Timor-Leste's long-awaited accession to ASEAN reflects Southeast Asia's recognition of the potential in its developmental ...

Timor-Leste compensated for the decline in price ... to lift the non-oil economy onto a higher growth path and to reduce poverty. All economic data for 2017.Sources: Heritage Foundation; World ...

Ms Ana Hula Muda was only five when the men in black came. It was 1999. Just after lunch, pro-Indonesian militia stormed her family home in the coastal town of Liquica. Wearing ...

As Timor-Leste prepares to become Asean’s 11th member state by October 2025, the moment is marked not only by celebration but ...

But more than a quarter of Timor-Leste’s population still live in absolute poverty and almost half in multi-dimensional poverty, with a similar proportion facing acute food insecurity. Almost half of ...

Given its extreme poverty and challenging circumstances, Timor-Leste seemed an unlikely candidate to transition to a robust democracy. In fact, despite political instability between 2017-2022 ...

Asean is on the cusp of welcoming its first new member since 1999, as the young nation of Timor-Leste is set to join later this year. This long-awaited accession is more than a symbolic milestone — it ...

Which brings us to the caveats. Timor-Leste remains one of the world’s poorest nations, with almost half the population wallowing in multidimensional poverty. Two-thirds of Timorese survive by ...

“Why do we have to hide the poverty?” Ms. Ximenes, 42, said over the weekend. “This is reality. The pope is not coming to see good things in Timor-Leste. The pope is here to see our real lives.