Outcry over East Timor budget reshuffle

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Updated July 23, 2008 20:29:51

In East Timor, eyebrows have been raised over plans to take money from the country's petroleum fund to more than double the 2008 state budget.

Presenter: Stephanie March
Speaker: Tomas Freitas, Vice Coordinator for Petroleum Fund Consultative Council; Manuel Tilman, MP and chair of the parliamentary committee for Economy, Finance and Anti-corruption.

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