On May 20, 2002, Timor-Leste was internationally recognized as an independent state. In March of 2006, a military strike led to violence and a near breakdown of law and order.

Getting to Timor-Leste isn't easy. When I was traveling, Bali, Indonesia, and Darwin, Australia, were the only cities with flights to Dili, the capital, where the country's only international airport.

East Timor or Timor-Leste's road to independence - achieved on 20 May 2002 - was long and traumatic. The people of the first new nation of the century suffered some of the worst atrocities of ...

Asia’s youngest country, Timor-Leste, is taking in more investments, yet national budget is imploding because of its leading-edge development projects, or “hot zones”. This article will ...

Tiny East Timor is surrounded by some of the most magnificent and untouched marine life in the world. The question for conservationists and government officials is clear: How can the ...

The country is overwhelmingly Catholic, with Catholics making up 98% of East Timor’s 1.3 million people. ... East Timor, upon his arrival to the country on Sept. 9, 2024.

Nearly half East Timor's population attended Pope Francis' mass at a packed seaside park on Tuesday.. An estimated 600,000 people flocked to the site, held on the same field where St. John Paul II ...

East Timorese celebrate Sunday during the ceremony leading up to the country's independence after decades of brutalization by foreign occupiers. Former guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao, a poet, was ...

COM, East Timor — On a rainy spring morning, Fizzy Moslim strapped on her weathered-chrome oxygen tank and slipped into the warm water. East Timor Has Some of the World’s Richest Reefs. Can It ...