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Book Bali Undercover

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm Scott
  • Publisher : Monsoon Books
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 9814625140
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Bali Undercover written by Malcolm Scott and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to his chart-topping "Bali Raw", Malcolm Scott strips off the island’s sunny veneer to reveal its dark and dirty underbelly, taking the reader where no tourist guide ever will. Take a walk through the night streets of Kuta Beach to meet its wild and willing hookers, its dolled-up trannies and desperate college girls, and discover first hand all the sexy and sleazy secrets that the island hides by day. Creep through grimy alleyways awash with drugs and thugs and corrupt cops, and hang out in seedy bars full of cheap booze, rowdy pimps and bloody fist fights. Sneak a peek into the private lives of shifty locals and wide-eyed Australian tourists, and enjoy a voyeur’s view of the deceit, drama and everything else the island is afraid to show us. In yet another steamy exposé of Bali and its sins and secrets, Bali Undercover suggests why the island may no longer be paradise, but a paradise lost.

Book Saigon Undercover

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  • Author : Paik Leong Ewe
  • Publisher : Monsoon Books
  • Release : 2021-03-01
  • ISBN : 1912049910
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book Saigon Undercover written by Paik Leong Ewe and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A side effect of Vietnam’s stratospheric economic growth has been a burgeoning erotic industry catering to locals and tourists. In his fifth Undercover title, author Ewe Paik Leong investigates the gritty underbelly of Saigon. He chats with bargirls in Bui Vien Street, navigates dark alleys in Little Japan, slurps coffee in ‘hugging cafés’ and swigs whiskey in nightclubs with mamasans, hustlers and goons. Hair-raising stories of sexual exploitation, ruthless betrayals and daring scams emerge. From Saigon, Ewe travels to Phuket in Thailand, where he explores Patong’s Walking Street, before returning to his hometown of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to unearth nuggets on male webcam models, women go-getters and Hong Kong-style cathouses.

Book Snowing in Bali

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  • Author : Kathryn Bonella
  • Publisher : Pan Australia
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 1743349610
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Snowing in Bali written by Kathryn Bonella and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF TRUE CRIME BESTSELLERS HOTEL KEROBOKAN AND OPERATION PLAYBOY: Kathryn Bonella. 'It's snowing in Bali.' Among Bali's drug dealers, this is the secret code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the men who run the country's drug empires, it's time to get rich and party hard. Snowing in Bali is the true crime story of the organised drug trafficking and dealing scene that's made Bali one of the world's most important destinations in the global distribution of narcotics. With its central location in the Asia Pacific market, its thriving tourist industry to act as cover for importation, and a culture of corruption that can easily help law enforcement turn a blind eye, Bali has long been a paradise for traffickers as well as for holiday-makers. Kathryn Bonella, bestselling true crime author of Hotel Kerobokan and Operation Playboy, has been given extraordinary access into the lives of some of the biggest players in Bali's mafia-like drug world, both past and present. In this international true crime biography, she charts their rise to incredible wealth and power and their drug-fuelled lifestyles, filled with orgies, outrageous extravagance and surfing. But running international criminal drug empires in Bali can also be a highly risky business, with terrible consequences for those caught and convicted. If you love true crime or organised crime thrillers, drug bust stories, espionage, murder and mayhem, mafia films, international mystery and crime, heists and biographies then this is the true crime biography for you... From the internationally bestselling author of Hotel Kerobokan and Operation Playboy and co-author of Schapelle Corby's autobiography, this is the incredible, true life inside account of Bali's hidden drug world. Perfect for fans of true crime stories and authors like Rusty Young, James Phelps, Chopper Read and Underbelly. | True Crime | Mafia | Organised Crime | Hoaxes & Deceptions | Murder & Mayhem | Available at all etailers and in audiobook. Grab Your Copy NOW . . . PRAISE FOR SNOWING IN BALI 'a unique, uncensored insight into a hidden world' The Chronicle

Book Pattaya Undercover

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  • Author : Ewe Paik Leong
  • Publisher : Monsoon Books
  • Release : 2019-11-01
  • ISBN : 1912049538
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Pattaya Undercover written by Ewe Paik Leong and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promising sun, sea, sand and more, Pattaya beach resort in Thailand lures eight million foreign tourists annually. However, behind the glitter lurks broken dreams, ethereal ecstasy and, often, tragedy. And behind every bargirl’s smile and every foreigner’s beer glass lurks a story: happy, touching, heart-wrenching. The author interviews bargirls, mamasans and customers, who reveal true stories of sex scams, doomed relationships and tragic suicides. The author’s investigation takes him to the capital, Bangkok, as well as to an Isaan village in northeastern Thailand, and further afield to Saigon in Vietnam and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. He returns to Pattaya with a warning: You enter the manipulative world of the Pattaya bargirls at your own risk!

