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Coconuts
February 27, 2018
Last Friday, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) made no surprises by officially nominating President Joko Widodo to run for a second term in the 2019 election. With the government's coalition of parties set to continue their support for Jokowi and his poll numbers remaining strong, hisÃÂ ...
Bangkok Post
February 26, 2018
"I was there in East Timor in September 1999 when we conducted the intervention that is known as Interfet, and Australia looked around Southeast Asia for ... Thai dancers pose in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge after a performance celebrating 65 years of official diplomatic relations between the twoÃÂ ...
The Australian
February 24, 2018
Big Jim Molan had them eating out of his hand with his straight-talking lessons in leadership forged in East Timor and Iraq. “It is a rare ..... But when he first arrived in the country, Molan didn't really have an official position and at first he was an observer, peering over the shoulder of another general. He setÃÂ ...
Daily Free Press (blog)
February 19, 2018
The problem is that the fields are equidistant from East Timor and its southern neighbor Australia, and the two nations have yet to come to an agreement about the official maritime border. The basis of East Timorese-Australian relations have hinged on this issue for nearly two decades, and despite threeÃÂ ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
February 11, 2018
East Timor could receive up to 80 per cent of revenue from the $50 billion Greater Sunrise oil and gas field in the Timor Sea under a still-secret agreement with ... Officials from the two countries, in meetings under the watch of the United Nations, have set a March 1 deadline to agree on the final details.
The Times
February 9, 2018
The 22 North Korean athletes have all refused the gift of a Samsung mobile phone made to all competitors, after the Olympic authorities said that to avoid violating sanctions on “luxury goods” they ... The 91 national teams paraded around the stadium one by one, including four athletes from tiny East Timor.
New Matilda
February 9, 2018
Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery has written an explosive account of his legal battle to secure the rights of East Timor over offshore gas fields. ... Timorese Cabinet ministers and officials over their legal action to gain fair and adequate royalties for natural gas from fields within the country's territorial waters.
World Politics Review
January 29, 2018
Last month, the U.N.'s top political official, Jeffrey Feltman, visited Pyongyang to talk about reopening crisis-management channels. This was a rare moment for the U.N., showing that it can play in the diplomatic big leagues and even has unique capabilities to do so: Feltman is a former U.S. ambassadorÃÂ ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
January 25, 2018
Bangkok: East Timor's Parliament has been dissolved and fresh elections called to end a political impasse that has paralysed Australia's north-western neighbour for months. President Francisco ... Guterres looked upset as he announced the decision before dozens of MPs, officials and journalists in Dili.
U.S. News & World Report
January 23, 2018
Mattis raised the matter in an exchange with reporters after unrelated meetings in the Indonesia capital with senior government officials. ... Indonesia's special forces were accused of major abuses through the 1990s in the provinces of Papua and Aceh and in East Timor, a former province that has gainedÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
January 23, 2018
JAKARTA – Indonesia said on Tuesday it was pinning its hopes on U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to help ease American limitations on ties with an elite Indonesian special forces unit imposed over human rights abuses in the 1990s. The United States announced in 2010 that it had lifted its outright banÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
November 28, 2017
First, East Timor officials have repeatedly exhorted the international community to continue supporting Guinea-Bissau, which they call a “brother country.” While East Timor is not the only country to play this role (Brazil has long championed Guinea-Bissau at the UN and Community of Portuguese LanguageÃÂ ...
Macau Business
November 13, 2017
“As of now, we haven't had any contact from East Timor, Portugal or Australian authorities,” he added. No comment from the ... Lusa confirmed that Mr. Guerra reported his presence last Monday, and it was not possible to obtain any official comment from the PNTL todayas it is a public holiday in the country.
Nikkei Asian Review
November 11, 2017
MANILA (Kyodo) -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will convene a meeting of senior officials next month to discuss admitting East Timor as a ... Chandra did not elaborate, but another ASEAN official said "no breakthrough is on the horizon" despite Indonesia's wish for East Timor's admission asÃÂ ...
BBC News
September 15, 2017
Sea Shepherd said it ferried police to the vessels in East Timor's waters. East Timor authorities have not commented on the matter. The fishing fleet's owner said it held government permits and had done nothing wrong. "We are in contact with the East Timor government right now," said a spokesman forÃÂ ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
September 2, 2017
Japan's self-defense-only principle under the country's war-renouncing constitution prohibits its military from making a first strike, and officials discussing aÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
September 2, 2017
Australia and East Timor have struck a deal to end a contentious ... that cut through lucrative oil and gas fields, officials said on Saturday.
WHIO
September 2, 2017
An international arbitration panel says Australia and East Timor have reached ... In the statement to ITV, Disneyland Paris officials wrote, “An isolated incident, the .... later in Delmenhorst, hadn't hesitated to alert authorities - for example police,ÃÂ ...
The Australian
September 1, 2017
East Timor's new parliament is ready to be sworn in next week but it's ... in the 'No' ad complained in 2016 to state education officials about herÃÂ ...
ASEAN TODAY
August 31, 2017
On 22 July 2017, the young Southeast Asian country of East Timor held its first ... and grant it an official platform to discuss regional security issues. ... by the relevant senior officials” and affirmed that ASEAN was committed toÃÂ ...
Crikey (registration)
August 30, 2017
Australia's ruthless past with East Timor ... I also found hundreds of documents in which those same officials and politicians were downplayingÃÂ ...
Study International News
August 22, 2017
Police fired tear gas at hundreds of students protesting against allegedly corrupt government officials at East Timor on Monday, forcingÃÂ ...
Independent Australia
August 10, 2017
Once in occupation, the Indonesians virtually cut East Timor off from the outside ... and the U.S., but not because of the threat of official violence or oppression. ... demonstrating direct culpability of the Indonesian authorities.
