DENPASAR An American man living in the southernmost Bukit area of Bali has been arrested for drug possession, Bali Police said on Friday. Joseph Malone, 61, from California, was apprehended at the popular surfing Padang Padang Beach on Thursday by officers who found 9.1 grams of hashish on him, police spokesman Gede Sugianyar told reporters. [...]

JAKARTA Police said on Friday they had barred undersea treasure hunter Michael Hatcher from leaving the country and declared him a fugitive. Hatcher, who was reportedly born in Britain but grew up in Australia, is being hunted for trying to smuggle thousands of pieces of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) porcelain out of the country in two [...]

DENPASAR Bali’s legislature is worried about travel agents from outside Bali operating services here via the internet, unlicensed tour guides and unauthorised sale of artefacts. Chairman of a DPRD committee examining business travel services, Tjok Raka Kertiyasa, said there were many fundamental problems with tourism services in Bali but the chief concern was the ease [...]

BANGKOK A major hospital in the Thai capital evacuated most of its patients on Friday after anti-government “Red Shirt” protesters stormed inside in the mistaken belief that troops were hiding there. Chulalongkorn Hospital also stopped receiving outpatients following the Thursday night incident, in which some 100 Red Shirt guards searched its buildings for troops they [...]

ART IN ACTION On the Block: This arresting painting by Balinese artist Ida Bagus Indra, Expression of Senses, is part of a collection of local artists’ works, including expatriates’, that will be auctioned at Gaya Gallery in Ubud on Saturday. Proceeds will go to the Balinese children’s scholarship programme at the Pelangi Community School, Ubud.

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DENPASAR The Bali Times The maker of the controversial documentary Cowboys in Paradise, portraying local men hooking up with foreign women on Kuta Beach, may be prosecuted and face up to a year in prison, Bali Police have said. “After we checked, we discovered that the maker of the film did not have permission to [...]

DENPASAR The Bali Times FISHERMEN found the body of a woman floating in a fishing pond at Suwung, between Kuta and Sanur, on Wednesday night.     Police said she was aged about 30 and had been dead for some time.     The body was fully clothed but carried no identification.     South Denpasar Police chief [...]

BANGKOK A Thai soldier was shot in the head during clashes on Wednesday between security forces and anti-government protesters in Bangkok, an army spokesman said. Emergency services said 16 people were wounded in the standoff, which came as soldiers and police fired warning shots and blocked a convoy of “Red Shirt” protesters who had left [...]

DEPASAR The Bali Times Prosecutors at the Denpasar District Court requested on Wednesday a seven-month jail sentence for Australian drug suspect Robert McJannett, who was arrested upon arrival in Bali last December. Under Indonesia’s harsh drug laws, the trade unionist had faced up to four years in prison in Bali. But prosecutor Nyoman Sucitrawan told [...]

SINGARAJA BULELENG Police were faced with the gruelling job of dealing with two suicides last weekend.     A 55-year-old woman hanged herself at Kumodoloka after asking her 60-year-old husband if she could go and take a bath. Hours later, when she had not returned, he found her hanged with a scarf.     At Suwug, an [...]

SEMARAPURA A man died when he was electrocuted while feeding his cows at Banjar Mincidan in Klungkung. Police said a sythe he was using to cut feed had come into contact with a live electrical cable.     Wayan Rija, 70, was found dead by his son Kadek, 35. Police said Rija had been dead for [...]