DILI: Telecommunications users in Timor-Leste will have their SIM card blocked if they do not register their cards by December 2017, the Director General of National Communications Authority said on Monday.
DILI: Government actors engaging in corrupt behaviour can now be detained by the anti-corruption commission (CAC).
DILI: The President of the Supreme Court, Guilhermino da Silva, has submitted his letter of resignation, ending a nomination stand off between the government and Silva.
DILI: National police have raided three illegal casinos operating in Dili on Saturday, arresting the owners amid allegations they were not paying tax.
DILI: Timor-Leste has joined the growing list of countries banning the importation of meat from Brazil, after finding salmonella-contaminated chicken meat from Brazil on sale across most supermarkets in the country.
DILI: Prime Minister Rui Maria De Araujo has called for dialogue and peace between United States and North Korea, as US officials warned on Sunday tensions with the isolated country were “coming to a head.”
DILI: Timorese secondary school students will be the focus of a nation-wide HIV/AIDS public awareness campaign, amid concern over escalation of new cases.
DILI:Four new villages will be developed on Dili’s fringes as the capital city’s population continues to expand.
In the face of growing international blame being leveled at Myanmar’s de facto head of government, Aung San Suu Kyi, over human-rights abuses in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Timor-Leste’s former president, Jose Ramos Horta, has called for restraint.
DILI: The owner of a Dili restaurant has fatally poisoned a staff member to cover-up an alleged salary dispute, the Timor-Leste National Police (PNTL) has said.
DILI: Construction companies are illegally mining sand from the Comoro River putting nearby houses at risk of flood damage, National Parliamentarian Francisco Branco has said.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s convicted former Finance Minister Emilia Pires has not received a pension nor likely to, Heldor Lopez the Vice-Minister of Finance said Monday.
DILI: Leading Timor-Leste football observer Francisco Magalihas lashed out at the embattled Timor-Leste Football Federation (FFTL) saying its failure to represent the interests of all Timorese football players and fans, is diminishing the league’s reputation.
DILI: Rui Maria de Araújo has issued a promise to the public that the National Hospital of Guido Valadares in Dili service capacity will be put under the microscope, amid increading reports of patients going without treatement due to lack of staff.