London (Amnesty International/Pacific Media Watch) – Dozens of individuals have been arbitrarily arrested and tortured or otherwise ill-treated by…

Philip Dorling – The Australian and United States governments knew Indonesia was prepared to use napalm against the people of Timor Leste but made…

Jakarta – A majority of Timor Leste's population and a sizable proportion of the country's elite have come to terms with the past and look forward…

Jakarta – Indonesian Military commander Gen. Moeldoko and National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti are scheduled to visit the Indonesian-Timor…

Sara Everingham – Australia has agreed to return documents seized during an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) raid on the…

Daniel Hurst – The Timor-Leste government has praised a decision by the Australian government to return documents about past spying that were at…

Paulina Quintao – The President of Women Parliamentarian Group Timor-Leste (GMPTL) MP Josefa Alvares Pereira Soares urges the VI Constitutional…

Balqis Jamaludin, Kuala Lumpur – Timor Leste is ready to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) anytime, says Ambassador to…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – A study conducted by the Education Sector Analytical and Capacity Development Partnership (ACDP) has found that…

Angela Macdonald-Smith – Japanese oil and gas producer Inpex Corporation has written down the value of its Kitan oil field in the Timor Sea after…

Singapore – Timor Leste's bilateral cooperation with China is increasing and it has been an "important development partner" since the country…

Singapore – Indonesia's state-owned Pertamina is seeking up to 9,600 kilolitres, or more than 60,000 barrels, of diesel and gasoline for delivery…

Canberra – Timor-Leste's former leader Xanana Gusmao has again warned Australia that his fledgling nation will not back away from a dispute…

Daniel Flitton – East Timor's independence hero Xanana Gusmao has revealed he knew Australia was secretly spying in the tiny nation years before…

Inequality and poverty and not religion and extremism are the biggest drivers of conflict in fragile countries, East Timor's independence hero…

East Timor's former leader Xanana Gusmao has attacked Australia for hypocrisy over maritime boundary disputes. The two nations are at loggerheads…

Woodside Petroleum is looking at options to develop the Sunrise liquefied natural gas project but says the East Timorese and Australian…

Peter Klinger – The Timor-Leste Government has floated the prospect of buying Woodside Petroleum out of the giant Sunrise gas project, as the…

Estevao Nuno – National Member of Parliament MP Virgilio da Costa Hornai, President of Commission F (for health, education, culture, sports,…

Simon Roughneen, Dili – Just three weeks into his new job, Rui Araujo, East Timor's new prime minister, faces the daunting task of filling the…

Lyndal Rowlands, United Nations – In Timor-Leste, the gap between rich and poor is most keenly felt by rural women and children. But while women…

Courtney Sherwood – An Oregon woman arrested on a drug charge while traveling in East Timor last September and who has maintained her innocence,…

Mong Palatino – East Timor's new prime minister, Dr Rui Maria de Araujo, appealed for unity as a way to build a more inclusive and tolerant…

Philip Dorling – A former Australian spy remains under police investigation more than 14 months after ASIO controversially raided his home and…

Bob Howarth, Dili – Timor-Leste's media scene has blossomed and grown successfully in 15 years.

I have watched it grow and was lucky enough…

Woodside's decision to shelve its Sunrise LNG project has not dented East Timor's desire for the resource to be developed.

Woodside last…

Kim Christian – East Timor's new prime minister has rejected Woodside Petroleum's plan to process gas offshore, leaving the $17 billion Sunrise…

Daniel Flitton – East Timor's new prime minister has signalled he will negotiate "in an honest and friendly way" with Australia over shared ocean…

Melbourne – Woodside Petroleum expressed doubts its Greater Sunrise gas prospect could go ahead this decade, leaving it off a list of growth…

Indepedent since 2002, East Timor is one of the world's newest nations. But when it comes to protecting the environment, it has a unique and…

Dili – East Timor Monday inaugurated a new prime minister at the head of a unity government, as it seeks to hand power to the next generation of…

Kandhi Barnes, Dili, East Timor – Opposition party member Rui Maria de Araujo was sworn in Monday as East Timor's prime minister, leading a…

Tom Allard – In the annals of East Timor's extraordinary emergence as a nation state after 500 years of foreign domination, no figure has loomed…

With Dr Rui Araujo expected to be sworn in next week as East Timor's new Prime Minister, Timor Sea Justice Campaigners are calling for Australia…

Randy Fabi – East Timor's independence hero and out-going prime minister Xanana Gusmao will stay in the cabinet as investment minister, the…

East Timor's president has chosen former health minister Rui Araujo to be the new prime minister of the country, the government says. Mr Araujo…

After leading East Timor since independence, Xanana Gusmao has resigned as PM, paving the way for a government overhaul. DW examines his life from…

Paulina Quintao – Child Rights Group Representative from Ermera District, Ivonia Martins, believes the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MSS) is…

Dili – East Timor's president is expected to decide on a new prime minister by the end of this week after accepting the resignation of…

East Timor's president Taur Matan Ruak has accepted Xanana Gusmao's resignation as prime minister, leaving the former resistance fighter to wind…

Paulina Quintao – Lack of health posts and housing for doctors is preventing health care from reaching remote rural areas according to Deputy…

Paulina Quintao – Member of the National Parliament MP Aurelio Freitas claims services at the National Hospital Guido Valadares (HNGV) are…

Angela Macdonald-Smith – Woodside Petroleum has called for a resolution between Australian and East Timor of the renewed uncertainty over the…

Venidora Oliveira – Members of Parliament have called for protection detail to be available to female justice officials when serving court summons…

Damien Kingsbury – The resignation from office by East Timor's prime minister, Xanana Gusmao, was not unexpected. He had flagged his intentions…

Marcelino Pereira, Jakarta – Timor Leste's prime minister and independence hero Xanana Gusmao has resigned, the government said on Friday, but a…

Tom Allard – East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has offered his resignation to the country's president, paving the way for a new government…

Margareth S. Aritonang, National – Indonesia will soon have a legal foundation for its defense agreements with both East Timor and Pakistan, as…

Gantry Meliana, Dili, East Timor – East Timor independence hero Xanana Gusmao resigned as prime minister Friday, stepping down ahead of an…

Venidora Oliveira – Member of the National Parliament MP Anastacia da Costa Amaral claims some 85 percent of rural Timorese are not familiar with…