East Timor—Profile
(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 ...
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East Timor
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...
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East Timor: the Path of Democracy for the World's Newest Nation
The Conflict
In 1999 East Timor erupted in bloodshed following a vote for independence. East Timor had been ruled by Indonesia, a...
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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 o...
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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 "East Timor")...
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Area: 14,604 sq km (5,639 sq mi)Population (2006 est.) 1,032,000Capital:
Dili
Chief of state:
President
Xanana
Gusmão
Head of government:
Prime Ministers
Mari
Alkatiri
and, from July 10 ...
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Sydney (dpa) - East Timor's plans for a 3,000-strong armed forces
were described by an Australian defence expert Friday as
"unrealistic."
Hugh White, now an a...
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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 hav...
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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...
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Sydney (dpa) - President Jose Ramos Horta tried to break East
Timor's post-election political stalemate Tuesday by reviving his
proposal for a national unity government to t...
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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 ...
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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...
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The empty swimming pool at the hotel beckoned and Carola Scharenberg, a bikini-clad tourist from Finland, took a dip. A few miles down the road, rival gangs roamed, arson fires crackled, and s...
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An East Timorese independence hero faced off against a former prime minister for leadership in this fledgling democracy as important parliamentary elections got under way Saturday.Xanana Gusmao, re...
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A three-judge panel Wednesday found a former interior minister guilty of fueling violence in East Timor a year ago that ultimately led to the downfall of the government and sentenced him to 7 1/2 y...
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East Timor—Profile
East Timor
East Timor: the Path of Democracy for the World's Newest Nation
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East Timor (Timor-Leste)
