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May 20, 2016

Jakarta Post - May 20, 2016

Nelson Da Cruz, Dili, Timor Leste – Timor Leste President Taur Matan Ruak says the return of 14 Timorese people who were removed to Indonesia…

May 17, 2016

Dili Weekly - May 17, 2016

Paulina Quintao – Research of non-communicable disease conducted by the Ministry of Health in cooperation with the national university UNTL in…

May 16, 2016

UCA News - May 16, 2016

Thomas Ora, Dili – The church in Timor-Leste honored long-married couples on Pentecost Sunday with a reminder that strong Christian families are…

May 14, 2016

Currier Mail - May 14, 2016

Kathleen Noonan – In a waterfront restaurant on a still-warm autumn night near the Brisbane River, it seems almost ridiculous to be hearing about…

May 13, 2016

Dili Weekly - May 13, 2016

Paulina Quintao – A Ministry of Agriculture program offering free field plowing to farmers has been labeled as useless due to the lack of food…

Dili Weekly - May 13, 2016

Paulina Quintao – The government has been criticized for failing to properly control communities building permanent homes on state-owned land and…

May 11, 2016

Dili Weekly - May 11, 2016

Paulina Quintao – The increase in domestic violence cases has been linked to rising levels of polygamy and infidelity in the country.

The…

Dili Weekly - May 11, 2016

Paulina Quintao – There are concerns that the country's farmers are losing their passion for agricultural work and that production is now in…

Dili Weekly - May 11, 2016

Venidora Oliveira – Members of the national police force (PNTL) are receiving training to help them better protect and recognize the presence of…

Dili Weekly - May 11, 2016

Venidora Oliveira – Timor-Leste's National Parliament has approved a law limiting the power of the President to grant clemency to those convicted…

Dili Weekly - May 11, 2016

Paulina Quintao– Ongoing drought conditions are to blame for food shortages and crop failures this year, particularly maize, according to the…

May 10, 2016

Foreign Policy - May 10, 2016

Cristian Talesco – Five years since submitting its formal membership application to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the small…

May 9, 2016

Crikey.com - May 9, 2016

It's one of the more disgraceful, and criminally underreported, examples of the current government's war on whistleblowers (and one entirely…

May 7, 2016

Global Voices - May 7, 2016

On April 22, 2016, several global media groups wrote a letter to Timor Leste Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araujo, urging him to withdraw the…

May 6, 2016

Australian Associated Press - May 6, 2016

The foreign affairs department says potentially reopening border negotiations with East Timor could draw Indonesia into the fray.

Federal…

May 5, 2016

Jakarta Post - May 5, 2016

Anton Hermansyah – Indonesia and Timor Leste have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in developing human resources for the…

Dili Weekly - May 5, 2016

Paulina Quintao – Despite high participation rates, there continues to be lack of promotion around women in sport, according to the Coordinator of…

Dili Weekly - May 5, 2016

Paulina Quintao – The committee for the Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has called on the…

Dili Weekly - May 5, 2016

Paulina Quintao – The numbers of domestic violence victims accessing formal justice has increased since last year, according to Psychosocial…

Dili Weekly - May 5, 2016

Paulina Quintao – In the 16 years since the Seeds of Life (SoL) program has been runing, 1200 seed production groups have been established across…

May 4, 2016

Inter Press Service - May 4, 2016

Lyndal Rowlands, United Nations – High-level defamation, libel and sedition cases in Asian countries are sending signals to journalists that…

May 3, 2016

Dili Weekly - May 3, 2016

Paulina Quintao – Increasing numbers of young people are turning their back on farming in favor of a job in the city, said the General-Secretary…

May 2, 2016

UCA News - May 2, 2016

Thomas Ora, Dili – The current daily minimum wage in Timor-Leste is outdated and needs to be raised, a top church official says.

