Leste’s natural beauty should be a magnet for tourists and a much-needed boost to the economy, but costly airfares, inadequate airports, and Covid-19 have kept this goal out of reach. A report from …
ASEAN Wrap: Boeung Ket FC crowned Cambodian champions, Cup glory for Timor-Leste’s Lalenok
League title in dramatic fashion after scoring deep into stoppage time on the final day of the season to secure the point they needed to stay ahead of second-placed Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng FC.
Timor-Leste joins the Global Movement for Nutrition Improvement
Today, October 13th, 2020, Timor-Leste joined the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN Movement), an initiative created in September 2010 by government entities, agencies and groups, founded on the …
ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN – TIMOR-LESTE
Leste has approved the Economic Recovery Plan aimed at tackling the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. The plan includes (i) short-term measures, to be implemented until the end of …
ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE’ S DIRECT AND INDIRECT ADMINISTRATION – TIMOR-LESTE
Law 30/2020, of 29 July 2020, established a new framework applicable to the Organization of the State’s Direct and Indirect Administration and repealed the former framework established by Decree-Law …
Timor Leste Country Strategic Plan Evaluation 2018-2020
The Timor-Leste country strategic plan (CSP) covers the three-year period from 2018 to 2020. The scope of this CSP evaluation, however, covers 2015 to mid-2019, to take into account previous …
Can Timor-Leste Move Away From an Oil-Based Economy?
Timor-Leste has so far applied this approach … Matan Ruak stated that income from agriculture would not be able to finance government activities in the short term. Considering the recent …
Forty-five years on, secrets of the Balibo atrocity haunt Australia
When five Australian journalists were slaughtered, few of our politicians spoke for them. It’s time to make amends for our decades of dark secrets in Timor-Leste.
And Now, a Bright Spot: Timor-Leste Weathers a Pandemic
Leste is a young nation and a poor one, but its response to Covid-19 has been focused, disciplined, and remarkably effective. A new public-perceptions survey shows that the government and the public …
Timor-Leste Covid-19 Survey – July 2020
The Covid-19, or coronavirus, global pandemic has required huge responses from governments all over the world. Timor-Leste has its own unique requirements when addressing an event of this magnitude.