{"id":394,"date":"2008-10-20T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T10:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/wordpress\/?p=394"},"modified":"2011-03-18T19:47:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T19:47:28","slug":"learning-more-about-timor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/394","title":{"rendered":"Learning more about Timor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About one week into my stay in Dili and I’ve found out some things:<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s very hot and dry<\/li>\n
  2. People are generally friendly<\/li>\n
  3. Food is surprisingly good and varied (i.e. Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, Chinese, Western)<\/li>\n
  4. You need a car to go just about anywhere<\/li>\n
  5. You don’t want to be walking on the streets between 10am – 4pm<\/li>\n
  6. Expats tend to spend their weekends on or near the beach<\/li>\n
  7. God rested on Sunday… so does the East Timorese… its basically a ghost town on Sunday afternoon<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    I’ve been talking to the locals and been reading up about the not-so-clear historical facts of Timor-Leste and it’s a bit shocking. From what locals tell me, what the media writes about, to what writers such as Noam Chomsky says, it’s a mix bag of opinions ranging from goodwill to visitors to suspicion of foreigners (i.e. UN, the oil industry) in Timor.<\/p>\n

    Here are a few stories about Timor that you might not know about.<\/p>\n

    East Timor, horror and amnesia<\/a> – by Noam Chomsky<\/span><\/p>\n

    Australia in graves hunt<\/a> – The Age<\/p>\n

    East Timor facing food, hunger crisis: NGOs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    About one week into my stay in Dili and I’ve found out some things: It’s very hot and dry People are generally friendly Food is surprisingly good and varied (i.e. Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, Chinese, Western) You need a car to go just about anywhere You don’t want to be walking on the streets between 10am … Continue reading Learning more about Timor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[3,28,40,127,63,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}