EDITORIAL Further divisions on East Timor
While quelling the latest outbreak of violence is essential, more than force is needed to solve the current crisis
HARD TALK Political storm may clear the air for media reform
The political turmoil that has gripped the country over the past three months has effectively put on the backburner the once much talked about reform of the broadcast media. Indeed, when was the last time we heard about the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) or the Broadcast Business Bill?
South militancy has been years in making
In early 2002, amid a series of coordinated precision attacks on remote security outposts in the three southernmost provinces, suggesting that a new generation of separatists could be in the making would have drawn a heated rebuttal.
