By Jonathan Cainer By the time we reach the equinox, on March 21, the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus will all be in Aries. By early May, the Sun will have moved into Taurus but we’ll have Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus in Aries plus the Moon for a brief while too. And Saturn [...]

CHRISTCHURCH New Zealand police said on Friday they were “sickened” at a spate of looting, email scams and bogus appeals for charity in the wake of the deadly Christchurch earthquake. As rescuers continued to comb wreckage for survivors after the 6.3 magnitude quake on Tuesday that claimed at least 113 lives, police said it was [...]

UNITED NATIONS World leaders were on Friday studying punitive measures to take against Moamer Kadhafi as the Libyan strongman’s brutal crackdown on a nationwide revolt grew more desperate. France and Britain have proposed the UN Security Council pass a resolution calling for sanctions and a total arms embargo against Libya ahead of its meeting later [...]

If Bali is winning its war against rabies, that is good news. It is certainly “good news” the provincial government and its chief animal doctor, Putu Sumantra, would like people to believe. But on the evidence available, it is not yet safe to assume the war is indeed being won. It is possible to read [...]

DENPASAR Tests on dogs in 10 villages in Bali in the past 12 months showed no signs of rabies, but elsewhere three dogs tested positive for the killer disease, the island’s Animal Husbandry Department chief has said. Meanwhile, another two patients died of suspected rabies this week, with medical staff at Denpasar’s Sanglah hospital reporting [...]

TABANAN Tabanan’s government has started buying up waste from local communities for recycling as part of official efforts to turn Bali into a “green province.” Speaking at an event to publicise the project in Tabanan, assistant economy and development secretary I Gusti Ngurah Anom Antara said that Tabanan regent Eka Wiryastuti was giving his full [...]

TABANAN An explosion at a Tabanan welding workshop killed a customer and has left the owner open to prosecution under negligence laws. The incident at the workshop in Tinungan in the Baturiti district occurred at around 11am on February 14. A faulty welding machine exploded, killing a 36-year-old local man, Komang Respati, who was waiting [...]

GIANYAR The driver of a truck that ploughed into oncoming traffic, killing one motorcyclist and injuring three others, in Saba, Gianyar on February 14 evening, was drunk, police said. The incident took place at 6.30pm on Jl IB Mantra. The truck, driven by a 35-year-old man identified as Oktavianus from Waingapu, Sumba, in East Nusa [...]

DENPASAR The owner of a local newspaper says he is at a loss to explain an attempt to firebomb his house in Denpasar in the early hours of February 15, claiming that he has no enemies. The incident at the home of 45-year-old Hendrawan, owner of the Indonesian-language daily Bali Tribun, on Jl Tukad Gangga [...]

DENPASAR A 30-year-old divorced man who clambered up a mobile phone tower in Denpasar in an apparent suicide bid was suffering from depression and had made a previous attempt on his own life, according to relatives. Police were called after the man, identified as Achmad, was spotted by residents clinging to the upper levels of [...]

DENPASAR Governor I Made Mangku Pastika informed the central government of plans to close the island’s airport for 24 hours on Nyepi, the Hindu day of silence, four months ago, according to a government spokesman. The head of the Bali Communication and Information Department, I Made Santha, said an official letter was sent by the [...]

Billion-Dollar Belief: Eleven years old this June, Lion Air has rapidly grown to become Indonesia’s largest airline by passenger numbers and in early 2012 plans to sell over a third of its shares to raise an estimated US$1 billion, president director Rusdi Kirana announced on Friday. The budget airline remains banned from European airspace over [...]