You'll never guess who owns this place.

This is a translation of a Diario story about Gil Alves, East Timor's Minister of Tourism, Commerce and Industry. It's the funniest thing I've read for ages.

Members of the National Parliament have asked the Minister of Tourism, Commerce and Industry to shut his mouth up and not make nonsensical statements.

MP Rui Menezes of Democratic Party (PD) said, “It’s not government ministers who control the parliamentarian but the parliamentarian because it is the parliament that approves the state budget to be executed by the government.”

According to Menezes, to oversight the performance of the government is the prerogative right of the parliament stipulated in the constitution.

MP Estanislau Aleixo da Silva also said that Minister Gil should shut up his mouth because he is being nonsensical these days.

Mr. Da Silva urged Minister Gil politely tender his resignation to Prime Minister Gusmão as he is obviously incompetent as a minister.

“It’s better for him to be a rice seller,” said the former Minister of Agriculture.

Due to mounting criticisms against him, Minister Gil Alves recently told the parliamentarians not to intervene in the government’s affairs but prepare themselves better for parliamentary discussions.

This afternoon, three judges in Dili will deliver the most important court verdict in independent Timor-Leste’s history. From ABC:

Australian woman Angelita Pires will today learn her fate over the alleged assassination attempt against two of East Timor's leaders.

Pires is one of 28 people standing trial over the alleged assassination attempt against East Timorese president Jose Ramos-Horta and prime minister Xanana Gusmao in February 2008.

The Australian media loves this story. You can expect it to be all over Aussie media today and tomorrow. Will Angie Pires be found guilty? If so, will she be pardoned? Ramos-Horta has said he may pardon anyone found guilty, but only after an amount of time to be decided by him. Judge Horta. He is the law.

Professor Damien Kingsbury told AP that “[t]he judiciary is under a great deal of scrutiny at the moment and this is easily the single most important case to have ever gone before it”.

We’ve learnt all about Angie Pires thanks to the Australian media. One reporter even went so far as to refer to her as “beautiful”. Are any of the men on trial handsome? Who can be sure?

The big question on my mind is: when is the book coming out?

I don't know what is going on, but upon my return to Dili, I appear to have come down with all sorts of illnesses, all at the same time. First of all my tonsillitis came back, which was unpleasant. Then I caught a cold, which I'm just getting over now. And then I did something weird to my neck, which at first I thought was because I slept funny, but now I'm starting to think it might be something else because one side of my neck, not my throat, hurts a bit when I swallow.

It's been difficult to get back to work with this going on. I think I'm on the mend, but you can never tell with these things. There is definitely something about the water in Dili that my body doesn't agree with. I had some weird skin problems before that went away when I left Dili last year. I don't think it's the climate because I've lived in Southeast Asia for a while now. Maybe it's the dust.

The UN Security Council needs to step up and take action to address the lack of accountability for human rights violations committed in East Timor to ensure there isn't a repeat of the violence that has marred Dili, the nation's capital, in recent years, says Amnesty International.

"On two separate occasions since independence, in 2006 and again in 2008, political violence erupted in [East Timor]," wrote Renzo Pomi, Amnesty's representative at the UN, in a letter dated Tuesday.

"Although there were complex reasons for each situation, the failure to rebuild the justice system effectively and to bring those responsible for past human rights violations to justice contributed to an environment where there was no strong deterrent to political violence and human rights abuses."

With the UN's current mission in the East Timor up for renewal this Friday, Pomi said it's time to tie up loose ends, complete investigations and push ahead with prosecutions for the many human rights violations that occurred during the brutal 24-year occupation by the Indonesian military between 1975-99.

"I am writing to urge the Security Council to take immediate steps to address the continuing lack of accountability for crimes against humanity and other grave human rights violations which occurred in [East Timor] under Indonesia’s occupation," wrote Pomi.

A technical assessment of the UN's mission in East Timor, carried out last month, echoed the findings of last year's independent needs assessment of the country's justice sector, added Pomi.

"Both reports identified deficiencies and challenges regarding the rule of law, judicial independence and confronting impunity, inter alia."

More than 100,000 people died through fighting, disease and starvation as a result of the Indonesian occupation. East Timor became formally independent in 2002 but today is still one of the world's poorest nations.