More is better when it comes to drinking coffee to ward off the risk of deadly prostate cancer, according to a major study released this week by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. Men who drank six or more cups per day had a 60 percent lower risk of developing the most lethal [...]

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 [...]

By Mahmoud Amin Hishmeh Over the past few years, we have often heard about a new Middle East, as envisioned by the United States and its allies. What is happening in the Arab world now, however, is a new Arab spirit generated by Arabs themselves. This positive change first started in Tunisia, but we don’t [...]

By Richard Boughton According to a recent article in The Bali Times, “Bali Police chief Hadiatmoko acted this week to stop police unfairly targeting foreigners, especially those on motorbikes … following complaints of harassment.” It’s about time. We all have our stories to tell. In my first four months in Bali I was stopped four [...]

By Vyt Karazija A large part of Bali humour tends towards the physical, sometimes bordering on slapstick. If someone gets slightly hurt, or at least discomfited, it’s even better. Any event that causes someone to be brought down a peg or two triggers an unseemly display of mirth from the locals. It really doesn’t seem [...]

By Jonathan Cainer In the old days, astrological alignments were considered benign or malefic, good or evil, positive or negative. This didn’t leave much room for free choice. You weren’t expected to shrug off trouble and thrive regardless. If an undesirable influence beset your horoscope you were just supposed to quake in your boots and [...]

In Tibet we say that many illness can be cured by the one medicine of love and compassion. These qualities are the ultimate source of human happiness, and need for them lies at the very core of our being. Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too [...]

By Novar Caine Can it be? Good news coming out of Bali? In recent days we learned not of yet another tragedy or health scare or government warning people off Indonesia due to threats, but of the discovery of new species of fish and coral. This may not be momentous news but the announcement by [...]

Celebration: Bali’s Buddhists marked the birthday of the Buddha during Waisak, in Kuta on Tuesday. Buddhists comprise less than 1 percent of Bali’s predominant Hindu population. Photograph by Juliyusman Sine/The Bali Times

SINGAPORE An engine fire forced a Jakarta-bound Cathay Pacific Airbus to make an emergency landing in Singapore shortly after it took off from the city-state on Monday, airport officials said. All 136 passengers on board the Airbus A330-300 were unharmed, the airline said. Changi Airport’s emergency services met the plane on the tarmac and extinguished [...]

MATARAM A central government team has arrived in Lombok to investigate claims that 13 offshore islands have been illegally sold to individual investors, including foreigners, for tourism development. The Bali Times earlier reported that officials from the West Lombok government alleged that the ownership certificates for the islands were apparently issued in contravention of regulations [...]

DENPASAR Two police officers arrested as members of an illegal gambling ring have been given suspended custodial sentences at Denpasar District Court. I Ketut Gadra Adnyana, 39, and Ida Bagus Putu Suputra, 49, were arrested in September 2010 along with two other men — I Made Sudiarta, 60, and Made Mardiata, 60 — and a [...]