Canberra, Australia – Lawyers prosecuting a former spy and his lawyer who accuse Australia of illegally bugging the East Timorese Cabinet while…

Paul Karp – Lawyers for the whistleblower Witness K and lawyer Bernard Collaery have pushed the ACT magistrates court to make a ruling about…

Nelson de la Cruz, Jakarta – East Timor's ruling coalition in parliament has voted to block a planned trip by President Francisco Guterres to the…

Opposing barristers in a commonwealth spying case are at loggerheads over what national security information can be made public.

The case of…

David Hutt – Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia's newest and poorest nation, is slowly but surely drawing closer to China, a move that is raising antenna…

Christopher Knaus and Jessica Bassano – The nation's spy watchdog is carefully considering a complaint alleging Australia broke the law when it…

James Elton-Pym, Brett Mason – The "emasculation" in Australian aid and the amount of money flowing to expensive consultants has forced Pacific…

David Hutt – After more than a year of political uncertainty – which included two general elections in the space of eleven months, one failed…

The case against a spy-turned-whistleblower and his lawyer is Australia's "Watergate" and should be kicked out of court, crossbench MPs and…

Paulina Quintao – The Chief of the Suku of Soba, in the Laga Administrative Post, Baucau Municipality, Francisca Monica said the government needs…

Paulina Quintao – The Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations of Timor-Leste (FONGTIL or NGO Forum) challenges the new government and its…

Justin T. McPhee – "There is an air of unreality about this stated case. It has the appearance of a Law School moot based on an episode taken from…

The news editor for National Media Group (GMN) in Timor-Leste has been dismissed due to his role as the TL Press Union (TLPU)…

Dili – The Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste, Taur Matan Ruak, received on Thursday the Vice Minister of…

Paulina Quintao – The government of Timor-Leste together with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Agency conducted an in-depth analysis of…

Steve Cannane – Former attorney-general George Brandis was asked to approve the controversial prosecution of an Australian spy and his lawyer more…

Peter Williams – Sunrise LNG operator Woodside Petroleum has left open the prospect of over-riding a deal for the East Timor Government to buy a…

Jonas Guterres – Fighting corruption is one of the key essential actions needed to support good governance, poverty eradication and the creation…

Stephen Dziedzic – Timor-Leste's leaders want to build a 150-kilometre pipeline, stretching all the way from the tiny south coast hamlet of Beaco…

Melbourne – East Timor has signed a deal to buy ConocoPhillips' stake in the Greater Sunrise gas field off the country's southern coast for $350…

Estevao Nuno – The Head of the Vocational Training Providers Department (DFFP), Leonor Bernado said the rates of unemployment in the country…

Benny Mawel, Jayapura – Abraham Hubi, thinks he's a very lucky boy to be studying at St. Antony of Padua, a Franciscan-run school in Sentani not…

Paulina Quintao – The Acting General Director for Health Services at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Horacio Sarmento da Costa said socio-economic…

Christopher Knaus – Prosecutors sat on evidence for three years before charging former spy Witness K and his lawyer Bernard Collaery, parliament…

Katharine Murphy – The Labor MP Julian Hill has implicitly criticised the prosecution of the former spy Witness K and his lawyer, Bernard Collaery…

Clinton Fernandes – The first step in the trial of the former Australian spy known only as Witness K and his lawyer Bernard Collaery has taken…

Paul Karp – Minor parties and independents have called on Labor to promise to drop the prosecution of former spy Witness K and his lawyer, Bernard…

Prime Minister Scott Morrison believes "justice will be served" to a spy-turned-whistleblower who revealed Australia bugged East Timor's cabinet…

Alexandra Back – Lawyers for a Canberra barrister accused of breaching national intelligence laws told a court on Wednesday that they want as much…

Gordon Taylor – The case of two men charged with revealing that the Australian Government bugged the highest levels of the East Timorese…

Paulina Quintao – The General Manager of Cooperative Cafe Timor (CCT), Sisto Monis Piedade said they will be able to export 2500 tons of Timorese…

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Dili – "Munir was a genuine friend of the East Timorese people, and all other oppressed peoples across the region,"…

Steve Cannane – The lawyer who helped expose an Australian spying operation on its ally Timor-Leste was given a chilling warning by the Federal…

Ian Morse – The people of East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste) join the world in mourning the death of international diplomat Kofi Annan who…

Helen Davidson, Dili – The actions of Witness K and Bernard Collaery were a valued part of the "collective effort" that led to the historic…

Estevao Nuno – The government through the Secretariat of State for Arts and Culture (SEAK) is ready to support the construction or rehabilitation…

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has held the position for five years but made her first official visit to Timor-Leste, a country…

James Plested – It says everything you need to know about the connection between big business, politics and national security. In 2004, then…

Estevao Nuno – The executive director (CEO) of NGO Timor Aid, Florentino Sarmento, said the original culture of Timor, handed down from the…

Christopher Knaus – New South Wales Labor will move a motion to condemn the "entirely inappropriate" prosecution of former spy Witness K and his…

Michael Leach – When the newly formed Change for Progress Alliance, or AMP, secured an outright majority at Timor-Leste's 12 May election, the…

Bec Strating – Last week, an Australian leader visited Dili for the first time in five years. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop spent 36 hours in…

Kerrin Thomas – An Australian dentist and a small group of volunteers have managed to check more than 1,200 mouths in just two weeks on Timor…

Paulina Quintao – The general director for Tourism Jose Quintas appealed to all citizens to be responsible for keeping the capital, Dili, clean…

Australia is trying to reboot its troubled relations with historical friend East Timor, with Julie Bishop the first foreign minister to visit in…

Steve Cannane – Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of East Timor Jose Ramos-Horta says charges should be dropped against two men who…

Sophie Raynor – Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop arrived in Timor-Leste at the weekend, on her first official visit and the first by any…

Helen Davidson and Christopher Knaus – Australia should drop its prosecution of Witness K and lawyer Bernard Collaery because the two men "acted…

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has rejected suggestions Australia has bullied East Timor in the fight over natural gas and says it's time to renew…

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will be the first Australian minister to visit Timor-Leste in five years when she goes as part of an…