Book The Politics of Citizenship in Indonesia

Download or read book The Politics of Citizenship in Indonesia written by Eric Hiariej and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the gains that a citizenship approach offers to the study of democracy in Indonesia, demonstrating that the struggle for citizenship and the historical development of democracy in the country are closely interwoven. The book arises from a research agenda aiming to help Indonesia’s democracy activists by unpacking citizenship as it is produced and practiced through movements against injustice, taking the shape of struggles by people at grassroots levels for cultural recognition, social and economic injustice, and popular representation. Such struggles in Indonesia have engaged with the state through both discursive and non-discursive processes. The authors show that while the state is the common focal point, these struggles are fragmented across different sectors and subject positions. The authors thus propose that developing chains of solidarity is highly important to motivating a democracy that not only has sovereign control over public affairs, but also robust channels and organisations for political representation. In advocating the development of transformative agendas, organisations, and strategies as an important need, and an enduring challenge, for the realization of citizenship, this book is timely and relevant to the study of contemporary Indonesia's socio-political landscape. It is relevant to students and scholars in political science, anthropology, sociology, human geography and development studies.

Book Saudi Arabia Undercover

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  • Author : Harper Walsh
  • Publisher : Monsoon Books
  • Release : 2019-11-01
  • ISBN : 1912049619
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Saudi Arabia Undercover written by Harper Walsh and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no party … or so we thought. In Saudi Arabia Undercover, expat Harper Walsh busts this myth with true stories of homemade alcohol, pill popping, parties staffed by pretty Ethiopian girls in expat gated compounds, smuggled bacon sandwiches and frequent trips over the border into Bahrain for booze and sex. With few opportunities for Saudi men to interact with women – beyond flirtatious eye contact with burka-clad supermarket checkout girls and the unceasing sexual abuse of Filipina maids – the use of gay dating apps is rife. In this hilarious piece of gonzo journalism, Walsh and his merry band of expat misfits walk readers down the male-dominated streets of Saudi Arabia, where a Friday night out means a kebab followed by a public decapitation at Chop Chop Square, and on much-deserved R&R breaks to Bahrain, Bangkok and Cairo, where a glass of cold beer does not invite 100 lashes, imprisonment and certain deportation.

Book Twilight in Kuta

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  • Author : David Nesbit
  • Publisher : Monsoon Books
  • Release : 2018-03-01
  • ISBN : 1912049295
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Twilight in Kuta written by David Nesbit and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When young western tourist Neil meets Indonesian girl Yossy on Kuta beach and decides to settle permanently in Bali he knows his life is about to change forever … but will it be the paradise he is yearning for? As cracks start to appear in Neil’s halcyon existence, he is forced to re-evaluate all he holds dear. "Twilight in Kuta" explores love, loss and infidelity in present-day Indonesia from a number of perspectives: the bule (Caucasian) English teacher, the duplicitous Indonesian wife, the mixed-race schoolgirl, the Javanese ex-soldier and the naive village girl desperate for love. Their stories intertwine throughout the book, and the various narrators offer different interpretations of the events that unfold. Love and lies in Indonesia …

Book Scarlett Undercover

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  • Author : Jennifer Latham
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2015-05-19
  • ISBN : 0316283894
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Scarlett Undercover written by Jennifer Latham and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Scarlett, a smart, sarcastic fifteen-year-old, ready to take on crime in her hometown. When Scarlett agrees to investigate a local boy's suicide, she figures she's in for an easy case and a quick buck. But it doesn't take long for suicide to start looking a lot like murder. As Scarlett finds herself deep in a world of cults, curses, and the seemingly supernatural, she discovers that her own family secrets may have more to do with the situation than she thinks...and that cracking the case could lead to solving her father's murder. Jennifer Latham delivers a compelling story and a character to remember in this one-of-a-kind debut novel.

