The government of Catholic-majority Timor-Leste is pondering a complete ban on traditional martial arts, blaming it for ongoing gang violence between youth groups. During a visit to Maliana Parish ...

Timor-Leste: Twenty-Five Years ... Since independence, the presence of so many unemployed young men in Timor has, on several occasions, helped spark gang and political violence in Dili and other ...

Dozens of failed asylum seekers have been sent back to Vietnam and Timor-Leste in a UK first, the Home Office has said. Some 46 people were returned to the South-East Asian countries on a plane ...

MANILA, Philippines — Former Timor-Leste Foreign Minister Dionisio Babo Soares said the Philippines should not use the case of fugitive expelled Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. as grounds to block ...

Expelled Negros Oriental representative Arnolfo Teves Jr. was flown back to the Philippines yesterday after Timor-Leste ordered his “immediate deportation.” ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Timor-Leste is a step closer to fulfilling its longstanding wish to join the Southeast Asian regional bloc and could become its 11th member state by October, Malaysia's foreign ...

Dozens of failed asylum seekers have been sent back to Vietnam and Timor-Leste in a UK first, the Home Office has said. Some 46 people were returned to the South-East Asian countries on a plane ...