East Timor News
Our neighbour's heirlooms
SUN and moon, life and death, male and female, metal and textile, profane and sacred: the thought world of East Timor rests on a base of elaborate, long-preserved dualities, as does its art tradition.
Lack of government participation stymies Timor stability
Two years after the police and military collapsed and months of anarchy drove more than 100,000 people into displacement camps, East Timor has yet to fix the underlying causes of the instability, and, given the poor government turnout at a stability retreat Friday, it would seem there is still little political will to address the issues.
Troops to stay in East Timor as long as necessary.
New Zealand's peacekeeping troops will stay in East Timor for as long as necessary, new Defence Minister Wayne Mapp said today.
Gas plant chief's threat to move to East Timor
THE natural gas industry has made a last-minute call for compensation under an emissions trading scheme, as the Federal Government puts its finishing touches to the system.
Generals and Diggers saved the day in Timor.
Influential Defence expert and former Fairfax journalist, Hugh White, has revealed that Australia’s involvement in East Timor succeeded because of the Indonesian military’s (TNI) reluctance to fight a full scale war; this is partly true.
Like there's no tomorrow.
East Timor has gone on a spending spree to try to buy civil peace, but it's stirring its own unrest. Lindsay Murdoch reports from Dili.
