The Australian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
THERE are no plans to extend a guest worker scheme for fruit pickers to East Timorese, the federal Government says.
Global News Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog - IPS Monday, August 18, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Aug 18 (IPS) - East Timor’s most prominent independence leaders — currently holders of the young nation’s two highest political offices — may now be the main obstacles to obtaining justice for [...]
Global Geopolitics News (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog - IPS Monday, August 18, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Aug 18 (IPS) - East Timor’s most prominent independence leaders — currently holders of the young nation’s two highest political offices — may now be the main obstacles to obtaining justice for [...]
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Source: Reuters DILI, Aug 18 (Reuters) - An autopsy gave no indication that East Timor rebel leader Alfredo Reinado and a top lieutenant were executed during a suspected presidential assassination attempt, Attorney ...
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
MANILA, Aug. 13 (PNA) -- The Democratic Republic of Timor Leste (East Timor) and the Philippines today signed three agreements on education, marine and fisheries, and diplomat training and development.
Disappeared News (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Larry Geller In a comment to my post yesterday, Lingle should break her ties with murderous Indonesian military, commenter John wrote: The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) continues to campaign against U.S. military assistance to the Indonesian military as a way to pressure for reform, human rights and accountability. See http://www.etan.org.They would love to work with anyone...
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jo Chandler; 20/8/08 Two weeks ago, the families of “disappeared” victims of the 1991 Santa Cruz Cemetery massacre gathered at a site west of the East Timor capital, Dili, and held a ceremony calling for spirits of their dead to rise out of the earth. They were watched by an international team of forensic experts, led [...]
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Reuters - Small Pacific nations and East Timor are jostling for inclusion in an Australian plan to ship in seasonal workers from overseas, but Aborigines said on Tuesday that local indigenous people should get preference. Read the full story
The Age (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Two weeks ago, the families of "disappeared" victims of the 1991 Santa Cruz Cemetery massacre gathered at a site west of the East Timor capital, Dili, and held a ceremony calling for spirits of their dead to rise out of the earth.
Disappeared News (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Larry Geller The Indonesian military is recognized for its brutality around the world and held responsible for massacres and genocide in East Timor and Aceh Provence. A reminder of this was part of today’s Democracy Now (10 p.m. Channel 56 if you are on Oahu): Judge Rules Aceh Villagers Can Sue Exxon for Human Rights Abuses A federal judge has ruled that a suit alleging human rights
The Age (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Evidence has emerged that challenges the belief that East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta was shot by a member of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado's gang.
The Road to Surfdom (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... are ‘Muslim rebels’, ‘Muslim separatists’ or ‘Muslim insurgents’. I don’t recall the people of East Timor being called ‘Catholic rebels’, and their circumstances were very close to those of Mindanao. There was never any such entity as a Philippine nation until the Spanish came along in the 16th century, by which time Islam was well-established in the islands. Indeed there is still no indigenous...
Article Archive (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 11. Cayman Islands 12. Christmas Island (Australia) 13. Cook Islands 14. Cyprus 15. Dominica 16. East Timor 17. Falkland Islands 18. Fiji 19. Grenada 20. Guernsey (Channel Islands) 21. Guyana 22. Hong Kong 23. India 24. Indonesia 25. Ireland 26. Isle of Man 27. Jamaica 28. Japan Learning to drive using a left drive car may be the best option for someone who will be placed in the position...
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... refugees. From 1999 to 2002 he oversaw the building-from-scratch of the newest country on earth, East Timor. His great success at nation building led Secretary General Kofi Annan to appoint him as head of mission in Iraq where he would apply his gifts as a peacemaker, humanitarian and troubleshooter to the world's most complex conflict. Sadly, a terrorist's bomb took his life only a few...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... on Reinado’s wounds. The story was in fact based on the Reinado autopsy conducted first-hand by East Timor’s head forensic pathologist, Dr Muhumad Nurul Islam. Dr Nurul reported that Reinado had blackening and burning around each of his four bullet wounds and said he had been shot with a high-velocity rifle “at close range”. Dr Nurul said Leopoldino was shot in the centre of the back of...
