Step Vaessen – In 1999, after East Timor voted to reject Indonesian rule, the region was plunged into violence.

Two dozen inmates escaped from an East Timor prison on Sunday by beating up wardens and fleeing through the main gate as they returned to their cells after mass, an official said.

Tom Benner, Dili, East Timor – The 2014 budget unveiled last week by tiny East Timor is a $1.5 billion spending plan funded almost exclusively – 95 percent – by lucrative oil and gas re

John Aglionby – Florindo Araujo is certain that Sander Thoenes was still alive when he last saw the Financial Times journalist.

An historic congress of Timor-Leste journalists held in Dili recently voted for their first code of ethics and a seven-member press council.

Step Vaessen – Everything seems easier in my role as a journalist; I handle the death, pain, danger and even murder I encounter scarily well.

Thomas Ora, Dili – Like many of his Timor Leste colleagues, Fernando da Costa, an elementary school teacher in the mountainous district of Aileu, has struggled to learn Portuguese.

Ezequiel Freitas – The Asia Foundation is concerned about the government's decentralization program to be implemented in the districts because the program does not value the agriculture

Venidora Oliveira – The Rural Women's Group in Baucau district have complained about the Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equality's programs, which are just implemented at the d

Venidora Oliveira – A Member of National Parliament strongly criticized the company Estrada Bo'ot Diak for constructing poor quality roads that are damaged a year after being built.

Charlie Campbell – In East Timor, families have learned to dread the onset of November.

Tom Benner – There is a free health clinic in Dili, the capital of Asia's newest and poorest country, Timor-Leste, that treats some 400 people a day.

Mary O'Shea – Armindo de Deus has worked all his life as a coffee farmer in the Ermera district of Timor-Leste. He is a wiry, weather-beaten man with darting, milky eyes.

Alison Bevege – Energy giant Santos has given the green light to expand its Bayu Undan gas project in the Timor Sea and has increased its gas exports from Darwin's Wickham Point LNG pla

Ashlee Betteridge – The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) was released last week, and while most countries in the region had demonstrated a marked improvement in hunger levels since the 20

Emelyn Rude – In 2007, despite mounting civil unrest, Timor-Leste established its first National Park connecting a number of endangered bird areas and encompassing a large section of th

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Tom Benner, Dili, East Timor – East Timor's government has come under renewed public criticism after granting a contract to a Chinese state-owned company to supply furniture to Timorese

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – Commander of 743/PSY Infantry Battalion of Boundary Security Task Force in Indonesia-Timor Leste border, Major Budi Prasetyo said the situation at the borde

Tom Benner, Dili, East Timor – Media in this young democracy in Southeast Asia suffer from a lack of professionalism, accuracy, and ethics, argue proponents of new legislation that woul

The East Timor Judicial System Monitoring Program has released the English translation of its report and commentary on a recent case of incest in the Dili District Court.

Mary O'Shea – Eleven years after independence, the array of socioeconomic challenges facing Timor-Leste remains significant.

Today, on the 38th anniversary of the murder of the Balibo Five in East Timor, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is launching a campaign highlighting impunity over the killin

Taur Matan Ruak goes to extraordinary lengths to hear the ordinary concerns of his people.

Paulina Quintao – The National Director for Civil Registries in Dili District Vitor da Costa Neto says the system of issuing identity cards to the community has stopped running.

Wei Du, Baucau – Timor Leste is rethinking how it educates its younger generation. At the centre of the issue is what language medium to use in schools.

There's concern in East Timor that a recent ban on martial arts clubs could be pushing young people into the grip of organised crime.

Bacau – To diversify its economy, Timor Leste has identified tourism and agriculture as two key industries.

Paulina Quintao – The Commissioner of the Public Service Disciplinary Process Alexandre Corte Real said the majority of public servants who committed irregularities came from the Minist

A newspaper in East Timor has reported comments by a local citizen expressing fears of foreign domination in the economy and land particularly by Chinese and Indonesian investors.

Peter Lloyd: New light is being shed on Australia's preparedness to challenge Indonesia over its actions in East Timor after the invasion back in 1975.

James Bennett – Malcolm Fraser has acknowledged newly obtained diplomatic cables from the period after Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 suggest his government was warned of a loomin

Key Australian government officials sounded early warnings about the rapidly deteriorating situation in East Timor in the late 1970s that led to the starvation deaths of an estimated 10

Kuala Lumpur – Timor Leste has expressed its wish to be associated with the Malaysian Parliamentary Friend to facilitate better cooperation between the two countries.

Kuala Lumpur – Timor Leste has expressed the desire to emulate Malaysia in developing its infrastructure.

The exhumation of 17 people executed by the Indonesian military in 1984 in Fatudere, Adarai village of Uatolari (Viqueque).

The East Timor Judicial System Monitoring Program has released the English translation of its report on observations of a trial in the Dili District Court concerning alleged crimes agai

Havana, Cuba – The President of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, Taur Matan Ruak, placed a wreath on Friday by the Monument to National Hero Jose Marti located at the capital's Re

Otniel Tamindael, Jakarta – Most of the basic necessities for the people of Timor Leste, formerly known as East Timor, are sourced from Indonesia.

Fundasaun Mahein has released the English translation of its report and recommendations on international defence cooperation. The text of the translation follows.

Havana – In a bilateral meeting with his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, last Friday in Havana (or Saturday morning in Timor-Leste), H.E.

Lily Partland – Anne Stewart's world changed in 1975 when her brother Tony was killed – along with four other Australian-based journalists – by Indonesian troops as they invaded East Ti

Jakarta – Senior officials from Indonesia, Timor Leste and Australia held a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 68th United Nations General Assembly, in a bid to enhance connecti

Havana – The President of Timor-Leste, Taur Matan Ruak, will arrive in this capital today, after attending the UN General Assembly, in which he condemned the US blockade against this co

Dili – East Timor police say there will be zero tolerance against those who continue to practice a local martial art after the government banned all clubs following deadly gang violence

Arno Maierbrugger, Singapore – A Southeast Asian country quite off the radar of the international community is East Timor.

Oecusse, Timor Leste – Timor Leste Home Affairs Minister Jorge da Conceicao Teme has expressed his hope that brotherly relations with Indonesia, particularly with the people of West Tim

Jakarta – Indonesia concluded the second batch of training program intended to hone up the skill of Timor Leste officials in carrying out Environment Feasibility Assessment (AMDAL) esse

Paulina Quintao – The Advocacy Manager of the Women's Communication Forum Timor-Leste (FOKUPERS) Honorio Lopes said the language used in the song was an insult to women.

Ina Parlina, Dili, Timor Leste – Tito Filipe, 30, started as a reporter in Dili, Timor Leste, when he was 21 just after he finished high school.