UNESCO Recognition: Timor-Leste’s Nino Konis Santana National Park has been named the country’s first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, boosting nature-based, low-impact tourism and highlighting the park’s forests, reefs, and cultural sites. Aviation & Tourism: Aero Dili launched a new direct Darwin–Dili service (twice weekly), adding to existing direct flights and making travel easier for leisure, business, diaspora, and education links across the Timor Sea. Diplomacy & Regional Ties: Timor-Leste marked ASEAN accession as a strategic turning point, while the country also established formal diplomatic relations with Micronesia. Public Service Modernisation: Timor-Leste shared its One-Stop Shop approach and public service digitisation experience at a UN forum, showing how reforms are being implemented. Energy Project Update: Sunda Energy says the Chuditch PSC phase expired and it received a termination notice instead of an extension, leaving drilling plans uncertain despite efforts to secure capacity.