Jose Ramos-Horta

Myanmar expels East Timor envoy after rights group complaint against junta

Australia PM Albanese visits East Timor to discuss security, gas

FILE PHOTO: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese greets the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste Xanana Gusmao at the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit, in Melbourne, Australia, March 5, 2024. REUTERS/Jaimi Joy/File Photo

As Trump envoy heads to Moscow, Russian Nobel winner says prisoners' lives are at stake

Dmitry Muratov, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and editor-in-chief of the investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, attends an interview with Reuters in Moscow, Russia September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Timor-Leste to become Asean’s 11th member in October, formalised at KL summit

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (R) and East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta (2nd L) inspect the guard of honour at the Presidential Palace in Dili, East Timor, on September 23, 2025. (Photo by Valentino Dariell DE SOUSA / AFP)

Global leaders set to attend Pope Francis' funeral

Pilgrims wait to visit St Peter's Basilica, following the death of Pope Francis, at the Vatican, April 22, 2025. REUTERS/Susana Vera

The growing pains of Asia’s newest country

Today, at 75, Mr Jose Ramos-Horta is both the president and a relentless salesman for East Timor.

UN chief Guterres says Timor-Leste’s independence a gift to the world

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference with East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao (not pictured) following their meeting, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the country's referendum and independence, in Dili, East Timor, August 29, 2024. REUTERS/Lirio da Fonseca

Shangri-La Dialogue 2024

Zelensky meets heads of state in S’pore, seeks support for Swiss peace summit

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (centre) meeting US Secretary of Defense Lloyd James Austin III (sat opposite) at the Shangri-La Dialogue on June 2.

Timor-Leste president says China military cooperation ‘never discussed’

FILE PHOTO: Jose Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste, speaks during the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit at United Nations headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 18, 2023. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs/File Photo

East Timor condemns Myanmar's expulsion of top diplomat

FILE PHOTO: A Catholic faithful waves a Myanmar flag as Pope Francis arrives to lead a mass at Kyite Ka San Football Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar November 29, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

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