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Breaking News: East Timor wants compo for oil spill fallout
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Dili :: East Timor | updated 2 days ago | political-news

East Timor wants compensation from the Australian Government for any environmental damage caused by an oil leak from a rig in the Timor Sea. The Montara oil rig, which is 250 kilometres from East Timor's coastline, was expelling 400 barrels...
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Source: The Age

Dili :: East Timor | updated 4 days ago | political-news

The celebrated Australian journalist, author and filmmaker will be presented with the Sydney Peace Foundation award on Wednesday. In announcing the award in August, Sydney Peace Foundation Professor Stuart Rees said the jury was impressed by Mr Pilger's courage as...
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Source: The Jakarta Post

Dili :: East Timor | updated 4 days ago | political-news

Pramono Edi Wibowo – to obtain visas to accompany President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to the Sept. 23-Oct. 1, 2009 Group of 20 Summit in Pittsburgh, the United States, was a slap in our government’s face, as it was unable to...
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Source: IRIN

Dili :: East Timor | updated 5 days ago | political-news

Since formal independence in 2002, Timor-Leste's post-occupation generation has struggled to find work. While most of the population of 1.1 million is engaged in subsistence farming, unemployment in urban Dili peaks at about 40 percent among the youth, according to...
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Source: The Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Dili :: East Timor | updated 5 days ago | entertainment-news

Balibo has already impressed the critics, now the music from the film has been honoured with two prestigious awards. The film's music was recognised with the awards at the 2009 Screen Music Awards in Sydney last night. East Timorese-born composer...
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Current Event: Timor Tour of Duty
Source: Indonesia Matters

Dili :: East Timor | updated 5 days ago | political-news

Indonesia still remains a hotbed of anti-western sentiment as witnessed by terrorist bombings in recent times. And Sasha Uzunov, an Australian film maker and former soldier who served in East Timor believes that the United States was the “good guy”...
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Source: Scoop

Dili :: East Timor | updated 6 days ago | political-news

On 24 October, 2008, de facto Prime Minister Gusmao issued a media release titled "East Timor to Electrify the Nation". It read: "Today marked the official signing of the Government contract to build the Nation Wide Electrical Grid and Power...
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Source: International Herald Tribune

Dili :: East Timor | updated 6 days ago | political-news

East Timor’s struggle against Indonesian occupation may soon become a money maker. The government is considering plans to promote major sites of the 25-year fight for independence as part of a tourism campaign. East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, was...
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Source: Scoop

Dili :: East Timor | updated 11 days ago | political-news

Timor Tour of Duty also briefly touches upon the gruesome murder of New Zealand soldier Private Leonard Manning at the hands of the militia on 24 July 2000. Pte Manning's patrol was ambushed near the border town of Suai and...
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Source: The Age

Dili :: East Timor | updated 14 days ago | political-news

It was late 1975, the Indonesian special forces had just murdered five Australian newsmen in Balibo and Jakarta was poised to invade East Timor, the tiny country on Australia's doorstep. Balibo , the movie, depicted the veteran journalist East as...
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