BANGLI One person were killed and at least 13 injured during violent clashes between villagers in Bangli on Tuesday. The violence, which saw much of the regency capital shut down under subsequent tight security, was prompted by an altercation between students attending a soccer match. The trouble began when students from Banjar Kawan in Bangli, [...]

DENPASAR A Danish woman who was arrested in March at Ngurah Rai International Airport attempting to smuggle 218 grams of hashish into Bali went on trial at Denpasar District Court this week. Tine Rasmussen, 37, faces life imprisonment. Rasmussen was arrested on March 3 after arriving on a Thai Airlines flight from Bombay via Bangkok. [...]

KUTA Locals and tourists in North Kuta discovered the decomposed body of a newborn baby on the beach on Tuesday morning. “The corpse of the baby was spotted by people at Petitenget Beach,” said North Kuta Police spokesman Aldi Alfa. The body was floating in the water just off the beach when it was noticed, [...]

By Jonathan Cainer If, on Wednesday night this week, you happen to find yourself on a boat in the middle of the Pacific, not too far from French Polynesia, keep an eye on the Moon. There isn’t much of it left but the sliver you can see will slowly move in front of Mars. We [...]

By Ahmed Charai and Joseph Braude It isn’t news anymore when an Arab ruler facing mass protests pledges sweeping reforms. But Morocco’s 1 July constitutional referendum may be the most significant development in the Arab world all summer. For the first time since the Arab Spring began, a population broadly embraced its leader’s reforms and [...]

By Natana J. DeLong-Bas Should women drive or not drive? That is the question many in Saudi Arabia are asking today. When Manal Al-Sharif posted a video of herself driving on YouTube and launched her Women2Drive campaign on Facebook, she drew the eyes of the world yet again to the status of Saudi women. Driving [...]

By Vyt Karazija When I started visiting Bali more than a decade ago, my experience of the ubiquitous beauty salons here was limited to dropping The Companion off at the front entrance, and sometimes glancing cautiously inside to marvel at the incomprehensible things transpiring within. Not only were there strange things being done to hair, [...]

The shocking number of lives lost on Bali’s roads is a result of overwhelming police inaction and an innate failure among the population to adhere to – or even learn – the rules. Corruption is to blame, too, because it means that licence-seekers can circumvent required driving theory and practical tests and get a licence [...]

I am a religious practitioner who follows Buddhism. More than a thousand years have passed since the great religions of the world flourished, including Buddhism. During those years, the world had witnessed a lot of conflicts, in which followers of different religions were also involved. As a religious practitioner, I acknowledge the fact that different [...]

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 [...]

Just a few years ago, anyone who talked of a cure for the AIDS virus would in all likelihood have met with a sad, ironic smile. Yes, HIV could be treated. But wiped out? Only in dreams. This wisdom had deep roots. In 1996, antiretroviral drugs began to turn the tide against HIV. By suppressing [...]

By Richard Boughton The first and most important thing to remember about driving the roads of Bali is that in practice there are no rules. Keeping this in mind, I will set forth a few points of general reference that may serve for some modicum of safety in the daily death match of Indonesian vehicular [...]