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Timor-Leste voted in a new parliament on May 21 — one which will likely see the return of Xanana Gusmão as Prime Minister.
Gusmão’s National Congress for the Reconstruction of Timor-Leste (CNRT) won about 42% of the vote and 31 out of 65 parliamentary seats.
The Revolutionary Front for an (...)
Activists from the Movement Against the Occupation of the Timor Sea (MKOTT) delivered a 10-metre-long banner covered with the signatures of 1300 Timorese to the Australian embassy in Dili on September 16.
Timorese present a 10-metre-long petition to the Australian embassy in Dili on (...)
When police in East Timor caught a large fleet of Chinese fishing boats last year, with thousands of dead sharks on board, the evidence of illegal fishing — on a massive scale — seemed indisputable. But after a nine-month investigation the crew, the boats and the multi-million-dollar haul are (...)
East Timor’s Pride parade reminds us all why Pride exists in the first place
As Pride celebrations continue around the world, the upcoming parade in the tiny nation of East Timor is a welcome reminder of why Pride exists at all.
East Timor (Timor Leste) is one of the world’s youngest (...)
The laying of criminal charges under the Intelligence Services Act 2001 against Witness K and lawyer Bernard Collaery in relation to their exposure of the Australian government’s reprehensible bugging of the East Timorese government’s cabinet room is a case of a defeated and wounded elitist (...)
The number of women in leadership roles including as part of the executive in the public sector is still low according to the December 2017 data from the Integrated Public Administration and Management System (SIGAP), of the Public Service Commission.
The reports showed that there was a (...)
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta has waded back into the young country’s politics ahead of parliamentary elections next month, calling the government a total failure in the past decade in crucial areas such as reducing child malnutrition and (...)
One of the world’s youngest nations is powering ahead on LGBTI rights and has come up with a clever way to promote inclusion.
Last year, East Timor’s first Pride March made headlines around the world, not only for its color and celebration, but because it was a remarkable achievement.
It (...)
Euan Moyle — A landmark agreement between Australia and Timor-Leste has finally marked their maritime borders and exclusive economic zones, which have been a sore point in relations between the two countries. The agreement is one of the first conciliations under the dispute framework set out (...)
East Timor has taken Australia to the United Nations Conciliation Commission at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
At issue is a permanent maritime boundary and the exploitation of oil and gas reserves in the (...)
Jakarta 1998 was bad, but Prabowo likely had more blood on his hands in East Timor.
As everybody knows, one of the strongest candidates for the presidency has an image problem, related to his army days. But abducting a couple of dozen student activists in 1998 is not Prabowo’s worst human (...)
May 16, 2012 - The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) congratulated the people of Timor-Leste as they prepared to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the restoration of their country’s independence on May 20.
“This important milestone is the result of the persistent struggle and (...)
The second round vote for the President of Timor Leste has been announced. The two candidates were Lu’olo (Francisco Guterres), a candidate put forward by FRETILIN and Taur Matan Ruak (José Maria Vasconcelos), a non-party candidate, being supported by Xanana Gusmao, current prime minister and (...)
Dili,
What is commemorated as Timor Leste’s (East Timor) “liberation” is the United Nations-facilitated referendum on August 30, 1999.
East Timor was already an independent country, as a result of the pro-independence political party Fretilin declaring East Timor, which had been a (...)
I was angry that Timorese president and peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta used the 10-year anniversary of the United Nations-supervised ballot in East Timor on August 30 to declare: “There will be no international tribunal.”
On this same day in 1999, the people of East Timor voted for (...)
The people of Indonesia will go to the polls to elect a new president on July 8. The current president, former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, will face competition from two tickets in which both vice-presidential candidates — Prabowo Subianto and Wiranto — are former generals. All three (...)
Mericio Juvinal dos Reis, or Akara as he is commonly known, is the executive director of Luta Hamutuk, a non-government organisation based in Dili, East Timor. Akara was an international guest at the World at a Cross Roads conference, hosted by Green Left Weekly, held in Sydney in April. (...)
July 10 - The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) is deeply disturbed by heavy-handed police actions — including the use of tear gas and large numbers of arrests — against nonviolent student demonstrators in Dili this week. We urge Timor-Leste authorities to fully respect the (...)
By Tomas Freitas*, Dili: On Monday July 7 at 9am, approximately one hundred students held a protest on their campus, East Timor National University, against the members of the national parliament. The students are not happy about the MPs who are about to buy an imported luxury car each for (...)
East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta was rushed to Darwin to undergo emergency surgery after being shot three times in a February 11 attack on his residence by armed rebels. The apparent leader of the assailants, Major Alfredo Reinado, was killed in the incident.
Prime Minister Xanana (...)
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