Australia's second-largest oil company, Woodside, recently proposed processing gas from Greater Sunrise, a field 150km (93 miles) off the Timorese coast, on a floating plant, rather than on Timorese soil.
But in Dili, officers from the Vulnerable Persons' Unit (VPU) of the Timorese Police are offering a warm welcome, together with an outdoor playground and a child-friendly interview room.
That idea was rejected by the Timorese government.
Timor-Leste's first shopping centre, opened last year by a Timorese who had made good abroad, has become a symbol of the tiny half-island state's slow recovery from the devastation visited upon it by departing Indonesian troops and their vicious proxy militias after the Timorese voted in 1999 to end Indonesian rule.This year the country will pass more important milestones.
Such robust medical aid remains deeply appreciated not only by the Timorese government, but by the Timorese populace on a grassroots level.
A third of the Timorese population was killed, or died of hunger and disease.
It is however surprising that "financial difficulties" were frequently quoted among the Timorese students.
This study found three quarters of the Timorese mothers did not utilise health facility for childbirth.
But half of the Timorese children under the age of five are still not being registered.
But half of the Timorese children under five years of age are still not being registered.
Her preferred long-term solution is to construct a regional processing centre for asylum seekers in East Timor, but she announced the policy in the run-up to the federal election without first getting agreement from the East Timorese government.
