Maputo – Guterres, visiting president of the Timorese liberation movement (Fretilin), declared here on Tuesday that he is confident…
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June 26, 2001
Xinhua News - June 26, 2001
Australian Financial Review - June 26, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – A wizened brown man with black teeth squatted in the dusty Balibo roadside with eight 5-litre plastic jerry cans of kerosene he…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 26, 2001
Jane Counsel – A United States company is stepping up efforts to settle a 25-year dispute over the oil and gas riches of the Timor Gap, announcing…
June 25, 2001
Australian Financial Review - June 25, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – An armada of big, white four-wheel-drive vehicles cruises and clogs the dusty roads of Dili carrying the army of United Nations…
Australian Financial Review - June 25, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – Sergio Vieira de Mello says emphatically, perhaps too emphatically, that he is convinced East Timor's coming constituent…
Australian Associated Press - June 25, 2001
A group of protesters has demonstrated outside the Indonesian consulate in Melbourne on the first day of Indonesian President…
June 22, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 22, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Indonesian submarines and combat aircraft shadowed so closely ships carrying Australian and New Zealand troops into East Timor…
Lusa - June 22, 2001
Dili says it does not recognize claims by an American petroluem company that it obtained concession rights to exploit oil and natural gas in the…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 22, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's de facto government, the National Council, has backed the formation of an international war crimes tribunal to…
June 21, 2001
Lusa - June 21, 2001
The United States Senate approved Thursday a resolution condemning the "disproportionate" sentences an Indonesian court recently…
June 20, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - June 20, 2001
The secretary-general of the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) Avelinho Coelho said Tuesday if the party gets majority seats in the 30…
June 19, 2001
Lusa - June 19, 2001
An angry mob of street vendors stoned UN police and administrative personnel at a Dili market Tuesday, injuring three people and…
Australian Associated Press - June 19, 2001
Rod McGuirk, Darwin – The HIV virus had taken hold in East Timor and spread into Australia, a Dili-based doctor said today. As many as 15 foreign…
Sydney Morning Herld - June 19, 2001
Brian Robins – From being only rank hopefuls among offshore gasfields, Timor Sea projects backed by Phillips Petroleum and Woodside are racing off…
June 18, 2001
Melbourne Age - June 18, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch – Antonio da Silva rarely smiles. His left ear has been cut off, his fingers broken and he has seen some of his militia friends…
June 16, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 16, 2001
Mark Dodd – Negotiations between Australia and East Timor to conclude a new agreement on revenue sharing from the oil- and gas-rich Timor Sea have…
June 15, 2001
Asia Times - June 15, 2001
Canberra – Economic prospects for East Timor remained low in the medium term, the World Bank said ahead of a two-day meeting of donors to the…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 15, 2001
Mark Dodd – East Timor is set to get up to 90 per cent of Timor Sea oil and gas revenue in a move Australia hopes will ensure the new nation does…
Australian Associated Press - June 15, 2001
Karen Polglaze, Canberra – International donors today signed-off on East Timor's 2001-02 budget, the blueprint that will take the new country…
June 14, 2001
Expresso (Portugal) - June 14, 2001
Tony Jenkins – East Timor has acquired a powerful and unexpected new ally, a man some Americans still refer to as Dr Death: Henry Kissinger. In a…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 14, 2001
Hamish McDonald – The United Nations is running out of patience with the Indonesian Government's move to avoid prosecuting army, police and…
June 13, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 13, 2001
Kupang – Changes in the results of last week's registration of East Timorese refugees have aroused suspicion in Kupang of the possible…
UN News - June 13, 2001
A security operation conducted by United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor has resulted in the surrender of 34 suspected militia…
June 12, 2001
Lusa - June 12, 2001
East Timor may be forced to apply its future revenues from oil and natural gas exploration in the Timor Gap to cover its operational budget,…
Associated Press - June 12, 2001
Dili - East Timor's UN administrators Tuesday said they would push ahead with historic elections in August despite fears of unrest. UN…
Agence France Presse - June 12, 2001
Washington – A leading Timorese aid worker on Wednesday branded as a "sham" an Indonesian canvassing drive which found that 98 percent of East…
June 11, 2001
UN News - June 11, 2001
Sergio Vieira de Mello, the head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), has called the dissolution of the East…
June 9, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 9, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – As its final act, the organisation that united ordinary East Timorese in the struggle to end Indonesian rule called for all…
Straits Times - June 9, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The thousands of East Timorese still languishing in West Timor's camps are not free to choose to return to home as…
The Age - June 9, 2001
Mark Forbes, Canberra – Jose "Xanana" Gusmao will become East Timor's first president next year despite his pledge not to nominate, according to…
Melbourne Age - June 9, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili - Amid emotional scenes, the organisation that united ordinary East Timorese in the struggle to end Indonesian rule dissolved…
June 8, 2001
BBC Monitoring Service - June 8, 2001
Indonesian language Internet media sources have published comments by East Timorese refugee representatives and IX/Udayana Military Area Commander…
Agence France Presse - June 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank (BI) and the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) on Friday agreed to repatriate the…
Agence France Presse - June 8, 2001
Jakarta – An overwhelming majority of East Timorese refugees languishing in West Timor camps want to stay in Indonesia, early results of a…
Reuters - June 8, 2001
Irwin Arieff G. K. Goh, United Nations – East Timorese refugees eager to return home are being threatened and intimidated by militia who forced…
June 7, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 7, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres has been freed 23 days after an Indonesian court jailed him for six…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 7, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timorese languishing in Indonesian refugee camps were asked yesterday if they wanted to stay or go home as aid agencies…
Australian Associated Press - June 7, 2001
Karen Polglaze, Canberra – East Timor could not begin its life as an independent country by scaring off investors – so it would reach agreement…
BBC Monitoring Service - June 7, 2001
The East Timorese leader [currently cabinet member for foreign affairs] Jose Ramos Horta says his country cannot support the claim to…
ETAN/CIS - June 7, 2001
On June 6 and 7, the Indonesian government conducted a procedure throughout the refugee camps in West Timor. One stated objective was to allow…
Kyodo News - June 7, 2001
Kupang – Allegations of widespread fraud and reports of intimidation of voters marred an Indonesian-run vote Wednesday for thousands…
June 6, 2001
Green Left Weekly - June 6, 2001
John Gauci, Sydney – "East Timorese must ask themselves, why are we still divided? We can't go on holding other countries to blame", the new…
June 4, 2001
Australian Associated Press - June 4, 2001
Canberra – Administrative action is being taken against two defence personnel following high profile document leak investigations. Defence…
Australian Associated Press - June 4, 2001
Canberra – An interim East Timorese government minister has accused Telstra of monitoring private telephone conversations within the…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 4, 2001
Andrew West – Australian Government officials have been accused of burying a crucial intelligence report about a 1998 Indonesian massacre in the…
June 1, 2001
Aidwatch Briefing Notes - June 2001
By Tim Anderson for AID/WATCH
1. World Bank dictating terms of development in East Timor
While East Timorese society has…
UN News - June 1, 2001
The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today reported that the grenade attack that killed five people…
May 31, 2001
Australia Financial Review - May 31, 2001
Brendan Pearson – East Timor's bounty from Timor Gap oil and gas revenues may hit $US1 ($1.95 billion) billion annually this decade, East Timor's…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 31, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – A dispute over illegal trade on the East Timor border with Indonesian West Timor is thought to have caused a series…
May 30, 2001
UN Department of Public Information - May 30, 2001
The death toll in yesterday's attack along the border between East and West Timor has reached five, with up to 40 people injured, the United…