East Timor has long argued the border should sit halfway between it and Australia, placing most of the Greater Sunrise oil and gas field in their territory. In 2004 East Timor started negotiating ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Australia and East Timor signed a historic treaty drawing their maritime boundary Tuesday, ending years of bitter wrangling over billions of dollars of oil and gas riche… ...

In the eight years after 2002, Australia is spending $40 million on East Timor's police and justice system. Only $3.4 million will be spent over five years on health, and $7.5 million on rural ...

East Timor prefers processing the gas for export in Dili; the Australians and project developer Woodside have opted for a more self-beneficial floating platform.

State-owned Timor Gap owns a 56.6% stake in the field located about 140 km (87 miles) south of East Timor, while Australia's Woodside owns 33.4% and Osaka Gas holds 10%.

East Timor is confident the Australian government will support plans for gas from the massive Greater Sunrise offshore field to be processed in Timor rather than Darwin, the country's petroleum ...

CANBERRA, Australia—East Timor has launched another legal salvo at Australia in its long-running dispute over access to lucrative undersea oil-and-gas fields between the two countries, demanding ...

The government of East Timor, which won its independence from Indonesia in 2002 after decades of war, has reached a deal with Australia over maritime oil rights that could ease the country's ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — East Timor and Australia opened conciliation talks Monday in their bitter legal battle to set a permanent maritime boundary that will carve up billions of ...

Australia and East Timor will sign a treaty that draws the first-ever maritime border between the neighbors, resolving years of bitter wrangling with a deal that carves up billions of dollars of ...

East Timor and Australia signed a treaty at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday to resolve a long-running dispute over their maritime border and struck a deal on how to share revenue from ...