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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 6 days ago
Timor Leste should form its anti-corruption commission soon to support the economy and maintain people's trust in the half-island nation, President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Saturday. The Nobel laureate said at a military event that fighting graft was
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News Source: Extra News
| 14 days ago
Jennifer Lopez will receive the Artists for Amnesty award during the Berlin Film Festival for her work as producer and actress in the movie �Bordertown,� which exposes the murders of hundreds of women in the border city of Juarez, Mexico.
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 21 days ago
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
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News Source: The Age
| 22 days ago
The appeal came as thousands of people gathered for a service at the Santa Cruz graveyard in downtown Dili, Timor's capital, where Indonesian troops opened fire on pro-independence demonstrators on November 12, 1991, killing hundreds. Mothers,
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 29 days ago
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 of oil a
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News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
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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News Source: Inter Press Service
| about 1 month ago
If you order a beer, sit back and relax at one of the expat bars dotted along the coastal Pantai Kelapa road in this capital, you cannot help but notice the view: the stony beach, the swimming children and the grounded fishing boats...I live in Dili;
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been sworn in for a second five-year term. Mr Yudhoyono and his new deputy Boediono were sworn in as Indonesia's new leadership team in front of many regional leaders, including Prime Minister Kevin