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 ...

Timor-Leste is undoubtedly a remarkable democratic success story, one of the most striking in the world. After decades of brutal occupation by Indonesia and widespread devastation following its ...

MANILA – Timor-Leste has agreed to deport a Philippine murder suspect wanted by Interpol, after two years of political wrangling, with the government linking the case to its aspirations to join ...

The Timor-Leste government also cited the crimes Teves committed in the Philippines. Citing the country’s migration and asylum law, it said he is prohibited from entering Timor-Leste for 10 years.

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 ...