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 [...]

A 17-year old construction worker has died of bird flu in Lombok, the sixth death from the virulent disease this year, a Health Ministry official said. The man developed fever on February 28 and was admitted to a local hospital five days later where he died on March 9, the ministry’s head of animal-borne infectious [...]

By Richard Boughton In last week’s column I mentioned my purchase of a bilingual language book called Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan (Education in Citizenship). I spoke mostly about my own difficulty with learning the Indonesian language, but I’d like to say something this week about the actual contents of the book, which turn out to be as strange [...]

By Vyt Karazija Her smile is radiant, her posture positive and her voice is warm and friendly. A true professional at her job, she always has a kind word for customers, even those who think that wait staff are little more than an invisible underclass in Bali. “How are you, Ari?” I ask her – [...]

By Jonathan Cainer April brings Mars to the end of its recent retrograde phase. Though no planet ever really travels backwards through the zodiac, this optical illusion has long been a strong symbol or ‘omen’. Mars is the planet of action, adventure and ambition, plus competition, conflict and contention. Generally, while it appears to be [...]

Indonesian politicians in a flap is a common occurrence. Frequently, they work themselves into an oily lather over matters concerning morality that are most often connected with sex, or suggestions of the possibility of it. For the most part, the ordinary Indonesian, it seems, is incapable of deflecting the shroud of lust and is thus [...]

By Barbara Slavin After months of sabre-rattling rhetoric by Iran, Israel and the United States, there seems to be a collective, and welcome, time out. Since President Barack Obama’s March 4 speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), all sides have been stressing non-military means to try to resolve the crisis over Iran’s [...]

By Khalid Al-Badawi, Muhammad Al-Taip and Mohannad Awn As natives of Tripoli in our mid-20s, we are part of the second generation of Libyans to have known no other authority than Muammar Gaddafi’s. When the Gaddafi regime collapsed, the world saw rebels fighting for control of the streets – while we felt chaos in our [...]