AP confirms. What can you say really?

This came from a FRETILIN media release yesterday: FRETILIN’s leader in the Timor-Leste National Parliament, Aniceto Guterres today called on all parties to respect a Constitutional Court ruling against the petition by FRETILIN MPs that the National Petroleum Authority was unconstitutional. In a written judgment dated 16 June 2009, and delivered to FRETILIN MPs yesterday, the court rejected the arguments …

I was riding my motorbike to the Dili Weekly office in Colmera when I saw a familiar face with a trolley bag go into the travel agency on the corner. It was none other than the 80-year-old German man who appeared in court on Tuesday facing charges of the alleged sexual assault of an 11-year-old boy. I raced around to …

Is it Thursday? I've lost track what with being homeless until Friday. So here's a song that caught my attention today.

I think this is bad news as it will likely mean a delay to the suco (village) elections that are supposed to happen in September. There were rumblings of this last week. The problem with the election law, as I understand it, is this new "package" system whereby candidates don't run as individuals. You have this system of electing suco …

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