Oecusse, Timor Leste – Timor Leste Home Affairs Minister Jorge da Conceicao Teme has expressed his hope that brotherly relations with Indonesia, particularly with the people of West Timor, would continue.

Despite an ongoing dispute regarding the border between the two countries, Jorge said this issue should not harm relations between the two countries.

Paulina Quintao – The Advocacy Manager of the Women's Communication Forum Timor-Leste (FOKUPERS) Honorio Lopes said the language used in the song was an insult to women.

According to him, the song could cause conflict in society because of the bad language used. "We like the intonation but the words are not good as they degrade Timorese women," said Lopes in Farol, Dili.

Jakarta – Indonesia concluded the second batch of training program intended to hone up the skill of Timor Leste officials in carrying out Environment Feasibility Assessment (AMDAL) essential to assure sustainable development in latter country, the Indonesian environment ministry said here Thursday.

Ina Parlina, Dili, Timor Leste – Tito Filipe, 30, started as a reporter in Dili, Timor Leste, when he was 21 just after he finished high school.

He is now a coordinator of a Tetum (local language) unit at state-funded Radio Television Timor Leste (RTTL). "Many reporters in Timor Leste are high school graduates," Filipe said.

Venidora Oliveira – The General Commander of the PNTL threatened to dismiss any police officers still involved in martial arts groups.

Eni plans to spend up to $230 million on offshore drilling in the Timor Sea over the next 18 months, according to the managing director of its Australian division.

Ernie Delfos said operations will take place in the Evans Shoal area, the Blackwood area, the Kitan area, in deep-water Timor-Leste, in the Vesta-Swan area, and the Blacktip field.

Ezequiel Freitas – Member of National Parliament Mateus de Jesus says the $115 minimum salary for workers is not enough to cover basic necessities, as the price of goods continues to rise.

Jakarta – Journalists from Indonesia and Timor Leste are expected to help forge partnership between the former foes, according to a bilateral dialogue.

Speakers at the Dialogue Forum for Indonesia and Timor Leste Journalists held in Dili on Wednesday encouraged journalists to partake in improving the relationship between the two countries in a number of fields.

Ezequiel Freitas – The US Ambassador to Timor-Leste Judith R. Fergin says there is a big risk of organized crime, money laundering and financial terrorism in Timor-Leste.

Ambassador Fergin made these statements at a seminar about money laundering and combating corruption. She said based on its current size the Timorese economy could bring about money laundering.

Paulina Quintao – Only 49 of the 288 sexual abuse cases involving children registered with the organization Legal Assistance for Women and Children (AlFeLa) have been resolved with a final decision in court.

Paulina Quintao – The United Nations Population Fund recommends the Timor-Leste government should create a new law or strengthen existing laws that set the age people can get married.

US group General Electric plans to invest in East Timor (Timor-Leste), the country's minister for Public Works, Gastao de Sousa said Tuesday as he welcomed a delegation headed up by the head of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Kristin Paulson.

Hanoi (Xinhua) – Vietnam and Timor-Leste pledged to further strengthen cooperation in fields of politic, economics, trade and investment, agriculture, forestry and fishery, energy and education.

The consensus was reached by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his visiting Timor-Leste counterpart Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Wednesday.

Mark Colvin: East Timor's government has made a new bid to resolve a dispute over the stalled Greater Sunrise gas project in the Timor Sea. It's offering to put up $800 million to build a pipeline so the gas can be processed onshore on East Timor's south coast.

The Timorese government is creating protected areas in the waters of the Coral Triangle, called "no-take zones," where fishing is prohibited.

The goal is for fish to grow to healthy sizes, improving the chances that species will survive. This is important not only for Timor-Leste's fisheries, but also for global fisheries.

The former Prime Minister of East-Timor, Mari Alkatiri, has visited Macau in the hope of attracting investment for the special zones project under development in his country.

Paulina Quintao – The participants of the fourth National Women's Congress identified nine priority issues for the government to work on.

President of Rede Feto Timor-Leste Ivete de Oliveira said some of the priorities were strengthening family values and preventing disharmony in families, divorce, abandonment and human trafficking.

As the flag of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste was hoisted at 5:00am on the 20th of August in a ceremony in Betano, the official state celebrations of the 38th Anniversary of FALINTIL began.

The People of Timor-Leste once again commemorate 30 August as the 14th anniversary of the popular consultation (1999-2013). This historic day lead to our independence from the long period of suffering that occurred because of grave crimes committed systematically by the Indonesian military.

Timor-Leste is reported to be offering to bankroll construction of a new pipeline to export gas from the Timor Sea in a renewed effort to kick-start Woodside Petroleum's stalled Greater Sunrise project.

Rebekah Kebede, Perth – East Timor is offering to invest $800 million to build a pipeline to take gas from the Timor Sea to the tiny nation, as it makes a new pitch to resolve a dispute with Australia's Woodside Petroleum over how to develop huge fields in the area.

East Timor is offering to invest $800 million to build a pipeline to take gas from the Timor Sea to the tiny nation, as it makes a new pitch to resolve a dispute with Australia's Woodside Petroleum over how to develop huge fields in the area.

Below is a timeline of some key events involving the Greater Sunrise project

aulina Quintao – The Secretary of State for Professional Training Policy and Employment (SEPFOPE) has set the minimum wage at $115 per month but employers continue to pay domestic workers whatever they want.

