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 [...]

DENPASAR Health Department officials say the standard of healthcare available varies across the different regions of Bali. Department chief Nyoman Sutedja said some of Bali’s regencies were chronically short of medical staff and specialist equipment. He said that only Gianyar, Tabanan and Denpasar met requisite standards in services, funding and staffing. “Although at the national [...]

By Murat Daoudov As a forerunner of the Arab Spring, Tunisia has offered a pioneering example for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. After sparking the MENA revolutions, it rapidly stepped into a post-revolutionary phase by organising the first democratic elections in the region. Moreover, it is in Tunisia that Islamic political parties [...]

By Mairav Zonszein An absurdist play about two people waiting for someone who never shows up, performed in Arabic by young Palestinian actors, directed by a Jewish Israeli filmmaker and presented on a New York City stage: this was the scene the night of 18 October at Columbia University’s Miller Theater in New York City [...]

By Vyt Karazija Buying food in Bali is an adventure. I’m not talking about those imported food and beverage items that are now subject to usurious taxes and duties imposed by the perennially greedy and terminally myopic dunderheads in Jakarta. I can’t afford those now anyway. And even if I could, I would still flatly [...]

Suggestions that high-rise buildings in Bali’s tightly packed southern regions will solve the island’s increase in overcrowding are badly misguided. Turning the once-rural island into a concrete jigsaw is not the answer. Stopping the rapid proliferation of tourist accommodation is. We have backed Governor I Made Mangku Pastika’s moratorium on the construction of new hotel [...]

By Jonathan Cainer This week, as we slip quietly across the border between November and December, we find Venus making a similar transition. There’s no passport office at the end of Sagittarius and the beginning of Capricorn. Customs and Excise don’t care what the planet of love brings with it. But Capricorns will soon notice [...]

By Richard Boughton Another community planning disaster, about 7.5 on the Richter scale, shook the little town of Sanur last week as the Sanur Village Festival, held at Sunrise Beach, played host to five long, hot, unspeakably humid days of frustration, vehicular chaos, roadway gridlock and boiling tempers. In the past, the little festival had [...]

SYDNEY An Australian teenager holidaying in Bali was fatally electrocuted by live wires, officials said on Sunday, with reports his friends initially thought it was a prank. Jake Flannery, 18, died on Saturday after touching live wires in the popular Jl Legian tourist area, where he was celebrating finishing high school with friends, according to [...]

DENPASAR The Denpasar District Court has sentenced a 14-year-old Australian boy to two months in jail for possession of marijuana. The boy, who wore a colourful Balinese shirt and a balaclava to hide his identity, will be freed on December 4 after the court ruled the nearly eight weeks he has already spent in jail [...]

DENPASAR With the rainy season getting underway more flash floods hit Bali at the weekend, with damage caused to properties in Jembrana on Sunday. Torrential downpours at dawn saw homes in Yeh Embang Kauh inundated. A house belonging to local man Ketut Wita was completely destroyed. In nearby Penyarinagan two other properties were damaged by [...]

SEMINYAK American socialite Paris Hilton visited Bali last week, describing the island via Twitter as one of the most “incredible places I have ever been.” The reality-TV star and hotel heiress arrived in Bali on November 9 after a stopover in Singapore. She kept fans informed with a constant stream of Twitter updates during her [...]