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UNMIT empowers local police force in, Dili, East Timor [File Photo] The United Nations handed over further policing responsibilities to Timor-Leste today as part of the gradual transfer of the security functions it assumed in 2006 after dozens of people were killed and 155,000 others - 15 per cent of the population - were driven from their homes in ...

Saturday, 19 December 2009, 1:40 pm Press Release: Australian Defence Force DEFENCE MEDIA RELEASE Australian and New Zealand military personnel serving on overseas deployment in East Timor have taken time out from their normal tasks to enjoy performances by leading entertainers.

A number of suspicious-looking, large, yellow toads have been spotted in East Timor.

JAKARTA, Indonesia-A journalists' group threatened on Tuesday to fight a ban on the war movie " Balibo " with a constitutional court challenge if the Indonesian government enforces its countrywide prohibition.

Photo of Cast and Crew of Samson&Delilah, arriving to the 2009 AFI awards in Melbourne on Saturday, December 12, 2009.

JAKARTA : Indonesia has banned the Australian-made film Balibo, which depicts the deaths of six foreign journalists in East Timor, the head of the foreign correspondents club said.

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A former Indonesian commander's claims may be pay back. T HE emergence of retired colonel Gatot Purwanto as a whistleblowing Indonesian officer in the Balibo five case has revealed the first cracks in Jakarta's military monolith after 34 years of stubborn silence over the true cause of the deaths of the ill-fated reporters - Greg Shackleton, Gary ...

The UN mission in East Timor needs to hand over formal control of the country's national police force as soon as possible, a new report says.

Izzy the crocodile is joining the army, as mascot for 5 Movements Company. Personnel from the Linton-based company will attend a ceremony at the National Aquarium in Napier tomorrow to adopt their new mascot.

U.N. sent in an international police force in 2006 after internal disputes between factions of East Timor police and military led to violence in the streets.

An Indonesian journalists' group said Thursday that it will screen a movie portraying military atrocities during the 1975 invasion of East Timor despite a ban by censors.

Officials in Indonesia have banned critically acclaimed new movie BALIBO over the film's politically sensitive subject matter.

East Timor's leaders say bringing to justice perpetrators of atrocities committed during the Indonesian army's occupation would sour relations between the neighbouring countries, but not everyone is so keen to forgive and move on.

Balibo depicts Indonesian soldiers murdering five Australia-based newsmen in East Timor in 1975.

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.

REPRESENTATIVES of The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste's National Petroleum Authority , accompanied by representatives of the Norwegian Petroleum Assistance Programme, were recently hosted by NGC.

The United Nations is awarding a Dunedin police officer a hero's accolade after he saved an elderly man from drowning in East Timor.

BY RAYMOND BAGUMA UGANDA'S population is soon clocking 33 million people and the country will hit over 90 million people in the next 40 years.