Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao swept the streets with locals to help clean up the city before the pontiff's arrival.

The local software firm has recently signed deal with UNDP-East Timor

Navigating pigs and goats as they practise on a dusty paddock, a group of young East Timorese are hoping to copy the fairy-tale rise of Afghanistan by making it as Asia's latest emerging cricket nation.

East Timor has been expelled from the 2023 Asian Cup for falsifying documents of several Brazilian-born footballers, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Friday.