Despite claims of progress and reform, East Timor's government is not putting the needs of its population first in planning for a future without…

The descent into A-grade Oceania begins barely an hour outside the Australian mainland. Silvery clouds, deep shades of green-blue ocean, and miles…

Paulina Quintao, – Former comfort woman Ines Magalhaes Goncalves travelled to Japan late last year to give testimony at an international…

Paulina Quintao – The government is still unable to calculate annual medical supply needs accurately as hospitals are not providing a daily record…

East Timor and Australia have agreed to a new maritime border which would give East Timor control of a $40 billion oil field. But not everyone is…

Sara Everingham – East Timor's former president Jose Ramos-Horta says after spending months considering whether to run in the country's next…

Ben Doherty – Timor-Leste has withdrawn its Australian espionage claims in the permanent court of arbitration as a "confidence-building measure",…

Paulina Quintao – The salt brand Kapal which is produced in Indonesia and has been available in Timor-Leste for many years is intended to be used…

Tricia Aquino, Manila – The Philippines should use its chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year to accelerate…

Venidora Oliveira – The majority of illegal fishermen in the Timor Sea detected during operations by the Maritime Police come from Indonesia.

Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste government has yet to build a statue honoring women who struggled for the country's independence.

The…

Sara Everingham – A week of conciliation talks ends in East Timor dropping its spying case against Australia as part of negotiations to resolve…

Paulina Quintao – Data shows that 20% of Timorese companies producing bottled water do not meet international standards set by the World Health…

Josephite nun and human rights advocate Josephite Sister Susan Connelly has urged Australians to maintain pressure on the Federal Government to…

Paulina Quintao – Many young women are marrying early due to a lack of adequate information about sexual and reproductive health issues.

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Paulina Quintao – The falling price of coffee makes has saddened growers in Ermera municipality who are struggling to improve their lives and send…

Paulina Quintao – The National Parliament has approved proposed law no. 26/III/2015 on the prevention and fight against human trafficking. Of the…

Felicity James – A survey of households in Timor-Leste has found most people in the country's capital Dili fear eviction from their land in the…

Thomas Ora, Dili, Timor Leste – Nothing unusual happened when Aitarak – not his real name – moved from Timor-Leste to Malang in Indonesia's East…

Bernardo Almeida, Todd Wassel – Voters in Timor-Leste will head to the polls twice this year for presidential elections in March and parliamentary…

Dili (AFP) – East Timor will hold a presidential election on March 20, an official said on Wednesday (Jan 18), and Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos…

David Hutt – With much of the population living in poverty and oil wealth running dry, Timor-Leste's upcoming elections could be the public's most…

Hands up anyone who believes that the Sunrise gas project in the waters that separate Australia from East Timor will be developed in their…

Frank Brennan – Without any media fanfare, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop published a statement on 9 January 2017 announcing that Australia and…

Timor-Leste goes to the polls in 2017 with little in the way of a genuine policy debate. The political scene is dominated by former revolutionary…

Paul Cleary – When Australian commandos landed in the colony of Portuguese Timor in 1941, they immediately noticed that the gum trees, rocks and…

Steve Bracks – The revelation this week that Australia will negotiate a maritime boundary with Timor-Leste represents a significant and welcome…

Michael Leach – Election year in Timor-Leste got off to an unexpected start with Monday's joint announcement that the government in Dili would…

Babs McHugh – Political and energy analysts have expressed serious doubts that East Timor will ever be able to benefit from a major gas project…

Ben Potter – The Greater Sunrise gas project in the Timor Sea – which has poisoned relations between Australia and tiny Timor-Leste – won't…

Tom Clarke – Australia's dodgy oil and gas treaty with East Timor is dead. Now it's time to negotiate fair and permanent maritime boundaries with…

Bec Strating – On Monday, a joint statement from the governments of Timor-Leste and Australia announced that Timor-Leste planned to officially…

Emily Stewart – It is back to the drawing board for a maritime agreement between Australia and East Timor.

At stake are oil and gas reserves…

Angela Macdonald-Smith – The fresh uncertainty that has enveloped the Timor Sea petroleum province comes at a critical time for the gas venture…

John Martinkus – East Timor's cancellation of the 2006 Treaty between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste on Certain Maritime…

Hopes of a clean slate in developing the gas riches of the Timor Sea have now shifted to the international courts in The Hague.

Australia…

Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney – Australia and Timor Leste have agreed to walk away from a controversial deal over a lucrative A$50 billion (S$53…

Kim Landers: Political leaders in East Timor say they're looking forward to capitalising on the new economic opportunities from oil and gas…

Damien Kingsbury – East Timor has won a significant moral victory in the Timor Sea dispute, with Australia agreeing to scrap the controversial…

Rebecca Strating – The government of Timor-Leste has officially notified Australia of its wish to terminate the 2006 Treaty on Certain Maritime…

Kerrie Armstrong, Myles Morgan – Timor Leste will be no better off despite the cancellation of a treaty that divided resource revenues between the…

Daniel Flitton – East Timor will abandon the multi-billion dollar oil and gas treaty at the centre of sensational spying claims by Australia.

The Timor Sea Justice Campaign has welcomed the joint decision by the Australian and Timor Governments to abolish the 2006 Timor Sea Treaty.

Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste government has established a secretariat for youth from the Community of Portuguese Language-Speaking Countries…

Australia and Timor-Leste are engaged in the ongoing Conciliation under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The purpose of this…

Sarina Locke – An Australian agricultural aid worker motivated to assist East Timorese people has helped farmers double crop yields and find…

Yohanes Seo, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has expressed his appreciation to the Public Works Ministry for establishing border outpost…

Pamela Sexton, Dili, Timor-Leste – Recently, thousands of U.S. military veterans travelled to North Dakota to support the peaceful struggle of the…

Duncan Graham – Greig Cunningham wants to know how and why his brother Gary died. The New Zealand news cameraman was killed in 1975 by Indonesian…

David Hutt – I ask for no outpouring of sympathy, but those of us who spend our days jotting down opinions and making them available for public…