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Ramos Horta makes gas development plea
Darwin :: Australia | about 1 year ago
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He told the Parliament and a packed public gallery that while he loves Australia, Timor needs the project more. "The blood within my body is Australian, donated by young Australian soldiers, but I love my country and my people more," President Horta said....
Tags: timor, José Ramos-Horta
East Timor releases penal code draft
Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago
Credibility East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao says the new penal code encompasses Timorese values and is an important step towards a fully democratic society. The highly anticipated draft clearly outlines the status of two controversial issues, abortion and...
Tags: timor, East Timor, Timorese, food security
East Timor faces severe food shortages: report
Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago
Credibility The survey, by aid agencies including Oxfam and the Christian Children's Fund, has found food insecurity is becoming a chronic problem in the East Asia and Pacific Region. The results show the number of children under the age of five suffering from chronic...
Tags: timor, food shortage, East Timor, asia
Yahoo! News: 6.1 magnitude quake rocks East Timor's capital
Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago
Credibility Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.1 quake struck 90 miles (140 kilometers) southeast of Dili . "Everything was shaking for a few seconds," said Joao de Araujo, an employee at the United Nations office in the city. "All I could do was run from my office...
Tags: timor, security, United Nations, news, East Timor
Yahoo! News: Foreign troops needed in East Timor for at least another year: PM
Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago
Credibility East Timor wants foreign troops to stay on its soil for at least one more year as instability is still a threat to the young nation , the prime minister said Friday. Foreign troops were still needed to ensure security in the wake of a foiled rebel attack...
Tags: timor, news, foreign troops
6.1 magnitude quake rocks East Timor's capital
Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago
Credibility East Timor (AP) A powerful undersea earthquake rocked East Timor's capital on Tuesday, sending terrified residents fleeing from homes and buildings, witnesses said...Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.1 quake struck 90 miles southeast of Dili. "Everything...
Tags: timor, earthquake, East Timor
E Timor: Who shot J R Horta?
Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago
Credibility East Timor's post-independence politics have confounded outside observers, and for the most part the Timorese themselves. Simultaneously transparent and opaque, what was thought to be a mono-cultural, impoverished,...
Tags: timor, police, Canberra Times, East Timor
16 arrested in East Timor demo
Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago
Credibility East Timorese and UN anti-riot police arrested at least 16 students Tuesday during a second day of protests at the national university against a plan to import cars for lawmakers. Around 500 students rallied outside the National University of Timor Leste...
Tags: protest, timor, police, law, National University, East Timor
E Timor police move on students
Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago
Credibility The students were demonstrating against plans by the parliament to spend $1m (�500,000) on new cars for MPs. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that local police had fired rounds of tear gas at lines of peacefully protesting students inside the grounds of the...
Tags: protest, timor, east timor, East Timorese, law, tear gas, National University of Timor-Leste, police fired, fired tear
Movie to tell story of 'Balibo Five'
Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago
Credibility Photo / Getty Images Indonesia and East Timor The producer of a new political thriller about five Australia-based newsmen killed in East Timor in 1975, says the film will tell the truth about their deaths. Cameras started rolling in Darwin yesterday on...
Tags: timor, indonesia, East Timor, news
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