DILI: Timor-Leste has signed a $73.4 million financing agreement for development of Presidente Nicoloau Lobata International Airport with Australia, the country’s Finance Minister said on Thursday.
DILI: Excessive noise and a lack of concern from the state or communities to curb it is contributing to an “overall atmosphere of disorder and chaos” in Dili, a security watchdog Fundasaun Mahein statement published on Friday said, calling for “serious action” from authorities to combat noise.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s Council of Ministers on Friday approved an amendement for a payment of one month of additional salary for public sector workers to ease the financial burden on families by increased living costs.
DILI: Timor-Leste inaugurated its new deep-water port Wednesday operated by a French conglomerate, in the largest ever single foreign investment in the country’s history.
DILI: On the west coast of India in the artistically renowned area of Goa, Timorese traditional dancers and musicians will have the chance to share the uniqueness Timor-Leste’s culture to many for the first time.
DILI: Australia’s oil and gas giant Woodside Energy, is open to exporting gas from the Greater Sunrise project to Timor-Leste via an onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal, its CEO Meg O’Neill said on Thursday.
DILI: Acute malnutrition is rising among children impacted by poverty in Timor-Leste, medical officials said on Tuesday.
DILI: Parliamentarians in Timor-Leste called on the Ministry of Health on Thursday to resolve medicine shortages that is impacting access to health for people across the country.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed in “principle” to admit Timor-Leste as the group’s 11th member, more than a decade after the country requested membership.
DILI: Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Friday he discussed labour exploitation, jobs and cooperation on development with his Portuguese counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa at Palácio de Belém during a visit to Lisbon.
DILI: At least 305 people, mostly children and people with underlying medical conditions, have been diagnosed with acute respiratory infection in Dili’s Bairo Pite medical clinic over the past month, presenting with sinus and difficulties breathing.
DILI: Health centres in Dili started their prevention campaign against Dengue on Wednesday, as case numbers continue to surge months after an influx of the mosquito-borne virus was first detected.
Two journalists have been summoned by the National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL) after publishing two articles on a minister’s request to dismiss Gastão Pereira, the Director of Internal Intelligence at the National Intelligence Service (NIS). The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Timor-Leste Press Union (TLPU), in condemning the summons and urging the authorities to cease targeting journalists and safeguard press freedom.
DILI: A sombre wreath-laying ceremony was held in Dili on Sunday to honour the 47th anniversary of five Australian journalised who lost their lives in Balibo, Timor-Leste.