Xanana Gusmao
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Timor-Leste grapples with stark Greater Sunrise oilfield decision
- Asia-Pacific
- July 3, 2019, 01:00
At the end of next month Timor-Leste will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its 1999 referendum on independence. Marred by appalling massacres by Indo(...)
Timor-Leste hero Xanana Gusmão heads back into power
- Asia-Pacific
- May 14, 2018, 16:39
Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmão is expected to be reappointed prime minister after the country’s second parliamentary election in less tha(...)
Sixteen years on from independence, Timorese go to polls after bitter campaign
- Asia-Pacific
- May 12, 2018, 05:05
In April 1999, when Indonesian troops burned down his family’s house and arrested his father in the rural town of Maliana in East Timor, Fidelis Magal(...)
Half-price cocktails but no scoops at reporters’ club in Cambodia
- Asia-Pacific
- January 22, 2018, 06:00
It’s happy hour at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club on Sisowath Quay in Phnom Penh, where half-price cocktails are plentiful but foreign correspondent(...)
Footage of a massacre that changed history of Timor-Leste
- Asia-Pacific
- November 10, 2017, 01:00
November 12th, 1991. As day breaks, an eerie quiet hangs over Santa Cruz Cemetery in Dili, East Timor. Among the pretty headstones – some painted whit(...)
President’s pilgrimages keep two sharp eyes on Timor-Leste’s remote villages
- Asia-Pacific
- October 16, 2013, 01:06
In the village of Marobo, a gruelling seven-hour drive from Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste, the arrival of president Taur Matan Ruak has all the (...)
‘State-building is a good war, but this is a new struggle’
- Asia-Pacific
- September 7, 2013, 01:00
“Hello, Missus. Where you going?” This is Okto’s daily greeting, delivered with an impish grin from across the street where he mans his kiosk. I cross(...)
