Chad Bouchard | Dili 30 January 2010 East Timor is one of the few remaining countries where leprosy is endemic, and one of only two in Asia where it has yet to be eliminated. The government has declared war on leprosy, and vows to eliminate it this y

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

Ten years ago the people of East Timor voted overwhelmingly to split from Indonesia and become an independent nation. The initial exhilaration they experienced was soon followed by violence from pro-Indonesia militias, and then economic struggles an

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IN THE NEWS – May 25, 2002: New Nation of East Timor By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. A new nation was born this week. On Monday, East Timor offi

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By Phil Mercer Darwin 28 March 2008 East Timor's president has criticized Australian-led forces for failing to capture the rebels who shot him outside his home in Dili last month. For the first time, Jose Ramos-Horta has described how he walked into

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 24 September 2007 East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has testified before the Indonesia-East Timor Truth and Friendship Commission. The hearing marks the first day in a week-long session in East Timor's capital, Dili.

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili 29 May 2006 Leaders of East Timor's fractured leadership agreed to continue talks Tuesday on stopping a wave of violence between rival gangs and factions of the armed forces. The violence appears to be easing, as interna

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 25 June 2006 East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri talks on phone during a press conference at Fretilin party headquarters in Dili, the capital of East Timor, Sunday, June 25, 2006 East Timor's ruling party has voted to

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The president of East Timor has urged Australian resources giant, Woodside Petroleum, to support its plan to base a multi-billion-dollar oil and gas plant in his impoverished nation rather than in the Australian city of Darwin. From Sydney, Phil Mer

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East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta says it is up to Indonesian voters to judge a former army commander who hopes to become vice president in Wednesday's elections. Human rights groups accuse Prabowo Subianto of orchestrating atrocities in both

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By Marianne Kearney Jakarta 05 April 2008 Indonesia's Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a former pro-Jakarta militia leader, ruling that he did not commit gross human rights violations during East Timor's vote for independence in 1999. M

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 17 April 2008 East Timor's president, Jose Ramos-Horta, has arrived home after more than two months of treatment in Australia for injuries he sustained in an assassination attempt. Doctors say his recovery has been exceptional.

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 06 August 2007 Xanana Gusmao (File) Violence erupted in East Timor after former president Xanana Gusmao was appointed prime minister. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins in Jakarta reports the nomination was made more than a mo

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili, East Timor 07 May 2007 A representative from the U.N. mission in East Timor said everything is nearly ready for Wednesday's presidential election run-off. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins reports from East Timor's capital, Dil

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 12 March 2008 East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta, who was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in February, has spoken publicly for the first time about the attack. Mr. Ramos-Horta said he would not issue a politic

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 21 February 2008 The East Timorese President, Jose Ramos-Horta, has regained consciousness from a drug-induced coma 10 days after he was shot in an assassination attempt. Doctors at the Australian hospital where Mr. Ramos-Horta

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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announces plans to send boat people to East Timor to have their refugee claims assessed, Sydney, 6 July 2010 The Australian government plans to continue talks with East Timor on establishing a refugee processin

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 11 February 2008 The President of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, has been shot and wounded in attack by rebel soldiers at his home in the capital Dili, an army spokesman said. A fugitive renegade soldier who has been blamed for r

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Australian police have launched a war crimes investigation into the deaths in East Timor in 1975 of the Balibo Five group of journalists. In 2007, an Australian coroner(验尸官) found that they were executed by Indonesian special forces in the town o

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The television blares Chinese-language programmes across supermarket shelves stacked with noodles, bottles of bleach and bags of rice. Outside, in Dili's dusty commercial district(商业区), the afternoon heat hangs limp and heavy. Loh Bee Choon sit

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By Brian Padden Jakarta 13 October 2009 Although East Timor's government has survived a no-confidence motion in parliament, there still is considerable anger over the prime minister's decision to release a pro-Indonesia militia leader charged with w

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