Timor-Leste’s long-awaited accession to ASEAN reflects Southeast Asia’s recognition of the potential in its developmental ...

Amidst the past two weeks of celebrations for Timor-Leste’s 25th anniversary of the referendum that ultimately won them independence ... than ten tourists per day. On one of the times I ...

BANGKOK: May 20, marks a significant milestone in South-East Asia as the people of Timor-Leste proudly ... voted for independence. May 20, 2002, therefore represents the historic day when the ...

On behalf of the people of the United States of America, I congratulate you as Timor-Leste celebrates its 23rd Restoration of Independence Day. Throughout Timor-Leste’s history, our two nations ...

Timor Leste formally gained its independence after 400 years of Portuguese rule and 25 years of Indonesian occupation, becoming the first new sovereign state of the 21st century. That same day ...

imor-Leste's ... legacy of the independence vote was a positive one. "We are happy because the decisions that we gave have resulted in good things and justice for the people of Timor-Leste ...

By people who risked everything to see independence realised," Guterres told the Timorese parliament in Dili on Friday morning, in remarks provided by the U.N. "But if Timor-Leste received a lot ...

Timor-Leste was a Portuguese colony until 1975, when the Carnation Revolution spurred Lisbon to divest its overseas territories. But it was just nine days after formal independence that Indonesia ...

Dili – Roman Catholic devotees have been clamouring to see Pope Francis before his arrival in Timor-Leste’s capital on ... preparations for his three-day visit were in full swing, with Vatican ...

Just under 700 kilometres south of the island, Darwin became a major hub for pro-independence ... in Timor Leste on August 30, 1999. Several polling booth officials were killed on the day, but ...