Australia Greens: Rudd should back Timor's plea - Sen. Brown‏

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Senator Brown

31 May 2010

Rudd should back Timor's plea: Brown

Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown says the Rudd Government should back Timor Leste and insist oil and gas giant Woodside not only provide studies on all the processing options for its Greater Sunrise gas fields, but favour the Timorese unless there is a genuine prohibitive obstacle.

"Timor Leste is one of our poorest neighbours," said Senator Brown. "The Government of Xanana Gusmao is showing real guts in warning Woodside it would rather shelve the Greater Sunrise project than be sidelined," Senator Brown said.


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Timor-Leste: Quadros superiores vão estagiar no Secretariado da ASEAN

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Díli, 31 mai (Lusa) -Timor-Leste vai enviar quadros timorenses para estagiarem no Secretariado da ASEAN, para preparar a adesão, revelou hoje o ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros.

Em declarações à Lusa antes de partir para a Nova Zelândia, em visita oficial a convite do seu homólogo, Zacarias da Costa disse que os elementos a colocar junto da ASEAN serão quadros superiores dos vários ministérios.

Quanto ao seu número e ao período de duração dos estágios ainda não há decisões definitivas, já que o governo timorense está a tentar obter auxílio de outros países para suportar as despesas
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Exemplo da Woodside na Mauritânia requer cuidado, diz Xanana Gusmão

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NOTÍCIAS LUSÓFONAS - 31-May-2010

O primeiro-ministro de Timor-Leste aconselhou hoje os timorenses a terem cuidado com as acções da empresa petrolífera australiana Woodside no país, depois dos «problemas que criou» em África.

Xanana Gusmão referia-se ao diferendo entre a petrolífera australiana e o seu governo, relativo à exploração de gás do campo Greater Sunrise, durante uma deslocação pelo país, para apresentar o Plano Estratégico de Desenvolvimento.

A Woodside escolheu fazer uma plataforma flutuante para processar o gás, mas o governo timorense não está disposto a aceitar a escolha e exige que seja estudada a construção de um gasoduto para Timor-Leste.

De acordo com a imprensa australiana, o primeiro-ministro timorense proferiu declarações segundo as quais Timor-Leste “está preparado para renunciar aos biliões de dólares dos campos Greater Sunrise”, bem como críticas à nomeação do diplomata australiano Brendan Augustin como representante da Woodside no país.

De acordo com o jornal The Age, Xanana Gusmão disse que Brendan Augustin, que se encontra ao serviço da Woodside com licença sem vencimento do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros australiano, havia falhado “uma operação avultada na Mauritânia, que se desmoronou no meio de alegada corrupção, negociatas e um golpe”.

Contactado pela agência Lusa, o assessor de imprensa do primeiro-ministro, António Ramos, disse que “é a interpretação da imprensa australiana" das palavras de Xanana Gusmão.

“O que ele afirmou foi que a Woodside criou problemas em África, nomeadamente na Mauritânia, e temos de ter cuidado”, disse.

Segundo o mesmo jornal australiano, Xanana Gusmão acusa o consórcio liderado pela Woodside de estar a pressionar para fazer vingar a escolha de uma plataforma flutuante, com o objectivo de desenvolver novas tecnologias, já que seria a primeira do mundo no seu género.

“Xanana disse que o país não está disposto a pagar o preço de uma tecnologia não comprovada para beneficiar empresas estrangeiras e accionistas”, refere o diário australiano.

Sobre essa afirmação e a determinação de abdicar, se necessário for, dos rendimentos que a extracção de gás do campo de Greater Sunrise podem proporcionar, António Ramos disse que o primeiro-ministro se limitou a transmitir a posição conhecida do governo timorense, “que não mudou, nem uma vírgula”.
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TIMOR LESTE NEWS

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Timor-Leste News

Local and International

For May 28, 2010

In this edition

National News’ Headings:

*Timorese medical students in Cuba to return home

*Parliament urges Govt to implement boarder pass

*Govt hand over fishing equipments to 27 fisherman groups

*F-FDTL soldiers trained on producing bricks

*No illegal weapons Ermera: Police

*Should produce law to criminalize corruption

*Catholic Church wants Greater Sunrise pipeline to be built to Timor-Leste

*Fretilin against establishment of FNPK

*KNLHS identifies 151 HIV/AIDS cases

*PN is yet to receive trimester budget report: MP da Silva

*151 Timorese people infected by HIV/AIDS

*Developing Tetun does not mean to eliminate Portuguese

*No exchange shootings in Ermera: Ermera District Police Commander, Soares

*Justice Facility hold meeting with communities

International News’ Headings:

*East Timor accuse Woodside of lying GUIDO GOULART

National News:

*Timorese medical students in Cuba to return home

*Radio Timor-Leste, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

More than 400 of the Timorese medical students who have been studying in Cuba planned to return home this year for developing public health service in the country.

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Zacarias Albano da Costa made the comments regarding the visit of Cuban foreign minister to Timor-Leste in the upcoming June.

“More than 400 students will be back to complete their study in Timor-Leste. They are the first doctors of Timor-Leste who complete their study in Cuba,” Da Costa said.

Da Costa said the Government was ready to strengthen bilateral ties with the Cuban Government for any longer to cooperate in the field of agriculture, education and natural resources.

*Parliament urges Govt to implement boarder pass

*Radio Timor-Leste, May 27, 2010 language source: Tetun

The Timorese Parliamentary members have urged the Government to implement boarder pass which was agreed with the Indonesian Government.

MP Vital dos Santos from the Democratic Party (PD) said the Indonesian Government was ready to implement the border pass agreement, yet only the Timorese Government had not constructed yet office center for border pass.

Dos Santos said the late of border pass implementation had made people were concerned about it and would lose confidence in the Government.

“The Indonesian Government is ready to realize they agreement, only the Timorese Government has not created proper conditions to implement the agreement,” Dos Santos.

MP Natalino dos Santos from the National Congress for the Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) urged the Government to speed up implementation of the agreement immediately, so that people could not in doubt with the Government’s promise.

*Govt hand over fishing equipments to 27 fisherman groups

*Televizaun Timor-Leste, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

The Timorese Government through the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has handed over fishing equipments to 27 fisherman groups of 11 districts in Tibar.

The fishing equipment handed over by the Government were Fiber boats
and 54 (Ketintin) engines.

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries called on the fisherman groups to manage well their group for using the equipments provided.

The Government had provided 99 boats to the fisherman groups this year.

*Timorese medical students in Cuba to return home

*Radio Timor-Leste, May 27, 2010 language source: Tetun

More than 400 of the Timorese medical students who have been studying in Cuba planned to return home this year for developing public health service in the country.

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Zacarias Albano da Costa made the comments regarding the visit of Cuban foreign minister to Timor-Leste in the upcoming June.

“More than 400 students will be back to complete their study in Timor-Leste. They are the first doctors of Timor-Leste who complete their study in Cuba,” Da Costa said.

Da Costa said the Government was ready to strengthen bilateral ties with the Cuban Government for any longer to cooperate in the field of agriculture, education and natural resources.

*Parliament urges Govt to implement boarder pass

*Radio Timor-Leste, May 27, 2010 language source: Tetun

The Timorese Parliamentary members have urged the Government to implement boarder pass which was agreed with the Indonesian Government.

MP Vital dos Santos from the Democratic Party (PD) said the Indonesian Government was ready to implement the border pass agreement, yet only the Timorese Government had not constructed yet office center for border pass.

Dos Santos said the late of border pass implementation had made people were concerned about it and would lose confidence in the Government.

“The Indonesian Government is ready to realize they agreement, only the Timorese Government has not created proper conditions to implement the agreement,” Dos Santos.

MP Natalino dos Santos from the National Congress for the Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) urged the Government to speed up implementation of the agreement immediately, so that people could not in doubt with the Government’s promise.

*F-FDTL soldiers trained on producing bricks

*Suara Timor Loro Sa’e, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

The 25 of Timorese Defense Force (F-FDTL) soldiers have participated in training on producing bricks. The training was held to increase skills of the soldiers to help construct house for the community.

A trainer, Paulo Sarmento said the training was financially funded by the Australian Government through its embassy in Timor-Leste.

Sarmento stressed that this three-month training was not only about bricks production, but also about learning civil engineering skills which would help increase the soldiers’ skills.

*No illegal weapons Ermera: Police

*Diario Nacional, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

The Timorese National Police Operational Commander, Mateus Fernandes said there were no illegal weapons at large in Ermera district and said the illegal weapons issue was rumors only.

The commander said when the police held operations on May 25 all the residents in that area remained calm and there were no weapons found by the police.

The operational commander’s comments were in contradiction with the General Police Commander’s recent statement saying that the police had engaged in exchange shootings with illegal armed group in Ermera for about three hours.

The illegal armed group was led by a former Indonesian soldier known as 745 with 11 weapons.

