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Yesterday | Asia Times

Food fight in East Timor

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Indonesia,

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Inter Press Service

East Timor: Politics - Women Take the Plunge

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

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Voice of America

East Timor Leader Says Voters Will Judge Former Indonesian Military Strongman

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Indonesia, Jose Ramos-horta,

Mon Jul 06, 2009

The West Australian

Tarantino to attend Melbourne Film Festival

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.

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Related Topix: Inglourious Basterds, Southeast Asia, World News, Bronson

Sun Jul 05, 2009

NowPublic

Environmental laws fail to protect endangered fauna in East Timor

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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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Sat Jul 04, 2009

MT Shortwave Central

amateur radio DX News edition #948

Welcome to the Shortwave Central blog. Here you will find broadcast, pirate, and clandestine information including loggings, QSLs tips, and last-minute news.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Ham Radio, Southeast Asia

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Inter Press Service

East Timor: Prime Minister Embroiled in Contract Scandal

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Indonesia,

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Ramos-Horta backs PM over contract scandal

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Seattle Indymedia Center

Special Forces in Papuan reign of terror

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.

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Related Topix: Charitable Organizations, Southeast Asia, World News

Sat Jun 27, 2009

The State

Timor seeks help to protect whale, dolphin hotspot

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Indonesia,

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The father of East Timorese independence, Xanana Gusmao, is at the...

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Wed Jun 24, 2009

KHWB-TV Houston

Tiny East Timor seeks help to conserve vast whale, dolphin hotspot

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Indonesia,

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Inter Press Service

East Timor: Un Helps to Mitigate Disaster Risk

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Agriculture, Science, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Meteorology

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Green Left Weekly

East Timor: Putting self determination into practiceINTERNATIONAL...

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

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Indonesia,

Sun Jun 21, 2009

RTE Business

Fexco enters South Pacific market

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

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Fri Jun 19, 2009

WPTA

'Balibo' understates cruelty killings: Ramos-Horta

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Australia, Oceania, Indonesia, Entertainment

Scoop

West Papua: The Forgotten People

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

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Wed Jun 17, 2009

Inside Film

IPI congress to show Balibo

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television

Mon Jun 15, 2009

The Age

Toll to acquire Perkins Group Holdings

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

Sun Jun 14, 2009

World News from Times Online

Indonesia a war crimesa general Prabowo Subianto seeks election

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.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Indonesia, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election,

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