The Latest Breaking News from Timor

At the turn of the millennium, the Timorese people voted for independence from Indonesia. Twenty years on, The Detail talks to New Zealanders who played a part in building a new democracy.

Fringing a remote East Timorese island, this reef is the most biodiverse in the world and holding up against climate change. What are its secrets? And can it be protected as the former war-torn state opens up to tourism?

Secret documents reveal eyewitness accounts from New Zealand soldiers who said an Australian SAS operator brutalised corpses in East Timor in 1999.

As she fled her captor of two decades, Juliana was chased though the jungle by soldiers. When she reached the croc-infested river that separated her from the safety of Timor Leste, she had no choice but to get in.

José Ramos-Horta has declared he will shake things up if elected president — and Australia is likely to feel the rumbles.

East Timor, also known as Timor Leste, will hold its fifth presidential election on Saturday, with Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, incumbent leader Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres, and 14 other candidates in the running.

Dili (East Timor) (AFP) - East Timor will hold presidential polls on Saturday, with the winner facing a Covid and cyclone-battered economy, as well as a protracted political impasse.

A court filing claims that then-foreign minister Alexander Downer boasted to a Labor staffer that Timor-Leste was an "open book", as allegations emerge that Australia may have been monitoring the nation's leaders before the 2004 Witness K bugging scandal.

Former foreign affairs department officer says Downer made comment in private conversation years before bugging scandal