During my first week in Thailand I went to a restaurant near Khaosan Road and ate green curry. It cost thirty-nine baht. At this stage I was still fairly green myself and I had yet to suss out the tipping situation. I was under the impression that forty baht was a lot of money so I paid with two twenties …

I never really gelled with the expat scene in Phuket. In Bangkok it was different because in a city that big you’re bound to meet so many people that at least a few of them are worth sticking to. Since I arrived in Dili I’ve seen a completely different type of expat scene. The foreigners living in Dili are, for …

Thailand has Sangsom whiskey, Japan has sake and Timor-Leste has… palm wine. I’d gone on a mini-road trip with a Timorese man and his young son. We’d been out to see the statue of Pope John Paul II. The trip was only about five kilometers or so, but it involved rides in two mikrolets and a 30-minute walk before we …

You can tell that people in Timor-Leste have a sense of sense of humour just by listening to the wide variety of car horns that people have. Not content with a simple beep, the Timorese have all manner of interesting horn styles, some of which are so distracting that I end up stopping my bicycle just to see what's going …

By Matt Crook and Domingos Fernandes (Voice of Culture) DILI, EAST TIMOR: Disgruntled Timorese living in one of Dili's camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) were told on Tuesday that the verification process that will allow many of them to return home will begin on Wednesday, although thousands more remain in IDP camps around the district. For the full story …

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