Angela Macdonald-Smith, Sydney – Woodside Petroleum should delay plans to develop the Sunrise natural gas field in the Timor Sea for up to 10…
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February 19, 2008
February 18, 2008
Agence France Presse - February 18, 2008
Belinda Lopez – East Timor, a fragile young democracy rocked by assaults on its two top leaders last week, must work to overcome grinding poverty…
The Australian - February 18, 2008
Paul Toohey, Dili – Some 90 of Alfredo Reinado's rebels, most of them armed, broke the East Timor-wide 8pm curfew and entered Dili late on…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 18, 2008
Susan Wellings – One of East Timor's most bloody massacres is finally to be investigated by a team of Australian forensic scientists who plan to…
February 17, 2008
The Ottawa Citizen - February 17, 2008
[Against calls to make Suharto a national hero, human rights activists want the world to remember his deadly legacy. Bella Galhos, who escaped to…
February 16, 2008
The Australian - February 16, 2008
Paul Toohey, Dili – East Timor is a changed land, with what remained of its simple innocence lost the moment gunmen opened fire on its most…
The Australian - February 16, 2008
Bob Boughton – The mayhem in Dili last Monday, in which rebel soldier Alfredo Reinado was shot dead and East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 16, 2008
Mark Forbes – Relations between East Timor and Indonesia have leapt ahead, even as ambivalence remains in the tiny nation's ties with Australia.…
Canberra Times - February 16, 2008
Kevin Rudd's mission to East Timor yesterday was as much about fact-finding as it was about bolstering a government in crisis. On Monday after the…
Melbourne Age - February 16, 2008
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – A chill breeze was blowing across the ruins of the old Portuguese fort on a hill overlooking the small town of Maubisse…
Australian Associated Press - February 16, 2008
The man who claims to be the new leader of East Timor's fugitive rebels says he's heavily armed and will not surrender without a fight.
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February 15, 2008
New Matilida - February 15, 2008
John Martinkus – Tonight on Al Jazeera, Xanana Gusmao will answer allegations that he was the late rebel leader Alfredo Reinado's puppet master in…
IRIN News - February 15, 2008
Dili – Timor-Leste's prosecutor-general, Longuinhos Montiero, has now issued 12 arrest warrants for suspects in the 11 February assassination…
BBC News - February 15, 2008
Jonathan Head, Dili – They gave Alfredo Reinado a hero's burial, his coffin draped in the red, black and yellow flag of East Timor.
His…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 15, 2008
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Jill Jolliffe – Alfredo Reinado became a hero to East Timor's disenchanted urban youth in May 2006 after the army…
International Herald Tribune - February 15, 2008
Donald Greenlees, Dili – When the rain-laden clouds open up, as they frequently do this time of year, the tarpaulin over Alicia Pinto's bed leaks…
February 14, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald - February 14, 2008
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Investigators believe that gangs of armed men led by East Timor's rebel leader Alfredo Reinado intended to kidnap, not…
International Herald Tribune - February 14, 2008
Donald Greenlees, Dili – The body of the slain army mutineer who led attacks on the president and prime minister of East Timor was buried in the…
Inter Press Service - February 14, 2008
Setyo Budi, Dili – Hundreds of people gathered Thursday for the funeral of Alfredo Reinado, the rebel soldier who was slain in an alleged coup bid…
February 13, 2008
TAPOL/Progressio Press release - February 13, 2008
The UN must play a part in ending the lawlessness that culminated in this week's attempted assassinations of Timor-Leste's President José Ramos-…
Canberra Times - February 13, 2008
Michael Leach – When I wrote on Monday that disarming the increasingly threatening and erratic Major Alfredo Reinado had become a critical…
International Herald Tribune - February 13, 2008
Donald Greenlees, Dili – Before President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot outside his home on Monday, the Nobel Peace laureate was not overly concerned…
Associated Press - February 13, 2008
Anthony Deutsch, Dili – The rebels jumped from two cars, firing machine guns as they stormed the compound of President Jose Ramos-Horta. "Traitor…
February 12, 2008
South China Morning Post - February 12, 2008
East Timor's maverick seemed desperate for martyrdom
