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Video Highlights: Identity, Refugees, Conflict and Open Technology

A selection of Global Voices' recent and interesting stories including video from East Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, Central Asia - Caucasus and Latin America, selected by Juliana Rincón Parra.

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East Timor: Investing in Creativity and Culture

Barcelona artist David Palazón ended up in East Timor as a break from his career. Now he is coordinating a project to research Timorese culture in hopes of creating a school for the creative industries, to stimulate jobs in the non-oil economy, small businesses, and tourism.

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East Timor: Rains threaten food shortage and disease

Without a dry season and heavy rains all year in East Timor, crops have been destroyed and farmers have planted less, threatening a scenario of food shortage. In addition, rains can cause an increase of disease in the country.

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Timorese on Facebook 5 September 2010
East Timor: Expansion of the Energy Sector under Discussion 21 June 2010
East Timor: Oil wealth and national survival 6 March 2010
Timor Police Brutality Video 25 January 2010
Killing Kuka: Timorese Youth Gunned Down 4 January 2010

Latest stories about Tetum

16 March 2011

East Timor: Konis Santana, a Humble Guerrilla Hero

Written by Janet Gunter · East Asia

Like any country born out of a protracted armed resistance, stories in East Timor of division from within the resistance are various, and quite potent. But one guerrilla figure who appears to have a powerful and unifying appeal is Konis Santana, who never lived to see his people gain independence.

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29 April 2010

East Timor: Connecting Civil Society

Written by Sara Moreira · East Asia

Providing internet access to civil society has been a key priority of the few information and communication technology (ICT) initiatives that exist in East Timor so far.

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15 March 2010

Timor Police Ninja Operation

Written by Keta Haluha · East Asia

There has been much ado about "ninjas" in Timor-Leste recently. The police ordered a crackdown against these criminal "ninja" groups but some suggest that the matter is being overblown and is a political game.

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7 October 2009

Indonesia, East Timor: Border Dispute Heats Up

Written by Keta Haluha · East Asia

On 4 October 2009 the Timorese online media TimorOhin [Tet.] [TimorToday], reported that an old border dispute between Indonesia and East Timor has flared up once again in the Oecusse Enclave.

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1 October 2009

Cova Lima, East Timor: Political conflict can lead to consitutional crisis

Written by Keta Haluha · East Asia

The isolated district of Cova Lima, Timor-Leste has produced two major stories last month. While one is headline news in the English and Tetun speaking press, the other has received little attention beyond Tetun print and web media. Citing various web sources, GV author Keta Haluha provides a lucid introduction to the brewing political conflict in Cova Lima.

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2 September 2009

East Timor: The land was freed, but who owns it?

Written by Janet Gunter · East Timor

A decade since Indonesia left East Timor with one of the most devastating scorched earth campaigns of modern times, there is strong debate about the draft Land Law, and among other things, its implications for community lands.

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Updates about Tetum

1 August 2011

East Timor

Does East Timorese politics “use arms for competition (…) more than the competition of ideas”? Columnist with weekly Tempo Semanal Filipe Rodriguês Pereira questions [Tet] who was behind mysterious shooting incidents across the capital Dili last month. They occurred just after the UN announced the end of its current mission in 2012, also year of a Presidential election.

• Janet Gunter

14 July 2011

East Timor

With the main purpose of launching the future Academy of Arts and Creative Industries of East Timor, a series of cultural events and an international conference are taking place in Dili until the 17th of July. The organization's website Tatoli ba Kultura includes a media map featuring unique works by Timorese artisans.

• Sara Moreira

3 July 2011

16 March 2011

East Timor

Curt Hopkins, from the blog ReadWriteWeb, comments on the Timor Leste Transparency Portal [en, pt, tet], recently launched by the Timorese Government. Hopkins raises some questions on the relevance of financial transparency in Timor's context, and calls on readers to discuss it.

• Sara Moreira

3 February 2011

East Timor

Lemi Soares, from the blog IT Forum [tet], shares a video from Linux Conference Australia 2011, where he presented Dili Village Telco - a pioneer open technology deployment that aims to provide affordable telephony and to promote the creation of sustainable businesses for local people.

• Sara Moreira

24 November 2010

Governance

The Ministry of Health published extensive notes from field visits to its facilities in 8 of East Timor's 13 districts on the Ministry blog [Tet]. The notes reveal challenges like lack of running water, medicine supply, transport and basic equipment. Citizens comment on the findings, mostly anonymously.

• Janet Gunter

18 August 2010

Ideas

Blog Timor News Network has republished a Facebook debate which was kicked off in late July by Augusto da Silva who posted a well-crafted essay by Fidelis Maglhães, challenging Timorese usage of “culture”. Magalhães was responding to a photo of the people of a mountain town carrying the PM.

• Janet Gunter

Comments on "Tetum"

Video Highlights: Identity, Refugees, Conflict and Open Technology

We also solicited the reaction of bloggers from both sides to the Armenia-Azerbaijan video embedded in this post

The problem is not that Portuguese language lessons in East Timor are not free, the problem is that there are...
Yes, sure. I always find very interesting the anglophone point of view. English!? Who doesn't speak it? Even the street...

THANK'S TO KONIS SANTANA,BECAUSE OF YOUR WE FREEDOM AND WE ALWAYS CONTINIU YOUR FIGHT.
At His Kingdom Dionisio de Jesus Lopes (January 2011) Holy is Thy place where Thou hid When Thy noble heart’s persistence remained Thou saved...
K’ Santana’s Undying Memoirs Dionisio de Jesus Lopes (January 2011) You stood to fight for freedom You fought to keep the culture You fearlessly...