This is by my brother. I'm so proud of him.

Tempo Semanal's latest attack has been levlled at Timor-Leste's finance minister, Emilia Pires. According to the headline, Pires alleges (present tense) that Taur Matan Ruak, commander of Timor-Leste's armed forces, wants to carry out a coup. Then we get to this: Despite this fact the former Falintil Chief of Staff continues to be the target of all sorts of accusations …

I was at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand the other night and was randomly talking to a lady from one of the news agencies. She asked what I did, and I mumbled something about being a freelance journalist based in East Timor. She asked my name, and I said Matt. She then asked for my surname, and I said …

I got really mad at Ngurah Rai International Airport airport in Bali when I was on my way to Bangkok. I was only slated to be the airport for a couple of hours as I had a connecting flight to Singapore, but you can't transit at Bali airport without entering and then leaving the country. It's ridiculous. There's even a …

Posting here has been slow in recent weeks. The reason for this is because I took a full-time job working for the UN in Bangkok. I say full-time, but it was only for a month, and now it's come to an end so I'm taking a few days in Bali to gather my thoughts. I was working on the news …

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