DENPASAR Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Area III Denpasar stated that strong wind and heavy rain happened in Bali some days ago because of Narelle tropical storm. “Narelle storm emerged on 13,3 South latitude and 116.1 East longitude around West Nusa Tenggara,” Head of Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Area III Denpasar I Wayan Suardana [...]

KUTA The customs officers of Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali have foiled an attempt to smuggle 372 grams of heroin, worth Rp855 million, from Malaysia into Indonesia. The heroin was hidden in the underwear of a Malaysian man named Sargunan M Suppiah, the Head of Ngurah Rai Surveillance and Excise Service Customs Office, Made [...]

TABANAN A Balinese boy is reported to have died after a used cell phone exploded while he was playing near a garbage burning site in Banjar Anyar village, Tabanan, Bali. “The source of the explosion that killed eight-year-old Putu Fernanda was a burnt used cell phone battery that had pierced the boy’s left thigh,” said [...]

DENPASAR The Denpasar Prosecutors’ Office said that it was investigating 10 star-rated hotels in Bali allegedly involved in several tax evasion cases worth billions of rupiah. Office chief Freddy Runtu said investigators were currently questioning the management of four hotels, namely the Ocean Blue Hotel, which is allegedly involved in a Rp10 billion tax evasion [...]

BENIN Authorities of Nigeria’s University of Benin (UNIBEN) located in the capital of southern Edo State announced the discovery of a new herbal drug that can cure the dreaded Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), urging carriers of the disease to give it a try. Dean of the School of [...]

TABANAN Visitors of the tourism object, Jatiluwih, Tabanan Regency, Bali, has to pay illegal entrance fee to the local residents for the reason of ricefield preservation which has been recognized by UNESCO as one of the World Heritage site. “There shouldn’t be any additional fee. Legal entrance fee from the government is 15.000 rupiah per [...]

DENPASAR British woman, Lindsay June Sandiford, pleads for a more lenient punishment to the judges’ panel of Denpasar District Court. Request from the smuggling suspect of 4,7 kilogram cocaine was appealed through Ezra Karo Karo as her lawyer in a trial with agenda of defense plea reading. Lindsay ask the judges’ panel to consider some [...]

DENPASAR Bali Province still face difficulty to free from rabies as a result from the infectors and humans mobility in Bali are very high. “Now Bali is facing difficulty to be free from rabies because there is disease resulted from dogs’ bite,” member of Bali Parliament Commission II Nyoman Sugawa Korry stated in Denpasar. According [...]