National Sandalwood and East Timor Forestry Day was celebrated by the Korea Forest Service by planting sandalwood with local officials; the country's national tree has not only economic, but historical and cultural importance for the Timorese people

The national parliament approved the State Budget 2025, with has strategic infrastructure, economic growth and social welfare as priorities

The 18 SPE Timor-Leste scholarship winners received a laptop computer, $300 and a week-long visit to Perth to forge deeper ties with Australian industry

The European Union Delegation in East Timor and the European Investment Bank have prepared investment projects with the government; the three proposals focus on water supply, solid waste management and forestry

A geologist from Estrella Resources has mapped under a zone of supergene manganese in an exposed outcrop 500 m south-west of the Samalari discovery, by now the largest manganese outcrop ever observed in East Timor