It was never meant to be seen outside of a UN retreat... but now a very critical assessment of East Timor's national institutions has surfaced,…
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May 18, 2011
ABC Radio Australia - May 18, 2011
ABC Radio Australia - May 18, 2011
Thousands of coffee farmers in East Timor are bracing for a lean harvest, with heavy rains taking their toll.
Coffee from East Timor has…
May 14, 2011
Philippine Daily Inquirer - May 14, 2011
Edilberto C. de Jesus – The effects of the violence visited on the East Timor capital of Dili by the fighting among its fragmented communities…
May 13, 2011
ABC News - May 13, 2011
The Federal Government has abandoned plans to establish a regional immigration processing centre in East Timor.
The proposal was announced…
May 10, 2011
ABC Radio Australia - May 10, 2011
Fairfax newspapers are reporting news of East Timor rejecting an offer from China to build a surveillance radar facility on its territory fearing…
Melbourne Age - May 10, 2011
Philip Dorling – China recently tried to establish a spy base in East Timor, according to leaked US diplomatic cables.
The Chinese proposal…
May 9, 2011
Australian Associated Press - May 9, 2011
An East Timor court has acquitted the country's deputy prime minister of corruption and abuse of power charges after he was accused of securing an…
May 6, 2011
Sydney Morning Herald - May 6, 2011
Phillip Coorey & Kirsty Needham – The Gillard government is believed to have given up on establishing a regional processing centre in East…
May 5, 2011
Asia Times - May 5, 2011
Megawati Wijaya, Singapore – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will weigh this week in Jakarta whether to bring East Timor, also…
New Matilda - May 5, 2011
John Martinkus – A leaked US diplomatic cable from the US Embassy in Lisbon in 2006 details a senior Portuguese intelligence official accusing…
Straits Times - May 5, 2011
Barry Wain – Government officials, analysts and academics continue to debate the merits of admitting Timor Leste this year to the Association of…
May 1, 2011
Amnesty International Report - May 2011
April 30, 2011
Melbourne Age - April 30, 2011
East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao says he is against an Australian proposal to establish a regional refugee centre in his country. "I…
April 29, 2011
Canberra Times - April 29, 2011
George Quinn – Since 2004 about 300 Cuban doctors, nurses and medical technicians have been working quietly but effectively in East Timor.
…
Australian Associated Press - April 29, 2011
East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has moved to clarify reports he has rejected an Australian bid for an immigration detention centre in his…
Melbourne Age - April 29, 2011
Lindsay Murdoch – Julia Gillard's proposal to build a refugee centre in East Timor has been rejected by the country's President Jose Ramos-Horta,…
April 25, 2011
Melbourne Age - April 25, 2011
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor has rejected a claim that its leaders are failing their mainly impoverished people by blocking development of…
Jakarta Globe - April 25, 2011
Joe Cochrane – To many Indonesians, Timor-Leste is a country redolent with bad dreams, the result of the problematic past when it was the country'…
April 21, 2011
New York Times - April 21, 2011
Brian Knowlton, Washington – A frank evaluation by the World Bank's internal auditors of a decade of efforts to help East Timor underscores the…
April 20, 2011
PacNet - April 20, 2011
Loro Horta – After 400 years of inept Portuguese colonial rule and 24 years of brutal Indonesian occupation, Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor)…
Australian Associated Press - April 20, 2011
Woodside Petroleum Ltd says East Timor's government has ignored requests for talks on the stalled Sunrise development and that competitors had…
April 18, 2011
International Crisis Group - April 18, 2011
Overview
The unresolved status of thousands of former refugees who fled across the border following a 1999 vote for independence…
Straits Times - April 18, 2011
Lynn Lee – Indonesia is backing Timor Leste's bid to join Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) because excluding it would be "…
April 16, 2011
Straits Times - April 16, 2011
Zubaidah Nazeer, Dili – Former investment banker Derek Chua traded in his sharp suits for comfortable clothes so that he could cycle to work each…
April 15, 2011
Australian Associated Press - April 15, 2011
Karlis Salna – Defence Minister Stephen Smith says a full assessment of a planned withdrawal of Australian troops from East Timor will be made in…
April 14, 2011
New Matilda - April 14, 2011
Clinton Fernandes – In April 2007 I applied to the National Archives of Australia for access to records of the Defence Intelligence Organisation…
April 12, 2011
Australian Associated Press - April 12, 2011
Karlis Salna – East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta has dismissed suggestions Australian forces should remain in the fledgling nation beyond a…
Australian Associated Press - April 12, 2011
Karlis Salna – East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta says a plan for a regional processing centre to be built in his country has not been on…
April 11, 2011
The Australian - April 11, 2011
Rowan Callick – Australia should maintain troops in East Timor beyond their planned withdrawal after next year's elections, says the Australian…
April 8, 2011
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - April 8, 2011
Australian Associated Press - April 8, 2011
Adam Gartrell – Australia should maintain a military presence in East Timor as late as 2020, a new report recommends.
