The Bali Times
PORT-AU-PRINCE/DENPASAR ~ A Balinese woman working in Haiti survived last Tuesday’s devastating earthquake that flattened the Caribbean nation after being evacuated from her hotel by a United Nations rescue team, her family said.
Ni Luh Made Juini sent an email to her family in Bali on Thursday, saying she was OK, and managed to [...]

By I Gusti Made Putra
The Bali Times
DALUNG ~ A leading Hindu high priest has warned that plans by a Balinese businessman to build a restaurant on the site of the terrorist-bombed Sari Club where 202 people were slaughtered will lead to disaster for the entrepreneur and urged that a planned peace park be constructed instead.
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TUBAN ~ A man who flew to Bali from Australia with marijuana allegedly hidden in rolled-up socks was arrested on Monday, police said.
The man, identified as Robert Paul McJannett, 48, was arrested on Monday night after disembarking from a Virgin Blue flight from Perth, Bali Police spokesman Gede Sugianyar said on Tuesday.
“His hand luggage was [...]

KUTA ~ The body of a Japanese woman has been found naked and bound in Kuta, police said on Sunday.
Hiromi Shimada, 41, had been stabbed repeatedly in the stomach. Her body was discovered in a rented house in the popular tourist area on Saturday evening, Bali Police spokesman I Gede Sugianyar said.
“The victim was found [...]

DENPASAR ~ Bali Police have put a fugitive Indonesian property company director on their most-wanted list following the arrest of two British citizens resident here over an alleged property scam involving a Russian.
The man on the run was named by police as Agus Setiawan Wawo Runtu, commissioner of Asian Estates Investment, who listed a residential [...]