Thousands of people watched the “Ngelawang” rituals around Dharmayana Vihara, Kuta last week. Ritual Ngelawang is tradition walk around the village, is usually done Hindus, with the barongsai and dragon dance perform for the harmony of nature ahead of the Chinese New Year celebration. (Photo by Juliyus/The Bali Times)

SYDNEY West Australians are continuing to pick up nasty infectious diseases in Bali, with new figures showing increases in the number of sexually transmitted infections and mosquito-borne diseases brought back from the popular holiday island. Health Department figures reveal 46 percent of the 3000 West Australians who returned from overseas with infectious diseases last year [...]

SURABAYA A potential herbal cure for HIV/AIDs is being investigated and developed by researchers at the University of Airlangga in Surabaya. Nasronudin, an academic who heads the university’s Institute of Tropical Disease, said that the research has already taken two years and that the project team hopes the final product will be ready sometime next [...]

GIANYAR Miss Universe 2012 Olivia Culpo greeted Balinese people in her visit to a department store in Kuta, Badung regency, and Ubud, Gianyar regency. The twenty years old woman who is from Rhode Island, United States of America, was accompanied by Putri Indonesia 2013 Whulandary Herman and Runner-Up II Putri Indonesia who is from Bali [...]

MEXICO CITY A nine-year-old Mexican girl has given birth and authorities are looking for the presumed father, who is 17, officials said. The girl, identified as Dafne, gave birth by Cesarean section to a baby girl weighing 2.7 kilos (5.7 pounds) and measuring 50 centimeters (20 inches) on January 27 in a hospital in the [...]

SEDNEY Drug use is widespread in Australian sport with growing links to organized crime, according to a damning official probe released Thursday that points to “clear parallels” with the Lance Armstrong case. The Australian Crime Commission inquiry identified common use of prohibited substances including peptides – a type of stimulant – hormones and illicit drugs, [...]

DENPASAR Bali Regional Police began strengthening its personnel’s readiness and their equipment in Brimob Unit before the event of Asia-Pacific Economy Cooperation Conference (KTT APEC) that will be held on October 2013. “We cant be prepared on September while the event is on October, then the enemies will be one step ahead. Starting from now [...]

DENPASAR Bali, as a world tourism destination, has great potential to develop creative industry by producing various kinds of souvenirs having artistic values. A Balinese art maestro, I Nyoman Gunarsa, who is also the owner and manager of Museum of Classical Art in Klungkung, Bali, said that Balinese works of art, that have been known [...]