DILI: Community police stationed around Manleuna in Dili are being investigated over a claim of a brutal attack that left a man with head wounds on Sunday morning. The investigation was announced by Inspector Euclides Belo, Dili’s Deputy Police Commander on Tuesday.

DILI: Duarte Nunes has insisted that leaders of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) party, the biggest party in the current three-party coalition government, will meet with Fretilin leaders when the President of the Republic ends the stand-off over ministerial nominations and inaugurates the nine proposed CNRT candidates.

DILI: Timor-Leste’s opposition party, Fretilin,  has called on the government to present proposals for amending laws that have to be changed before the ratification of the treaty to delimit the maritime borders can be signed on the proposed 30 August deadline.

DILI: Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak has rejected a proposed design to rehabilitate Presidente Nicolau Lobato airport in Dili presented by the Japanese Ambassador in Timor-Leste, Hiroshi Minami, as “simple”, saying he wants  the international airport to be superior to the new airport in Oecusse.

DILI: Khunto’s General Advisor has called on opposition party Fretilin to help lobby the President of the Republic, Francisco Lu Olo Guterres, to “immediately” finalise the government’s incomplete ministerial cabinet. Jose Naimori Bukar made the comment in parliament where he also called on Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak to speak…