East Timor News

Monday, 8 February 2010, 1:57 pm Press Release: Australian Department Of Defence The President of East Timor, Dr Jose Ramos Horta, has presented medals and expressed his nation's gratitude to nearly 200 Australian Defence Force personnel who are about to return home.

Five Cambodian fishermen were rescued near East Timor after jumping overboard to escape reportedly slave-like conditions on board a Thai fishing vessel, local media said Friday.

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East Timor food import deal 'must be made public' The terms of a controversial business deal to import Chinese fruit and vegetables into Timor-Leste should be made public given its potential to disadvantage local farmers, former Minister for Agriculture and Prime Minister Estanislau da Silva said The terms of a controversial business deal to import ...

High-profile prosecutions will not end widespread corruption in East Timor and a long public re-education campaign will be needed to fight graft and nepotism, the country's new anti-corruption tsar said on Friday.

An Australian political thriller about the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 and the murder of six journalists - one of them a New Zealander - opens in cinemas here on February 18.

The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on January 30, 2010, erected the Diocese of Maliana , with territory taken from the Diocese of Dili.

The brutal beating of a demonstrator by East Timorese police in front of UN officers raises serious questions about the world body's training of the local force, an opposition lawmaker said Monday.

East Timor is one of the few remaining countries where leprosy is endemic, and one of only two in Asia where it has yet to be eliminated.

Kopassus forces have a long and dark history in the region. The appointment of Major General Hotma Marbun to the Military Command for the Kodam-XVII Cenderawasih region comes as Papuans continue to seek a dialogue with the Jakarta Government and the demilitarization of their homeland.

President JosA© Ramos Horta has asked East Timor's Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao to reshuffle the coalition government of the Majority Parliamentary Alliance block amid ongoing allegations of corruption because "the time has come". Horta said he did not want a nation whose name is dirty in the international world due to corruption, and so for ...

Josefina Ba Kita, 15, was orphaned when her mother was killed by an ISF vehicle in Dili.

General Peter Cosgrove, the commander of the international force that moved into East Timor in the bloody aftermath of the tiny nation's independence vote, and one of his country's most respected figures, has urged Australians to stand up against racism.

James Addis has seen suffering from Kosovo to East Timor but says Haiti is the worst.

Thank you. Henry: Tax increase inevitable The Secretary to the Treasury, Ken Henry, has dashed expectations his review of the tax system will pave the way for lower tax.

Friday, 22 January 2010, 10:38 am Press Release: Australian Ministry of Defence A motor vehicle accident occurred on 18 December 2009 involving an Australian Defence Force vehicle, operating as part of the International Stabilisation Force , and a female East Timorese pedestrian.

Larry Teo mulls over the future of Timor-Leste; keen to stand on its own feet. DILI, Timor-Leste :A Will Timor-Leste be freed of all foreign controls and stand proudly one day among the countries of Asean and the world? Or will its economy go down once the United Nations, or even Australian assistance, pulls out? Whatever social occasion I was in - ...

MALAYSIA'S national energy firm Petronas said on Tuesday it has been asked by East Timor to develop offshore gas resources from the country's vast Sunrise field.

A vision of providing the Australian Defence Force with a single logistics system to replace disparate systems operated throughout the massive organisation is set to go live by mid this year.

Death of Airman - " 3rd Statement The Chief of Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Graham Lintott has released the name of the airman killed this morning when his airtrainer aircraft crashed near Ohakea Air Force Base.