January

January 30, 2009

Global Warming ‘Irreversible for Next Thousand Years’

Climate change is “largely irreversible” for the next 1,000 years even if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be abruptly halted, – Read More...
January 30, 2009

Document-Forging Ring Broken Up: Police

TABANAN ~ Six members of a syndicate suspected of making fake car ownership (BPKB) documents were arrested by police this – Read More...
January 30, 2009

Tributes to ‘Greatest Novelist’ Updike

LONDON ~ British authors Ian McEwan and Martin Amis paid tribute to US novelist John Updike, who died this week, – Read More...
January 30, 2009

Indonesia May Have World’s Tallest Skyscraper

JAKARTA ~ Indonesia could have one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world within three years, soaring 558 meters above – Read More...
January 30, 2009

Jan.30-Feb. 5, 2009

New Arrival: In what is thought to be the first of its kind for Bali, an elephant was born at – Read More...
January 30, 2009

Scots Mark 250 Years Since National Poet Burns’ Birth

With whisky, haggis and poetry, Scots around the world, including here in Bali, celebrated the 250th anniversary Sunday of the – Read More...
January 30, 2009

Tourism Numbers May Fall by 2% in 2009: UN

MADRID ~ World tourism will stagnate in 2009 with numbers dropping by up to 2 percent as the economic downturn – Read More...
January 30, 2009

Singapore’s Big Wheel Reopens after Fire

SINGAPORE ~ The world’s biggest observation wheel reopened this week day after a pre-Christmas fire trapped passengers for hours and – Read More...
January 30, 2009

Highwire Thrills for India’s Heritage Tourists

NEEMRANA ~ High above the tranquil lawns of a 15th-century hillside fort, a man flew through the air attached to – Read More...
January 30, 2009

Travelcase

Thai Airways to Move to New Airport BANGKOK ~ Flag carrier Thai Airways is to move all its remaining domestic – Read More...