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First Lady Of Timor-Leste
The first lady of East Timor (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Primeira-dama de Timor-Leste'') is the title attributed to the wife of the president of Timor-Leste. First ladies of Timor-Leste First ladies of East Timor during the War for Independence First ladies of Timor-Leste following the restoration of independence References {{DEFAULTSORT:Timor-Leste, First Lady of First ladies and gentlemen of Timor-Leste, * Lists of spouses of heads of state, Timor Politics of Timor-Leste East Timorese women in politics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Timor-Leste
The national flag of Timor-Leste () consists of a red field with the black isosceles triangle based on the hoist-side bearing a white five-pointed star in the center superimposed on the larger yellow triangle, also based on the hoist-side, that extends to the center of the flag. Official description of the flag According to the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste'', Part I, Section 15:'' :"The national flag is rectangular and is formed by two isosceles triangles, the bases of which are overlapping. One triangle is black and its height is equal to two-third of the length overlapped to the yellow triangle, whose height is equal to half the length of the Flag. In the centre of the black triangle there is a white star of five ends, meaning the light that guides. The white star has one of its ends turned towards the left side end of the flag. The remaining part of the flag is red." With the Constitution of Timor-Leste, constitution of the ''Democratic Republi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xanana Gusmão
José Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmão (; born 20 June 1946) is an East Timorese politician. He has served as the 6th prime minister of East Timor since 2023, previously serving in that position from 2007 to 2015. A former rebel, he also served as East Timor's first president since its re-establishment of independence from 2002 to 2007. Early life and career Gusmão was born in , Manatuto, in what was then Portuguese Timor, as the second son in a large family. His parents, both of whom were school teachers, were of mixed Portuguese-Timorese ancestry, and his family were '' assimilados''. He attended a Jesuit school in Dare, just outside Dili, and Dili High School. After leaving high-school for financial reasons at the age of 15 in 1961, he held a variety of unskilled jobs, while continuing his education at night school. In 1965, aged 19, Gusmão met Emilia Batista, who was later to become his wife. His nickname, "Xanana", was taken from the name of the American rock and roll ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Economist
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando De Araújo (East Timorese Politician)
Fernando de Araújo, also known as (26 February 1963 – 2 June 2015) was an East Timorese activist and politician. He was a clandestine activist for the independence of East Timor, and then founded the Democratic Party after independence. He was President of the National Parliament of East Timor from 2007 to 2012. He also served as the Acting President for two months in early 2008. Background and early career Araújo was born in Manutaci, Ainaro District, in what was then Portuguese Timor. He was of Mambai ethnicity. At the age of 12, he witnessed all 18 members of his family massacred by the Indonesian Army. He studied literature at Udayana University in Bali, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, .... There he founded the National Resistance of Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Aquino Siapno
Jacqueline "Joy" Aquino Siapno (born c. 1968) is a Filipina-born American political economist, academic, analyst, writer, and musician specializing in Southeast Asia. She served as the First Lady of East Timor from February 13, 2008, until April 17, 2008, during the interim presidency of her husband, Fernando de Araújo. She is the first and only first lady of Filipina descent in East Timor's history. Biography Siapno was born in the city of Dagupan, located in the Ilocos Region of the Philippines. Her mother, Corona Varona Aquino, is a lawyer. She speaks fluent Tagalog and Pangasinan. Siapno attended Ednas School in Dagupan until she was 14-years-old, when she moved with her mother to California in the United States. She graduated from St. Nicholas High School. Siapno received a scholarship to Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she received a Bachelor's of Arts in political science. She then completed her master's degree at the SOAS University of London and her doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Parliament (East Timor)
The National Parliament (, ) is the unicameral national legislature in Timor-Leste. It was created in 2001 as the Constituent Assembly while the country was still administered by the United Nations, but renamed itself to the National Parliament with the attaining of national independence on 20 May 2002. Structure National Parliament has 65 members, elected every five years through party-list proportional representation voting. The three main components concerning parliament in Timor-Leste are the National Parliament, the prime minister, and the president. President The president is elected in a separate election from National Parliament, and their role is the head of state. They are able to reject certain legislation, but their role is limited by the Constitution. The current president, as of 20 May 2022, is José Ramos-Horta. Prime minister The president appoints the prime minister, but it is expected that the president will select the leader chosen by the largest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Guterres
