David Kennedy, Jakarta – When Kirsty Sword Gusmao stepped off the plane from Dili this week to launch her autobiography in Jakarta, she must have given a little smile.

Mark Dodd – An Australian businessman has been hounded out of East Timor by anti-Australian sentiment whipped up by claims that Canberra is ripping a $1 billion oil and gas bonanza off

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The notorious former East Timorese militia leader Joao Tavares has again been forced to leave a border town near his old homeland where he was living in breach

A former East Timor governor sentenced for human rights abuses will be housed in a prison cell with an en suite bathroom because of his service to the Indonesian nation, reports say.

Kupang – The Commander of Korem [Military Sub-Area Command] 161/Wirasakti Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), Col M Moesanip was of the opinion that East Timor's separation from Indonesi

Timothy Mapes and Patrick Barta, Dili – Tiny East Timor fought for nearly a quarter of a century to free itself from Indonesian invaders.

It's hard enough being the mother of two young boys let alone the Mother of the Nation.

Sian Powell, Jakarta – The acquittal of an Indonesian military commander accused of human rights breaches in East Timor in 1999 has been upheld by the Supreme Court in Jakarta, promptin

Brendan Nicholson – Australian authorities may have charged an SAS soldier for allegedly kicking the body of an Indonesian soldier in East Timor because they did not want to worsen rela

Veronica Brooks, Canberra – The World Bank's representative in East Timor, Elisabeth Huybens, is keeping a watchful eye on the protracted maritime border dispute playing out between Can

Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld a special court ruling acquitting a former military commander in East Timor of gross human rights violations in East Timor in 1999, when its people

John Phaceas, Perth – Woodside Petroleum might have to defer its Sunrise gas project for at least five years – costing it billions in delayed revenue – if the impasse over Timor Sea pro

A small group of protestors is rallying outside an international oil and gas conference in the northern Australian city of Darwin, angry over Australia's treatment of East Timor in natu

Darwin – A US oil company challenged East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri to appear in a US court to respond to allegations that he accepted a multi-million dollar bribe from a ri

Dili – A US-based rights group denounced Australia yesterday, saying Canberra should be "ashamed" for allegedly robbing East Timor of much-needed oil and gas revenues from the disputed

Lisbon/Portugal – East Timor said today it is willing to reach a compromise with Australia to solve a long-running territorial dispute over seabed oil and natural gas deposits between t

Twelve-year-old Julmira Babo collapsed unconscious while playing outside in her village in East Timor's Ermera district.

Catherine Best – Jose Ramos-Horta exudes a warmth and charisma that belies his nation's bloody struggle for independence.

Denpasar – East Timor Attorney General Longuinhos Monteiro denied reports that his government had closed its investigation into the alleged involvement of former Indonesian military chi

It may not have quite the power of the image of Nelson Mandela applauding his former jailer, F.W.

Dili – East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao returned home Monday from a weekend meeting with former Indonesian military chief General Wiranto to face dozens of angry demonstrators, dem

Rowan Callick – Two years after guiding his country to independence, East Timor's Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos-Horta, is struggling to contain issues that threaten to set the impoverish

Nigel Wilson – Australia could face a compensation claim from East Timor for up to $US6 billion ($8.4 billion) because Australia did not halt production in the disputed oil fields of th

Pamela Bone – Australia gives to poor countries with one hand and takes back with the other.

Lenore Taylor – Woodside Petroleum is increasingly wedged between a rock and a hard place as its multibillion-dollar Greater Sunrise joint venture becomes the bargaining chip in an incr

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao has publicly embraced the man accused of responsibility for the deaths of 1500 East Timorese.

East Timor's Foreign Minister on Sunday criticized his head of state's meeting with an Indonesian presidential candidate indicted for war crimes for his role in the killing of some 1,50

Dili – Peacekeepers marked their withdrawal from Timor Leste yesterday, winding down a nearly five-year mission that ended Indonesia's brutal occupation and oversaw the birth of the wor

Jakarta – Despite strong opposition from a senior minister, East Timor President Xanana Gusmao is being firm in his decision to go ahead with a scheduled Saturday meeting in Bali with p

Sian Powell – For the East Timorese, it's simple.

Dennis Shanahan – In a David and Goliath scenario, a row over oil revenues is threatening relations between Australia and its struggling neighbour East Timor

Richard Ackland – "After all we've done for them," moaned Alexander Downer, the Foreign Minister, on Four Corners a couple of Mondays ago.

Jon Lamb – Solidarity protests took place across Australia on May 20, the second anniversary of East Timor's independence.

[The following is abridged from a statement issued on May 20 by the Movement Against the Occupation of the Timor Sea (MKOTT).]

Dear Australian people,

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Denpasar – Around 300 former refugees of Balinese descent stayed overnight in tents at Niti Mandala square in front of the Bali governor's office on Tuesday, deman

Dennis Shanahan – Australia has pressured the leadership of the fledgling state of East Timor, warning it that more public attacks over oil rights could severely damage the relationship

Sister Susan Connelly This anniversary is tinged with a lot of embarrassment for us as Australians.

Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – Officially it was a day of celebration, but there was an undertone of pessimism at ceremonies in Dili last Thursday marking East Timor's second independence anni

East Timor's independence hero is furious with Australia, he tells Peter Hartcher in Dili.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao says he has told his country's top law officer it is not in East Timor's interests to try to prosecute Indonesia's former m

Australia, already exploiting the wealth of the Timor Sea, has bright prospects of much more to come.

Jakarta – The Supreme Court said on Monday it upheld a conviction of crimes against humanity by a special tribunal against three Indonesians officials for their roles in the church kill

Sian Powell, Jakarta – Backs straight, arms swinging, faces set: the East Timorese troops and police officers marched slowly past the assembled dignitaries at this week's independence c

A Central Sydney rally has called on the Australian Government to give East Timor its fair share of revenue from Timor Sea oil and gas reserves.

Dili – Both East Timor and Indonesia are "on alert" for any resurgence of anti-independence militia activity following Dili's assumption of full security control from the United Nations

John McBeth, Dili – When the clock strikes midnight on May 19, genuine independence will remain elusive for East Timor.

Eleanor Hall: Today marks two years since the creation of the world's newest nation, East Timor.

Eleanor Hall: The Oxfam Community Aid Abroad report into East Timor is highly critical of the Australian Government, particularly its approach to the Timor Sea oil and gas fields.

Peter Kammerer – East Timor remains among the world's poorest and least developed nations on the second anniversary of independence, but observers are not as gloomy about its future as

Dili – East Timor celebrated its second anniversary Thursday while its leaders called for patience in the face of a sputtering economy and a declining UN presence in Asia's poorest nati