East Timor POPULATION 792,000ROMAN CATHOLIC 94.6 percentOTHER 5.4 percent Country Overview Introduction The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (the Portuguese term for s Press, 1998. Lennox, Rowena. Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da...

(2001 est. pop. 800,000). On 20 May 2002, the former Portuguese colony of East Timor, occupied by Indonesia in 1976, became the world's newest independent state. East Timor burst into world attention on 30 August 1999, following a flawed...

East Timor East Timor is Southeast Asia's newest independent country of approximately 925,000 inhabitants. Situated on the eastern half of the Timor Island, and also including a small enclave on the western side, it consists of flat coastal areas...

CAPITAL: Dili FLAG: The national flag is rectangular. Two isosceles triangles, the bases of which form the left edge and overlap each other. One triangle is black and its height is equal to one-third of the length overlapped to the yellow triangle,...

East Timor (officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) is a country in Southeast Asia.[1] It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave on the northwestern side of the...

The ruling Fretilin movement emerged as the top party Wednesday night in vote counting from East Timor's weekend parliamentary elections, but it was far short of a legislative majority and will have to try to form an alliance with other blocs.With nearly all the ballots...

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to extend the U.N. mission in East Timor for a year and beef up the international police force ahead of upcoming elections.Last week, East Timor's Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta urged the council to extend the mission in his...

East Timor's president appealed for calm and international troops patrolled the streets of Dili on Monday, a day after troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse rampaging youths.Several houses were torched and a fire was set at the main compound of Australian-led troops...

Florindo de Jesus Brites described watching in horror as pro-Indonesian militias surrounded a houseful of refugees and opened fire, killing 12 _ one of the first public testimonies about East Timor's bloody break for independence in 1999."Some of us escaped to the back of the...