Connect to share and comment

UN peacekeepers leave East Timor after 13 years

December 31, 2012 00:05
Add Samantha Stainburn to your circles
UN peacekeepers arrived in East Timor in 1999, when the Timorese voted for independence, putting an end to 24 years of occupation by Indonesia, Agence France-Presse reported.
Mark FennNovember 11, 2012 09:47

East Timor has many challenges after 10 years of independence

Commentary: It lacks basic needs but the government is prudently saving for the future
East timor 2012 11 9Enlarge
East Timorese soldiers of the Timor Leste Defense Force (F-FDTL) take up position on the shore as US Marines rappel from a US military helicopter during a one week joint US-East Timor military exercise in Dili on October 16, 2012. (VALENTINO DE SOUSA/AFP/Getty Images)
SINGAPORE – This has been a big year for Timor Leste, with one of the world’s smallest and most impoverished countries passing a series of important milestones.
More

East Timor’s stolen children

Kate LambJuly 8, 2012 06:00
DILI, East Timor, and JAKARTA, Indonesia — Not until she was at the deathbed of the man presumed to be her father did Alexhia Cordova da Silva’s life start to make sense. 

East Timor is changing, but not fast enough

July 6, 2012 06:16
Add Helene Hofman to your circles
DILI — Ten years since its violent struggle for independence ended, East Timor’s population is swelling, with hundreds of families returning from overseas. However, re-adapting to the new East Timor is proving a challenge for their adult children.

East Timor elections: what's at stake

Kate LambMarch 16, 2012 12:16
DILI — Crammed atop the roofs of honking buses, bare-chested and hands free, hundreds of young men are tearing through Dili’s streets. Doused in face paint and draped in flags, it feels like the mob mayhem of a soccer match only it’s a political campaign – East-Timor style.
Syndicate content