Philip Dorling – The Australian Defence Force has begun a series of controversial exercises in East Timor involving Black Hawk helicopters firing…

Police and security forces in East Timor are braced for a further day of protests outside the National University in Dili.

Since Monday,…

Dili – Police in East Timor's capital fired tear gas Monday to disperse students protesting a plan by lawmakers to buy themselves new…

Mark Dodd – East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has signed a $US14.4 million ($14.9 million) food security contract giving sole import rights…

Dili – East Timorese and UN anti-riot police arrested at least 16 students Tuesday during a second day of protests at the national…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – The rebel named as having shot East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta was apparently not the shooter after all,…

Lucy Williamson, Dili – "That's him," our guide told me. The man in the sagging brown vest was sitting at the entrance to his home, enjoying the…

Dili – The East Timor Students Forum is threatening hunger strikes because its members feel deceived by the National Parliament about the…

East Timor's Prime Minister is supporting a new law that would allow civilians to own guns, less than five months after illegally armed rebel…

Timor-Leste's President Jose Ramos-Horta yesterday unveiled his legislative plan for an ambitious reconciliation process covering the events of…

Questions are being asked about a proposal to massively increase government spending in East Timor. A mid-year review has recommended that…

East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta has been accused of ignoring victims by granting clemency to militia members who killed nuns and priests…

The producer of a new political thriller about five Australia-based newsmen killed in East Timor in 1975 says the film will tell the truth about…

Tito Belo, Dili – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Friday he would not pursue the job of United Nations High Commissioner for Human…

Paul Toohey, Dili – East Timor doesn't need any more confusion, but it got in doses yesterday.

Jose Ramos Horta announced he would no longer…

Karon Snowdon for Radio Australia – The woman accused by the President of East Timor of fostering rebel resistance in the country says she fears…

Regarding the decision of President of the Republic, Jose Ramos-Horta's, to grant executive clemency to 94 prisoners, today, Friday, 27 June 2008…

Paul Toohey – Jose Ramos Horta had his country on tenterhooks last night as he asked for another 24 hours to decide whether he would stay on as…

East Timor's president is considering taking the UN's top human rights job but must consider whether his early departure would disrupt his country…

East Timor's president Jose Ramos Horta has called on Australia to be much more generous in providing access for East Timorese to work and study…

Jesse Wright, Dili – While East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is on a shortlist of candidates to become the United Nations' next high…

Dili (Asia News/Agencies) - The government of East Timor has come under fire over its decision to turn over 100,000 hectares or a sixth of the…

The mother of the woman linked to an East Timorese rebel leader says the country's President refused to meet her in Darwin today.

Dili – Former East Timor militia chief Joni Marques, pardoned and released on parole this month after serving part of a long prison sentence for…

Dili – Joni Marques, former leader of East Timor's notorious Team Alfa militia, was released on parole earlier this month after controversially…

Jessie Wright, Dili – Buried deep in a neighbourhood of tin-roofed shacks, between a Christian church and an English-language school, sits one of…

Dili – East Timor's recent decision to pardon and release a former militia leader responsible for several murders has undermined the country's…

Philip Dorling – The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has declassified hundreds of secret intelligence reports relating to the…

Philip Dorling – Declassified ASIO files on East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta shed new light on the complex diplomatic and intelligence…

Tara Ravens – Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado would still be alive today if his Australian lover had not stopped him from surrendering, says East…

This last week has seen the release of convicted militia leader Joni Marques, and others, from Dili's Becora prison.

Following Timor-Leste's…

Angus Grigg, Jakarta – As soaring oil prices hit consumers and rattle global financial markets, one of the world's poorest nations, East Timor, is…

Lisa Macdonald, Sydney – Tim Anderson's new documentary on the East Timor-Cuba health cooperation program is an inspiration. The Doctors of…

Jesse Wright – The United Nations, called in two years ago in the wake of a breakdown of East Timor's security forces that led to dozens of deaths…

Indonesia is refusing to give a date for the publication of a Truth Commission report on rights abuses during East Timor's 1999 independence vote…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups is pressing the governments of Indonesia and Timor Leste to accept the final report…

Jakarta – Human rights organisations the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), the Human Rights Working Group (HRWG)…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – UN police in East Timor will hand over responsibility to the national force sooner than expected, despite a high-…

Lucy Williamson, Dili – Lily's wide, gentle face crumples when I ask her why she is doing it.

Sitting outside the corrugated tin walls of…

One of the widows of the Balibo Five has expressed surprise at Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's decision to visit the cemetery where veterans of the…

The widow of one of the Balibo Five killed in East Timor says she is offended Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is visiting an Indonesian cemetery for war…

Dili – In rural Timor-Leste, who owns the land and who uses the land are often two very different things.

Pedro da Costa Xavier is a 24-year…

Aubrey Belford, Tibar, East Timor – East Timor, which gained formal independence in 2002 after a long history of occupation under Portugal and…

Tito Belo, Dili – About a thousand students rallied outside East Timor's parliament on Wednesday to protest against a decision to buy 65 Toyota…

Dili – At night Tomas Agusto and his family lie in their tent hoping nobody will set it alight. When he was moved out of the displacement camp in…

Paul Toohey – A vindicated but bitter Mari Alkatiri, East Timor's Opposition leader, has vowed to sue political figures and journalists for…

Matheos Viktor Messakh, Jakarta – Human rights activists have sent a letter to the United Nations calling for an international tribunal to try…

In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, an international coalition of more than 90 human rights and other organizations urged the UN and…

His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary-General
The United Nations
1 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017-3515

Your…

Setyo Budi, Dili – East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta's decision to pardon those involved in the 1999 killings, and the violent incidents of…