Michelle Nichols, Canberra – East Timor appealed to the United Nations Wednesday not to desert the world's newest nation by diverting its…
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December 10, 2003
Reuters - December 10, 2003
Reuters - December 10, 2003
Canberra – East Timor Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said Wednesday it is too soon to fret over the final shape of a permanent maritime…
Agence France Presse - December 10, 2003
Canberra – East Timor Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta has demanded Australia halt development of massive natural gas fields in the Timor Sea…
Agence France Presse - December 10, 2003
An East Timor court has jailed a former Indonesian army sergeant for crimes against humanity during the territory's bloody breakaway from Jakarta…
December 9, 2003
Antara - December 9, 2003
Kupang – Twenty-six East Timorese who have been seeking asylum in Belu district since last October have sent a petition to President Megawati…
Radio Australia - December 9, 2003
Mark Colvin: In East Timor, thousands of people remain in the grip of an acute food shortage, and now face a bleak and hungry Christmas. A severe…
Counter Punch (US) - December 9, 2003
Chris White – Not 8 hours into this day and google retrieved over 100 American news articles that have been published commemorating the day that…
December 8, 2003
Yarra Leader (Australia) - December 8, 2003
Rachel Kleinman – Yarra's East Timorese asylum-seekers face a miserable Christmas unless their appeals for residency are resolved.
About 700…
December 6, 2003
Herald Sun - December 6, 2003
Nigel Wilson – Production from the Bayu Undan gas recycling project in the Timor Sea has been delayed at least eight months with implications for…
December 5, 2003
Radio Australia - December 5, 2003
Eighteen months ago East Timor became the world's newest nation, but the euphoria of the independence celebrations is now long over.
Those…
December 3, 2003
South China Morning Post - December 3, 2003
Peter Kammerer – East Timorese look at Iraq in wonderment. Hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and investment are pouring into the still…
November 26, 2003
Associated Press - November 26, 2003
Dili – A Timorese militiaman was convicted Wednesday of crimes against humanity and sentenced to nine years in jail for killing three independence…
November 20, 2003
Associated Press - November 20, 2003
It was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration to mark the death of a fellow East Timorese activists.
Instead, Simplisio Celestino de Deus…
November 19, 2003
Melbounre Age - November 19, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – A United Nations official has pointed the finger at the UN police command for its failure to intervene effectively during…
November 15, 2003
Australian Associated Press - November 15, 2003
Post-independence confidence in East Timor has declined, with nearly 40 per cent of East Timorese saying they feel worse off now than under…
November 14, 2003
Associated Press - November 14, 2003
Canberra – East Timor's prime minister Friday accused Australia of deliberately dragging out talks aimed at bolstering his impoverished nation's…
November 12, 2003
Associated Press - November 12, 2003
Dili – Thousands of people gathered Wednesday to remember the victims of one of East Timor's worst massacres under Indonesian rule with a moment…
Business Week - November 12, 2003
Frederik Balfour – Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao became President of the world's newest country, East Timor in May, 2002. A veteran guerrilla leader…
Associated Press - November 12, 2003
Canberra – Australia and East Timor began talks on Wednesday aimed at settling a bitter dispute over carving up the seabed between the two nations…
Radio Australia - November 12, 2003
Australia is refusing to set a deadline for talks beginning today with its neighbour East Timor on their contentious maritime borders. East Timor…
November 11, 2003
Melbourne Age - November 11, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – East Timorese politicians are hoping a formal headcount to identify former pro-independence guerillas will end…
Asia Times - November 11, 2003
Damien Kingsbury, Melbourne – As the United Nations winds down its presence in East Timor ahead of next May's departure, the fledgling state is…
Courier-Mail (Queensland) - November 11, 2003
Nigel Wilson – Australia is refusing to give East Timor a timetable for reaching a permanent maritime boundary between the two countries that…
Agence France Presse - November 11, 2003
Sydney – Australia has denied bullying its tiny Pacific neighbour East Timor Tuesday as the nations prepared for talks on finalising a contentious…
November 10, 2003
The Australian - November 10, 2003
From a correspondent in Dili – East Timor introduced its own coins today, hoping to spur economic development and create a symbol for the country…
