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Mon. 07 of June of 2021, 12:06h Prime Minister summons Vice Minister of Interior and General Command of PNTL for analysis of the murder case in West Lahane Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak, who is also the Minister of Interior, summoned this Monday morning, at his residence in Farol Neighbourhood, the Vice Minister of Interior, António Armindo, the General Commander of the National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL), Police Commissioner ...more
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Sat. 05 of June of 2021, 16:50h 100,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine arrived today Timor-Leste received today, June 5th, 2021, 100 thousand Sinovac vaccine doses and 100.800 syringes donated by the People's Republic of China. At the delivery ceremony, held at Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport, ...more
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Fri. 04 of June of 2021, 18:49h More than 87,000 people across the country have already received the first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 Almost two months since the vaccination campaign began on April 7th 2021, the Ministry of Health has administered the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to 87,230 people. Most of the vaccines were distributed in Dili, the ...more
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Fri. 04 of June of 2021, 17:27h Timor-Leste and Australia sign a USD$ 15.5 million agreement to rehabilitate basic infrastructures in more than 200 villages (sucos) and support the Bolsa de Mãe Program for 40 thousand people On June 4th, the Minister of Finance, Rui Augusto Gomes, representing the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, and the Australian Embassy Chargé d'Affaires, Philippa Venning, representing the Government of Australia, signed a USD$ 15.5 million Direct Financial Contribution Agreement ...more
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Fri. 04 of June of 2021, 12:51h Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers meets with the future Executive Secretary of the CPLP The Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Fidelis Manuel Leite Magalhães, met, on June 4th, 2021, at the Government Palace, in Dili, with Zacarias Albano da Costa, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the IV Constitutional Government. more
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Wed. 02 of June of 2021, 19:35h Retreat of the members of the 8th Constitutional Government The members of the VIII Constitutional Government met on June 2nd , 2021, in retreat, in the Ministry of Finance auditorium, to review the budget execution and the implementation of the programmes projected for 2021 and for the preparation of the 2022 General State Budget ...more
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Mon. 31 of May of 2021, 17:01h Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers meets with UN representative in the context of the presentation of a study on economic diversification The Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Fidelis Manuel Leite Magalhães, met, on May 31st, 2021, with the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Timor-Leste, Roy Trivedy, in the context of the "The Timor-Leste drivers of growth and sectorial transformation" studys launch, ...more
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Mon. 31 of May of 2021, 09:25h Tibar Bay Port construction work reaches 50 percent The Government of Timor-Leste has made, through the Escrow Account managed by the Ministry of Finance (MF) from August 2019 until May 2021, a payment of its contribution to the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) in the amount of USD$ 64.7 million to Timor Port S.A., the concessionaire of the Tibar ...more