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BALI ISLE OF TRANQUIL SPIRITS
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SEMINYAK, Bali, Indonesia -- The Indonesian archipelago has
enjoyed a rennaissance of fashion of late. Jet-setters, backpackers,
rock stars, British royalty -- they're all hanging out in places like
the Banda islands or the Three Gilis, or spying dragons on the barren
sands of Komodo. Wasn't that David Bowie in the Jakarta airport,
setting off for his private thatch-roof estate somewhere out past
Sambawa?
Bali, however, remains somewhat stigmatized as a land of exotica
spoiled. While K...
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Asia: Bali's tourism industry making a slow recovery
AAP General News (Australia)
; Asia: Bali's tourism industry making a slow recovery By Catharine Munro and Rob Taylor KUTA BEACH, AAP - For those who make their living in Bali's tourist industry, their work placating the gods is still not finished. Things aren't quite back to the way they were before the nightclub strip of Kuta
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BALI ISLE OF TRANQUIL SPIRITS
The Boston Globe
; SEMINYAK, Bali, Indonesia -- The Indonesian archipelago has enjoyed a rennaissance of fashion of late. Jet-setters, backpackers, rock stars, British royalty -- they're all hanging out in places like the Banda islands or the Three Gilis, or spying dragons on the barren sands of Komodo. Wasn't that
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Bali regulars in shock over attack
Honolulu Star - Bulletin
; ... information about a friend until he heard secondhand that a hotel clerk spotted him after the bombing and said he was OK. Soon after news of the bombing broke, Rarick e-mailed two friends who were in Bali on a surfing trip. His mind was put at ease yesterday after ...
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Bali on the Rebound
Winnipeg Free Press
; ... makes you realize just how exquisite Bali is. And now you understand why some of de Houtman's sailors stayed behind. CanWest News Service If you go: Bali has only one airport, at Denpasar near Kuta. Asian cities with direct flights include Hong Kong, Kuala ...
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A Bali high and speaking numbers
New Straits Times
; A Bali high and speaking numbers Byline: Yamin Vong Edition: 2* Column: Editorial THERE I was lying on Kuta beach surrounded by ladies. One was kneading my lean muscles while others were manicuring and pedicuring the extremities. It was all a bit unfair actually, because I had only bargained for
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Trouble In Bali Paradise
Hinduism Today
; McGuire, Daniel Hinduism Today 09-30-2003 Exploring the survival of a tiny Hindu island centered in the world's largest Muslim nation "THE MUSLIMS HAVE JIHAD, BUT WE Balinese have puputan." The person speaking is Rai, a young Balinese Hindu who works as a driver. It's part of the reaction here to
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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THE BALI BOMB: IRISH SURVIVORS: Bar boss Natalia mourns victims.(News)
The Mirror (London, England)
; ... might occur on other islands of Indonesia but certainly not on Bali. I did hear that about half an hour before it happened there was news in Jakarta that something was going to happen in Bali but no location was given. CAPTION(S): IN RUINS: Kuta beach
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Farewell 2002: Paradise lost The Bali bomb
The Independent on Sunday
; The image of Bali as a tropical paradise was violently shattered on 12 October when a massive car bomb exploded outside a crowded nightclub in the island's main resort, Kuta Beach. Nearly 200 people were killed, almost half of them from Australia, which had come to regard Bali as its own exotic
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Nine Britons are injured as bomb blasts kill 58 on Bali; Islamic terrorists suspected after massive explosions rip through nightclubs.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; Byline: MATT NIXSON;RICHARD SHEARS NINE Britons were injured in two explosions that killed 58 people - most of them foreigners - on the holiday island of Bali last night. The first blast tore through buildings in the capital city of Denpasar, just 100 yards from the American consulate, shortly
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Scores dead as 'al-Qaeda' bombers blast Bali
The Sunday Telegraph London
; AT LEAST 60 people were killed last night and more than 100 were injured, among them at least nine Britons, in a series of terrorist- related explosions on the holiday island of Bali. The explosions were thought to have been set off by al-Qaeda sympathisers, who are suspected by American
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