East Timor News

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Sriwijaya Air increased its offering from Denpasar on 10 May, when it launched daily flights on the 1,100-kilometre route to Dili in East Timor.

Australia's aid and defence spending in the Pacific has escaped the sweeping cuts to Government programmes announced in the latest Budget.

Mount St. Mary's University President Thomas Powell says he's stepping down but not leaving the Catholic school in Emmitsburg that he has run for 10 years.

The National Security Agency just released "Untangling the Web," an unclassified how-to guide to Internet search.

An East Timorese woman casts her ballot at a polling center in Dili in last year's general election.

Member for Eden-Monaro Mike Kelly with former president of Timor-Leste Jose Ramos-Horta at the United Nations conference in New York last June.

The cost of running our representative office in Timor Leste actually increased by 18% in 2012, despite the fact that it closed over the past 12 months.

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Australia wants to further ramp up military cooperation with New Zealand in the South Pacific as problems compound across the island states.

East Timor is seeking to tear up a treaty with Australia on oil and gas revenues in the Timor Sea, arguing Australia spied on it during negotiations in 2004.

Tiny East Timor has accused Australia of spying when it discused a oil and gas sharing pact.

THE long-awaited Defence White Paper will spell out a fresh vision for Australia's defence and its response to China's rising military power in the Asia-Pacific region.

As one of Australia's busiest actresses at the moment, WA's Mandy McElhinney is anxious about living below the line next week.

West Papua Report May 2013 This is the 109th in a series of monthly reports that focus on developments affecting Papuans.

Tom Calma has been announced as the next Chancellor of the University of Canberra.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of Thailand meets Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, Prime Minister and minister of defense and security of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. The visit is part of his tour of member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations following his re- election as Tomor-Leste premier in August last year.

The Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and Security of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, who is on an official trip to Thailand from April 25-29 as the guest of the Thai government, visited royal development projects at the Chitralada Villa in Bangkok on Friday morning, Thai News Agency reported.

But the Westbury sub-branch leader was one of many young veterans from Afghanistan, Iraq, the Solomon Islands and East Timor to join older Diggers yesterday in commemorations that reflected the branch's diverse, and somewhat unique, membership.