Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The country's top naval official said on Sunday that Indonesia would provide training and possibly sell equipment to…

Dili – Ten years after East Timor's historic independence referendum, victims are still waiting for justice for crimes and rights abuses committed…

East Timor's president says corruption is still a serious problem in his country but he is committed to stamping it out.

Jose…

Paul Stewart recalls the day in 1975 when a newspaper banner shouted "Five Newsman Missing In Timor". "I knew one of them must be Tony [his…

John Pilger – On August 30 it will be a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a…

East Timor voted for independence 10 years ago, but its people await a better life, writes Lindsay Murdoch in Dili.

The first time I saw…

Paul Monk – Robert Connolly's film Balibo graphically reconstructs the murder by Indonesian special forces, on October 16, 1975, of Greg…

Jonathan Pearlman – The United Nations is preparing gradually to wind down its mission in East Timor and believes Australia could do the same,…

Comando Falintil-Forca defeza Timor-Leste (F-FDTL), the armed forces of Timor-Leste, celebrated its 34th anniversary here on Thursday…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Australian forensic experts have identified the remains of three victims of an Indonesian army massacre that took place…

Caroline Overington – The family of one of the Balibo Five believes the Rudd government has deliberately inflamed a wrenching dispute over the…

[A new film has opened political and cultural wounds. Author Paul Cleary and filmmaker, Robert Connolly present two informed views on its…

Caroline Overington – A federal police probe into the death of five newsmen in Balibo in 1975 has stalled due to a dispute between the families…

Eras Poke, Kupang – Authorities in East Timor arrested an Indonesian on Sunday over his alleged role in a deadly attack at a church there during…

Mark Naglazas – When Damon Gameau was preparing to play Greg Shackleton, one of the five Australian journalists massacred by Indonesian troops in…

The director of the film Balibo has renewed calls for a coronial inquest into the death of Roger East, the Darwin-based journalist…

Shirley Shackleton wondered whether the truth of her husband's murder could ever be communicated to Australian cinema audiences. This is her…

Members of the US-based East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) will gather in Timor-Leste later this month to commemorate the tenth…

Clinton Fernandes – In October 1975, the Indonesian military was conducting a terror and destabilisation campaign in the border regions of East…

Australian film Balibo, about the murder of five Australian journalists in East Timor in 1975, won two of the five jury prizes at the…

Anthony LaPaglia strived for truth about the Balibo Five, writes Philippa Hawker.

"It didn't matter to me what size the role was," says…

Dili – East Timor's opposition Fretilin party called for Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao to sack his justice and finance ministers Thursday after…

Caroline Overington – The Australian media bears more responsibility than the Australian government for the deaths of five journalists in Balibo…

An Australian woman charged with conspiring to kill East Timor's President is stressed and concerned by the trial, her Darwin…

Kerry O'Brien, presenter: It's now 10 years since the people of East Timor were finally given the chance to decide their political future and…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono and an Armed Forces spokesman on Tuesday both professed to have no information on a…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – A Jakarta company has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to supply police and army equipment to East Timor.…

Balibo is a political thriller that uncovers the true story of five journalists, including New Zealander Gary Cunningham, killed in East Timor in…

Caroline Overington – There is a scene in the new Australian film Balibo that is so sickening in its violence that it is almost unbearable to…

Jon Lamb - August 30 marks 10 years since the UN-sponsored referendum on Indonesian-occupied East Timor's political status. On that day, despite…

David Curry – Relatives of the Balibo Five have only just received formal government correspondence on the repatriation of the remains of the…

Alyssa Braithwaite, Melbourne – East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta hopes the new movie Balibo, about the murder of six Australian…

Daniel Flitton – Jose Ramos Horta looks a little abashed. The film Balibo is "largely accurate", he says, in its portrayal East Timor's current…

Adam Gartrell – The new feature film about the Balibo Five may stir up fresh controversy in Australia but as far as Indonesia is concerned the…

East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta says he will not push for a war crimes tribunal to investigate the deaths of six Australians in 1975.…

Ary Hermawan – Indonesia dismissed as fiction the recently premiered Australian film describing the murder of five Australian journalists by the…

Twenty years after the death of her brother, one of five journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, grandmother Maureen Tolfree began a painstaking…

East Timor's Ombudsman is calling for the country's Minister of Justice to be prosecuted, over allegations of corruption, following calls from the…

Melbourne – A hard-hitting movie depicting the infamous killing of six Australian-based journalists during Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor…

East Timor's ombudsman is calling for the country's Justice Minister to be prosecuted following a corruption investigation.

Late…

Paul Toohey – A "highly protected" Australian Federal Police ballistics report shows that one of Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta's personal…

Adam Gartrell, Dili – Angelita Pires talks a lot about conspiracies. There's the conspiracy she's accused of but denies authoring: The one to…

A former journalist's return to the site of the massacre of five of his colleagues in Balibo sparked bitter memories and a determination to record…

Stephanie March, Steve Holland for Radio Australia – East Timor's Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, has defended his role in authorising a multi-…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Indonesia has agreed to provide Timor Leste with a number of privileges in line with recommendations made by the final…

Adam Gartrell and Rosa Garcia – The gunman stood 30 metres away and wore a mask that covered most of his face. But Isaac da Silva says he still…

Paul Toohey, Dili – Members of Jose Ramos Horta's hand-picked nine-man military guard fled at the sight of the rebels who turned up on the morning…

Australian woman Angelita Pires told East Timorese rebel leader Alfredo Reinado to go to Dili to "kill two dogs" the day before the 2008…

Dili – An East Timor court began the trial under tight security Monday of 28 people accused of trying to kill the president and prime minister in…

Adam Gartrell – Lawyers for a Darwin woman who will face trial next week accused of conspiring to assassinate East Timor's top political leaders…