Dili, East Timor – On the 50th anniversary of Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, longtime independence advocate and now the country’s President Jose Ramos-Horta reflected on the last half-century of ...

2025 has been a big whale tourism season in Timor-Leste; operators were fully booked during the peak season of September to December. But increasingly aggressive practices fueled by competition ...

L’Ajuntament de Barcelona ultima una campanya nadalenca que no pretén suscitar polèmiques innecessàries però sí dibuixar una postal que encaixi en certa manera amb els temps actuals. Parlem, doncs, de ...

As Indonesian warplanes flew overhead, they dropped something many in Timor-Leste had never seen. But Jose Bareto de Jesus recognised the rounded objects floating to the ground and sounded the alarm ...

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 ...

Timor-Leste and Woodside Energy (WDS) have entered a new phase of collaboration after signing a Cooperation Agreement aimed at progressing a Timor-based liquefied natural gas development model for the ...

Getting into the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is as hard as getting into heaven, says José Ramos-Horta (pictured), the president of Timor-Leste. After years in purgatory, the tiny ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations welcomed East Timor as its newest member Sunday, which its prime minister said was a “dream realized” for the tiny nation.

Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao attends the ASEAN-Canada Summit in Jakarta, Sep. 3, 2023. Credit: Media Center of The ASEAN Summit 2023/M Agung Rajasa/pras/mifta The saga of Timor-Leste’s ...

In August 2025, Indonesia began negotiations on its maritime boundary with Timor-Leste. This move represents a notable shift as Jakarta has long insisted that maritime boundaries should only be ...

A parish priest in Sydney, Jesuit Father Richard Leonard, put a note in his weekly bulletin in July about a teacher training college in neighboring Timor-Leste that needed a bus to transport students ...

The aircraft carrier George Washington is conducting search-and-rescue operations in the Timor Sea for a sailor reported missing, the U.S. Navy said Tuesday. Here, the George Washington transits while ...