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Timorese doctor hails Chinese medical team's work

STORY: Timorese doctor hails Chinese medical team's work DATELINE: June 13, 2023 LENGTH: 0:02:05 LOCATION: Dili CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Timor-Leste 2. various of the Chinese medical team 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CLAUDIA, Doctor, Guido Valadares National Hospital in Timor-Leste STORYLINE: Officially independent in 2002, Timor-Leste is one of the youngest countries in the world and also one of the least developed countries. With a total population of 1.34 million, the country suffers a serious shortage of medical resources. In 2004, China sent its first medical team to support Timor-Leste. Up to now, China has sent nine medical teams with a total of 111 personnel, which have treated more than 300,000 local patients in addition to regular donations of medical equipment. Besides medical support, China has also helped the country cultivate its own medical resources. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CLAUDIA, Doctor, Guido Valadares National Hospital in Timor-Leste "I'm Dr. Claudia. I'm a cardiologist. I

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Election in E. Timor

DILI, East Timor - Election officials count votes in Dili, the capital of East Timor, on July 7, 2012, after polls closed. A parliamentary election held the same day was seen as a close contest between the center-left National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) party of Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao and the left-wing Fretilin party of former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri.

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E. Timor's new president on 10th independence anniversary

JAKARTA, Indonesia - East Timorese President Taur Matan Ruak (R) attends a ceremony to celebrate the country's 10th anniversary of independence in Dili, the capital of East Timor, on May 20, 2012. Matan Ruak was sworn in as president just a few hours before the celebrations.

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E. Timor guerrilla fighter's son

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Alex Freitas Daitula, the son of the late East Timorese guerrilla leader David Alex Daitula, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Dili, the capital of East Timor, in March 2012. Being one of the most respected guerrilla leaders during the 24-year Indonesian rule of East Timor, Daitula died in 1997 after being captured by the Indonesian military.

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E. Timorese president in disaster-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta puts the country's traditional cotton fabric on Narumi Osawa, an 18-year-old student at a high school in Sendai, on Jan. 20, 2012. Ramos-Horta visited the high school in the city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami to cheer up some 800 students there.

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E. Timor president in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda shake hands before their meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2012. Noda is wearing an eye patch because of an injury.

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East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta places 1,000 folded paper cranes at Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on March 19, 2010. Ramos-Horta is in Japan from March 14 on a weeklong visit.

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Hatoyama meets Ramos-Horta in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) and East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta shake hands prior to their talks at the premier's office in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. The two leaders discussed a range of issues including Japanese aid and the need to strengthen bilateral ties.

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E. Timor Pres. Ramos-Horta talks with Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta (L) talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 16, 2010.

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Ramos-Horta speaks at Japan press club

TOKYO, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta speaks at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on March 16, 2010. The president said East Timor's economy has grown for the third straight year.

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East Timorese Prime Minister Gusmao in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao speaks at a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on March 10.

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Japan promises E. Timor more support in peace-building

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) and visiting East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao shake hands before their talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 9. Japan assured Gusmao to continue to provide support in its peace-building and nation-building.

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E. Timor begins voting for president

DILI, East Timor - Outgoing East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao (C) waits for his turn to vote at a polling station in Dili as people went to the polls again to cast their ballots in a presidential runoff contest between Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta and Parliament Speaker Francisco Guterres on May 9.

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E. Timor begins voting for president

DILI, East Timor - East Timorese voters stand in line at a polling station outside Dili as the voting began in a presidential runoff contest between Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta and Parliament Speaker Francisco Guterres on May 9.

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Ramos-Horta vows to look after opponents as E. Timor president

DILI, East Timor - East Timor's Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta, donning traditional Timorese costumes, attends a gathering of his supporters in Dili on May 8. He offered assurances that he will look after the welfare of his political opponents if he is elected East Timor's second president in the runoff presidential election May 9.

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E. Timorese vote to elect new president

DILI, East Timor - Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta shows his inked finger after casting a ballot to elect East Timor's new president in Dili on April 9.

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E. Timorese vote to elect new president

DILI, East Timor - An election official shows a ballot paper to residents as the vote-counting proceeds in Dili on April 9 to elect East Timor's new president.

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E. Timorese vote to elect new president

DILI, East Timor - Voters walk to a polling station to cast their ballots to elect East Timor's new president in Dili on April 9.

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East Timorese protest against severe food shortage

DILI, East Timor - East Timorese launch a sit-in in front of government offices in Dili on Feb. 20 to protest against a severe food shortage that has plagued East Timor since the beginning of this month. About 600 people took part in the demonstration.

