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VEMASE BAUCAU, East Timor, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A mud crab and fish hatchery will be inaugurated by U.S. Ambassador Judith Fergin and the East Timor Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Sr. Mariano Assanami Sabino in a ceremony, March 8, 2013. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120308/DC67185LOGO-b) This venture in aquaculture development comes at a crucial time for East Timor, as the country seeks to diversify its economy and feed its growing...

A new report presents the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date of climate change in the Pacific region. New research providing critical information about how climate change is affecting Australia’s Pacific island neighbors and East Timor has been released today by the Australian Government’s Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP). The landmark, peer-reviewed publication, Climate Change in the Pacific: Scientific Assessment and New Research, presents the most...

An Australian archaeologist has discovered ancient fish bones in a cave in East Timor -- a small island country northeast of Australia in the Lesser Sunda Islands -- that contain the ancient remains of more than 38,000 fish bones from nearly 2,900 individual fish, a sign that humans may have gone deep-sea fishing as many as 42,000 years ago. Among the fish bones were those of tuna and shark, clearly brought to the cave -- called Jerimalai -- by human hands. And to back that up, the...

Strengthening Public Financial Management Through Transparency in Timor-Leste to highlight 25th Annual ICGFM International Conference Ottawa, Canada (PRWEB) May 13, 2011 FreeBalance, a For Profit Social Enterprise (FOPSE) software company that helps governments around the world to leverage robust Government Resource Planning (GRP) technology to accelerate country growth, continues to promote customer Public Financial Management (PFM) success milestones. FreeBalance will be...

Australia's research agency CSIRO reported on Friday that scientists hunting for fossils of giant rats in East Timor stumbled on unique rock carvings up to 12,000 years old. The experts were digging in Timor's Lene Hara cave when they came upon a group of stylized human faces etched in the rock.  The cave is known as a treasure trove of fossils and rock art. "Looking up from the cave floor at a colleague sitting on a ledge, my head torch shone on what seemed to be a weathered carving,"...

Conference to explore the role of finance and public financial management reform to accelerate the transition out of fragility Ottawa, Canada (Vocus) November 15, 2010 FreeBalance, a global Government Resource Planning (GRP) software company, announced that it will be participating in the sixth annual conference on development finance and public financial management reform. The conference is jointly organised by the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure at the Overseas Development...

Australia's military forces could be deployed to the Pacific more often and on bigger missions as small island states become progressively more unstable due to climate change, warned the country's military chief. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has been deployed to Samoa to assist with the relief operation after a destructive tsunami killed 143 people. The military has also been sent to the Solomon Islands and East Timor in recent years to enforce law and order there. Air Chief Marshal...

Archaeological research in East Timor has unearthed the bones of the biggest rat that ever lived, with a body weight around 6 kg.The cave excavations also yielded a total of 13 species of rodents, 11 of which are new to science. Eight of the rats weighed a kilogram or more."East Indonesia is a hot spot for rodent evolution. We want international attention on conservation in the area," CSIRO's Dr Ken Aplin says."Rodents make up 40 per cent of mammalian diversity worldwide and are a key element...

DILI, Timore-Leste, July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The first-ever MTV concert held in Timor-Leste kicked-off the new, USAID-funded MTV EXIT anti-trafficking campaign last Friday night, June 25th. An estimated 20,000 people packed the city-center venue, about 15% of Dili's total population, for what was a lively, fun and trouble-free event. For the majority of young people, it was the first time they had attended a concert of this scale. (Logo:...

A national park established to protect groups of dolphins and whales - recently discovered mingling and feeding off East Timor - may soon be funded by the young Asian country's own government, AFP reported.However, some foreign assistance will be required to preserve the area and develop eco-tourism in one of the few places in the world with such a wide variety of large sea mammals, officials said.Officials in Dili said aerial surveys of the hotspot from scientists at the Australian Institute...