Rabies

December 8, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Dec. 9, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences You Could Cry Animal fan Rhonda Lepsch has for two years run a great operation called Jet Set Petz – the name came from the jet ski operation in which she’s involved at Tanjung Benoa near Nusa Dua – but it will soon be Continue reading

Bali, Bureaucracy, Charity, General Interest, Indonesia, Indonesian Law, Politics, Public Administration, Rabies

Bali veterinarians, Dharma and Karma, Hindu rites, Indonesia Air Asia, La Gazette de Bali, Mike O’Leary, Nominee property, Rhonda Lepsch, ROLE Models
September 30, 2015

HECTOR’S DAIRY Bali Advertiser, Sep. 30, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Rabid Response An eight-year-old boy from Batur Tengah in Bangli died of rabies in mid-September, and a woman has died in Buleleng from the disease, the latest victims of the seven-year outbreak of the disease in Bali. Their deaths are yet another tragic reminder that the Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Festivals, Politics, Rabies

Andrew Robb, Animal Advocacy, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Penang, Rabies deaths, Sax Ban, Tony Abbott
August 4, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Aug. 5, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Poison Chalice Three people died from methanol poisoning in Bali recently. They had all been drinking at a bar in Legian. The name of the establishment is fairly well known and cautions against going there have been privately issued by many people to their friends. Naming Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Books, Death Penalty, Foreign Aid, Indonesia, Rabies

Australia, Bali, Bar Luna, Biku, Captive Dolphins, Death Penalty, Foreign Aid, Indonesia, Methanol Deaths, Periplus, Tim Hannigan
July 21, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jul. 22, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Hannigan’s Islands The delightful Tim Hannigan, former Surabaya English language teacher and scribbler of note around the archipelago, has written another book: A Brief History of Indonesia. Published by Tuttle in Singapore, it will shortly be on the bookshelves everywhere. His earlier effort, Raffles and the Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Bali, Charity, Environment, History, Indonesia, Rabies

Asri Kerthayasa, Bar Luna, Biku, Pirates, Stamford Raffles, Tim Hannigan, Waterman’s Awards
May 29, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, May 27, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Comedy of Horrors The head of animal husbandry in Badung regency, Made Badra, is reported (by the Jawa Pos newspaper) to have come up with a brilliantly cunning Baldrick-style plan to solve the rabies problem in Bali. These guys must be watching bootleg DVDs of the Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Bali, Charity, Economic Development, Economy, Music, Public Administration, Rabies, Social Development, Tourism, Ubud

Bali Asli, Black Adder, Ceremco, Chaos Theory (Bali Traffic variety), Eva Scolaro, Hog Wild, Hotel Squeeze, Jemme Restaurant, Penelope Williams, rabies, SoleMen, Ubud Food Festival
April 29, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Apr. 29, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences An Orwellian Travesty Putu Sumantra, who is head of Bali’s animal husbandry and livestock service but who keeps providing evidence that he would be better not allowed out with a broom and instructions to sweep the steps, would like the public not to oppose the Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Art, Bali, Festivals, Public Administration, Rabies, Social Development, Ubud

Alice in Wonderland, Dog Culling, Flash Riding, Four Seasons, Ganesha Gallery, George Orwell, Janet DeNeefe, Made Mangku Pastika, Marian Carroll, Muhammad Arwani Thomafi, Putu Sumantra, rabies, Sundara, Ubud Food Festival, Uday Rao, Yoga
April 14, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY, Bali Advertiser, Apr. 15, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences A Line in Their Sand Developer tycoon Tomy Winata, who rose from street ice-pop seller to become one of Indonesia’s richest men and whose substantial and rightly recognized philanthropic ventures include helping the poor and saving Sumatran tigers (and protecting mangroves; we kid you not) is Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Art, Australia, Bali, Economic Development, Environment, Indonesia, Rabies

Bali Animal Welfare Association, Benoa mangroves, BioFarma, Cafe Cous Cous, Diana Shearin, Kim Cattrall, Lombok Guide, Moazzam Malik, Paul Grigson, Power Cuts, Rabies crisis, Sex and the City, Susi Pudjiastuti, Tomy Winata, Women in Global Business
March 17, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Mar. 18, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Gone to the Dogs The resurgence of rabies in Bali is yet another of those avoidable things that the chaps in charge of the asylum could have avoided if they could have been bothered, or if they hadn’t blown the budget on lots of other things. Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Bali, Capital Punishment, Charity, Environment, Indonesia, Public Administration, Rabies

Christina Iskandar, Divas, Dog culls, Duke of Plaza-Toro, Eco Kids Program, Elizabeth Pisani, Eva Scolaro, Governor Pastika, Joe Cochrane, New York Times, Nyepi, rabies, ROLE Foundation Bali, Slippery Stone, Tim Hannigan, Waste Management

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Former journalist now confined by age and indolence to blogging about this and that, now from Western Australia, previously from Indonesia (that’s the 8 degrees in the title) and before that, Queensland. I don’t do a newsletter so ignore that prompt below.