Radio Australia - November 10, 2003
The first lady of East Timor, Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, has urged Australia to consider the plight of the fledgeling nation when negotiations begin…
November 8, 2003
Courier Mail (Brisbane) - November 8, 2003
Sandra McLean – During East Timor's independence struggle, few men were more revered than Xanana Gusmao, the leader of the resistance movement.…
November 7, 2003
Manly Daily (Australia) - November 7, 2003
Just four years after the vote for independence in East Timor, the country's first lady, Kirsty Sword Gusmao, believes the country's peace is…
Sydney Morning Herald - November 7, 2003
Louise Williams – The quest for justice for East Timor's victims of human rights abuses under Indonesian military occupation is in effect over.…
November 6, 2003
The Standard (China) - November 6, 2003
Louis Beckerling – East Timor president Xanana Gusmao warned Asian business leaders yesterday that if people in the poorest countries of the…
Lusa - November 6, 2003
Dili – East Timor's governing Fretilin party has lost electoral support but retains majority backing after nearly 18 months in power, according to…
November 5, 2003
Radio Australia - November 5, 2003
Linda Mottram: Australian troops in East Timor are preparing for the pull out of UN peacekeepers next year. They're handing over key duties to the…
Antara - November 5, 2003
Kupang – A top East Timorese community leader in Indonesia, Armindo Soares, said a lot of East Timorese refugees who participated in the…
SBS Dateline - November 5, 2003
For several years stories have been circulating, mostly unpublished, concerning claims that Australian soldiers were engaged in acts of torture of…
Melbourne Age - November 5, 2003
Deborah Snow – Fresh allegations of torture by Australian troops in East Timor will be made in tonight's SBS Dateline program, with former militia…
November 4, 2003
Manly Daily (Australia) - November 4, 2003
Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the Australian-born first lady of the world's newest nation, once shared two of her husband's big dreams for an independent…
November 1, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald Book Review - November 1, 2003
["A Woman of Independence". By Kirsty Sword Gusmao. Macmillan, 321pp, $30.]
Peter Pierce – Kirsty Sword Gusmao's "A Woman of Independence"…
Antara - November 1, 2003
Atambua – The Belu district government said it was treating the 26 East Timorese seeking asylum in Atambua as foreign nationals.
…October 31, 2003
Melbourne Age - October 31, 2003
Jill Jolliffe – Today's pilgrimage to Balibo by the families of the five television reporters killed in an Indonesian attack on the East Timorese…
Daily Telegraph (Sydney) - October 31, 2003 Friday
Keith Suter – The largest loss of life ever sustained by the Australian media industry took place on October 16, 1975, at the East Timor village…
October 30, 2003
Antara - October 30, 2003
Waingapu – East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao has expressed anger over attitude of the country's citizens seeking asylum in Atambua, Belu…
Antara - October 30, 2003
Kupang – The leaders of two ex-East Timorese refugee organizations have urged the Indonesian government to refrain from deporting 26 East Timorese…
October 29, 2003
Associated Press - October 29, 2003
A former militia leader, who was sentenced to 10 years for his role in the 1999 East Timor violence, unfurled a giant Indonesian flag…
October 28, 2003
Jakarta Post - October 28, 2003
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao called on East Timor asylum seekers on Monday in the Indonesia's territory of Atambua…
October 27, 2003
Antara - October 27, 2003
Atambua – The Indonesian military and police have agreed to deport 26 East Timorese who are seeking asylum at Belu police resort in…
October 24, 2003
Letter published in the Guardian (UK) - October 24, 2003
The Australian High Commissioner believes that the interim legal framework for Timor Sea petroleum development is a winner for East Timor (letters…
October 23, 2003
Associated Press - October 23, 2003
Dili – An East Timorese court Thursday convicted and sentenced two former pro-Jakarta militiaman for murdering three independence…
October 22, 2003
Australian Associated Press - October 22, 2003
Ben Packham, Melbourne – East Timorese trade unionists have ended the nation's first-ever strike. The country's aviation workers ended…
October 21, 2003
Lusa - October 21, 2003
Dili – East Timorese leaders, returning home from a European tour, expressed optimism Tuesday about continued European Union aid but said Dili's…
October 20, 2003
Melbourne Age - October 20, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Batugade – East Timorese self-sufficiency came a step closer at the weekend as United Nations peacekeepers handed control of the…