DILI: Timor-Leste lacks cyber security protocol, exposing user’s to identity theft and leaving the country vulnerable to online illegal activity.
DILI: Dionesio Babo, the Minister for Foreign Trade and Cooperatives, has delivered a stark warning that some of Timor-Leste’s foreign-based embassies risk closure because of unpaid debts.
DILI: Five members of martial arts gangs have been jailed for grooming youth and conducting illegal martial arts combat training in the Becora region.
DILI: Oil has been discovered in four of the 12 onshore exploration wells in the south coast of Timor-Leste, according to Timor Resources Managing Director Suellen Osborne.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister has said that payment of 142 government projects will be dependent on passing a financial audit.
DILI: Households across Timor-Leste are feeling the trickle down effects of the government’s stalled program, with increasing numbers of vulnerable family’s forced to cut back on basic goods due to the economic slowdown.
DILI: The Parliamentary Reform Minister, Fidelis Mangalhaaes, has dismissed suggestions that Timor-Leste’s electricity will be turned off because of unpaid fuel bills to state power centers.
DILI: Timor-Leste police are investigating members of its Community Sector Program after an officer entered a church in Bidau Motael on Sunday wielding a gun and threatening the congregation.
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: Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has rejected suggestions of bullying against Timor-Leste in oil and gas negotiations and says its time to “revitalise” the friendship during her visit to Timor-Leste.
DILI: Australia and TImor Leste are very supportive and want to ratify the signed Maritime Boundaries Agreement in March ago
DILI: Xanana Gusmao will not become the Prime Minister’s Advisor after announcing his intention to focus on Timor-Leste’s on-going Maritime Boundary negotiations with Australia.
DILI: The construction of Timor-Leste’s controversial and first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processing plant and pipeline from the Timor Sea remains a priority for the new Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP) coalition government, amid talks of a change in Woodside’s Petroleum’s stance to process gas in Australia.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s journalists and media organisations must work harder to improve the standard of information delivered to the public, according to the President of the Republic Francisco “Lo Olo” Guterres.