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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…
Read MoreThousands 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…
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreACT 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…
Read MoreCountry’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, …
Read MoreAt 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…
Read MoreDozens 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 …
Read MoreDeath 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 …
Read MoreOfficial 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…
Read MoreFormer president says Australia and Timor-Leste should put the bugging scandal behind themThe former Timor-Leste president José Ramos-Horta has urged Australia to show wisdom, honesty and compassion by stopping the unfair prosecution of Witness K and B…
Read MoreWith not enough workers to pick the upcoming harvest, Australia faces potential food shortages, and its farmers face economic devastationAs Victoria’s Covid-19 outbreak threatens to spiral out of control and beyond its borders, Australia faces another …
Read MoreCharges against Bernard Collaery and his retired Asis agent client confirm the government has few regrets about an exploitative exercise against a friendly neighbourIn the first week of January 2019, a private jet landed at Presidente Nicolau Lobato In…
Read MoreTaur Matan Ruak offers to step down as southeast Asian nation faces new political instabilityThe prime minister of Timor-Leste has sent a letter of resignation to the president, after the collapse of a coalition supporting him in parliament, plunging t…
Read MoreSenate inquiry told Australia should also drop prosecution of Witness K and Bernard CollaeryAustralia’s negotiations with Timor-Leste should be the subject of a royal commission, and the government should return $5bn unfairly taken from the impoverishe…
Read MoreThe deadly virus wreaking havoc in Asia has been detected in Timor-Leste, just 680km north of DarwinOne month ago a particularly virulent strain of African swine fever – which has been wreaking havoc in Asia since it was detected in China last year and…
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