2013

Feng Shui Living Room Arrangement

By S.BS. Surendran Adapting Feng Shui can enhance the feel of your place of dwelling or work. It creates the right ambience, balance and ushers in sense of serenity. Feng Shui can be a design tool of Interior Design providing methods to change your surroundings, to create harmony and balance in your living and working [...]

Forecasts for week beginning Saturday, March 9, 2013.

By Jonathan Cainer Some people have already been deeply moved by the rare and impressive sight of Comet Panstarr. I’ll have more to say soon, on the daily page, about how best to spot the comet. But even if you haven’t yet noticed anything special, indeed even if you don’t look even briefly at the [...]

A tourist covered her face with a cloth because high winds made flying sand and cover partial road of Legian Kuta Bali last week. Full story here (Photo by Juliyus/The Bali Times)

Bali’s Kuta Beach Area Hit by Strong Wind

KUTA Kuta beach area was hit by strong wind causing panic among foreigners and local people there. “The beach sand scattered everywhere, it even entered the front part of restaurants. Tourists who happened to be near the area ran away to safer place when the wind hit,” restaurant worker Dina Indah said. She explained strong [...]

Hundreds Seek Shelter Cyclone Rusty Moves Closer

SYDNEY Hundreds of residents in Western Australia’s Pilbara region have taken shelter in evacuation centers as Tropical Cyclone Rusty moves closer to the coast, local media reported. Sarah Hoogenboom, from the Department for Child Protection told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News Online that it was a noisy and windy night for those who slept [...]

NZ Man Fatally Attacked by Shark, Police Open Fire

WELLINGTON A New Zealand man was attacked and killed by a great white shark in a rare fatal shark incident in the country, prompting police to open fire. Police said they fired shots at the shark after a man was fatally bitten at Muriwai beach located around 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Auckland, one [...]

First-ever Space Tourist Plans Mars Mission

WASHINGTON The world’s first space tourist, US multimillionaire Dennis Tito, unveiled plans to send a manned mission to Mars and back, targeting a launch date less than five years away. The two space travelers wouldn’t land on the Red Planet -or even enter its orbit – just fly through the vicinity and back, a trajectory [...]

Police Seize Australia’s Largerst Ever “Ice” Haul

SYDNEY An Australian joint taskforce has seized 585 km of methamphetamine, known as Ice, worth up to 438 million AU dollars (448 million U.S. dollars) during an operation in Sydney, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Thursday. In a joint statement released on Thursday, the AFP said the record Ice haul was seized in [...]