http://www.thebalitimes.com Online edition of Bali’s best selling English language newspaper. Bringing you Bali, the Nation and the World every Friday. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:49:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/23/authorities-swoop-on-%e2%80%98illegal%e2%80%99-seminyak-villa/ http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/23/authorities-swoop-on-%e2%80%98illegal%e2%80%99-seminyak-villa/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:29:47 +0000 The Bali Times http://www.thebalitimes.com/?p=9597 SEMINYAK The Bali Times POLICE, city guardians (Satpol PP) and tax officials inspected a new foreign-owned villa complex in Seminyak on Monday that they claim does not have a building permit (IMB), has not registered as a foreign investment firm (PMA) and has not paid tax. The Australian owner was overseas. Bali Yarravillas, located along an alleyway near [...]]]> http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/23/authorities-swoop-on-%e2%80%98illegal%e2%80%99-seminyak-villa/feed/ 2 http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/12/three-foreigners-robbed-in-one-day/ http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/12/three-foreigners-robbed-in-one-day/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:45:08 +0000 The Bali Times http://www.thebalitimes.com/?p=9431 SANUR The Bali Times Police are hunting criminals after three foreigners were robbed on the same day last week. And a Spanish tourist has reported losses totalling Rp22 million (US$2,337) after her bag was snatched in Seminyak on Sunday. On Thursday (February 4) an Australian man lost cash, a mobile phone, camera and credit cards from his car [...]]]> http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/12/three-foreigners-robbed-in-one-day/feed/ 0 http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/12/large-quake-strikes-off-bali/ http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/12/large-quake-strikes-off-bali/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:49:16 +0000 The Bali Times http://www.thebalitimes.com/?p=9428 LEGIAN The Bali Times A powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Bali early on Friday morning, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The quake occurred at 1.43am, 210 kilometres northwest of the Nusa Dua tourism area on the island’s southern tip, at a depth of 10 kilometres below the seabed, the state-run Meteorology and Geophysics Agency [...]]]> http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/12/large-quake-strikes-off-bali/feed/ 2 http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/01/17/balinese-woman-survives-haiti-quake-fate-of-two-others-unknown/ http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/01/17/balinese-woman-survives-haiti-quake-fate-of-two-others-unknown/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:39:20 +0000 The Bali Times http://www.thebalitimes.com/?p=9024 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 [...]]]> http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/01/17/balinese-woman-survives-haiti-quake-fate-of-two-others-unknown/feed/ 0 http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/01/16/high-priest-warning-nightspot-bali/ http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/01/16/high-priest-warning-nightspot-bali/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:59:01 +0000 The Bali Times http://www.thebalitimes.com/?p=9021 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. Local [...]]]> http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/01/16/high-priest-warning-nightspot-bali/feed/ 2 http://www.thebalitimes.com/2009/12/29/australian-arrested-drug/ http://www.thebalitimes.com/2009/12/29/australian-arrested-drug/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:42:55 +0000 The Bali Times http://www.thebalitimes.com/?p=8855 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 [...]]]> http://www.thebalitimes.com/2009/12/29/australian-arrested-drug/feed/ 1 http://www.thebalitimes.com/2009/12/27/naked-japanese-death/ http://www.thebalitimes.com/2009/12/27/naked-japanese-death/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:02:34 +0000 The Bali Times http://www.thebalitimes.com/?p=8831 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 [...]]]> http://www.thebalitimes.com/2009/12/27/naked-japanese-death/feed/ 0 http://www.thebalitimes.com/2009/12/27/land-sale-man/ http://www.thebalitimes.com/2009/12/27/land-sale-man/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:54:11 +0000 The Bali Times http://www.thebalitimes.com/?p=8829 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 [...]]]> http://www.thebalitimes.com/2009/12/27/land-sale-man/feed/ 9