What's New This Week

What's New This Week
International News Service - Sydney,Australia
Tonight's first hour has the appraisers uncovering a rare 18th-century ivory doll from the Portuguese colony of Goa; a Russian porcelain charger made for the ...

An instructive look at the US role in East Timor
National Catholic Reporter - USA
The 1974 overthrow of Portugal�s dictatorship brought an end to East Timor�s three-and-a-half centuries as a Portuguese colony, a status that had prevented ...

The lessons of East Timor
San Francisco Bay Guardian - San Francisco,CA,USA
... stemmed from the fact that it supplied the bulk of Indonesia's weapons, as it had done throughout the entire occupation of the former Portuguese colony. ...

Angola Passes Saudi Arabia to Become China's Top Oil Supplier
Bloomberg - USA
... Petromatrix said. Angola, where 27 years of civil war ended in 2002, is a former Portuguese colony of 11 million people. Oil production ...
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