Mark Dodd – East Timor's security forces and civil service are politicised, a situation that has not been reconciled and could trigger a return to…

La'o Hamutuk is a Timorese NGO which undertakes research, monitoring and analysis of development processes in Timor-Leste. In order to improve…

East Timor's notorious martial arts gangs are growing in size and strength and pose an increasing threat to Australia's security, a…

Jayandra Menon, Dili – Timor Leste is dropping the tagline 'the world's newest nation' in favour of 'the world's newest destination'.

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The Australian Press Council has expressed concerns about proposals to license journalists in East Timor.

The Council Chairman Professor Ken…

Dili – It's been 10 years since Rudolfo dos Santos, then 14, watched as his neighbours and friends were shot, beaten and hacked to death by East…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – More than 600 non-government organisations have warned that three second-hand power plants under construction in East…

On 4 April 2009, more than 200 people gathered in the town of Liquisa, Timor-Leste. Under a banner "Reflections about Ten Years since the Massacre…

A decade after a massacre intended to blunt East Timor's demands for independence, Lindsay Murdoch finds that the appetite for justice continues…

Dili – The tiny impoverished nation of East Timor will need several more years of international assistance to ensure stability and tackle poverty…

A group of Australian forensic scientists may have solved one of East Timor's greatest mysteries. A team from the Victorian Institute…

Dili – International donors to East Timor kicked off a three-day meeting Thursday to discuss how to lock in security gains and promote development…

A decade on, East Timor is still linked to Indonesia

Hedda Haugen Askland and Thushara Dibley – August this year marks ten years since the…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Jose Ramos-Horta has intervened to delay a controversial $400 million deal to buy three highly polluting second-hand…

Dili – A call for more lenient abortion legislation in this predominantly Catholic country is renewing friction between the Church and pro-…

Stephanie March – East Timor's state secretary for defence, Julio Tomas Pinto, wants to send more of his troops to Australia for…

Corinne Podger – Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has told Radio Australia that Australian troops will stay as long as East Timor says it needs…

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Kerry O'Brien, Presenter: Here is a story about East Timor, where a newspaperman who was jailed for his resistance…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Authorities in Dili have charged 28 people, including Timorese-born Australian Angelita Pires, over last year's attacks…

Paul Toohey – Angelita Pires has been accused of being an indirect author of last year's shooting of East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta and has…

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved East Timor's request to keep its peace keeping force there for another year.

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The UN Security Council decided unanimously on Thursday to keep its peacekeeping mission in East Timor for another 12 months, noting…

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United Nations – Oil-rich East Timor can maintain double-digit economic growth in 2009 because falling prices for commodities should reduce…

On February 19, 2009 the UN Security Council will review the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) prior to a decision on its renewal.…

One year after the near-fatal shooting of East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta, the country's foreign minister has admitted it still needs help…

Nelson da Cruz – A year after rebel attacks left East Timor's president fighting for his life, the nation is on a "knife-edge" amid threats to…

Dili/Brussels – A year after Timor-Leste's president Jose Ramos-Horta was shot, security is markedly improved but at the cost of an army that is…

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Security in oil-rich East Timor has greatly improved in the year since an attack on President Jose Ramos-Horta, but…

Tara Ravens – Women in East Timor are forced into potentially fatal abortions because they cannot legally terminate a pregnancy even for medical…

Dili – A rights group Monday urged East Timor to drop criminal charges against a weekly newspaper and its editor for alleged…

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today called on Timor-Leste's (East Timor) prosecutor-general to drop criminal defamation…

Joshua Frank – In wee morning hours on Friday, January 23, a US spy plane killed at least 15 in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. It was…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned at the status of the free media in Timor Leste as a local newspaper editor faces a…

Mark Dodd – East Timor's Gusmao Government yesterday denied claims by the Fretilin opposition that several million dollars' worth of unaccounted…

[The following is an English translation of a statement issued by an ad-hoc coalition of Timor-Leste NGOs at a Dili press conference on 19…

Manila – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said here Thursday he opposes putting Indonesian soldiers on trial for human rights abuses carried…

Mark Dodd – An urgent search is under way in East Timor for $13.3 million that was allocated to various government ministries but is unaccounted…

A report has found women in East Timor are 300 times more likely to die during childbirth than women in developed countries.

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Bangkok – The US and European Union should review their policy of imposing economic sanctions on Myanmar as the country's pariah military regime…

Bangkok – East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta said Sunday he recently shook hands with the rebellious soldier who shot him last year, but had…

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – The central government handed over 2,000 houses Thursday to former East Timorese refugees opting to reside…

Siti Rahil, Dili – Foreign investors are beginning to trickle into impoverished East Timor as it struggles to achieve stability and develop its…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Angelita Pires, the former lover of slain East Timorese rebel leader Alfredo Reinado, says authorities in Dili are…

Australian government documents from 1978 show how concerned Canberra was at the fall of Australia's standing in Southeast Asia.

Presenter:…

Leo Shanahan – The government of Malcolm Fraser knew it was in breach of international law when it recognised Indonesia's takeover of East Timor…

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Phillip Hudson – The Fraser government's controversial decision formally to recognise Jakarta's takeover of East Timor was based on the belief…

Mark Dodd – East Timor has lashed out at a UN report that labels the country's police and judicial systems as dysfunctional.

A statement…