DILI:The Timor-Leste government has ordered an investigation into the activity of international businesses registered with Trade Invest, following allegations that some were not operational.
DILI: Former President of Timor-Leste, Jose Ramos Horta, has opened a bridge in Dili, that has been named after Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, for his role in granting a referendum of independence to Timor-Leste during his presidency of Indonesia from 1998-1999.
DILI:Timor-Leste’s Hight Court has ruled a proposed decree to make regulatory changes to the nation’s Petroleum Fund Law and Petroleum Activities Law “unconstitutional” and could put the fund at risk.
DILI: The opposition Fretilin party has called for wider access to jobs and the doubling of effort to build a sustainable tourism, agricultural and manufacturing sector to end the travesty of hundreds of thousands of Timorese living in poverty.
DILI: Timor-Leste national police (PNTL) have arrested 46 students at a West Papua independence solidarity protest in Dili, amid accusations the group failed to get permission to hold their demonstration in public.
DILI: U.S energy group ConocoPhillips has said it will dismantle its Bayu Undan oil and gas platform in the Timor Sea by January 2022, when the oil and gas field is expected to become empty, Jose Lobato ConocoPhilip’s Timor-Leste Director said on Wednesday during a meeting with Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak.
DILI: A joint police and military crackdown on illegal martial arts activity has been launched that will see heavy officer presence in known gang hot-spots across Timor-Leste.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s prominent political figure, Xanana Gusmao, has called for “calm” from members of the nation’s outlawed martial arts gangs, amid an increase in violent conflict between rival gangs.
DILI: A charred baby found abandoned at the Santa Cruz cemetery on Wednesday morning is the centre of a police investigation with officers calling on members of the public to help unravel the mystery of the baby’s identity.
DILI: Calls for the decriminalisation and regulation of martial arts groups put forward by security watchdog, Fundasaun Mahein, have hit resistance as the idea was rejected outright by Timor-Leste’s Minister of Defense and Security, Filomena Paixao.
DILI: A man has been arrested in Ermera in connection with the violence in Leorema on July 4, that resulted in two deaths, three injuries and destruction of 13 houses by arson.
DILI: Tributes have been paid to a11-year old child who drowned while swimming in the ocean near Largo Lecidere on Thursday afternoon.