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Last November, a team of researchers dropped baited cameras into the depths off Dili, the capital city of Timor-Leste, to survey marine life, according to a study published March 13 in the ...

A recent cyclone has added another layer to the challenges that Timor-Leste is facing in the fight against COVID-19.

Timor Leste is the 7th most disaster-prone country in the world, with frequent droughts, high winds, landslides, and increasingly variable rainfall. Through savings and loan groups, improved ...

On March 7, UCA News published a report highlighting a strong warning from Timor-Leste’s Education Minister Dulce de Jesus Soares to teachers who engage in the sexual abuse of students. It underscored ...

A recent cyclone has added another layer to the challenges that Timor-Leste is facing in the fight against COVID-19. Despite invocations to envision a better, more equal world in the wake of COVID ...

“It is peculiar that after having twice decided in favor of extradition—first in June 2024 and again in December 2024—the Timor-Leste Court of Appeal has now reversed its stance, taking a ...