DILI: Timor-Leste’s national non-government organisation forum, FONGTIL, is calling for four government Ministers to be replaced following what they describe as poor performance.
DILI:UK independent oil and gas exploration company Baron Oil through its subsidiary SundaGas Pty Ltd, was awarded Friday an offshore production-sharing contract by Timor-Leste’s National Petroleum Authority.
DILI – Timor-Leste is set to toughen its border security as part of terrorism protection plans, following talks with Australia to gain its support to train police and security personnel.
Interim Interior Minister, Filomeno Paixão de Jesus met his Australian counterpart Peter Dutton Thursday, on the side-lines of the ‘No Money for Terror’ international conference in Melbourne.
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.
METINARO: The Major General of Timor-Leste’s defence force has warned of dangerous repercussions of the ruling coalition in parliament block of the President of the Republic’s representation at the UN General Assembly in New York this week, saying it sets a “bad image” for Timor-Leste’s commitment to democracy on the world stage.
DILI: The Director of Timor-Leste’s Civil Society Forum, Daniel Dos Santos, has said that the disputed land in Kaiteui should go through official land law channels, paving the way for an intervention by the courts that should set a precedent in private land acquisitions across the country.
DILI:Indonesian and Timorese citizens will not need a visa for short trips between each country, under an Indonesian-government proposed new visa-waiver agreement, said Arao Noe, the President of National Parliament.
DILI: Timor-Leste Defence Force (FFDTL) has announced plans to recruit 600 new members by 2020 in readiness to send military personnel on United Nations peacekeeping missions abroad.
DILI: Diagnosis of HIV in Timor-Leste has reached its highest level since the first case was reported in 2001.
DILI: Rumours that the Ebola virus has entered Timor-Leste have been denied by Aneto Bareto, the Director of National Hospital Guido Valadares (HNGV) in Dili.