Dili – The United Nations should maintain a trimmed-down operation in East Timor after the scheduled withdrawal of its UNMISET mission…
East Timor
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February 2, 2005
Veronica Brooks, Canberra – East Timor is poised to formally accept Australia's invitation to resume negotiations on a permanent maritime boundary…
February 1, 2005
Julian Lee and Cynthia Banham – An advertising campaign accusing the Prime Minister of stealing billions of dollars in oil and gas revenues from…
January 29, 2005
East Timor's charismatic president Xanana Gusmao today made an emotional visit to the Indonesian prison where he was held for four…
January 28, 2005
Jakarta – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao in a three-day visit here Friday sought to mend bilateral ties with Indonesia, hand…
Jakarta – Indonesia and Timor Leste (East Timor) have agreed to establish a permanent border crossing (PLB) for traditional…
Astrid Felicia Lim, Jakarta – The Timor Leste (East Timor) government has promised to lobby the US government in its congress, in February 2005…
January 27, 2005
Julian Lee – The organisers of an advertising campaign that ambushed the Australian Open to highlight disputed maritime boundaries in the Timor…
January 23, 2005
Businessman Ian Melrose has recommenced his campaign of television commercials criticising the Australian Government's unfair treatment of East…
January 21, 2005
Dili – Former pro-Indonesian militiamen are gradually slipping back into East Timor and resorting to banditry, a military source in…
Veronica Brooks, Canberra – Australia is hopeful East Timor will in the next week or two accept its invitation to return to the negotiating table…
January 19, 2005
Dili – Police in East Timor detained a man after an exchange of gunfire between security forces and an armed group near the border…
January 18, 2005
Jakarta – Former East Timor governor Abilio Soares vowed on Wednesday to continue his challenge against the retroactive application of…
January 17, 2005
The secretary of state for defence's visit to East Timor, due to start tomorrow (Tuesday 18 January), has been postponed until the end…
Dili – Australia and East Timor will resume in March talks to resolve their dispute over shared maritime boundaries and the carving up…
January 16, 2005
Adam Gartrell – Buses donated to East Timor by the NSW Government in 2002 have never been used and sit in an empty parking lot, makeshift homes to…
January 15, 2005
Paul Dyer – The $7 billion Greater Sunrise gas project in the Timor Sea has been shelved by project operator Woodside Petroleum.
Woodside…
January 14, 2005
Dili – It was announced on 21 December 2004 that the governments of East Timor and Indonesia had agreed on the formation of a Truth and Friendship…
January 10, 2005
Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – Indonesia has asked East Timor to initiate a joint-commission of truth and reconciliation to resolve the issue of…
January 7, 2005
Kupang – Atambua Bishop Anton Pain Ratu has called on the Timor Leste government to grant amnesty to former pro-Jakarta militia as…
January 4, 2005
Bob Burton, Canberra – Despite his reputation as a progressive social thinker, former Australian Labor Party prime minister Gough Whitlam –…
January 1, 2005
December 29, 2004
A law regulating demonstrations and assemblies passed by East Timor's parliament violates basic rights to free expression and assembly, Human…
December 28, 2004
After 25 years of repression and persecution, the tiny country of East Timor is racked with poverty and in desperate need of rebuilding. John…
December 27, 2004
1. In response to the proposition for the establishment of a UN Commission of Experts, on Tuesday, December 21, 2004, the Governments of Indonesia…
December 24, 2004
Indonesia has rejected UN plans for a commission that would study Jakarta's resolve to punish those responsible for human rights abuses in East…
December 23, 2004
The United States welcomed creation of a joint Indonesia-East Timor commission on the 1999 bloodshed in the former Portuguese colony, but made…
Shawn Donnan, Jakarta – Indonesia and East Timor announced this week they would establish a bilateral "truth and friendship commission" to heal…
There have been mixed reactions this week to a proposal by Indonesia and East Timor to set up a joint commission to investigate the violence in…
John Aglionby, Jakarta – Indonesia and East Timor have agreed to set up a truth and friendship commission to address the issues of 1,500 murders…
December 22, 2004
Washington – US officials do not want a planned Indonesian-East Timorese commission on 1999 violence in East Timor to supplant UN efforts to…
Indonesia and East Timor announced plans for a historic joint commission to draw a line under past hostilities and resolve the 1999 bloodshed that…
December 21, 2004
Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Indonesia and its former province East Timor are set to reject an idea to establish a commission of experts to…
December 17, 2004
Dili – East Timor's Serious Crimes Unit (SCU) indicted 14 people Friday for war crimes committed in 1999, in what the joint Dili-…
East Timor's cabinet has passed a landmark petroleum law that will open the door to foreign firms seeking oil and gas exploration…
December 16, 2004
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The leaders of Indonesia and East Timor have quietly agreed to discuss setting up a "truth and friendship commission"…
Reporter: Anne Barker
Eleanor Hall: East Timor has upped the ante in its dispute with Australia over oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea…
December 15, 2004
[East Timor: Testimony. Elaine Briere. Between the Lines Books. 128 pages, 64 photographs, $56.95.]
Stephen Langford – For people involved…
December 14, 2004
Dili – Dili understands the worries of investors over corruption in East Timor and the government is determined to crackdown on the…
December 11, 2004
Brendan Nicholson – Troops in East Timor were allegedly told to stop filing reports on Indonesia's role in the violence there.
Australia'S…
John Vidal, Dili – The only way to reach the village of Fatuhei in East Timor is a four-hour hike over tropical mountains. You are then in one of…
December 10, 2004
East Timor wants the United Nations to extend its mission here for at least another year after its current mandate expires next May in order to…
December 9, 2004
An army whistleblower today found some backing for his claims after a government review found Australian troops in East Timor had been cut off…
December 3, 2004
Nigel Wilson – John McCarthy, Australia's ambassador to Indonesia at the time of the Australian-led peacekeeping mission in 1999,…
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Over 270 people, who were deported from East Timor, were moved into a dormitory belonging to East Nusa Tenggara's…
December 2, 2004
Dili – East Timor's human rights court has sentenced a senior member of a pro-Jakarta militia to 15 years in prison for organizing an attack on…
Reporter: Anne Barker
Mark Colvin: A court in East Timor has jailed a former pro-Indonesia militia leader to 15 years jail for murder and…
December 1, 2004
Jakarta – The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) here Wednesday condemned the expulsion of 253 Moslems from East Timor, saying the action was a…
Jean-Pierre Catry – Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, told the Security Council this year that: "Limited revenue and widespread…
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – After five hours of immigration checks in Motaain, on the border of East Timor and Indonesia, 62 people were deported…




