Timor-Leste: Time (and Oil) Running out for Timor-Leste

Jul 24, 2017 | Anthony Fensom, Diplomat
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Elections in Timor-Leste have highlighted the challenges facing one of Southeast Asia’s poorest nations, amid predictions that its key oil and gas resources could be depleted by the end of the decade. Preliminary results Sunday from parliamentary elections indicated the ruling coalition of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin) and the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) had secured a majority, although with increased support for opposition parties.