Sleepy Dili, capital of East Timor, doesn't have much going for it. Its tallest building is just three storeys
Indonesia’s elite has too much to lose from addressing its actions in East Timor - part 1 - part 2
The World’s Most Powerful Women - Emilia Pires
Exiled to Australia at age 15, she spent 24 years away from East Timor. Good experience for her job as finance minister
East Timor's Finance Minister, Emilia Pires, remembers well her first days at Moreland High School in the tough Coburg of the 1970s
East Timor: Struggling on a $6bn pot that keeps growing
East Timor's oil fund is thriving thanks to boring investment
East Timor: Learning on the Job
East Timor's politicians can't agree on how to handle its oil and gas wealth. So Venancio Alves Maria puts the cash into T bills. Smart move.
East & Eden
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Secret agent plan
Bob Lowry knows his way around Indonesia
Conoco Timor - A battle in East Timor
East Timor, a nation that depends on foreign aid to fill its coffers, is about to become a country that relies on one company to fuel its economy
Funding the travels of Jose Ramos-Horta requires some lateral thinking
As the do-gooders move on, carpetbaggers and corrupt locals are left to count the loot. Eric Ellis discovers that most East Timorese are wondering what went wrong a year after independence
Bob Marley and his democratic dreadlocks might be all the rage among the rabid cabbies of the Democratic Republic of Timor Lorosa'e...
ON A dusty afternoon in Dili, capital of a haunted land that is soon to be proclaimed the 190th member of the United Nations, a babel of languages issues from the foreign clientele at the City Café. Here, at $2.40 a shot, a caffe latte costs either what most of East Timor's 800,000 people earn in a day, or 1/70th the average per diem of the 20 or so UN workers patronising the cafe.
East Timor tries to reconcile past
Four centuries of colonial Portuguese neglect, 24 years of Indonesian military occupation and 30 months of United Nations benevolence will come to an end at midnight Sunday for 800,000 of the world's most determined people when East Timor becomes the world's newest independent country.
Tears and cheers greet dawning of East Timor
Amid good-will messages from around the world, cheers for the leader of the former occupying country and a huge fireworks display, 150,000 East Timorese celebrated their country's birth yesterday as the world's newest nation, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor Lorosae.
For Colin Stewart, the start of East Timor's new life as an independent nation is a bittersweet moment
Independence brought fireworks and hope, but oil will bring money
A warrior of the East Timor Defence Force stands guard outside the offices of Aderito Hugo da Costa, editor-in-chief of Dili's Timor Post.
Dili faces future, hopeful of oil
As East Timorese Chief Minister Mari Alkatiri and Australian
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer were shaking hands in Canberra on Friday,
Darwin architect Pat Kenny was putting the finishing touches on the renovation
of a very important building in the East Timor capital, Dili.
Being Free Is Not the Same Thing as Being Prosperous
Although coffee is East Timor's No. 1 export earner, the territory's economic viability may not amount to a hill of beans
Connecting nuns in East Timor to the Internet
Can East Timor Avoid a Civil War?
President Habibie pushes a plan that might be the last chance for peace in Indonesia's most troubled province
Opportunity knocks, and Indonesian Calvin Lukmantara listens