Fernandes stressed that the police had asked the residents about the issue of illegal weapons, but it unknown to them as the rumors was only mongering in Dili.

*Should produce law to criminalize corruption

*Diario Nacional, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

Parliamentary Secretary, Maria Terezinha Viegas said before criminalizing corruption there should be an anti-corruption law, as so far there had been no special law to define act of corruption.

Viegas said the Government had set up anti-corruption commission, yet there should be law to support it in conducting investigation into any corruption case.

Viegas stressed that it was important for the Parliament to produce soon a law to help support the anti-corruption commission’s work.

She added that any case that with a strong evidence should be investigated by the anti-corruption commission and later to be tried in the court.

*Catholic Church wants Greater Sunrise pipeline to be built to Timor-Leste

*Suara Timor Loro Sa’e, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

The Timorese Catholic Church has declared to endorse the Government’s policy of building the Greater Sunrise gas and oil field pipelines to Timor-Leste, due to it will benefit the country’s people.

Three bishops of the country made the endorsement during a meeting with Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao in Manatuto.

Bishop Monsignor Basilio do Nacimento said all the Timorese people had the right to firmly defend the Greater Sunrise’s pipelines to the country.

Nacimento stressed that the Greater Sunrise pipelines to Timor-Leste could employ many of the Timorese people.

*Fretilin against establishment of FNPK

*Diario Nacional, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

The Fretilin Bench in the Parliament is against Deputy Prime Minister Mario Viegas Carrascalao’s proposal of establishing national forum for corruption prevention (FNPK), as they prefer endorsing the institutions that have been set up by the state.

MP Inacio Moreira said establishing the proposed FNPK was not an effective way due to it would only spend times and money.

Moreira stressed that he preferred the Government to support the anti-corruption institutions that had been established by coordinating with each other in preventing corruption.

*KNLHS identifies 151 HIV/AIDS cases

*Diario Nacional, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

National Council for fighting against (KNLHS) HIV/AIDS has identified 151 HIV/AIDS cases in Timor-Leste. 54% men and 50% women are suffering from this virus, while small percentages are children. 20 people have died from such virus and 30 are still receiving intensive medical treatment.

Doctor Milena Lay said they needed to hold a workshop to prevent people from the HIV/AIDS due to its number was now staying in high.

“We are focusing on national strategic planning of prevention in which we prioritize the people who are now at risk such as those who engaged in sex commercials,” Lay said.

*PN is yet to receive trimester budget report: MP da Silva

*Timor Post, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

MP Estanilau Aleixo da Silva from Fretin has said that National Parliament has not received any report on trimester’s budget execution from March up to this month.

MP da Silva said it was important for the MPs to know result of thetrimester budget execution before discussing additional budget for this year.

“Our concern is we do not know clearly about the first trimester’s budget execution how it is going on and there has been no report about it so far,” MP da Silva said.

Meanwhile, MP Aderito Hugo da Costa from the National Congress for the Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) also said that it was important for the Government to submit the report soon so that the Parliamentary Committee C for Economy, Finance and anti-corruption to make assessment to the budget execution.

“Actually the report of trimester budget execution should has been submitted but it is too late to submit it, but we hope that it will be submitted soon so that we can hold assessment,” MP da Costa said.

*151 Timorese people infected by HIV/AIDS

*Timor Post, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

Luta Hamutuk’s Commission against HIV/AIDS Vice President, Aguia Belo Ximenes, has said that based on the statistics data that there were 151 of the Timorese people had been infected by HIV/AIDS and 20 of them died.

She made the comment yesterday during a workshop saying that this fatal disease was continue staying in high.

Meanwhile, Health Ministry’s representative, Doctor Milena Maria Lay, also said this disease had killed 20, adding that 31 patients among 151 of patients had received medical treatment in the National Hospital Guido Valadares (HNGV).

“Data about HIV/AIDS patients’ number are 151 and 31 of them have received medical treatment in HNGV and 20 among the 151 been dead,” Lay said

*Developing Tetun does not mean to eliminate Portuguese

*Timor Post, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

Leader of the National Commission of Education, Kristy Sword Gusmão, said the objective of developing Tetun did not mean to eliminate Portuguese language as official language in the country.

She said the objective of developing Tetun was to help the children on how to use Tetun properly, because based on the data that about 40%-60% of the Timorese children incapable of speaking in Tetun.

Meanwhile, Rector of the Universidade Nasionál Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL),Benjamin Corte Real said that the time has come to implement or use Tetun in schools and therefore he called on all people to provide their contribution in this regard.

“It is important to start teaching children with Tetun, so that in the next 15 or 20 years we can have a good result of the use of Tetun,”Corte Real said.

*No exchange shootings in Ermera: Ermera District Police Commander, Soares

*Timor Post, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

Ermera District Police Commander, Mariano Martins Soares, has confirmed that the current situation in Ermera District was under control and going well.

He denied the recent rumors widespread saying that the Ermera District Police had engaged in exchange shootings with illegal armed group in Ermera and said it was falsehood.

He said the recent information widespread was rumors only.

“I have not seen any of illegal group so far and there is no gun fight in Ermera,” Soares said.

He called on all residents of Ermera to remain calm and should not believe in rumors.

Meanwhile, Nasaun Chief of village, Agustinho Claudinho Martins Fontes also denied the recent information saying there was gun fight in his village, adding that the information widespread saying that there were 11 illegal weapons at large in Ermera was false.

*Justice Facility hold meeting with communities

*Timor Post, May 28, 2010 language source: Tetun

Manager for Justice Facility in Timor Leste, Jose Marcal, has said that many of the Timorese people had no experience about justice and therefore his department held meeting with communities of Zulo village of Zumalai sub-district on Monday 24.

“Many community leaders faced problem when there is complaint from the residents. They faced justice problem including another issues presented by their residents to resolve their problems. In the other hand we should recognize the capability and experience of the community leaders about justice is very limited,” Marcal said.

Meanwhile, Zulo chief of village, Afonso dos Santos said that they were pleased as they had opportunity to attend the meeting as many people had no experience about what justice was.

International News:

*East Timor accuse Woodside of lying GUIDO GOULART

*http://news.theage.com.au/ May 26, 2010 - 11:54PM~

East Timor's prime minister said an Australian consortium is trying to steal his country's natural resources from a gas field it's developing in the Timor Sea.

East Timor wants a pipeline to be built from the gas field to Dili, and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao told a gathering on Tuesday that the consortium was ignoring that preference.

The consortium led by Woodside Petroleum Ltd said in April it preferred loading tankers at sea from a world-first floating plant, but a final decision has not been made. Australia has not commented on the plan but has said it would like a pipeline to its northern city of Darwin.

"I don't believe Woodside company because it is a liar," Gusmao said."They intend to steal our oil and gas in the Timor Sea as they don't want to bring the pipeline to East Timor."

The massive Greater Sunrise gas field in the sea between Australia and East Timor is estimated to hold 240 million barrels of light oil and 154 billion cubic metres of natural gas worth tens of billions of dollars.

East Timor sees the resources as key to lifting its 1.1 million people out of poverty by stimulating the local economy and creating jobs. The nation has no major industry and unemployment is more than 30 per cent.

Gusmao said the consortium had broken its promise to provide training for East Timorese engineers and has only hired 30 local people in its Timor Sea exploration.

"I call on the people of East Timor and the country's leaders, we must be united to defend our wealth in the Timor Sea and the pipeline must come to East Timor, not to Darwin or floating as Woodside's desires," Gusmao said.

Darwin is 450 kilometres from Greater Sunrise. East Timor is closer, but Woodside says a deep trench off the East Timorese coast would make building a pipeline there more difficult.

Woodside and partners Royal Dutch/Shell, Osaka Gas and ConocoPhillips are licensed to develop Greater Sunrise.
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Timor-Leste: Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros apoia causa saraui

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JORNAL DIGITAL-2010-05-31

Díli – O embaixador da RASD para Timor-Leste, Mohamad Slama Badi, reuniu com o ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros timorense, Zacarias Albano da Costa, no dia 24 de Maio.

A visita de cortesia do embaixador designado da República Árabe Saraui Democrática (RASD) teve o objectivo de apresentar a cópia das suas credenciais. Durante o encontro, Mohamad Slama Badi expressou a gratidão do povo saraui com Timor-Leste, de acordo com o comunicado do Gabinete do Ministro.

«A liderança da Frente Polisário e o nosso povo estão muito agradecidos ao governo de Timor-Leste por todo o apoio que tem vindo a dar à nossa causa», disse Slama Badi. «Temos muitas coisas comuns, incluindo a importância do dia 20 de Maio. Para nós, essa data é importante porque celebramos o nascimento da Frente Polisário e para vós porque é o dia em que celebram a restauração da vossa independência», especificou.

