East Timor News

Food fight in East Timor By Simon Roughneen DILI - Allegations that East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao signed off on a food contract benefiting a company that listed his daughter Zenilda as a shareholder has caused new political ructions in the volatile young country.

Women in East Timor are being wooed to participate in the local council elections, likely to be held in September.

East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta says it is up to Indonesian voters to judge a former army commander who hopes to become vice president in Wednesday's elections.

Cult movie director Quentin Tarantino and East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta are among the celebrity guests who will attend the 2009 Melbourne International Film Festival.

ETLJB 4 July 2009 SYDNEY - These images of the carcasses of several protected cuscus apparently for sale at a market place in the eastern town of Los Palos in East Timor were published on the blogspot Timor Agricola on 14 February 2009.

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DILI, EAST TIMOR, Jul 2 - Pressure to resign is mounting on East Timor's Prime Minster, Xanana Gusamo, amid claims that he misused authority when he signed-off on a multi-million dollar government contract last year to a company his daughter has ties with.

East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta is defending Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's approval of a multi-million dollar government contract to a company linked to Mr Gusmao's daughter.

Another remote corner of the globe where indigenous peoples are under assault for their mineral and resource rich lands, with active complicity of Western powers.

The government of East Timor says it plans to establish a national park to protect a bounty of dolphins and whales - some of them endangered species - recently discovered mingling and feeding off the coast of Asia's youngest country.

It has been revealed that the East Timorese Prime Minister has personally signed a deal which will give a lucrative US contract to a company that is part owned by his daughter.

The government of East Timor says it plans to establish a national park to protect a bounty of dolphins and whales - some of them endangered species - recently discovered mingling and feeding off the coast of Asia's youngest country.

With more than 40 percent of the population of 1.1 million below the poverty line and the majority of the nation's poor living in rural areas, when disasters hit, they can be devastating, especially as about 80 percent of households rely on subsistence agriculture to survive.

Akara was an international guest at the World at a Cross Roads conference, hosted by Green Left Weekly, held in Sydney in April.

Kerry-based payments group Fexco has bought a majority stake in New Zealand based Federal Pacific Group for an undisclosed sum.

A new film about the alleged executions of five journalists by Indonesian troops in East Timor in 1975 fails to depict the true cruelty of the killings, East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta said.

We are all familiar with Indonesia's terrible record of human rights abuse in East Timor, a sorry tale of oppression, murder and torture.

IPI congress to show Balibo [Wed 10/06/2009 09:25:18] Press release from Press Freedom Balibo, a powerful film that tells of the events surrounding the slaying of five journalists by Indonesian soldiers in East Timor in 1975, will be showcased at the upcoming IPI World Congress in Helsinki.

Logistics provider Toll Holdings Ltd has agreed to acquire all of the shares in Perkins Group Holdings Pty Ltd, which is the parent of the Perkins Shipping Group, for an undisclosed sum.

One of the darkest characters from Indonesia's bloody past has reinvented himself as a respectable candidate for vice-president and could emerge as the country's most powerful politician after elections next month.