Kathleen Noonan – In a waterfront restaurant on a still-warm autumn night near the Brisbane River, it seems almost ridiculous to be hearing about…

Paulina Quintao – A Ministry of Agriculture program offering free field plowing to farmers has been labeled as useless due to the lack of food…

Paulina Quintao – The government has been criticized for failing to properly control communities building permanent homes on state-owned land and…

Paulina Quintao – There are concerns that the country's farmers are losing their passion for agricultural work and that production is now in…

Paulina Quintao– Ongoing drought conditions are to blame for food shortages and crop failures this year, particularly maize, according to the…

Venidora Oliveira – Timor-Leste's National Parliament has approved a law limiting the power of the President to grant clemency to those convicted…

Venidora Oliveira – Members of the national police force (PNTL) are receiving training to help them better protect and recognize the presence of…

Paulina Quintao – The increase in domestic violence cases has been linked to rising levels of polygamy and infidelity in the country.

The…

Cristian Talesco – Five years since submitting its formal membership application to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the small…

It's one of the more disgraceful, and criminally underreported, examples of the current government's war on whistleblowers (and one entirely…

On April 22, 2016, several global media groups wrote a letter to Timor Leste Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araujo, urging him to withdraw the…

The foreign affairs department says potentially reopening border negotiations with East Timor could draw Indonesia into the fray.

Federal…

Anton Hermansyah – Indonesia and Timor Leste have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in developing human resources for the…

Paulina Quintao – The committee for the Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has called on the…

Paulina Quintao – Despite high participation rates, there continues to be lack of promotion around women in sport, according to the Coordinator of…

Paulina Quintao – The numbers of domestic violence victims accessing formal justice has increased since last year, according to Psychosocial…

Paulina Quintao – In the 16 years since the Seeds of Life (SoL) program has been runing, 1200 seed production groups have been established across…

Lyndal Rowlands, United Nations – High-level defamation, libel and sedition cases in Asian countries are sending signals to journalists that…

Paulina Quintao – Increasing numbers of young people are turning their back on farming in favor of a job in the city, said the General-Secretary…

Thomas Ora, Dili – The current daily minimum wage in Timor-Leste is outdated and needs to be raised, a top church official says.

Father…

Tom Allard – Australia's bid for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council is under threat due to its refusal to negotiate directly with…

Mark Skulley – Former East Timor leader Xanana Gusmao is a softly-spoken man, but is firm when it comes to talking about Australian prime…

If the Australian Government fails to appoint delegates on Monday for the 'compulsory conciliation' initiated by East Timor, then the UN's…

Yohanes Seo, Kupang – Indonesia and Timor Leste signed a memorandum of understanding covering cooperation on preventing HIV infection in both…

Sydney (The Australian/Pacific Media Watch) – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Rui de Araujo has lashed out at Western critics, saying their nations had…

Sarina Locke – Australia's longest-running agricultural aid project is coming to an end, having lifted East Timor's farmers from the ashes of the…

Venidora Oliveira – With oil production in Kitan and Bayu-Undan is in steep decline, there are calls for the Timorese government to boost state…

More than 50% of Timorese children aged five and under suffer from malnutrition, according to 2013 data released by the Ministry of Health.

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Paulina Quintao – The Ministry of Health in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO) has established a national taskforce to help…

Caleb Gorton – East Timor's first president Xanana Gusmao has labelled Australia's maritime border dispute with Timor-Leste as "immoral" and…

Brian Bennion – Timorese resistance fighter Mario Nicolau dos Reis spent 17 years as a political prisoner in an Indonesian jail before the…

Samantha Yap, Singapore – Timor-Leste is taking Australia to the United Nations (UN) to settle a long-running maritime border dispute by using a…

Jose Ramos Horta – The maritime border dispute between Timor-Leste (East Timor) and Australia dates back at least to the 1960s. Former Foreign…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South East Asia Journalist Unions (SEAJU) join international organisations the Committee…

Venidora Oliveira – National Police (PNTL) Commander Julio Hornai said the data was taken in 13 municipalities and showed that 417 people were…

Venidora Oliveira – Seventy-two percent of rural areas communities across 13 municipalities in Timor-Leste now have access to clean water,…

John Martinkus – In 1995, as I squatted for days in a hole in the jungle of East Timor with 12 men hiding from Indonesian troops patrolling nearby…

Hannah Sinclair – East Timor has filed a request with the United Nations to resolve a dispute over its maritime border with Australia. It's a move…

On Monday, East Timor asked the United Nations to begin the process of establishing a permanent maritime boundary with Australia in the Timor Sea…

Lyndal Rowlands, United Nations – Timor-Leste which won independence from Indonesia in 1999 is now engaged in a new struggle with Australia over…

Venidora Oliveira – Research conducted by the Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) research in 2015 has found that 34% of Timor-Leste girls…

Jakarta – Indonesia's second largest bank by asset, PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), will open a new branch in Timor Leste in an effort to expand…

Mark Colvin: Labor's shadow foreign Minister says if the United Nations rules in favour of East Timor in a border dispute and her party wins…

Thomas Ora, Dili, Timor Leste – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araujo has praised late Bishop Alberto Ricardo da Silva of Dili, as well…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) with its affiliates the Timor Leste Press Union (TLPU) and the Timor Leste Journalist…

Matthew Doran and Peter Lloyd – East Timor is taking Australia to the United Nations to solve the dispute over its maritime border under…

Edio Jose Maria Guterres – Movimentu Kontra Okupasaun Tasi Timor (MKOTT or the movement against occupation in the Timor Sea) organised a two-day…

Review by Ian Sinclair – "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that…

Dili – Timor-Leste today launched compulsory conciliation proceedings under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), with the…

Tom Allard – East Timor has called in the United Nations to help resolve its bitter dispute with Australia over a permanent sea border in the oil-…