O embaixador Mohamad Slama Badi revelou-se satisfeito pela abertura da representação saraui em Timor-Leste e o Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros timorense revelou-se solidário com a causa saraui. «Nós damos as boas-vindas pela vossa decisão de estabelecer uma embaixada aqui em Timor-Leste. Timor-Leste está solidário com a luta do povo saraui. A vossa luta pela autodeterminação do Sara Ocidental é semelhante à luta de Timor-Leste pela sua autodeterminação e independência», disse Zacarias Albano da Costa.

«Nós passámos pela mesma situação e, dentro do possível e da nossa capacidade, dar-vos-emos todo apoio necessário», disse o ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros timorense, revelando assim o seu apoio à RASD.

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TIMOR PRONTO PARA BLOQUEAR O PROJETO CONJUNTO DE GÁS , DIZ GUSMÃO

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THE AGE- LINDSAY MURDOCH - 31 de maio de 2010- Tradução de ROSÁRIO PEDRUCO

O primeiro-ministro de Timor Leste, Xanana Gusmão, prometeu tomar uma posição histórica contra os gigantes corporativos que saqueiam os recursos das nações pequenas, sinalizando que o seu país está disposto a renunciar os bilhões de dólares dos campos de gás do Greater Sunrise , no Mar de Timor.

Intensificando a pressão sobre a companhia baseada na Austrália Woodside, e os seus planos para desenvolver uma plataforma flutuante de gás natural liquefeito acima dos campos, o Sr. Gusmão disse, "muitos países em desenvolvimento são vítimas de gigantes empresariais que exploram e saqueiam recursos soberanos das nações empobrecidas".

"Timor Leste será o país que irá para a história, como a nação que coloca um fim nisso", disse o Sr. Gusmão ao Age.

Ele também criticou a Woodside pela nomeação do ex-diplomata australiano, Brendan Augustin como seu gerente do país em Timor Leste. O Sr. Gusmão tem repetidamente referido na semana passada à falha da Woodside numa operação no valor de um bilhão de dólares no empobrecido noroeste da Mauritânia, país Africano, que era liderada pelo Sr. Augustin enquanto estava de licença não remunerada do ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros e do Comércio. Essa operação terminou com alegada corrupção, negociatas e um golpe.

O Sr. Augustin não é acusado de ter cometido qualquer irregularidade.

Mas a sua nomeação suscitou dúvidas sobre a relação entre o departamento e a Woodside.

Um porta-voz da Woodside disse que a companhia estava "profundamente dececionada com o ataque pessoal".

O Sr. Augustin e outro executivo da Woodside abandonaram as conversações em Díli com a Autoridade Nacional de Petróleo, o regulador da indústria independente, em 18 de maio. A entidade recusou-se a aceitar a proposta do plano da Woodside para uma plataforma flutuante, insistindo que a companhia também deveria apresentar planos do gasoduto para ambos os países, Darwin e Timor Leste.

A Woodside reivindica que o seu plano de desenvolvimento do projeto foi enviado, a entidade insiste que não tem.

Os líderes timorenses hoje irão intensificar a sua campanha para o gás ser canalizado para uma unidade de transformação em Timor Leste, numa declaração onde eles acusam a Woodside e os seus parceiros de pressionarem para uma plataforma flutuante, de modo a que eles possam desenvolver novas tecnologias. A plataforma flutuante seria a primeira do mundo.

O Sr. Gusmão, um antigo guerrilheiro, disse que o seu país não pagaria por tecnologia não provada, proposta pela Woodside, para beneficiar empresas estrangeiras e acionistas.

"Aqui em Timor Leste, nós lutamos muito pela nossa independência, aqui, o nosso solo carrega o sangue daqueles que lutaram pela nossa liberdade, por isso, nós respeitamos as nossas leis, a nossa soberania e as nossas instituições democráticas", disse ele.

Gusmão disse que a menos que houvesse uma vantagem que retirasse os timorenses da pobreza ", nós iremos esperar que mais gerações aprendam a lição, que a humanidade vem antes das realidades comerciais." Seremos a nação que outros seguirão ... os gigantes do petróleo serão forçados a mudar o seu comportamento indecente ".

Um porta-voz da Woodside disse ontem que, "como os campos do Greater Sunrise se encontram 80 por cento em águas australianas e 20 por cento nas águas comuns, a Woodside está empenhada em trabalhar em estreita colaboração com os governos dos dois países para desenvolver essas áreas."
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East Timor PM prepared to block Sunrise gas: report

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May 31 (Reuters) - East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao is prepared to block the multi-billion dollar Timor Sea development of the Greater Sunrise gas field by Australia's Woodside Petroleum (WPL.AX), a report said on Monday.

Woodside and partners have come under pressure from Dili over their plan to develop a floating liquefied natural gas platform to exploit the fields.

Gusmao was quoted as telling The Age newspaper: "many developing countries fall victim to the corporate resource giants exploiting and plundering their sovereign resources".

"Timor-Leste (East Timor) will be the country that goes down in history as the nation to put a stop to it," Gusmao added.

The Greater Sunrise field straddles the waters of East Timor and Australia and hold 5.13 trillion cubic feet of gas as well as 300 million barrels of valuable condensate.

Australia and East Timor reached a deal four years ago to split billions of dollars of field royalties, but East Timor has insisted the gas should be piped and processed onshore to create much-needed jobs, and its own petroleum industry.

Partners in the Greater Sunrise field are U.S. major ConocoPhillips (COP.N), Shell (RDSa.L) and Japan's Osaka Gas (9532.T).

The Age reported Woodside last week walked out of Dili's National Petroleum Authority regulator after it refused to accept the company's draft plan for a floating platform.

The NPA insisted Woodside submit parallel plans for pipelines to both Darwin and East Timor.

Timorese leaders will later on Monday intensify their campaign for the gas to be piped to East Timor for processing, The Age said, accusing Woodside and its partners of pressing for a floating plant so that it can develop new technology.

Unless there was a deal helping lift Timor's people from poverty, "then we will wait until many generations have learnt the lesson that humanity comes before commercial realities", Gusmao was quoted as saying.

"We will be the nation that others follow. Oil giants will be forced to change their indecent behaviour," he said.

Woodside has said the East Timor government's opposition to its development plan was premature, arguing that the floating LNG plan was the most compelling and would bring more revenue to the citizens of East Timor than any other option

(Reporting by Rob Taylor; Editing by Ed Davies)
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Timor ready to block joint gas project, says Gusmao

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Xanana Gusmao ... wants gas piped ashore. Photo: Justin McManus

LINDSAY MURDOCH-May 31, 2010

The Prime Minister of East Timor, Xanana Gusmao, has vowed to make a historic stand against corporate giants that plunder the resources of tiny nations, signalling his country is prepared to forgo billions of dollars from the Greater Sunrise gas fields in the Timor Sea.

Stepping up pressure on Australian-based Woodside over its plans to develop a floating liquefied natural gas platform above the fields, Mr Gusmao said: "Many developing countries fall victim to the corporate resource giants exploiting and plundering the sovereign resources of impoverished nations.

"Timor-Leste [East Timor] will be the country that goes down in history as the nation to put a stop to it," Mr Gusmao told the Age .

He also criticised Woodside for appointing former Australian diplomat Brendan Augustin as its in-country manager in East Timor. Mr Gusmao has repeatedly referred in the past week to Woodside's failed $1 billion operation in the impoverished north-west African country of Mauritania - which was fronted by Mr Augustin while on unpaid leave from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. That operation collapsed amid alleged corruption, shady deals and a coup. Mr Augustin is not accused of any wrongdoing.

But his appointment raised questions about the relationship between the department and Woodside.

A Woodside spokesman said the company was "deeply disappointed at the personal attack''.

Mr Augustin and another Woodside executive staged a walk-out in Dili at the National Petroleum Authority, the independent industry regulator, on May 18. The authority had refused to accept Woodside's draft plan for a floating platform, insisting it must also submit plans for pipelines to both Darwin and East Timor.

Woodside claims its draft development plan has been lodged; the authority insists it has not.

Timorese leaders will today intensify their campaign for the gas to be piped to a processing plant in East Timor as they release a statement accusing Woodside and its partners of pressing for a floating plant so that it can develop new technology. The floating platform would be one of the world's first.

Mr Gusmao, a former guerilla fighter, said his country would not pay for unproven technology proposed by Woodside to benefit overseas companies and shareholders.

"Here in Timor-Leste we struggled long and hard for our independence, here our soil carries the blood of those who fought for our freedom, so we respect our laws, our sovereignty and our democratic institutions," he said.

Mr Gusmao said that unless there was an advantage that lifted the Timorese from poverty, "then we will wait until many generations have learnt the lesson that humanity comes before commercial realities. "We will be the nation that others follow … oil giants will be forced to change their indecent behaviour."

