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Madalena Boavida
Maria Madalena Brites Boavida is an East Timorese politician, a member of FRETILIN, and a former Minister of Planning and Finance in the National Parliament of East Timor. Biography Boavida comes from the present municipality of Ermera. Thanks to a scholarship in 1974, she was given the opportunity to study in Portugal. There she came into contact with students from the African colonies of Portugal and the local independence movements, after which she also supported the independence of Portuguese Timor. However, FRETILIN's unilateral declaration of independence from Portugal in November 1975 was rapidly followed by the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Boavida belonged to the so-called Maputo group of FRETILIN members, including Marí Alkatiri (later prime minister), which spent much of the occupation (1975-1999) in Mozambique. Boavida was the finance director of the Timor Gap Authority, which administered the Timor Gap Treaty, under which Indonesia and Australia jointly expl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Timorese
East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-western half, and the minor islands of Atauro Island, Atauro and Jaco Island, Jaco. Australia is the country's southern neighbour, separated by the Timor Sea. The country's size is . Dili is its capital and largest city. East Timor came under Portugal, Portuguese influence in the sixteenth century, remaining a Portuguese Timor, Portuguese colony until 1975. Internal conflict preceded a unilateral declaration of independence and an Indonesian invasion of East Timor, Indonesian invasion and East Timor (province), annexation. Resistance continued throughout Indonesian rule, and in 1999 a United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, United Nations–sponsored act of self-determination led to Indonesia relinquishing control of the territ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernanda Borges
Fernanda Borges (born 1969) is an East Timorese politician. Biography Borges was born in East Timor. She received her Bachelor's of Commerce degree in Economics and MBA in Business law and PSM from both University of Wollongong and the University of New England. She was appointed as Minister of Finance in 2001, under the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Dr. Sergio Vieira de Mello for the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor. Before becoming Minister of Finance she had worked as commercial banker in Sydney, Australia and also was a Head of Finance, Budget and Economic Affairs and Special Assistant to the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General. In April 2002, Borges resigned as Minister as Finance. In 2005, she founded Partido Unidade Nacional ( National Unity Party (East Timor)) and she was elected to parliament under its banner two years later. Due to her influence her party gained three seats in the parliamentary elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Ermera District
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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