DILI, 27 july 2022 (TATOLI) – Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak urged the Finance and Administration Staff and Editors and Journalists of Timor-Leste News Agency or TATOLI to keep up the good work to serve the public with accurate information.
The Head of the Government made the comments on the sixth anniversary of TATOLI on july 27.
“I would like to congratulate you all. You need to continue your good work by serving the public with accurate, credible, and timely information. God would bless you in your journeys ahead,” Ruak give his congratulations messages at the Ministry of Finance, in Dili, today.
Timor-Leste News Agency or TATOLI always strives to provide fair, accurate, and reliable information to national, regional, and international audiences.
TATOLI is a national news agency delivering news across the country and the world in four different languages; Tetum, Portuguese, English, and Indonesian.
TATOLI was established following the decision of the Council of Ministers (CoM) on February 3, 2016, which was published in the Official Gazette of the President of the Republic march 16, 2016.
It was officially launched by former Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo, on june 27, 2016.
On march 7, 2017, the Council of Ministers approved the creation of TATOLI – Timor-Leste News Agency (in Portuguese: “TATOLI – Agência Noticiosa de Timor-Leste, IP”). The decision came following the creation of a news portal, then called ANTIL, in march of 2016. The main objective of TATOLI is to be the source of official information, with the production of information for national, regional, and international audiences. With a multichannel, multimedia, multiplatform and multitasking character, the News Agency may evolve and serve as a center for the production of cinema and State documentation, as a public opinion institute, as a forum for public information, as a center for the management of archives and State documentation, and as a center for communication applied training and research.
Journalist: Antónia Gusmão
Editor: Julia Chatarina/Nelia Borges
Translation: Filomeno Martins
