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Surprisingly, in the wake of Will.I.Am’s success as a producer and Fergie’s achievements as a solo artist, The Black Eyed Peas haven’t broken up yet. This year, the Peas return stronger than ever with their 5th studio album, The E.N.D.
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In this month’s Reads we feature some local fl avour in the form of Odyle Knight. Knight is a writer and astrologer who originally hails from Sydney in Australia. She relocated to Sanur in Bali over 20 years ago. In Bali she became involved with a Balinese priest and was drawn deeply into the heady world of the island’s customs and mysticism.
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This, the sixth installment in the Harry Potter series, was the cause of much disappointment last year when Warner Brothers decided to postpone its release. Originally scheduled to be showing in cinemas from November of last year, fans have had to wait a whole extra 8 months for the movie’s fi nal July 15th release date.
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Off Track
Medan is the capital of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra and is the country’s third-largest city. The city’s plains were used in the 16th and 17th centuries as a battlefield in a scrap between the kingdoms of Aceh and Deli...
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Expat Diary
I’m chatting to a Chinese-Malaysian train to Surabaya about his affair with a woman half his age. Next to us, off-duty police officers take turns at karaoke. I order another delicious jahe wangi from the attractive young ladies in gorgeous violet uniforms....
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City Limits
In the wake of April’s parliamentary elections, Indonesia once again returns to the polls on July 8th in order to elect a president. Presidential candidates have been nominated by parties or coalitions that received more than 25 percent of April’s popular vote,
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