Leste faces particularly acute climate challenges as an isolated, poor, and dry nation. Water remains scarce, intensifying public health concerns amid the ongoing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic …
How Timor-Leste is dealing with COVID-19 outbreak
With all-round support from the World Health Organization, Timor-Leste, an island nation of 1.3 million people, has responded swiftly and effectively in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, despite a …
RING sends humanitarian aid to the Bahamas and Timor-Leste
The Rhode Island National Guard partnered with the University of Rhode Island to send critical medical equipment to the South-Pacific island nation of Timor-Leste and the Commonwealth of The …
CVTL Supports Ermera Community in Dengue Prevention
Cruz Vermelha de Timor-Leste (CVTL) has been supporting communities in Timor-Leste for Dengue Prevention for many years. Today, CVTL staff and volunteers went to the village of Mertuto, Gleno, in …
The Energy Online Series: Timor-Leste
Leste Oil & Gas Energy Online Summit , taking place completely online. All the profits from the tickets will be do …
Rethinking Timor-Leste’s COVID-19 State of Emergency
Many Southeast Asian countries adopted a state of emergency to combat COVID-19. Likewise, Timor-Leste, with 24 confirmed cases and zero deaths to date, also declared a state of emergency, in force …
Maubere Timor: Keeping Timor-Leste’s songs of resistance alive
Presumed dead for years, musician and independence fighter Berliku returns to pay tribute to his nation through music.
Children under Lockdown get a ‘Learning Passport’
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 24 2020 (IPS) – Soon schools in Timor-Leste, Ukraine, and Kosovo, where some 6.5 million children are currently at home, will hopefully start teaching their children once again — …
Cuba’s Improbable Medical Prowess in Asia
The former president of Timor-Leste, Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, previously praised Cuba for building a public health system from the ground up after his country’s independence in 2001. In a …
Australian doctors aid Timor Leste in COVID-19 fight
Australian doctors have joined the fight against COVID-19 in Timor-Leste in a bid to prevent devastation in one of South-East Asia’s most vulnerable countries. The small nation and its population of 1 …