GENEVA, Dec. 30 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency today (Monday) said East Timorese who fled to West Timor amid the violence that followed the 1999 pro-independence referendum will formally cease to be ...

DILI, East Timor, May 3 (UNHCR) - Less than three weeks before Independence Day, refugees from East Timor are rushing home to become full-fledged citizens of the world's youngest nation. In the weeks ...

East Timor – It is a quiet afternoon in Lospalos. Just the clucking of chickens, the grunt of a pig and in the distance, a transistor radio playing Portuguese reggaeton; a typical small-town ...

Since emerging from decades of brutal occupation in 2002, East Timor has made huge strides, but it still faces stubborn problems - Copyright AFP Yasuyoshi CHIBA Since ...

DILI (Reuters) - Former East Timor independence fighter Jose Maria de Vasconcelos has been elected president, a post vital to promoting stability in Asia's newest and one of its poorest countries.

DILI, East Timor — Pope Francis received a raucous welcome Monday as he arrived in East Timor to celebrate its recovery from a bloody and traumatic independence battle, even as he indirectly ...

Amidst the past two weeks of celebrations for Timor-Leste’s 25th anniversary of the referendum that ultimately won them independence—despite fierce and violent opposition from some Indonesian forces ...

The Southeast Asian nation of Timor-Leste and the East African state of Mozambique are about 10,000 kilometers apart, yet their history is unusually connected. The two former Portuguese colonies are ...