Tag: rabies

• True Glue

  HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali Jun. 7, 2017   LONG-TIME Indonesia hand Keith Loveard has a fine column in the July edition of GlobeAsia, the Lippo Group business magazine. He wrote it on Pancasila Day (Jun. 1). It’s titled Pacasila and why it matters. He noted […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  June 7, 2017

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Bureaucracy, Charity, Indonesia, Islamic beliefs, NGOs, Public Administration, Rabies, Waste Management

  Bung Sukarno, Deputy Governor Ketut Sudikerta, GlobeAsia, Keith Loveard, Pancasila principles, rabies, Ramadan, Terrorists, Udayana University, University of Minnesota, Wahabbism, World Oceans Day, Zakat Puasa, Zero Waste to Ocean Education and Demonstration Centre

• PLN’s Best Day

  HECTOR’S DIARY in the Bali Advertiser Wednesday, Mar. 29, 2017   IT was Nyepi yesterday (Mar. 28): Bali’s Silent Day. It is celebrated on the first new moon in March – at the same time as Indian Hindus mark their festival of Ugadi – and ushers in the Balinese New Year. It was then 1939 […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 29, 2017

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Bureaucracy, Charity, Indonesia, Rabies, Social Development

  Bangli, Governor Pastika, Jembrana, King Salman, rabies, Tabanan, Traditional Dress, Zoonotic diseases

• Dystopian Delights

  HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Nov. 9, 2016   THERE were no visibly ruffled kebayas at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival session featuring American author Lionel Shriver on Oct. 29. No one loudly rattled their worry beads or furiously flounced out. This was in stark contrast to the […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  November 8, 2016

  America, Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Books, Festivals, Indonesia, Lombok, Tourism, Ubud, Writing

  Belgium, Books, Censorship, Chocolates, Culture, Death squads, Dystopia, Election fatigue, Gay penalties, Gianyar, Gill Westaway, Ines Wynn, Kori resort Ubud, Lionel Shriver, Mad Max, Marcel De Rijk, Politics, Puri Mas Lombok, rabies, Richard Boughton, Robert Epstone, Sara Sanders, Solemen Indonesia, St Regis Doha, The Mandibles

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, June 24, 2015

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Mama Mia! We failed to wear pink for the occasion because – well, just because. But we were present at the June lunch of the indomitable DIVAS, who gathered at Slippery Stone in Jl Batu Belig, Kerobokan, for fun, frivolity, a clear absence of fasting as […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  June 23, 2015

  Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Economic Development, Environment, Tourism

  Bali DIVAS, Bali Starling, Christina Iskandar, Dad’s Army, Eva Scolaro, Free Visas, Janet DeNeefe, Lizzie Love, Mike O’Leary, Moazzam Malik, rabies, ROLE Foundation Bali, Slippery Stone, UWRF 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 […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  May 29, 2015

  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

• 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 […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  April 29, 2015

  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

• 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. […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 17, 2015

  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

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jan. 7, 2015

      His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   BAWA with a Bang BAWA, the pre-eminent animal welfare organization on the island because of focused effort and the seminal role played by founder Janice Girardi in dealing with rabies when it broke out in Bali in 2008 – the disease is now […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  January 6, 2015

  Animal Welfare, Art, Bali, Indonesia

  Adopt-Learn-Chat With a Vet, BAWA, jade richardson, Janice Girardi, Kecak Dance, Kuta Beachwalk, Legian Beach Hotel, Moazzam Malik, Plato, rabies, Scooby-Do dogfood, Sukiyaki, Taksu Restaurant, Ubud, Vyt Karazija, Writing Classes

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 12, 2014

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences She’s Off Her Face (Book) Susi Johnston, the long-term American expatriate whose situation in regard to the property she lives in at Mengwi is as disgraceful as it is well known, has dropped off the social medium preferred by gazillions of virtual chatterers. She has deactivated […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  November 11, 2014

  Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Music

  Australian Aid, Bar Luna Ubud, Courts, Dria-Raba, East Bali Cashews, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Greg Moriarty, Lawyers, Makassar Jazz Festival, Overdevelopment, Police, Property, rabies, Rotary Club Ubud, Sons of Abraham, Susi Johnston, Yothu Yindi

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jun. 25, 2014

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   Browned Off PLN is up to its old tricks again. No, we’re not talking about the sharp round of rises in its tariffs. It’s the lingering brown-out after its triumph in the 2010 globally unplugged championships that’s focusing our mind. PLN said then that there […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  June 24, 2014

  Bali, Indonesia

  BAWA, Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Green School, Jane Goodall, Janice Girardi, Made Wijaya, PLN, rabies, Super Yacht Charity, Vancouver, Wishbone Bali Dogs