THE Timor-Leste government and Zchwantech Sdn Bhd, a leading Malaysian technology architecture firm, recently announced a ...

One of the more interesting sessions presented at the recent Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston focused on the tiny Indian Ocean nation of Timor-Leste, featuring the President and CEO of ...

East Timor could be bankrupt within a decade unless it takes urgent action to diversify its economy and reassess its fixation with mega-petroleum projects East Timor was once seen as the poster child ...

One of the final initiatives of the Biden administration in the United States was the announcement of the first vision statement that outlined the priorities of the Department of Defense in Southeast ...

Over the years, Timor-Leste has made its intention to join ASEAN clear, and it appears to be employing a non-confrontational approach to achieve this goal. The abstention vote was an example of this ...

Responding to these challenges, a two-day workshop on Ecohydrology and Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management in Timor-Leste, was held in Dili on 25–26 November 2025. It has set the stage for ...

Pope Francis will land in Dili, the capital city of East Timor, on Monday in the third stop on a Sept. 2–13 trip to four countries in Southeast Asia and Oceania. One of the world’s newest nations — it ...

Upon his arrival in the Catholic island of East Timor on Monday, Pope Francis entrusted the new country to the Blessed Virgin Mary, “I entrust East Timor and all its people to the protection of the ...

Domingos Pinto Gabrial, also known as Berliku, was a 19-year-old school teacher in the northeastern city of Baucau when Indonesian forces invaded East Timor in December 1975. He joined many young ...

LABUAN BAJO – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak made his debut appearance at the Asean Summit on Wednesday, pledging to undertake the steps in a road map towards full Asean membership for his ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Amidst the past two weeks of celebrations for Timor-Leste’s 25th anniversary of ...