Michael Bachelard – East Timor is a long way from realising its dreams of prosperity despite its oil revenue.
Timor Plaza's bleached interiors, glass-sided elevators and fluorescent lights mark it out as the cousin of every shopping mall in almost every city in the world.
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – A number of foreigners, mostly wives of diplomats, have been reportedly flowing out of East Timor due to safety concerns ahead of the March 17 presidential election, Indonesian ambassador to Dili, Eddy Setiabudhi, said on Thursday.
Michael Bachelard – East Timor's presidential election race is heating up, with the Fretilin candidate Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres accusing one of his main rivals of being a "cat's paw" of the government.
East Timor's first and shortest-serving president Francisco Xavier do Amaral died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer, a presidential spokesman said.
Damien Kingsbury – (Unknown) 1937-6 March, 2012. East Timor's first president, for just 9 days ahead of Indonesia's invasion in 1975, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, has died in Dili at the age of 74 of complications caused by advanced cancer.
East Timor's incumbent president Jose Ramos-Horta says he remains firm in the view that Australian and United Nations troops stationed in his country must withdraw before the end of the year.
Damien Kingsbury – (Unknown) 1937-6 March, 2012. East Timor's first president, for just 9 days ahead of Indonesia's invasion in 1975, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, has died in Dili at the age of 74 of complications caused by advanced cancer.
Concerns have been raised about possible intimidation of voters in a number of electoral districts in East Timor by members of the military loyal to their former chief and presidential hopeful Taur Matan Ruak.
Karlis Salna – Former guerilla commander Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres has warned ahead of East Timor's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections that the young country must resist returning to the violence of its recent past.
Lindsay Murdoch – They were East Timor's stolen generation. Between 1975 and 1999, about 4000 young and vulnerable Timorese were secretly taken to Indonesia, where some of them were forced to work in slave-like conditions while others were educated and grew up with the families of soldiers, an Australian academic has found.
Michael Leach – Timor-Leste goes to the polls again on 17 March to elect a new president for a five-year term.
While the president's role is largely symbolic, and government is formed at the parliamentary elections in June, the election is important in several respects.
Ted McDonnell – President Jose Ramos-Horta's bid for reelection in East Timor suffered a blow Thursday when a key political party said it would back his opponent.
The UN Security Council has decided to extend its peacekeeping mission in East Timor until the end of 2012 but to gradually phase it out after that.
The mission has about 1000 police and military advisers, most of them from Australia and New Zealand, who were deployed in 2006 to help the government in Dili maintain order and security.
East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta said Wednesday that many Timorese will waste their vote in a presidential election next month if they back one of the explosion of small parties in contention.
Karlis Salna – Police in East Timor are on high alert after two offices connected to the administration of upcoming elections were hit with firebombs.
The attack, at about 3am (5am AEDT) on Monday in the capital Dili, comes just weeks out from presidential elections which will be held on March 17.
Hamish McDonald – As Australians recalled the Japanese bombing of Darwin 70 years ago yesterday, the leader of a small neighbouring country was reminding us gently that this was but a sideshow to the catastrophe that hit his people a day later.
In this open letter The Judicial System Monitoring Programme (JSMP), KontraS (the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence), and Amnesty International write to urge the Security Council to take immediate and effective steps to address the continuing impunity for crimes against humanity and gross human rights violations which occurred in Timor-Leste (then East Timor)
Defence Minister Stephen Smith and East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao have discussed Australia's future security role as East Timor moves towards elections and an end to the United Nations mission.
Australia's invasion of East Timor (yes, really) [1] in December 1941, is widely assumed to have been made in order to expel Japanese forces from the territory. In fact Japan had no forces in Portuguese Timor, as Australian policymakers knew at the time.
Damien Kingsbury – As Timor-Leste heads into the three rounds of 2012 elections, election observers have begun to organise to monitor the election process and to report their findings.
Accredited by Timor-Leste's National Electoral Commission (CNE), observers continue to play a critical role in the young country's still developing democratic process.
During Indonesia's 25-year occupation of East Timor, about 4-thousand children were transferred to Indonesia to live with adoptive parents. Some were taken by soldiers and others were sent by government and religious organisations.
The UN Security Council will renew UNMIT's mandate following discussions on Timor-Leste on 22 and 23 February in New York. To inform their debate, La'o Hamutuk has written the following letter to the Council, which can also be downloaded from http://www.laohamutuk.org/reports/UN/LHtoUNSC15Feb2012En.pdf.
Damien Kingsbury – The various contenders for Timor-Leste's presidency in the 17 March election have begun to try to persuade the voting public why they should be elected as president. A number of candidates have said that, if elected, they will institute particular changes or reforms. These promises appear, however, to misunderstand the role of Timor-Leste's president.
Bangkok – The Southeast Asian half-island nation of Timor-Leste is falling short on most Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), experts warn.
"The areas that remain challenging or off-track compared to the 2015 targets include poverty, underweight children, maternal mortality and sanitation," Felix Piedade, the national adviser of Timor Leste's MDG Secretariat, told IRIN.
Jim Della-Giacoma – Early in 2010, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sitting in Kabul with some diplomats who had served in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
"Is it true", he asked, "that Indonesia just walked away from East Timor after 1999?" "Absolutely", they replied.
