Items filtered by date: October 2019

DILI: The government through the Ministry of Arts and Culture has offered to compensate people to build and preserve the indigenous sacred house (‘uma lulik’), as a part of a campaign to honour the tradition and to display the Fataluku people’s craftsmanship to international visitors.

Dili: Five women living in the Vera Cruz area of Dili have been hospitalised with food poisoning, after eating suspected expired chicken meat, officials said Monday.

DILI:The ruling coalition government is imposing restrictions on the movement of pigs from Dili to municipalities in an effort to curtail African Swine flu, its agriculture ministry said on Monday after reporting multiple outbreaks to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

DILI:Timor-Leste has confirmed its first cases of highly contagious African swine fever, known as “pig Ebola” which has already led to the culling of millions of pigs in the Phillippines, China and Vietnam.