Topic: East Timor Politics
An internal review carried out in the Department of Foreign Affairs warned Minister Eamon Gilmore that the closure of embassies at the Vatican, in...
East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta saw his fledgling nation's parliament as corrupt and ineffective and believed himself both "above local politics" and indispensable, leaked US memos show.American diplomats also felt Ramos-Horta had let his 1996 Nobel peace prize "go ...
East Timor is calling for Royal Dutch Shell PLC. (RDSB. LN) to be excluded from discussions about the development of the Greater Sunrise gas field...
The minister for foreign affairs, Kevin Rudd, has today announced that Mr Miles Armitage is Australia's new ambassador to East Timor. East Timor and Australia have a long history together and are good friends and close neighbours. Australia is at the ...
Jose Ramos-Horta was a co-founder of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), and a leader in the Timorese movement for independence from Indonesia . After East Timor won its independence in 2002 , Ramos-Horta served as prime minister before being elected ...
East Timor occupies the eastern half of the island of Timor, a small region in the northwest area of the island, and the islands of Pulau Atauro and Pulau Jaco. The area of East Timor is 5,743 square miles (14,874 ...
or Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, a country in Southeast Asia between the Savu and Timor Seas. East Timor occupies the eastern half of the...
East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has survived an attempt on his life but received gunshot wounds which have left him in an extremely serious condition. East Timor broke away from Indonesia in 1999 and is one of the world's poorest nations ...
Alfredo Reinado was a defected major in the military of East Timor who became a rebel leader against the East Timorese government. According to Reinado, he and his men were ordered, by Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri's government, to open fire on ...
Australia's Minister for Immigration Chris Bowen is scheduled to meet Timor-Leste's President Jose Ramos Horta later on Tuesday to discuss Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal to set up a asylum seekers processing center in the country, Radio Timor-Leste ...