The Trump administration's deep cuts in U.S. foreign health aid had a devastating impact. Yet there were achievements of note ...

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 ...

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 ...

DILI: At the 12 November High School in Dili, students listen attentively to a lesson about their country’s journey to independence. None of them were alive when Timor-Leste gained sovereignty in 2002 ...

DILI: Timor-Leste is accelerating efforts to improve its infrastructure, as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) newest member gears up to host its first summit for the regional ...

Wandering through the cavernous, white-tiled port building of Kupang, in Indonesia’s West Timor, you might momentarily think you’re in the maritime gateway to a much bigger place. But linger a little ...

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.

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Asean secretary-general Kao Kim Hourn present the declaration of Timor-Leste’s accession to the bloc to prime minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao. On the left is ...

Asia’s youngest country and Asean’s latest member might be small but it’s ready to get to work. We speak to president José Ramos-Horta to explore what’s next. At long last Timor-Leste has been ...