Alex Munro – A Chadstone resident has been leading a team of volunteers spreading light throughout some of the most remote parts of…

Greg Ansley – Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke's new Labor Government abandoned the party's tough stand on the annexation of East Timor…

Three decades, you're entitled to think, is a long time in politics. But cabinet papers revealed to the public for the first time today are a…

East Timor's first feature film revisits the tiny nation's tortured struggle for independence, writes Natalie Craig.

The people of Kasai are…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – More than five months after the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, announced she wanted to send asylum seekers to East Timor…

James Paton – Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL), its partners and the governments of Australia and East Timor are "aligned in their desire" to see the…

Ade Mardiyati – Out of love for Indonesia, Dominggus da Costa, along with his wife and children, decided to leave his hometown of Dili, East Timor…

Kupang – The Kupang regency administration in East Nusa Tenggara, has offered apartments to refugees from Timor Leste currently staying in…

Prodita Sabarini, Sydney – American philosopher and linguist Noam Chomsky said justice was escaping human rights abuse victims, as he spoke of…

Sara Everingham – East Timor says it is interested in taking part in joint military training with the Australian and US defence forces in Darwin…

Mong Palatino – With 37 votes in favor, 19 against and 3 abstentions, Timor-Leste's parliament initially approved on November 11 the general terms…

Sandra Parker – Father Domingos Gusmao is passionate about education and its role in the development of East Timor.

The principal of the…

Dili – The secretary general of the Revolutionary Front of Independent Timor-Leste (FRETILIN), Mari Alkatiri, will host a fundraising…

New York – Timor-Leste is making significant progress in consolidating its social, security and political stability despite a number of challenges…

Brian Robins – A breakthrough may be in sight for the long-stalled development of the Sunrise gas project which straddles the Australia-East Timor…

James Paton – Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL), its partners and the governments of Australia and East Timor are "aligned in their desire" to see the…

Brian Robins – A breakthrough may be in sight for the long-stalled development of the Sunrise gas project that straddles the Australia-East Timor…

When the 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gather for their 19th Summit in Bali, they will have a slew of issues on…

Dili/Jakarta/Brussels – Ten years after the demobilisation of its guerrilla liberation army, Timor-Leste must strike a balance between recognising…

Overview

More than ten years after the formation of Timor-Leste's army and the demobilisation of the guerrilla force that fought for…

Dili – "Despite the progress in reducing poverty, greater effort is needed to ensure that growth and international assistance benefits the poorest…

Chichi Conde, Bali, Indonesia – Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to set up review…

Agus dos Santos, Dili – FRETILIN and PUN MPs have called on the Anti-Corruption Commission (KAK) to investigate the implementation of previous…

On 22 November, the UN Security Council will have its semi-annual discussion on UNMIT. La'o Hamutuk has written a letter to the Council to bring…

Jakarta – International human right watchdog Amnesty International urged the Indonesian government to reveal details concerning the…

Index: ASA 57/004/2011

Amnesty International calls on the governments of Timor-Leste and Indonesia to provide justice for the victims…

John M. Miller, ETAN National Coordinator – On November 12, 1991, Indonesia troops carrying US supplied weapons gunned down peaceful East Timorese…

Charles Scheiner, Dili – Tonight, I'm honored to be with so many young Timorese people who believe in justice and independence. Twenty years ago,…

On the 20th anniversary of the infamous massacre at Santa Cruz cemetery in Timor-Leste, the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) called…

Manuel da Silva, Dili – Education Minister Joao Cancio Freitas has recognized that monthly salary payments are still being made to teachers who…

Flip Prior, Broome – East Timor's ambassador to Australia Abel Guterres flew into Broome last week for a whirlwind round of meetings with Broome…

This is not the first time that Gareth Evans has recognised that his, and Australia's, policy on reforming ABRI (Later TNI) was mistaken. As he…

Gareth Evans – Noam Chomsky, in Sydney on 2 November, repeated his familiar attack on my handling, as Australia's foreign minister from 1988-96,…

East Timor is mulling an investment firm based on Singapore's Temasek Holdings to invest part of the country's billions of dollars in petroleum…

China – Companies from China, Japan and South Korea has shown interest in oil and gas exploration in East Timor, but an agreement has…

Woodside Petroleum seems to be making progress with its stalled Sunrise project, saying its new chief executive Peter Coleman has held…

Australian oil and gas firm Woodside Petroleum aims to hold further talks with the East Timor government on its stalled Sunrise LNG project, the…

Singapore – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Friday his compatriots who met the new Woodside CEO Peter Coleman were "…

Dili – A new bill allowing more diversified investments by Timor-Leste's multi-billion dollar oil and natural gas sovereign fund, which…

On Tuesday 11 October at 08am, the General Secretary and the National Organizer of General Workers' Union including 17 workers were arrested by…

Peter Ker – Woodside Petroleum has opened the door on East Timor's biggest-ever resource project, with the company agreeing to revisit the concept…

Jill Jolliffe – East Timorese hotel manager Alice Goncalves has survived many bad moments in the hospitality business.

The worst was as a…

Robert Connolly – In 2009, I took a small film crew to East Timor to make the feature film Balibo, a story depicting the events surrounding the…

Dili – Atoki Madeira says it started with threats and escalated into armed assaults. The 40-year-old Timorese NGO worker alleges the attacks…

Simon Caterson – For local journalists in East Timor, breaking the news could mean being broken themselves. Then there's the difficulty of…

Hera – A cornerstone of the government's development plan is a promise to electrify every home in Timor-Leste within just a few years. But…

East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta saw his fledgling nation's parliament as corrupt and ineffective and believed himself both "above local…

East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta today dismissed fears the country will see a return of turmoil and violence ahead of elections next year…

Philip Dorling – East Timor's parliament is "corrupt and ineffective", Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has an alcohol problem and former prime…

East Timor's foreign minister Zacarias da Costa says his country is keen to work closely with Melanesian countries to assist them in…