Jon Lamb – The Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) in East Timor has completed its report documenting human rights violations that took place under 24-year-long In

East Timor says it's only weeks away from finalising a boundary deal with Australia to exploit the oil and gas reserves of the Greater Sunrise field in the Timor Sea.

Dili – East Timor's government is ready to adopt "drastic measures" to reconstruct Dili, ending anarchy and reducing population pressures, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri said Wednesday.

Baucau – Unknown assailants attacked a police station in East Timor's second city before dawn Monday, injuring one officer, the country's police commander said.

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Charles Scheiner – East Timor hopes to use its offshore oil and gas deposits to enable the country to escape its position as the poorest nation in Asia.

Sian Powell in Tubu, West Timor – Yosep Palbeno gestures furiously as he tells the story of how he was threatened by five armed East Timorese police officers.

Sian Powell and Mark Dodd – From his post high in the misty Indonesian hills of Manusasi, Indonesian First Lieutenant Sujatmin keeps watch on the international border with East Timor.

Mark Dodd – A notorious Indonesian army battalion implicated in mass killings, torture and mutilation – including the 1999 murder of a Dutch journalist – is in charge of security along

Jakarta – The governments of Indonesia and Timor Leste have agreed that neither country should use the land around disputed borders at present to avoid possible clashes among people liv

Mark Forbes Jakarta and Cynthia Banham – Indonesia and East Timor have played down border clashes involving mobs backed by Jakarta's troops, saying they could resolve the building tensi

Passabe, East Timor – Foreign Minister Josi Ramos Horta said Thursday that recent incidents on the border between East Timor and Indonesian West Timor in Dili's Oecussi enclave, were ca

Mark Dodd – A mob backed by Indonesian troops has crossed into East Timor, attacked a border patrol and set fire to buildings, threatening the fragile peace between the two nations.

Cynthia Banham – An East Timorese human rights group that criticised the Federal Government over its negotiations with the fledgling nation on maritime boundaries has been stripped of i

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – Since its inception two months ago, the Commission of Truth and Friendship has reported no progress in its mission to identify those responsible for past

Dili – The first newspaper to be published in East Timor's two official languages – Tetum and Portuguese – has ceased publication after failing to achieve sufficiently high circulation.

Reporter: Nick McKenzie

Sydney – It's been 30 years since five Australia-based newsmen were gunned down in the East Timorese border town of Balibo.

The family of a Scots journalist brutally murdered in a war zone are demanding that Tony Blair helps them get justice – 30 years after his death.

Max Lane – An eight-month election process for village councils has finished in East Timor.

Dili – Indonesia and its former territory East Timor may seek foreign funding for their Commission of Truth and Friendship investigating past bloodshed, East Timor's Foreign Minister Jo

Dili – President Xanana Gusmco told lawmakers in East Timor Monday to make fuller use of their constitutional rights to challenge in parliament the actions of the Dili government.

Six years ago today, Australian armed forces lead a multinational peacekeeping force (INTERFET) to East Timor to restore order and provide security for the transition to independence, b

Sydney – East Timorese president Xanana Gusmao says pursuing Indonesian generals through the courts for atrocities committed years ago won't provide justice.

Jill Jolliffe – A witness to the killing of five journalists in Balibo, East Timor, in 1975 has died in Dili months before a new inquiry by the NSW Coroner's Court.

Ellen Nakashima, Liquica – On the day he disappeared, Jacinto da Costa Canisio Pereira, a local resistance leader, stood in a priest's bedroom and prayed, his brother recalled.

Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of a former police officer charged with gross human rights violations in connection with two massacres in East Timor in 1999

Marguerita Choy, Paris – Australia expects to finalise a deal with East Timor in the next few months that will split the revenue from the disputed Greater Sunrise gas field, a governmen

Nigel Wilson – A technical argument about what activities may occur between the sea bed and the surface of the joint petroleum development area in the Timor Sea is now believed to be th

Dili – The top two leaders of East Timor on Monday separately said that, should the need arise, they were ready to appear in international courts judging past human rights violations.

This is a powerful and moving reminder of the horrors visited on East Timor, a tiny scrap of land that was exploited and neglected by its Portuguese colonisers for 420 years, repeatedly

Speaking after the sixth anniversary of East Timor's referendum on independence, Timor Sea Justice Campaign co-ordinator Tom Clarke, labelled the Australian Government's current obsessi

Tom Allard – Indonesia's intelligence services recruited a senior, long-serving Australian spy whose role as a double agent was eventually unearthed but did not lead to prosecution, a n

In the last of his series on East Timor, Simon Montlake looks at the Thorny topic of oil and gas

Robin Perry and Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson – On August 11, the governments of Indonesia and East Timor formally launched the joint Truth and Friendship Commission at its headquarters on t

Six years ago this month the Indonesian military unleashed its militia killers on East Timor, creating carnage that shocked the world and saw Australia intervene to drive them out.

His Excellency Kofi Annan
Secretary-General
The United Nations
1 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017-3515

August 22, 2005

As details begin to emerge of the proposed deal between East Timor and Australia on how to divvy up the Greater Sunrise gas field located twice as close to East Timor than Australia, it

Amnesty International is deeply concerned that the Security Council continues to delay consideration of a detailed United Nations (UN) report on the prosecution of serious violations of

Nigel Wilson – East Timor has launched an international campaign to attract explorers to the Timor Sea in areas not in dispute with Australia.

Michael McKenna – Allegations of corruption against East Timor's Government were largely unfounded and based on rumour, according to its Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos Horta.

Denpasar – The leaders of Indonesia and East Timor launched a truth commission into the violence that marred the push for independence in what is now the world's youngest nation.

Sibylle Kaczorek, Sydney – On August 2, Sister Susan Connelly, assistant director of the Mary MacKillop Institute for East Timor Studies, said that "fairness" should be the overarching

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Kuta – The truth commission looking into Jakarta's bloody handling of East Timor's push for independence has a tough job ahead of it, the chairman of the newly established body said Fri

Indonesia and East Timor have formally opened a truth commission to look into Jakarta's bloody handling of Timor's independence vote in 1999.

Dili – East Timorese Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta has said he is convinced that none of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members would accept the presence of an Internati

Jakarta – A number of non-government organisations (NGOs) have declared their opposition to the formation of the Indonesia-East Timor Truth and Friendship Commission (KPP).

Max Lane – East Timor's local elections are now in their eighth month.

Jon Lamb – On July 25, Lieutenant Colonel Lance Collins, a leading intelligence expert on East Timor and Indonesia, blew the whistle on the Australian Defence Force's intelligence manip