A Woodside spokesman said yesterday: "As the Greater Sunrise fields lie 80 per cent in Australian waters and 20 per cent in joint waters, Woodside is committed to working closely with governments of both countries to develop these fields."

SOURCE: http://www.theage.com.au/

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COM BOLSO QUE É OBRA
É UM HOMEM QUE NÃO MENTE
E COM MUITO BOLSO DE SOBRA

VEM AÍ O ZÉ BOLSEIRO
HOMEM DIGNO DE ADMIRAÇÃO
O ZÉ NÃO É NADA PANTOMINEIRO
É TAMBÉM CONHECIDO COMO ZÉ PAPÃO

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O Comandante de Operações da PNTL rejeita declarações alarmistas da existência de armas no distrito de Ermera feitas pelo seu comandante-geral

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Após um mês de declarações fortuitas sobre a situação de segurança em Ermera, especialmente no que diz respeito à alegada existência de armas de fogo (espingardas automáticas, especialmente) e de um suposto tiroteio no distrito em 16 de maio passado, o Comandante de Operações da PNTL, Mateus Fernandes, rejeitou estas declarações, e afirmou que não passam de rumores.

As suas observações servem como uma repreensão severa ao seu superior, o comandante-geral Longuinhos Monteiro. Referindo-se a esta conversa de armas e tiroteios, ele disse ao jornal Diário Nacional na sexta-feira, "eu não quero falar sobre os rumores, porque eu não quero introduzir esses rumores de novo", acrescentando que, "em relação à informação de que existem armas em Ermera, eu posso dizer que é falsa. "

Ele também chamou a isto "um monte de boatos e declarações difamatórias" que colocam acima de qualquer dúvida a sua rejeição de qualquer afirmação contrária do seu superior.

Mateus Fernandes está de parabéns pela sua posição pública, pois, restabeleceu alguma confiança ao povo de Ermera, de que eles não enfrentam ameaças imediatas de grupos armados organizados, incluindo dos ex-militares indonésios, como foi anteriormente afirmado pelo chefe da PNTL Monteiro.

Fonte: José Teixeita-Facebook- Tradução de ROSÁRIO PEDRUCO
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XANANA CONTINUA A PROVOCAR

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Este comentário é relativo à noticia publicada neste blog,Xanana: "Hau bele tau FRETILIN nia lider hotu iha hau nia bolsu; la vale buat ida" . As palavras são de um amigo, e foram retiradas da rede social Facebook. Por motivos óbvios preservamos a identidade do autor.

Lamentável... Xanana continua com as provocações e a tentar incendiar os ânimos. Numa altura em que a Fretilin mantém um comportamento responsável tentando contribuir para a paz, XG aparece novamente com o seu espírirto incendiário.

É pena que ele meta os líderes da Fretilin no bolso com tanta facilidade, mas não tenha a mesma facilidade em meter no bolso a pobreza, o sofrimento, a fome, as escolas com os tetos a cairem, a corrupção, etc. Esses, que são os verdadeiros inimigos de Timor, ele não consegue derrotar.

Apesar da provocação, espero que a Fretilin não caia na armadilha habilmente montada por XG e mantenha a cabeça fria. O que XG quer é o confronto, para depois se fazer de vítima e assim conseguir a simpatia do povo.
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XANANA: EU POSSO PÔR TODOS OS LÍDERES DA FRETILIN NO MEU BOLSO; NÃO VALEM NADA

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O STL escreveu no dia 24 de maio de 2010- TRADUÇÃO DE ROSÁRIO PEDRUCO

" O PM Xanana disse, a inteligência dos líderes da FRETILIN, podem pôr ( a inteligência) toda junta, que ainda não ultrapassa a inteligência dele...Xanana afirmou que se compararmos a inteligência dos líderes da FRETILIN com a dele, ele mete-os todos dentro do bolso dele , porque o Xanana acredita que a inteligência dele é superior à da FRETILIN de hoje....

Ele acrescentou ainda, " não precisam vir provocar, porque eu dou resposta, todos os membros do Comité Central da FRETILIN e o próprio presidente deles, eu ponho-os no bolso, o presidente dos senhores eu ponho-o no meu bolso, não vale nada.

Xanana fez estas declarações na campanha politica em relação ao PEDN, em Ainaro, como resposta às críticas legitimas levantadas pelo coordenador da FRETILIN, que como líder comunitário fez críticas à má governação da AMP.

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Officers exposed to different kind of policing in East Timor

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Const. Greg Oram, centre, of the Saint John Police Force spent nine months in East Timor on a United Nations peacekeeping mission. He advised police on conducting investigations.

TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL- APRIL CUNNINGHAM-Saturday May 29th, 2010

SAINT JOHN - In East Timor, a small Southeast Asian nation, a mild dispute can go from bad to worse in a heartbeat.

"A lot of times, arguments are solved by someone taking a machete to another person," says Const. Greg Oram of the Saint John Police Force.

Oram and with Acting Sgt. Glenn Hayward were recently honoured with peacekeeping medals for their United Nations missions to East Timor last year.

Oram, who is usually the officer who operates the polygraph in Saint John's major crime unit, spent nine months working in the national investigations division with East Timor's national police, in capital city of Dili.

He advised police on how to conduct investigations into deaths, including murders, and other serious cases.

But one of the hardest things was learning how to operate within the country's different legal system, he said.

"In East Timor, if someone commits a crime and they're caught in the act, you can't arrest them," Oram said. Officers have to get permission from the Crown prosecutor, which adds time to investigations.

Although rates of serious crime in the impoverished country have gone down since the UN's latest mission began in 2006, corruption and crime are still rampant, he said.

"You go to a death scene and they say it was a suicide, but really it wasn't," Oram said. A person might have been murdered, he said, but it was staged it to look like a suicide.

Some of the local police officers were not exactly law-abiding citizens themselves, he added, which made the working relationship tenuous.

While Oram spent his time guiding investigations, Acting Sgt. Glenn Hayward was in charge of an intelligence unit, gathering information on security risks.

He monitored risks during the country's elections last August.

As up to 10,000 people moved from a displaced persons camp back into their homes - many occupied by squatters - Hayward also reported on those risks.

"The whole time you're there, there always seems to be a bit of tension," said Hayward, now a case manager who's been with the Saint John Police for almost 26 years.

"It wouldn't take a lot to start a violent conflict."

People essentially survive on rationed rice, three times a day. The average salary in the country is about a dollar a day, with the majority of residents cooking the meals on open fires outdoors, and living in dirt huts.

After centuries of oppressive rule, East Timor - formerly a Portuguese colony - established freedom from Indonesia in 1999.

But when the militia murdered hundreds and reduced towns to ruins, the UN was called in to help rebuild the country.

The militia - which once attacked the national police headquarters - still holds power, and threatens the police from time to time. And Hayward was no exception.

When patrol officers arrested an off-duty military officer under Hayward's leadership, a group of military officers showed up with machine guns, demanding the man's release.

"I didn't have them pointed at me, but they had (machine guns), and they weren't afraid to use them," Hayward said. The man was going to be released anyway, but Hayward quickly obeyed.

Though it was a difficult six months for Hayward - who was there from May to October of last year - he said he felt like he made a difference.

"It'll take a long time, and it'll be a small difference," he said, adding he was happy to return home to wife, two daughters, and new grandchild.

Oram, who's been with the Saint John force for 21 years, said the mission was something he always wanted to do. Although it was tough to be away from his 14-year-old daughter from May 2009 to February 2010, the trip gave him a global perspective.

"You go to a place like this and see, they're slugging water and basically getting by. Some people subsist on rice three times a day and if they're lucky, they might eat eggs or maybe a dog," he said. "There's a huge disparity between the rich and the poor."
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PNTL Operations Commander dismisses his Commander General's alarmist statements of weapons in Ermera district

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After a month of random statements regarding the security situation in Ermera, especially regarding the alleged widespread existence of firearms (especially automatic rifles) and a supposed shoot out in the district on 16 May last, PNTL Operations Commander Mateus Fernandes has rejected this talk as nothing more than rumors.

His remarks serve as a severe rebuke of his Superior Commander General Longuinhos Monteiro. Referring to this talk of weapons and shootouts he said in Friday’s Jornal Diario Nacional: “So I do not want to talk about rumors because I do not want to introduce those rumors again,” adding that, “regarding information that there are weapons in Ermera that I can say is untrue.”

He also called it “a lot of rumors and defamatory statements” that put beyond doubt his rejecting of any opposing assertions from his superior.

Mateus Fernandes is to be congratulated for his public stand that has restored some confidence by the people of Ermera that they face no immediate armed threats from organized groups, including former Indonesian military as has been previously stated by the PNTL Chief Monteiro.

