カテゴリー: Timor-Leste
Victory gives 72-year-old his second term as president of south-east Asia’s youngest countryThe Nobel prize winner José Ramos-Horta has scored a landslide victory in Timor-Leste’s presidential election, according to preliminary results published by the…
Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta the frontrunner in a ballot widely seen as key to the nation’s political stabilityAsia’s youngest nation of Timor-Leste will hold the second and final round of its presidential election on Tuesday, with Nobel laureate Jo…
Senator Rex Patrick says release of decades-old cabinet papers won’t further damage Timor relationship after spying and prosecution of Witness K and Bernard CollaeryGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingFollow our Australia news live blo…
Documentary-maker who captured East Timor atrocities on film and left behind his earlier career as a Blue Peter presenterThe documentary-maker Max Stahl, who has died of throat cancer aged 66, exposed the atrocities of the Indonesian government in East…
Request prompts renewed criticism from human rights advocates, who say loss of open justices erodes public confidenceGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingLawyers for the attorney general, Michaelia Cash, are arguing behind closed doors …
World Vision report says widespread loss of income and families having fewer meals are seriously affecting children’s healthSee all our coronavirus coverageThe loss of work and skyrocketing food prices, brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, could lea…
Nearly 400,000 have died since it won independence 10 years ago. Now violence looms again, within and beyond its bordersIndependence isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. Recent additions to the family of nations, such as Kosovo and East Timor (Timo…
Thousands who fled their war-torn country stand to lose their right to work, rent a home and access NHSThousands of East Timorese people who fled the country in the 1990s could lose their rights to work, rent a home or access the NHS in three days’ tim…
The trial of defrocked priest Richard Daschbach, charged with sexual abuse of 14 girls, is dividing the small, deeply Catholic countryLita grew up in a poor family in a hamlet surrounded by the spectacular mountains of Oecusse in Timor-Leste. When she …
ACT court closes hearing of appeal by lawyer representing whistleblower due to requirements of National Security Information Act A legal challenge to the secrecy of information involved in the prosecution of a lawyer for representing whistleblower Witn…
Country’s first president joins mass rally disputing government’s assertion that Armindo Borges died from coronavirusThe former prime minister of Timor-Leste Xanana Gusmão has been filmed slapping family members of a man who died in the capital, Dili, …
At least 150 people killed in Indonesia and Timor-Leste after tropical cyclone Seroja hit region In Tasitolu, a suburb in the west of the capital, Dili, Batista Elo balances his young daughter on his hip as he stands in flood waters that reach up his t…
Dozens are still missing and thousands have been left homeless after a tropical cyclone hit over the weekendAt least 157 people have been killed in Indonesia and neighbouring Timor-Leste with dozens more still missing after a tropical cyclone battered …
Death toll may rise further after torrential rain swept Indonesian archipelago and neighbouring Timor-LesteAt least 97 people been killed and dozens are missing following Tropical Cyclone Seroja, which triggered devastating flash floods and landslides …
Official development assistance declines to $4bn, boosted by $304m over two years to help region recoverAustralia will increase its aid budget to only the Pacific and Timor-Leste this year as aid and development spending to all other parts of the world…