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Timor
Timor Largest of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the Malay archipelago. The chief towns are Kupang in the
w and Dili in the
e. From
c.1520, Portuguese spice traders began to settle on Timor. When the Dutch landed in 1620, they settled on the
w side. Japan occupied the island during World War 2. In 1950, West Timor became part of the Nusa Tenggara Timur province of the newly created Republic of
Indonesia. In 1975, Portugal abandoned East Timor and the colony declared independence. Indonesia immediately invaded, and in 1976 annexed East Timor. Resistance to Indonesian rule, led by the independence movement FRETILIN, continued during the 1980s and 1990s amid widespread reports of human rights violations. In 1999, after a vote in favour of independence, violence erupted as pro-Indonesian militias sought to destabilize the new nation. A United Nations' (UN) peace-keeping force restored order, and East Timor gained full independence in 2002. A mountainous island, its main products are rice, coconuts, coffee, and tobacco. Area: 33,857sq km (13,074sq mi). Pop. (2000) 4,820,039; 891,000 (East Timor)
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Timor Chronology
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/12/1999; 700+ words
; ...General News (Australia) 01-12-1999 Timor Chronology CANBERRA, Jan 12 AAP - Key...an act of self-determination for East Timor. April 1974: Left-wing officers stage...Portugal's empire, which includes East Timor. Aug 1975: Pro-independence nationalist...
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Timor-Leste Opens ASEAN National Secretariat to Intensify its Preparations to Join ASEAN
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 2/2/2009; 700+ words
; ...Nations issued the following news release: Timor-Leste last Thursday launched its "ASEAN...members of the diplomatic corps in Dili and Timor-Leste Members of Parliament attended...had received reassurances of support for Timor-Leste's eventual admission into ASEAN...
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TIMOR GAP NEGOTIATIONS REACH STALEMATE.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 6/18/2001; 666 words
; ...Negotiations between Australia and East Timor on an agreement over oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea have become bogged down despite high hopes...The talks on a framework agreement for the Timor Gap were stuck on three central issues, East...
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East Timor: Survival, oil, and sovereignty
Magazine article from: Peacework; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...strategy consisted of surviving." People in Timor gave this answer to an Oil-watch delegation...even told us that the president of East Timor, Xanana Gusmao, acted as a magician to...1992. He owes his life to magic. East Timor became an independent Republic on 20 May...
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EAST TIMOR: CAMPAIGN FOR SELF-RULE THROUGH BOOKS AND SONGS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 3/3/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Mar. 3 (IPS) -- Campaigners for East Timor's self-rule from Indonesia are lobbying...books and song. In a new booklet on East Timor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and resistance...years there has been an ongoing war in East Timor." "The world has mostly looked away...
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EAST TIMOR: ASEAN'S COMMITMENT TO NEW NATION TESTED
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 1/31/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...English News Wire 01-31-2000 DILI, East Timor, Jan. 31 (IPS) -- Previously hostile toward East Timor, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...newest nation state in the region. East Timor's independence leader Xanana Gusmao and...
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E. Timor Sovereignty Could Hinge on Coffee; Crop's Return May Fuel Economic Boom
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/20/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...unexpected boon to the tiny territory of East Timor, and one that may be the key to its hotly...month that it would consider cutting East Timor loose as early as next year. But the viability...archipelago, armed conflict has shielded East Timor's rich coffee fields from the intrusion...
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East Timor looks for Olympic recognition this year
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/24/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...It's been only a few days since East Timor celebrated its independence, but the island...oppression by foreign occupiers, East Timor became the world's newest independent...Committee delegation assigned with helping East Timor set up its own national Olympic body and...
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RP, Timor Leste sign accords on training, education, fisheries.(Main News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 8/13/2008; 700+ words
; President Arroyo and visiting Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta witnessed...involves the acceptance of junior diplomats of Timor Leste in the Foreign Service Officers...training programs customized for the needs of Timor Leste diplomats. The agreement on marine...
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East Timor, the U.N. system, and enforcing non-recognition in international law.
Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...state of Indonesia to hold title to East Timor presents a vivid and important example...concludes with a discussion of the East Timor case, in which the International Court...recognition regarding the status of East Timor. Nonetheless, the Article speculates...
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East Timor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
East Timor or Timor-Leste , Tetum Timor Lorosae, republic, officially Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (2002 est. pop. 800,000), 5,950 sq mi (15,410 sq km), in the Lesser Sundas, Malay Archipelago, off the SE Asia mainland...
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Timor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Timor [Malay,=east], island (1990 est. pop. 3,900...easternmost of the Lesser Sundas, in the Malay Archipelago. Timor is divided politically between Indonesia and East Timor (Timor-Leste). The island is long, narrow, and almost...
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Timor-Leste
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Timor-Leste see East Timor .
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Tetum
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...denotes an Austronesian language spoken on Timor, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the...linguistic population. In some regions of Timor the ethnonym by which people refer to themselves...ethnic population in the western half of Timor, refer to them as belu or belo, a Tetum...
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Belo, Carlos Felipe Ximenes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...as bishop in 2002, the same year East Timor achieved full independence. Belo was born...children. At the time of his birth, East Timor was a colony of Portugal and remained so...education as well, however, and attended East Timor's Roman Catholic missionary schools...
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