East Timor is a poor and underdeveloped nation with 42% of its population living below the poverty line. Despite that, its ...

In September, a visit by Pope Francis briefly put East Timor in the global spotlight. About 97 percent of the population identifies as Roman Catholic, a legacy of the Portuguese colonizers and ...

An estimated 600,000 people – almost half of East Timor’s population – gathered in a seaside park on Tuesday for Mass led by the Pope. The service was held on the same field where Pope John ...

Around 600,000 people out of a population of 1.3 million attended ... Colonel Domingos Soares, a commander of East Timor-Leste's military, told AFP 4,000 soldiers and police officers were deployed ...

Recovery was slow after East Timor gained formal independence in 2002. By 2015, just 60% of the population had access to electricity, according to the World Bank. Efforts to electrify the country ...

On October 19, the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly voted to accept the results of the August 30 referendum in which close to 80 percent of East Timor's population had voted to separate ...

East Timor was a further stage in the shift to ... which refused to defend the population against the onslaught of the Indonesian-backed militia. The CNRT leaders instead used the civilian deaths ...

Australia's Prime Minister and the leaders of ASEAN member states and East Timor pose for a family photo at the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit, in Melbourne on March 5, 2024 [File: Reuteres/Jaimi ...

Baucau is the second-largest city in East Timor, after Dili, the capital, which lies 122 km east of Dili. Baucau has about 16,000 inhabitants, and is the capital of Baucau, located in the eastern part ...