SOURCE-JT-FB
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Xanana: "Hau bele tau FRETILIN nia lider hotu iha hau nia bolsu; la vale buat ida"

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STL loron 24 Maiu 2010 hakerek:

"PM Xanana dehan, lider FRETILIN hotu nia matenek kesi hamutuk mos sei la to'o tuir nia....Xanan dehan se kompara lider FRETILIN nia matenek ho nia, maka nia sei hatama hotu ba bolsu, tamba Xanana fiar aan katak, nia matenek soe dok liu lider FRETILIN ohin loron."

Nia hatutan: "lalika mai sadik, purke sadik sira nee hau hatan, homembru Comite Central FRETILIN tomak ho nia Prezidenti rasik hau tau iha hau nia bolsu, ho ita boot nia prezidenti rasik, hau tau iha hau nia bolsu la vale buat ida."

Xanana koalia buat hirak nee iha Kampanha Politika kona ba PEDN iha Ainaro hodi hatan kritikas legitimas neebe Coordenador FRETILIN foti nudar lider komunitariu kona ba AMO nia mal governasaun.
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Bank Rakyat Indonesia to manage new East Timor Development Bank

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Council of Ministers approves resolution to establish development bank

Radio Timor-Leste, May 13, 2010 language source: Tetun

The Council of Ministers has approved a resolution on establishing a national development bank in Timor-Leste.

The resolution is an official process aimed at setting up a development bank in the country that would be grouped as class A which will be financing the major capital for the private sectors.

The process of establishing the approved national development bank will be based on the legal, accounting and finance requirements.

This bank will be set up in partnership with the public and private sectors with the major capital worth 51% from the state, 49 from other capital and the Bank Rakyat Indonesia will help administrate it.
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FRETILIN warns Timor-Leste Police Chief not to alarm Ermera communities

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FRETILIN
NATIONAL PARLIAMENT

MEDIA RELEASE

Dili, 28 May 2010

FRETILIN warns Timor-Leste Police Chief not to alarm Ermera communities

Exaggerated statements by the National Police Chief Longuinhos Monteiro regarding the security situation in Ermera district have unnecessarily alarmed local communities and appear to be politically motivated, said FRETILIN MP Jose Teixeira, a member of Parliament's Defence, Security and Foreign Affairs Committee today.

Mr Teixeira said Commander General Monteiro's "scaremongering" may be related to de facto Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's planned visit to Ermera next week.

Mr Teixeira said FRETILIN would urge the parliamentary committee to call the Secretary of State for Security and Police Chief Monteiro to explain events affecting security in Ermera.

"We are very concerned by how this matter has been handled. We hold serious concerns for what may be intended by the police when the de facto Prime Minister visits Ermera district," he said.

Mr Teixeira said FRETILIN had examined the security situation in Ermera and sought the concerns and opinions of local communities, their leaders, the local Police, and other defence and security personnel which contradicted Commander Monteiro's alarmist statements.

Mr Teixeira said: "On the 19th of May 2010 Monteiro was reported in the Timor Post as referring to 'an organized group engaged in terror activities, terrorizing and intimidating communities.....armed with firearms' and that there had been a 'two hour shootout' with the Police in Ermera district. These statements clearly alarmed the communities, and led to questions in parliament.

"However today's Timor Post reported Ermera's top police officer, District Commander Mariano Martins Soares as saying, 'I have not seen the face of one person engaged in such illegalities until now, and as for a shootout perhaps it was the sound of a bed banging at night that has made people in the capital Dili think that there were gun shots here in Ermera'.

Mr Teixeira said Commander Monteiro had been spreading unsubstantiated rumours about armed groups and weapons widespread throughout the district.

"The Ermera police commander made it clear in his Timor Post interview that there had been some criminal conduct but that the victim communities reported attackers armed with machetes only, not firearms.

"Other national defence and security analysts who have surveyed the situation in Ermera agree with the district commander's assessment.

Mr Teixeira said Commander Monteiro's scaremongering was similar to his alarmist statements about 'ninja' activities in Bobonaro and Covalima districts, earlier this year.

"These statements were accompanied by a major police operation resulting in widespread reports of human rights abuses documented by Timor Leste's Ombudsman for Human rights and Justice and a national human rights NGO, the HAK Association. We are concerned this will be repeated in Ermera," he added.

For further information please contact Jose Teixeira MP on +670 728 7080
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Ministry of Education plans to delegate a team to Indonesia.

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Timor Post, May 27, 2010 language source: Tetun

Minister for Education, João Cancio Freitas, has said that he would present the recent criminal case in Jakarta in the Council of Ministers’ meeting in order to delegate a team to Indonesia for resolving the referred case.

“I will present this case in the Council of Ministers’ meeting on Saturday, so that we can coordinate with each other to send a national team to Indonesia that will compost of leaders of martial arts and National Police officers to talk directly with martial arts’ gangs who engaged in act of crime in Indonesia,” Minister Freitas said.

The recent criminal case in Jakarta had involved Timorese student, leaving one of the Timorese students killed.

Minister Freitas made the comment yesterday during a press conference held at the office of the Ministry of Education.
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Fretilin calls on Govt to resolve Timorese students’ conflict in Indonesia

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Radio Timor-Leste, May 27, 2010 language source: Tetun

Fretilin bench in the Parliament has called on the Government, mainly the Ministry of Foreign affairs and Cooperation to settle down the recent clash engaging the Timorese students in Yogyakarta of Indonesia, due to Yogyakarta traditional authority is planning to send those students back home.

MP Arsenio Bano from Fretilin said the traditional authority of Yogyakarta had threatened to send the students back home if they continue committing crime; therefore the Government should take an immediate action to resolve this problem as soon as posible.

“If our teenagers do not make self-improvement, so then they will be sent back home. The Government could take a necessary action, because Timorese students try to kill one another,” Bano said.

MP Inacio Moreira said the Government should take necessary action to prevent another conflict that might happen shortly.

“Our students are still threatening one another where they all are Timorese. I am calling on the minister to take a necessary action as we do not want such attitude continue to happen,” Moreira.
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Govt continues to follow students’ situation

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Radio Timor-Leste, May 27, 2010 language source: Tetun

The Government through the Embassy of Timor-Leste in Indonesia is currently continuing to follow situation of the Timorese students in Yogyakarta.

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Zacarias Albano da Costa made the comments in relation to the MPs’ concerns over the recent clash of the Timorese students in Indonesia.

Da Costa recognized that the Indonesian authority had given ultimatum to the Timorese students regarding the referred case.

Da Costa stressed that the Timorese Government had cooperated with Indonesian police to resolve the case through legal proceedings.
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Fretilin is doubtful with FNPK

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Suara Timor Loro Sa’e, May 27, 2010 language source: Tetun

MP Inacio Moreira from Fretilin has questioned the establishment of a national forum of corruption prevention by Deputy Prime Minister for Public Administration and Good Governance, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, because it might not work effectively.

Moreira said he prefers giving opportunity to other legal institutions to do this task optimally.

“I think it is not so effective to set up many commissions to prevent corruption, because what I have seen is that many of them do not work effectively,” Moreira said.

He added that the country had established institutions like Human Rights and Justice Ombudsman (PDHJ), Anti-Corruption Commission and Inspectorate General to help prevent corruption in the country.
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PM Gusmão to be responsible for his ministers’ fault

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Timor Post, May 27, 2010 language source: Tetun

Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão has said that he would be responsible for the promises made by his ministers in the meeting of the Council of Ministers.

Fatu-Kadi Chief of village, Duarte de Jeus has said that the Agriculture Minister Mariano”Asanami” Sabino has pledged to cultivate land for them, but he had not implemented his promise yet up to now.

“Agriculture Minister Mariano “Asanami” Sabino has pledged to cultivate our land, but he has never kept his promise,” de Jesus said.

In response, PM Gusmão said that he would present the residents complaints to the Council of the Ministers to discus it.

“I should be responsible for the promises made by my ministers. I will present your complaints in meeting of the Council of Ministers to be discussed so that the referred minister could keep his promise,” PM Gusmão said.
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Timor-Leste: Programa Alimentar Mundial apoia grávidas

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JORNAL DIGITAL-2010-05-28

Díli – O Programa Alimentar Mundial (PAM) vai apoiar uma fábrica da empresa timorense, Timor Global, na produção de alimentos nutritivos para grávidas e lactentes.

As grávidas, lactentes e crianças com menos de cinco anos em Timor-Leste vão receber um estímulo nutricional, graças a uma nova fábrica de alimentos fortificados, instalada com o apoio do Programa Alimentar Mundial (PAM). O suplemento alimentar vai ter o nome Timor-Vita e vai ser distribuído em pequenos pacotes.

A produção local irá permitir a substituição das importações e tornar o preço dos produtos mais acessível, além de ter vantagens sobre os produtos importados congéneres quanto ao prazo de validade. Um dos problemas dos produtos importados direccionados para este tipo de consumo, é que são rapidamente perecíveis devido ao longo período de transporte.

