A decade after the devastation that surrounded the vote for independence, there are some promising signs.

Damien Kingsbury – Today is 10…

Sunanda Creagh, Dili – As a student activist in Jakarta, Avelino Coelho da Silva sought refuge in the Austrian embassy to avoid capture by…

Yemris Fointuna – On Saturday, Dili's main streets and spotless government office complexes overlooking the touristy Dili beach were awash with…

Sara Everingham, Dili – East Timor's President says Australia should spend more of its aid money helping educate East Timorese.

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Australia is still atoning for East Timor's suffering 10 years after the independence vote. No nation has paid a higher price for independence…

Ezki Suyanto – As East Timorese celebrate the 10th anniversary of the referendum that led to the country's independence, the Jakarta Globe…

Ezki Suyanto – History might show that for more than two decades, the fates of East Timor and its giant neighbor Indonesia were inextricably woven…

Ten years ago tomorrow, the people of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a popular referendum sanctioned by the United Nations.…

Ten years after voting for independence, the Timorese have little to show for supposed freedom. Lindsay Murdoch paid a visit.

Celina…

Joe Kelly – Ten years ago East Timor voted for its independence, triggering a contentious Australian military intervention that transformed the…

John Aglion, Dili – Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor's president, has called for those responsible for the death of Sander Thoenes, the Financial…

Sara Everingham – Thousands of refugees in East Timor displaced during the 2006 military crisis have been moving back to their communities, with…

The United Nations is preparing for a gradual withdrawal from East Timor early next year and expects Australia will begin to reduce its troop…

Matt Crook, Dili – After three years behind bars as a political prisoner in Indonesia, British human rights campaigner Carmel Budiardjo saw…

Meredyth Tamsyn – The day, like most others in East Timor, started very early. But it was not the chickens or motorbikes that woke us that day, it…

Sara Everingham – East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta has dismissed calls by Amnesty International to establish a war crimes tribunal to…

Havana – The National Parliament of the Democratic Republic of East Timor has passed a resolution to constitute the Parliamentarian…

A decade after Timor-Leste voted for independence, a culture of impunity continues to haunt the country's people.

In a new report…

Long-term development in East Timor – which celebrates the tenth anniversary of its vote for independence on Sunday 29 August 2009 – will be "…

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – The United Nations Security council should set up an international criminal tribunal to investigate abuses in East Timor…

East Timor's stability is threatened by the failure to prosecute those behind the 1999 violence.

Adam Gartrell – The failure to pursue and…

Yemris Fointuna, Dili – A solidarity network for Timor Leste will hold a conference in Dili from Aug. 27-29 to rally international…

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Madalena is 16 but weighs just 13 kilograms, her arms and legs thin and twisted. If she could speak, she would say how…

Mark Dodd – East Timor has called for an end to delays over the development of the oil and gas-rich Greater Sunrise field in the Timor Sea after…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The country's top naval official said on Sunday that Indonesia would provide training and possibly sell equipment to…

Australian governments, both Labor and Coalition, knew what was happening.

James Dunn – I saw an early screening of the film Balibo and was…

East Timor's president says corruption is still a serious problem in his country but he is committed to stamping it out.

Jose…

Dili – Ten years after East Timor's historic independence referendum, victims are still waiting for justice for crimes and rights abuses committed…

Paul Stewart recalls the day in 1975 when a newspaper banner shouted "Five Newsman Missing In Timor". "I knew one of them must be Tony [his…

John Pilger – On August 30 it will be a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a…

East Timor voted for independence 10 years ago, but its people await a better life, writes Lindsay Murdoch in Dili.

The first time I saw…

Paul Monk – Robert Connolly's film Balibo graphically reconstructs the murder by Indonesian special forces, on October 16, 1975, of Greg…

Comando Falintil-Forca defeza Timor-Leste (F-FDTL), the armed forces of Timor-Leste, celebrated its 34th anniversary here on Thursday…

Jonathan Pearlman – The United Nations is preparing gradually to wind down its mission in East Timor and believes Australia could do the same,…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Australian forensic experts have identified the remains of three victims of an Indonesian army massacre that took place…

Caroline Overington – The family of one of the Balibo Five believes the Rudd government has deliberately inflamed a wrenching dispute over the…

[A new film has opened political and cultural wounds. Author Paul Cleary and filmmaker, Robert Connolly present two informed views on its…

Caroline Overington – A federal police probe into the death of five newsmen in Balibo in 1975 has stalled due to a dispute between the families…

Eras Poke, Kupang – Authorities in East Timor arrested an Indonesian on Sunday over his alleged role in a deadly attack at a church there during…

Mark Naglazas – When Damon Gameau was preparing to play Greg Shackleton, one of the five Australian journalists massacred by Indonesian troops in…

The director of the film Balibo has renewed calls for a coronial inquest into the death of Roger East, the Darwin-based journalist…

Shirley Shackleton wondered whether the truth of her husband's murder could ever be communicated to Australian cinema audiences. This is her…

Clinton Fernandes – In October 1975, the Indonesian military was conducting a terror and destabilisation campaign in the border regions of East…

Members of the US-based East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) will gather in Timor-Leste later this month to commemorate the tenth…

Australian film Balibo, about the murder of five Australian journalists in East Timor in 1975, won two of the five jury prizes at the…

Dili – East Timor's opposition Fretilin party called for Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao to sack his justice and finance ministers Thursday after…

Anthony LaPaglia strived for truth about the Balibo Five, writes Philippa Hawker.

"It didn't matter to me what size the role was," says…

Caroline Overington – The Australian media bears more responsibility than the Australian government for the deaths of five journalists in Balibo…

An Australian woman charged with conspiring to kill East Timor's President is stressed and concerned by the trial, her Darwin…

Kerry O'Brien, presenter: It's now 10 years since the people of East Timor were finally given the chance to decide their political future and…