I'm not on the ground in Dili and I'm getting my info from a UN press release at this time, so I don't have all the details yet. There was a shooting on Monday in the Comoro neighbourhood of Dili. Supposedly there was some kind of situation to which local officers were called, one of whom is alleged to have …

This is from the International Cost of Living Ranking for October 2009. Apparently Dili was the fourth-highest climber, rising 106 places. Transport in Timor-Leste also comes in as being very expensive, with Dili actually topping the transport basket group. This is perhaps reflective of the changing face of Dili, which is certainly not in keeping with the (lack of) changing …

The first two pars of this article are pretty amusing: Sleepy Dili, capital of East Timor, doesn't have much going for it. Its tallest building is just three storeys. The most obvious economic activity is the purveying of SIM cards and pirate CDs of 'jiggy-jig'. The harbour is full of ships, but only because some dopey official misordered an import …

It's the movie every expat in Timor-Leste has been talking about, the movie the Aussie media has been in a frenzy about and the movie some Indonesians would rather forget about. The real-life story that the movie Balibo is based on was always going to overshadow the film itself, but no-one could have predicted how much of a talking point …

It was about four in the afternoon and I was on Rote Island, West Timor, sat in someone's front yard with half a dozen bare-chested, tough-looking Indonesian chaps. We were drinking sopi, (arak) as you do on a sunny Saturday afternoon. There were a lot of children milling about and it was a beautiful day. I was called into the …

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