Not only is he wearing a Vespa T-shirt and a towel on his head, but I have no idea what kind of homemade cigarette he is smoking. It looks like a piece of bamboo. From the rice fields of Baucau…

You'll never guess who owns this place.

From Radio Timor-Leste: President Jose Ramos Horta has said that political leaders of the coalition and opposition parties have agreed to postpone elections for municipality systems to 2012. President Horta made the comment yesterday after he held a meeting with political leaders at Hotel Timor discussing about the government's plan to implement municipality systems in the country this year. President …

Although this is a couple of weeks old, it still warrants a mention, if only because I don't foresee another opportunity where I might justifiably be able to use a picture of the world's favourite blue robot cartoon cat, Doraemon. This from Diario on March 30: Japanese Ambassador to Timor-Leste Iwao Kitahara and his delegation were stoned by an unidentified …

You know when people say you should never believe what you read in the papers? This week I've been writing about four newspapers making a pact to boycott stories about the minister of foreign affairs. The four newspapers in question are STL, Timor Post, Tempo Semanal and Diario — or so I thought. I first read about this in a …

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