Witness K and the Australian spying operation that continues to betray Timor-LesteWitness K lawyer Bernard Collaery to appeal against secrecy in Timor-Leste bugging trialCrossbench pushes for inquiry into prosecution of Witness K and lawyerThe secrecy in the Witness K case is an attempt by the government to avoid scrutinyTimor-Leste: court upholds Australian government refusal to release documents on Indonesia's invasionCoalition spends $2m on prosecution of Bernard Collaery and Witness K, even before trial'I am unable to say much': anger simmers as Timor bugging hearing goes ahead in secretAustralia knew of dangers facing murdered Balibo Five journalists, book saysTimor-Leste prime minister offers resignation after political coalition collapsesPeter Costello says Australia feared Indonesian economy would collapse and cause boat exodusMinister Payne: for the sake of Australia's reputation, you must publish our war history nowAustralia's history with East Timor isn’t pretty but it must be told truthfullyAustralia urged to return $5bn to Timor-Leste and launch royal commissionAfrican swine fever: the deadly virus that has landed on Australia's doorstepJudge handling Witness K case risks 10 years jail if he breaches secrecy provisionsVideo shows tender goodbye between dying former Indonesian president and Timor-Leste leaderCrossbench senator pushes to fix 'shameful' historic wrong against Timor-LesteMy family lost Timor in the war.
About seven-tenths of the population is rural. East Timor. DILI, East Timor (AP) — East Timor will hold new elections after the minority government formed last year was unable to get its policy program and budget through parliament, the country's president said Friday.
Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, north of the Timor Sea.The island is divided between the sovereign states of East Timor on the eastern part and Indonesia on the western part. Ironically, East Timor caused the value of the field to be devalued by making it extremely difficult to develop, but then paid full price to Shell and ConocoPhillips for their equity. Taur Matan Ruak offers to step down as southeast Asian nation faces new political instability Exact time now, time zone, time difference, sunrise/sunset time and key facts for East Timor. Login Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Most of the people are of Papuan, Malayan, and Polynesian origin and are predominantly Christian. Cabinet papers do not mention John Howard’s 1998 letter to BJ Habibie in which he restated the government’s position on East Timor Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription.
For Vira Vieira, time spent as a seasonal worker in Tasmania, far from her family in East Timor, is bittersweet.
Of those classified as urban, roughly half live in Dili.The Ambeno area has valuable sandalwood forests, coconut groves, and rice plantations.
Senate inquiry told Australia should also drop prosecution of Witness K and Bernard Collaery All rights reserved. The vote was the culmination of a decades-long struggle for self-determination against a brutal Indonesian occupation under which more than 200,000 died. The Dutch and the Portuguese fought for supremacy over Timor, and Portuguese Over the next two decades, tens of thousands of East Timorese died (some observers claim as many as 200,000 perished) resisting the Indonesian occupation and annexation or as a result of famine and disease. I found it in their memoriesEast Timor independence: a short history of a long and brutal struggle – video East Timor Minister Constâncio Pinto Reflects on 25th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Massacre. Some vestiges of traditional religious beliefs are also practiced in conjunction with Catholicism. The first inhabitants are thought to be descendant of Australoid and Melanesian peoples. The first Europeans to settle permanently in Canada were the Germans. In response to mounting international pressure, the Indonesian government authorized a referendum there for In February 2008 President Ramos-Horta was seriously injured when he was shot by militant forces in an attempted assassination. Ramos-Horta was unsuccessful in his bid for a second presidential term in 2012, however, and he was succeeded in office by the country’s former army chief, Taur Matan Ruak.Gusmão’s government weathered the political crisis of 2007–08 and began efforts to improve East Timor’s economy. Search Britannica We go right now to Dili, East Timor, where Allan Nairn is standing by. The Indonesian part, also known as West Timor, constitutes part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara.Within West Timor lies an exclave of East Timor called Oecusse District. Bernard Collaery says he ‘felt so sick’ after reading former British ambassador’s account of Australian intelligence
Story Nov 18, 2016. East Timor is bounded by the Timor Sea to the southeast, the Wetar Strait to the north, the Ombai Strait to the northwest, and western Timor (part of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara) to the southwest.The eastern part of Timor island is rugged, with the mountains rising to 9,721 feet (2,963 metres) at Mount Tatamailau (Tata Mailau) in the centre of a high plateau.