The international community’s mixed response to China’s crackdown on dissent – ranging from public criticism to total silence – has handed Beijing leeway to maintain its hard line, experts say. Since Chinese authorities, apparently spooked by the pro-democracy uprisings sweeping the Middle East, began detaining lawyers, artists and other activists in February, a parade of [...]

The world’s biggest particle collider set a new record this week, a feat that should accelerate the quest to pinpoint the elusive particle known as the Higgs Boson, a senior physicist said. “Last night, a symbolic frontier was crossed,” said Michel Spiro, president of the board of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), explaining [...]

BADUNG The regent of Badung has demanded that a full list of illegal, unlicensed hotels and villas in his regency be released by hospitality organisations. Speaking on Wednesday Anak Agung Gede Agung demanded that the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Indonesia (PHRI) provided data on unlicensed properties. “I’m asking the PHRI to announce which hotels [...]

DENPASAR The lawyer of the headmaster accused of cheating 137 would-be civil servants out of millions of rupiah has claimed that his client had himself been tricked by the alleged scam mastermind, a Jakarta-based businessman. As reported in The Bali Times last week, I Ketut Arnawa, 59, headmaster of Penatih Elementary School IV, was arrested [...]

KLUNGKUNG Tap water provided by the state-owned Regional Water Company (PDAM) in Klungkung regency is contaminated with the potentially deadly E. coli virus, according to officials from the Bali Health Department. Ministry head Dr Nyoman Sutedja told reporters on Monday that every one of 16 routine samples collected from Klungkung in the past decade had [...]

DENPASAR More than three quarters of recorded cases of AIDS and HIV in Bali are attributable to heterosexual sex, according to Health Department officials, with most sufferers being between the ages of 20 and 39. Department chief Dr Nyoman Suteja told reporters last weekend that there were now 4314 registered AIDS and HIV patients in [...]

TABANAN More than 30,000 Balinese farmers have left their jobs on the land in the past 12 months, according to figures released last week by the government statistics agency, with officials saying the increasing demands of the tourism industry on both water and land are likely behind the decline. Head of the Bali branch of [...]

DENPASAR Police are hunting an unidentified man who attacked a Denpasar shopkeeper at her store on Jl Letda Sutji, last Thursday, slashing her face with a knife. Ratna Kurniawati, 48, whose husband is a serving police officer, was attacked as she was minding the Adi Kurnia Jaya Store, which she owns, on May 19, causing [...]

By Dr Robert Goldman 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 24,000 physician and scientist members from 110 nations, united in [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Incivek to treat hepatitis C when taken along with the current two-drug regimen, marking the second such drug approval this month. “The sustained virologic response for patients treated with Incivek across all studies, and across all patient groups, was between 20 and 45 percent higher than current [...]

Research showing how a paraplegic man could stand up and regain some movement in his legs through a spinal implant opens up exciting paths for tackling paralysis, doctors said. In a study published by The Lancet, US surgeons implanted a cluster of electrodes in the lower spine of a 25-year-old man paralysed below the chest [...]

By Ali Gohar and Lisa Schirch People-power and the use of mass nonviolent action are not new to Muslims. Even before Gandhi, political and spiritual leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan – now more widely referred to as “Bacha Khan” – was drawing on Islamic and tribal teachings to train “nonviolent soldiers” in 1920s India (now Pakistan) [...]