East Timor News

Complaints of human rights abuses by East Timor 's fledgling national police have shown a "notable increase" over the past year, the United Nations says.

AUSTRALIA should allow East Timorese guest workers into the country, a Timorese government official said.

But how and why has East Timor - a land of subsistence agriculturalists and one of the world's poorest nations- been turned into a net food importer? And what is the future of East Timor's agriculture? The ...

EVIDENCE has emerged that challenges the belief that East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta was shot by a member of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado's gang.

"The process of creating the CTF did not follow the Constitution of Timor-Leste because the agreement signed by the presidents of Timor-Leste and Indonesia was not ratified by the national parliament of ...

QUESTIONS have been raised as to whether rebel leader Alfredo Reinado was lured down from the mountains of East Timor to be executed after it emerged he was shot dead at almost point-blank range inside the home ...

Between the Beijing Olympics, Russia's impromptu invasion of Georgia, and the Zimbabwean presidential crisis, it's easy for lesser-known countries to fall through the cracks of mainstream media.

The Defence and Foreign Affairs Ministers are awaiting briefings on new and possibly dangerous developments in East Timor.

The President of Timor Leste, His Excellency, Jose Ramos-Horta, arrived for a four-day state visit.

By RONNIEL C. DE GUZMAN Swiss Federation President Pascal Couchepin and Timor Leste President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta arrived yesterday at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on ...

EAST Timor was in turmoil when Colonel Neo Kian Hong led 250 Singapore soldiers to help a multinational force restore order on the island.

DILI - The United Nations urged on Thursday East Timor not to let those responsible for bloodshed surrounding Dili's 1999 independence vote from Indonesia off the hook, pledging to provide support ...

EAST Timor could win a last-minute place in an Australian pilot program for guest workers after Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao wrote to his Australian counterpart urging that his country be included.

CANBERRA, Australia : East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has defended his decision to pardon a notorious Timorese militia leader, saying it was unfair to keep him in prison while Indonesians responsible for ...

AN OFFER by a notorious Jakarta gangster to develop the site of a refugee camp in Dili has been accepted by the East Timor Government.

East Timor has inaugurated its first ever national park in a move to protect and preserve 123,000 hectares of land and sea on the eastern tip of the island.

Australian Paul Stewart was just 15 when Indonesian soldiers murdered his cameraman brother in East Timor.

Organisers say the Uplift Fiji program gives women dignity Audio: Charity bra program under the spotlight A charity program sending bras to women in developing nations has provoked debate about what is ...

A trek through East Timor to commemorate the experiences of Australia's World War II commando forces and remember the role East Timorese locals played has just been completed.

Streets in East Timor's sleepy capital Dili were closed today for a movie recreation of Indonesia's bloody 1975 invasion.