This is where East Timor’s history of overcoming oppression could play an instructive role. Like Myanmar today, East Timor spent decades under violent military rule, which subjected the Timorese ...
The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Journal of Asian History Vol. 48, No. 2, 2014 Luso-Eurasian Influence in Timor (Early ... In the final colonial period, the Portuguese navy enrolled ...
The developing nation is thought to hold deposits of copper, gold, zinc and manganese, as well as rare earths and other ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia--East Timor is at an energy development crossroads. While the small Southeast Asian nation — and one of the world’s youngest countries — has made international and ...
East Timor was a further stage in the shift to the right among the middle-class “left” groups, who openly embraced imperialism under the banner of “human rights.” On the basis of Leon ...
East Timor has become a stable democracy after securing independence in 2002. But its finances are precarious, and nearly half of its people live in poverty. Vendors at the Taibesi market in Dili ...
The liberation of East Timor pushed Australia and Indonesia to the brink of confrontation, but diplomacy and a peacekeeping mission led to the birth of a nation. People involved talk about the lasting ...