BBC News
August 5, 2017
A conflict with the Serbian authorities followed, which only ended with Nato ... East Timor was a Portuguese colony until the 1960s, when it wasÃÂ ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
August 4, 2017
The hero of East Timor's independence struggle Xanana Gusmao has ... In a speech to a closed meeting of party officials, Mr Gusmao tookÃÂ ...
The Interpreter
July 26, 2017
As the first election administered solely by the Timorese themselves, without the guiding hand of UN officials, Saturday's poll was a significantÃÂ ...
The West Australian
July 24, 2017
Bali authorities are remaining tight-lipped on what their intelligence shows about Davidson and his movements since he fled the prison.
Deutsche Welle
July 23, 2017
Preliminary results from East Timor's parliamentary election indicate that ... Official results are expected to be certified during the week ahead byÃÂ ...
The Sentinel
July 22, 2017
The vote Saturday was East Timor's first parliamentary election without ... Results will be official once certified by the country's Court of Appeal,ÃÂ ...
Voice of America
July 19, 2017
Marching through the streets of East Timor's capital Dili with a ... The call was a “welcome glint of leadership amidst officials ... is “no room” for gay rights movement, while authorities detained 141 men in a gay club raid in May.
Huffington Post Australia
July 13, 2017
... Prison before being found in East Timor in June have re-enacted 30 ... jail officials and inmates and also locations such as the international airport, ... Prior to Ilev and Said being re-captured, authorities voiced concerns the four ... cups and sandals which were found nearby, according to a prison official.
Sky News Australia
December 31, 1999
But it was a more contrite Ms Nelson in an official statement sent to Sky News ... She fled East Timor in 1975, arriving in Australia as a refugee.
Port City Daily
March 24, 2017
He has served on six Marine Expeditionary Unit deployments, in Operation Desert Storm, in the Adriatic Sea, Rwanda and in East Timor. He also commanded the 1st Marine Logistics Group in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has been ... Ruttkay's artwork, a ...
Asia Times
March 24, 2017
Former guerrilla leader Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres is tipped to become the next president of Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, after exit polls showed he won a clear majority at this week's polls. Preliminary results show that Guterres received ...
Times Colonist
March 23, 2017
OTTAWA - Canada has been approved to join a controversial new international infrastructure bank led by China. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank says Canada is among 13 applicants approved for membership in the bank by its board of governors.
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 23, 2017
Dili: When invading Indonesian troops parachuted into Dili in 1975 Filomena Gomes fled into East Timor's cloud-shrouded mountains and for four years scrounged food and cooked for guerrilla fighters.
New Zealand Herald
March 21, 2017
DORTMUND, Germany " World Cup champion Germany is looking for its first victory at home against England since September 1987 to give Lukas Podolski a winning sendoff in his last international.
Western Advocate
March 21, 2017
New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show the official unemployment rate has increased from 5.7 to 5.9 per cent.
Rappler
March 21, 2017
DILI, East Timor (UPDATED) - A former guerrilla fighter has won East Timor's presidential election in just one round, an early count indicated Tuesday, March 21, in a sign of growing stability for Asia's youngest nation.
Morning Star Online
March 20, 2017
FORMER liberation movement guerilla leader Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres expressed confidence yesterday that he would win East Timor's vote for a new president at the first hurdle. The candidate of the ... Official results are not expected until tomorrow.
RFI
March 20, 2017
"There was an official decision taken many years ago that the two countries needed to establish a positive bilateral relationship," says Kingsbury, who crossed the border between East Timor and Indonesian-ruled West Timor to find Indonesians "very ...
New Zealand Herald
March 19, 2017
Authorities fear a Cairns man who went spearfishing alone in far north Queensland may have been taken by a shark or a crocodile.
CBC.ca
March 19, 2017
Norway socked away more than $800 billion during the resource boom. Other countries, from Kuwait to Kazakhstan, Trinidad to East Timor, placed a portion of their windfalls in "sovereign wealth funds." ... government official said they thought the boom ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 15, 2017
The site in East Timor where Indonesian troops killed five Australian journalists in 1975 will be transformed with the construction of a new conference centre after a $100,000 donation by the Victorian government.
SBS
March 13, 2017
East Timor's decision to rip up a treaty with Australia on the carve up of future revenue from Greater Sunrise oil and gas reserve in the Timor Sea could make it an "architect of its own demise", experts have told a parliamentary inquiry.
Inner City Press
February 26, 2017
UNITED NATIONS, February 26 - Morocco's King Mohammed VI spoke to UN Secretary General on February 24, his media reports, while Guterres' spokeman Stephane Dujarric ran out of the UN Press Briefing Room as Inner City Press asked him about aÃÂ ...
Inquirer.net
February 26, 2017
Some other indicators of weak leadership are lack of initiative, selective and withholds imposition of punishment to erring officials, selective and delayed enforcement of the justice system, and lackadaisical obedience to the duly constituted ...
The Times
February 25, 2017
Bangkok: Victorian man Thomas Keating will be unable to leave Thailand for months pending a Thai court hearing on a charge of reckless driving causing the death of his partner Emily Collie in a jet-ski crash.
The Times
February 25, 2017
Paris: French President Francois Hollande fired back at Donald Trump on Saturday after the US president told a conservative conference that a friend thought "Paris is no longer Paris" after attacks by Islamist militants.
Inner City Press
February 24, 2017
UNITED NATIONS, February 24 - Even after Morocco threw portions of the UN Peacekeeping mission out of Western Sahara, when the UN Security Council met on the topic on February 22 it was not listed on their agenda and afterward the President ofÃÂ ...
