Thousands of students return to East TimorDILI — As the massive Indonesian passenger ship the Dobonsolo left Jakarta on July 23, thousands of people filled its seven tiers. Hundreds more set up sleeping places on the open deck.
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US fans tensions with ChinaTaiwanese President Lee Teng-hui's July 9 statement of a desire for "state to state" relations with China has increased tensions, leading to Beijing's July 31 seizure of a Taiwanese military supply vessel
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DILI — Pro-independence forces and United Nations Assistance Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) workers are very confident that the referendum in East Timor on autonomy or independence, now scheduled for August 30, will go ahead
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Burmese students remember August 8August 8 is the 11th anniversary of the 1988 uprising in Burma. On the 8/8/88, the entire country rose up against the corrupt and brutal regime of General Ne Win, in power since a military coup in
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Downer in Dili: what wasn't reportedDILI — The Australian government, forced to recognise that some form of political change in East Timor is inevitable whatever the result of the referendum, has been attempting to woo the
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Some 300,000 people living in the Wanni region in northern Sri Lanka have been cut off from food and medical aid for more than a month, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on August 2. The only route to the region, which is
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Washington, Canberra hope to disarm FalintilFalintil, the armed wing of the East Timorese resistance, is under renewed pressure to disarm. Although Falintil has upheld a unilateral cease-fire and abided by security guidelines called
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The left after the ANC election victory By Dale T. McKinley JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress (ANC) still commands overwhelming support amongst the South Africa's poor and working class, who are the vast majority of the population.
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Dhyta Caturani: 'Nothing has changed' JAKARTA — People's Democratic Party (PRD) leader DHYTA CATURANI was seriously injured by a plastic bullet shot into her back at point blank range by police at a July 1 protest outside the electoral commission
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Splits are emerging within the German Greens since NATO's bombing of Serbia ended. The Greens became the minor partner in a coalition government with the Social Democrats in October. In February, Martin Hufner, chief economist with
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LAHORE — Cricket is a big craze throughout the Indian subcontinent. Though Pakistan's loss in this year's World Cup left the millions of Pakistanis in tears, for the multinationals it was a windfall. According to an Agence
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PRD leader Anom Astika releasedJAKARTA — On July 29, Anom Astika, a leader of the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD), was released from prison so that he could receive medical treatment for problems exacerbated by the almost