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Thu. 08 of July of 2021, 15:10h Timor-Leste received today 40 thousand more vaccines from Australia A batch of 40,000 additional AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines arrived today, July 8th, 2021, from Australia. In total, Australia has already supplied 175,000 vaccines to Timor-Leste. Australia has committed to provide Timor-Leste with sufficient doses of COVID-19 vaccines for the 80% of ...more
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Wed. 07 of July of 2021, 16:46h Council of Ministers approves extraordinary assistance for the integration in the labour market The Council of Ministers approved, at the meeting on July 7th 2021, a draft Decree-Law for the creation of extraordinary assistance for the integration into the labour market for beneficiaries of “cash for work” programmes, presented by the Minister of Finance, Rui Augusto ...more
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Tue. 06 of July of 2021, 16:38h National Parliament overall approves the Law Proposal on the General State Budget Framework and Public Financial Management The Law Proposal on the State Budget Framework and Public Financial Management was overall approved by the National Parliament, in the plenary session of July 6th, 2021, with 37 votes in favour, 12 against and 11 abstentions. This draft Law proposes a new framework for the ...more
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Fri. 02 of July of 2021, 14:35h Timor-Leste creates Commission to fight Human Trafficking The legislation creating the Commission to Fight Human Trafficking, which had been approved by the Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Minister of Justice, Manuel Cárceres da Costa, was promulgated and more
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Wed. 30 of June of 2021, 17:39h Timor-Leste receives another 65 thousand COVID-19 vaccines from Austrália Today, June 30, 2021, a batch of over 65,000 vaccines against COVID-19 from Australia arrived. Altogether, Australia has provided 135,000 vaccines to Timor-Leste. In addition to vaccines from Australia, 124,800 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in the country under the COVAX ...more
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Wed. 30 of June of 2021, 13:19h National Parliament authorizes President of the Republic to renew the State of Emergency for another 30 days Following the Government's request to the President of the Republic and the positive opinions of the Council of State and the Supreme Council for Defence and Security, the National Parliament today, June 30th 2021, authorised the President of the Republic to renew the declaration of the state ...more
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Tue. 29 of June of 2021, 19:32h 2022 GSB Budgetary Days The Government, through the Ministry of Finance, organized, on June 30th, 2021, the Budget Days, a seminar that marks the beginning of the preparation of the 2022 General State Budget (GSB), in Xanana Gusmão auditorium, in the Ministry of Finance, in Dili. The seminar was ...more
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Tue. 29 of June of 2021, 15:29h Timor-Leste and United States sign agreements to rehabilitate Baucau airfield and to develop national civil aviation sector The Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and Territory, José Maria dos Reis, and the Ambassador of the United States (U.S.) in Timor-Leste, Kevin Blackstone, signed two Memoranda of Understanding for bilateral cooperation for rehabilitation of the Baucau ...more