DILI: Timor-Leste will introduce government subsidies for fuel as part of a relief package to cushion the blow from global commodity inflation driven up by the war in Ukraine.
DILI: Timor-Leste Presidential candidate Jose Ramos Horta has stepped up his message of domestic unity and peace reconciliation with Timorese in Indonesia that he said would ultimately help defeat incumbent President Francisco ‘Lu Olo’ Guterres.
DILI: One hundred thousand doses of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine from China have landed in Timor-Leste, the Timor-Leste government announced, as the country moves to build its supply stock to prevent future coronavirus infections and deaths.
DILI: Timor-Leste has logged nearly 3,600 dengue cases and at least 44 related deaths this year, the government says, underscoring how other viral diseases continue to spread even while the focus has been on the coronavirus pandemic.
DILI: National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction’s General Secretary Francisco Kalbuadi Lay has been summoned to court on suspicion of financial gain and money theft, his lawyer said.
DILI: Lead civil society organisation Luta Hamutuk has called for action on promises from the Timorese government to support thousands affected by catastrophic floods in and around the Dili capital twelve months ago, warning that many were living in unsafe conditions.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s government email to order COVID-19 PCR results is now up and running amid the Omicron variant surge, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.