An epic exploration of human history examines how the poor and powerless have fought back — time and again — against those ...

The National University of East Timor (UNTL; Portuguese: Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e; Tetum: Universidade Nasionál Timór Lorosa'e), is a public university in East Timor, the only one of ...

From lemon chicken to sweet and sour barramundi, recipes in Chopsticks or Fork? tell stories of Chinese immigration in rural ...

However, the issue is expected to receive considerable attention in the coming days, as Pope Francis arrived this Monday, September 9, in East Timor ... four centuries of Portuguese colonization ...

East Timor is the most Catholic country in the world (at 97%) after the Vatican. It is also the poorest in Asia, and this former Portuguese colony, where the pope is making the third stop of his ...

1984: A suicide bomber attacks the US embassy in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killing 20. 1987: French driver Alain Prost wins the Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril – his record 28th Formula 1 victory ...

The same year, specific issues for Timor were introduced in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20 and 25 patacas, followed by 20 avos in 1948. Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids. Every time you click a ...

Age, sciatica and knee problems notwithstanding, pontiff appears to have had the time of his life during wide-ranging 11-day ...

More than 5,000 firefighters have been tackling the wildfires that Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro said are "raging across the country". Ten thousand hectares (37 sq miles) have already ...

Leste, Papua New Guinea and Singapore, the head of the Catholic Church showed that the Vatican — like many other Western states — is actively seeking closer ties with Asia.

On Tuesday afternoon last week, around half the population of Timor-Leste, at least 600,000 people, attended a mass held by Pope Francis in Dili. It was a joyous and complicated occasion.