Timor in a sentence

Vocabulary Indigenous The Tetum name for East Timor is Timór Lorosa'e, which means "Timor of the rising sun", or, less poetically, "East Timor"; lorosa'e comes from loro "sun" and sa'e "to rise, to go up".

The largest are the Atoni of western Timor, and the Tetum of central and eastern Timor. citation Most indigenous Timorese languages belong to the Timor–Babar branch of the Austronesian languages spoken throughout the Indonesian archipelago.

Last May 10, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) was in Dili, Timor-Leste (East Timor), where his application for political asylum was rejected.

Review the report of the East Timor Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission as well as the report of the Recognition, Truth, and Reconciliation Commission in East Timor.

Throughout the East Timor crisis, the federal government and Downer were infuriated by a series of leaks of classified documents highlighting Australia’s duplicity on East Timor and its difference of approach – and conflict over the same – with the US.

The new treaty provides an incentive for Timor-Leste: If production is conducted offshore or in Australia, Timor-Leste will get 80 percent of the revenue.

Additionally, East Timor 's independence movement never laid claim to West Timor at any time, before the Indonesian invasion or thereafter.

It also held Portuguese Timor (modern East Timor ) from 1975 to 2002 based on irredentist claims.

Over the following three centuries, the Dutch would come to dominate the Indonesian archipelago with the exception of the eastern half of Timor, which would become Portuguese Timor.

A diplomat at East Timor's embassy in Yangon has been told to leave the country.

In 1975, Kissinger greenlit President Suharto of Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, a former Portuguese colony moving towards independence.

In 1994, the First Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor (Apcet), an initiative by international nongovernment organizations (NGO) to help the East Timorese gain independence after 20 years of annexation by Indonesia, was mounted in Manila.

In other words, Timor-Leste has hedged its bets on the success of this offshore gas field while multi-national oil and gas corporations are getting the shivers.

In trade as well, Timor-Leste embraces all partners.

It could be remembered that Teves, accused of masterminding the killing of former Negros Oriental governor Roel Degamo, tried to apply for asylum in Timor Leste.

Pilger was perhaps best known for 1979’s Year Zero which focused on the aftermath of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia and 1993’s Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy.

This line of argument is often made in reference to Timor-Leste’s lack of economic capacity and lagging development.

A man stands near a banner showing East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta, left, shaking hands with Pope Francis, ahead of the pope's visit to the country, in Dili, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024.

A national ban on martial arts training in East Timor was among the government’s tightened security protocols implemented for the papal visit.

And in staunchly Roman Catholic East Timor, he addressed nearly half the population, drawing about 600,000 rapturous believers in the tropical heat to a celebration of mass on the island’s coast.