Around 2.88 million foreign tourists and five million domestic tourists spent their vacations on the island of Bali in 2012. The data show 684,312 Australians and 267,353 Chinese visited Bali in the year to October 2012. Full story here. Photo by Juliyus/The Bali Times.

DENPASAR The number of tourist arrivals in the resort island of Bali last year exceeded the target of 2.8 million, according to the provincial tourism office. “A total of 2,888,864 tourists visited Bali last year, exceeding the target of 2.8 million,” the head of the tourism office, Ida Bagus Kade Subhiksu, said here. According to [...]

PARIS Astronomers using the most advanced land telescope in the world said they had unlocked knowledge about how formidable “gas giant” planets such Jupiter and Saturn come into being. These vast but uninhabitable worlds are created by gobbling up gas and dust that envelope young stars in a murky disc, they believe. The evidence comes [...]

BRISBANE A 33-year-old woman from Brisbane has died in Bali. Denni North, who had been living in Kuta and working in public relations, was reportedly found lying face down in a swimming pool, as qoute from brisbanetimes. Managers of the Cocoon Beach Club in Kuta, where Ms North worked, remembered her as a “beautiful and [...]

DENPASAR Hundreds of ducks in Takmung village, Klungkung regency, Bali, have suddenly died with avian flu believed to be the cause. I Wayan Sudia, a duck breeder in Takmung village, said he had just lost hundreds of his ducks to bird flu. “Laboratory reports show my ducks were infected by bird flu,” I Wayan Sudia [...]

DENPASAR Made Mangku Pastika proposed three conditions to the coalition party which will propose him as the candidate of Bali Governor for the second time in the Governor Election on the following May. To the journalists in Denpasar, Pastika stated those three conditions, that is, no money politic, no violence and no black campaign. “I [...]

DENPASAR A police officer was reported to Bali Police headquarters for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old child. The police officer, identified as Timbul Sarana Raharja, was reported to have molested the child (identified as YI), and blackmailed and embezzled the victim and her mother. Timbul and the mother, MS, 37, were known to have been romantically [...]

SINGARAJA Thousand hectares of forest area in Buleleng regency, Bali, has on going scale destruction caused by the weather and humans impact. “The forest destruction in this area is very worried,” said the Buleleng regent, Putu Agus Suradnyana in Singaraja. He stated that in total the forest area in Buleleng regency are 51.436, 21 hectares [...]