East Timor or Timor-Leste on Wednesday sought Thailand's assistance and support in its quest for membership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or Asean.
The request was made by East Timor's Foreign Minister Zacarius Albano da Costa who is visiting the country as a guest of the Thai foreign ministry.
Rory Callinan – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has been forced to fend off allegations that he is trying to avoid media scrutiny before the upcoming presidential elections by refusing to pay an outstanding debt to a corruption-busting newspaper.
Agus Wandi – On a recent trip to East Timor, while talking to fishermen on Areia Branca Beach, hanging out with taxi drivers, getting lost cycling in Dili with its new street names, catching up with friends working for the United Nations there, having dinner with a Nobel laureate and coffee with a presidential candidate, it was clear that there is one common feeling among East Timor
Sara Everingham – A Timorese-Australian who was acquitted of conspiring to kill East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is now running for his job.
Angelita Pires has returned to Darwin from Dili where she has declared her candidacy for next month's Presidential election. Ms Pires was charged over the 2008 shooting of President Ramos-Horta but was acquitted in 2010.
The Timorese-born Australian Angelita Pires recently declared her nomination in East Timor's Presidential election and is now preparing to begin her campaign.
In 2010 Angelita Pires was acquitted of conspiring to murder the current President Jose Ramos-Horta. She is the former partner of the rebel leader Alfredo Reinado who was shot dead during that attack.
Damien Kingsbury – As Timor-Leste's political climate warms up ahead of next month's presidential elections, many people are asking who is most likely to be elected president. In a country that does not have political polling, there are no obvious indications as to which candidates are most preferred by voters.
Damien Kingsbury – As Timor-Leste's political climate warms up ahead of next month's presidential elections, many people are asking who is most likely to be elected president. In a country that does not have political polling, there are no obvious indications as to which candidates are most preferred by voters.
Makassar – The Indonesian government is seeking the release of six traditional fishermen from South Sulawesi caught by Timor Leste police last year.
"We will not stay idle with regard to the arrest of our fishermen by police in the neighboring country," Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Sharif C. Sutardjo said on Saturday.
East Timor's Ministry of Education says it will go ahead with a pilot program to teach young students in their own minority language, despite vocal opposition from some civil society groups.
East Timor's strong economic growth is at risk from high inflation fueled by government spending, the International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday.
The oil-rich but impoverished island state, which a decade ago achieved independence after a long struggle, has made "substantial progress toward restoring stability and rebuilding the country," the IMF said in a statement.
Dili – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said Thursday that his young nation was capable of handling its own security after UN troops depart at the end of this year, despite fears of violence.
Fransisco Guterres, better known as 'Lu Olo', lodged his official nomination for East Timor's presidency on Tuesday with the endorsement of the Fretilin party.
In the last Presidential election Lu Olo received the most votes in the first round but didn't reach the required 50 per cent. He was beaten by Jose Ramos Horta in the second round.
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Karlis Salna – East Timorese presidential hopeful Francisco Guterres has called for peaceful elections that will avoid the violence which broke out five years ago when the young country last went to the polls.
Damien Kingsbury – The announcement by President Jose Ramos-Horta that he will seek re-election for a second term in office has thrown open Timor-Leste's presidential race, all but guaranteeing that the process will now run to a second round of voting.
East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said Tuesday he will seek another term in March polls, as the young nation votes for the first time since an assassination bid that almost killed him.
Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Nobel peace prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta is expected to announce today that he is in the running for another five-year term as president of East Timor.
Your Excellency
Fernando Lasama de Araujo
President
National Parliament
Timor-Leste
Berlin, 24. January 2012
Your Excellency
Citra Dyah Prastuti – From his village around 160 km from East Timor's capital Dili, Miguel Amaral recalls the day his 6-year-old son Cipriano was taken away. "It was 1977 and the Indonesians came in a military helicopter," he says. "We had no warning. We just saw a helicopter flying away with our son in it."
Yemris Fointuna and Oyos Saroso, Kupang/Bandar Lampung – Hundreds of residents from six ethnic Timorese groups in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) occupied the El Tari Airport in Kupang on Tuesday, claiming the airport was built on their land. They said the Air Force had robbed them of 540 hectares of land where the airport sits.
Ted McDonnell – Doctor, human rights worker and refugee are just a few of the labels put on Angela Freitas. The next tag may be East Timorese president. Ms Freitas, head of East Timor's Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista), announced her candidacy last week for the March 17 presidential run-off.
East Timor will hold its second presidential election as an independent nation on March 17, President Jose Ramos-Horta said, as UN peacekeepers prepare to pull out of the once-restive country.
East Timor will hold its second presidential election on March 17, as UN peacekeepers prepare to depart.
Kupang – After living for 13 years in shelters with no certain future, 15 people who fled East Timor before it became Timor Leste are returning home.
The repatriation was facilitated by the Center for IDP Services (CIS) Timor, an NGO providing outreach programs to displaced people since 1999.
Peter Lewis – New Zealand is to send more troops to East Timor ahead of next month's presidential elections. It will take the total deployment from across the Tasman to around 200.
Brendan Brady, Dili – The sleeves of his button-down shirt rolled up, standing on an open-air stage before an audience of hundreds, the man read his poems with dramatic pauses, varied inflection and a sense of purpose that comes naturally to those accustomed to holding court.