temple by police and private security guards hired by the film company. Said turned-away worshi-pper Shakuntala Devi: “It’s Navratras, the holiest time of the year, [...]

DENPASAR ~ Police in Bali’s capital city achieved a 50-percent reduction in crime in the week leading up to Lebaran, according to spokesman I Gede Alit Widana. Normally they deal with an average of eight new crime cases a day. Widana said on Wednesday that police had been deployed on street patrols in crime-prone areas [...]

T hree earthquakes gave Bali an unaccustomed shake-up this week. The first, at 7.06am last Saturday, measured 6.4 on the Richter scale and caused injuries and property damage over a wide area of southern Bali. Its epicentre was 101 kilometres southeast of Nusa Dua and 36km below the seabed. A second shock, measuring 4.3, struck [...]

DENPASAR ~ A fourth suspected rabies victim from Tabanan regency died in Sanglah Hospital on Wednesday a day after being admitted with advanced symptoms of the killer disease. He was a 78-year-old man from Banjar Biaung, Penebel, who was bitten on the finger by his neighbour’s dog about two months ago, was transferred from Tabanan [...]

Water particles have been detected on the surface of the Moon by three missions, including an Indian probe. The evidence, disclosed in new scientific papers, overturns the long accepted view that lunar soil is dry and comes just two weeks before a NASA probe is to crash into the surface near the Moon’s southern pole [...]

At the Ashram: Julia Roberts, who has given her three children Hindu names, with Swami Dharam Dev at the Hari Mandir Ashram this week, during filming of Eat, Pray, Love.

By Dr. 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 22,000 physician and scientist members from [...]