Kupang – The struggle of factions in East Timor to grab power in the government and political elite are viewed as having made the pro-integration…
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January 16, 2004
Antara - January 16, 2004
January 15, 2004
Lusa - January 15, 2004
Dili – Foreign Minister Josi Ramos Horta said Thursday he was "convinced" the United Nations would extend its engagement with East…
Agence France Presse - January 15, 2004
Jakarta – East Timor has expressed concern after Indonesian troops fired on an uninhabited island whose ownership has not yet been determined, a…
Jakarta Post - January 15, 2004
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Pessure has been placed on the relevant authorities to investigate alleged irregularities in the use of Rp 53 billion (…
January 14, 2004
Melbourne Age - January 14, 2004
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – East Timor's chief prosecutor has accused the United Nations of blocking an arrest warrant for war crimes against Indonesia'…
ABC News - January 14, 2004
Indonesia's highest court has confirmed the acquittal of a senior policeman accused of human rights abuses in the last days of…
January 12, 2004
Herald Sun - January 12, 2004
Mark Dodd and Ian McPhedran – In a dramatic show of military muscle, an Indonesian warship has blasted a contested island near East Timor with…
Radio Australia - January 12, 2004
By May, the last United Nations troops stationed in East Timor are due to hand over responsibility for security to the local army and police. But…
Associated Press - January 12, 2004
Dili – East Timor called on the United Nations Monday to extend its mandate in the country as the leader of a UN team arrived to assess whether…
January 10, 2004
Antara - January 10, 2004
Atambua – The Indonesian Defence Forces (TNI) is mulling the reopening of traditional markets on the Indonesian-East Timor border, a local…
Herald Sun (Melbourne) - January 10, 2004
Gerard McManus – Don't run over the chooks or goats ... that's unofficial rule No. 1 in the Australian Defence Co-operation Group's manual for…
January 6, 2004
The Australian - January 6, 2004
Australia has made a huge investment in East Timor for which the nation can be proud, but now is not the time to give up on it. From a position…
Australian Financial Review - January 6, 2004
Allesandra Fabro – The sustainability of Australian aid activities in East Timor is at risk despite the significant contribution made by bilateral…
January 3, 2004
Radio Australia - January 3, 2004
Hundreds of people have marked the death of the East Timor independence activist Andrew McNaughtan at a memorial service in the…
The Australian - January 3, 2004
Patrick Walters – From the rocky, tree-shaded summit of "Mount Everest", 1980m up in the cool, moist highlands of the Bobinaro ranges in East…
January 2, 2004
Melbourne Age - January 2, 2004
[Obituary - Dr Andrew Ian, McNaughtan, campaigner for East Timorese Independence, 21-2-1953 – 22-12-2003.]
John Martinkus – Dr Andrew…
January 1, 2004
Human Rights Watch - January 1, 2004
December 27, 2003
Associated Press - December 27, 2003
East Timorese freedom campaigners are mourning the death of a leading Australian human rights activist, Dr Andrew McNaughtan.
