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	<title>The Bali Times &#124; The Best News You&#039;ll Get All Week</title>
	<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com</link>
	<description>Online edition of Bali’s best selling English language newspaper. Bringing you Bali, the Nation and the World every Friday.</description>
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…. Because people are friendly and the temples give the island a magical atmosphere.
Nyoman Riki, 41, Denpasar
BT/PCAR
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		<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/05/9425/</link>
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Viebeke Lengkong, from Jakarta, moved to Bali 40 years ago and was a cofounder of the Friends of Bali organisation right after the Bali bombings. She’s now programme director of I’m an Angel, a charity supported by the funds raised by Seminyak restaurant Ku De Ta. The organisation helps to improve the lives of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/05/9422/</link>
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From the perspective of Siti Nurkhasamah, 26, a tourism student from Java.
What are we here for?
To love each other.
Do you believe in the Big Bang theory that the circa-13.7-billion-year-old universe and all that’s in it was created by a massive explosion of enormously dense matter at what may have been the beginning of time?
No, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/05/9419/</link>
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NAME: Tri Dwi Hantoro
AGE: 44
OCCUPATION: Owner of a leather factory in Denpasar
LOCATION: Java
How do you think the country is doing now?
It will be OK in the future. But people have to be more creative. With China becoming part of ASEAN, if Indonesia doesn’t keep up with creativity we can’t do anything to compete. I also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/05/9416/</link>
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Wayan Muka, 75, from Badung, sells flowers at Denpasar’s central market. She has 12 children and four grandchildren.
What’s the greatest lesson life has taught you?
Selling flowers has been a tradition in my family for many generations and I’ve learned that it’s important to sell my flowers.
What’s most important?
Family traditions.
What advice would you give the younger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/05/9412/</link>
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		<title>Expect Nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
become a stranger
To need of pity
Or, if compassion be freely
Given out
Take only enough
Stop short of urge to plead
Then purge away the need.
Wish for nothing larger
Than your own small heart
Or greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.
Discover the reason why
So tiny human midget
Exists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/05/expect-nothing/</link>
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		<title>It’s Always Time to Chill: You Don’t Need to Watch It in Bali</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Vyt Karazija 
Western notions of time do not transplant-easily to Bali. My pre-Bali life was characterised by what seems now to be an obsessive desire to know which particular instant of time I was inhabiting at any given moment. For me to be comfortable back in my past life, I needed to constantly know the day, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/05/it%e2%80%99s-always-time-to-chill-you-don%e2%80%99t-need-to-watch-it-in-bali/</link>
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		<title>Savouring Bali (While There’s Still Time)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While lounging in a fantastically comfy bean bag on the beach in Sanur a few nights ago I decided I really must spend more time at the beach.
Sipping my beer, chatting with friends and watching our kids play in the sand, I felt calm, cool from the sea breeze and extremely happy.
Sanur in the late [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/05/savouring-bali-while-there%e2%80%99s-still-time/</link>
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		<title>‘The government should promote the image of the country’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although Bali’s tourists increased by 32 percent in the last year, many visitor sites continue to lack basic facilities. Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya, chairman of the Bali Tourism Board (BTB), spoke with Carla Albertí de la Rosa about how the tourism industry’s low budget holds back its development.
Q How did the US embassy in Jakarta [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/05/%e2%80%98the-government-should-promote-the-image-of-the-country%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>The Punishment of Banks: To Whose Benefit?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael R. Czinkota and Charles J. Skuba
Large banks are under siege by governments. There are widespread cries of outrage as banks announce their bonuses for 2009 performance.
In the UK, Alistair Darling, the finance minister, already revealed a 50 percent “supertax” on all UK bank bonuses above £25,000 (US$ 40,000). France has announced that it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebalitimes.com/2010/02/05/the-punishment-of-banks-to-whose-benefit/</link>
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