hosted United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to mark the 25th anniversary of a U.N.-backed referendum that led to East Timor’s independence from neighboring Indonesia in 2002.

A video of people gathered for Pope Francis’ visit to East Timor in 2024 was shared with false captions saying that it showed ongoing protests in Turkey against President Tayyip Erdogan in March ...

hosted United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to mark the 25th anniversary of a U.N.-backed referendum that led to East Timor’s independence from neighboring Indonesia in 2002.

East Timor became, for all intents and purposes, a U.N. protectorate governed by a special representative of the secretary-general with close to absolute powers. The first regulation adopted by ...

East Timor was a further stage in the shift to the right among the middle-class “left” groups, who openly embraced imperialism under the banner of “human rights.” On the basis of Leon ...

Brunei, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia joined in the following years. East Timor was granted observer status in Asean after its secession from Indonesia in 2002, with the bloc in 2022 ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia--East Timor is at an energy development crossroads. While the small Southeast Asian nation — and one of the world’s youngest countries — has made international and ...

The liberation of East Timor pushed Australia and Indonesia to the brink of confrontation, but diplomacy and a peacekeeping mission led to the birth of a nation. People involved talk about the lasting ...

Fatima Payman says her party will be “fairer and more inclusive”; Gas project matter of economic survival for Timor-Leste. How the day unfolded. A former refugee carried out of East Timor on ...