By Richard Boughton Dogs in Bali are different from other dogs. You may say that the statement is obtuse. You may even say that the difference is merely due to the fact that Bali dogs are dirty, smelly, flea-bitten, scrawny, generally unkempt and occasionally rabid. Of course, that is all true, and I do concede [...]

By Vyt Karazija It’s six o’clock on Saturday and a beautiful evening in Bali. There is a sunset tonight that has the power to still most conversations, lift one’s jaded spirits and remind us all that nature, as always, trumps the banal scurryings of day-to-day human endeavour. I would have liked to have seen it, [...]

By Jonathan Cainer Perhaps this week’s most interesting influence is an ‘inconjunct’ alignment between Jupiter and Venus. These angles of 150 degrees are my favourites. They traditionally signify a conflict that cannot be completely resolved… or an opportunity that cannot be fully realised, or both. Think, for example, of two needs within yourself that are [...]

Control: Tourists walk past a banner in Kuta declaring the area free of beggars, motorbike taxis and external guides, all of whom have been a scourge to holidaymakers in Bali. Similar banners were erected this week in other parts of the tourism district. Photograph by Juliyusman Sine/The Bali Times

Detour: A motorcyclist adheres to traffic signs placed around Ngurah Rai International Airport, which is undergoing a major, multimillion-dollar expansion to cope with Bali’s record-high tourist arrivals. Photograph by Juliyusman Sine/The Bali Times

KUTA A Ugandan woman found dead in a Kuta hotel room had over a kilo of crystal-methamphetamine wrapped in plastic inside her intestines. The woman had arrived at the Hotel Rita on Jl Poppies I in Kuta at around 11pm on August 29. She did not show any identification when checking in. The following morning [...]

NUSA DUA South Bali is to get a new 11-kilometre toll road as part of efforts to ease chronic congestion. A new consortium has been formed to fund and run the Rp2.4-trillion (US$280-million) project, with work expected to begin later this year, it was revealed this week. The Bali Tourism Development Corporation (BTDC), a government-owned [...]

DENPASAR More than quarter of a million foreign tourists visited Bali during July, according to figures released by the Bali branch of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) this week. A total of 283,524 foreign tourists arrived in Indonesia via Bali in July, with 279,219 entering through Ngurah Rai International Airport, and a further 4305 people [...]

By Richard Boughton It seemed a day like any other. I woke, as always, to the buzzing of the bedside alarm, hit the snooze button, woke again five minutes later, rolled out of bed, made my way sleepy-eyed down the hallway, tripped over the dog in the usual way, let the dog out to the [...]

By Vyt Karazija Bali beach warungs are perfect places to unwind at the end of a long day of work. At least it is for those so afflicted. For me, they are perfect places to relax after a long day of, well, doing not much at all really. They don’t even have a permanent structure, [...]

By Jonathan Cainer I’ve been thinking a lot, lately, about the Moon. We each formed our own relationship with it the moment we first saw it in the sky. It deepened when we realised how it follows us along when we’re travelling. In astrology, the Moon symbolises your most private profound passions. We look to [...]

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 [...]