Items filtered by date: June 2021

DILI:  Timor-Leste’s youth party KHUNTO has declared it will back Vice Prime Minister Armanda Berta as a candidate in next year’s President of Republic election.

DILI: Civil Society leaders and former Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta have expressed their dismay at Timor-Leste’s decision to abstain from voting on the United Nation's resolution against Myanmar's military coup, labelling the move a “vote of shame” and demanding accountability over who made the decision.

DILI: National Parliament has told its members that they will not be allowed to work in the field if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccination without legitimate health reasons,

DILI: Dili will exit a COVID-19 lockdown on Thursday night, government authorities said, although restrictions on travel from the city to municipalities would likely remain for another week.

DILI: Timor-Leste on Wednesday has agreed to maintain its sanitary fences in Dili, Baucau, Bobanaro and Covalima, remove the one in Viqueque, while also strengthening its vaccination campaign against the fast-moving coronavirus.

DILI: Timor-Leste on Wednesday has agreed to maintain its sanitary fences in Dili, Baucau, Bobanaro and Covalima, remove the one in Viqueque, while also strengthening its vaccination campaign against the fast-moving coronavirus.

DILI: Timor-Leste on Tuesday reported another death of a person infected with the COVID-19, an 86-year old man, bringing the total number of deaths to 18 since the pandemic started, the Integrated Centre for Crisis Management (IGC) reported.

DILI:Timor-Leste’s state of emergency and restrictions on movement are preventing some people with HIV from getting the life-saving treatment they need – and potentially putting their compromised immunessystem at risk if they contract COVID-19, according to HIV/AIDS organisations.

DILI: A Timor-Leste police officer shot and killed a father and son and left a third victim critically injured in Lahane village Dili early Saturday morning, in violence that prompted Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak to denounce the officer’s gun behaviour and drew calls from civil society to review policegun policy. 

DIlI:New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has pledged 24,000 AstraZeneka vaccines to Timor-Leste, under the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) COVAX programme, according to a New Zealand government statement released Tuesday.