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e to East Timor … A New Dimension for Your
Investment
Timor – Leste one of the youngest countries in the
world, with a great potential for economic and financial growth, occupies the
eastern part of the Timor Island, in Southeast Asia, having land borders with
Indonesia through the Enclave of Oecusse, and a southern maritime border with
Australia, in the Timor Sea. It is characterized by its natural beauty, which
diversifies between the mountains and the coast, between the North Coast, East
Coast and South, with great natural beauties, such as the island of Jaco, in
the East end of the island and to the North, the Atauro island. Dili is the
capital of East Timor, located on the North Coast, a city that combines the
balance of their history and culture with the need of modernity, fruit of the
economic, social, cultural evolution and politics of the country.
Timor – Leste´s National Strategic Development Plan have set 3 priorities
for it’s economic pillars such as, oil and gas, agriculture and tourism. East
Timor is a rising power, a country of opportunities for the installation of the
most varied industries, from the oil dependent manufacturing industries, natural
gas and copper ore, to agricultural and livestock production, bringing together
excellent conditions to be a platform for the production and export of
high-quality products. With a territorial dimension of 14919 square kilometers
East Timor consists of 13 administrative districts, having as official
languages Tetum and Portuguese, and being English the constitutionally defined
working language. East Timor offers unique conditions, both in terms of
climate, as in terms of soil for growing professional industries of
exploitation of great natural wealth, such as sandalwood, rubber, copra, cotton,
sugar cane and coconut oil, just to mention a few.
The Timor Sea is one of the major incentives for international business
attractiveness, with the existence of a still untold wealth of unexplored oil
fields and of all the development that is related to the income of the black
diamond. Construction is also a growth sector, given the rebuilding and
creation of new links, with the construction of roads and bridges between the
diverse areas of the territory and with the modernization of the country, through
the creation of infrastructures and the installation of previously in existent social
equipment. The tourism and service industries are two sectors that have seen
more development in East Timor, as a consequence of the investment of national
and international businessmen, mainly in the Capital, but with untold
potential, possible to be explored throughout the territory.
East Timor a new bridge to China … creating bonds that make the distance an
incentive and the borders, a new business opportunity.