East Timor News

The United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor has less than 1,000 police and military advisors in the poor Southeast Asian nation, bolstered by about 460 Australian troops and 75 soldiers from New Zealand.

An East Timorese refugee family gathers around their camp in Dili, February 18, 2008.

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East Timorese presidential hopeful Francisco Guterres has called for peaceful elections that will avoid the violence which broke out five years ago when the young country last went to the polls.

The inquiry comes after a decade-long boom in the number of officials posted overseas to support the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, stabilisation missions in East Timor and the Solomon Islands, the fight against Islamic extremism and to tackle people smuggling.

East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta said Tuesday he will seek another term in March polls, as the young nation votes for the first time since an assassination bid that almost killed him.

ARMY Reserve soldiers who recently finished training in central Victoria have been farewelled at an official parade ahead of their mission to East Timor.

JAKARTA: Nobel peace prize-winner Jose Ramos-Horta is expected to announce today that he is in the running for another five-year term as President of East Timor.

NOBEL peace prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta is expected to announce today that he is in the running for another five-year term as president of East Timor.

MANILA, Philippines - A member of the Philippine Military Academy "Dimalupig" Class of 1981 who is currently the chairman of the Government Ad Hoc Joint Action Group , Brig.

TAREE High School graduate and local butcher Dan Murray was in his Army Reserve uniform last month and singing carols in East Timor.

Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and Security of East Timor Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao visited Barwa Group to discuss co-operation and investment in real estate, the group announced yesterday.

There are 10 candidates so far in the coming elections in East Timor. Centru Jornalista Investigativu Timor-Leste is one of the media networks monitoring the polls There are 10 candidates so far in the coming elections in East Timor.

Qatar and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste signed several agreements here yesterday following official talks co-chaired by HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani and Timors Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and Security Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao.

Australia's military has grounded its fleet of Black Hawk helicopters after fractured bolts were found during a routine inspection, the defence ministry said on Saturday.

A GROUP of 200 Army Reserve soldiers have faced months of intense training conditions in central Victoria, in preparation for their next challenge.

Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and Security of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste , Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, arrived in Doha yesterday on a two-day official visit.

Pat Farmer of Australia is a running machine. The 48-year-old former politician completed an arduous, 13,000-mile journey from the North Pole to the South Pole.

ARMY Reserve soldiers in central Victoria yesterday negotiated an angry East Timorese mob before dealing with UN forces and tending to a man run over by a truck.

Jose Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and former prime minister, won presidential elections in April 2007 with nearly 70% of the vote.