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Closed and Gone Fishin'?
05 Aug 2011 | Timor
Well yesterday we announced the closure of the Peace Dividend Marketplace project in Timor-Leste. There are some interested donors, but time was against us, so closure was an...
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Timor-Leste Air Warz Redux
22 Jul 2011 | Timor
Well here at PDT we are turning into something of plane spotters. We have blogged a bit on the nascent airline business in Timor-Leste December 2010, and February 2011. The l...
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Komoro Calls You. House for Rent.
03 Jun 2011 | Timor
So a chap asked me to help him out with renting his house. No problem!...
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For Rent - Snazzy House with Pool.
09 May 2011 | Timor
Well there cannot be that many houses in Timor-Leste with a pool. Certainly when I first saw the pool in the back of this house in 2008 I was quite surprised. ...
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Timorese Fruit, Veg, Fish to (not from!) Singapore, by Air Timor.
13 Apr 2011 | Timor
A few days ago a representative of Air Timor to came our offices in Balide, Dili. He was interested in enlisting our support in finding local suppliers of fresh fruit vegetab...
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April Fool's Day? PDT Future Status in Timor-Leste - Press Release
31 Mar 2011 | Timor
No this is not an April Fool's Day joke....
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Thank you Ameerah
25 Mar 2011 | Timor
I have for many years been trying to get more substantive engagement from UNMIT on the matter of local procurement. It has been met with a wide range of attitudes ranging fro...
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Corrupt Anthropology, or the Anthropology of Corruption?
15 Mar 2011 | Timor
Some days ago an old and dear Timorese friend of mine came to the house for a Sunday sundowner. He has been abroad for a couple of years in Europe. He was bemoaning the poli...
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Marvelous Marble
09 Mar 2011 | Timor
Years ago I saw the fabled Manatuto Marble deposits found in Ilimano, Laclo District....
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Social Dili, and eyeglasses for $1,200?
17 Feb 2011 | Timor
So its an increasingly social world in Dili. Parties abound, consumption is booming, I even see Timorese youth toting laptops by the beach with USB modems cruising the intern...
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Batavia, Merpati, Batavia, Merpati?
07 Feb 2011 | Timor
You should fly Batavia sometimes. Its good for the country....
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Going to the beach.
31 Jan 2011 | Timor
There is good marketing, and there is bad marketing....
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Hungry for work? I have something you want.
26 Jan 2011 | Timor
Well in mid-December 2010 I blogged about our re-launch of the online jobs directory which went from this version to this version....
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SDV Supports Buy Local Build Timor-Leste.
12 Jan 2011 | Timor
So when was the last time that you heard of a business sponsoring the advertising of other business? Including potential competitors? I would wager not very often....
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Timor-Leste Twitter file: The Presidency just signed up.
15 Dec 2010 | Timor
Well its a sure sign of the times. The Presidency of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste is on Twitter. No its not a personal twitter of President Ramos-Horta. Its more ...
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Dirty Dili.
03 Dec 2010 | Timor
I was in Dili a few days ago for one of my frequent trips. Thankfully I will be going back full time again in January - but on this occasion I got terribly dirty and very depr...
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The Timor-Leste Business Portal Top 50 (2nd Quarter 2010)
23 Oct 2010 | Timor
Data, oh data. Numbers used to make my head hurt. I failed Algebra in school, with flying colours. Numbers make my head hurt, largely because they cause me to want to pull ...
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PDM-TL on Facebook: Tops 2,000 fans.
20 Jun 2010 | Timor
Well popularity is hardly a full proof way to evaluate a project's value. But its heartening to see that the the PDM-TL Facebook fanpage has just gone over 2,000 fans in the ...
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2.1 million bucks for rural cattle owners in Timor?
07 Jun 2010 | Timor
Alot of PDM TL's work focuses on getting the international community to spend their dosh inside Timor-Leste - driving economic development. However, increasingly the buyers a...
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PDT Supports Development of a Timorese Venture into Wood/Stone Carving.
14 Dec 2009 | Timor
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Serbisu Iha Timor-Leste Captures over 100,000 Views
14 Sep 2009 | Timor
Serbisu Iha Timor-Leste, or Jobs in Timor-Leste, has recently passed the 100,000 page view milestone since its creation in December of 2008. This blog, founded and operated by...
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Flyer Beach Craft fair 2009 Tetum and English 20 June 09
17 Jun 2009 | Timor
View blog blurb to read the details about Beach Craft fair 2009...
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PDT commences a multi-year handover plan to the Ministry of Tourism Commerce and Industry.
19 Nov 2008 | Timor
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Doing the Business in East Timor - UNTAET era economic development......
07 Nov 2008 | Timor
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Lansamentu Guia atu Halo Negosiu ho PNUD / Announcing Guide to Doing Business with UNDP
06 Oct 2008 | Timor
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UNDP Tenders.
18 May 2008 | Timor
UN Agencies, Programmes and Funds are among some of the heaviest users Peace Dividend Trust's services. To date approximately 25% of all tenders distributed to the domestic pr...
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The South Coast of Timor-Leste - the Bread Basket
26 Apr 2008 | Timor
In addition to the team in Dili you now have people in Suai and Ainaro that can help you on the ground to Buy Local on the South Coast!...
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Talking to Government and asking the International Community to Buy Local
05 Apr 2008 | Timor
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Made in Timor-Leste: manufacturing in Timor-Leste?
01 Aug 2011 | Timor
Well many people have often bemoaned the fact that Timor-Leste cannot not manufacture anything. Pessimism never got anyone anywhere - and the Timorese and their business partn...
