Murder victim Robert Kelvin Ellis and suspected wife Noor Ellis lived in a Sanur villa together. Developments for the mysterious and grisly murder involving the British man found dead this morning are moving quickly.  The wife of Robert Kelvin Ellis has allegedly confessed to ordering a hit on her husband, who was found dead in […]

Badung police have retracted earlier statements that the nationality of Kelvin Ellis, 60, was Australian. Apparently Ellis had a UK passport and lived in Australia for awhile before moving to Bali, while two of his sons currently study there, according to ABC.  Ellis’ body was found this morning between Kuta and Ubud with the throat slashed, hands […]

Updates are continuing to flow in about the mysterious body found in the rice paddy and we now know more about the body’s condition and identity.  Police have identified the body of the dead man found earlier Tuesday morning as Britishman Robert Kelvin Ellis, 60, a Sanur resident. The body was discovered in between Kuta […]

Call it racist if you will, but this lady’s playful video take on “Turning Balinese” from The Vapors’ hit original “Turning Japanese” had a lot of bule laughing this month.  She pushes the limits on what a bule can say about her host country, not so far off from YouTube famous Sacha Stevenson and her 27 […]

“There’s nothing to do. You just sit down or lie down or stand up,” said New Zealander Terrence Green to the Taranaki Daily News on his jail time. Green lived with Denpasar’s baddest boys in a police cell where he spent two months after being arrested for property theft. The cell was a bit tight, […]

Yes, this is Bali, where reports of crime range from ATM scams to poultry theft. Four children were caught thieving chickens Sunday in Mendoyo District, Jembrana, northwest Bali.  You can chuckle all you want but the extent of the poultry theft is pretty serious. The owner of the chicken, Pariasa Wayan told Tribun Bali that […]

While this extended dry season is making a lot of people suffer, Buleleng’s wine farmers have something to smile about.  This stretch of dry season has helped wine prices soar, at a quoted amount of Rp 4,000 to Rp 8,000 per kilogram, according to the Bali Post.  Grape growers in Bali’s north say harvests in […]

Can PDAM please get it together? Dry season is seeming to go on forever and we keep hearing about the regional state-owned tap water company’s inefficiencies.  The latest headache involves leaky pipes spilling out into the streets of Denpasar. Residents living around Jl. Hasanuddin in the capital city complained about the leaks earlier today, reported […]

If you’re a saucily dressed Indonesian gal hanging on the streets at night, you better carry your identity card with you. Just saying. Bali’s on the lookout for incoming prostitutes with the recent closure of one of Southeast Asia’s biggest red-light districts, Dolly in Surabaya (not to be confused with Dollywood).  Three ladies, two of […]

Take a break from your media-inspired ebola phobia for a minute and worry about a much more common and realistically threatening disease. The measles are making headlines after three passengers flying from Brisbane to Bali tested positive for the infection. In response, Queensland Health issued a warning to Jetstar Airlines flight JQ46 from Denpasar that […]