Referendum marks crossroad in East Timor; Some facts about East Timor PEOP...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 29, 1999 ;     579 words ...After 24 years of bloodshed and fear, East Timor has reached its moment of truth, a referendum...referendum. If they lose the vote and East Timor becomes free -- as most analysts now...territory into "a sea of blood." With East Timor's history of warfare and revenge, both...

ASIA: East Timor the latest developments

AAP General News (Australia);  September 29, 1999 ;     474 words ......News (Australia) 09-29-1999 ASIA: East Timor the latest developments SYDNEY, Sept 29 AAP - The latest in the East Timor crisis: DILI - Ten badly charred...escort food to refugees starving in East Timor's mountains. - Pro-independence guerrillas...

Megawati lefts for East Timor's Day.

United Press International;  May 21, 2002 ;     562 words ......Indonesian-rule West Timor en route to East Timor to attend the fledging country's independence...Megawati -- who is scheduled to fly to East Timor on early Sunday evening -- would be one...criticism, during her four hours in the East Timor capital Dili, Megawati's schedule ...

Megawati attends East Timor's birthday.

United Press International;  May 21, 2002 ;     562 words ......Indonesian-rule West Timor en route to East Timor to attend the fledging country's independence...Megawati -- who is scheduled to fly to East Timor on early Sunday evening -- would be one...criticism, during her four hours in the East Timor capital Dili, Megawati's schedule ...

East Timor Becomes a Symbol of Upheaval

AP Online;  May 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ......AP Online 05-31-2006 Dateline: DILI, East Timor Australian army medics treat a victim...attack after a street fight, in Dili, East Timor, Wednesday, May 31, 2006. More foreign soldiers landed in East Timor on Wednesday to bolster a force struggling...

East Timor, a speck in the Asia-Pacific region, commands world's attention

AP Worldstream;  June 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Worldstream 06-08-2006 Dateline: DILI, East Timor Years ago, a top Indonesian diplomat...of his nation's brutal occupation of East Timor, calling the territory nothing more than...our shoe." But Indonesia never pacified East Timor and was vilified globally over human...

Beggar thy neighbour; Australia and East Timor.(international relations)

The Economist (US);  June 5, 2004 ;     631 words ...Rich Australia and poor East Timor are arguing again FOR East Timor, the second anniversary of independence, on May 20th...Sea that divides the two countries, resources which East Timor says would make the difference between economic self-sufficien...

Prospects at independence East Timor

International Herald Tribune;  May 20, 2002 ;     497 words ...00-00-0000 As East Timor celebrates its first day of independence...and uneducated people. To do this, East Timor will need brisk economic growth sustained...many years. But how likely is success?East Timor has a small, narrowly-based economy...

EAST TIMOR:DOUG BEREUTER

Congressional Testimony;  February 10, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Opening Statement February 10, 2000 'East Timor: A New Beginning? The Subcommittee on...the political and economic future of East Timor in the aftermath of a string of historic...these have been very uncommon times in East Timor, to say the least, and that has resulted...

EAST TIMOR: CAMPAIGN FOR SELF-RULE THROUGH BOOKS AND SONGS

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  March 3, 1997 ;     700+ words ......MANILA, Mar. 3 (IPS) -- Campaigners for East Timor's self-rule from Indonesia are lobbying...like books and song. In a new booklet on East Timor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and resistance...years there has been an ongoing war in East Timor." "The world has mostly looked away...

East Timor, Australia fight for riches beneath the sea.(WORLD)(BRIEFING:...

The Washington Times;  August 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Australians were being feted for helping tiny East Timor, their northern neighbor, gain independence...changed the tone of the relationship. East Timor has branded Canberra a thief, complaining...15-year-old boundary - drawn up long before East Timor was a country - gives the bulk of ...

East Timor militias accuse U.N. of rigging vote for independence Armed...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 1, 1999 ;     492 words ......militiamen roamed the streets and villages of East Timor on Tuesday, accusing the United Nations...weapons, they set up roadblocks across East Timor's mountainous countryside, harassing...independence supporters from leaving East Timor by plane, ship or road on Tuesday. ...

East Timor to get spoils from the oils.

United Press International;  July 4, 2001 ;     700+ words ...SYDNEY, Australia, Jul 04, 2001 East Timor, which is about to become the world...Alexander Downer will travel to Dili, East Timor, on Thursday to endorse the agreement between Australia and East Timor. The treaty is the product of long negotiations...

Backgrounder: East Timor

Xinhua News Agency;  May 20, 2002 ;     497 words ...East Timor became an independent state from midnight...new state: -- The main territories of East Timor consist of the east of the Timor Island...Dutch-ruled East India (Indonesia). 1951: East Timor became an overseas province of Portugal...

EAST TIMOR: U.N. MISSION TO VISIT RAVAGED TERRITORY

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  September 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ......United Nations mission will travel to East Timor on Sept. 11 to make its own assessment...here today. "We have decided to go to East Timor on (Sept. 11)," Namibia's Martin Andjabe...attacks made by pro-Indonesia militiamen in East Timor, which led to deaths of religious personnel...