International troops stepped up patrols in East Timor’s capital, Dili, on Tuesday as President Jose Ramos-Horta recuperated in Australia after an assassination bid doctors said…
Rebel soldiers shot East Timor President and Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta in the stomach at his home in Dili on Monday, while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped injury in…
It has pristine beaches, lush highlands and an exotic cultural mix — and lies just a few hours’ flight east of the Indonesian resort island of Bali. But currently almost the only…
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Jose Ramos-Horta pledged to unite troubled East Timor on Thursday after the former resistance leader clinched the election as President of one of the…
Portuguese is one of the two official languages in East Timor, but you can hardly hear it spoken in the streets of the young nation. The tiny country was a Portuguese colony for…
Voters in East Timor cast their ballots on Monday in a presidential election they hope will pull them from a cycle of violence and political tension that has paralysed efforts to…
East Timor’s Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, widely blamed for triggering last month’s bloody unrest, resigned on Monday in a move expected to ease tensions in the impoverished…
East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, blamed by opponents for violence that gripped the tiny nation last month, huddled with senior members of his party as his fate hung in…
A political solution to the violence in East Timor could take weeks to be hammered out, Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta warned on Monday as the United Nations readied an aid…
Australian troops fired teargas at rampaging gangs in East Timor on Monday, trying to keep a lid on violence as the tiny nation’s Parliament met for the first time since…
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer held crisis talks on Saturday with the leaders of East Timor, trying to end the worst violence here since the tiny nation split from…
East Timor’s capital was returning to normal on Friday after Australian troops took to the streets to restore order and stop bloody clashes between the Timorese military and…
The house, on the outskirts of East Timor’s capital, was turned into a mere shell. The six people inside — five women and a child — were little more than burnt and broken…
Blood-spattered bullet cases, boots and communication radios lay scattered on the street outside the justice ministry in Dili, East Timor on Thursday as the East Timorese capital…
Eleven-year-old Nuno de Oliveira intently watches a late afternoon football match on a muddy, barely marked field in East Timor’s capital. One day, he hopes to don the red and…
After more than 450 years of oppressive foreign rule, East Timor is preparing a huge party to celebrate its accession to nationhood.
Tens of thousands of East Timorese — dancing, cheering, brushing away tears and hugging each other — greeted independence early on Monday with a huge surge of emotion.
Newly independent East Timor urged former ruler Indonesia to drop its compensation demand for assets left behind after Jakarta ended its two-decade occupation of the country.
