Warwick Fry – There has been plenty of warm inner glow around East Timor about the exemplary conduct of the general elections in July.

Guido Goulart, Dili, East Timor – East Timor is ready to maintain stability on its own without the hundreds of international peacekeepers who have stayed in Asia's newest country a deca

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says East Timor is ready for UN peacekeeping troops to withdraw as planned by the end of 2012.

East Timor's president swore in the nation's new coalition cabinet Wednesday, announcing three additional ministerial posts that the opposition has dubbed an "unnecessary" use of the po

Max Lane – Timor Leste's third parliamentary election since the restoration of independence in 2002 was held on July 7.

Joe Leribun, Jakarta – The government of East Timor did not take over any land in the region of the border in the Nusa Tenggara Timor Province.

Yemris Fointuna – The situation on the border of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province of Indonesia and East Timor remains tense following a clash between residents from Timor Tengah Utara

Dili – National police and NGOs in East Timor have noted an uptick in alcohol-fueled violence, especially among unemployed youths.

Indonesian and East Timorese civilians are guarding a neutral buffer zone between both countries a day after a land conflict sparked a clash there, a local official said on Wednesday.

Peter Alford, Jakarta – Political normalisation is finally at hand in East Timor, despite last weekend's sudden outbreak of rioting that marred at the last moment the young nation's thi

Ulma Haryanto – Former East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta stressed the need to maintain border security with Indonesia as a key part of improving the already close relations with

Armindo Maia and Sue Ingram – Hopes and fears of an alliance between Timor-Leste's two major political parties, CNRT (National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction) and Fretilin (Revolu

Michael Bachelard – Violence erupted in East Timor late last night, apparently prompted by political party Fretilin being excluded from a role in the new governing coalition.

Violence in East Timor was sparked when Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao announced his National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction will form a coalition government with two smaller partie

Joyce Morgan, Dili – The East Timorese President has called for calm after a night of violence in the capital, Dili, which left one man dead, dozens of vehicles destroyed and has raised

To East Timor, where Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's CNRT party is moving towards forming a coalition government.

Guido Goulart, Dili – East Timor's president called on security forces to restore peace and order Monday as violence persisted over the runner-up in this month's election being excluded

The Australian government has updated its travel advice for East Timor, warning of the possibility of further violence following a night of unrest.

East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao will form a coalition government with the country's two minor parties.

Police in East Timor who uncovered a mysterious mass grave at the national government palace last month said Friday they had found the bones of 72 bodies and clues the dead may have bee

Six weeks ago, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao formally nominated two leaders from our oil and gas sector to develop investment policy for Timor-Leste's sovereign wealth fund.

The ruling party of East Timor resistance hero Xanana Gusmao has won 30 seats in parliament, according to a final count on Friday from last weekend's vote, and will need to form a coali

Joe Schneider and James Paton – ConocoPhillips, a US oil and gas producer, challenged a new tax assessment by the government of East Timor that may add billions of dollars to the Asian

The government of the Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor) has started legal action against a number of international oil groups, including Conoco-Phillips, in order to recover taxes th

Simon Roughneen – The party of East Timor's prime minister won the majority of seats this weekend in peaceful parliamentary elections, paving the way for him to form another coalition g

La'o Hamutuk feels that a multi-party state is essential to genuine democracy, to give space for a variety of perspectives to be discussed and considered with public participation.

East Timor is seeking "possibly billions" of dollars from foreign oil companies, including US-owned ConocoPhillips, in unpaid taxes, the government said in a statement received Wednesda

Simon Roughneen, Dili – Saturnina da Silva doesn't have a name for her baby boy yet, born just 12 hours before Saturday's parliamentary election in the tropical half-island nation.

Michael Bachelard – A key civil society group in East Timor has warned against the proposed "government of national unity", saying it would reduce scrutiny of decisions and diminish dem

Michael Bachelard and Mouzinho Lopes – East Timor's sometimes fractious politicians are contemplating the extraordinary – forming a government of national unity in which all parties wou

Tito Belo, Dili – The party of Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has won East Timor's parliamentary election, but was short of a majority, provisional results showed on Sunday, raising the p

Michael Bachelard – East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has consolidated his power and extended his lead over the country's opposition, winning the largest bloc of votes in the co

Dili, East Timor, and Jakarta, Indonesia – Not until she was at the deathbed of the man presumed to be her father did Alexhia Cordova da Silva's life start to make sense.

Peter Ker – Academics and other dedicated election observers will not be the only Australians watching today's East Timor election with interest.

Tito Belo, Dili – East Timor voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election in which Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's party faces a stiff challenge from two opponents as it seeks to extend

Helene Hofman, Dili, East Timor – Grace Gunawon, 22, remembers Dili before East Timor gained independence from Indonesia, when it wasn't safe to play in the streets after dark.

Vincent Souriau – The abject poverty visible only an hour's drive out of East Timor's capital illustrates the challenge facing the government that takes over one of Asia's poorest count

Dili – East Timor is about to face a crucial test of its fragile democracy in parliamentary elections that will determine if UN peacekeepers can leave.

Meagan Weymes – The UN, after presidential polls were held peacefully over two rounds in March and April, says it will pull out its remaining 1300 troops within six months if the genera

Dili – The UN peacekeeping force is on track to begin withdrawing from Timor-Leste in October 2012 after a "remarkably peaceful" parliamentary election campaign concluded on 4 July, ahe

New Zealand MPs will be among official observers of East Timor's parliamentary elections this weekend.

Michael Bachelard – "If I've got $600 million a year...

The East Timor government believes that the choice of the south coast of the country for the new gas pipeline running from the Greater Sunrise field, which it shares with Australia, wil

Damien Kingsbury – In 2010, a senior Timorese political figure remarked in private conversation that Timor-Leste had never been better.

Police in East Timor have uncovered a mass grave of 52 people at the government palace in Dili, with initial examinations suggesting the bodies are not Timorese, an official said Tuesda

The Timorese police today arrested two persons in Baucau, east of Dili, for stoning supporters of the Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (Fretilin) at the end of a rally for

In East Timor, the politics of language can be a complex and fiercely debated topic.

Jakarta – Twenty four bodies were recovered on Wednesday from a mass grave that was accidentally found in the garden of the office of Timor Leste's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao in Dili

Damien Kingsbury – When Timor-Leste's Anti-Corruption Commission (CAC) was established in 2009, many people wondered whether it was just a political sop to minimise concern about percep

Emma Macdonald – The decision by independence fighters in East Timor to swap guns for diplomacy not only worked in creating the new independent nation of Timor-Leste, but serves as a ca