Well-heeled tourists will soon be able to splash out on luxury-car rentals to zip around the island in style.

NUSA DUA Bali’s governor has repeated calls for an end to aggressive discounting by starred hotels, saying that it threatened to cheapen Bali’s image. I Made Mangku Pastika said that Bali had worked hard to develop an image as a “quality” tourism destination, and that “price wars” between hotels in the island’s crowded south threatened [...]

DENPASAR Two labourers died after falling into a hole on a building site in Denpasar at the weekend. The men, identified as Sanan and Satir, died at the scene after the accident at the project on Jl Sulawesi where work was underway on an underground car park. A third man, named as Dadang, was seriously [...]

TABANAN A 48-year-old man drowned after being swept away while fishing in a river in Tabanan on Tuesday. Putu Suarana from Banjar Gempinis in Dalang village, had gone to fish in the Yeh Ho River in East Selemadeg District along with several friends. After the other men went hope at about 4pm, Suarana stayed behind [...]

KPK Contributions: Students collected coins – a token but symbolic stand against perceived wrongful decisions by the authorities – in Denpasar on last week after it emerged that the parliament in Jakarta decided not to approve funds for a badly needed new headquarters for arguably one of the country’s most important, but embattled, institutions, the [...]

By Jonathan Cainer Mercury is about to begin one of its frequent phases of retrograde motion. Other astrologers suggest that plans should not be made and promises should never be made while the planet of communication is apparently reversing. I find it only ever the first ‘stationary point’ that coincides with delay and impediment in [...]

By S.BS. Surendran Many have heard the words vaastu or feng shui; some may pass it off as a religious belief or ritualistic approach. Sceptics call it faith following and an unscientific practice. So what is vaastu and feng shui? The science of vaastu or feng shui is a magical tool to positively transform your [...]

By Anand Krishna How would you remember Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ? Or Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi? We remember them for the roles they played. Their names would mean nothing without those roles. They discovered their soul-role and were persistent in enacting the role. Thus, they gave meaning to their life. Otherwise, [...]