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Polygamy in Bali: not a case of ‘Sister Wives’
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Polygamy in Bali: not a case of ‘Sister Wives’

- Oct 06, 2014

Polygamy is still legal in Bali and officially accounts for 10% of the province’s legal marriages. Keep in mind, some of these marriages go unreported so the real figure could actually be much larger.  The documentary “Bitter Honey,” which was just released in the U.S. this Friday, takes a look at polygamy in Bali by […]

VS Naipaul dropped from Bali festival ‘over large fee’
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VS Naipaul dropped from Bali festival ‘over large fee’

- Sep 22, 2014

Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul has been dropped by an international literary festival in Bali after the event refused to meet his “11th-hour request” for a $20,000 fee to appear, its organisers said Wednesday. The Trinidad-born British writer had been one of the biggest names booked for this year’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF), scheduled […]