Timor-Leste’s 2025 accession to ASEAN was a diplomatic milestone, but the shutdown of the Bayu-Undan gas field has intensified pressure to diversify an economy long reliant on petroleum revenues.

SYDNEY: The conventional account of why Timor-Leste’s membership of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is good for regional security goes something like this: Timor-Leste is a young, ...

The conventional account of why Timor-Leste’s membership of ASEAN is good for regional security goes something like this: Timor-Leste is a young, post-conflict, least-developed country. Membership of ...

With the Parseria Foun ba Era Foun declaration, Australia and Timor-Leste hope to build a partnership grounded in equality, shared regional interests, and respectful cooperation between neighbors. In ...

On February 13, Myanmar’s military junta ordered the head of Timor-Leste’s Embassy in Yangon to leave the country within seven days. The expulsion comes after Timorese authorities opened legal ...

Malaysia’s national upstream company Petronas Carigali and Timor-Leste’s state-owned oil company Timor Gap have teamed up for offshore exploration in the Timor Sea. The companies have signed a new ...

Australia and Timor-Leste call for the Greater Sunrise offshore gas project to be developed as soon as possible, the two countries said in a joint declaration on Wednesday, as Australia looks to boost ...

A silver Toyota pickup rolled toward the outbound lanes at the Anzalduas International Bridge like any other southfacing car on the Texas border. To Customs and Border Patrol officers, it didn’t look ...

Oecusse, a rugged, remote district of Timor-Leste in south-east Asia, is usually a pretty sleepy place. It’s located on the western side of Timor island, part of Indonesia, and is isolated ...

2025 has been a big whale tourism season in Timor-Leste; operators were fully booked during the peak season of September to December. But increasingly aggressive practices fueled by competition ...

Newly established upstream company PetroTim Resources has been awarded the TL-OT-25-24 production sharing contract onshore its native Timor-Leste. PetroTim and partner state-owned Timor GAP have ...

Timor-Leste and Woodside Energy (WDS) have entered a new phase of collaboration after signing a Cooperation Agreement aimed at progressing a Timor-based liquefied natural gas development model for the ...