So that has been a failure.” Map locates East Timor. While politically motivated violence followed independence, including an assassination attempt on Mr. Ramos-Horta in 2008, during his first ...

A high-stakes legal battle spanning nearly a decade sees Australian energy company Lighthouse Corporation suing Timor-Leste for $523 million, while the nation hits back with explosive fraud ...

Vietnam's foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin, where it shares a maritime border with China, which it said on Friday was to help protect and enforce its ...

As Timor-Leste seeks ASEAN membership, its success depends on balancing economic modernisation, foreign policy independence ...

After Portugal's rule ended in 1975, Indonesia invaded, occupying the country in an often bloody 24 years before ...

East Timor is Asia’s youngest country, and its poorest, having gained independence in 2002 after a brutal Indonesian occupation. The country’s economy relies heavily on oil and gas revenue ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

New modelling has found that Finder Energy’s Kuda Tasi and Jahal oilfields could flow up to 40,000 barrels of oil ... Read ...

People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

February 17, 2025 • An Israeli delegation is in Cairo to hash out details for the second phase of a ceasefire deal with Hamas. February 17, 2025 • After meetings in Israel, Secretary of State ...

Timor-Leste’s tourism industry offers investment opportunities in hospitality, eco-tourism, and infrastructure.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Hamas after they returned the bodies of two young Israeli hostages, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, who were killed along with their mother. The incident ...