HEADLINES
July 14, 2012
A surfer has been killed in a savage shark attack off Australia's west coast, the fifth such fatality in the region in less than a year.
July 13, 2012
JAKARTA An orangutan who became the star attraction of a zoo for her penchant for puffing on cigarettes is being – Read More...
July 12, 2012
After much discussion, Bali is to get a second international airport, with work on the mega-project due to begin next year.
July 9, 2012
An Australian drug-smuggler on death row in Bali has appealed for presidential clemency.
July 4, 2012
A court in Jakarta has thrown out an anti-drug group's legal challenge against a presidential decision to slash the jail term of Australian drug-trafficker Schapelle Corby.
July 3, 2012
Fewer than one person a month has died from rabies in Bali so far this year, a drop of more than 90 percent since August 2010, when the island was ravaged by the disease, according to the authorities.
June 27, 2012
Rescuers plucked 123 people from the ocean on Wednesday after an asylum-seeker boat sank en route to Australia, barely a week after another vessel went down in the same area, killing up to 90.
June 26, 2012
The illustrious Australian journalist John Pilger is due to appear at the Ubud literary festival this October.
June 26, 2012
An Indonesian website listing crooked officials and individuals has joined the war against graft in one of Asia's most corrupt nations.
June 26, 2012
Thriving tourism in Bali has pushed up the price of basic necessities, often putting them beyond the reach of the island’s many poor people, Governor I Made Mangku Pastika has said, in what he called a “disaster” for the indigent.