updated Sat. April 13, 2024
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Fiji Times
March 6, 2018
"Currently, it takes 10 hours to travel between Dili and Viqueque by bus. The existing Baucau to Viqueque national road corridor, essential to Timor-Leste's economic activities, is generally in poor condition being narrow and mostly unsealed," said Paolo Spantigati, ADB Country Director for Timor-Leste.
Fox Business
March 6, 2018
Australia and East Timor will sign a treaty that draws the first-ever maritime border between the neighbors, resolving years of bitter wrangling with a deal that carves up billions of dollars of oil and gas riches that lie ... Associated Press writer Oki Raimundos in Dili, East Timor, contributed to this report.
Nikkei Asian Review
March 5, 2018
East Timor depended on oil and gas for 85% of its revenue in 2017, according to La'o Hamutuk, a Dili think tank. But with existing fields running dry, access to Greater Sunrise is vital to the country's economic prospects. For Australia, the signing is timely as it comes ahead of the ASEAN-Australian SpecialÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 3, 2018
The border dispute between Canberra and Dili has continued to fester since Timor-Leste gained independence from Indonesia in 2002, with the issue rooted in agreements that date back decades earlier. That had resulted in oil giants Woodside Petroleum, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell, and OsakaÃâà...
The Straits Times
February 26, 2018
DILI • Timor-Leste and Australia have reached an agreement for a treaty on their disputed maritime border and on a "pathway" to develop the giant Greater Sunrise offshore gas fields, the Permanent Court of Arbitration said yesterday. Under the agreement, the share of revenue from the offshore gas fieldÃâà...
Houstonia Magazine
February 14, 2018
Literally. Timor-Leste boasts some amazing diving due to its location as well as its lack of industry and commercial fishing. Many hardcore diving enthusiasts head for Atauro, the 12 mile long island north of Dili. You can get there for $5 on Saturdays (with the big ferry). All other days are $45 by speedboat.
The Sydney Morning Herald
February 10, 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 Australia, according to a report from the country's capital of Dili. The Portuguese news agency Lusa quotes a source familiar with sensitive andÃâà...
Asia Times
December 31, 1999
The agreement follows another reached in September over the maritime borders between the two nations, a decades-old dispute that Dili feels particularly aggrieved about as, it contends, Australia was given generous border demarcation in the 1980s while Timor-Leste was under Indonesian occupation.
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