Items filtered by date: April 2024

DILI:  A former Minister of Commerce, Industry and Environment was acquitted on Thursday of benefitting financially from a government tender.

DILI: Timorese athletes Bartolomeu Fatima Araujo Lay and Ovidio da Conceicao Reis will compete for the South East Asian Karate Federation’s top prize in Thailand next week, the Secretary General of Timor-Leste’s Karate Federation (TLKF) said, after a scramble to secure funding to help them attend.

DILI: Pope Francis will make his first overseas trip of the year travelling to Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and Indonesia from 2-13 September, the Vatican said on Friday.

DILI: Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão will meet with several United Kingdom senior council counterparts over the next two days to discuss issues related to Timor-Leste’s maritime borders, the government said on Wednesday.

DILI: The Timor-Leste government said on Monday it will ban the release of dogs, cats and monkeys in public places effective immediately, as part of efforts to eliminate rabies.

DILI:  In Dili, members of Timor-Leste and United Kingdom’s economic community are working on rules of origin legislation for local products that could help Timor-Leste export goods to Association of Southeast Asian Network (ASEAN) countries, the UK government said on Tuesday.

DILI: Timor-Leste will provide “one-off support” for people facing extreme vulnerability, the Council of Ministers said in a statement on Friday, after Timor-Leste’s Minister of Social Solidarity and Inclusion Veronica das Dores outlined need for more economic support.

CANBERRA: Australia will launch its new Pacific Engagement Visa from 28 March, opening the door to 3,000 people from Timor-Leste and Pacific countries to settle permanently in Australia every year, according to a notice on Thursday on Australia’s Department of Home Affairs website.

DILI: Timor-Leste’s Ambassador to Singapore and Secretary State of Professional Training met last week to open comment on their proposal to start a job program in Singapore, clarifying that recruitment protocol used in existing labour mobility programs will apply.