Belo rallies for crisis-hit daily

DILI, East Timor: Dili Catholic leader Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo called on subscribers of the Suara Timor Timur yesterday to help ease the financial burden that has severely affected the newspaper.

"I call on subscribers who have not paid their subscription fees to soon fulfill their duties," Belo said.

His call followed reports that the monetary crisis and the resulting soaring price of newsprint had forced the daily to suspend publication temporarily.

The daily will not appear from Jan. 27 until Feb. 2, when it will change the regularity of its publication.

The daily's general manager Salvador JX Soares said earlier the newspaper would reappear on five days a week instead of six days a week. (33)