Most smokers do successfully quit after their first attempt. Switching patients from nicotine replacement therapy like the patch and lozenge to varenicline and increasing the dosage helped more people ...

Increasing the dosages of varenicline (Chantix) or combined nicotine replacement therapy (CNRT), or switching from CNRT to varenicline, improved abstinence from smoking, a randomized clinical trial ...

After two years marked by Covid-19 and floods, Timor-Leste is now gearing up for presidential elections on 19 March. A runoff round for the top two candidates will be held on 19 April if no candidate ...

In an interview with The Asia Society on October 22, 1999, the Representative of the Council for National East Timorese Resistance (CNRT) to the United Nations and North America, Constancio Pinto, ...

In an extraordinary development, the government’s revised budget for 2020 failed to pass Timor-Leste’s parliament last Friday, despite the governing alliance having an outright majority. Xanana Gusmão ...

DILI (Reuters) - East Timor's two biggest political parties - Fretilin and the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) - have secured a combined 58 percent of votes in the country's ...

The CNRT won 31 out of 65 seats in the National Parliament, putting leader Xanana Gusmao in strong position to form a governing coalition. Timor-Leste’s opposition party won Sunday’s parliamentary ...

Politicians must sometime feel as though they can never win. For most of the last 15 years since Timor-Leste gained its independence, it has been marred by political division and partisanship, which ...

Armindo Maia is a former education minister of Timor-Leste. He ran as an independent. Sue Ingram does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

Vote counting was under way in East Timor's presidential elections Saturday with two former fighters for independence — one current and one former president — considered to be the front-runners, each ...

When the people of Timor-Leste went to the polls on Saturday 7 July 2012, they not only cast their votes for preferred political parties to stand in parliament: they took part in the process of ...