Gary Cunningham, pictured helping to paint a friend's pool in Melbourne before he was killed in East Timor in 1975. Photo / Greig Cunningham On October 16, 1975, five reporters in the East Timorese ...

Timor-Leste, or East Timor, is marking the 25th anniversary of its vote to become independent from Indonesia. East Timor had been under Indonesian occupation since 1975. Indonesia killed more than a ...

The Portuguese and Dutch traders maintained contact with East Timor in the early 16th century and Portugal took over control of the country until 1974. For a brief period, the country was occupied by ...

A Guerra da Beatriz (Beatriz’s War) is the first feature film from East Timor. It is about Indonesia's occupation of East Timor from 1975 to 1999 and its impact on the Timorese society. According to ...

Although Gough Whitlam had been dismissed from office a month earlier, and Malcolm Fraser was prime minister ahead of a general election later that month, Mr Ramos-Horta is scathing of Whitlam’s tacit ...

East Timor made steady progress toward self-government, with full independence scheduled for May 20, 2002. Under the auspices of the U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), it held a ...