Items filtered by date: August 2019

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.