East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao prepared to head to Portugal Thursday after a "positive" round of meetings in Washington, including talks…
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October 3, 2002
Lusa - October 3, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - October 3, 2002
Rumours a captured pro-Indonesian militiaman was summarily executed by Australian troops in East Timor had floated around special forces circles…
October 2, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - October 2, 2002
Jane Counsel – The key players developing gas resources in the Timor Sea have urged the Federal Government to ratify the Timor Sea Treaty without…
Radio Australia - October 2, 2002
[The Australian government has begun four days of hearings into the Timor Sea Treaty it signed with East Timor on the day of that country's…
October 1, 2002
World Press Review - October 1, 2002
Rachel S. Taylor – The day before his country was set to become the 191st member of the United Nations, East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao sat…
Agence France Presse - October 1, 2002
Geneva – Newly-independent Timor -Leste, formerly East Timor, has just 47 doctors for its 850,000 citizens because of large-scale emigration, the…
September 27, 2002
Dow Jones Newswires - September 27, 2002
Ray Brindal, Canberra – East Timor doesn't recognize a claim by PetroTimor Comphanhia de Petroleos SARL over energy-rich concessions in the Timor…
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - September 27, 2002
East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao on 27 September marked his country's admission as the UN's 191st member with a defence of the right to…
Reuters - September 27, 2002
Irwin Arieff, United Nations – The tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, the first country to be born in the 21st century, won a seat at the…
Reuters - September 27, 2002
Dili – East Timor becomes the 191st member of the United Nations on Friday, an historic day for the world's newest nation after a bloody…
Associated Press - September 27, 2002
New York – On the eve of East Timor's joining the United Nations, the president of the former Indonesian-held territory said he would not advise…
September 26, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - September 26, 2002
Jane Counsel – A former top executive with US oil and gas group Unocal is set to reopen the debate about the Sunrise gasfield in the Timor Sea by…
Associated Press - September 26, 2002
New York – East Timor's fragile peace will only hold if the international community continues to provide assistance and not abandon the country,…
Asia Intelligence Wire - September 26, 2002
Robson Seth – "Kill the police" were the only words part-time soldier, Lieutenant Colonel Greg Hart, could understand, as he faced an angry mob of…
Melbourne Age - September 26 2002
Sophie Douez, Canberra – The Federal Government yesterday denied refugee claims to 168 East Timorese who fled the then-Indonesian territory…
Radio Australia - September 26, 2002
[Indonesia is moving to settle its maritime border issues with East Timor and is keen to see Australia do the same, according to a senior…
Kyodo News - September 26, 2002
Dili – East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta has said that despite his country's 24-year struggle for freedom from Indonesian rule, it…
September 25, 2002
Dow Jones News - September 25, 2002
Ray Brindal Canberra – East Timor has been poorly dealt with by Australia and companies wanting to develop vast natural gas resources in the Timor…
September 23, 2002
Lusa - September 23, 2002
The leader of East Timor's Catholic community, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, appealed Monday to Portugal's people to give more help to…
September 22, 2002
Australian Associated Press - September 22, 2002
The Federal Defence Minister says Australian military commitment to peacekeeping in East Timor will be phased out over the next 18 months.
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September 21, 2002
Melbourne Age - September 21, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – New Zealand's Labour Government is the latest to reveal the skeletons in its closet over Indonesia's 1975 East Timor…
September 20, 2002
Melbourne Age - September 20, 2002
Ray Lilley, Wellington – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao has called on the international community not to forget his tiny new nation, which…
September 19, 2002
Jakarta Post - September 19, 2002
Jakarta – The Indonesian government and international agencies have agreed that as of December 31 this year, all East Timorese refugee…
September 18, 2002
Australian Financial Review - September 18, 2002
Geoffrey Barker – East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao yesterday criticised the heavily armed Australian army presence in front of…
September 17, 2002
Jakarta Post - September 17, 2002
Munir, Jakarta – The first round of the ad hoc Human Rights Tribunal on the East Timor case ended in anticlimax as the suspects of crimes against…
Herald Sun - September 17, 2002
Keith Moor – East Timor is in danger of being infiltrated by crime gangs intent on using it as a stepping stone to Australia.
