HEADLINES

January 11, 2011

New Hotel Ban Moves a Step Closer

DENPASAR A ban on new hotel construction in Denpasar and the regencies of Badung and Gianyar — long mooted as – Read More...
January 11, 2011

Sanglah Set to Get Life-Saving Darwin Link

DENPASAR A BALI TIMES EXCLUSIVE Bali’s leading hospital, Sanglah in Denpasar, will soon be twinned with acknowledged Australian trauma centre – Read More...
January 11, 2011

Govt Welcomes BlackBerry Porn Pledge

JAKARTA The government has welcomed a promise by Canadian firm Research in Motion’s (RIM) to filter its BlackBerry web services – Read More...
January 10, 2011

Nightclubbing Tourist Robbed in Transvestite Tryst

KUTA A seduction gang including two transvestites is under lock and key after a British tourist complained he had been – Read More...
January 10, 2011

High-Price E-Passports Under Fire

DENPASAR Biometric passports – popularly called e-passports – start being introduced for Indonesian citizens this year, with 10,000 released for – Read More...
January 10, 2011

Balicon Probe Seeks Missing $43m Deposits

DENPASAR The Directorate of Criminal Police has said local insurance-investment company PT Bali Consultan Life Insurance apparently owned assets valued – Read More...
January 9, 2011

Govt Threat over BlackBerry Porn Sparks Anger

JAKARTA A threat by the government to curb BlackBerry smartphone services unless the company filters pornographic sites prompted a wave – Read More...
January 8, 2011

BT Editorials

Playing with Fire More than a dozen people in Bali were spending the early hours of 2011 in hospital due – Read More...
January 7, 2011

Fake Inmate Exposes Nation’s Prison Corruption

JAKARTA When Kasiem, a 55-year-old woman, was condemned to seven months in prison she decided she would prefer not to – Read More...
January 7, 2011

Mass Bird and Fish Deaths Stoke Global Curiosity

WASHINGTON Five thousand dead blackbirds rained from the sky on the first day of the New Year in Arkansas. Then – Read More...