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unusual facts about Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste



A.D. Dili Leste

Dili Leste or Associação Desportiva Dili Leste is a football club of East Timor from Dili.

Asia Security Conference

18 countries represented at the ministerial-level: Korea, Australia, Cambodia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Bang Tango

Lesté reformed the band yet again in 2002, albeit structured around a revolving door of lesser-known musicians.

FDTL

the Timor Leste Defence Force (Forças de Defesa de Timor Leste), the armed forces of Timor-Leste

HIV/AIDS in East Timor

Although HIV prevalence among the general population appears to be quite low, there are signs of a low-level epidemic among Timor-Leste’s sex workers and men who have sex with men (MSM).

Kate Webb

After the war, she continued to work as a foreign correspondent for UPI and Agence France-Presse (AFP), and served as a correspondent in Iraq during the Gulf War, in Indonesia as Timor-Leste gained independence, and in North Korea, where she was the first to report the death of Kim Il Song.

Kirsty Sword Gusmão

From May 2002 to May 2007, Xanana was President of Timor-Leste, and Sword Gusmão was its First Lady.

Lene Hara cave

The cave was discovered to science in the early 1960s and first investigated in 1963 by Portuguese anthropologist, Antonio de Almeida when Timor Leste was under Portuguese rule.

Leste

It blows from an easterly direction in autumn, winter and spring, rarely in summer, and is of intense dryness, sometimes reducing the relative humidity at Funchal to below20%.

Manufahi Teacher Training and Resource Centre

For several years Catholic Education Parramatta has been sending volunteers from Australia to Timor Leste to provide training for local teachers of Maths and English.

Moisés da Costa Amaral

Within the United Nations this was the first big step that led to the so desired independence of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.

United Nations Office in East Timor

Following up on UNMISET, the Security Council passed Resolution 1599 authorising peace-building activities by establishing the United Nations Office in Timor Leste (UNOTIL).


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