Book Bali

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie
  • Publisher : Angus & Robertson
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Bali written by Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Penang Undercover

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ewe Paik Leong
  • Publisher : Monsoon Books
  • Release : 2019-05-01
  • ISBN : 1912049430
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book Penang Undercover written by Ewe Paik Leong and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In George Town, the capital of Penang, the Pearl of the Orient and a Malaysian island hugely popular with domestic and international tourists, trishaws ply the streets ferrying tourists between colonial buildings, temples, food spots and bars. The more enterprising trishaw drivers offer sightseeing with sex, sometimes with unexpected results. Through candid interviews with sources in the sex industry, as well as Penang’s trishaw riders, the author discovers shocking scams, pitiful repentances and happy-ending massages that don’t end happy. Penang Undercover also looks beyond Penang to the neon lights of neighbouring Hatyai and Bangkok in Thailand to expose the shenanigans of mamasans, bargirls, dream-makers and liars. Finally, the author unearths a few hidden nuggets from his hometown of Kuala Lumpur and the subject of his fi rst two books in the Undercover series. Typical of his style, this book is written with wit and candour.

Book We Are Arya Bali Indonesia

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  • Author : Santo Saba Piliang
  • Publisher : Santo Saba Piliang
  • Release : 2020-06-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 750 pages

Download or read book We Are Arya Bali Indonesia written by Santo Saba Piliang and published by Santo Saba Piliang. This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WE ARE ARYĀ Who did you mean by ARYĀ ....? Arya has become associated with "Race Hierarchy" which considers whites, blondes, blue eyes more superior to other skin nations and It serves as a "Powerful" propaganda tool in the historical reality that has taken place, however ... it is not factual To this day ... the word Aryā is loaded with all kinds of connotations "Negative" and is largely due to the Nazi "ideology" which claims to be the Arya ... Nazi misguided and propaganda, has damaged the image of Aryān ... eliminating thousands of humans with just one word "racism" ... We have entered and fallen into the abyss of destruction due to the political policies of a nation ... to the point that the "assumption" of white supremacy is the "Superior Nation" Then wildly make the attitude of "contagious" other nations to "Label" the human hierarchy based on the color of the skin "White" or "Black" ... this results in dividing the human race Then who is that Aryan ...? The initial assumption of the published "Aryans" today were those who lived in Iran & Iraq in the prehistoric era, these people migrated to northern India around 1,500 BC, Indian "Dravidian" natives call these newcomers "ārya" At the end of the early 19th century the early 20th "Aryans" was equated with people German or Nordic and before the assumption "Aryan" refers to an ancient language whose speakers are thought to have spread and influenced language throughout the Indian subcontinent Also published the Sumerian civilization flourished in the Persian Gulf, around 4 - 3,000 BC and the civilization on the 'Plain of Shinar Land' was a territory that only existed after 2,000 BC which is now called "Babylon" Other sources also spread that, according to the "Volkisch" (people) belief, Aryans had created a high civilization that existed thousands of years ago were destroyed by natural disasters of melting ice at the end of the last ice age or the beginning of the ice age, 12,000 years ago and the basis of this "Mythology" is not strong enough Another assumption is that the original Aryan land was "Thule" at the warm north end of the earth, they lived in caves, this branch of the 'Ras Aryan' descendant was proto-Indo-European, published were 'Iranians' who spread, colonized various regions of the north of the earth after the Flood, spread agricultural civilization and was universally recognized by the symbol "Swastika" (卐) This symbol is what Nazi ideology used to claim itself as an Aryan nation ... This Nazi misguided and propaganda that has damaged the image of Aryan ... eliminates humans only on the basis of "Racism" ... identified by using the symbol "Swastika" ( 卐) in the "Hitler" period Fundamental questions that must be answered: ● What nation in the world can explain the clear and detailed meaning of the philosophy of the "Swastika" symbol ...? ● What nation in the world to this day in its everyday culture uses the symbol "Swastika" ...? Nation ... which to this day with its "Swastika" philosophy lives peacefully and reconciles the world, because here is stored perfectly the basic teachings of the original "Dharmic" .... which underlies the growth of the 3 great religions of India Ńâmô āryātārā ..... We Are Aryā ... INDONËSIARYĀ By: Santosabapiliang (Datuok Panglimo Soko) Book Info: WA +62813 2132 9787

Book Bali Raw

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm Scott
  • Publisher : Monsoon Books
  • Release : 2012-05-01
  • ISBN : 981435872X
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Bali Raw written by Malcolm Scott and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, millions of tourists visit Bali in Indonesia, but what you don’t see in the glossy brochures is the rampant prostitution, the bloody turf wars waged between local gangs and the drug- and alcohol-induced Western hooliganism. Tourists are robbed, raped and murdered and get into vicious fights. In this raw and extraordinary exposé, Scott offers up a Bali choking with violent street fights, cheap sex and aggressive crime.

