At a ceremony in November 2025 marking the inauguration of Philippines’s 2026 chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr called for a more ...

As ASEAN Chair, the Philippines is expected to assume a more proactive role in sustaining dialogue among member nations, minimising the risk of miscalculation, and helping to prevent tensions from ...

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 ...

YANGON-Myanmar’s junta on Feb 15 announced the ejection of Timor-Leste’s top representative in the country, after a rights group said Dili had opened a legal case against the military for war crimes.

A human rights group representing the Chin ethnic minority last month submitted a legal complaint in Dili accusing the military of a litany of abuses. Legal authorities in Timor-Leste have initiated ...

Feb 16 (Reuters) - Myanmar has ordered the head of East Timor's diplomatic mission to leave the country within seven days, state media quoted the foreign ministry as saying on Monday, in an escalating ...

Eni has contracted Shearwater GeoServices to perform a 3D seismic survey on its Timor Sea asset offshore Timor-Leste. The Italian operator in December 2023 signed the PSC for Block P (TL SO 22-23), ...

Joao Gusmao remembers the promises made when the Xanana Gusmão International Airport opened in 2017. "We were told lots of planes would fly here," the local community leader told the ABC. "That ...

Myanmar Expels East Timor Envoy After Rights Group Complaint Against Junta Feb 16 (Reuters) - Myanmar has ordered the head of East ⁠Timor's ⁠diplomatic mission to leave the ⁠country within seven days, ...

It is now the ASEAN 11, not just 10 member-nations. They started as five founding members only on August 8, 1967, with the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand meeting and ...

Just four months ago, Timor-Leste formally became a member of ASEAN. Last week, the tiny country took an unprecedented step: its judicial authorities appointed a prosecutor to examine the Myanmar ...