News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 3 months ago
The group claims most of the estimated $10 billion has been spent on international salaries, administration, and imports. Australia is East Timor's largest donor and gives the country $100 million each year in aid, and the Federal Government is...
News Source: Epoch Times
| 3 months ago
But it was not the chickens or motorbikes that woke us that day; it was heart-pounding excitement...An event was about to take place that had seemed entirely mythical...After 24 years of military occupation, the East Timorese would decide via UN...
News Source: The Jakarta Post
| 3 months ago
As a citizen of Indonesia, I will never say that Indonesia colonized East Timor. We went there to help East Timorese people. (Or so the delusion goes). My father-in-law, a military officer, was sent there in 1978...On the other hand, we came to build...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| 3 months ago
A decade after East Timor broke away from Indonesia, prompting one of the most expensive UN-led nation-building initiatives ever, little of the billions spent on the country has contributed to its development, new research has found. According to...