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CCI-TL: Good Things Grow in Timor-Leste
29 Jun 2011 | Timor
When it comes to business in Timor-Leste I would ask that you remember just five letters. C,C, I, T and L - they are important. Up at the top of Timor-Leste - in Ainaro, good ...
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Sometimes we make mistakes.
30 May 2011 | Timor
In December 2008 we verified the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) as they offer flight services around Timor-Leste with a variable set of prices depending on the nature of th...
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A rising Timorese entrepreneur, and new place to stay in Dili.
27 Apr 2011 | Timor
A few days ago a leading Timorese business woman contacted me asking if I could promote her new property development - sure thing! The place is called Arvec Mansions and you c...
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The Jobs Directory is discontinued.
05 Apr 2011 | Timor
A young lady from Liquica, Maria Freitas, completed her work at PDM Timor-Leste yesterday. She was responsible for the Jobs Directory - formerly the Serbisu Iha Timor-Leste bl...
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Mountains of Cash for the Mountains? Cattle by the numbers.
31 Mar 2011 | Timor
I am no expert in cattle, but I am learning.
The Peace Dividend Marketplace project has done alot of work for cattle owners and dealers in Timor-Leste, and its an important...
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Local Language - Lian Lokal.
24 Mar 2011 | Timor
I am going to take a dig at my colleagues in Ottawa, New York, Port-au-Prince, and Kabul here:...
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Jobs, numbers, and fans/critics.
11 Mar 2011 | Timor
Some time ago we started posting job vacancies again.
Got alot of emails, SMS and blog comments thanking us for starting it up. Thanks should go to Maria Freitas who posts ...
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Jobs for the Boys (and Girls) - A new enterprise.
07 Mar 2011 | Timor
There is alot of talk about "jobs for the boys" in Timor-Leste these days...
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Timor-Leste First (Timor-Leste Mak Uluk)
11 Feb 2011 | Timor
Meetings are painful at the best of times, but there was one in Dili last year that was a bit different that the rest. In April 2010 the G7+ countries* met in Dili, Timor-Lest...
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Blast business information!
04 Feb 2011 | Timor
Well we fired up something pretty cool over the past months. Blast/bulk SMS/EMAIL Tender Alerts in a manner far far more powerful than ever before....
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Bele lee lian Tetun? Imi tenke koko to'ok...
28 Jan 2011 | Timor
Can you read Tetun? You must try…
The world is full of bloggers and most of us are pretty boring. But there are very few Timorese bloggers, especially on things other th...
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Manatuto salt: bitter but sweet.
11 Jan 2011 | Timor
Ever bite into a chunk of salt? Bitter as hell yes? However, when I was browsing the Ministry of Tourism, Commerce and Industry (MTCI) facebook page this morning I saw salt ...
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Serbisu Iha Timor-Leste / Jobs in Timor-Leste
15 Dec 2010 | Timor
Remember this site?
It was the Peace Dividend Marketplace project's jobs blog. It used to get about 10,000 visits a month, now that is alot in little old Timor-Leste. When ...
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The Timor-Leste Business Portal Top 50 (Third Quarter 2010)
15 Nov 2010 | Timor
Well its a tale of oil and gas, bulk SMS, private security and a little construction firm in Ainaro....
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Peace Dividend Marketplace Timor-Leste: What the heck is it?
25 Sep 2010 | Timor
Well if you ever wondered what the heck this Peace Dividend Marketplace Timor-Leste project is all about......
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Numbers do not Lie: BuildingMarkets.org is taking off.
28 Aug 2010 | Timor
Well its been sometime since I was trying to get some of my colleagues to take web statistics seriously. However, it ended up being easy once I showed them the “numbers” a...
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Matchmaking: On the Hoof Again. Bucks for Rural Business.
17 Jun 2010 | Timor
Over the past couple of months Peace Dividend Trust's (PDT) matchmaking team in Cova Lima District (Antonio "Fahik" Alves, Angelita Guterres and District Representative Doming...
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Bad story turned good: Jakarta Dua
26 May 2010 | Timor
In the old days the name "Jakarta Dua" had very bad connotations in Timor-Leste.
Sometimes during the Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste clandestine pro-independence acti...
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Timor Business Overview Word Cloud
11 Dec 2009 | Timor
Blog linked to full Timor Business Overview report...
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Musing on New Funding
02 Dec 2009 | Timor
PDT's Edward Rees is tired after a 1 week long, but very necessary, and valuable, AusAID Evaluation....
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President Horta Supports "Buy Local. Build Timor-Leste"
06 Aug 2009 | Timor
View blog blurb to read President Ramos Horta's endorsement letter to Peace Dividend Trust...
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Recruiting New Staff for Cova Lima
10 Jun 2009 | Timor
Conducting computer test for new Micromatchmaking staff in Suai, Cova Lima District. Cova Lima M3 micromatchmaking staff are among the most successful in the country - having ...
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Takakazu Ito, Special Assistant to UNMIT SRSG Atul Khare. Rides Past Buy Local Sign
22 Mar 2009 | Timor
Photo of Takakazu Ito, Special Assistant to UNMIT SRSG Atul Khare...
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MTCI has $7, 000, 000 to sponsor local production
12 Sep 2008 | Timor
Peace Dividend Trust Timor-Leste works closely with the Department of Domestic Commerce in the Ministry of Tourism, Commerce and Industry (MTCI). Recently, Epifanio Faculto an...
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Buy Local. Build Timor-Leste. Nakroma Ferry.
03 Aug 2008 | Timor
Pictures of The Nakroma Ferry with Buy Local. Build Timor-Leste logo....
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PDT offers free services to institutions and individuals to help Buy Local and Build Timor-Leste.
18 Jun 2008 | Timor
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