Stories about Timor-Leste from January, 2009
East Timor: Missing government funds
Timor Online posts a translated transcript of letters from East Timor's Minister of Finance asking certain public officials to account for missing funds in their departments.
East Timor pictures
The Flickr page East Timor Pool provides a good collection of pictures from East Timor.
A Dark Past in East Timor for Obama's National Intelligence Nominee
Citizen journalists from East Timor have been busily tweeting about the nomination of Admiral Denis C. Blair for the post of US director of National Intelligence. The nominee faces serious accusations of backing the Indonesian occupation of East Timor in the 1990's, an invasion which led to the killing of approximately 1,400 Timorese and the displacement of 300,000 people.
“All whaling vessels please proceed to waters of East Timor”
The title above is a quote from Twitter user @BILL_ROMANOS celebrating a discovery made by Australian and East Timorese researchers: the biggest "meeting" ever reported of whales and dolphins, among other cetaceans, and in East Timorese waters.
