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    Make Way for   TIMOR-LESTE!

    May 18, 2018 4 minutes

    Every trip for me to the tiny Southeast Asian nation of Timor-Leste—known also as East Timor—has been special.

    Prior to July 2017, I had travelled twice from Manila to Timor-Leste as the U.S. Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank (ADB). My goal then was to better understand the ADB’s work to rebuild roads and assist what was then, and still is, Asia’s newest nation.

    There are certainly many more reasons to make way—and make time—for Timor-Leste: historic churches; secluded beaches; spectacular mountain scenery; traditional architecture; and the occasional waterfall. Of course, there are the warm and welcoming people. This includes one of the nation’s most well-known citizens, José Ramos-Horta, who I had the chance

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