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’s prominent political figure, Xanana Gusmao, has called for “calm” from members of the nation’s outlawed martial arts gangs, amid an increase in violent conflict between rival gangs.

DILI: Calls for the decriminalisation and regulation of martial arts groups put forward by security watchdog, Fundasaun Mahein, have hit resistance as the idea was rejected outright by Timor-Leste’s Minister of Defense and Security, Filomena Paixao.

DILI: Tributes have been paid to a11-year old child who drowned while swimming in the ocean near Largo Lecidere on Thursday afternoon.

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.