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 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 ...

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 ...

Marielle Descalsota has spent more than $30,000 on travel in the past two years. Timor-Leste is one of the most expensive countries she's traveled to. She breaks down how much she spent in Timor-Leste ...

Pope Francis will land in Dili, the capital city of East Timor, on Monday in the third stop on a Sept. 2–13 trip to four countries in Southeast Asia and Oceania. One of the world’s newest nations — it ...

Upon his arrival in the Catholic island of East Timor on Monday, Pope Francis entrusted the new country to the Blessed Virgin Mary, “I entrust East Timor and all its people to the protection of the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I will be taking you around the world—looking at the power of values. This year, Timor-Leste – otherwise known as East Timor – ...

Timor-Leste’s Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030, commonly referred to as the SDP, aims to make Timor-Leste an upper middle-income country by 2030. In line with this vision, from 2010 to 2018 the ...

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 ...