After much discussion, Bali is to get a second international airport, with work on the mega-project due to begin next year.

An Australian drug-smuggler on death row in Bali has appealed for presidential clemency.

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.

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.

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.

The illustrious Australian journalist John Pilger is due to appear at the Ubud literary festival this October.

An Indonesian website listing crooked officials and individuals has joined the war against graft in one of Asia's most corrupt nations.

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.

The Bali Police have launched a murder investigation into the death last week of an Australian man holidaying on the island.

Rescuers are making a final search for survivors from a refugee boat accident off Australia's Christmas Island, with two more bodies found and little hope for around 90 people still missing.