(c) PNN Portuguese News Network
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KOMUNIKADU BA IMPRENSA : FRETILIN HUSU KOMANDANTE GERAL PNTL ATU LABELE HALO POVO ERMERA TAUK TAN

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FRETILIN – BANCADA PARLAMENTAR

KOMUNIKADU BA IMPRENSA

Dili, 28 Maiu 2010

FRETILIN HUSU KOMANDANTE GERAL PNTL ATU LABELE HALO POVO ERMERA TAUK TAN

Deputado Jose Teixeira husi Bancada FRETILIN no membru Komissaun Seguransa, Defesa no Negocios Estrangeiros Parlamento Nasional nian, ohin deklara dehan katak nia lamenta ba deklarasoens alarmistas husi Komandante Geral PNTL nian, Longuinhos Monteiro kona ba situasaun seguransa Ermera iha fulan liu ba nee, no husu Komando Geral atu sukat sira nia lia fuan hodi labele halo deklarasaun neebe bele hamosu preokupasaun no tauk iha komunidade nia leet.

“Ami neebe ba ona too fatin neeba no iha kontaktu ho Povo iha neeba, ho PNTL iha neeba, no agentes seguransa no defesa estadu RDTL nian, hamutuk ho ema seluk hahu kestiona deklarasoens neebe Komandante Geral fo sai iha Timor Post iha 19 Maiu 2010 katak grupu ‘organizado halao aktividade terror, terrorizmu neebe ameasa komunidade….lori kilat iah sira nia kilat’ no katak iha insidente ‘tiru malu horas rua’ iha fatin balun iha distritu Ermera. Deklarasoens hirak nee halo komunidade sira iha neeba tauk. Halo mos deputada husi bloko AMP, Maria Exposto mos hakfodak no fo sai nia no povo nia preokupasaun iha parlamento nasional, maske laos nia mak sala, tamba komandante geral PNTL rasik mak deklara buat hirak nee, neebe hamosu tauk iha povo nia leet. Maibe agora ema balun desmente fali katak koalia hirak neeba la los,” Teixeira dehan.

Ohin jornal nasional Timor Post publika entrevista ho Komandante PNTL iha distritu Ermera, Mariano Martins Soares, deklara katak “ilegal sira oin mos hau seidauk hare too ohin loron, tiru malu mos laiha. Keta kama mak nakdoko mak ema iha kapital dehan kilat mak tarutu fali iha Ermera nee.”

“Ami no ema seluk barak konkorda totalmente ho elementu responsavel PNTL nian iha distritu rasik nia konfirmasaun katak notisia uluk nee exagerado no alarmista liu. Ita tenke fiar Komandante PNTL ditritu nian bainhira nia rejeita totalemente rumores no boatus katak la iha kilat illegal espalha namkari iha distritu Ermera hanesan uluk ema komando geral dehan, no simu nia esklaresimentu katak populasaun keixa deit mak ema lori katana halo intimidasaun. Informasaun neebe Komandante Geral koalia afinal la akontese tuir nia komandante iha kampu rasik nia esklaresimentu. Elementus husi orgaun seguransa no defesa estrutura RDTL nian mos konfirma nunee duni ba ami tuir sira nia observasaun iha kampu. Nee hatudu attitude ida neebe ami la hein husi ema neebe lolos tenke responsavel ho informasaun, neebe labele exagera, no tenke sukat lia fuan atu halo povo hakmatek,” hatutan Teixeira.

Teixeira deklara katak nia ho nia partidu preokupa katak alarmismo hanesan ita hotu hare ona kona ba invensaun kazu “ninja” iha distritu Bobonaro no Covalima, neebe hetan kritikas makas husi ONG direitus humanus nian no Provedor Direitus Humanus no Justisa kona ba violasaun ema nia direitus humanus, bele repete fila fali iha Ermera.

“Ami preokupa makas ba ida nee, tamba maske uluk sira hakilar makas ninja namkari hodi justifika operasaun boot no karun tebes iha neeba, resultadu investigasaun no prosesu iha tribunal hatudu katak alarmismo no invensaun ba situasaun inseguransa mak barak liu. Kriminalidade nee ita tenke hasoru ho lei, maibe kria fali paniku boot entaun ita tenke kestiona tamba motivo saida? Ami sei propoen ba Komisaun B katak tenke solisita presensa membru governu de facto no komando geral mai esplika ba Komisaun situasaun iha distritu Ermera. Too agora ami la kontente ho gestaun ba assuntu ida nee,” Teixeira taka.

Ba informasaun tan favor dere mai Deputado Jose Teixeira iha +670 728 7080
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Gara Gara Kompainia Malandru, Estudantes Ho Profesor Tama Hospital

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Written by Eva Almeida no CJITL Internship Baucau-Friday, 28 May 2010

CJITL flash, Estudante no professor iha Eskola Tekniku Profesional Becora tenki sai bulelu tamba uma kakuluk ou plafon monu ba sira nia leten hafoin eskola ne’e hetan rehabilitasaun husi kompania malandru ida ne’ebe laiha kualidade.

“Konaba Obra ne’e, hau seidauk asina buat ruma ho kompainia hanesan simbolu entrega ofisial hafoin rehabilitasaun, iha loron 24 Maiu loron hirak liu dadauk iha dader tuku 09.00, plafon husi uma ne’e monu tun kona estudantes no professor ida, halo sira monu ba rai to bulelo tamba monu kedas iha sira nia ulun leten” hateten Director Eskola Tecnicu Professional Jose Dos Santos ba CJITL, iha nia Servisu fatin, Kuarta semana ne’e.

“Hau seidauk asina buat ruma konaba kondisaun eskola nee hotu ona ka lae, bele ona uza ka lae, maibe haruka ami bele aprendejazen entau ami mos simu no hodi halao ami nia aktividades hanesan aprendijazen nian derepenti akontese hanesan ne’e ami senti laran tristi oin tuan” haktuir Direitor ne’e.

Tuir Direitor ne’e katak, Profesor ho alunus nebe hetan sofremenntu ne’e to’o agora seidauk tama eskola tanba nia kondisaun seidauk diak sei deskansa hela.

“Hau labele hatene klean konaba kondisaun alunus ne’ebe hetan dezastre plafon monu kona nia tanba nee responsabiliza kompainia nian” haktuir Jose.

Iha fatin hanesan hato’o mos husi Vice Director Assuntus Dos Alunus Faustinho Simões De Carvalho Katak, hau Laran Triste oituan liu-liu Ba Kompanya nebe mak kaer Projetu ida nee fou-foun ami kontenti katak, ami nia eskola nee bele hadia maibe realidade iha 24/05/2010 akontese duni plafon monu no rezulta alunus sira tenki ba toba iha Hospital.

Kaju ne’e rasik levanta tiha ona sesaun plenaria iha uma fukun parlamentu nasional iha loron Terca feira semana ne’e.

CJITL rasik kontinua hela identifika no tenta atu intervista kompainia ne’ebe kaer obra rehabilitasaun ne’e. (Eva, Roberto, Emerenciana, Herminia/CJITL)
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LABEH fo Ultimatum ba Gil Alves Nia Ministeriu

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Christopher Samson, foto CJITL

Written by Mariano Martins no CJITL Internship Baucau-Friday, 28 May 2010

CJITL flash, Direitor Lalenok Ba Ema Hotu (LABEH) Christopher Henry Samsom hateten LABEH labele simu tan manipulasaun ba folin fos iha fulan Agostu tinan ne’e, tamba hahalok manipulasaun ne’e demais liu ona no populasaun barak hato’o kestaun ne’e barak liu ona.

Christopher halo ultimatum ida ne’e relasiona ho sistema distribusaun fos ho marka MTCI iha Timor laran tomak ne’ebe fa’an la tuir estandarte ka iha manipulasaun iha salaun konferensia LABEH (26/05), Komoro Kampung Baru Dili.

Atu hadia sistema hirak ne’e LABEH dadaun ne’e ativu hela halo konsultasaun ho sociedade Civil no akademika sira iha Dili no teritoriu tomak hodi hetan solusaun ida atu sujere ba Gil Alves nia Ministeriu atu hadia jestaun distribuisaun fos ba populasaun.

Kinta feira ne’e, konsultasaun ida hala’o tan entre LABEH ho sociedade Civil oin – oin ne’ebe grupo ONG barak la satistas ho mekanizmu Gil Alves iha prosesu distribuisaun fos MTCI.

“Konsultasaun ne’e ami sei hala’o iha todus sub-Distritus Timor laran tomak inklui Polisia Nasional Timor Leste no imprezariu sira para hadi rona diretamente defikuldades saida mak sira infrenta kona problema ne’e” dehan Christopher.

