Mark Forbes, Dili – East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri's leadership has been overwhelmingly endorsed in raucous, joyous scenes at the…

Loro Horta – It was a hauntingly familiar scene. Large-scale riots broke out in East Timor late last month, attended by looting, arson and the…

Mark Dodd and Stephen Fitzpatrick, Dili – Police in East Timor have failed to restore law and order following last month's deadly violence because…

Paul Toohey – The dirt roads and hills in the western districts of the country are now their home. In Australian terminology, the 591 East…

Former People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) chairman Amien Rais said for the sake of justice former East Timor pro-integration fighter…

Dili – East Timor's foreign minister Jose Ramos-Horta said his country does not need foreign peacekeepers, shortly after Australia said it had…

Jon Lamb – Fearing renewed violence, tens of thousands of East Timorese have fled Dili to outlying villages and districts. The situation remains…

Jakarta – A number of members of the House of Representatives' Commission I dealing with security, political and foreign affairs paid a visit to…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – An East Timorese policeman was stabbed to death yesterday after security negotiations broke down in the western…

Stephen Fitzpatrick – The would-be guerilla fighters playing hide-and-seek in misty highlands far beyond East Timor's capital, Dili, are a mixed…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – An East Timorese police commander has moved to calm panicked residents of Dili, telling them he only took his armed men…

Bronwyn Hurrell, Canberra – Australia has an affinity with East Timor that dates back to World War II when Australian soldiers were supported and…

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Last week's protests in East Timor were sparked by a group of sacked soldiers, but a combination of disaffected youth…

Guido Guilliart, Dili – Rumors circulated by mobile phone text messages of an imminent attack by disgruntled ex-soldiers who clashed violently…

Stephen Fitzpatrick and Mark Dodd – More than 20,000 East Timorese, fearing renewed ethnic violence, have fled the riot-torn capital of Dili as…

After an appeal process that dragged on for over three years, former East Timorese pro-Indonesia militia leader Eurico Guterres has finally begun…

Time and again, the Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) continuously reminds that the East Timorese people's struggle did not end when it…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Dili – Liandro de Jesus's body lay in the morgue at Dili's Guido Valadares hospital for four days before his family was…

Shawn Donnan, Jakarta – A former pro-Jakarta militia leader on Thursday began serving a 10-year jail sentence in connection with the 1999 violence…

Dili – When East Timorese guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao languished in an Indonesian jail, Australian activist and English teacher Kirsty Sword…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Dili – Thousands of East Timorese were pouring into makeshift refugee camps in Dili last night, fearful of being murdered in…

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Hundreds of sacked soldiers whose anti-Government protests erupted in violence have fled into East Timor's mountains,…

Dili – Troops have fanned out across the East Timorese capital Dili, a day after a violent protest left two dead, as the president called for calm…

One East Timorese police officer was killed by mobs during a protest in support of nearly 600 dismissed soldiers in the capital Dili, police said…

Dili – The government ordered the army to help restore order in East Timor's capital Friday, after two people were killed and 34 wounded,…

Dili – Four years ago as East Timor became the world's youngest nation, hundreds of cars driven by UN personnel criss-crossed the streets of Dili…

Dili – A protest rally by hundreds of former East Timorese soldiers sacked after deserting last month turned ugly Wednesday when at least five…

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A march by dissident soldiers through the East Timorese capital yesterday turned ugly when demonstrators attacked market…

Nancy-Amelia Collins, Jakarta – Some East Timorese soldiers who were fired last month vow to continue their protests in the world's newest nation…

Nearly 600 soldiers dismissed last month from East Timor's armed forces for striking over labour conditions have threatened to wage a…

Dili – About 2,000 demonstrators, backing hundreds of soldiers dismissed from the East Timorese army, marched through Dili Monday, launching five-…

Mark Dodd – East Timor's Government is under pressure to eradicate torture and ill-treatment of detainees by its police force amid fears of a…

From correspondents in Dili – East Timor's government must urgently act to stop police torture and other ill-treatment of detainees before the…

Reporter: Geoff Thompson

Eleanor Hall: As the United Nations prepares for its final pull-out from East Timor next month, a human rights…

Raden Rachmadi, Jakarta – The National Mandate Party (PAN) promises not to dismiss PAN's East Nusa Tenggara Regional Executive Board (…

Minutes after James Leong and Lynn Lee arrived in Jakarta to present their documentary on East Timor, Passabe, at a film festival, they were told…

Lindsay Murdoch – Dan Murphy says he used to "stack the bodies" in his clinic in Dili in 1999 when he was one of only a few doctors in then…

Jill Jolliffe – In October 1999, Indonesian troops filed silently through the smoldering remains of East Timor's capital, Dili, and on to its port…

Dili – East Timor's foreign minister said Thursday that recent street disturbances in the capital were not related to a military crisis in the new…

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Gastao Salsinha thought he would be a hero of East Timor's independence. "I fought the Indonesians in the bush but instead…

Dili – East Timor's capital was under tight security Tuesday as shops shut, public transport dwindled and some people sought refuge in a church…

Nancy-Amelia Collins, Jakarta – East Timorese police have arrested seven people two days after rioters rampaged through Dili, the capital of the…

Dili – Authorities expect to pacify tensions pitting East Timor's ethnic groups that led to rioting in Dili at the weekend within days, Prime…

Dili – East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri today called for calm a day after sacked soldiers rampaged through the capital…

His Excellency Kofi Annan Secretary-General
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March 24, 2006…

Dili – The decision announced last week to dismiss nearly 600 East Timorese troops who went on strike over conditions and promotion rules was "…

Loro Horta – On February 8, some 350 officers and soldiers from Timor Leste's small defence force abandoned their posts and marched to the…

Vannessa Hearman – East Timor's 2006 Human Development Report prepared by the United Nations Development Program and the Timorese government shows…

'The Government no longer pays attention to us. Some local officials have even asked us why we have not repatriated and returned to Timtim. We don…

Jakarta – Foreign Affairs Minister Hassan Wirajuda said Indonesia and Timor Leste have agreed to settle their problems in the past through the…