Father…

May 1, 2016

The New Daily - May 1, 2016

Mark Skulley – Former East Timor leader Xanana Gusmao is a softly-spoken man, but is firm when it comes to talking about Australian prime…

Sydney Morning Herald - May 1, 2016

Tom Allard – Australia's bid for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council is under threat due to its refusal to negotiate directly with…

April 30, 2016

Pacific Media Centre - April 30, 2016

Sydney (The Australian/Pacific Media Watch) – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Rui de Araujo has lashed out at Western critics, saying their nations had…

Tempo - April 30, 2016

Yohanes Seo, Kupang – Indonesia and Timor Leste signed a memorandum of understanding covering cooperation on preventing HIV infection in both…

Timor Sea Justice Campaign Media Release - April 30, 2016

If the Australian Government fails to appoint delegates on Monday for the 'compulsory conciliation' initiated by East Timor, then the UN's…

April 29, 2016

Dili Weekly - April 29, 2016

Venidora Oliveira – With oil production in Kitan and Bayu-Undan is in steep decline, there are calls for the Timorese government to boost state…

ABC Rural - April 29, 2016

Sarina Locke – Australia's longest-running agricultural aid project is coming to an end, having lifted East Timor's farmers from the ashes of the…

April 28, 2016

Dili Weekly - April 28, 2016

More than 50% of Timorese children aged five and under suffer from malnutrition, according to 2013 data released by the Ministry of Health.

Dili Weekly - April 28, 2016

Paulina Quintao – The Ministry of Health in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO) has established a national taskforce to help…

April 27, 2016

Ipswich Advertiser - April 27, 2016

Brian Bennion – Timorese resistance fighter Mario Nicolau dos Reis spent 17 years as a political prisoner in an Indonesian jail before the…

Western Independent - April 27, 2016

Caleb Gorton – East Timor's first president Xanana Gusmao has labelled Australia's maritime border dispute with Timor-Leste as "immoral" and…

April 24, 2016

Channel News Asia - April 24, 2016

Samantha Yap, Singapore – Timor-Leste is taking Australia to the United Nations (UN) to settle a long-running maritime border dispute by using a…

Sydney Morning Herald - April 24, 2016

Jose Ramos Horta – The maritime border dispute between Timor-Leste (East Timor) and Australia dates back at least to the 1960s. Former Foreign…

April 22, 2016

Joint Statement - April 22, 2016

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South East Asia Journalist Unions (SEAJU) join international organisations the Committee…

April 18, 2016

Dili Weekly - April 18, 2016

Venidora Oliveira – National Police (PNTL) Commander Julio Hornai said the data was taken in 13 municipalities and showed that 417 people were…

Dili Weekly - April 18, 2016

Venidora Oliveira – Seventy-two percent of rural areas communities across 13 municipalities in Timor-Leste now have access to clean water,…

April 15, 2016

Crikey Insider - April 15, 2016

John Martinkus – In 1995, as I squatted for days in a hole in the jungle of East Timor with 12 men hiding from Indonesian troops patrolling nearby…

April 14, 2016

Inter Press Service - April 14, 2016

Lyndal Rowlands, United Nations – Timor-Leste which won independence from Indonesia in 1999 is now engaged in a new struggle with Australia over…

World Policy Review - April 14, 2016

On Monday, East Timor asked the United Nations to begin the process of establishing a permanent maritime boundary with Australia in the Timor Sea…

SBS News - April 14, 2016

Hannah Sinclair – East Timor has filed a request with the United Nations to resolve a dispute over its maritime border with Australia. It's a move…

April 13, 2016

Xinhua - April 13, 2016

Jakarta – Indonesia's second largest bank by asset, PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), will open a new branch in Timor Leste in an effort to expand…

Dili Weekly - April 13, 2016

Venidora Oliveira – Research conducted by the Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) research in 2015 has found that 34% of Timor-Leste girls…

April 12, 2016

UCA News - April 12, 2016

Thomas Ora, Dili, Timor Leste – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araujo has praised late Bishop Alberto Ricardo da Silva of Dili, as well…

International Federation of Journalists Statement - April 12, 2016

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) with its affiliates the Timor Leste Press Union (TLPU) and the Timor Leste Journalist…

ABC News - April 12, 2016

Mark Colvin: Labor's shadow foreign Minister says if the United Nations rules in favour of East Timor in a border dispute and her party wins…

April 11, 2016

ABC Radio Australia - April 11, 2016

Matthew Doran and Peter Lloyd – East Timor is taking Australia to the United Nations to solve the dispute over its maritime border under…

Timor Leste Government Press Release - April 11, 2016

Dili – Timor-Leste today launched compulsory conciliation proceedings under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), with the…