Emma Wynne – A small collection of objects in the Western Australian Museum honours the extraordinary story of the Timorese boys who risked their…
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April 24, 2017
Heather Merle Benbow – Australian soldiers have long relied on an East Timorese hospitality epitomised by its coffee.
The fond appreciation…
April 23, 2017
Susan Connelly – In the great traditions of Australian war remembrance we remember all those Australian youngsters who died in the World Wars and…
April 19, 2017
Paulina Quintao – National Members of Parliament (MPs) have questioned teaching quality and education standards across the country as grade five…
Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste Coalition for Education (TLCE) has expressed concern over the Ministry of Education's policy to turn several…
Jeremy Luedi – The successful conclusion of East Timor's 2017 presidential election has been lauded as another positive milestone for the country'…
April 14, 2017
Paulina Quintao – The National Hospital has issued a directive to doctors not to attend to patients with common illnesses such as headaches,…
Paulina Quintao – The government has established a special independent authority to conduct routine inspection and monitoring of products and food…
April 13, 2017
Venidora Oliveira – The Criminal Scientific Investigation Police (PSIK) Unit registered 221 criminal cases in 2016.
The head of the…
Paulina Quintao – The National Eye Clinic has informed it now has the capacity to perform surgery on patients with sight problems including…
Paulina Quintao – According to results from a quick data assessment report on blind prevention from 2016, 2.8% of Timorese people over the age of…
Bec Strating – On 10 April this year, the 2006 Certain Maritime Agreement on the Timor Sea (CMATS) was terminated. CMATS was an agreement between…
April 12, 2017
Darwin will be used as a logistic hub for a Queensland company which has signed a landmark onshore oil and gas deal in East Timor. The deal may…
April 8, 2017
Angela Macdonald-Smith – The private company of Australia's Fuller family has signed a deal to explore for oil and gas onshore Timor-Leste, with…
April 7, 2017
Jonas Guterres – Corruption is a complex global problem that creates high obstacles to sustainable and prospective development and impairs the…
April 6, 2017
Beijing – Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory message to Francisco Guterres, also known as Lu-Olo, on being elected president…
April 5, 2017
Paulina Quintao – Voters in this year's presidential election have urged the elected president to eliminate the life pension law.
Citizen…
Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste government and partners are developing a prevention plan to respond to rabies in the case of an outbreak.
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April 3, 2017
The European Union will support Timor-Leste (East Timor) with a budget of 57 million euros over the next five years, under a cooperation agreement…
March 31, 2017
Paulina Quintao – Data from the Secretariat of Technical and Electoral Administration (STAE) showed lower rates of voter participation in this…
Paulina Quintao – President elect Francisco 'Lu-Olo' Guterres has congratulated the Timorese people for entrusting him with their votes for the…
March 29, 2017
Sue Ingram – Last week, Francisco Guterres became Timor-Leste's first party-affiliated president. While the election broke new ground structurally…
March 26, 2017
A former guerrilla fighter vowed on Saturday to keep peace and unity as East Timor's new president, delivering a victory speech after the final…
When she was only five years old, Isabelina Pinto was taken from her family by an Indonesian soldier. She was one of thousands of children taken…
March 25, 2017
Paulina Quintao – Clinical Director at the National Hospital of Guido Valadares Dr Flavio Brandao said that the number of kidney patients was…
Venidora Oliveira – Timor-Leste Defense Force (F-FDTL) Chief, Major-General Lere Anan Timor has called on the government to give more attention to…
Venidora Oliveira – The National Parliament has established a law making it illegal to carry weapons while inside a vehicle.
National MP…
March 24, 2017
A Timorese lawyer who helped draft Timor Leste's constitution says the way this week's presidential election ran demonstrates the country is…
Jonas Guterres and Khoo Ying Hooi – The March 20 presidential election was the first election held in Timor-Leste without assistance from the…
David Hutt – Former guerrilla leader Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres is tipped to become the next president of Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor,…
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – When invading Indonesian troops parachuted into Dili in 1975 Filomena Gomes fled into East Timor's cloud-shrouded…
March 22, 2017
Damien Kingsbury – East Timor's presidential election looks to have produced a strong victory for Fretilin's serial candidate, Francisco Guterres…
March 21, 2017
Michael Leach – The count so far in Timor-Leste's presidential election appears to have delivered a decisive victory for FRETILIN's Francisco 'Lu…
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – A veteran guerrilla commander is heading for a decisive victory in East Timor's presidential elections and is expected to…
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – East Timorese leader Jose Ramos Horta has lashed out at what he calls "outrageous" claims before an Australian…
Flavio Simoes – The big day has finally arrived for voters all across Timor-Leste and, for the first time since the restoration of independence in…
March 20, 2017
Damien Kingsbury – East Timor goes to the polls on today to elect a new president. After this small and still impoverished country's profoundly…
Helen Davidson and Ben Doherty – A former revolutionary hero is expected to become Timor-Leste's next president as voters head to the polls in the…
Felicity James – The people of Timor-Leste head to the polls today to elect a new president, with former guerrilla fighter Francisco "Lu'Olo"…
Amanda Hodge – East Timorese voters go to the polls today to elect their fourth president since Independence, in a contest shaping up as a…
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – They rode ponies, steered boats and walked for kilometres along cloud-shrouded mountain paths to vote in East Timor's…
March 19, 2017
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – The front-runner to be elected East Timor's president at elections on Monday has offered new hope for a breakthrough with…
March 17, 2017
Alexandre Assis, Dili – East Timorese flocked to political rallies on the final day of campaigning ahead of Monday's presidential election, as…
March 16, 2017
Daniel Flitton – The site in East Timor where Indonesian troops killed five Australian journalists in 1975 will be transformed with the…
March 15, 2017
Gobie Rajalingam, Susan Marx – Politics in Timor-Leste is always engaging and colorful, and the lead-up to the 2017 presidential election on March…
Venidora Oliveira – Police have ended their operations targeting illegal casinos in Dili after the government, through the Ministry of Commerce,…
March 14, 2017
Venidora Oliveira – Criminal Investigation Service (SIK) registered 4049 criminal cases in 2016.
Second General Commander of the National…
Thomas Ora, Dili – Timor-Leste's Dili Diocese has declared 2017 as the Year of the Bible to boost people's faith and understanding of the Gospel…
Venidora Oliveira – National Member of Parliament has raised strong suspicions over the selection process of new students at the National…
Experts have told a parliamentary inquiry that if the Greater Sunrise oil and gas field is not developed East Timor may become a failed state or…




