DILI: Amendments to four of Timor-Leste’s major tax and oil and gas activity laws are scheduled for discussion in National Parliament on Monday, as the ruling coalition government pushes to meet its proposed 30 August deadline for ratification of the maritime boundary treaty with Australia.

DILI: Parliamentarians have voted resoundingly to reduce national parliament’s recess from two months to one month, to discuss Timor-Leste’s ratification of a maritime border treaty with Australia.

DILI: National Parliament is supporting the government’s strong new zero-plastic target, voting overwhelmingly to back the initiative on January 30.

DILI: Parliamentarians will receive new vehicles, after National Parliament approved on Friday a US$2,665,000 budget to buy 65 new Mitsubishi cars.

DILI: A parliamentary approved commission committee will audit state-funded projects across Timor-Leste before any payments are made, following a unanimous vote to implement the new system by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.

DILI: Timor-Leste’s parliament has voted in favour of withdrawing US$140 million from the nation’s Petroleum Fund to finance government activities over the next two months.

DILI – Timor-Leste’s Council of Ministers have backed a controversial bill to increase the use of Tetum language in official justice proceedings, moving to a bilingual landscape inclusive of existing Portuguese.

The decree, supported on January 17, is prioritized to areas where citizens interact with the Justice sector on a regular basis including registry and notary services, land and property, the Public Defenders Office and the Police.