The subsequent diplomatic deadlock has left Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement, which now numbers in the millions, with scant ...

East Timor would prefer to work with Australia and partners Woodside Energy and Japan's Osaka Gas over Chinese firms that ...

Leste’s independence, the UN was a constant presence, helping to maintain peace and stability. Twenty-four years on, the ...

hosted United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to mark the 25th anniversary of a U.N.-backed referendum that led to East Timor’s independence from neighboring Indonesia in 2002.

Complex history - East Timor has a complex history marked by ... where about 98 percent of its 1.3 million people are ...

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 ...

DILI, East Timor--Former East Timor independence fighter Xanana Gusmao was sworn in Saturday as prime minister of Asia’s youngest country after his party won the parliamentary election in May.

The Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste, formerly known as East Timor, will celebrate 20 years of independence in May. The former leader who led the country in its early years spoke with ...

and then rebounding since independence in 2002. We highlight monetization as a key factor explaining both temporal and geographic variation in the practice of polygamy. Berlie, Jean A. (2000).

Opens in new window ] East Timor became the independent Republic of Democratic Timor-Leste in 1999, with a vote for independence of 78.5 per cent. Adding to the 186,000 already dead victims of the ...

DILI (Reuters) - East Timor would prefer to work with Australia ... also known as Timor-Leste, which gained independence from Indonesia in 2002. "Our government is open to listening to other ...