December 22, 2024
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DILI: Around 53 people from Loerema village are living at the police compound in Liquiçá, after their houses were destroyed in a violent gang-related riot in their village earlier this month. The rampage left two people dead, three people serisouly injured and 13 houses were razed by fire.
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DILI: Community police stationed around Manleuna in Dili are being investigated over a claim of a brutal attack that left a man with head wounds on Sunday morning. The investigation was announced by Inspector Euclides Belo, Dili’s Deputy Police Commander on Tuesday.
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Parliament Votes to Reduce Recess To Discuss Maritime Boundary Ratification
INDEPENDENTE
July 11, 2019
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.
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DILI: Duarte Nunes has insisted that leaders of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) party, the biggest party in the current three-party coalition government, will meet with Fretilin leaders when the President of the Republic ends the stand-off over ministerial nominations and inaugurates the nine proposed CNRT candidates.
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DILI: Mari Alkatiri, the President of the Special Administrative Region of Oecusse (RAEOA) as well as Secretary-General of the Fretilin party, has called on the government to confirm who will take on his position at RAEOA when his contract expires July 30, saying he “has a right” to know how the…
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Fretilin Calls for Clarity on Law Changes for Ratification of Maritime Boundary
Jacinto Xavier
July 05, 2019
DILI: Timor-Leste’s opposition party, Fretilin, has called on the government to present proposals for amending laws that have to be changed before the ratification of the treaty to delimit the maritime borders can be signed on the proposed 30 August deadline.
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DILI: The Anti-Corruption Commission (CAC) has rejected claims the organisation was acting illegally when it confiscated “several” state vehicles being driven by public servants in a joint operation with Timor-Leste national police (PNTL) in Dili over the weekend.
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DILI: Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak has rejected a proposed design to rehabilitate Presidente Nicolau Lobato airport in Dili presented by the Japanese Ambassador in Timor-Leste, Hiroshi Minami, as “simple”, saying he wants the international airport to be superior to the new airport in Oecusse.
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Immigration Staff On Suspicion of Bribe Claims
Jacinto Xavier
June 28, 2019
DILI: Immigration staff working at the Dili airport and Indonesian land border have been accused of taking bribes of up to $400 for fast-tracking of visas, according to the Interior Minister Filomeno Paixao. Paixoa said an investigation into the “negligent” behaviour had been requested from Corruption Eradication Commission (CAC).
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Naimori calls For Fretilin Support To Lobby President On Cabinet Uncertainty
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June 26, 2019
DILI: Khunto’s General Advisor has called on opposition party Fretilin to help lobby the President of the Republic, Francisco Lu Olo Guterres, to “immediately” finalise the government’s incomplete ministerial cabinet. Jose Naimori Bukar made the comment in parliament where he also called on Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak to speak…
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DILI: Members of Timor-Leste’s ruling coalition in parliament have voted not to reappoint Mari Alkatiri as President of the Oecusse Special Administrative Region (RAEOA), when his contract expires July. Speaking in National Parliament on Monday, Nunes said the decision was unanimous between the three party coalition members and that it…
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