Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono and an Armed Forces spokesman on Tuesday both professed to have no information on a…

Balibo is a political thriller that uncovers the true story of five journalists, including New Zealander Gary Cunningham, killed in East Timor in…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – A Jakarta company has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to supply police and army equipment to East Timor.…

Caroline Overington – There is a scene in the new Australian film Balibo that is so sickening in its violence that it is almost unbearable to…

Jon Lamb - August 30 marks 10 years since the UN-sponsored referendum on Indonesian-occupied East Timor's political status. On that day, despite…

David Curry – Relatives of the Balibo Five have only just received formal government correspondence on the repatriation of the remains of the…

Daniel Flitton – Jose Ramos Horta looks a little abashed. The film Balibo is "largely accurate", he says, in its portrayal East Timor's current…

Alyssa Braithwaite, Melbourne – East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta hopes the new movie Balibo, about the murder of six Australian…

Adam Gartrell – The new feature film about the Balibo Five may stir up fresh controversy in Australia but as far as Indonesia is concerned the…

East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta says he will not push for a war crimes tribunal to investigate the deaths of six Australians in 1975.…

Ary Hermawan – Indonesia dismissed as fiction the recently premiered Australian film describing the murder of five Australian journalists by the…

Twenty years after the death of her brother, one of five journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, grandmother Maureen Tolfree began a painstaking…

East Timor's Ombudsman is calling for the country's Minister of Justice to be prosecuted, over allegations of corruption, following calls from the…

East Timor's ombudsman is calling for the country's Justice Minister to be prosecuted following a corruption investigation.

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Melbourne – A hard-hitting movie depicting the infamous killing of six Australian-based journalists during Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor…

Paul Toohey – A "highly protected" Australian Federal Police ballistics report shows that one of Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta's personal…

Adam Gartrell, Dili – Angelita Pires talks a lot about conspiracies. There's the conspiracy she's accused of but denies authoring: The one to…

A former journalist's return to the site of the massacre of five of his colleagues in Balibo sparked bitter memories and a determination to record…

Stephanie March, Steve Holland for Radio Australia – East Timor's Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, has defended his role in authorising a multi-…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Indonesia has agreed to provide Timor Leste with a number of privileges in line with recommendations made by the final…

Paul Toohey, Dili – Members of Jose Ramos Horta's hand-picked nine-man military guard fled at the sight of the rebels who turned up on the morning…

Adam Gartrell and Rosa Garcia – The gunman stood 30 metres away and wore a mask that covered most of his face. But Isaac da Silva says he still…

Dili – An East Timor court began the trial under tight security Monday of 28 people accused of trying to kill the president and prime minister in…

Australian woman Angelita Pires told East Timorese rebel leader Alfredo Reinado to go to Dili to "kill two dogs" the day before the 2008…

Adam Gartrell – Lawyers for a Darwin woman who will face trial next week accused of conspiring to assassinate East Timor's top political leaders…

Simon Roughneen, Dili – Allegations that East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao signed off on a food contract benefiting a company that listed…

Dili – Police in East Timor have arrested 10 members of an alleged human trafficking ring who brought women into the tiny country as…

Matt Crook, Dili – Pressure to resign is mounting on East Timor's Prime Minster, Xanana Gusamo, amid claims that he misused authority when he…

Dili – East Timor's opposition called on Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao to resign Wednesday for alleged corruption in awarding a multi-million-…

East Timor's government has defended Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's authorisation of a multi-million-dollar contract to a company in which his…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Xanana Gusmao, East Timor's Prime Minister and independence hero, is facing calls for his resignation amid allegations he…

Dili – The government of East Timor says it plans to establish a national park to protect a bounty of dolphins and whales – some of them…

Frank Jordans, Geneva – East Timor's president said Wednesday that venture partners in a vast underwater oil and gas field would be better served…

Metinaro, East Timor – On a sweltering day at a camp for displaced people outside East Timor's capital, children play excitedly in the dust as…

A new film about the killing of five journalists by Indonesian troops in East Timor in 1975 fails to depict the true cruelty of their deaths, East…

Dili – East Timor began emptying its last remaining camp for thousands of internally displaced people on Wednesday, more than three…

More than 20,000 East Timorese live in dire poverty over the Indonesian border

Miki Perkins – Maria Augusta Martins doesn't know why her son…

Guido Goulart, Dili – The UN population agency is urging predominantly Catholic East Timor to soften laws that criminalize abortion and to promote…

Dili – A new penal code implemented in East Timor this week is adding an exception to allow emergency abortions, despite opposition from the…

Jon Lamb – The people of Indonesia will go to the polls to elect a new president on July 8. The current president, former general Susilo Bambang…

Corruption allegations continue to be directed at East Timor's finance ministry, with the latest claims centring on Finance Minister Emilia Pires'…

p>The movie 'Balibo' headlining the coming Melbourne International Film Festival will again put in the spotlight the murder and its cover-up of…

New York – The predominantly Catholic nation of East Timor is under pressure from the United Nations for its laws that penalize abortion, even in…

Dili, East Timor – UN police returned control of a district to East Timorese police Thursday for the first time since bloody clashes…

Dili – The World Bank has been forced to defend its consultants in East Timor after the salaries of those hired by the finance ministry were…

Adam Gartrell – East Timorese children were taken from their families and resettled in Indonesia under policies similar to those that created…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – The East Timorese Government has admitted that corrupt officials are "well established" in areas such as tax, customs…

Angela Macdonald-Smith – The East Timor government said it doesn't intend to approve plans that Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia's second-…

The brother of an Australian woman accused of conspiring to assassinate East Timor's president and prime minister says he cannot believe the case…

Aloysius Unditu – East Timor, the world's newest democracy, may invest about 10 percent of a $4.6 billion petroleum fund in regional equities…