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TIMOR LESTE: Future Lies in the Young Nation’s Hands
Friday, July 8th, 2011DILI – Timor-Leste is a young nation in every sense. Nine years after achieving formal independence in 2002, ending 24 years of savage occupation by the Indonesian army, half of its population of 1.1 million is under the age of 18. Many of its children lost friends and relatives during the Indonesian era and its [...]
High hopes for tuberculosis in Bangladesh
Sunday, April 10th, 2011Reader’s Digest January 2011 High hopes for tuberculosis in Bangladesh PDF
Fragile states speak up on aid spending
Monday, April 4th, 2011Guardian Poverty Matters blog, Friday 1 April 2011 — About a year ago, officials from seven fragile states met out of donor earshot to compare notes and air their grievances about how billions of dollars of donor money has been spent on peacebuilding and statebuilding over the years.
Dili, Timor-Leste’s capital, was the perfect place to [...]
Emilia Pires
Friday, April 1st, 2011Monocle Issue 41 Emilia Pires Finance Minister PDF
Countdown to coup
Friday, April 1st, 2011LONDON: There’s a familiar tension simmering in Thailand. Growing dissatisfaction among the middle and lower classes is close to ruining a bubbling political hotpot in the hands of Abhisit Vejjajiva, an unelected pretty-boy prime minister whose rise to power was only possible thanks to deals struck with the army and corrupt politicians.
But the people have [...]
East Timor’s ‘Nuniversity’
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011The Irrawaddy
By MATT CROOK
JANUARY 18, 2010
LAUTEM — The nuns were creating an almighty din. In one room there was a sister getting down with a keyboard, while in another there were a couple of nuns bashing out chords on guitars.
While not the most gifted musicians of the Catholic Church, the sisters’ real talents lie in [...]
Forecast 2011: Flashing the cash seen as the path to success
Thursday, December 30th, 2010Monocle December 28, 2010 — Dili
Writer: Matt Crook
They may not yet have flat roads, regular electricity or a constant water supply, but work on Timor-Leste’s first mall is almost complete. While it’s all systems go in the capital, Dili, where high-end developments are sprouting in the most unlikely places, two-thirds of the country who live [...]
Bangkok’s best and worst of 2010
Thursday, December 30th, 2010CNNGo December 27, 2010 — It was a riotous year for Thailand in 2010. The rural masses took to the streets of Bangkok and brought the city to a standstill with their futile attempts to get to the front of the queue for an imported brand of donut, only to be shooed away by the [...]
Rights groups blast Thailand for lack of action on child porn
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010LONDON: A gap in the Thai penal code is fuelling “an environment of impunity” on the streets of Bangkok and leaving distributors of child pornography free to operate without fear of apprehension, rights groups say.
“The absence of a specific law against child pornography has concrete consequences for the protection of children,” said Eleonore Dziurzynski, public [...]
The DJ is dead, long live the DJ
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010LONDON: Once upon a time there was a DJ competition that all the world’s turntablists wanted to win. The list of past champions read like a who’s-who of scratch DJs. They came they cut they conquered. But that legacy was a distant memory on October 18 as the new breed did battle at this year’s [...]