Tamba ne’e iha konsultasaun hamutuk ho akademikus LABEH nian Cristhoper promete katak Fulan Agostu tinan ne’e sei la iha tan manipulasaun konaba folin fos ne’ebe la tuir estandarte ne’ebe mak iha bainhira iha fulan ne’e mak akontece nafatin LABEH sei fo steitmentu makas tuir rekomendasaun husi konsultasaun ne’ebe hala’o dadaun.

Iha oportunidade ne’e partisipantes sira mos hato’o sujestaun no fo apresia tebes ba progaram ne’ebe mak LABEH halo.

“Sistema birokrasia iha instituisaun laran ne’e rasik mak ladiak wainhira distribui fos sira ne’e, dehan João Tavares Nascimento, membru Sociedade Civil ida ne’be partisipa mos iha konsultasaun ne’e. (Mariano, Hipolito, Joaquina Wendelinus/CJITL)
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MPs criticized President Horta over disproportionate speech

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Timor Post, May 24, 2010 language source: Tetun

The Timorese Parliamentarians had criticized President Jose Ramos Horta last week in the Parliamentary session due to his failure to give significant proportion to the issues related to Timor-Leste.

Members of Parliament said that President Horta gave more of his speech to the nation on New Zealand’s Governor General Anand Setanand during the country’s restoration of independence held on May 20th last Thursday.

A community leader from Bairo-Pite village, Joao da Costa, said that President Horta should not give or allow another country’s leader to have discourse in the ceremony of restoration of independence.

“The president’s address to the nation should only be made by the President and no foreign dignitaries should make their speech during such event,” da Costa said.

At the same time, Ananias da Silva and Pedro Pinto said that they were not happy with President Horta’s speech as he had not said anything new to the citizens of this country.
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Fretilin ready to hand over report of Parliamentary Inquiry Commission to KAK

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Timor Post, May 26, 2010 language source: Tetun

MP Arsenio Paixão Bano from Fretilin has threatened to hand over report of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission to the anti-corruption commission and Public Prosecution if the Parliament would not have agenda to discus the repost about of the Government’s Subsidized MTCI missing rice

“It is possible to send the report directly to the anti-corruption commission and Prosecutor General,” MP Bano said.

Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Speaker Fernando “Lasama” de Araujo, said that the Parliament had not have agenda to debate the report due to it had not fulfill criteria.

“I have asked them to fulfill the formal existing criteria as we need to receive formal thing,” Lasama said.

In response to this statement, he said that it was important to have discussion in the Parliament so that they could fulfill criteria that were needed to accomplish their report.
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Relations strained over East Timor Gap

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East Timor's PM said an Australian consortium is trying to steal his country's resources from the Timor Sea

BIGPOND NEWS-Thursday, May 27, 2010 02:47am

East Timor's prime minister said an Australian consortium is trying to steal his country's natural resources from a gas field it's developing in the Timor Sea.

East Timor wants a pipeline to be built from the gas field to Dili, and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao told a gathering on Tuesday that the consortium was ignoring that preference.

The consortium led by Woodside Petroleum Ltd said in April it preferred loading tankers at sea from a world-first floating plant, but a final decision has not been made. Australia has not commented on the plan but has said it would like a pipeline to its northern city of Darwin.

'I don't believe Woodside company because it is a liar,' Gusmao said. 'They intend to steal our oil and gas in the Timor Sea as they don't want to bring the pipeline to East Timor.'

The massive Greater Sunrise gas field in the sea between Australia and East Timor is estimated to hold 240 million barrels of light oil and 154 billion cubic metres of natural gas worth tens of billions of dollars.

East Timor sees the resources as key to lifting its 1.1 million people out of poverty by stimulating the local economy and creating jobs. The nation has no major industry and unemployment is more than 30 per cent.

Gusmao said the consortium had broken its promise to provide training for East Timorese engineers and has only hired 30 local people in its Timor Sea exploration.

'I call on the people of East Timor and the country's leaders, we must be united to defend our wealth in the Timor Sea and the pipeline must come to East Timor, not to Darwin or floating as Woodside's desires,' Gusmao said.

Darwin is 450 kilometres from Greater Sunrise. East Timor is closer, but Woodside says a deep trench off the East Timorese coast would make building a pipeline there more difficult.

Woodside and partners Royal Dutch/Shell, Osaka Gas and ConocoPhillips are licensed to develop Greater Sunrise.
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Xanana Gusmao: “Woodside are liars and corrupt”

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Translation from TVTL News 25.5.2010‏

TVTL news, Tuesday 25 May 2010

Fatoberlio, Public Consultation for National Stretegic Development PlanXanana Gusmao: “Woodside are liars and corrupt”

TVTL Reporter:
Fatoberlio-During the Public Consultation for the National strategic Development Plan held by the Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao in the subdistrict of Fatoberlio, he said that the company Woodside was a liar and totally corrupt.The Head of Government Kay rala Xanana Gusmao said, during the public consultation for the NSDP, last Saturday in the sub district of Fatoberlio, that in spite of the fact that the International Company Woodside is still currently working to exploit Timor’s oil, it does not have the confidence of the Timor-Leste government to do so,because it has shown that it does give importance to the people of Timor-Leste.Because of this Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao has asked all the people, to strengthen national unity and not believe international companies including Woodside, who retain the ambition of continuing to exploit Timor-Leste’s oil.

Xanana Gusmao:
Because from behind our backs they are dividing us. To do what? To kill ourselves. To wreck one another, so they will then steal our resources. This is what I am warning our whole people of. That there are things that are ours, that we have to be together, things for which we have to stand up for, because it was this people who built this state, who gave their rotting remains, with their resources, who gave their bodies away, their blood, their sweat, in sacrifice of the defence of our resources. There can not be any one person, who can take this right away from our people. Together, standing together, we will tell Australia, tell Woodside this.Woodside’s experience in Africa is bad. They stole. They provoked corruption in some countries in Africa. This is what we have to be watchful to. We have to be watchful with Woodside. We have to be careful with those who now say, we depend on them for their support.Before they supported Indonesia. Had they not supported Indonesia,Indonesia would not have come in here. They recognized our annexation and divided up our resources. Because of this we have to continue to be together, to defend our resources, even if we all die and they can come to get our resources, we must continue to stand up.

TVTL Reporter:
The Prime Minister added that, before the Timor-Leste government had an agreement with the company to train Timor-Leste youth, but to date only 30 Timorese are working there and the company is looking to sackt hem all.

Xanana Gusmao:
In 2002 with Conoco Phillips and Bayu Undan, our government signed an agreement whereby they promised to train our sons. At that time they took in 30 Timorese. Some engineers, some petroleum geologists.Because we argued with them, they increased, increased, increased, to now in 2010, there are 70 there. When we do not stand up, when we not together, they divide us, it is not enough that they stand on ourshoulders, they put their feet on our heads. Because of this that I appeal to all our people that we must be together on this.

TVTL Reporter:
The head of government made a plea for everyone in the nation to support this. Because when the national leadership, when the people are not united, then bringing the pipeline to Timor-Leste will not even be a dream, and we can scream, we can protest all we like, but all Timorese must lend a hand to one another to create unity, peaceand one policy so that we can attain our just resources.

Joao Bitriano for TVTL.
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TIMOR-LESTE: UN HELPS SET UP LOCAL FACTORY TO PRODUCE FORTIFIED FOOD

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New York, May 26 2010 10:05AM

Vulnerable people in Timor-Leste will receive a nutritional boost, thanks to a new food fortification factory set up with assistance from the United Nations World Food Programme http://www.wfp.org/,%20WFP.

The new site will produce fortified blended food, called Timor-Vita, targeted for children under the age of five and pregnant and lactating women.

The new scheme will also replace the need for costly imports, providing a market for Timorese farmers.

Fortified foods in Timor-Leste will now have a longer shelf life since they will no longer have to travel months by sea and can be produced fresh in the country.

The country is among the poorest in Asia, with some one third of its population regularly experiencing food shortages.

It ranks 162 out of 182 countries in the 2009 Human Development Index (HDI) http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/ report of the UN Development Programme http://http//www.undp.org/UNDP, the lowest among all Asian nations.

According to WFP, although the average Timorese household spends more than 60 per cent of their average income on food, it is estimated that the 40 per cent of the population living below the poverty line consumes less than the 2,100 calories a day required for a normal, healthy life.

Timor-Leste's malnutrition rates are some of the highest in the continent, with nearly all of the country's children either chronically or severely malnourished. The national also has a wasting rate of about 12 per cent.

"Timor-Vita is a big success," said Joan Fleuren, WFP's Representative in the fledgling South-East Asian nation.

"It is a locally-produced nutritious product that in the long term will benefit the local farmers and the local economy.

" The food is packed in small packets to ease distribution and storage, and is ready to cook as it is.

WFP has provided technical assistance for the new factory, run by the private company Timor Global.

Currently, the site produces 300 megatons of food, enough to feed 64,000 people. Mr. Fleuren voiced hope that the Timorese Government will soon be able to assume full responsibility over the nutrition programme as it has with its school meals initiative.

