Leste's government passed a 2025 budget that accelerates the country’s rush towards a fiscal cliff instead of mitigating it.

Xanana Gusmao, 75, spent more than two decades fighting for Timor-Leste’s freedom from Indonesia’s control and became the country’s first post- independence president. He was still at the ...

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Vol. 179, No. 3/4, 2023 Polygamy in Timor-Leste: From Colonial T... Polygamy in Timor-Leste: From Colonial Taxation to Post-Independence Revival This is ...

Crowds are cheering the arrival of United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who's come to help mark Timor-Leste's independence, 25 years on. Speaking at the commemoration, Timor-Leste's ...

Timor-Leste has a special relationship with the world’s second-biggest economy, China - one of the first countries to ...

Timor-Leste, which gained independence in 2002, formally applied to join ASEAN in 2011 during Ramos-Horta’s first presidency from 2007 to 2012. The journey has been a “steady one” although ...

Get away from it all on this remote, untouched Southeast Asian island lined with white-sand beaches and surrounded by diverse and rare coral reefs.

Having assumed office as Foreign Minister in July 2023, this marks Bendito Freitas's second participation in the retreat as an ASEAN observer. The AMM Retreat is the first schedul ...

Since 2007, Timor-Leste has recorded 173 crocodile attacks on humans — 78 of them fatal. That's a 23-fold increase since the island nation gained independence from Indonesia in 2002, marking a ...

The Greater Sunrise gas field in the Timor Sea is a critical project for Timor-Leste's economy and ASEAN aspirations.

Self-confessed "cricket tragic" Mark Young was in Timor Leste with the VSA, and when he saw locals playing cricket with homemade gear, he decided to do something about it.