Imagine throwing a party after 400 years of waiting, only to have tanks show up nine days later. That’s how East Timor’s story started – like the worst housewarming party ever. For 24 years, Indonesia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite years of efforts to pull in tourists, East Timor, a country about half the size of Belgium, has a tiny fraction of ...

Along mountain passes and into a besieged UN-Compound, Fran remembers East Timor in 1999.

Asia's youngest nation East Timor on Sunday became the 11th member of the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN, fulfilling a vision set out by its current president nearly a half-century ago while under ...

DILI, East Timor (Reuters) -A devout Roman Catholic couple in East Timor has seen firsthand two popes visit their tiny Asian country and now they are praying they may witness another, once a successor ...

DILI, East Timor (AP) — East Timor on Thursday deported a former Filipino congressman charged with multiple murders in the Philippines, saying that he was a national security threat whose presence ...

University students carry East Timor flags and banners during a protest demanding that the government cancel plans to provide lifetime pension and health allowances for lawmakers, outside the ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar ’s military government ordered East Timor ’s senior diplomat to leave the country after judicial authorities from the fellow Southeast Asian country accepted a criminal ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations welcomed East Timor as its newest member Sunday, which its prime minister said was a “dream realized” for the tiny nation.

(Adds details from Dili on state of emergency) By Rob Taylor CANBERRA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was in a serious but stable condition on Tuesday in an Australian ...