The Working Women Centre suggests the government should control employers because they pay staff, especially domestic workers, below the minimum salary.

Ezequiel Freitas – Fretilin bench MP Leonel Marcal said on 30 August 1999, 14 years ago, all Timorese closed their homes and went out to vote and changed the course of their destiny.

Brian Robins – Woodside's decision to opt for an offshore solution to develop the Browse Basin gasfield off north-west of Australia threatens to delay further any prospective development of the huge Greater Sunrise field, which lies between Australia and East Timor.

Loro Horta – Following the July 2012 elections Timor-Leste formed one of the largest governments in the region made up of 57 cabinet members. This has led to serious mismanagement, corruption and a state of near anarchy. A year later, the country's leadership is addressing its predicament.

Supplying electricity to the whole of Timor-Leste (East Timor) was almost achieved Tuesday with the inauguration of the Betano power plant, some 90 kilometres south of Dili, said the Timorese secretary of state for Electricity.

Security sectory monitoring NGO, Fundasaun Mahein says that "the recent increase in violence and crime in Timor-Leste reflects a growing effort by organized crime to recruit Timorese for participation in illegal activities.

The Dili District Police Commander Pedro Belo said the police will carry out stronger operations in neighbourhoods that are at risk of conflict within Dili.

Commander Belo said operations would be held in neighbourhoods based on a resolution the government sent to the Commander of the Timor-Leste National Police (PNTL).

East Timor's Oil Fund totalled US$13.6 billion at the end of June, which was a rise of US$796 million against the first quarter of the year, according to figures published by the East Timor Central Bank for the second quarter of 2013.

Simon Roughneen, Rangoon – Confusion remains over the recent refusal by the East Timor government to allow a group of 95 refugees, many of whom are Burmese Rohingya, to stay in the country.

The Timor-Leste (East Timor) Central Bank Friday announced a project to develop a strategic plan to expand the country's financial services with a view to reaching more of its citizens.

Jess O'Callaghan – More than decade on from when Timor-Leste gained independence, and six month since troops left the country, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bob Carr has initiated an inquiry into the relationship between the young nation, one hour's flight from Darwin, and Australia.

Jose Sarito Amaral, Dili – The East Timor National Parliament urges its government to immediately complete the investigation over the procurement of 77 MP1-V2 firearms from an Indonesian company, Pindad Indonesia. An independent commission has been investigating the weapons deal for a year now, yet there has been no result.

Karon Snowdon – East Timor's foreign minister says a boatload of asylum seekers en route to Australia was not forcibly pushed away from his country in early July.

The group of 95 mostly Rohingyas from Myanmar arrived on East Timor's south coast from Indonesia, having managed to get close to Darwin before their damaged boat drifted north.

Ezequiel Freitas, TDW – Survivors from 1975 continue to complain about injustice, so they've called on the government to accelerate the process of establishing an international court to process criminals who violated human rights in Timor-Leste in the past.

Program Coordinator of the Timor-Leste Coalition for Education (TLCE) Matias dos Santos said many Timorese students are studying illegally in Indonesia.

He said there are currently about 5,000 Timorese students in Indonesia, and many of them study illegally or don't have a passport.

Timorese National Police (PNTL) Deputy Commander, Afonso de Jesus, has acknowledged that the police force has failed in its conflict prevention plans and this has left the impression that the police just come to the conflict areas to pick up dead bodies and wounded people.

The so-called "martial arts" groups in East Timor continue to wreak havoc in the community despite purported efforts by the government of Xanana Gusmao to reign in the violence.

Member of Parliament Ancelmo da Conceicao, from the National Congress for the Reconstruction of Timor (CNRT) bench, said when a member of the government doesn't do their job well, they should be changed.

The Timor-Leste Defence Force (F-FDTL) plan to install a naval base in Hera will cause a lot of problems for the community living in Hera, according to the Director of security monitoring organization Fundasaun Mahein.

The President of the Republic, Taur Matan Ruak asked the Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao not to pander too much private contractors of government projects.

The Timorese police threatened to shoot the group of asylum seekers then misled them to get them to leave on a boat to Indonesia, according to one of the asylum seekers.

The 95 asylum seekers and four Indonesians arrived off the coast of Viqueque on July 1 after they had trouble with their boat, which was on route to Australia.

The United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR, says it's concerned about the welfare of a group of asylum seekers stranded on a remote island in Indonesia.

Vice President of the 12 November Commission Rogerio Castro da Cruz said the government's plan to build a monument in Santa Cruz hasn't been implemented.

He said while the former President Jose Ramos-Horta launched the plan last year at the Santa Cruz Cemetery, it remains a plan only.

Program Coordinator of the women's political organization Caucus, Paula Corte Real said they do not have programs to prepare women to participate in the village chief election to be held in 2014.

SEPI hasn't set a target for female participation in the upcoming village elections, but expects women's participation will increase.

Uncertainty surrounds the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims attempting to seek asylum in Australia but turned away by East Timor.

Dili, Timor-Leste – The Government of Timor-Leste, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the people of Quintal Bot district participated in a special ceremony today to mark the arrival of safe, reliable water to the district for the first time in 10 years.

Index: ASA 57/002/2013

Joint statement by Amnesty International, ANTI (The Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal) and KontraS (the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence)

The National Director for Workplace Inspections Aniceto Leto Soro said they would give fines to individuals and employers who give hard, physical work to minors under 18 years old, because this goes against their rights.