The Dili Weekly newspaper, a conventional 24-page publication, has just posted its first trial online edition for comments . The official launch is expected to take place the third week of September. The Dili Weekly began on January 31 , 2008, due to the efforts of Otelio Ote and Emanuel Braz. It is the only weekly bi-lingual English-Tetum newspaper written by Timorese journalists .
Readers are invited to visit www.thediliweekly.com and make suggestions how it can be improved. The vision of the publication is to enable international and national communities living and working in Timor-Leste to be “on the same page” when it comes to information that may well affect the way in which policy and development initiatives are being undertaken.
Readers are invited to visit www.thediliweekly.com and make suggestions how it can be improved. The vision of the publication is to enable international and national communities living and working in Timor-Leste to be “on the same page” when it comes to information that may well affect the way in which policy and development initiatives are being undertaken.
It strives to provide good quality news according to international journalism standards and is self-sustainable through revenue from limited advertising content and subscriptions . A legal entity, it has been registered with Timor-Leste’s Ministry of Trade, Commerce, and Industries as a media organisation business since 2009.
It is to be hoped that the Darwin media will take a greater interest in reporting Timor-Leste affairs once it has an easy online news source with which to refer. Despite the long involvement with Timor going back to the days when it was a Portuguese colony, WW11 and the Indonesian invasion of the country, Timor-Leste receives scant attention by the Darwin newshounds -preoccupied with flim flam like crocs, UFOs, coffee, tits , tinnies and truffles, gigs, gardens, grub and grandstanders .
It is to be hoped that the Darwin media will take a greater interest in reporting Timor-Leste affairs once it has an easy online news source with which to refer. Despite the long involvement with Timor going back to the days when it was a Portuguese colony, WW11 and the Indonesian invasion of the country, Timor-Leste receives scant attention by the Darwin newshounds -preoccupied with flim flam like crocs, UFOs, coffee, tits , tinnies and truffles, gigs, gardens, grub and grandstanders .
Little Darwin humbly suggests it would be nice if the Darwin media considered regular news from Timor -Leste, perhaps extracts from The Dili Weekly and other sources for a Timor On Tuesday spot. After all, there are many Timorese living here in Darwin and there are troops from Darwin over there.
