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Bali to curb internet use over Hindu holiday
Reuters, Published on 15/03/2018
» JAKARTA: Indonesia has asked telecoms providers to shut down some mobile internet services in its holiday island of Bali on Saturday, to respect the predominantly Hindu island's New Year "day of silence".
US citizen recaptured after Bali jail break
Reuters, Published on 18/12/2017
» DENPASAR, Indonesia: Indonesian police have recaptured a US citizen who escaped a week ago from an overcrowded prison on the holiday island of Bali, the jail's second breakout of foreign inmates this year.
Cambodia's Sihanoukville morphs into 'Macau 2'
Reuters, Published on 07/12/2017
» SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia: Between Sihanoukville's beaches and its multiplying casinos, "Lao Qi" and Bun Saroeun run restaurants barely a hundred dusty metres apart. But their fortunes could not be more different.
Indonesian volunteers save six beached whales
Reuters, Published on 14/11/2017
» JAKARTA: Indonesian volunteers managed to save six whales beached on the northern tip of Sumatra but four died, a conservation official said on Tuesday.
Go-go going as Chinese women fuel tourism boom
Reuters, Published on 20/10/2017
» For decades since the Vietnam war, the scantily clad dancers in the go-go bars of Bangkok's Patpong red-light district have been the face of Thailand's tourism industry.
In Kim Jong Un's summer palace, fun meets guns
Reuters, Published on 10/10/2017
» SEOUL: In the seaside city of Wonsan, North Korean families cook up barbecues on the beach, go fishing, and eat royal jelly flavour ice cream in the summer breeze. For their leader Kim Jong Un, the resort is a summer retreat, a future temple to tourism, and a good place to test missiles.
Rohingya refugee boat capsizes, 12 dead
Reuters, Published on 09/10/2017
» COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: A boat carrying Rohingya Muslim refugees to Bangladesh capsized and at least 12 people, most of them children, drowned, police said on Monday, the latest victims of violence in Myanmar that has forced more than half a million people to flee.
Bali town counts cost of warnings
Business, Reuters, Published on 04/10/2017
» AMED, Indonesia: A Balinese town once bustling with holidaymakers has almost emptied of tourists after warnings that nearby Mount Agung could erupt at any time -- a snapshot of the growing cost the rumbling volcano poses to Indonesia's economy.
Fear of volcanic eruption on Bali forces nearly 135,000 to flee
Reuters, Published on 29/09/2017
» KARANGASEM, Indonesia: Nearly 135,000 people on the Indonesian island of Bali have left their homes and taken shelter in makeshift evacuation centres after warnings the Mount Agung volcano could erupt at any time, officials said late on Thursday.
SE Asian economies gowing more dependent on China
Reuters, Published on 08/09/2017
» HONG KONG -- Southeast Asia appears to be on a roll.