As Timor-Leste prepares to choose a new president in March, Roy Trivedy, the senior UN official in the country, explains the organization's role in securing the vote for all citizens across the small island nation, which gained independence from (...)
JEDDAH — The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has issued an urgent appeal to member states, donors, and humanitarian and financial institutions in the Islamic world to provide all possible forms of assistance to the government and people of (...)
United Nations agencies in Timor-Leste are supporting response efforts, as floods and landslides left widespread damage across the country, including in the capital, Dili.
According to media reports, at least 21 people died in the country and many (...)
Floods and landslides triggered by tropical cyclone Seroja in a cluster of islands in southeast Indonesia and East Timor have killed at least 76 people and displaced thousands, officials said on Monday.
There were 55 people dead and 40 missing in (...)
Asia's youngest democracy is choosing a new president in its first such election since a UN peacekeeping mission left the country in 2012. The vote is a political preliminary for July's vote for a prime minister.
Eight candidates were in the running (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia striker Mohammad Al-Sahlawi scored five goals to lead his team to a 10-0 thumping of East Timor in their World Cup qualifier in Dili Tuesday.
Al-Sahlawi, who has been one of the standout performers during the Asian qualifiers, (...)
Saudi team arrived Monday morning mission to East Timor airport to meet the team Timor tomorrow at the municipal stadium in the capital Dili, in a pulsating first set of double qualifiers for the World Cup in Russia in 2018 and Asia in 2019 m finals (...)
East Timor's president has picked a former health minister, Rui Araujo, as the new prime minister, the government said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
The government said in a statement the president had accepted Araujo's nomination by the biggest (...)
A strong, shallow earthquake shook the seas off eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, but did not cause major damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.1 quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) and was centered 395 kilometers (...)
أثبت أهالي قرية كوسكوي (Ku?köy) التركية منذ زمن بعيد براعتهم في إبداع الحيل لحل مشكلة التواصل عبر المسافات الطويلة في ظل انعدام الكهرباء ووسائل التواصل الحديثة، إذ اخترعوا قبل 400 عام طريقة بسيطة للتواصل من خلال الصفير.
يطلق الأهالي على هذه اللغة (...)
أثبت أهالي قرية كوسكوي (Kuşköy) التركية -منذ زمن بعيد- براعتهم في إبداع الحيل لحل مشكلة التواصل عبر المسافات الطويلة، في ظل انعدام الكهرباء ووسائل التواصل الحديثة، إذ اخترعوا قبل 400 عام طريقة بسيطة للتواصل من خلال الصفير.
يطلق الأهالي على هذه اللغة (...)
A strong but deep earthquake has struck off eastern Indonesia, causing panic among residents in East Timor, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage and there was no danger of a tsunami, AP reported.
The U.S. Geological Survey says (...)
An undersea earthquake has rocked eastern Indonesia, causing panic among residents in neighboring East Timor. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
According to AP, the U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-5.7 quake that struck (...)
Munawarunissa Nazneen
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – Master English in affiliation with the London Teacher Training College (LTTC) organized a comprehensive and assessment-based course “Certificate in teaching IELTS (International English Language Testing (...)
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that her talks in China this week were useful despite highlighting sharp differences between Washington and Beijing over key international issues from Syria's civil (...)
DILI — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sipped coffee at a bean-processing plant nearly 10,000 miles away in East Timor around the time her husband delivered a speech to the Democratic convention, but she watched a recording and said it was (...)
Hillary Clinton on Thursday became the first
US secretary of state to visit the tiny East Timor nation, according to dpa.
Clinton will meet President Taur Matan Ruak, who this year
replaced Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta, and Prime (...)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says East Timor is ready for the withdrawal of hundreds of international peacekeepers stationed there.
Ban met Wednesday with President Taur Matan Ruak voted into office in April.
The two-day trip comes after the (...)
East Timor voted for a new president Saturday, ahead of the departure of U.N. troops later this year.
The election is expected to be a three-way race between incumbent Jose Ramos Horta, former military chief Taur Matan Ruak and former parliamentary (...)
Qa'dah 8, 1431 H/Oct 16, 2010, SPA -- A powerful earthquake measured 6.1 degree hit todya near the East Timor without any casualties or damage reported.
The American Geophysical Institute said the quake occurred at / 15.44 GMT / at a distance of (...)
Australia's parliament meets on Sept. 28, giving Prime Minister Julia Gillard a first chance to test her ability to control a wafer-thin majority, according to Reuters.
Gillard said the government would introduce 30 bills in the first week of (...)
Earthquakes with different magnitudes rocked Sinabang and Meulaboh in Aceh province, and Saumlaki in Maluku province on Thursday, ANTARA reported.
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported that an earthquake measuring 5.9 (...)
An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale rocked the Melonguane area in North Sulawesi early Monday morning, ANTARA quoted the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) as saying.
The agency said the epicenter of the earthquake was located at (...)
An earthquake measuring 5,5 on the Richter scale hits Melonguane sea, North Sulawesi, on Thursday at 8.31 a.m. local time, ANTARA quoted the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) as saying.
The temblor had its epicenter 4.11 degrees (...)
AS a student activist in Jakarta, Avelino Coelho da Silva sought refuge in the Austrian Embassy to avoid capture by Indonesian troops. Now as East Timor's Secretary of State for Energy Policy, he installs solar power in villages.
Coelho, 46, is (...)
