UBUD Ubud’s main market area is set for a Rp3-billion (US$349,300) renovation, though funds are insufficient to add a proposed underground parking lot at the market, according to officials. Work on the upgrade at the two-storey complex of art and souvenir shops, as well as more traditional vendors, in front of the Ubud Palace at [...]

Japan Connection: Two women from Japan putting on a show at the Bali Arts Festival, the month-long showcase that is continuing. Photograph by Juliyusman Sine/The Bali Times

DENPASAR Bali residents need to improve their lifestyles and hygiene practices to avoid exposure to the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria and other contaminants, a health official has said. Head of the Bali health agency I Nyoman Sutedja told reporters that the high risk of an outbreak of E. coli was largely caused by local [...]

SINGARAJA A cattle-breeding centre belonging to Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika was destroyed in a fire on Monday afternoon. The farm in Seririt, Buleleng, was home to 40 Balinese cattle.  It is believed that the blaze started after smouldering incense sticks were carelessly left by local children who had been making kites on the [...]

By Lulua Asaad When we read or watch news about the Middle East and North Africa what we hear are politicians gathering to talk about the economy, employment rates or education; or an analyst breaking down headline news stories. What we don’t usually hear about are youth coming together hand-in-hand – regardless of their differences, [...]

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 [...]

A young Australian man is to be put to death in Indonesia, before firing quad, after the Supreme Court last week rejected a final appeal against his drug-trafficking sentence. We reject the death penalty as an intrinsically inhuman punishment for any crime. The only hope for Bali Nine ringleader Andrew Chan now is a pardon [...]

One area where Buddhist contemplative tradition may have important contribution to make is the practical techniques it has developed for training in compassion. With regard to mental training, both in attention and emotional regulation, it also becomes crucial to raise the question of whether any specific techniques have time-sensitivity in terms of their effectiveness, so [...]

By Novar Caine Turfed out of office, the world’s dictators’ immune systems suddenly fall victim to a peculiar type of condition that renders them stricken with varying types of life-threatening illnesses. Whereas previously these great men strode the world stage in robust health, now they are reduced to shadows of their former selves. Indonesia’s great [...]

By Richard Boughton Jalan Pasar is the street we live on. Market Street – aptly named given that this particular neighbourhood branches out from the central hub of Sindhu Market itself, wherein the local people ply their goods, from produce to livestock, fruits to chickens, bottled sodas to dried bananas, rice cakes, candies, peanuts, onions, [...]

By Vyt Karazija We all know the simple rules of driving or riding on Bali’s roads. Rule One: Don’t have an accident. If you do, and you survive, you will pay. Not your fault? Like hell it’s not. The other driver or rider might have rocketed into you (without looking) from a tiny side-street, or [...]

By Jonathan Cainer Mars forms an “alignment of irritation” to Pluto. Remember Pluto? That’s the heavenly body recently demoted by experts. It is, they say, “too small” to be a planet. Oh those scientists. Don’t they know size isn’t everything? Astrologers still feel that Pluto’s influence is as powerful as it ever was. And that’s [...]