Ramos Horta bid for more student, work visas
Paul Toohey; 25/6/08
East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta says Australia will never be the true gateway to Asia until it relaxes attitudes to visiting Asian students and workers. “I want to see hundreds of Timorese youths coming to this country, and yet right now we have 10 or 12 East Timorese students in this country,” he said in Darwin yesterday. “(This is) compared with Cuba, a poor country, one thousand times poorer than Australia. They have received, (on) full scholarships from Cuba, 700 medical students from East Timor.
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