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E. Timor foreign minister says 'tempted' by top U.N. top

NEW YORK, United States - East Timor Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta speaks with reporters at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on May 5. He said he was ''tempted'' by the U.N. secretary general job, amid recent speculation about his possible candidacy. ''I'm not ruling out any possibility, but sincerely I'm not yet a candidate,'' said Horta, a 1996 Nobel Prize joint prize winner for his work in the East Timorese resistance against Indonesian occupation.

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East Timor President Gusmao honored by Takushoku University

TOKYO, Japan - East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao (L) is presented with a school medal after receiving an honorary doctorate from Takushoku University President Toshio Watanabe on Feb. 25.

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E. Timor defense commander calls for more Japan aid

SENDAI, Japan - East Timor's defense forces commander Brig. Gen. Taur Matan Ruak speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Sendai, northeastern Japan, Oct. 18. Ruak thanked Japan for being its biggest aid donor but called for more support as East Timorese are still fighting poverty two years after independence from Indonesia.

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(1)E. Timor marks first anniversary of independence

DILI, East Timor - East Timorese soldiers hoist the national flag in a ceremony marking East Timor's first anniversary as an independent nation May 20 in Dili.

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(2)E. Timor marks first anniversary of independence

DILI, East Timor - East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao delivers a speech in a ceremony marking East Timor's first anniversary as an independent nation May 20 in Dili.

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Ramos-Horta urges donors to keep faith in E. Timor

DILI, East Timor - East Timorese Foreign Minister Jose Ramos- Horta speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at his office in Dili on Dec. 6. He urged the international community not to lose faith in the fledgling nation in the wake of the antigovernment rioting in the capital Dili that left two people dead and dozens of shops destroyed.

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E. Timor's Belo asks to resigns as bishop

DILI, East Timor - East Timorese clergyman Filipe Ximenes Belo (file photo) wrote Pope John Paul II on Nov. 26 asking to be allowed to resign his bishopric. ''Due to health reasons, I have written a letter to the pope requesting my resignation as the administrator of the Apostolic of Dili Diocese,'' the letter said.

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Koizumi meets with E. Timorese leaders

DILI, East Timor - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) is greeted by President-elect Xanana Gusmao (C) and Sergio Vierra de Mello (R), the head of the U.N. administration, on arrival in East Timor on April 29.

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Tanaka meets Gusmao

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L) meets East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao at her ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 29. Tanaka wears a stole given by Gusmao.

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Koizumi tells Gusmao Japan will boost aid to refugees

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shakes hands with East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao on Jan. 29 at the premier's official residence in Tokyo. Koizumi told him Japan will increase its financial aid to East Timorese refugees by $1 million.

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(2)East Timorese go to the polls

DILI, East Timor - East Timorese voters queue outside a polling station in Dili, East Timor, on Aug. 30 as the voting began to elect an 88-member parliament which will later draft a constitution for the emerging independent nation.

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(1)East Timorese go to the polls

DILI, East Timor - Jose Ramos-Horta, the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who currently handles foreign affairs in East Timor's transitional administration, casts his ballot at a polling station in Dili, East Timor, on Aug. 30 as the voting began to elect an 88-member constituent assembly.

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W. Timor militias begin handing over weapons to Indonesia

ATAMBUA, Indonesia - Photo shows Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri seeing weapons handed over by pro-Jakarta East Timorese militiamen in West Timor to Indonesian police on Sept. 24 in line with a U.N. Security Council resolution urging them to disarm. In a ceremony to mark the disarmament, about 100 militiamen held out explosives and about 900 guns before Megawati.

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Mori, Howard to urge Indonesia to stop militia attacks

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and his Australian counterpart, John Howard, shakes hands before holding a 30-minute meeting Sept. 6 on the sidelines of the three-day U.N. Millennium Summit, which opened the same day in New York. They agreed to urge Indonesia to stop violence by militias opposed to East Timorese independence, condemning the murder of three employees of a U.N. refugee agency in West Timor earlier in the day.

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E. Timor marks 1st anniversary of independence vote

DILI, East Timor - Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer (2nd from L) and Jose Ramos-Horta (4th from L), vice president of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT), lay wreaths at a cenotaph in Dili during ceremonies marking the first anniversary of East Timor's independence referendum Aug. 30.

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Gusmao, Ramos-Horta announce resignation

DILI, East Timor - East Timorese independence leaders Xanana Gusmao (L) and Jose Ramos-Horta announce Aug. 27 they are stepping down from the leadership of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT), East Timor's main political grouping. Gusmao and Ramos-Horta made the announcement at a CNRT congress in Dili.

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E. Timor's Falintil guerrilla army marks 25th anniversary

AILEU, East Timor - East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao attends a ceremony in Aileu, East Timor, on Aug. 20 marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of the National Liberation Armed Forces of East Timor (Falintil). He turned over his post as commander in chief of the guerrilla army to his deputy, Taur Matan Ruak, at the event. The army was formed to wrest East Timor's independence from Indonesia, which annexed the territory as a province in 1976.

