Cynthia Banham – The East Timorese Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos-Horta, has accused Australian officials of attempted blackmail during recent…
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November 30, 2004
November 29, 2004
Tom Noble, Dili – East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao wants Australia to be fairer in negotiations over disputed oil and gas reserves, saying the…
Mark Dodd – An Australian businessman working in East Timor has been found guilty by the World Bank of corruption in connection with the…
Eight former pro-Jakarta militiamen have been jailed in East Timor for crimes against humanity committed in the mayhem surrounding a…
Reporter: Mark Colvin
Mark Colvin: East Timor's Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos Horta, says the relationship between his country and Australia…
November 26, 2004
East Timor President Xanana Gusmao warned Friday his emerging nation still faces the threat of incursions by armed militias, most likely from…
November 25, 2004
Mark Dodd, Darwin – The chief investigator of the Bali bombings, Inspector-General Made Mangku Pastika, is himself under investigation for East…
November 22, 2004
Dili – Eight East Timorese anti-independence militiamen have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from four to eight years for…
November 19, 2004
Have successive Australian governments been lapdogs to the Indonesian military in their assessment of the impact of East Timorese independence on…
November 18, 2004
Rod Mcguirk, Canberra – A senior East Timorese official Thursday lamented the likely scrapping of a $5 billion natural gas project in the Timor…
November 17, 2004
Lachlan Colquhoun in Sydney and Shawn Donnan in Jakarta – Woodside Petroleum, Australia's biggest oil and gas producer, said on Wednesday it would…
November 16, 2004
Irwin Arieff, United Nations – The Security Council extended the life of a UN peacekeeping mission in East Timor for a final six months on Tuesday…
November 15, 2004
Canberra – Australia staked its claim Tuesday to its vast undersea continental shelf, asking the United Nations to grant it rights to minerals and…
November 11, 2004
Veronica Brooks, Canberra – East Timor's government must return to the negotiating table with more realistic expectations if a protracted maritime…
November 10, 2004
Neither the current East Timor government nor the international community has made a particularly high priority of bringing to justice those…
Jakarta – The former governor of East Timor, Abilio Jose Osorio Soares requested that the gross human rights abuse cases in East Timor be…
M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office is looking into the possibility of building new cases against the military officers…
November 9, 2004
M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – Following the Supreme Court acquittal of former East Timor governor Abilio Soares from human rights violations, the…
November 8, 2004
M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The acquittal of former East Timor governor Abilio Soares of human rights abuse highlights the flawed Indonesian…
November 6, 2004
Jakarta – The acquittal of former East Timor governor Abilio Soares could further erode people's confidence in the country's commitment to justice…
The only Indonesian jailed for abuses during East Timor's violence-marred independence vote has been cleared on appeal in a move that has angered…
Agus Supriyanto, Jakarta – Eurico Guterres, the former commander of the Pro-Integration Youth (PPI)(1), visited the Cipinang Correctional…
November 5, 2004
Sarah Buckley – Five years after 1,000 people died as East Timor broke away from Indonesia, almost all those responsible for the violence are…
November 3, 2004
Mari Alkatiri – The talks in Dili last week between the governments of East Timor and Australia were aimed at finding a way to resolve our…
October 31, 2004
The Chief of Army has admitted more than 1300 troops who served in East Timor were given an anti-malarial drug with potentially devastating side…
October 30, 2004
Nigel Wilson – East Timor is demanding the Australian Government pay more than $2.6 billion in compensation for oil produced from Timor Sea fields…
October 29, 2004
East Timor on Friday indicted eight Indonesian soldiers and two militiamen for allegedly killing two UN election workers and attacking…
October 26, 2004
Tom Allard – East Timor is making a last-minute attempt to secure a $3 billion liquid natural gas processing plant and pipeline on its soil as…
October 25, 2004
Denpasar – The president of Timor Leste, Xanana Gusmao, rejected [the idea] he was not close to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang…
October 24, 2004
Luke McIlveen – Hundreds of Australian soldiers were used as guinea pigs by the army in tests of an anti-malaria drug which has psychotic side…
October 22, 2004
On the sidelines of his visit here to attend the inauguration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, East Timorese…
Dili – Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, returning to East Timor from Jakarta Friday, said he had held successful talks with Indonesia's new president…
October 21, 2004
East Timor believes that the Starbucks seal of approval will give its key coffee industry a fillip. The world's leading retailer of…
October 19, 2004
Jakarta – There has been a jump in the number of East Timorese refugees returning home from Indonesia, where they have been living since East…
October 18, 2004
Dili – East Timor's future oil and gas revenues must have positive effects for the world's newest nation, which is taking measures to prevent the…
October 16, 2004
Bruce Loudon – At the time, the authorities dismissed it as a straightforward case of journalists tragically caught in the crossfire.
Just…
October 12, 2004
Dili – East Timor has launched an official website to promote tourism in the world's newest nation.
The new site www.…
October 10, 2004
Peter Sweeney – Australia has been called on to give a "fairer go" to East Timor over the oilfields issue. The Federal Government has been accused…
October 7, 2004
East Timor Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said Wednesday his country is to participate in the ASEAN Regional Forum for the first…
The Australian Greens today challenged Labor to pledge to refer the dispute between Australia and East Timor over oil and gas reserves to the…
Karen Michelmore, Darwin – Most Australians believe an independent adjudicator should decide the location of Australia's maritime boundary with…
October 6, 2004
East Timor Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta on Wednesday extended the former Indonesian province's congratulations to Susilo Bambang…
October 1, 2004
Nigel Wilson, Energy writer – Talks on a maritime boundary between Australia and East Timor concluded on schedule in Darwin yesterday after both…
September 29, 2004
Bob Briton – Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is now in a hurry to conclude an agreement with the government of East Timor over the…
New York (Antara) – The Indonesian government, under President Megawati Soekarnoputri, has taken legal action against the alleged perpetrators of…
Nick Everett, Canberra – On September 20, 70 people demonstrated outside the foreign affairs department to demand the Australian government stop…
September 25, 2004
Businessman Ian Melrose today launched a new TV commercial to promote a fair deal for East Timor in negotiations over oil and gas reserves in the…
September 24, 2004
New York – Presidential front-runner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono could strengthen bilateral ties between Indonesia and Timor Leste, Timor…
September 22, 2004
Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon's motion to recognise the importance of the Timor Sea Boundary negotiations for the future of East Timor…
September 20, 2004
Former Australian peacekeepers in East Timor accused the federal government of stealing from the fledgling nation today as talks resumed over the…