Vicente da Silva Guterres (born 22 January 1956 in Baguia, Portuguese Timor) is a politician from East Timor, a member of the National Parliament of East Timor and its vice-president since 2007. Parliamentary role In the June 2007 parliamentary election, Guterres was elected to the National Parliament as the second name on the candidate list of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT), a party led by Xanana Gusmão. He was elected president of the National Parliament without opposition in July 2012. Acting president of Timor-Leste He became acting president of East Timor after President José Ramos-Horta was injured in an attack on his home on 11 February 2008. As acting president, he proclaimed a two-day state of emergency on 12 February. After his return from Portugal, the president of National Parliament, Fernando de Araújo, took over presidency on 13 February. During his time in office, he fought for greater efforts to combat poverty. According to OEC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Goretti Guterres Marques
Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon Terrestrial *Maria, Maevatanana, Madagascar *Maria, Quebec, Canada *Maria, Siquijor, the Philippines * María, Spain, in Andalusia *Îles Maria, French Polynesia *María de Huerva, Aragon, Spain *Villa Maria (other) Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Maria'' (1947 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (1975 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (2003 film), Romanian film * ''Maria'' (2019 film), Filipino film * ''Maria'' (2021 film), Canadian film directed by Alec Pronovost *''Being Maria'', 2024 French film released as ''Maria'' in France * ''Maria'' (2024 film), American film * ''Maria'' (Sinhala film), Sri Lankan upcoming film Literature * ''María'' (novel), an 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs * ''Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 East Timorese Assassination Attempts
Rebel soldiers of the Timor Leste Defence Force invaded the homes of the President and Prime Minister of East Timor on 11 February 2008, leading to the shooting and serious wounding of President José Ramos-Horta and the shooting up of the car of Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão. Two rebel soldiers, including leader Alfredo Reinado, were shot dead by presidential security forces. Reinado had deserted the military in 2006 along with 600 others after complaining of regional discrimination in promotions, sparking the 2006 East Timorese crisis. The attacks have been variously interpreted as attempted assassinations, attempted kidnappings and an attempted coup d'état. The rebels' intentions remain unknown. After being hospitalised in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, for more than a month, Ramos-Horta was discharged from hospital on 19 March but remained in Darwin until April for continued treatment. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuters News
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was established in London in 1851 by Paul Reuter. The Thomson Corporation of Canada acquired the agency in a 2008 corporate merger, resulting in the formation of the Thomson Reuters Corporation. In December 2024, Reuters was ranked as the 27th most visited news site in the world, with over 105 million monthly readers. History 19th century Paul Julius Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions of 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on, in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen, in what today is Aa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 East Timorese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in East Timor in 2007. The first round on 9 April 2007 saw six of the eight candidates eliminated. The remaining two candidates, incumbent Prime Minister of East Timor, Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta and Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, FRETILIN President Francisco Guterres, faced each other in a Two-round system, runoff election on 9 May 2007. Ramos-Horta won the second round with 69% of the vote."Guterres congratulates Horta as new president of Timor-Leste" Xinhua (''People's Daily Online''), 11 May 2007. Candidates Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta announced in February 2007 that he would be a presidential candidate, receiving the support of incumbent president Xanana Gusmão, who chose not to r ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Pessoa Pinto
Ana Maria Pessoa Pereira da Silva Pinto (born January 5, 1956) is an East Timorese politician who served in several roles, including as the country's prosecutor general. She is a member of FRETILIN. Career Ana Pessoa was active in the Timor-Leste independence campaign while studying law at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique in the 1980s. She went on to work as Director of National Investigations and Legislation of Mozambique from 1990 to 2000. During the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) from 1999 to 2002, Pessoa was the Cabinet Member for the Interior). She joined the Second Transitional Government as Minister of Justice until 2003, then served as minister of state administration until 2007. Following the parliamentary elections on 30 June 2007, she returned to the National Parliament as a Fretilin deputy. On 27 March 2009, Pessoa became the new attorney general, replacing Longuinhos Monteiro. She subsequently retired from politics and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
