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ucanews
March 12, 2018
... may appear generous [but]...it amounts to around a week's worth of revenue," he wrote. The issue could become a major election issue in the upcoming May 10 national poll. Gusmao is expected to lead the opposition campaigning against the minority government led by his long-time rival Mari Alkatiri.
ucanews
March 7, 2018
In this file image taken in 2014, then Portuguese prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho (left) welcomes then Timor-Leste prime minister Xanana Gusmao before a meeting at Sao Bento Palace in Lisbon. (Photo by Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP)Ãâà...
Asia Times
March 2, 2018
Timor-Leste will go to the polls on May 12 for the second time in less than a year, with the country's politicians calling upon voters to break a stalemate that ended almost a decade of hard-earned political stability. Campaigning will officially begin on April 10, and the election is set to be hotly contested by theÃâà...
Crikey
February 28, 2018
This would be the second time they have since last July's election, which saw a standoff between the minority government of popular freedom fighters turned political party Fretilin, headed by the country's original post-independence Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, and the National Congress for TimoreseÃâà...
ucanews
February 1, 2018
As Timor-Leste's minority government lost control over parliament in the four months since it was installed by President Francisco Guterres Lu Olo in September 2017, caretaker prime minister Mari Alkatiri turned to Facebook to try and get his message out and threaten censorship. At times, it seemed like heÃâà...
The Straits Times
September 24, 2017
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wrote a congratulatory letter last week to the newly appointed Prime Minister of Timor Leste, Dr Mari Alkatiri, and invited him to visit Singapore. "Timor-Leste has made great strides since its independence in 2002, including through your personal contributionsÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
September 24, 2017
SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has written to Timor-Leste's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri to congratulate him on his appointment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a media release on Monday (Sep 25). In a letter dated Sep 22, Mr Lee wrote to Dr Alkatiri: "Timor-Leste has made great stridesÃâà...
ABS-CBN News
September 15, 2017
East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri after his swearing-in ceremony in Dili, East Timor on Friday. Lirio Da Fonseca, Reuters. East Timor swore in a new government Friday, led by a returning prime minister who experts say will need to wean the country off its reliance on oil revenues and diversify theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
September 14, 2017
East Timor, Asia's youngest democracy, is set to swear in Mari Alkatiri for a second stint as prime minister. President Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres said on Thursday in the capital Dili that he expected Alkatiri's swearing-in to be held either later in the day or on Friday. Alkatiri, the secretary-general of theÃâà...
