On Tuesday 11 October at 08am, the General Secretary and the National Organizer of General Workers' Union including 17 workers were arrested by police while preparing for a peaceful pro

Peter Ker – Woodside Petroleum has opened the door on East Timor's biggest-ever resource project, with the company agreeing to revisit the concept of processing gas from the "Greater Su

Robert Connolly – In 2009, I took a small film crew to East Timor to make the feature film Balibo, a story depicting the events surrounding the Indonesian invasion of this newly indepen

Jill Jolliffe – East Timorese hotel manager Alice Goncalves has survived many bad moments in the hospitality business.

Dili – Atoki Madeira says it started with threats and escalated into armed assaults.

Simon Caterson – For local journalists in East Timor, breaking the news could mean being broken themselves.

Hera – A cornerstone of the government's development plan is a promise to electrify every home in Timor-Leste within just a few years.

East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta today dismissed fears the country will see a return of turmoil and violence ahead of elections next year.

East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta saw his fledgling nation's parliament as corrupt and ineffective and believed himself both "above local politics" and indispensable, leaked US me

Philip Dorling – East Timor's parliament is "corrupt and ineffective", Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has an alcohol problem and former prime minister Mari Alkatiri is "arrogant and abusi

East Timor's foreign minister Zacarias da Costa says his country is keen to work closely with Melanesian countries to assist them in economic development.

Stephen Coates – East Timor's fragile stability will be tested in coming months as the country's political and business elite manoeuvre ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections

Dili – The new monetary authority of East Timor will be called the East Timor Central Bank and will be inaugurated on 13 September, according to information published on the Central Ban

The head of East Timor's armed forces stepped down last week, leading to speculation he may be preparing to run for President in nest year's elections.

East Timor's opposition called Thursday for Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao to step down as his cabinet faces scrutiny over corruption claims ahead of elections.

Wendy Frew – A new documentary about East Timor has raised questions about a Gold Walkley-winning ABC TV program that led to the resignation of Mari Alkatiri as prime minister in 2006.

Timor-Leste and international organizations today urged "the government of Timor-Leste to keep the nation debt-free and refrain from borrowing money from international lenders....

The 6th of September is remembered as a day of national mourning to mark the Suai Church Massacre that was carried out by the Laksaur Militia with the support of the Indonesian military

Manatutu, East Timor – For Pedro Damaeao, having a brother who was part of Falantil, the Timorese guerrilla group that fought Indonesia's army, meant endless harassment for his family t

Dili, East Timor – The head of East Timor's armed forces, Major General Taur Matan Ruak, said Friday he had resigned, ahead of a possible run for the presidency in elections next year.

Guteriano Neves – Oil has different meanings for different societies.

Simon Roughneen, Dili – Land, corruption and poverty are all on the table as Timor-Leste gets into political mode ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for 2012, w

Guido Goulart, Dili – A powerful earthquake hit waters off East Timor on Tuesday, but officials said it was too deep to trigger a tsunami.

Simon Roughneen, Dili – Across the city, banners and posters signal the new country's increasing integration with the world outside, heralding events such as Timor-Leste's hosting of th

Mark Dodd – East Timor's small army will be supplied with Indonesian weapons after the signing of a ground-breaking agreement between the two countries that were once deadly enemies.

Klas Lundstrom – Blackouts remain a significant part of East Timor's capital, Dili, although Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has promised the country's thirteen districts electricity by th

Dili, East Timor – The East Timor parliament Tuesday approved the first change to the country's Oil Fund Law to allow greater flexibility and return on investments.

Jakarta – World Bank managing director Sri Mulyani Indrawati commended Timor Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao for his administrative and financial reform policies during the former's

Dili, East Timor – East Timor continues to demand that the natural gas from the Sunrise field, in the Timor Sea, be processed in the country, East Timor's deputy Prime Minister, Jose Lu

Dili, East Timor – East Timor on Saturday officially disbanded pro-independence armed unit Falintil who had fought against Indonesian occupation of the country for more than two decades

Manila, Philippines – The East Timor economy is expected to maintain growth of 10 percent this year, driven by a rise in oil prices and by public investment, the Asian Development Bank

Sara Everingham – East Timor's Council of Ministers has condemned recent violence in the country's south-west that left more than 100 families homeless.

Peter Ker – The new Woodside Petroleum boss, Peter Coleman, will make a diplomatic mission to East Timor in a bid to revive hopes of building a major gas project in the waters between t

A friend in Dili tells ETAN that police recently broke up a demonstration in support of West Papua. As we get more information, we will post updates on ETAN's blog here.

Dili – Angry mobs of martial arts gang members set fire to dozens of homes Monday as they rampaged through an East Timorese town after one of their number was killed in a stabbing, poli

Asulao Sare – Babies are plentiful in Timor Leste – almost seven per woman on average – and so too are health problems in a country where chronic malnutrition is rampant and access to e

Cherie Hart – Long-running violence in a district just outside East Timor's capital ended last week with a dance, a prayer, a speech and the sacrifice of a goat and a pig.

Specialty media have recently reported that China "has sought to take better advantage of the strategic value" of East Timor, "especially bearing in mind the prevalent regional and inte

Zely Ariane – It was not just for the sake of democracy that the Indonesian people overthrew Suharto's New Order dictatorship in May 1998, but also for justice and prosperity.

East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta says the Australian company Woodside Petroleum is taking a stubborn approach to debate on the Greater Sunrise gas field.

Tiny East Timor has its first airline. Timor Air was launched yesterday and will operate daily flights between Dili, and Darwin in northern Australia.

Larine Statham – East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta says he supports Australia's refugee swap deal with Malaysia.

What do Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, and Richard Marles, the parliamentary secretary for Pacific island affairs in the Gillard government, have in common?

Police in East Timor have started a major security operation in Dili, following several shootings in the capital.

Matt Crook, Dili – It was a humid night and I wandered home in the dark, cursing the government of Timor-Leste for yet another power cut in Dili, the country's tiny capital.

Reliable Tempo Semanal sources said that the Chief of the East Timorese Defence Force, FALINTIL-FDTL has strongly indicated in public and in private that it is his intention to soon res

Ross Kelly, Sydney – East Timor is calling for Royal Dutch Shell PLC.

Kupang – The Indonesian border zone with Timor Leste, which was previously closed to the media, will be opened to journalists, a military commander says.

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Tension is reportedly gripping the Indonesia-Timor Leste border, where hundreds of residents have attempted for the past two days to stop the neighboring count

East Timor's Council of Ministers has approved revisions to the Petroleum Fund Law that will see one of the smallest countries in the world move its money out of the world's biggest eco