News Source: Scoop
| about 1 month ago
PUN to the government´s decision to transfer Maternus Bere from the Becora Prison to the Indonesian embassy in Dili. Their reaction resulted in a censure motion being presented but which failed to bring down the AMP government because the majority
News Source: Inter Press Service
| about 1 month ago
A lack of political will to tackle corruption in East Timor is holding the country back, said Sebastiao Ximenes, East Timor�s Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice. "What all people expect is that our leaders must have a good political will to
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 2 months ago
Timor Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres has been accused of corruption after appointing his wife to a highly paid UN job in New York. In a leaked report, Ombudsman Sebastiao Ximenes says Mr Guterres "engaged in maladministration, with
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 3 months ago
The ABC reported that Mr Gusmao signed off on a $3.5 million contract with Prima Foods. It was reported Zenilda Gusmao had an 11 per cent share in the company and that according to the laws in East Timor the Prime Minister cannot sign off on
News Source: Inter Press Service
| 3 months ago
After a string of corruption allegations were levelled against Xanana Gusmao's coalition government, a civil society organization in East Timor Thursday launched an anti-corruption campaign it says will help tackle East Timor's endemic corruption
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
International donors to Timor Leste kicked off a three-day meeting Thursday to discuss how to lock in security gains and promote development in the young nation, one of the world's poorest. The meeting includes foreign governments, non-governmental
News Source: The Australian
| about 1 year ago
Ramos Horta has his country on tenterhooks after he asked for another 24 hours to decide whether he would stay on as East Timor's President or pursue a job in Geneva as the UN Human Rights Commissioner...His heart was never in the presidency but that
News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
More foreign governments and leaders have expressed their sympathies for the victims of the deadly earthquake that hit southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12. Up to 22:00 Beijing time (1400 GMT) Thursday, heads of state and government,