Dennis Shanahan, Nigel Wilson – East Timor is expected to get more than $13 billion in gas royalties after a new deal with the Australian Government that is $8 billion more generous tha

New York – The idea of forming an international tribunal to try the 1999 post-ballot human rights violations in East Timor is not likely to gain the support of UN Security Council membe

Mark Dodd – The East Timorese Prime Minister's brother has been granted a lucrative monopoly to sell weapons to the country's Government, with a licence to broker sophisticated military

Mark Dod – East Timor is Asia's poorest country.

All of East Timor's fledgling dreams, and all of the threats to those dreams, are on display in The Australian today. First the good news.

Negotiations to determine seabed boundaries and ownership of the oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea have been long-running between Australia and it's northern neighbours – previously

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer didn't arrive in Melbourne in time on Tuesday to see himself and his Labor predecessor Gareth Evans share a toast with oil-filled champagne glasses.

Jakarta – The Commission of Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KONTRAS) has urged the government to follow up the United Nations' recommendations to reinvestigate the 1999 bloodsh

Jakarta – Indonesia today formally rejected a recommendation by a UN panel of experts that an international tribunal be set up to judge military officers and others accused of atrocitie

Veronica Brooks, Canberra – East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said Tuesday a revenue-sharing pact with Australia covering the US$5 billion Sunrise natural gas project in th

Marwaan Macan-Markar, Bangkok – Indonesia's hope of emerging as a force for democracy in Southeast Asia faces a reality check in regard to its stance on justice – especially justice for

Karen Michelmore – Australia and East Timor are close to striking a deal on a maritime boundary, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said tonight.

The Indonesian Government has flatly rejected a United Nations demand that it punishes the military officers accused of masterminding the atrocities in East Timor in 1999.

Dili – Leaders of martial arts groups in East Timor that have fought deadly clashes in the last year signed an accord Thursday to seek dialogue rather than violence to resolve future di

Jakarta – Indonesia flatly rejected a recommendation by a UN panel to set up an international tribunal to prosecute Indonesian forces and militia leaders accused of rights abuses in Eas

Anne Barker – The United Nations Security Council has been handed a report that recommends an International War Crimes tribunal on atrocities in East Timor, if Indonesia fails to retry

Evelyn Leopold, United Nations – Six years after the Indonesian army and allied gangs waged a scorched-earth campaign in East Timor, a UN-appointed panel concluded that Jakarta's prosec

New York – The United Nations Security Council should endorse a UN commission's recommendations for addressing Indonesia's failure to ensure justice for crimes against humanity in East

The long-awaited final report of the UN Commission of Experts appointed to investigate the judicial processes for atrocities committed in Timor Leste in 1999, submitted to the UN Securi

A UN Commission of Experts has advised the UN Security Council to establish an international criminal tribunal if Indonesia fails to take action towards securing accountability for seri

Pressure was mounting on Indonesia to address its bloodstained exit from East Timor in 1999, as a UN team of experts called for an international tribunal to prosecute security forces an

Slobodan Lekic, Jakarta – Human rights groups Tuesday hailed a UN panel recommendation that an international tribunal be formed to try Indonesian military officers accused of violence i

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has reportedly handed-over the report of the Commission of Experts on justice for East Timor to the Security Council.

A United Nations commission says Indonesia should be given six months to re-try those accused of destroying East Timor or they should face an international war crimes court.

David Rose – Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is facing MPs' demands to help clear up the mystery surrounding the slaying of two British newsmen 30 years ago.

The United States has offered full support in working with East Timor and Indonesia to make the Truth and Friendship Commission formed by the two countries as credible as possible as it

Washington – Poverty-struck East Timor has made "commendable progress" since wrenching its independence from Indonesia but needs to do much more to manage its new-found energy wealth, t

Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – Indonesia should retry accused war criminals acquitted by a special court in Jakarta because the process was a sham, according to United Nations experts on East

Michael Richardson – It has been a rollercoaster ride of more than two years of sometimes acrimonious talks between Australia and East Timor on how to share energy reserves in the Timor

Veronica Brooks, Canberra – East Timor's Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri, said Friday he believes Dili and Canberra can quickly finalize a revenue-sharing agreement covering Woodside Petr

Commenting ahead of the East Timorese Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri's visit to Melbourne today, Timor Sea Justice Campaign co-ordinator Tom Clarke labelled the Australian Government's p

Lisbon – A leader of East Timor's Roman Catholics warned Thursday that although the recent dispute between his powerful church and the Dili government is resolved, "nothing is definitiv

Bloomberg – East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao said his country shouldn't rush to settle a dispute with Australia over offshore oil and gas fields before the three-year-old nation can

Ahead of a visit by the Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri, to Melbourne this week, the Australian Council of Trade Unions has renewed its calls for East Timor to gain a fairer

An inquest will be held into the death of Balibo Five cameraman Brian Peters, killed 30 years ago in East Timor.

An international relations academic says Australian peackeeping troops are being withdrawn from East Timor prematurely.

Timor Leste – Canberra will on Monday begin withdrawing its last peacekeeping troops from Timor Leste, signaling the end of a six-year mission that heralded a controversial new era of r

Dozens of East Timorese asylum seekers could be granted permanent visas after having their cases reviewed by Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone.

East Timor will soon start opening up its untapped oil and gas reserves to investors, the Timorese government says.

Lisbon – East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri repeated Sunday his denial that his impoverished country had reached a deal with Australia over sharing oil and gas reserves worth bil

Simone Lee Egger – Accommodation was once so scarce in East Timor that a bed in a converted shipping container cost nearly £60 a night.

Following comments from East Timor's PM, Mari Alkatiri, that further negotiations would be required to iron out details in a proposed resource sharing arrangement with Australia, the Ti

Lisbon – Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri said Thursday that the resolution last month of the dispute between his government and East Timor's powerful Catholic Church opens the door for deb

Darwin – The last of Australia's troops are preparing to leave East Timor as the peacekeeping operation winds down.

Canberra – The long-awaited, multi-billion dollar oil and gas deal between Australia and East Timor will soon be presented to cabinet for a final tick of approval.

Jose Ramos-Horta – I want to clarify where negotiations now stand between Canberra and Dili regarding the wealth lying beneath the Timor Sea.

Mark Dodd – Fears have been raised for the safety of scores of witnesses to the atrocities committed against East Timor's final struggle for independence in 1999 as the UN unit responsi

Stephen Senise – October 16 marks the 30th anniversary of the slaying of five Australian-based journalists during an Indonesian assault on the East Timorese border village of Balibo in

Washington – More than 50 international organizations have appealed to US President George Bush to use a White House meeting Wednesday with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

The UN-sponsored Special Panels for Serious Crimes (SPSC) ceased operations on 20 May 2005, after trying fewer than one quarter of those indicted for serious human rights violations com