Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Former Indonesian military chief and prominent presidential candidate General Wiranto has challenged United Nations…
East Timor
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March 25, 2004
March 24, 2004
Max Lane – Since the East Timorese independence referendum in 1999, the Australian government has received approximately $1 billion dollars in…
Bob Burton, Canberra – East Timor's government, Australian political leaders and community groups are condemning the Australian government for…
Jill Jolliffe, Pante Macassar – The 45,000 inhabitants of East Timor's tiny enclave of Oecusse have suffered isolation and economic disadvantage…
March 23, 2004
Dili – UN prosecutors Tuesday urged East Timor's legal authorities to issue an international arrest warrant for Indonesia's former military…
Brendan Nicholson – A lobby group supporting East Timor wants Australia to put the billions flowing from some of the Timor Gap oil and gas fields…
March 22, 2004
Mark Davis – Moves to develop massive natural gas fields in the Timor Sea face new hurdles after East Timor's government yesterday strongly…
Sian Powell, Jakarta – Accused war criminal, love-song crooner and charismatic speaker: Wiranto is an oddity even among Indonesia's eccentric…
Brendan Nicholson – The East Timorese Government says Australia is breaching international law by taking billions of dollars worth of fuel from…
East Timor has threatened to withold ratification of an agreement with Australia to develop oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea worth eight-…
March 18, 2004
East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao said today he would not stand for re-election in his country's second presidential elections, are…
Guido Guillart, Dili – An American group said on Thursday it cancelled plans to distribute a children's book on democracy in East Timor, after the…
March 16, 2004
Dili – A former Australian diplomat said his country's "policy of failure" was partly to blame for Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor and its…
March 12, 2004
Kupang – East Timorese refugees in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province can no longer claim any assets in East Timor, as Thursday was the…
March 11, 2004
Washington – US legislators have urged Australia to negotiate its maritime boundary with East Timor to give the tiny nation a fair share of Timor…
March 10, 2004
Canberra – Australian opposition lawmakers on Wednesday held up legislation to ratify an oil and gas field development deal with East Timor,…
Jakarta – The Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of five top-brass military and police defendants in a case involving East Timor human…
March 8, 2004
East Timor today welcomed proposals to form a new foreign police unit, including Australian officers, to boost security after the current United…
March 7, 2004
Brian Brady, Westminster editor – A fresh row has broken out over the brutal murder of a Scottish journalist and four colleagues at the hands of…
March 5, 2004
Trevor Sykes with Andrew Burrell – East Timor's Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri, has angrily rejected claims he accepted $US2.5 million in bribes…
Jakarta – Former president Soeharto's daughter Siti Hardiyanti Indra Rukmana visited former East Timor integration fighters at their "…
March 4, 2004
Nigel Wilson and Roy Eccleston, Washington – The battle over the Timor Sea's vast gas reserves intensified yesterday with political delays to the…
March 1, 2004
Less than two years after winning independence, war-ravaged East Timor is hoping to lure travelers to its coral reefs and colonial towns.…
February 23, 2004
A proposal to extend a peacekeeping presence in East Timor has received widespread support from the United Nations Security Council, and strong…
Sian Powell – The son of one of East Timor's most feared militia leaders stares deadpan as he says he is a man of peace. "We don't intend to…
East Timor's Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Belo says he will consider running for president in three years time.
Bishop Belo, who shared the…
London – Many people are shot dead by police forces who do not follow United Nations standards on using lethal force only where necessary and in…
February 20, 2004
The rumours started four years ago. SAS troops in conflict with an Indonesian-backed militia group near Suai on October 6, 1999 had overstepped…
Rodney Dalton/New York, Sian Powell/Jakarta – Australia is trying to convince a divided UN Security Council that peacekeepers in East Timor should…
February 19, 2004
Atambua, E Nusatenggara – At least 319 resettlement units in Belu distrit set up in Indonesia's East Nusatenggara province between…
Dili – East Timorese officials Thursday welcomed a proposal by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to extend the UN support mission in the…
Dili – Indonesian presidential candidate General Wiranto has won a political reprieve in East Timor after a UN judge denied a…
February 18, 2004
United Nations – Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for the withdrawal of almost all UN peacekeepers in East Timor and a shift in the UN's focus…
Dili – United Nations Secretary- General Kofi Annan has recommended that the UN's peacekeeping mission in East Timor continues after its planned…
Kupang – The United Nations Peacekeeping Force (UNPKF) in East Timor aired its pessimism over the security conditions there following the…
February 17, 2004
Dili – A former militia commander was sentenced to seven years in jail Tuesday for killing a pro-independence leader during East Timor…
The Army today admitted it made mistakes in investigating the case of a senior Special Air Service (SAS) soldier accused of kicking the corpses of…
February 16, 2004
Mataram – The Indonesian military will deploy soldiers to Batek Island in neighboring East Nusa Tenggara province, which borders East…
February 15, 2004
Atambua – Illegal border crossing into Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province from East Timor is something hard to control, a local…
February 13, 2004
Dili – Production has begun at an offshore gasfield which is expected to earn impoverished East Timor more than $US100 million a year, a…
John Roberts – Long-running disagreements between Australia and East Timor over their maritime border and therefore control of Timor Sea oil and…
February 12, 2004
Australia – East Timor's neighboring nation, which East Timor has known since the Second World War, the Australian political position during the…
Thalif Deen, New York – The United Nations plans to withdraw its 3,500 peacekeepers from East Timor in May, despite calls from the government in…
February 9, 2004
Indonesia's former military chief, General Wiranto, has agreed to testify to a public hearing of war crimes charges against him, relating to post-…
February 6, 2004
Dili – The UN Security Council will "probably" opt for a continued civilian and security presence in East Timor following the end of its current…
An East Timor court has jailed a former pro-Jakarta militiaman for seven years for murdering an independence supporter during the…
Indonesian presidential candidate General Wiranto has agreed to testify to a public hearing of war crimes charges against him, East…
February 3, 2004
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February 2, 2004
A political dissident in East Timor says he is preparing to challenge the government when the United Nations mission to the country…
Radio Australia – The United Nations has announced it may maintain a presence in East Timor beyond the end of its peacekeeping mandate on May 20.…