The Australian…
April 6, 2011
ABC News - April 6, 2011
Sara Everingham and staff – East Timor's deputy prime minister has confirmed his country has rejected Australia's proposal to establish a refugee…
April 4, 2011
ABC News - April 4, 2011
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says he does not accept reports East Timor is not in favour of housing a regional processing centre…
April 1, 2011
ABC News - April 1, 2011
Matt Brown – More cold water has been poured on plans to establish an asylum seeker processing centre in East Timor, with the UN refugee agency…
March 31, 2011
Melbourne Age - March 31, 2011
Tom Allard and Kirsty Needham – East Timor has reaffirmed its hostility to a refugee processing centre on its territory, even as the Gillard…
Australian Associated Press - March 31, 2011
Karlis Salna – East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has given his strongest indication yet that he is opposed to the idea of a refugee…
March 30, 2011
Reuters - March 30, 2011
Brian Padden – Indonesia's unreserved support for East Timor's membership to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations reinforces the growing…
Crikey.com - March 30, 2011
Damien Kingsbury – The government's East Timor asylum seeker solution is dying a death of a thousand cuts. It is a slow and painful process and…
Australian Associated Press - March 30, 2011
Karlis Salna – Prime Minister Julia Gillard plans to pursue an agreement with East Timor over her proposal for a regional refugee processing…
March 29, 2011
Australian Associated Press - March 29, 2011
Karlis Salna – East Timor remains open to discussing Australia's plan for a regional refugee processing centre to be built on its territory but…
Melbourne Age - March 29, 2011
Tom Allard and Kirsty Needham – East Timor has dismissed Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal for a refugee processing centre on its…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 29, 2011
Dylan Welch – The veil of secrecy obscuring what Australia knew about Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor will be pulled back a little, after…
March 28, 2011
Australian Associated Press - March 28, 2011
Jeremy Thompson – Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says an agreement for an offshore immigration centre on East Timor will not be reached at a…
March 27, 2011
Agence France Presse - March 27, 2011
Dili – United Nations police have returned full control of East Timor to the national force, more than four years after bloody clashes threatened…
Australian Associated Press - March 27, 2011
The federal government will attempt to rally support for a regional asylum seeker processing centre in East Timor during a meeting in Bali this…
March 23, 2011
Jakarta Globe - March 23, 2011
Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia has agreed to step up cooperation in solving border problems with East Timor, its former territory, an Indonesian…
Australian Associated Press - March 23, 2011
Karlis Salna – Indonesia says the Bali Process remains the best forum for achieving a regional agreement on how best to deal with asylum seekers…
March 22, 2011
Jakarta Globe - March 22, 2011
Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia and East Timor on Tuesday agreed to step up cooperation in solving border problems, said an Indonesian presidential…
March 16, 2011
Australian Associated Press - March 16, 2011
Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor has discussed the so-called East Timor solution with Indonesian officials as Australia prepares to make its…
March 10, 2011
Business Spectator - March 10, 2011
A treaty between Australia and East Timor covering the Greater Sunrise liquefied natural gas development is at risk, according to a…