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Reports, including those from UNICEF, indicate that sexual abuse cases in Timor-Leste are under-reported due to entrenched ...

Military engagements between Timor-Leste and the United States thus far seem more substantive than the former’s engagements with China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). This is despite a ...

The developing nation is thought to hold deposits of copper, gold, zinc and manganese, as well as rare earths and other ...

An ACIAR-​funded small research activity led by Charles Darwin University is supporting Timor-Leste and the Northern ...

But he also called on them to do more to prevent abuse against young people, in a nod to recent Catholic Church child abuse scandals. Timor-Leste's capital had a US$12 million makeover before the ...

Sept. 10 (UPI) --Pope Francis drew a crowd of 600,000 people as he held an outdoor mass in Timor-Leste on Tuesday that ...

People in Timor-Leste’s Naktuka area, a disputed section of the border with Indonesia, have raised concerns over illegal crossings and threats from Indonesian soldiers and citizens. “Indonesian ...

"What does $523 million mean to Timor-Leste? It means a lot. I imagine they will fight this case for as long as they can to make sure that money goes to their own people's needs — to health ...