East Timor has become the unlikely venue for a war crimes case against Myanmar's military leadership, as proceedings advance in Dili's courts and test Asean's uneasy approach to the jun

Carmeneza dos Santos Monteiro, Geordie Fung – What happens before Timor-Leste's 2027 presidential and 2028 parliamentary elections will shape whether political legitimacy in the country

Dili – Vietnamese Charge d'Affaires to Timor-Leste Pham Binh Dam held a meeting in Dili on Monday (local time) with Timor-Leste Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Assanami Sabino Lopes to di

Fugro has won a contract to carry out offshore site characterization surveys supporting the Greater Sunrise and Bayu Undan energy developments offshore Timor-Leste.

Dili – The Vietnamese Embassy in Timor-Leste inaugurated its office in the capital city of Dili on Wednesday, marking its transition to fully functional, centralised operations just ove

Vonia Vieira, Jordan Fennell, Nick Sas – Police in Timor-Leste say they have uncovered a major international scam operation, arresting hundreds of mainly Chinese and Indonesian national

Craig Nolan – Estrella Resources' exploration program in the southeast nation of Timor-Leste has unearthed two super high-grade samples of copper at its Sica prospect, grading 60.34 per

Jakarta – Former Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri received Timor-Leste's highest civilian honor on Thursday, recognized for her pivotal role in normalizing bilateral relation

Justin Ong Guang-Xi, Dili, Timor-Leste – Mr Lawrence Wong hopes his visit to Timor-Leste, the first by a Singapore prime minister, will spark greater interest and exchanges between Sing

Timor-Leste conferred its highest honour, the Order of Timor-Leste (Grand Collar), on Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Friday (July 3).

Samuel Devaraj, Dili – Singapore wants to help Timor-Leste not just benefit but also contribute fully as an ASEAN member, said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on July 3.

Samuel Devaraj, Dili – Singapore will be open to companies hiring workers from Timor-Leste in sectors like construction and marine shipyard in 2027.

Mok Yong-jae – Foreign Minister Cho Hyun held a meeting with Timor-Leste Foreign Minister Bendito dos Santos Freitas on the 29th, exchanging opinions on measures to develop bilateral re

Yonhap – The foreign ministers of South Korea and East Timor agreed Monday to broaden cooperation in climate change, infrastructure, human resource development and other areas of mutual

Dili – Timor-Leste declared a week of mourning for former president Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres on June 22 after the former guerrilla leader died in a Malaysian hospital at the weekend.

Suzana Cardoso – Francisco Guterres, a former president of East Timor and a leading figure in the country's independence movement, has died at age 71.

Butterworth – Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil is looking to strengthen media cooperation with Timor-Leste through agencies under his ministry, including the Malaysian Nationa

Sepang – Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta departed for Dili early today after concluding a five-day special visit to Malaysia aimed at strengthening bilateral ties and regional co

Petaling Jaya – Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta described the diplomatic ties with Malaysia as exceptionally good and praised the country's ranking globally in security, freedom

Ha Noi – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao departed Ha Noi on Wednesday, concluding his official visit to Viet Nam and participation in the third ASEAN Future Forum (AFF

Antara, Jakarta – Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta said full ASEAN membership has brought immediate benefits to his country, including accelerated infrastructure and investment de

Tilda Colling – Jose da Costa was born "in the middle of a war". It was 1976, one year after Indonesia's invasion of the Portuguese territory then known as East Timor.

The world can learn diplomatic lessons from Asean, East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has said in a strongly worded rebuke to existing global power structures.

Singapore – General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam Central Committee and President To Lam met with President of Timor-Leste Jose Ramos-Horta in Singapore on Friday.

Muhammad Ammar Hidayahtulloh & Shelli Israelsen – Since the formal restoration of Timor-Leste's independence on 20 May 2002, the women's movement has evolved beyond the goal of nati

Macau Business – Timor-Leste's government approved a resolution on Wednesday at a cabinet meeting to boost police patrols nationwide following violence in several areas.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Timor-Leste wants to lead ASEAN in 2029, according to the group's secretary-general Kao Kim Hourn, as the bloc makes major changes to its charter to accept

A formal criminal file accusing Myanmar regime leader Min Aung Hlaing of war crimes and crimes against humanity has been submitted to Court of First Instance in the Timor-Leste capital

Kerri Worthington – Gracia Afonso's grandfather was known as the old man with half an ear.

IC Senjaya, Nabil Ihsan, Semarang, Central Java – Central Java Police have uncovered a criminal syndicate that has been smuggling thousands of illegal motor vehicles to Timor-Leste sinc

Lusa – The Timor-Leste Anti-Corruption Commission (CAC) analysed 86 state-funded projects and found that 25 presented problems or vulnerabilities to corruption, according to an institut

AFP – The police of Timor-Leste have seized US$4 million in counterfeit currency from a warehouse belonging to a Chinese shop in Dili and detained four foreigners, the force announced o

The Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Xanana Gusmao, has acknowledged that the government may be compelled to curtail the country's electricity provision during overnight periods should ho

Christine Cabasset, Eric Frecon – Australia and its partners need to monitor the developments in China's engagement with Timor-Leste carefully.

Mahfuzulloh Al Murtadho, Jakarta – Bobibos, labeled by its creator as "Red and White Vegetable Fuel" (BBN), is ready for mass production.

Nayana Ashok – A high-level business dinner hosted in London on Sunday (29) brought renewed focus to investment opportunities in Timor-Leste, as policymakers and industry leaders gather

Joao Boavida – Timor-Leste is entering a decisive and consequential phase of its economic trajectory.

Matt Birney – Estrella Resources is on the cusp of banking its first revenue after pulling a 22,600-tonne market sample from a freshly mined small open pit in the emerging mineral front

Susannah Patton – The conventional account of why Timor-Leste's membership of ASEAN is good for regional security goes something like this: Timor-Leste is a young, post-conflict, least-

Teh Lip Li – On February 2, Timor-Leste became the first ASEAN member state to initiate legal proceedings against another member state.

Grant Wyeth – With the Parseria Foun ba Era Foun declaration, Australia and Timor-Leste hope to build a partnership grounded in equality, shared regional interests, and respectful coope

On February 13, Myanmar's military junta ordered the head of Timor-Leste's Embassy in Yangon to leave the country within seven days.

London – Myanmar has ordered the head of Timor Leste's diplomatic mission to leave the country within seven days, state media quoted the foreign ministry as saying on Monday, in an esca

Emma Palmer (The Conversation) – Just four months ago, Timor-Leste formally became a member of ASEAN.

Lusa – The GX Foundation has been supporting students from Timor-Leste in undertaking medical internships in Hong Kong and Macau, the president of the non-governmental organisation (NGO

Nick Sas and Timor-Leste reporter Vonia Vieira in Suai, Timor-Leste – Joao Gusmao remembers the promises made when the Xanana Gusmao International Airport opened in 2017.

The Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP) and the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) announced on Monday that Timor-Leste's judiciary opened legal proceedings against the military in

Sebastian Strangio – Legal authorities in Timor-Leste have initiated legal proceedings against Myanmar's military junta, including its leader, Senior Gen.

Rachel AJ Lee – Fresh off its historic accession as the 11th member of ASEAN, Timor-Leste has set an ambitious goal to welcome 200,000 international visitors annually by 2030.

Lusa – The Government of Timor-Leste will propose changes to the public debt regime in order to diversify sources of financing and reduce dependence on the Petroleum Fund, Timorese Prim