By Jonathan Cainer We begin this week with a powerful Full Moon. Though it wanes a little each evening, that sense of Full Moon madness will prevail for a few days to come. We can thus expect drama, excitement, passion, intoxication and revelation. Full Moon madness isn’t really mad – it’s just exuberant, expressive and [...]

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 [...]

Bali health officials are concerned that the recent closure of red light district in Tabanan may have increased the spread of HIV-AIDS as displaced sex workers spread out amongst local villages and work beneath the radar of anti-AIDS NGOs and government agencies. A long-standing semi-official tolerance zone around the main Tabanan bus station was recently [...]

KEROBOKAN The final appeal of convicted drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran against his death sentence has been rejected by the Supreme Court, his lawyer said. Sukumaran, one of the ringleaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” gang who were caught attempting to smuggle eight kilograms of heroin to Australia through Bali in 2005, had lodged the appeal [...]

JAKARTA Bali’s police chief has been replaced as part of a nationwide reshuffle in the upper echelons of the Indonesian Police. Hadiatmoko has been replaced by Inspector-General Totoy Herawan Indra. The reshuffle was ordered by national police chief General Timur Pradopo. As well as the change in Bali, the heads of East Java, Central Java [...]

BANGLI Police are investigating an attempt to smuggle drugs into Bangli Prison. A 34-year-old admitted courier was caught in the prison car park with 1 gram of crystal-methamphetamine and 21 ecstasy pills last Friday. Ertanto Punto, originally from Jembrana district, had been spotted acting suspiciously outside the prison. “The perpetrator was seized in the car [...]

SANUR Animal-protection groups are facing increased challenges in their attempts to prevent the smuggling of turtles and turtle meat into Bali, as smugglers become more organised, an NGO has said. Turtle meat is used for traditional sate in Bali. Rosek Nursahid, chairman of ProFauna Indonesia, said this week that while in the past turtle meat [...]

BENOA Police caught three men attempting to smuggle 18 green turtles into Bali for the restaurant trade on Monday. Officers from Bali Water Police acted after a patrol boat spotted a suspicious vessel unloading a cargo at Benoa Harbour. They arrested three men – 44-year-old Nyoman Sugira, 30-year-old Gede Kole and 35-year-old Gusti Ngurah Datia [...]

KEROBOKAN Bali Police arrested a Japanese man at his contracted house in Kerobokan after they discovered quantities of marijuana in a raid on the property on Saturday night. Tomoyo Sugiama, 36, a Japanese citizen, was detained at the house Jl Raya Batu Belig in Kerobokan.  Officers from Bali’s Narcotics Unit organised the raid after reports [...]

TUBAN Bali customs officials arrested a woman who worked at the French embassy in Bangkok after she arrived at Ngurah Rai International Airport carrying cocaine. Keita Ep Toureh, 52, had arrived in Bali on an AirAsia flight from Bangkok when she was detained. Customs officers using an ion scan on arriving passengers picked up traces [...]

TUBAN A Japanese tourist was arrested at Ngurah Rai International Airport last week when he was caught with hashish in his luggage, officials revealed on Monday. Yao Noriyosho was arrested last Tuesday evening after arriving from Japan via Singapore on a Singapore Airlines flight. “Our officers were suspicious, and they asked the perpetrator to open [...]

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 [...]