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Timor Leste should form its anti-corruption commission soon to support the economy and maintain people's trust in the half-island nation, President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Saturday. The Nobel laureate said at a military event that fighting graft was an important...

WaterAid Australia estimates more than 1000 children die from diarrhoea in East Timor each year and poor sanitation is a reason for this. Its chief executive, Adam Laidlaw, says diarrhoea rates can be cut by more than a third when...

More than 150,000 Timorese were displaced in the 2006 crisis, and several thousand more in a second round of political violence in 2007. Because of her husband’s political affiliation, Natercia Martins, 34, was driven from her home in Ermera District...

Since formal independence in 2002, Timor-Leste's post-occupation generation has struggled to find work. While most of the population of 1.1 million is engaged in subsistence farming, unemployment in urban Dili peaks at about 40 percent among the youth, according to...

Pramono Edi Wibowo – to obtain visas to accompany President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to the Sept. 23-Oct. 1, 2009 Group of 20 Summit in Pittsburgh, the United States, was a slap in our government’s face, as it was unable to...

The celebrated Australian journalist, author and filmmaker will be presented with the Sydney Peace Foundation award on Wednesday. In announcing the award in August, Sydney Peace Foundation Professor Stuart Rees said the jury was impressed by Mr Pilger's courage as...