Australia’s parliament voted Monday to implement a maritime border treaty with East Timor, potentially unlocking billions in offshore oil and gas revenue after a bitter decade-long dispute. The treaty ...

Plenty of teenagers worry about what they will do when they leave school. Erna Lay worries more about where she will be. The 15-year-old worries so much, says elder sister Ervina, that she can barely ...

Australian foreign policy and military strategists have sounded the alarm over a new strategic partnership agreed to by the leaders of East Timor and China. East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — East Timor is asking the United Nations’ highest court to order Australia to turn over documents and data its agents seized from the impoverished nation’s lawyer last ...

THE CRISIS in East Timor penetrated the headlines of the U.S. media only after tens of thousands of people fled street violence in the capital of Dili and the government invited nearby Australia to ...