KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The president of East Timor told The Associated Press on Monday that he would be willing to intercede personally to try and break the impasse in the region’s most challenging problem — Myanmar’s raging civil war, one day after his country was granted...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations welcomed East Timor as its newest member Sunday, which its prime minister said was a “dream realized” for the tiny nation, while Cambodia and Thailand signed an agreement expanding a ceasefire on their borders with the...
Marciano Octavio Garcia Da Silva, resident ambassador-designate of East Timor to the Philippines, appeals to officials of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) to help his country in enhancing their disaster risk reduction and management capabilities during a meeting at the The Democratic...
Mayor Janice Vallega Degamo, the wife of the late Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo, is elated over the arrest of former Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo “Arnie” Teves Jr. in Dili, East Timor on Thursday, March 21. TEVES Teves is facing multiple murder charges in connection with the killing of Gov....
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Southeast Asian leaders agreed on Friday to allow East Timor to join the 10-nation ASEAN regional bloc, according to a statement released by summit host Cambodia. "We the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations... agreed in principle to admit Timor-Leste to be...
ASEAN Community Pantry organized by the PH launches in Dili SCENES FROM THE PANTRY The Philippine Embassy-organized Community Pantry in Timor-Leste gathered the ASEAN resident missions in Timor-Leste—Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and the Thailand—over very Filipino things such...
