DENPASAR Police stepped up security at tourist hotspots this week after five suspected terrorists were shot dead in raids. “We beefed up security in all places around Bali, especially in strategic places such entertainment spots, hotels and malls. What’s clear, we are on alert,” Bali Police spokesman Hariadi said. “We guarantee maximum security for tourists. [...]

SEMINYAK Bali is the setting for a pilot project on the management of the villa industry, it has been revealed. The Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry is currently preparing a draft bill on the management and regulation of villas, and will trial the guidelines in Bali, according to head of the Bali Villa Association (BVA) [...]

DENPASAR State power provider PLN had reason to celebrate this week’s Nyepi ceremony – a 50-percent drop in power use. According to Agung Mastika, PLN’s spokesman in Bali, based on the precedent of previous years the company was expected power consumption to drop by half during the Balinese Hindu “Day of Silence” when all lights [...]

By Emmanuelle Hazan Dr Raz Somech is one of the main figures in the deeply moving documentary Precious Life which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2011 and serves as a powerful image of hope in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2008, a four month-old baby from Gaza, Mohammed Abu Mustafa, came to the paediatric [...]

By Abubakr Al-Shamahi On February 21, Yemenis went to the polls to vote for their new transitional president. This election, however, was different. There was only one candidate, former Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The Hirak in the south – a large-scale movement that includes separatist groups – and Houthi rebels in the north boycotted [...]

By Richard Boughton In my continuing effort to demonstrate conclusively and for all practical purposes that I cannot possibly learn to speak the Indonesian language I will occasionally, under the influence of some ill-founded optimism, buy a new lesson book and set to work with renewed, though short-lived enthusiasm, having decided that the fault is not [...]

By Jonathan Cainer We have seen a lot of auspicious omens in March. Further positive alignments await us in coming months. So we really should keep this week’s tense climate in perspective. Though Mars and Uranus form an antagonistic angle, we need not expect big dramas or sudden showdowns – just events and situations that [...]

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 [...]