East Timor: The dirtiest city

Posted 10 December 2007 22:18 GMT

Countries	East Timor
Topics	Governance
Languages	Portuguese

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Português	· Timor Leste: A mais suja cidade
Malagasy	· Timôr Atsinanana : Ny tanàna faran'izay maloto indrindra

Timor Online [pt] comments on a piece of news in which East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta labelled his capital the dirtiest city in the world. “Ramos-Horta forgets that it is Díli's admistration's job to look after the city's cleaning and that he has also forgotten that he has not done anything about it when he was the primer minister?”, asks the blogger.

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