VATICAN: The Vatican on Monday released Pope Francis’ official schedule for his visit to Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Singapore, which starts on 2 September.

DILI: Timor-Leste on Monday began laying its first undersea fibre optic communications cable through the Timor Sea as part of a state-run project to bring high-speed and reliable internet to the country for the first time.

DILI: Indonesian Academic and Policy Maker Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar was awarded Timor-Leste’s top civil honour on Friday at a ceremony at Presidential Palace.

DILI: Timorese leaders stopped to reflect in Dili on Tuesday as they wrote letters of respect to Australian activist and academic Helen Mary Hill, who died on May 7 at the age of 79.

DILI: Timorese athletes Bartolomeu Fatima Araujo Lay and Ovidio da Conceicao Reis will compete for the South East Asian Karate Federation’s top prize in Thailand next week, the Secretary General of Timor-Leste’s Karate Federation (TLKF) said, after a scramble to secure funding to help them attend.