The first new country of the millennium, East Timor is also one of the world's poorest. Its meager(貧弱な)infrastructure was destroyed by the Indonesian militias(市民軍、民兵)in 1999, and the economy, primarily made up of subsistence farming and fishing, is in shambles(よろめき). East Timor's offshore gas and oil reserves promised the only real hope for lifting the country out of poverty, but a dispute with Australia over the rights to the oil reserves in the East Timor Sea thwarted(妨害する、邪魔する)those efforts. (http://www.infoplease.com/country/east-timor.html?pageno=3#ixzz2qXzHRSpZ)