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: Timorese secondary school students will be the focus of a nation-wide HIV/AIDS public awareness campaign, amid concern over escalation of new cases.

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: 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: 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.