East Timor News

Return to Rai Ketak appeals to media, bloggers and government officials of Indonesia and East Timor to monitor and discuss the Timor Sea Drilling Spill .

A newly released film on East Timor in 1999 opens old wounds between Indonesia and Australia.

A former senior public servant will head a commission of inquiry into the recent oil spill in the Timor Sea.

Timor-Leste's capital city of Dili continues to receive only sporadic electricity supply, one year after the de facto Gusmao government boasted that all 13 of the nation's districts would have 24-hour power within one year.

Staff Reporter A team of 150 police members left Dhaka yesterday to join the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in East Timor.

Balibo is up for 13 awards at this year's AFI awards, including Best Original Music Score.

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.

A man selling his carvings for US$20 each waits for customers in Dili, East Timor, on Wednesday.

Archaeologists have announced finding the largest-ever aquatic animal along the Jurassic Coast which lies between Dorset, United Kingdom and East Timor, according reports from Taiwan's "Today News" on Tuesday.

An Australian-made documentary film about soldiers in East Timor has won an award from a major US film festival.

Thursday, 29 October 2009, 4:44 pm Press Release: Sasha Uzunov Media Release: Sasha Uzunov, the director/producer of explosive Australian documentary film TIMOR TOUR OF DUTY, which reveals the Indonesian military's secret war against Australian and New Zealand troops and International peacekeepers in East Timor, says the farsighted actions of an ...

Samson and Delilah's young stars, Rowan McNamara and Marissa Gibson . Photo: Mark Rogers Karl Quinn October 28, 2009 - 12:39PM Samson & Delilah and Balibo lead the pack for nominations in the 2009 AFI awards announced today in Sydney.

Dryden recounted in the same letter the close relationship she had with her son, who she had brought up almost single-handedly. She later committed suicide in 1982 at Bendigo Hospital in loneliness and despair that nothing was done about the deaths of the five journalists in Balibo.

Former soldier Kevin Campbell features in a documentary that premiered at the New York International Film Festival over the weekend.

Commodore Mayer says East Timor is stable, but still faces challenges. The new Australian commander of the International Stabilisation Force in East Timor says there are many signs of progress in the country.

The European Union concurred with the United Nations Friday on the need to strengthen East Timor's capability to handle its own security before the UN mission there can be withdrawn.

MASON Edwards, the Commando killed in a training accident on Tuesday, was a consummate professional soldier who had completed two tours of duty in Afghanistan and another in East Timor.

If you order a beer, sit back and relax at one of the expat bars dotted along the coastal Pantai Kelapa road in this capital, you cannot help but notice the view: the stony beach, the swimming children and the grounded fishing boats.

The East Timorese Government says a new responsible tourism campaign could help pull parts of the country out of poverty.

East Timor government survives no confidence vote Asia-Pacific News Oct 12, 2009, 14:22 GMT Talkback Your Talkback on this Story Note posts made on our older Talkback system will still show below.