Opinion · By José Augusto Fernandes Teixeira, partner Da Silva Teixeira & Associados, Lda, Lawyers, Dili, Timor-Leste
On Thursday 15 October, Timor-Leste closed every school in the country for three days. The government told families to keep children indoors and urged anyone going outside to wear a mask. People in Dili said they could not see the sun. The cause was not a fire on our own soil. It was smoke from fires burning hundreds of kilometres away in Kalimantan, Sumatra and South Papua.
President Trump, you will be larger than life if you draw some lessons from John F Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, strength yes, but exercise it with wisdom and compassion, at home and abroad.
Damien Kingsbury’s recent piece, Timor-Leste appears to abandon sustainability, recycles tired tropes from Australian academics bent on safeguarding Canberra’s interests in the Timor Sea.
Speech by
President of the Republic José Ramos-Horta
Nobel Peace Laureate (1996)
at the "10th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit."
It is always a real pleasure to set foot on this land of a great ancient civilization. I first visited India on a personal basis in April 1992, having spent more than a week in Dharramsala.
