One of the more interesting sessions presented at the recent Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston focused on the tiny Indian Ocean nation of Timor-Leste, featuring the President and CEO of ...

I am thoroughly disillusioned with the so-called international community’: East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta.

I traveled to Timor-Leste in May and spent four days exploring its capital city. Timor-Leste is one of the least-visited countries in the world. While inaccessible and expensive, it was worth visiting ...

Responding to these challenges, a two-day workshop on Ecohydrology and Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management in Timor-Leste, was held in Dili on 25–26 November 2025. It has set the stage for ...

East Timor could be bankrupt within a decade unless it takes urgent action to diversify its economy and reassess its fixation with mega-petroleum projects East Timor was once seen as the poster child ...

Over the years, Timor-Leste has made its intention to join ASEAN clear, and it appears to be employing a non-confrontational approach to achieve this goal. The abstention vote was an example of this ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Amidst the past two weeks of celebrations for Timor-Leste’s 25th anniversary of ...

1600s - Portuguese invade Timor, set up trading post and use island as source of sandalwood. 1749 - Timor split following battle between Portuguese and Dutch. Portuguese take the eastern half. 1942 - ...

In a small coastal village in Timor-Leste, between a rugged mountain range and the Banda Sea, Lino Fernandes Xavier stands by his brother's grave at the local cemetery, his head bowed. From a long ...

Domingos Pinto Gabrial, also known as Berliku, was a 19-year-old school teacher in the northeastern city of Baucau when Indonesian forces invaded East Timor in December 1975. He joined many young ...