Matt Crook, Dili – The streets of Dili are quiet – for now. Clashes between rival gangs have subsided and thousands have finally returned to their…

East Timor's Opposition Leader has rejected Government accusations that the Fretilin party is stoking security tensions by planning a…

Sydney – Australia will reduce its troop deployment to East Timor because of the improved security situation, Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon…

Karen Michelmore, Ubud, Bali – Naldo Rei's thick, wavy hair trails down his back. He has worn it this way for much of his life, for protection,…

Canberra – East Timor's government accused the opposition Fretilin party of stoking security tensions in the restive country Wednesday, as…

Dili – A move to soften tough abortion laws in mainly Catholic East Timor is stirring opposition from the powerful Church.

Activists are…

Dili – In the high, craggy mountains south of East Timor's capital, Dili, a tangled blanket of wild, unkempt coffee trees is blooming. If the…

Dili – East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao threatened Monday to arrest protesters who respond to opposition calls for a mass…

Dili – Last week on eBay a search for East Timor would have come up with a black, wooden, hand-carved statue of a male, not quite a metre high.…

On 9 October, President Jose Ramos Horta has submitted the report to Timor Leste's Parliament in Dili, and it was received by Parliament head…

Rob Taylor, Canberra – East Timor is facing a food crisis and more than half the fledgling country's youngest children are now going hungry as…

The village of Tai Tete is a 40-minute climb from the town of Maliana, in the west of East Timor.

The rangy figure of Joana Fatima leads us…

Dili – The East Timorese ministry of justice is preparing a penal code which would decriminalise many abortions, but with little visible public…

Soibada, East Timor – East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta said Monday he wants the United Nations to drop its investigation into…

An opposition plan for a massive march on East Timor's capital and rumours of tension in the police force are raising concerns of a return to…

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

Dili – Tens of thousands of people are preparing for their third bout of flooding since 2006 in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) as…

The police chief of East Timor's second biggest city has been arrested amid rising tensions within the force. Stephanie March reports…

East Timor's President and chief prosecutor are at odds over the prosecution of senior military figures for their role in illegally arming…

Dili – East Timor celebrated Cuba's Independence day within the World Drive Against the Blockade with a new telephone line (roaming)…

Many ordinary people were celebrated as heroes for the role they played during East Timor's struggle for independence from Indonesia.

Dutch…

East Timor's prime minster says he will not allow a new wave of instability as the opposition Fretilin party prepares for a…

Police in East Timor have been ordered to set up checkpoints and step up patrols to stop officers from taking weapons home, amid signs of mounting…

Paul Toohey – East Timor's fragile political and justice system is again being put to the test with the country's most senior military figure,…

Jose Sarito Amaral, Jakarta – Prime Minister of East Timor Xanana Gusmao dismissed Fretilin's threat to bring in thousands of supporters to urge…

Famega Syafira/Wikipedia, Jakarta – Fretilin demanded a re-election in East Timor, the party Secretary General Mari Alkatiri said on Thursday when…

Tensions are brewing in East Timor's national police force as the government works to weed out corruption and rehabilitate the force.

The…

Kurniasih Budi/Ninin Damayanti, Jakarta – Former East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri visited President Yudhoyono during the Idul…

Worrying signs are emerging of tensions within East Timor's police force, similar to the rift among armed forces that sparked deadly violence in…

Dili – Justice in East Timor has traditionally been measured out in water buffaloes. A goat theft costs one buffalo and a rape of a woman is worth…

Dili – As a girl, Laura Pina was not expected to slave in the kitchen simply by virtue of her gender. Then she got married.

Pina was shocked…

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – East Timor is drawing up plans for a deep sea pipeline and petrochemicals plant to tap an estimated $90 billion in…

For many in East Timor, access to the justice system is almost impossible. Institutions are weak and the remoteness of many villages means it can…

Connie Levett – Guy Campos, the East Timorese man accused of high-level collaboration with the Indonesian military involving kidnapping and…

Dili – The United Nations aims to complete investigating nearly 400 cases related to the bloodshed surrounding East Timor's 1999…

Lucy Williamson – One day, perhaps, the place where Isabel sits will be a five-star hotel, its private villas looking on the beach, its grand…

Dili – It's no secret that charity clothes cast off from rich countries end up on the backs of some of the poorest people on earth.

…

Dili – Efforts to return the remaining internally displaced people (IDPs) to their homes are being hampered by squatters.

Some 100,000…

Dili – National police in East Timor, one of the poorest countries in Asia, are being criticized for a crackdown on snack vendors working a…

The Federal Defence Minister has told East Timor's Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, that Australia will not pull its 750 troops out of East Timor…

The remains of five people have been uncovered from eroded soil on the boundary of Dili's international airport. Human rights campaigners claimed…

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• Section I. Religious Demography
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A new report by the World Bank shows it's no easier to run a business in East Timor now than it was a year ago, despite the government's efforts.…

Dili – East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta on Thursday rejected reports that rebel leader Alfredo Reinado was executed rather than killed in…

Juan Diego Nusa Penalver, Havana – Never were two nations as united as Cuba and Timor Leste through links of cooperation and solidarity at such…

Connie Levett – Jose Belo identified the face in the picture as Guy Campos, claiming the East Timorese man was present when he was interrogated…

Dili – Slain East Timor rebel leader Alfredo Reinado had an Indonesian citizenship card in his pocket when he was shot on February 11 during an…

Matt Crook and Domingos Fernandes, Dili – Disgruntled Timorese living in one of Dili's camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) were told on…

John Kidman – Senior military personnel knew Australian troops were responsible for introducing cane toads to East Timor two years ago, it has…

Maliana, East Timor – A few years ago Domingos Pereira and his wife did something dangerous. They quit the East Timorese Catholic Church.

It…