East Timor prepares for presidential election

East Timor goes to the polls tomorrow to pick a new president, with voters in the tiny nation to choose between Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta and an ex-fighter who spent years in the jungle battling Indonesian rule.

Ramos-Horta and Fransisco “Lu-Olo” Guterres have both pledged to accept the results of the vote, which many in Asia’s newest country hope will herald a new era of peace and stability following an often violent and politically divisive year.