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Fri. 16 of April of 2021, 10:36h Government and ADB sign one million dollar grant agreement for flood response The Minister of Finance, Rui Gomes and the Resident Coordinator of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Sunil Mitra, signed, on April 16th 2021, a grant agreement for one million US dollars to support a program called “Flood Response and Recovery Support Project” following the ...more
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Fri. 16 of April of 2021, 10:27h Prime Minister meets with Chinese Ambassador to Timor-Leste Prime Minister, Taur Matan Ruak, received this Friday, April 16, 2021, at the Government Palace, in Dili, the Chinese Ambassador to Timor-Leste, Xiao Jianguo. This meeting was an opportunity to update on developments regarding COVID-19, the floods that occurred on April 4th and the ...more
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Thu. 15 of April of 2021, 21:36h Government meets to discuss response to April 4th floods The members of the 8th Constitutional Government met, on April 15th, 2021, at the Ministry of Finance Auditorium, to discuss the response to the impact of the April 4th floods, caused by the passage of the Tropical Cyclone Seroja in national territory. Opening the ...more
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Wed. 14 of April of 2021, 10:24h Taur Matan Ruak thanks his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison for the positive response to the official request to support vaccine procurement The letter with the official request from the Prime Minister, Taur Matan Ruak, sent last week to his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, received a positive response, which means that the Australian Government is ready to provide vaccines to the Timor-Leste Government, according to the ...more
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Mon. 12 of April of 2021, 16:56h Ministry of Finance makes Basic Basket payments to 87 more companies totalling over $22 million The Ministry of Finance (MF), through the Technical Secretariat of the COVID-19 Fund, on Monday, April 12th, 2021, made payments to a further 87 local companies related to the Basic Basket programme, amounting to US$ 22,354,643.00 (twenty two million, three hundred and fifty four ...more
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Fri. 09 of April of 2021, 10:38h Government suspends confinement and declares state of calamity in Dili available ...more
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Thu. 08 of April of 2021, 14:44h Timor-Leste Red Cross receives mothers and babies affected by floods The Timor-Leste Red Cross is currently sheltering more than 80 people, most of them children, mothers and babies, affected by the natural disaster that occurred last week. The Timor-Leste Red Cross President said that CVTL (Portuguese acronym) has volunteers available to prepare ...more
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Thu. 08 of April of 2021, 14:39h Number of fatal victims of natural disasters increases to 42 available ...more