DILI:Timor-Leste has confirmed its first cases of highly contagious African swine fever, known as “pig Ebola” which has already led to the culling of millions of pigs in the Phillippines, China and Vietnam.
METINARO: The Major General of Timor-Leste’s defence force has warned of dangerous repercussions of the ruling coalition in parliament block of the President of the Republic’s representation at the UN General Assembly in New York this week, saying it sets a “bad image” for Timor-Leste’s commitment to democracy on the world stage.
DILI: The Director of Timor-Leste’s Civil Society Forum, Daniel Dos Santos, has said that the disputed land in Kaiteui should go through official land law channels, paving the way for an intervention by the courts that should set a precedent in private land acquisitions across the country.
DILI:Indonesian and Timorese citizens will not need a visa for short trips between each country, under an Indonesian-government proposed new visa-waiver agreement, said Arao Noe, the President of National Parliament.
DILI: Timor-Leste Defence Force (FFDTL) has announced plans to recruit 600 new members by 2020 in readiness to send military personnel on United Nations peacekeeping missions abroad.
DILI: Diagnosis of HIV in Timor-Leste has reached its highest level since the first case was reported in 2001.
DILI: Rumours that the Ebola virus has entered Timor-Leste have been denied by Aneto Bareto, the Director of National Hospital Guido Valadares (HNGV) in Dili.
DILI:The Timor-Leste government has ordered an investigation into the activity of international businesses registered with Trade Invest, following allegations that some were not operational.
DILI: Former President of Timor-Leste, Jose Ramos Horta, has opened a bridge in Dili, that has been named after Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, for his role in granting a referendum of independence to Timor-Leste during his presidency of Indonesia from 1998-1999.
DILI:Timor-Leste’s Hight Court has ruled a proposed decree to make regulatory changes to the nation’s Petroleum Fund Law and Petroleum Activities Law “unconstitutional” and could put the fund at risk.
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.
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