Book Down and Out in Paradise

Download or read book Down and Out in Paradise written by Luke Williams and published by Echo. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Williams flies to Kuala Lumpur coming down off crystal meth without plans or much cash. He is in Asia for three years. He spends time working as a prostitute in Pattaya, eats snake heart in Vietnam, consults an American medium in Ubud, and explores the eye-popping red light scenes in Jakarta and the Philippines. Along the way, he encounters other Westerners who go to Asia for the things they can't find at home - riches, wives, ladyboys, cheap living and even cheaper drugs, cults, spices, mountains, tropical beaches, beach gigolos, 'self-esteem' necklaces, and ascended masters. Luke fully immerses himself in every environment and encounter, going far beyond reportage, while aspects of his own history - his dreams, disappointments, urges, and his inherited struggle with mental illness - begin to catch up with him. He becomes addicted to Valium, is haunted by the past, and ends up in jail. Ultimately, Luke is confronted by what is and what was, and his own footprint upon it all.

Book Jakarta Undercover

Download or read book Jakarta Undercover written by Moammar Emak and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prowling the seedy red-light districts, the underground club circuit and the house parties of wealthy Indonesian society, Moammar Emka offers a unique glimpse into the underbelly of modern, urban Jakarta. This is the book that took Indonesia by storm. Moammar Emka is Jakarta’s answer to Carrie Bradshaw; this is "“Sex and the City”" Indonesian-style!

Book Managing Turbulent Hearts

Download or read book Managing Turbulent Hearts written by Unni Wikan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-12-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Balinese manage to present to the world the clear, bright face, the grace and poise, that they regard as crucial to self-respect and social esteem? How can the anthropologist pass behind the conventions of such a complex culture to recognize what is going on between people, in terms that convey their own experience? Wikan's study of the Indonesian island of Bali is an absorbing debate with previous anthropological interpretations as well as an innovative development of the anthropology of experience. "This is indeed an important book, a landmark in studies of Bali and one surely destined to have major theoretical impact on anthropological research well beyond that famous Indonesian island."—Anthony R. Walker, Journal of Asian and African Studies

Book Visible and Invisible Realms

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  • Author : Margaret J. Wiener
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1995-04-15
  • ISBN : 0226885828
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Visible and Invisible Realms written by Margaret J. Wiener and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-04-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and more than 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. The question of what their action meant and its continued significance in contemporary Klungkung forms the basis of Margaret Wiener's complex anthropolological history. Wiener challenges colonial and academic claims that Klungkung had no "real" power and argues that such claims enabled colonial domination. By focusing on Balinese discourses she makes clear the choices open to Balinese, both at the time of the Dutch conquest and in its narration. At the same time, she shows how these discourses, which revolve around magical weapons acquired from invisible agents such as gods, spirits, and ancestors, offer an alternative understanding of Klungkung's power. Moving between Balinese and Dutch narratives and between past and present, Wiener critiques colonial accounts by recounting Balinese memories and interpretations. Her attention to history and local situations illuminates the ways in which colonialism and orientalist scholarship have obscured the power of indigenous rulers and shows how Klungkung, once Bali's paramount realm, was relegated to a peripheral corner of the Indonesian nation-state. Both as a fascinating story and as a rich example of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book will interest students of colonialism, anthropology, history, religion, and Southeast Asia.

Book Eleven Demons

Download or read book Eleven Demons written by Michael Donnelly and published by Michael Donnelly. This book was released on 2012 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of a family torn apart by an unthinkable betrayal lays bare an astonishing truth at the heart of an island the world cherishes as "The Last Paradise." When a young American traveler falls in love with and marries a beautiful Balinese girl, all the promise of "The Morning of the World" seems to await. But twenty years later and far too late, he discovers the awful purpose behind the elaborate Hindu ceremonies arranged by his wife at the birth of their children. While he struggles to make sense of the destruction of his family, Balinese friends warn of long-term plans, of black magic, of fraudulent documents, false Hindu ceremonies, collusion by members of the Bali community, the courts, the police, public prosecutors-even his own attorneys-in a combination known in Indonesia as a "Law Mafia." A few close Balinese friends stand with him, helping guide him through the sekala and niskala-the Balinese visible and invisible worlds-but stakes and tensions continue to rise until he faces a possibly fatal decision: dare he fight for his and his children's identities, or must he accept his friends' increasingly urgent advice to flee with his children ahead of plans for murder? The cases behind this book remain unresolved and at the center of ongoing struggles between forces of reform in Indonesia's capital of Jakarta, and the tightly-closed legal and social systems, both native and expatriate, of Bali. A website, uluwatu.com, forms an integral companion to the book. Whether read as a thriller or as a window into the fascinating and complex cultures of Indonesia, the tragedy and hope at the heart of this story propel a gripping read.