East Timor

Kevin Rudd spends $600,000 on travel (AAP)

Oh, to have Kevin Rudd's travel kitty. In the first seven months of the Rudd government, the prime minister's overseas jaunts cost taxpayers just over $600,000, according to a register of parliamentary travel released on...

Australian oil, gas sector over-regulated, says report

Source: Reuters CANBERRA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Australia's oil and gas industry is burdened by unnecessary regulation, slowing multi-billion dollar investments, and reform is urgently needed, the government's main ...

Oil India Ltd. to boost crude oil output

The newly appointed Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Nayan Moni Borah, reportedly said that the company currently produces around 3.5 million tonnes per annum, compared to around 3 million tonnes a year in the last few years. He...

New Oil India plan to boost Assam oil output

Guwahati, Dec 3 (IANS) A top official of India's leading oil exploration company, Oil India Ltd (OIL), said here Wednesday that the company has embarked on a massive plan to boost crude oil output from oil fields in India's...

Violence against women constraints development

Update: 1:31PM Violence against women has been seen as a significant constraint on development, says a report. A recent report Violence against Women in Melanesia and East Timor commissioned by the AusAID, underlines that women...

E Timor's women speak out after brutal imprisonment (ABC)

In their country's quarter of a century-long struggle for independence, around 10,000 East Timorese people were taken as political prisoners by Indonesia. But many of those who did survive have been telling their stories as...

East Timor: New Airlines

Thanks! I am the one who really learn a lot more than I could have imagined. @Solana Yes, ... I loved reading this post. Out of curiosity, were any of the HIV+ bloggers you found women? Wonderful post, Portnoy, and what an...

Antibiotics: Single largest class of drugs causing liver injury

Antibiotics are the single largest class of agents that cause idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI), reports a new study in Gastroenterology, an official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)...

TIMOR-LESTE: IDPs face difficult journey home

The Timor-Leste government is in the process of returning home the remaining 15,000 of more than 100,000 people who were displaced in 2006 DILI, 1 December 2008 (IRIN) - Forty-one camps have now closed and the government hopes...

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS

Elizabeth Pisani, author of "The Wisdom of Whores", is an epidemiologist who has spent over a decade working on the defining epidemic of our age - HIV. She's done research and worked as an advisor for the Ministries of Health...

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