Simon Roughneen, Dili – Allegations that East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao signed off on a food contract benefiting a company that listed…

Dili – Police in East Timor have arrested 10 members of an alleged human trafficking ring who brought women into the tiny country as…

Matt Crook, Dili – Pressure to resign is mounting on East Timor's Prime Minster, Xanana Gusamo, amid claims that he misused authority when he…

Dili – East Timor's opposition called on Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao to resign Wednesday for alleged corruption in awarding a multi-million-…

East Timor's government has defended Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's authorisation of a multi-million-dollar contract to a company in which his…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Xanana Gusmao, East Timor's Prime Minister and independence hero, is facing calls for his resignation amid allegations he…

Dili – The government of East Timor says it plans to establish a national park to protect a bounty of dolphins and whales – some of them…

Frank Jordans, Geneva – East Timor's president said Wednesday that venture partners in a vast underwater oil and gas field would be better served…

Metinaro, East Timor – On a sweltering day at a camp for displaced people outside East Timor's capital, children play excitedly in the dust as…

A new film about the killing of five journalists by Indonesian troops in East Timor in 1975 fails to depict the true cruelty of their deaths, East…

Dili – East Timor began emptying its last remaining camp for thousands of internally displaced people on Wednesday, more than three…

More than 20,000 East Timorese live in dire poverty over the Indonesian border

Miki Perkins – Maria Augusta Martins doesn't know why her son…

Guido Goulart, Dili – The UN population agency is urging predominantly Catholic East Timor to soften laws that criminalize abortion and to promote…

Dili – A new penal code implemented in East Timor this week is adding an exception to allow emergency abortions, despite opposition from the…

Jon Lamb – The people of Indonesia will go to the polls to elect a new president on July 8. The current president, former general Susilo Bambang…

Corruption allegations continue to be directed at East Timor's finance ministry, with the latest claims centring on Finance Minister Emilia Pires'…

p>The movie 'Balibo' headlining the coming Melbourne International Film Festival will again put in the spotlight the murder and its cover-up of…

New York – The predominantly Catholic nation of East Timor is under pressure from the United Nations for its laws that penalize abortion, even in…

Dili, East Timor – UN police returned control of a district to East Timorese police Thursday for the first time since bloody clashes…

Dili – The World Bank has been forced to defend its consultants in East Timor after the salaries of those hired by the finance ministry were…

Adam Gartrell – East Timorese children were taken from their families and resettled in Indonesia under policies similar to those that created…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – The East Timorese Government has admitted that corrupt officials are "well established" in areas such as tax, customs…

The brother of an Australian woman accused of conspiring to assassinate East Timor's president and prime minister says he cannot believe the case…

Angela Macdonald-Smith – The East Timor government said it doesn't intend to approve plans that Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia's second-…

Aloysius Unditu – East Timor, the world's newest democracy, may invest about 10 percent of a $4.6 billion petroleum fund in regional equities…

Mark Dodd – East Timor's security forces and civil service are politicised, a situation that has not been reconciled and could trigger a return to…

La'o Hamutuk is a Timorese NGO which undertakes research, monitoring and analysis of development processes in Timor-Leste. In order to improve…

East Timor's notorious martial arts gangs are growing in size and strength and pose an increasing threat to Australia's security, a…

Jayandra Menon, Dili – Timor Leste is dropping the tagline 'the world's newest nation' in favour of 'the world's newest destination'.

And…

The Australian Press Council has expressed concerns about proposals to license journalists in East Timor.

The Council Chairman Professor Ken…

Dili – It's been 10 years since Rudolfo dos Santos, then 14, watched as his neighbours and friends were shot, beaten and hacked to death by East…

A decade after a massacre intended to blunt East Timor's demands for independence, Lindsay Murdoch finds that the appetite for justice continues…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – More than 600 non-government organisations have warned that three second-hand power plants under construction in East…

On 4 April 2009, more than 200 people gathered in the town of Liquisa, Timor-Leste. Under a banner "Reflections about Ten Years since the Massacre…

Dili – The tiny impoverished nation of East Timor will need several more years of international assistance to ensure stability and tackle poverty…

A group of Australian forensic scientists may have solved one of East Timor's greatest mysteries. A team from the Victorian Institute…

Dili – International donors to East Timor kicked off a three-day meeting Thursday to discuss how to lock in security gains and promote development…

A decade on, East Timor is still linked to Indonesia

Hedda Haugen Askland and Thushara Dibley – August this year marks ten years since the…

Dili – A call for more lenient abortion legislation in this predominantly Catholic country is renewing friction between the Church and pro-…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Jose Ramos-Horta has intervened to delay a controversial $400 million deal to buy three highly polluting second-hand…

Corinne Podger – Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has told Radio Australia that Australian troops will stay as long as East Timor says it needs…

Stephanie March – East Timor's state secretary for defence, Julio Tomas Pinto, wants to send more of his troops to Australia for…

By Murray McLaughlin

Kerry O'Brien, Presenter: Here is a story about East Timor, where a newspaperman who was jailed for his resistance…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Authorities in Dili have charged 28 people, including Timorese-born Australian Angelita Pires, over last year's attacks…

Paul Toohey – Angelita Pires has been accused of being an indirect author of last year's shooting of East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta and has…

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved East Timor's request to keep its peace keeping force there for another year.

…

The UN Security Council decided unanimously on Thursday to keep its peacekeeping mission in East Timor for another 12 months, noting…

Section 1 Respect for the Integrity of the Person

United Nations – Oil-rich East Timor can maintain double-digit economic growth in 2009 because falling prices for commodities should reduce…

On February 19, 2009 the UN Security Council will review the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) prior to a decision on its renewal.…