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Bradley Simpson - The presumptive appointment by President-…

Mark Dodd – Australia is poised to take a bigger role in the training of East Timor's police force, described in a UN report as beset with "…

Dili – East Timor's president and the United Nations played down reports Wednesday that the tiny Asian nation was staggering under the weight of…

A respected newspaper in East Timor has been charged with defamation over a series of stories it published accusing the country's Justice Minister…

East Timor risks a repeat of the anarchy that gripped the country in 2006, as it has a dysfunctional police force, a chaotic justice system, a…

Kuala Lumpur – Timor Leste, which witnessed assassination attempts against its president and prime minister February this year, is now making good…

[Timor Timur, Menit Terakhir – Catatan Seorang Wartawan (East Timor, The Last Minute – A Journalist's Notebook). C.M. Rien Koentari, Mizan Pustaka…

Havana – Timor-Leste carried out its second National Literacy Teaching Graduation, a campaign developed with the Cuban program Yes I…

Mark Dodd – An Australian businessman in East Timor says he has received death threats after he questioned an allegedly corrupt $3.1 million…

Lindsay Murdoch – Many complaints against Australian soldiers in East Timor remain unresolved because there is no formal means to deal with them,…

Emma Macdonald – East Timor might be the newest sovereign state in the world, but for PhD graduate Nuno Oliveira the tiny country's ancient…

Jakarta – Indonesia's former foreign minister Ali Alatas, who died in Singapore on Thursday, was a widely respected figure in the region tipped at…

Dili – The Secretary General of Fretilin and former Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri, said today in Dili that there are "attacks"…

A key principle of both good memorialisation and reconciliation is that the truth be honestly acknowledged in plain language. Memorialisation that…

• Stop ongoing impunity
• Judge the perpetrators of the 7 December invasion
• Judge the criminals who violated human rights…

Rory Callinan – East Timor is struggling to repair its police force, but individual dedication can't make up for a lack of equipment and training…

Jakarta – Unanswered questions about East Timor's break for independence in 1999 were brought to the forefront with the Thursday launch of East…

Jerome Rivet, Dili – From his terrifying footage of the 1991 massacre at Dili's Santa Cruz cemetery, British journalist and filmmaker Max Stahl…

Matt Crook, Dili – A US$390 million power project tendered to Chinese investors was to be the defining action of the Parliamentary Majority…

Eleanor Hall: In their country's quarter of a century long struggle for independence, around 10,000 East Timorese people were taken as political…

Dili – More than 100,000 people fled their homes in 2006 for welfare centres and relatives' homes when violence erupted following splits within…

Lindsay Murdoch and Scott Rochfort – East Timor will today unveil its first national airline, Timor Air, with plans to operate flights to…

Havana – East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta, today highlighted Cuba's medical collaboration with his country, which has nearly one million…

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – A high-stakes battle taking place between East Timor and Woodside Petroleum over the Greater Sunrise oil and gas field is…

Paul Daley – There has been a lot of disagreement recently about just who said what to whom in serious policy and political discussions over the…

Angie Bexley - "Gembel" is an Indonesian word meaning homeless person, bum or vagrant. A group of Timorese youth in Dili, Timor Leste, co-opted…

Jakarta – The former commander of the Indonesian army's special task force [Kopassus], Prabowo Subianto, held a friendly meeting with…

East Timor's government says closing the country's internal refugee camps represents only a small part of the effort needed to ensure…

A new report by the Small Arms Survey group says East Timor still has a serious problem with controlling weapons.

Weapons collections and an…

Former Indonesian president BJ Habibie says a letter from then-Australian prime minister John Howard pushed him into acting quickly on…

Barry FitzGerald, Resources Editor – Woodside chief executive Don Voelte has raised the prospect of Woodside sidestepping the Federal Government's…

Angus Grigg, Jakarta – Woodside Petroleum's $14 billion Greater Sunrise project may be delayed indefinitely as relations between East Timor and…

East Timor's Court of Appeal has ruled that the $400 million mid-year budget is illegal. The government had sought to take an extra $290 million…

Dili – Young people from around the world gathered this week in East Timor to participate in a conference to share ideas on identity, conflict and…

Angela Macdonald-Smith – Australia risks losing the Sunrise liquefied natural gas project to East Timor, where the venture could avoid the effects…

Lucy Williamson, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court in East Timor has ruled against the government in a key political battle.

The government…

D. Aveiro – Ximenes Belo, former archbishop in Dili and Nobel peace laureate, said Wednesday that, 17 years after the massacre at the cemetery of…

Today we are all thinking back on the major event which took place 17 years ago, thinking anew about an event with significant impact for our…

Jesse Wright, Dili – As the official photographer for the thousands of civilians walking to a cemetery for a burial, Simplisio de Deus watched…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Trouble appears to be brewing in East Timor again as security forces step up roadblocks and increase security around…

Lisbon – The Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (Fretilin) threatened to abandon the Timorese Parliament by the end of the year,…

John Lyons – John Howard braced himself for the possibility of up to 30 Australian soldiers being killed by the Indonesian military when he made…

Susan Harris Rimmer – Will the date October 30 mark the last best chance for justice for survivors of occupation in East Timor?

In 1999,…

Andra Jackson – Jill Jolliffe knows that often in wars it is the heroes who are remembered while the suffering of ordinary people goes unnoted.…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta, has found the man who shot and almost killed him, instantly recognising him…

Ruth Ratcliffe – "They've been trying to solve problems by using only money, but not to solve the political problems through political means, that…

Dili – Timor-Leste is addressing ancient land disputes created by centuries of occupation and confusion over land titles.

For 450 years,…

Dili – Mounting tension between East Timor's government and the opposition and continued regional-based rivalries in the police and army have left…

Ross Peake – The Australian Defence Force is in East Timor for the long haul although the size of the contingent will vary according to the…

Jenna Hand – East Timor's Opposition Leader has denied a rally of up to 70,000 anti-government protesters would breach the fragile peace in the…