Malaysia’s national upstream company Petronas Carigali and Timor-Leste’s state-owned oil company Timor Gap have teamed up for offshore exploration in the Timor Sea. The companies have signed a new ...

The Prime Minister touched down in the capital Dili on Wednesday as the first foreign leader to visit since Timor-Leste’s inclusion as the 11th member of ASEAN – a major regional forum. He met the ...

After Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta in 2024 told Anthony Albanese to “stop the crap … go and visit Timor-Leste and increase support”, Wednesday saw a markedly more buoyant mood as Dr ...

Australia will donate at least a third of the revenue it would receive from the Greater Sunrise gas development to Timor-Leste as part of a new partnership with the South-East Asian nation, as the ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrived in Timor-Leste on Wednesday, making his first official visit to one of Australia’s closest neighbours. Both countries have shared interests in ...

Australia and Timor-Leste call for the Greater Sunrise offshore gas project to be developed as soon as possible, the two countries said in a joint declaration on Wednesday, as Australia looks to boost ...

Timor-Leste has launched a tender to support two planned projects that could boost the nation’s economy — Greater Sunrise and the Bayu-Undan redevelopment. After more than 50 years since its discovery ...

2025 has been a big whale tourism season in Timor-Leste; operators were fully booked during the peak season of September to December. But increasingly aggressive practices fueled by competition ...

Getting into the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is as hard as getting into heaven, says José Ramos-Horta (pictured), the president of Timor-Leste. After years in purgatory, the tiny ...

Asia’s youngest country and Asean’s latest member might be small but it’s ready to get to work. We speak to president José Ramos-Horta to explore what’s next. At long last Timor-Leste has been ...

Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao attends the ASEAN-Canada Summit in Jakarta, Sep. 3, 2023. Credit: Media Center of The ASEAN Summit 2023/M Agung Rajasa/pras/mifta The saga of Timor-Leste’s ...

In August 2025, Indonesia began negotiations on its maritime boundary with Timor-Leste. This move represents a notable shift as Jakarta has long insisted that maritime boundaries should only be ...