Dili: The Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP) government has secured USD$1.2 million to construct a heavy duty road from Dili to Tibar, a transport link it says is critical to improving the flow of goods in and out of the county.

DILI: The parliament has approved a proposal from the government in the Petroleum Fund money-raising during which to finance government activities during July and August for a total of 140 million USD.

DILI:The Timor-Leste government has stockpiled 6.5 tones of rice at warehouses in Tibar, in an attempt to offsetpredicted drought-induced food shortages and stabalisebasic food prices.

DILI - COFFEE trees loom over a village in the hills above Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste. Though their fruit has provided income for decades, Alarico Soares De Cruz, the local headman, says the pickings are gradually growing slimmer. Some of the trees are 40 years old, he explains, and…

CANBERRA - Timor-Leste's decision to rip up a treaty with Australia on the carve up of future revenue from Greater Sunrise oil and gas reserve in the Timor Sea could make it an "architect of its own demise", experts have told a parliamentary inquiry.