I watched the first three episodes of Bravo's Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand last night. Everyone's been talking about this series. It follows around the volunteer tourist police as they deal with foreigners getting into all sorts of bother. It's pure entertainment and not much more. Nothing covered in the show is new and you could make the same kind …

I'm still pondering this quote from Ramos-Horta. "Not everything that is legal can support the national interest and the interests of the State." It's a translated quote, so what he actually said may be slightly different, but it looks as if he saying it's OK to break domestic and international laws if it's in the "national interest". I put quotemarks …

From Lusa: Ramos Horta, in the interview in Tetum, the language most spoken in the country, said that as head of state his first duty is to ensure the sovereignty and independence of East Timor and so he has to cultivate good neighborly relations, particularly with Indonesia, which has its own difficulties in moving towards democracy.

This is a great video package of the Tour de Timor. And if you look carefully at 3:44, you can see me on the right.

Refer to this page for now while this is being sorted out. I think I will just let this one drop.

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