DILI, Timor-Leste - Timorese military and civilian personnel joined Pacific Partnership 2019 (PP19) for a mass evacuation in a natural disaster (MEND) workshop in Dili, April 25.

On April 4, Tropical Cyclone Seroja hit Timor-Leste, devastating the island nation and resulting in the worst floods in 48 years. According to the United Nations, the natural disaster took 45 ...

Timor-Leste is one of the regions poorest countries. The minimum wage is the equivalent of $168 per month but more than half the population (1.17million) lives on less the $3 a day.

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 ...

During his time in Timor-Leste, the CNGB participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Response warehouse and an aircraft hangar in Baucau—both byproducts of U.S ...

TIMOR-LESTE has sought the assistance of the Philippines in enhancing its disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) capabilities. The appeal was expressed by Marciano Octavio Garcia Da Silva ...

Despite recognising a potential financial disaster, Timor-Leste's government passed a 2025 budget that accelerates the country’s rush towards a fiscal cliff instead of mitigating it. The economy ...

Australia and New Zealand on Friday announced AUD42.6 million (approximately $28 million) in aid to the Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Program, which will help Pacific nations and Timor-Leste ...

Australia could well be looking at a foreign policy disaster as Timor-Leste appears to be on the brink of becoming a failed state. And a stubborn and entrenched set of elites seems impervious to ...

More than two decades after independence, Timor-Leste is still struggling with poverty, the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and devastating natural disasters, including a 2021 cyclone that ...

Economic and financial data including Timor Leste GDP growth, GDP per capita and more, plus trade and finance sector data. Browse a full set of economic indicators, ... matters, regulatory burdens ...