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Hinode Bridge
The Hinode Bridge ( pt, Ponte Hinode, tet, Ponte Hinode) (known during the construction phase as the Comoro Bridge III) is a two-lane road bridge in the ''suco'' of , a western suburb of Dili, capital city of East Timor. It was built by a Japanese company, , between 2016 and 2018, with grant aid funding from the Government of Japan. Location The bridge spans the Comoro River, south of the CPLP Bridge (formerly known as Comoro Bridges I and II). It connects the ''Avenida de Hudi-Laran'' () in the east with the National Highway 3 in the west. History In 2013, the government of East Timor opened the first stage of the new bridge later named the CPLP Bridge, and thereby expanded the number of road lanes crossing the Comoro River from two to four. However, as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) had forecast an increase in traffic demand in East Timor for the period 2010–2019, the government also asked the government of Japan to construct an additional bridge upriver of the four la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diário De Notícias
''Diário de Notícias'' () is a Portuguese daily newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal. Established since 1864, the paper is considered a newspaper of record for Portugal. History and profile ''Diário de Notícias'' was first published in Lisbon on 29 December 1864 by Tomás Quintino Antunes and Eduardo Coelho. At its early phase the paper had no explicit political stance and financially relied on the advertisements. Its headquarters is in Lisbon. During the 1880s the novelist Eça de Queiroz, then stationed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in the Portuguese diplomatic service, contributed occasional "London letters" to the newspaper. Some of these were afterwards published in a book entitled ''Cartas de Inglaterra''. Before the Carnation Revolution ''Diário de Notícias'' belonged to the Empresa Nacional de Publicidade, a propaganda arm of the dictatorship. Following the Carnation Revolution, the paper remained nationalized until the early 1990s. Then the paper and '' Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridges In East Timor
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually something that is otherwise difficult or impossible to cross. There are many different designs of bridges, each serving a particular purpose and applicable to different situations. Designs of bridges vary depending on factors such as the function of the bridge, the nature of the terrain where the bridge is constructed and anchored, and the material used to make it, and the funds available to build it. The earliest bridges were likely made with fallen trees and stepping stones. The Neolithic people built boardwalk bridges across marshland. The Arkadiko Bridge (dating from the 13th century BC, in the Peloponnese) is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and use. Etymology The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' traces the origin of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibar Bay
Tibar Bay ( pt, Baía de Tibar, tet, Baía Tibar) is a bay on the north coast of East Timor near Dili, its capital city. The bay forms part of the south shore of Ombai Strait, which separates the Alor Archipelago from the islands of Wetar, Atauro, and Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands. Geography The bay is located approximately west of Dili, the capital city of East Timor, and immediately to the northwest of the similarly named ''suco'' of , which is part of the Liquiçá municipality. It extends approximately east-west and north-south (). At the entrance to and inside the bay are sizeable areas of coral reef, much of it dead on the reef flats with diverse live coral on the reef slopes. Also within the bay are extensive tidal flats, mainly at the bay's southeastern corner, but also on its western and eastern sides. The Tibar catchment is medium sized (around ). It drains into the bay's southern side via defined watercourses and, in large storm events, across a delta (loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Girder Bridge
A box girder bridge, or box section bridge, is a bridge in which the main beams comprise girders in the shape of a hollow box. The box girder normally comprises prestressed concrete, structural steel, or a composite of steel and reinforced concrete. The box is typically rectangular or trapezoidal in cross-section. Box girder bridges are commonly used for highway flyovers and for modern elevated structures of light rail transport. Although the box girder bridge is normally a form of beam bridge, box girders may also be used on cable-stayed and other bridges. Development of steel box girders In 1919, Major Gifford Martel was appointed head of the Experimental Bridging Establishment at Christchurch, Hampshire, which researched the possibilities of using tanks for battlefield engineering purposes such as bridge-laying and mine-clearing. Here he continued trials on modified Mark V tanks. The bridging component involved an assault bridge, designed by Major Charles Ingli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetum
, nativename=Tetun , states= Indonesia East Timor , speakers=, mostly in Indonesia , date=2010–2011 , ref=e18 , speakers2=50,000 L2-speakers in Indonesia and East Timor , familycolor=Austronesian , fam2=Malayo-Polynesian , fam3= Central–Eastern , fam4= Timor–Babar , fam5=Tetumic , dia1=Belunese (''Tetun Belu'') , dia2=Terik (''Tetun Terik'') , nation= , minority= (East Nusa Tenggara) , iso2=tet , iso3=tet , glotto=tetu1245 , glottorefname=Tetum , map=Tetum Terik.png , mapcaption=Distribution in East Timor of ''Tetum Belu'' (west) and ''Tetum Terik'' (southeast). The majority of Tetun speakers, who live in West Timor, are not shown. , nativename=''Tetun Dili, Tetun Prasa'' , states=East Timor , speakers= , date=2009 , ref= , speakers2 = L2: in East Timor , familycolor=Austronesian , fam2=Malayo-Polynesian , fam3= Central–Eastern , fam4= Timoric , fam5=Oceanic , fam6=Tetumic , dia1=Belunese (''Tetun Belu'') , dia2=Terik (''Tetun Terik'') , script=Latin ( Tetum alphabet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Soares Dos Reis Pires
