Month: July 2017

• Who Let the Dogs Out?

    HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2017   EATING dog is something we would never do. It disgusts us, for all sorts of reasons. We also understand that this is largely a cultural issue. Eating man’s best friend is not generally a practice of people whose conditioning originates from what is now Europe. […]

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  July 19, 2017

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Bureaucracy, Fine Dining, Food, Indonesian Law, NGOs, Tourism, Ubud

  Animal Welfare, Chris Salans, Dog meat, Farewells, Kerala Ceramics, Life-saving coffee, Lloyd Hassencahl, Marathons, Mozaic, School aid, Sky News, Tom Hickman, tourist cuisines

• Belt and Braces

  HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali Wednesday, Jul. 12, 2017   DONALD Trump made a remarkable speech in Warsaw ahead of the economic summit he attended later in the historic Hanseatic League city of Hamburg, where he demonstrated exactly why the Group of 20 is now the […]

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  July 12, 2017

  America, Australia, Bali, Global Politics, Health

  Brexit, Coffee, Donald Trump, English verbs, G20, Hamburg, Homosexuality, Joan C. Williams, London Daily Telegraph, Luwaks, Malcolm Turnbull, Mark Steyn, Nick Cater, Robert Menzies, Sappho, Sky News, Warsaw

• It’s a Scream

  HECTOR’S DIARY  His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali Wednesday, Jul. 5, 2017   THERE are many ways to judge a man’s character. The gender is specific in this case, and the point is pertinent to the activities of the current president of the United States and, in this instance, […]

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  July 5, 2017

  Australia, Economic Development, Environment, Foreign Investment, Global Politics, Indonesia, USA, Wine

  ABC Four Corners, Bogor theme parks, Donald Trump, Drink Spiking, Harry Tanoe, Hatten Aga Red, Mara Wolford, Media, Nirwana golf, Rohypnol, Sjamboks, Walkley Awards