Dili :: East Timor
| updated Thu Nov 26 05:11:11 -0800 2009
| business-news
THE experiences of the two journalists held to ransom by Somali rebels are remarkable tales of survival in themselves. The pair's experiences of release from bondage are also worthy of note: they show the different ways Western countries respond to...
Dili :: East Timor
| updated Wed Nov 11 05:48:35 -0800 2009
| political-news
In 2009 we also said farewell to our last living link to the First World War, John 'Jack' Ross, and the last Victoria Cross recipient of the Second World War, Edward 'Ted' Kenna...At 11 am on 11 November 1918 fighting...
Dili :: East Timor
| updated Thu Nov 05 05:48:52 -0800 2009
| 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...
Dili :: East Timor
| updated Mon Oct 12 15:55:00 -0700 2009
| political-news
The opposition Fretilin party put forward the motion in the house of representatives Monday to protest Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's order to set free Maternus Bere on Aug. 30. The Supreme Court believes the move violated the constitution and has...
Dili :: East Timor
| updated Thu Nov 12 18:27:08 -0800 2009
| political-news
East Timor— Thousands of mourners lit candles, sang hymns and prayed in East Timor on Thursday, honoring the victims of a massacre of pro-independence demonstrators by Indonesian troops 18 years ago. Many called on the tiny nation's leaders to seek...
Dili :: East Timor
| updated Mon Nov 02 12:38:37 -0800 2009
| 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”...
Dare :: East Timor
| updated Mon Oct 12 14:58:11 -0700 2009
| political-news
Orseck, the council president, heads the parks, public grounds and recreation committees. She is the nursing recruitment coordinator at Hackensack University Medical Center...Orseck cites health care costs that have risen 20 percent as a particular challenge during the council's budgeting...
Dili :: East Timor
| updated Thu Oct 08 04:16:25 -0700 2009
| political-news
But does President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono dare to strip the power of National Police's chief of detectives? While the President was relatively quick in suspending two Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) officials for allegedly receiving bribes, there is no indication so...
Dili :: East Timor
| updated Mon Nov 23 00:45:48 -0800 2009
| green-news
Ask Afonso de Jesus what he knows about avian influenza (H5N1) and the answer is worrying. “What’s that?” the 27-year-old chicken vendor asked, holding a bird he hopes to sell on the open market in Dili, the Timorese capital. “I...
Dili :: East Timor
| updated Mon Sep 28 17:23:30 -0700 2009
| disasters
Foreign Minister Zacarias da Costa says the country needs to balance justice with the need to reconcile with its giant neighbor, which has refused to cooperate with war crimes probes. Da Costa acknowledged that his government has faced sharp criticism...
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