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New Zealand: Fire Breaks Out at Abilities Group Recycling Depot in Auckland 2

A large fire erupted at the Abilities Group Recycling Depot in Auckland's Wairau Valley on Thursday, April 23, around 5:24 p.m., sending dark smoke across the suburbs. According to reports, batteries burning inside the facility fueled the fire, prompting authorities to issue a "stay inside" warning.

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Indonesia must do more to control W. Timor militias, Ogata says

GENEVA, Switzerland - U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Sadako Ogata meets Kyodo News for an interview on Sept. 29. Ogata said Jakarta's efforts to improve security in West Timor, where three UNHCR workers were slain earlier this month, are still insufficient to warrant a resumption of humanitarian assistance in the region. September was a difficult month for Ogata, who has served as UNHCR since 1991. On Sept. 17, a day after her 73rd birthday, another UNHCR employee was killed in Guinea.

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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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Coffins of slain aid workers arrive in Dili

DILI, East Timor - Police officers at Dili airport in East Timor on Sept. 7 carry the coffins of three aid workers killed by a militia-led mob in Indonesia's West Timor. The attack occurred a day earlier in the town of Atambua at an office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

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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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Japan UNICEF envoy visits West Timor refugee camp

KUPANG, Indonesia - Agnes Chan (L), envoy for the Japan Committee for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), chats with a women afraid of returning to East Timor during her visit to a refugee camp in Kupang, West Timor, on June 14. Chan, a Hong Kong-born singer and TV personality based in Japan, made the visit as part of a week-long mission to study the conditions of children stranded in refugee camps in West Timor and in U.N.-ruled East Timor.

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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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First batch of E. Timorese in W. Timor returns home

DILI, East Timor - A boy waves his hand at wellwishers as he arrives back in East Timor on a U.N.-chartered flight Oct. 8 after being stranded in neighboring West Timor. He is one of the first group of East Timorese displaced persons held in camps in Indonesia's West Timor.

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Gusmao urges Japan to push Indonesia to repatriate E. Timorese

DARWIN, Australia - East Timor independence leader Xanana Gusmao meet the press at a hotel in Darwin, Australia, from late Sept. 24 to early Sept. 25 and urges Japan to pressure Indonesia to allow some 200,000 displaced East Timorese to return home safely from West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia.

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UNHCR's Ogata arrives in Jakarta

JAKARTA, Indonesia - U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata (C) is surrounded by reporters upon her arrival at Jakarta international airport on Sept. 18. Her current visit to Indonesia is aimed at inspecting the state of East Timorese who took refuge in West Timor.

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Indonesia must do more to control W. Timor militias, Ogata says

GENEVA, Switzerland - U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Sadako Ogata meets Kyodo News for an interview on Sept. 29. Ogata said Jakarta's efforts to improve security in West Timor, where three UNHCR workers were slain earlier this month, are still insufficient to warrant a resumption of humanitarian assistance in the region. September was a difficult month for Ogata, who has served as UNHCR since 1991. On Sept. 17, a day after her 73rd birthday, another UNHCR employee was killed in Guinea.

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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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Coffins of slain aid workers arrive in Dili

DILI, East Timor - Police officers at Dili airport in East Timor on Sept. 7 carry the coffins of three aid workers killed by a militia-led mob in Indonesia's West Timor. The attack occurred a day earlier in the town of Atambua at an office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

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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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Japan UNICEF envoy visits West Timor refugee camp

KUPANG, Indonesia - Agnes Chan (L), envoy for the Japan Committee for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), chats with a women afraid of returning to East Timor during her visit to a refugee camp in Kupang, West Timor, on June 14. Chan, a Hong Kong-born singer and TV personality based in Japan, made the visit as part of a week-long mission to study the conditions of children stranded in refugee camps in West Timor and in U.N.-ruled East Timor.

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Premier Obuchi thanks SDF mission to E. Timor

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) expresses thanks to Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) members on Feb. 15 at his official residence after their mission to airlift relief goods to East Timorese refugess. The ASDF contingent returned home on Feb. 9 after completing the 10-week mission to transport relief goods to refugee camps in Kupang, West Timor, which adjoins East Timor, from Surabaya in Indonesia.

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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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First batch of E. Timorese in W. Timor returns home

DILI, East Timor - A boy waves his hand at wellwishers as he arrives back in East Timor on a U.N.-chartered flight Oct. 8 after being stranded in neighboring West Timor. He is one of the first group of East Timorese displaced persons held in camps in Indonesia's West Timor.

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Gusmao urges Japan to push Indonesia to repatriate E. Timorese

DARWIN, Australia - East Timor independence leader Xanana Gusmao meet the press at a hotel in Darwin, Australia, from late Sept. 24 to early Sept. 25 and urges Japan to pressure Indonesia to allow some 200,000 displaced East Timorese to return home safely from West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia.

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UNHCR's Ogata arrives in Jakarta

JAKARTA, Indonesia - U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata (C) is surrounded by reporters upon her arrival at Jakarta international airport on Sept. 18. Her current visit to Indonesia is aimed at inspecting the state of East Timorese who took refuge in West Timor.