East Timor Travel News

From humble beginnings as Wollongong Formwork in 1974 with three employees, the Unanderra-based Wideform Group of Companies grew to find a regular place on the BRW list of the top 500 privately owned companies in Australia.

John Schumann, the singer-songwriter famously known for his Vietnam veteran's anthem - I was only 19', will be touring to East Timor next month to entertain our Australian service men and women, performing the hit track after it was first recorded over John Schumann, the singer-songwriter famously known for his Vietnam veteran's anthem - I was only ...

Now that we've got our freedom, wanna come over? A Reuters article published this weekend described the follow-up fight of the new Southeast Asian country East Timor , which emerged from 24 years of occupation to join the UN in 2002, to capitalize on its troubled past in attracting visitors.

AUSTRALIA'S indigneous children aged under five are dying at a rate comparable to some of the world's poorest countries.

Members of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the US Navy are due to be in East Timor from Oct 13 to 23 to hold joint military exercises with the Falintil-FDTL , said Hans Klem, the US ambassador to East Timor.

On my recent trip to East Timor I inevitably ended up having drinks one night with the other correspondents who had flown in to cover the story of the ten-year anniversary of the referendum on independence.

As a student activist in Jakarta, Avelino Coelho da Silva sought refuge in the Austrian embassy to avoid capture by Indonesian troops.

A concerned citizen has filed graft charges against the chairman of the Commission on Higher Education for illegally benefiting from a foreign student enrolment program between the Philippine government and the Democratic Republic of East Timor.

EXCESS baggage is the blight of air travel. You know the problems: it costs you an arm and a leg, you have to join another queue, your partner shouts at you for buying too many books, and, if you are as heavy as I used to be, you worry each time you go to the airport that you will be charged extra just for being yourself.

The traditional wayang kulit is a famous shadow puppet play in Indonesia. lekhikaa blogs about a project to make the wayang accessible to foreigners.

A TERRITORY family is building a $30 million shopping complex in East Timor. The Jape family wants to create a version of its Darwin Homemaker Village in Dili and construction has already begun on a 5ha block.

EAST Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta wants to bring back the Darwin to Dili yacht race.