Australian…
September 16, 2002
Reuters - September 16, 2002
Canberra – Australia reopened its embassy in East Timor on Monday after it was closed following a threat against Australian interests in the…
Jakarta Post - September 16, 2002
Jakarta – Unsure about the outcome of reconciliation attempts by former pro-Indonesia fighters, leaders of East Timorese people in squalid camps…
Jakarta Post - September 16, 2002
Jakarta – The new government in East Timor would try to heal the psychological trauma suffered by many of its people in the 1999 violence when…
The Mercury - September 16, 2002 (abridged)
Keith Moor – Victorian officers attached to the United Nations found the graves of 24 massacre victims and will this month start exhuming the…
September 15, 2002
New Zealand Herald - September 15, 2002
Audrey Young – Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor's Foreign Minister, is everything his country is not: highly educated, sophisticated and stylish.
…September 14, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - September 14, 2002
Nick O'malley – Fresh out of a Dili jail, Edit Horta, sister-in-law of East Timor's foreign minister, Jose Ramos Horta, island-hopped to Darwin in…
September 11, 2002
Lusa - September 11, 2002
A Dili court has sentenced a Timorese man who belonged to a pro-Indonesian militia to twenty years imprisonment for three murders that…
September 10, 2002
Australian Associated Press - September 10, 2002
Sharon Labi, Fatuk-Hun – The red juice of the betel nut stains her teeth and runs down her chin, settling in the cracks of her lips and the…
Australian Associated Press - September 10, 2002
Sharon Labi, Dili – They idolise Britney Spears, watch lots of TV and worry about what to wear to school. But one disturbing truth sets these…
Radio Australia - September 10, 2002
An Indonesian prosecutor has proposed that controversial human rights trials be moved to Dili, the capital of neighbouring East Timor.
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Christian Science Monitor - September 10, 2002
Dan Murphy, Wonosobo – Maya Friera's letter home is filled with re-assurances for her parents. The 8-year-old promises she's studying hard and…
Radio Australia - September 10, 2002
East Timor's foreign minister Jose Ramos-Horta says the country's fledgling judicial and prison systems are frail because there are…
September 9, 2002
The Mercury - September 9, 2002
Jamie Walker – According to the army, it began as a Melbourne Cup day joke. Hot and bored, a group of Australian soldiers spotted two Timorese…
Agence France Presse - September 9, 2002
A special fund to compensate former Indonesian government employees and pensioners in East Timor expects to make its first payments next month, a…
September 7, 2002
One News - September 7, 2002
Phil Goff – The Foreign Minister Phil Goff says it is a matter of shame that New Zealand, Australia and the United States did not…
September 5, 2002
Xinhua - September 5, 2002
Jakarta – The Indonesian government will host the 55th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for South-East Asia…
September 4, 2002
SBS Dateline - September 4, 2002
[It's three years since the violence that accompanied East Timor's vote for independence. Then, thousands of men, women and children fled at…
Green Left Weekly - September 4, 2002
Vannessa Hearman – On August 15 an Indonesian court convicted Abilio Soares, the former Jakarta-appointed governor of East Timor, of failing to…
September 3, 2002
Lusa - September 3, 2002
Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo has called to East Timor's political leaders and the international community to begin moves to establish an…
September 2, 2002
CNN - September 2, 2002
Dili – The fledgling nation of East Timor risks being exploited by organized crime and developing institutionalized corruption, because of its…
Lusa - September 2, 2002
East Timor's religious leader has said that the Timorese people are "disenchanted" after three months of independence.
Bishop…
Australian Financial Review - September 2, 2002
Mari Alkatiri – It is a truism of the developing world that the blessing of petroleum wealth can be a curse. Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela…
Sydney Morning Herald - September 2, 2002
[Kirsty Sword was a resistance fighter who became the First Lady. Now comes the hard part. Susan Wyndham profiles the wife of the East Timorese…
September 1, 2002
Australian Book Review - September 2002
[The following review of Don Greenlees and Robert Garran, "Deliverance: The Inside Story of East Timor's Fight for Freedom" (Allen & Unwin…