East Timor won huge goodwill as it launched into independence. But Asia-Pacific editor Rowan Callick has discovered, in investigating a deeply…

Macau – Dili's foreign minister, Josi Ramos Horta, said Monday that East Timor would likely be admitted to ASEAN's Regional Forum security…

Mark Baker, Phnom Penh – Australia has chided regional governments for stalling moves to admit East Timor to their annual security talks with the…

Sydney – Prime Minister John Howard on Thursday gave East Timor an open-ended commitment of military support. He said Australian…

Dili – At least one person is dead and about 600 people are homeless after torrential rain lashed parts of East Timor at the weekend,…

More than 600 people in East Timor have been made homeless by severe monsoonal flooding.

Anne Barker reports one person has died…

East Timor is open for business, the world's newest nation said today. The nation was aiming to attract foreign investment in agriculture, fishing…

Lisbon – East Timor, one of the world's poorest countries, on Monday called on rich nations to boost international aid and reduce their trade…

Asad Latif – Indonesia has shown real statesmanship in its dealings with Timor Leste, the latter's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said during a…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – East Timor has called on Indonesians to invest in the country, saying there are a number of business opportunities…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – East Timor foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta reiterated here on Wednesday that his government did not intend to…

Jakarta – East Timor's prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, called Thursday for an amnesty for prisoners currently serving sentences in Timorese jails…

Jill Joliff – East Timor's prime minister drew fire from Jakarta yesterday after resuming his call for an international tribunal to…

Jakarta – Top level government delegations from East Timor and Indonesia signed an agreement Wednesday to control border traffic between the two…

Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri is aiming to turn former bitter enemies into best friends and neighbours during…

Vannessa Hearman, Melbourne – Fernando de Araujo heads the Democratic Party (PD) in East Timor, the second-largest party in the country's…

Gillian Davey – Immigration minister Philip Ruddock's June 3 decision to grant 379 East Timorese asylum seekers permanent residency in Australia…

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri leads a high-powered delegation to Indonesia on Tuesday in a bid to turn former…

Karen Campbell-Nelson – It is important the women of Timor Leste tell what they know about past violations, to balance the tendency for men to…

Dili – East Timor's prime minister drew fire from Jakarta Tuesday after resuming his call for an international tribunal to try Indonesian officers…

Jakarta – An East Timorese court sentenced a pro-Indonesia militia leader to seven years in jail Monday for the 1999 killing of an independence…

Deborah Snow – "The downer was having to pick up two corpses (very smelly) We placed them inside our Land Rover Discovery and it was putrid ... In…

Deborah Snow – Misconduct allegations against Australian troops during their 1999 deployment to East Timor included a claim of "unnecessary…

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – An Indonesian prosecutor yesterday demanded a court acquit a top general on trial over violence in East Timor in 1999,…

Geneva – East Timor, which became the newest nation on the planet in 2002, has joined the Geneva Conventions on human rights in time…

Jakarta – All charges against a general accused of crimes against humanity in East Timor in 1999 were unexpectedly withdrawn yesterday…

Natasha Bita, Florence and John Kerin – Starving East Timorese may be forced to eat rats, cats and dogs unless they receive food aid within six…

Major-General Adam Damiri was commander of the Bali-based military area, which included East Timor.

The pathetic performance of Jakarta's special human rights court dealing with atrocities perpetrated by the military and its militia proxies in…

Dili – Foreign donors have confirmed their support for the struggling new nation of East Timor, a World Bank spokesman said at the end of a semi-…

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – An Indonesian prosecutor demanded on Thursday a court acquit the top general on trial over violence in East Timor in…

Two-thirds of East Timorese asylum seekers living in Darwin have been told they can stay in Australia, subject to further checks.

Federal…

Dili – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao said Wednesday his government would implement a plan that would make the impoverished nation…

Rachel Watts, Dili – As official celebrations took place in Dili on May 20 to mark the first anniversary of East Timor's independence, more than…

Dili – The creation of jobs to invigorate East Timor's feeble economy is the Dili government's main objective, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri said…

East Timor's court system could take months to clear a backlog of cases relating to the bloodshed before and after the United Nations-…

Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said he would intervene to grant 379 East Timorese asylum seekers permanent residency in Australia. He said he…

Dili – East Timor is training police not troops to guard its border with giant neighbour Indonesia because it wants a demilitarised frontier zone…

Lisa Clausen, Dili – Domingos Ximenes pulls off his T shirt to reveal a body that tells the story of two decades of war and suffering. On his left…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Pressure for the establishment of an international tribunal to try Indonesian Military personnel accused of…

Kupang – The military in West Timor strongly deplored the East Timor government's inaction over the recent raising of the Aceh Free…

There can no longer be any doubt that the proceedings in Indonesia's ad hoc human rights court for East Timor are a sham following the…

Dili – Timor Leste's Prime Minister yesterday called for the establishment of an international tribunal in a neutral country to try Indonesian…

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A Chinese-Malaysian businessman who won a case of illegal arrest against East Timorese police has been re-arrested and…

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A court case in which a bodyguard of East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri is said to have kicked a Chinese-Malaysian…

London – A weak judicial system in newly independent East Timor undermined human rights there last year, Amnesty International said…

As the do-gooders move on, carpetbaggers and corrupt locals are left to count the loot. Eric Ellis discovers that most East Timorese are wondering…

The United Nations Serious Crimes Unit has indicted General Wiranto, the former governor of East Timor, Abilio Soares and six other senior…

The UN Special Crimes Unit in East Timor has charged former militia commander, Joao Tavares, and four Indonesian TNI, or military, officers for…

John Hamilton – Hilton Lay is a nine-year-old kid with a cheeky grin and one passion in life – Essendon. His proudest possession is a Bombers…