The 50-year-…
December 26, 2003
Herald Sun (Melbourne) - December 26, 2003
Andrew Hewett – Governments from around the world gathered in East Timor recently to hear news of a looming economic crisis facing the world's…
December 22, 2003
Lusa - December 22, 2003
Dili – President Xanana Gusmco challenged East Timor's parliament Monday to make 2004 "the year of stability" for the newly…
December 21, 2003
Antara - December 21, 2003
Atambua – Indonesian military and police personnel assigned to the border regions shared by Indonesia and East Timor have shown reformed attitudes…
December 20, 2003
The Age - December 20, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The minister known as the strongman in East Timor's Government wept like a child as he confessed publicly to beating a…
December 18, 2003
The Australian - December 18, 2003
Patrick Walters – East Timor is calling for the United Nations to deploy a 400-strong paramilitary force at least until 2006 to bolster its tiny…
Radio Australia - December 18, 2003
As East Timor continues to delve into its painful past, there's been a suprising confession from Timor's last European governor. During this week'…
December 17, 2003
Associated Press - December 17, 2003
East Timor's tiny military has discharged 27 soldiers and will soon fire more than 60 others for being absent without leave or…
December 16, 2003
Melbourne Age - December 16, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – In the hope that the seasonal spirit will prevail, East Timor's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is asking…
Australian Associated Press - December 16, 2003
Rob Taylor – An East Timorese human rights crimes court today sentenced a former member of Indonesia's military to 11 years in jail for murder and…
December 15, 2003
The Australian - December 15, 2003
Australia will leave some 50 to 60 troops to assist with training of the East Timorese military once the peacekeeping force comes home, defence…
Radio Australia - December 15, 2003
Since gaining independence in 2002, the people of East Timor have struggled with the legacy of violence of Indonesia's 24-year occupation. Now…
December 13, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - December 13, 2003
Cynthia Banham – East Timor has accused Australia of dragging its feet in talks over billions of dollars in oil and gas rights under the Timor Sea…
December 10, 2003
Reuters - December 10, 2003
Michelle Nichols, Canberra – East Timor appealed to the United Nations Wednesday not to desert the world's newest nation by diverting its…
Reuters - December 10, 2003
Canberra – East Timor Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said Wednesday it is too soon to fret over the final shape of a permanent maritime…
Agence France Presse - December 10, 2003
Canberra – East Timor Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta has demanded Australia halt development of massive natural gas fields in the Timor Sea…
Agence France Presse - December 10, 2003
An East Timor court has jailed a former Indonesian army sergeant for crimes against humanity during the territory's bloody breakaway from Jakarta…
December 9, 2003
Antara - December 9, 2003
Kupang – Twenty-six East Timorese who have been seeking asylum in Belu district since last October have sent a petition to President Megawati…
Radio Australia - December 9, 2003
Mark Colvin: In East Timor, thousands of people remain in the grip of an acute food shortage, and now face a bleak and hungry Christmas. A severe…
Counter Punch (US) - December 9, 2003
Chris White – Not 8 hours into this day and google retrieved over 100 American news articles that have been published commemorating the day that…
December 8, 2003
Yarra Leader (Australia) - December 8, 2003
Rachel Kleinman – Yarra's East Timorese asylum-seekers face a miserable Christmas unless their appeals for residency are resolved.
About 700…
December 6, 2003
Herald Sun - December 6, 2003
Nigel Wilson – Production from the Bayu Undan gas recycling project in the Timor Sea has been delayed at least eight months with implications for…
December 5, 2003
Radio Australia - December 5, 2003
Eighteen months ago East Timor became the world's newest nation, but the euphoria of the independence celebrations is now long over.
Those…
December 3, 2003
South China Morning Post - December 3, 2003
Peter Kammerer – East Timorese look at Iraq in wonderment. Hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and investment are pouring into the still…
November 26, 2003
Associated Press - November 26, 2003
Dili – A Timorese militiaman was convicted Wednesday of crimes against humanity and sentenced to nine years in jail for killing three independence…
November 20, 2003
Associated Press - November 20, 2003
It was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration to mark the death of a fellow East Timorese activists.
Instead, Simplisio Celestino de Deus…
November 19, 2003
Melbounre Age - November 19, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – A United Nations official has pointed the finger at the UN police command for its failure to intervene effectively during…
November 15, 2003
Australian Associated Press - November 15, 2003
Post-independence confidence in East Timor has declined, with nearly 40 per cent of East Timorese saying they feel worse off now than under…
November 14, 2003
Associated Press - November 14, 2003
Canberra – East Timor's prime minister Friday accused Australia of deliberately dragging out talks aimed at bolstering his impoverished nation's…
November 12, 2003
Business Week - November 12, 2003
Frederik Balfour – Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao became President of the world's newest country, East Timor in May, 2002. A veteran guerrilla leader…
Radio Australia - November 12, 2003
Australia is refusing to set a deadline for talks beginning today with its neighbour East Timor on their contentious maritime borders. East Timor…
Associated Press - November 12, 2003
Dili – Thousands of people gathered Wednesday to remember the victims of one of East Timor's worst massacres under Indonesian rule with a moment…
Associated Press - November 12, 2003
Canberra – Australia and East Timor began talks on Wednesday aimed at settling a bitter dispute over carving up the seabed between the two nations…