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E. Timor polls could be held Aug. 30 next year: De Mello

DILI, East Timor - Sergio Vieira de Mello, who heads the U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), in an interview with a small group of reporters, says in Dili on Aug. 19 that the first democratic election in East Timor could be held as early as Aug. 30 next year. East Timor is under UNTAET control as it moves toward full independence. Aug. 30 is the date of last year's historic U.N.-administered referendum in which East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia.

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Japanese cameras to capture children's E. Timor

DILI, East Timor - Japanese photographer Hikaru Nagatake (far R) explains to children in Dili, East Timor, how to use a disposable Japanese camera on Aug. 16. Nagatake told Kyodo News she plans to hand out 100 cameras to East Timorese kids in various villages as part of a personal project to foster creativity among the territory's young and capture their perspectives on life. She will then collect the cameras and have the film developed in Japan. Copies of the photos will be sent to the children and the best ones will be given awards.

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Japanese children's drawings to be exhibited in E. Timor

DILI, East Timor - Michio Takahashi (L), president of the Timor Lore Sa'e-Nippon (East Timor-Japan Culture Center), poses with two Timorese volunteers in Dili on Aug. 15. Takahashi brought 100 drawings by Japanese children for exhibition in Dili. He said he will ask East Timorese children to draw pictures which he plans to show in Japan.

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CNRT to be disbanded after E. Timor independence: Gusmao

DILI, East Timor - East Timor leader Xanana Gusmao tells Japanese reporters in Dili on May 12 that the National Council of the Timorese Resistance (CNRT) will be disbanded after the territory gains independence.

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Gusmao calls on Obuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi greets East Timor political leader Xanana Gusmao at his official residence Dec. 17. Obuchi told Gusmao Japan plans to give financial assistance to East Timorese students in Indonesia.

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Political prisoners return to East Timor

DILI, East Timor - East Timorese political prisoners, released by the Indonesian government on Dec. 10, return to the East Timorese capital, Dili, on Dec. 11 and are greeted by East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao (3rd from far R).

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Japan's ASDF begins humanitarian operations for E. Timorese

KUPANG, Indonesia - Personnel of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees on Nov. 29 handle relief supplies brought to Kupang by a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) cargo plane (background) for East Timorese refugees in West Timor. The ASDF on the day started a three-month U.N.-sponsored operation to help East Timorese refugees scattered through West Timor.

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ASDF begins humanitarian operations for E. Timorese

KUPANG, Indonesia - Relief supplies are unloaded from Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) cargo planes in Kupang, West Timor, on Nov. 29, beginning a three-month U.N.-sponsored humanitarian operation to help East Timorese refugees scattered throughout West Timor. The ASDF team brought with them more than 10 tons of relief supplies from Indonesia's East Java capital Surabaya -- where the aircraft are based.

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ASDF team arrives in Surabaya

SURABAYA, Indonesia - Members of a 102-man Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) team sort out their luggage after arriving at Surabaya on Nov. 25 to begin a mission to provide humanitarian support to East Timorese refugees in Indonesian-ruled West Timor.

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ASDF team leaves Japan to help E. Timor refugees

NAHA, Japan - A team of 102 Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) members leaves Japan on Nov. 25 for Indonesia on a mission to provide humanitarian support to East Timorese refugees stranded in West Timor. The team departed on three C-130 transport planes from the ASDF base in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, and will join up with an advance ASDF team that arrived in Surabaya on Java Island on Nov. 22.

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Japanese ASDF team heading for Indonesia to help E. Timorese

NAHA, Japan - A 102-member team of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) is being sent to Indonesia on a mission to provide humanitarian support to East Timorese refugees stranded in West Timor. Photo shows the team arriving in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on three C130 transport planes in the afternoon of Nov. 24. They will arrive in Surabaya on Nov. 25 after refueling in Manila.

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ASDF team heads to Indonesia to help E. Timor refugees

KOMAKI, Japan - A team of 102 Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) members leave Nov. 24 for Indonesia on a mission to provide humanitarian support to East Timorese refugees stranded in West Timor. The team that departed on three C-130 transport planes from the ASDF base in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, will join an advance ASDF team which arrived in Surabaya on Java Island on Nov. 22.

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ASDF advance team heads to W. Timor to help refugees

NARITA, Japan - An advance team of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) leaves for Indonesia from the Narita airport on Nov. 22 on a mission to provide support to East Timorese refugees stranded in West Timor. The 14-member team, including six civilian liaison officers, is headed for Surabaya on Java Island via Jakarta.

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Hata in East Timor

DILI, East Timor - Tsutomu Hata (L), secretary general of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), and Satsuki Eda, a DPJ member of the House of Councillors, listen to East Timorese people during their visit to a refugee camp in Dili on Nov. 9.