Fabio Scarpello in Banda Aceh – When Alfredo Reinado died in a hail of gunfire outside…
La'o Hamutuk - February 12, 2008
The United Nations Security Council meeting on UNMIT has been delayed one week, until 21 February. Yesterday, La'o Hamutuk sent the following…
Christian Science Monitor - February 12, 2008
Simon Montlake and Nick Squires, Bangkok/Sydney – A foiled dawn attack Monday by rebel soldiers on East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta, who…
February 11, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald - February 11, 2008
Jill Jolliffe – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is undergoing surgery at an Australian military base in the capital, Dili, after being shot…
February 11, 2008
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New York Times - February 11, 2008
Seth Mydans and Tim Johnston – President Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor was shot and critically wounded at his home on Monday by renegade soldiers…
Financial Times - February 11, 2008
John Aglionby, Jakarta – East Timor's president, Jose Ramos Horta, was shot in the stomach in a pre-dawn attack on his home by fugitive members of…
Kyodo News - February 11, 2008
Keiji Hirano, Tokyo – Human rights campaigners in Japan and East Timor have jointly made a set of panels for exhibition showing testimonies of…
Lusa - February 11, 2008
Dili – Eight unidentified men attacked a bus and killed three passengers near Los Palos, the Indonesian police said on Tuesday. The…
February 10, 2008
ABC News - February 10, 2008
Heather Stewart – While there has been relative calm during the wet season in East Timor, more than 100,000 East Timorese are living in appalling…
February 5, 2008
Asia Times - February 5, 2008
Loro Horta, Dili – Since the 2006 deployment of Australian peacekeeping troops to East Timor, the Australian Defense Force (ADF) has been…
February 4, 2008
The Australian - February 4, 2008
James Madden – The widow of one of the five journalists killed by the Indonesian military at Balibo in 1975 has labelled Paul Keating "ignorant"…
IRIN News - February 4, 2008
Dili – "It's when you see a child who looks nine but is actually 12 that you realise the extent of malnutrition in Timor Leste," Jean Flueren, the…
February 2, 2008
Le Monde Diplomatique - February 2, 2008
President Suharto of Indonesia, who died last month, was responsible for the invasion of East Timor in 1975, for its occupation for almost 25…
February 1, 2008
Lusa - February 1, 2008
Dili – The building of the former Portuguese and Indonesian prison of Balide, Dili, hosts this week-end an exhibition dedicated to former…
Open Democracy - February 1, 2008
Neil Campbell – An incident during my recent visit to Timor-Leste gave a useful insight into the difficult security conditions in the small, young…
TAPOL - February 2008
Backgrounder on the Indonesia/Timor-Leste Commission of Truth and Friendship
1. This backgrounder provides a brief summary of the…
January 31, 2008
IRIN News - January 31, 2008
Dili – It was in October 2007 that 27-year-old Guillermina Freitas Corte Real entered Timor Leste national hospital in Dili, the capital city, for…
Human Rights Watch - January 31, 2008
January 29, 2008
Australian Associated Press - January 29, 2008
Karen Michelmore, Jakarta – A truth commission into the violence in East Timor in 1999 risks becoming a "diplomatic charade" unless it delivers a…
January 28, 2008
Radio New Zealand International - January 28, 2008
East Timor's Prime Minister wants international peacekeepers in his country to move away from security duties and focus instead on mentoring and…
January 26, 2008
The Australian - January 26, 2008
[Shakedown. By Paul Cleary. Allen & Unwin, 304pp, $29.95.]
Tim Johnston – The exercise of power is rarely a pretty thing to watch; but…
January 25, 2008
Jakarta Post - January 25, 2008
Indonesia – The government of Timor Leste has yet to conclude arrangements for Indonesians wishing to reclaim their assets deserted in…
ABC News Online - January 25, 2008
Anne Barker – Recent monsoonal rains and wind have caused serious damage to homes, buildings and crops across East Timor. There are…
January 24, 2008
Adnkronos International - January 24, 2008
Dili – East Timor's laws should be translated into the local Tetun language to give people a better understanding and respect for the law,…
ABC News Online - January 24, 2008
East Timor's fugitive rebel leader Alfredo Reinado has refused to attend a scheduled court hearing to face murder and other charges…
January 23, 2008
Australian Associated Press - January 23, 2008
East Timor's fugitive rebel leader Alfredo Reinado has refused to attend a scheduled court hearing on Thursday to face murder and other charges…