DILI: Timor-Leste’s National Parliament voted in favour Tuesday of a legislative package that will allow ratification of a maritime border treaty with Australia.

The historic Border Treaty stipulates how the neighbouring countries will share oil and gas riches lying beneath the Timor- Sea.

DILI: Timor-Leste’s President of the Republic has vetoed the government’s 2019 general state budget, but criticised the government’s prioritisation of buying foreign assets at the expense of devoting attention to education, health and other public services.

DILI: Timor-Leste’s government suffered a unique political blow on Tuesday, when the President of the Republic vetoed amendments to the country’s Law on petroleum activities that would have changed the conditions in which money from the nation’s Petroleum Fund can be used.

DILI: Xanana Gusmao will not become the Prime Minister’s Advisor after announcing his intention to focus on Timor-Leste’s on-going Maritime Boundary negotiations with Australia.

DILI: Timor-Leste’s parliament has voted in favour of withdrawing US$140 million from the nation’s Petroleum Fund to finance government activities over the next two months.

DILI: Timor-Leste’s new government is under fire from opposition aprties for being slow to deliver its State program to National Parliament, with less than ten days left before the July 23 submission deadline.

DILI:Xanana Gusmao has called on Timor-Leste’s President Francisco Lu Olo Guterres to cease his Fretilin party influence, in a bid to end a prolonged political impasse that has stalled parliament since January.

A legislative stalemate has dominated Timor-Leste’s politics since a coalition of opposition parties, led by Gusmao and with the majority of seats in parliament, refused to pass Fretilin’s government program.

DILI: The Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP) party has distanced itself from setting a date when it will announce its Prime Minister choice, as commentators put it down to a two man race between Xanana Gusmao and Taur Matan Ruak.

DILI:The President of Democratic Party (PD), Mariano Asanami, has said his party was ready to cooperate with the new eighth government of Timor-Leste, prioritisng prosperity and the development of the country.

The Democratic Party picked up 5 seats on Saturday’s parliamentary vote.

DILI – Since news broke early this month that government funding to support Timor-Leste’s only free health clinic had been cut off, it’s been the public who have stepped in.