SOURCE: ETAN http://www.etan.org/
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East Timor Says Energy Consortium Trying To Steal

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By The Associated Press- GUIDO GOULART-05/26/10

DILI, East Timor (AP) — East Timor's prime minister said an Australian consortium is trying to steal his country's natural resources from a gas field it's developing in the Timor Sea.

East Timor wants a pipeline to be built from the gas field to Dili, and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao told a gathering Tuesday that the consortium was ignoring that preference.

The consortium led by Woodside Petroleum Ltd. said in April it preferred loading tankers at sea from a world-first floating plant, but a final decision has not been made. Australia has not commented on the plan but has said it would like a pipeline to its northern city of Darwin.

"I don't believe Woodside company because it is a liar," Gusmao said. "They intend to steal our oil and gas in the Timor Sea as they don't want to bring the pipeline to East Timor."

The massive Greater Sunrise gas field in the sea between Australia and East Timor is estimated to hold 240 million barrels of light oil and 5.4 trillion cubic feet (154 billion cubic meters) of natural gas worth tens of billions of dollars.

East Timor sees the resources as key to lifting its 1.1 million people out of poverty by stimulating the local economy and creating jobs. The nation has no major industry and unemployment is more than 30 percent.

Gusmao said the consortium had broken its promise to provide training for East Timorese engineers and has only hired 30 local people in its Timor Sea exploration.

"I call on the people of East Timor and the country's leaders, we must be united to defend our wealth in the Timor Sea and the pipeline must come to East Timor, not to Darwin or floating as Woodside's desires," Gusmao said.

Darwin is 280 miles (450 kilometers) from Greater Sunrise. East Timor is closer, but Woodside says a deep trench off the East Timorese coast would make building a pipeline there more difficult.
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Timor-Leste: Investimento de empresa portuguesa questionado por deputado do PD no Parlamento

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Díli, 26 mai (Lusa) - O Partido Democrático (PD) de Timor-Leste reclamou que seja apresentado no Parlamento o acordo especial de investimento celebrado entre o Governo e a empresa portuguesa EnsulMeci, e que o processo seja investigado pela comissão anti-corrupção.

A exigência foi feita pelo deputado Lucas da Costa, que considerou o acordo "uma desonra para o Estado timorense", devido ao arrendamento, por várias décadas, das antigas instalações da Sociedade de Agricultura Pátria e Trabalho, "pelo valor de 30 centavos o metro quadrado".

Numa intervenção feita no Parlamento Nacional, aquele deputado do PD requereu à mesa que o acordo especial de investimento seja distribuído às bancadas parlamentares e reclamou a presença no plenário do ministro da Economia e Desenvolvimento, João Gonçalves, para prestar esclarecimentos.
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East Timor Regulator Refuses to Accept Woodside Plan

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Bloomberg-May 26, 2010

(Updates with comment from analyst in sixth paragraph.)

By James Paton May 26 (Bloomberg)

East Timor's petroleum regulator has refused to accept Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s plan to develop the Sunrise gas project, insisting on more detailed analysis of alternatives, including a plant in the southeast Asian nation.

"Woodside and its partners have not done their homework properly," Gualdino Da Silva, president of the National Petroleum Authority in East Timor, said in a telephone interview from Dili yesterday.

Australia's second-largest oil and gas producer and its partners, including Royal Dutch Shell Plc, selected floating liquefied natural gas technology for the Sunrise project in the Timor Sea, the Perth-based company announced April 29. The use of a floating plant is the best commercial option, and East Timor and Australia would each receive more than A$13 billion ($11 billion) in revenue, Woodside Chief Executive Officer Don Voelte said May 21.

The government of East Timor has remained opposed to any proposal that doesn't include building a plant on its soil to process the gas into LNG. Woodside ruled out that option because it was more expensive, Voelte said.

The Sunrise partners also considered piping the gas to Darwin in northern Australia.

Woodside rose 1.8 percent to A$42.10 in Sydney, while the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index gained 1 percent.

"Sunrise is unlikely to be going anywhere in the near future given the political impasse with East Timor," Neil Beveridge, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in Hong Kong, said in an e-mail today. With Woodside focusing on an expansion of its A$13 billion Pluto LNG venture in Western Australia, the company is "probably in no rush to be making compromises."

'Threw Documents Back'

The Australian company and the East Timor regulator dispute whether the Sunrise partners' proposal has been lodged with authorities in the country.

Voelte said last week Woodside executives presented the plan to the regulator in Dili.

"We were trying to deliver our field development plan, which we did successfully deliver, but they went running out after us and threw it back in the car because I think they were told not to accept it," Voelte said in Sydney.

Voelte said he met for more than two hours this month with East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta, without seeing Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao.

Da Silva said the petroleum authority wouldn't single out a Sunrise proposal for evaluation until Woodside and the Sunrise partners had provided "in-depth" analysis on all three development options and had reached an "in-principle" agreement with the two governments.

The Woodside executives walked out of the May 18 meeting in Dili after officials from the regulator explained their position, Da Silva said.

The Australian company has received requests to meet with regulators in East Timor and Australia since the May 18 Dili meeting and "looks forward to continuing engagement," Roger Martin, a Woodside spokesman in Perth, said in an e-mail today.

Voelte said the companies and the governments are required by a treaty to select the best commercial option for the field. Woodside has a 33 percent stake in Sunrise. ConocoPhillips has 30 percent, Shell owns 27 percent and Osaka Gas Co. 10 percent.

The East Timorese regulator is concerned about the Sunrise delays, Da Silva said. Still, "we are not going to accept this and expedite this just for the sake of the revenues," he said.

"We'd like to do this properly. We should not compromise the framework in place and the need for alignment between the stakeholders."

Editors: John Viljoen, Alex Devine. To contact the reporter on this story: James Paton in Sydney jpaton4@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Amit Prakash at aprakash1@bloomberg.net.
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East Timor denies progress on Woodside Sunrise LNG

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PERTH, May 26 (Reuters) - Australia's Woodside Petroleum (WPL.AX) has not successfully lodged a proposal to East Timor's government to develop the Sunrise gas project using a floating liquefaction plant, the tiny nation's petroleum regulator said.

Regulatory News

Woodside said on Friday it had already submitted a proposal, but East Timor's National Petroleum Authority (ANP) said the firm and its partners had failed to provide feasibility studies of all other development options, including an onshore facility in East Timor.

"Accordingly, a lodgement would title a formal receipt document issued by the National Petroleum Authority (ANP), which was not and has not been issued," Gualdino Da Silva, President of ANP, said in a statement issued late on Tuesday.

Woodside officials could not immediately be reached for commment.

Greater Sunrise - the largest known petroleum resource in the Timor Sea -- straddles the waters of East Timor and Australia and hold 5.13 trillion cubic feet of gas as well as 300 million barrels of valuable condensate.

Dili has insisted that the gas should be piped and processed onshore, in a bid to create its own petroleum industry and create jobs for the impoverished nation.

Partners in the Greater Sunrise field are U.S. major ConocoPhillips (COP.N), Shell (RDSa.L) and Japan's Osaka Gas (9532.T).

Australia and East Timor reached a deal four years ago to evenly split billions of dollars of field royalties, but East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta had wanted jobs from processing to be based in the impoverished country.

Woodside has said the East Timor government's opposition to its development plan was premature, arguing that the floating LNG plan was the most compelling and would bring more revenue to the citizens of East Timor than any other option. (Reporting by Fayen Wong; Editing by Ed Davies)
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Xanana: Woodside La Merese Kaer Greater Sunrise Tamba Na’ok Ten No Korupto

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Written by Pedro Delfim-Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Breaking news, Primeiru Ministru, Xanana Gusmao, iha Alas, Manufahi, Sabdu 22 Maiu liu husi socializasaun planu estratejiku dezenvolvimentu nasional ba komunidade afirma katak kompania woodside la merese atu kaer kampu mina greater sunrise tamba kompania ne’e nia hahalok iha Afrika ne’e naok ten no korupto.

“Kompania woodside ne’e bosok ten, sira iha afrika ne’e hahalok ladiak tamba korupto no na’ok ten, ita tenki atensaun ho woodsine tamba sira iha esperensia at iha Afrika” Xanana haktuir.

“Agora ita tenki matan moris ba estranjeiru sira be apoiu ita ne’e, kuidadu sira lasu ita atu oho malu no baku malu, depois sira kontinua naok, ita tenki matan moris, sira tur tiha ona iha ita nia kabas leten, sei hakarak tan tula ain mai ita nia ulun fatuk” Xanana apela ba povu tomak iha socializasaun ne’e.

To’o noticia ne’e hatun CJITL iha hela esforso atu halo konfirmasaun ho parte woodside konaba steitmentu Xefi governu nian. (*/Pedro/CJITL)
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