DILI: Timor-Leste’s Parliamentary Affairs and Social Communication Ministry on Thursday said it supports rural Sucos in strengthening the management of media in regional areas, amid attempts to improve access to information across the country.

DILI: Timorese woke up on Saturday to the news of retired Indonesian general Abdullah Mahmud Hendropriyono surprise Presidential honour award, sparking a backlash as the former general is accused of being a main actor in Indonesia’s brutal occupation of Timor-Leste.

DILI: Officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Socio-Cultural Community have finished a fact-finding mission of Timor-Leste, marking another step in the country’s slow progress to accession into the South Asian block.

DILI: The Timor-Leste government welcomed the decision announced Thursday by the Australian Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, to discontinue the prosecution of Bernard Collaery, four years after he was accused of divulging confidential information about Australia's alleged spying operation in Timor-Leste.

DILI: The Japanese government has announced more money to help Timor-Leste rehabilitate infrastructure damaged by flood water that swept across the country earlier this year.