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ABC Pacific Beat Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmao has won the parliamentary election, but the country's first president may contest the count after his party...

RNZ News Independence leader and Nobel laureate José Ramos-Horta has declared victory in Timor-Leste's presidential election, saying he had secured "overwhelming" support and would now...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Leaders from the three key parties in the Timor-Leste governing coalition have confirmed that are supporting the incumbent head of state,...

By Evaristo Soares Martins in Dili Early elections cannot be allowed to “become the political culture” in Timor-Leste, says the leader of the opposition Fretilin...

By Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata in Dili East Timor’s outgoing Prime Minister Dr Mari Alkatiri says that after almost two decades of separation from Indonesia, the...

By Jose Belo in Dili, Timor-Leste Timor-Leste's parliamentary elections on May 12 have returned Xanana Gusmao to the Government Palace in Dili in an alliance...

The emergence of opposition parties in Timor-Leste's parliamentary election this weekend shows growing dissatisfaction with the status quo, reports SBS from Dili. Former Prime Minister...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Fretilin (Frente Revolucionaria do Timor-Leste Independente) has denounced acts of "intimidation and terror" carried out by some people in political parties...

ANALYSIS: By Dr Michael Leach in Dili Twenty-one parties will contest 65 parliamentary seats and decide who governs Timor-Leste in national elections this Saturday. In a...

By Len Garae in Port Vila “I was fighting in the mountains and I heard your voice from across the ocean coming to support my...

Twenty-nine veterans of Timor-Leste’s struggle for national liberation will be visiting Australia next week to meet with members of the local veteran community and...