Salvador Eugénio Soares dos Reis Pires is an East Timorese politician. Between June 2018 and March 2022, he was the Minister of Public Works, serving in the VIII Constitutional Government of East Timor headed by Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak. Pires is an alumnus of the Australian Development Scholarship program. He graduated in 2007 from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia, with a Master of Architecture with first class honours. During a speech at a ground-breaking ceremony on 11 October 2018 to officially mark the commencement of a grant by the European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ... (UN) as additional financing to help rehabilitate targeted municipal roads under East Timor's ongoing Road Network Upgrading Project ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Agustinho Da Silva
José Agustinho da Silva is an East Timorese politician and a member of the Kmanek Haburas Unidade Nasional Timor Oan (KHUNTO) political party. He is the incumbent Minister of Transport and Communications, serving since June 2018 under the VIII Constitutional Government of East Timor. Political career Silva first came to political prominence in the mid-2010s, when he replaced as Secretary-General of KHUNTO. In the 2012 East Timorese parliamentary election, KHUNTO narrowly failed to overcome the 3% electoral threshold The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of the primary vote that a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can ... and have two members elected to the National Parliament. Silva was the #3 candidate on KHUNTO's list for that election. In the 2017 parliamentary election, Silva was elected to the National Parliament from #4 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taur Matan Ruak
José Maria Vasconcelos (born 10 October 1956), popularly known as Taur Matan Ruak (Tetum for "Two Sharp Eyes"), is an East Timorese politician who has served as the prime minister of East Timor since 22 June 2018. He was also President of East Timor from 20 May 2012 to 20 May 2017. Before entering politics, he was the Commander of the FALINTIL-''Forças de Defesa de Timor-Leste'' (F-FDTL), the military of East Timor, from 2002 until 6 October 2011. Prior to serving in the F-FDTL, he was the last commander of the Armed Forces of National Liberation of East Timor or FALINTIL (''Forças Armadas para a Liberação Nacional de Timor Leste''), the insurgent army that resisted the Indonesian occupation of the territory from 1975 to 1999. Leaving the military in 2011, he stood as an independent candidate in the 2012 presidential election and prevailed in the second round of the vote, held in April 2012. Biography On 7 December 1975, when Indonesia invaded and occupied East Timor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarō Kōno
is a Japanese politician serving as the Minister of Digital Affairs of Japan since August 2022. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he previously served as Minister for Administrative Reform and Regulatory Reform from 2015 to 2016 and from 2020 to 2021, and was the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He is also a member of the House of Representatives representing Kanagawa's 15th district since 1996. Kono has developed a reputation as a political maverick, with a tendency to hold positions on issues contrary to his party. He is also known for his large following on social media and his fluency in English, having attended college in the United States. He also has been speculated as a potential future Prime Minister, running in the 2021 Liberal Democratic Party leadership election, but losing to Fumio Kishida in a second round run-off. Early life Taro Kono was born on 10 January 1963, in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, the oldest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lusa News Agency
The Lusa News Agency ( pt, Lusa – Agência de Notícias de Portugal, SA; ) is the largest news agency in Portugal, as well as the largest news agency in the Portuguese language, incorporated on 28 November 1986 under the name of ''Agência Lusa — Cooperativa de Interesse Público de Responsabilidade Limitada'' (''Lusa Agency - Public Interest Cooperative with Limited Liability'') or simply ''Lusa - CIPRL'', following the extinction of the earlier Portuguese news agency ''ANOP Agência Noticiosa Portuguesa'' (''Portuguese News Agency''). Lusa is a member of, and participates in, the European Pressphoto Agency. History The first news agency created in Portugal was the Agência Noticiosa Lusitânia, or simply Lusitânia, created in 1944. In 1947 another agency was created, ANI - ''Agência Noticiosa de Informação'' (state news agency information). In 1974, the new regime that ascended power on 25 April wound up the Lusitânia and nationalised the ANI, turning it into ''ANOP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport
Dili Airport , officially Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport ( pt, Aeroporto Internacional Presidente Nicolau Lobato, ), and formerly Comoro Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Komoro), is an international airport serving Dili, the capital city of East Timor. Since 2002, the airport has been named after Nicolau dos Reis Lobato (1946–1978), an East Timorese politician and national hero. Location The airport is located in the '' suco'' of , which is part of the Dom Aleixo administrative post, in the western suburbs of Dili. It faces the Ombai Strait to its north and west, and the Comoro River to its east. Its runway (08/26) runs broadly east-west. North of the airport, between the runway and Ombai Strait, is a residential zone that includes houses, a small area of agricultural land, a school, a church, and a cemetery. At the zone's northern edge is Beto Tasi Beach, a hidden stretch of shoreline known to the local community and also used for fishing. History 1939–1975 The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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