Brisbane, Australia: Australia’s aid tsar has called for new approach to the Pacific, revealing conditions in East Timor and Papua New Guinea (PNG)  are worsening despite $500 million  (US$420 million) in  assistance

Dili, East Timor: The father of East Timorese independence, Xanana Gusmao, is at the centre of a new corruption scandal.

Dili, East Timor: Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has opened an Australian-funded specialist training wing in East Timor.

Dili, East Timor: Authorities in Dili have charged 28 people, including Timorese-born Australian Angelita Pires

New York, USA:  The Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in East Timor for a year

Dili, East Timor: East Timor’s Government says it's not concerned by a ruling in the country's highest court which deemed a policing agreement between United Nations (UN) and the government invalid

Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has committed New Zealand forces to remain in East Timor at least until the end of next year.

Canberra, Australia: Security issues and access to Australia for East Timorese workers are expected to dominate talks today between the two countries' foreign ministers.

Dili, East Timor: Organised crime is involved in a boutique but thriving sex industry in East Timor, where people-traffickers are increasingly luring local women under false pretences

Dili, East Timor: Women in East Timor are 380 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in Australia