AP - Forget ketchup blood and tape-recorded "oohs" in a rundown barn. Read more…

The 2002 Bali Bombings, in Kuta shook the world and left people with a ‘I was doing ‘X’ when I heard the news’ memory. When I heard the news I was in Eugene Oregon, just a couple of months away from moving to Bali. Having talked to many Balinese locals about their experiences, I know the [...] Read more…

Pura Petitenget is located in Seminyak, where Jl. Petitenget meets the beach. This afternoon there was a Balinese ceremony going on there. Skies were slightly darkened, but a gazebo structure was set up to give people shade. Approaching the ceremony, I could hear the rattle of the gamelan orchestra. Many seated Balinese people, mostly older people [...] Read more…

AP - As a teenager growing up in New York City in the 1970s, I was obsessed with the musical "A Chorus Line," and so were my friends. Read more…

Nawaka District School was a sea of colours yesterday as old scholars gathered there to celebrate its 75th anniversary. Read more…

The Fiji Navy is on guard against a Korean-owned fishing vessel, which escaped from Kiribati waters following allegations that it carried out illegal fishing activities including overfishing. Read more…

Fiji as a signatory to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty has expressed hope that other nations adopt similar international policies. Read more…

Two religious organisations have raised concern at the rise in Human Immunodeficiency Virus cases. Read more…

Government says any immediate changes to remand conditions in Suva's Korovou Prison would be likely to come from a portion of its budgetary allocation later in the year. Read more…

A man charged with the murder of a jeweller in Nadi will appear before a special court sitting in the Nadi Court today. Read more…

Josaia Mar added another feather to his cap after taking over as the new chairman of Fijian Holdings Limited. Read more…

The city of Suva came alive yesterday as the colours of the Melanesian people were displayed in various ways in a march through the capital's main street under the scorching sun. Read more…

Size definitely does not matter for the Deep Sea dancers of the Torres Strait islands that are here for the 3rd Melanesian Arts and Culture festival. Read more…

FIVE-hundred squatter families, who have been asked to vacate the land they reside on, have called on the State to buy it. Read more…

Fiji Day celebrations in the capital city tomorrow will be marked by a range of multi-cultural dance items and songs. Read more…

A GROUP of Fijian nationalists waved the West Papua flag and placards as delegates to the Melanesian Festival marched through the capital city yesterday. Read more…

MAHOGANY trees are being logged illegally and sold to private contractors. Read more…

Ba Holdings Provincial Limited interim executives will appear before the High Court in Lautoka to challenge the legality Read more…

The Fiji Islands Hotel and Tourism Association says the proposed Qoliqoli Bill will spoil the country's reputation Read more…

A 30-year-old man appeared in court this morning charged with the murder of a 40-year-old businessman in Nadi Read more…

The Papua New Guinea-based Bank South Pacific (BSP) announced its plans to acquire the Habib Bank's Fiji operations yesterday Read more…

The Attorney-General's office is currently going over the Cabinet submission seeking the Supreme Court's review on the role of the Fiji Military Forces Read more…

Richard Bangs Adventures - Explore the medieval villages, primeval forests, and rugged mountains of Bosnia, just three of its eight wonders. Read more…

Sunday here in Bali was spent for me, exploring the beach, roads and rice paddies of Yeh Gangga, just up the coast from Tanah Lot. The area is almost totally untouristed, has sweeping, empty, dark sand beaches. Rice paddies come right down to the back of the beach and you can see the water, that has [...] Read more…

News that Mt Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea has blown its top again should not come as a big surprise to anyone who has recently lived in or visited the town of Rabaul on the island of New Britain. It's a town that exists cheek by jowl with catastrophic, unpredictable elemental power. Rabaul residents are used to this. A favourite pastime has been driving out to the old airport's ash-buried runway for drinks at sundown while enjoying Tavurvur's spectacular fireworks, something I enjoyed on my last visit. Read more…