We recommend bookmarking this page or our home page before you leave our siteIf you wish to keep this page open for easy connection to multiple linked sites, Beware of unreliable and conflicting news stories from East Timor. It often takes care and patience to determine the truth of stories coming from East Timor or alleged to come from there and repeated in other countries. Even within East Timor it is often difficult to get to the truth.
ABC East Timor News and the East Timor Legal Information Site are good sites for current East Timor news.
EIN News is a subscription based international news monitoring service with provides a comprehensive coverage of national and international news from around the world including East Timor News. A search for East Timor in the ABC News archive can provide access to a wealth of previous East Timor news stories. While the major news media provide some news, it is also interesting to search for additional news sources which offer more personal perspectives from people who are living in Dili or have reliable personal contact with the local people. It is not feasible to maintain reliable links to such sources on this site but some can be accessed through links on this page at sites such as East Timor Directory and general internet searches. There are also a number of news groups which provide news about East Timor. Anyone considering travel to East Timor should monitor the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Smartraveller Advisory Service East Timor page. This web page is also useful to anyone with acquaintances in East Timor. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade also provides an e-mail advisory service to alert you to any changes in the travel advice for any country where you have a continuing interest. The links listed below provide a range of East Timor related information either directly or through links they include.
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Organisations active in East Timor |
Some of the many organisations working in East Timor |
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A Catholic lay agency that trains and places volunteers in overseas countries |
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Volunteers dedicated to providing communications throughout East Timor |
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An Australian group helping with education in a rural district of East Timor |
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An East Timorese Catholic aid organisation with international links |
A major Australian overseas aid organisation active in East Timor |
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Fosters a range of opportunities for the people of East Timor |
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About East Timor health, including the Bairo Pite Pathology Project |
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About East Timor health, this clinic and many useful links |
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An East Timorese NGO dealing with health and social problems |
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An East Timorese NGO building peace for the future with children |
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Works for the advancement of women in East Timor |
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Created to raise awareness about the plight of women in East Timor |
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An online English language legal reference journal for East Timor |
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Legal and other information about East Timor - good news links |
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The official East Timor Government website (access unreliable or slow) |
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UN development programme for East Timor and related information |
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United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor |
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Includes detailed Asian Development Bank reports about East Timor |
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Includes detailed World Bank reports about East Timor |
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About the ANZ Bank in East Timor |
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Other East Timor related web sites |
More sources of information about East Timor |
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A directory of internet sites about East Timor |
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A high quality map with detail of the East Timor region |
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Information about travel to and within East Timor |
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A very comprehensive listing from Australian National University |
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Portuguese sourced history and geography but no recent information |
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An extensive site on East Timor's recent history and current issues |
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About the issues and problems confronting East Timor |
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Provides some links to various news sources |
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About Maliana parish and support provided from Brisbane |
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International aid related web sites |
Development aid with equity and justice |
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United Nations Millennium Development Goals for 2015 |
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Microcredit, banking and related services for the poor |
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Fortnightly international social justice newsletter with excellent web links |
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