Word: denpasar
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...that there were no travel warnings issued for New York after Sept. 11. "Like New York, Bali is a victim," says Pitana. "Why should it be punished further?" To make Bali safer, the police presence has been upgraded, all entry points are now closely scrutinized, and visitors landing at Denpasar airport have their bags x-rayed as they leave the terminal. Still, tourists are not convinced that Bali is secure. Hotel occupancy, which usually averages around 50%, has plummeted to single digits. More than 300,000 hotel and restaurant staff have been laid off, and those who have kept their...
...Investigators are now certain that there were three bomb blasts that evening, two of them on Jalan Legian. The first, a half-kilogram bomb made from TNT and detonated by remote control from a mobile phone, exploded near the U.S. consulate in Bali in the city of Denpasar, not far from Kuta. Ten minutes later, a second bomb, also packed with TNT, went off beside Rimbawa as he worked in Paddy's. Minutes later the payload bomb, its exact makeup still to be confirmed, erupted on the crowded street outside the Sari Club. (Investigators believe that both of those bombs...
...moments before midnight Saturday did more than kill dozens and injure scores of innocent barhoppers, tourists and natives-they serve as a reminder that terrorists are not only present but active throughout the country. The two bombs-one placed on Kuta's busiest nightlife thoroughfare and the other in Denpasar near the U.S. consulate-seemed targeted at foreigners...
...tourists might have doubts about Flores (arrivals last year barely topped 11,000, fewer than Bali's Denpasar airport handles on a busy day). Eight volcanoes grumble and belch sulfurous steam along the island's twisted, 360-kilometer spine. Most of them have erupted in the past century or two. The surrounding seabed is crosshatched with fault lines. Maumere, in the local dialect, means "big sea," suggesting the recent tsunami wasn't the first. It doesn't help that the noisy bemos?gaudily painted minibuses that zip around the snaking roads?are emblazoned with biblical names like Golgotha, Revelation...