Bandar Seri Begawan – Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has said the three-day official visit by Timor-Leste's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao to his…

In 1976, the Australian ambassador to Indonesia wrote that, in deciding whether to support the right of the Timorese people to self-determination…

Tom Clarke – Since the discovery of vast oil deposits under the Timor Sea in the early 1970s, oil has been the ever-present third player in…

Susan – In 1974, with the prospect of an Indonesian annexation of Timor on the horizon, Australia faced an important question: would Australia…

When the doorbell rang about 9.30am at 5 Brockman Street, Narrabundah, in suburban Canberra, Chloe Preston was starting her day at work as a legal…

Susan – In 1974, with the prospect of an Indonesian annexation of Timor on the horizon, Australia faced an important question: would Australia…

Mong Palatino – To allegedly protect the rights of media practitioners, the government of East Timor is proposing a media law that is now being…

Ezequiel Freitas – Member of National Parliament (MP) Paulino Monteiro said the use of Indonesian to teach, which is particularly prevalent in…

Lindsay Murdoch – Jose Belo was shackled, hung upside down, electrocuted, beaten, burnt and jailed for three years in the mid-1990s because of his…

Tom Allard – Australia has been ordered to cease spying on East Timor and its legal advisers, in a landmark decision by the International Court of…

Kate Lamb – The highest court at The Hague ruled on Monday that "Australia shall not interfere in anyway in communications between Timor-Leste and…

Havana, Cuba – Cuban doctors in East Timor are drawing up a comprehensive strategy to fight Cancer based on the records on the disease collected…

East Timor's journalists' union has criticised the country's proposed media laws for being too restrictive on journalists.

A provision for a…

Tonight in the Hague, the International Court of Justice will deliver its orders in a case that East Timor brought against Australia following the…

Jakarta – The border between Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province and Timor Leste remains prone to drug smuggling, although the police have…

Havana, Cuba – Mari Alkatiri, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, requested from Cuba on Friday in this capital…

Kim Doyle – In early 2013, the Australian Signals Directorate was spying on Indonesian officials involved in trade negotiations with the US. The…

The prime minister of Timor-Leste, Xanana Gusmao, plans to step down in September so a younger generation can lead the tiny nation, his deputy has…

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It was late morning, on the 3rd of December when ASIO launched a…

Mong Palatino – East Timor journalists and human rights groups are opposing a government-proposed media law which they believe would lead to…

Paulina Quintao – The majority of female workers in the private sector do not claim their full maternity leave entitlements due to a fear of…

David Winning, Sydney – For nearly a decade, East Timor has relied on revenue from a huge natural-gas field to rebuild after the country's war of…

Attorney-General George Brandis has again defended security service raids on Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery who was helping East…

Jakarta – Authorities of Silawan village in East Tasifeto, Belu regency, East Nusa Tenggara, which lies on the Indonesian border with Timor Leste…

Claims that Australia spied on East Timorese negotiators during oil and gas treaty talks in 2004 are at the centre of a legal row that could throw…

Simon Roughneen – A proposed new media code in Timor-Leste is raising hackles among the country's press, who see an attempt to impose curbs on…

Paulina Quintao – According to research by the Alola Foundation (FA), many female laborers in urban and rural areas are unaware of labor laws…

Paulina Quintao – The recent spread of HIV/AIDS poses a big threat to the entire population of Timor-Leste. Member of National…

Timor Leste's (East Timor's) Oil Fund ended 2013 with assets of US$14.9 billion, the Timor Leste Central Bank said in Dili Tuesday.…

On Monday (February 10, 2014) Timorese Prime Minister and Defense Minister Xanana Gusmao met with Indonesian Defense Minister Poernomo Yusgiantoro…

Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste (East Timor) was due Friday to start a re-evaluation of the bilateral oil agreements and a study to set up a…

Daniel Flitton – Vandals have targeted the Australian embassy in East Timor, spray painting a blood-stained parody of the Australian coat of arms…

David Robie, Auckland (Cafe Pacific/Pacific Media Watch): Timor-Leste Press Club has this week transformed itself into the fledgling Timor-Leste…

Mario Filomeno da Costa Pinheiro – The Government of Timor-Leste has indicated that it is committed to joining the Association of Southeast Asian…

Jakarta – The Indonesian and Timor Leste governments have agreed to boost security and defense ties during a meeting between Defense Minister…

Paulina Quintao – The Monitoring and Advocacy Officer for Programs at the Timor-Leste Coalition for Education (TLCE), Joao Soares R. Pequinho,…

Paulina Quintao – Minister Isabel Amaral Guterres warned the MSS will halt natural disaster relieve assistance to victims because of cases where…

Loro Horta – Contact between Chinese and Timorese dates back to the early 15th century when the ships of the legendary Chinese explorer Admiral…

David Robie – The proposed Timor-Leste media law is a draconian mixed bag. And it is ironical that such a document with lofty claims of protecting…

Ezequiel Freitas – The Timor-Leste Parliamentary Women's Group (GMPTL) intends to propose legislation to regulate pornography in the country.

Philip Dorling – Australia's chief intelligence watchdog has been drawn into a legal battle over government claims that Australia's…

David Robie – A year after Indonesian troops killed more than 270 peaceful demonstrators at the cemetery of Santa Cruz in the Timor-Leste capital…

Thea Cowie – The Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Canberra has ordered declassification of a number of documents which the federal government…

Paulina Quintao – The Disability Working Group (DWG) Timor-Leste President, Joaquin Soares, demands the Government of Timor-Leste ratify the…

Rose Iser – Concerns about Australia's troubled relationship with Indonesia are behind the government's refusal to release secret 30-year-old…

Tunggal Pawestri – In the second week of December 2013, I visited Dili, Timor Leste. It was not my first visit. Since 2009, every year I go there…

Paulina Quintao – Human Rights Activist, Joao Soares Pequinho, believes the Timor-Leste's government failed to implement the recommendations of…

Philip Dorling – Federal Attorney-General George Brandis has moved to block the release of secret archives that would reveal the Australian…

Tom Allard – In the International Court of Justice this week, as lawyers from Australia and East Timor traded barbs and legal argument in equal…

Paul Cleary – It was a case of saving the best to last. On the third and final day of the proceedings brought by East Timor before the…