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  • World focus with police boost 13 May 2008 11:30 GMT
    ... a major budget priority for the Rudd Government. Eight additional AFP officers will soon be ... $53.7million over two years to help develop East Timor's national police force, which is riven by ...

  • 8:49pmDefence funding to grow by 3pc 13 May 2008 11:11 GMT
    ... THE government will lift defence spending by three per ... $618.9 million for Afghanistan, $174.3 million for East Timor, $215 million for Iraq and $27 million for ...

  • Foreign aid chases UN goals 13 May 2008 11:11 GMT
    ... and sees a recommitment by the Rudd Government to the United Nations left in the ... and stability,'' the budget statement said. Troubled East Timor will get $58 million in Country Program aid ...

  • Defence funding to grow by 3pc 13 May 2008 11:10 GMT
    ... THE government will lift defence spending by three per ... $618.9 million for Afghanistan, $174.3 million for East Timor, $215 million for Iraq and $27 million for ...

  • The cost of crime in East Timor 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... The cost of crime in East Timor By Loro Horta DILI - With its ... January, United Nations Police (UNPOL) and their Timorese counterparts launched a series of raids in ...

  • East Timor reels from coup attempt 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... By Kafil Yamin JAKARTA - East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was reported to be ... "Xanana" Gusmao, on a rural highway. The Timorese independence hero escaped unharmed. Much now depends ...

  • East Timor faces new rebels 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... Roughneen An apparent coup attempt has left East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta in critical condition and ... at his residence on Monday in the Timorese capital, Dili. The leader of the plot, ...

  • In Indonesia, a morality crusade misplaced 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... Zaini, the influential and also "deeply religious" politician from the right-wing Golkar Party (the ruling ... rate that has few counterparts elsewhere. In East Timor, more than a quarter of the population was ...

  • Govt to lift defence spending by 3% 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... to lift defence spending by 3% The government will lift defence spending by three per ... $618.9 million for Afghanistan, $174.3 million for East Timor, $215 million for Iraq and $27 million for ...

  • Man at work: Rudd walks Asian tightrope 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... put to the test. As the first political leader to pay China a visit since ... that instability in various Pacific islands, including East Timor, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga and Papua New ...

  • There's method in China's peace push 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... globe - beyond Africa, in Cambodia, Bosnia/Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan, Haiti and Lebanon. As China expert Bates ... but only after the invitation of the government there. INTERFET also demonstrated the utmost importance ...

  • New money scarce for Labor's Defence promises 13 May 2008 09:55 GMT
    ... currently approved cost of operations in Afghanistan, East Timor, Iraq and the Solomon Islands. The other $826 ... to stabilise Iraq) until December 2008. The Government says it is committed to drawing down ...

  • NZ minister to attend trade, defense meetings in Japan 13 May 2008 07:36 GMT
    ... New Zealand Trade and Defense Minister Phil Goff will ... the largest and most significant gathering of government and business leaders from the two countries ... including developments in the Pacific, Afghanistan and Timor Leste. New Zealand and Japan have many shared ...

  • New Zealand Minister to Attend Trade, Defense Meetings in Japan 13 May 2008 06:00 GMT
    ... New Zealand Trade and Defense Minister Phil Goff will ... the largest and most significant gathering of government and business leaders from the two countries ... including developments in the Pacific, Afghanistan and Timor Leste. New Zealand and Japan have many shared ...

  • PM praises fallen digger in parliament 13 May 2008 05:17 GMT
    ... contribution to securing peace and nation-building in East Timor and Afghanistan," Mr Rudd told parliament. "He did ... are working with coalition partners and the government of Afghanistan to rebuild the country to ...

  • Goff leaves for trade, defence meetings in Japan 13 May 2008 05:15 GMT
    ... Goff leaves for trade, defence meetings in Japan Tuesday, ... for all partners as well as good political linkages for New Zealand. “I am also ... including developments in the Pacific, Afghanistan and Timor Leste. “We will also look at ways of ...

  • Nobel laureates to again lecture in Thailand 13 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... Nobel laureates to again lecture in Thailand November 20th, ... range of issues in the fields of politics, economics, science, culture, and the media. They ... Nobel Laureate for Peace, the President of Timor-Leste and a Patron of the International Peace ...

  • UN: Reject Sri Lanka's Bid for Human Rights Council 13 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... Elections to the 47-member council, the United Nations’ leading ... Council ( ) noted that Sri Lankan Government forces have in the past two years ... Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Timor Leste – are running for four seats allocated ...

  • Don't let Games glitz hide the brutal reality 13 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... mistakes of Australian support for occupation of East Timor under the cruel TNI. Posted by Shrdlu from ... ( Yes it is risky to mix politics with sport. You get a political football. ...

  • Absolutely critical for Australia to allow in Pacific guest workers 13 May 2008 04:53 GMT
    ... their neighbours". He nominated Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Cambodia as fragile states: "And frankly the ... trapped there." Dr Luthria said the Australian Government had valid concerns, including the possibilities of ...

  • UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... it failed to act when Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 slaughtering hundreds of thousands in ... It stood by again after the East Timorese voted by referendum for independence in 1999 ...

  • Labor questions Aust defence after Darfur decision 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... , 2007 12:18:00 ELEANOR HALL: The Federal Government says it will have to decline a ... other parts of the world, everywhere from East Timor to the small number we have in Solomon ...

  • East Timor rebel leader surrenders 13 May 2008 04:51 GMT
    ... of involvement in the near-fatal shooting of East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta in February has surrendered ... sparked months of unrest that forced many Timorese to flee their homes. A in February ...

  • Remarks by President McAleese at Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council, Wednesday 20th February 2008 13 May 2008 04:51 GMT
    ... Remarks by President McAleese at Dungannon & South Tyrone ... Union, the greatest adventure in democratic, partnership politics ever undertaken by humankind and as good ... this community has welcomed workers from Portugal, Timor Leste, Poland and Lithuania. It is part of ...

  • Address by President McAleese, 'Europe in the Coming Times: An Irish Perspective', Humboldt University, Berlin, Tuesday 26th February 2008 13 May 2008 04:51 GMT
    ... Address by President McAleese, 'Europe in the Coming Times: ... views, its basic values, its social and political structure, its arts, its key institutions. Fifty ... other states, the first of which is Timor Leste. In the years ahead, the Union has ...


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