Independence fighter and former president Xanana Gusmao of East Timor and his opposition party have won the most votes in the island nation’s parliamentary election, but fell short of the majority needed to form a government, official results showed on Tuesday. The election, which was held on Sunday, had been billed as a battle for…
East Timor Urges Australian PM to Support Development of Gas Pipeline
East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta has urged Australian PM Anthony Albanese to publicly support the development of a gas pipeline in the Timor Sea following Woodside Energy’s new position on the project. This follows a diplomatic stoush in August that saw Ramos-Horta say that his island country would turn to China if Woodside Energy continued…
East Timorese President Takes Swipe at Solomon Island’s Leader Over Pact With Beijing
East Timorese president Jose Ramos-Horta has criticised Solomon Island’s Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare over his security pact with Beijing while urging “serious” pacific leaders to be “sensitive” to their neighbours. “Don’t bring in extraterritorial, regional, interest powers that might not be welcomed by our neighbours,” Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and president of East Timor,…
East Timor Will Not Support a Chinese Military Base, President Says
September 9, 2022
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East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta has said that he would not allow a hostile or potentially hostile country to set up a military base in East Timor, having affirmed that his country’s “close ties” with Beijing pose no security threat to Australia. This follows the signing of a Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) between the country’s…
Australia Government Invites East Timorese President After Diplomatic Stoush
The East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta has arrived in Australia as an official guest of the Albanese government after a diplomatic stoush over a deadlock between the East Timorese government and the Australian energy producer Woodside over the Greater Sunrise gas fields. The fields are located approximately 450 kilometres (280 miles) northwest of Darwin and…
East Timor Pulls China Card in Floundering Energy Talks With Australia
September 4, 2022
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East Timor President Jose Ramas-Horta is using China as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Australian government over the construction of a gas pipeline from the resource-heavy Timor Sea. The president said his country would be happy to enlist China’s help to facilitate the development of the pipeline from the Greater Sunrise gas fields project…
East Timor Rejects Security Deal With Beijing, But Inks Economy, Media Pact
June 4, 2022
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East Timor President Ramos-Horta has ruled out a security pact with China’s ruling communist regime but defended his country’s decision to sign a slew of deals across areas including agriculture and economic cooperation. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his East Timor counterpart Adaljiza Magno on Friday approved a series of agreements in East Timor’s…
Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake Rattles East Timor near Indonesia
The coast of East Timor, also known as Timor Leste, was rattled by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake early May 27, according to the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency. The agency did not issue a tsunami threat warning, and there have been no immediate reports of casualties or damage so far. It stated that the quake…
Australian Spying Not Relevant to East Timor Whistleblower Case
The Australian Capital Territory’s (ACT) Supreme Court has ruled the lawfulness of an alleged Australian spying operation in East Timor is not relevant to whistleblower Bernard Collaery’s charges. Collaery is accused of unlawfully sharing classified information about the alleged bugging operation of the East Timor prime minister by Australian officials in 2004. His defence team…
East Timor Detects First Domestic Transmission of COVID-19 Delta Variant
East Timor has recorded its first case of community transmission of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, raising concerns by its health ministry about a possible spike. Genomic sequencing by Australia’s Doherty Institute in the first week of August found that of 27 samples taken in the country’s Ermera region from people infected with the…
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