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Papua New Guinea to impose ‘harsh control measures’ as Covid outbreak spirals
Month-long restrictions to come into force as officials warn virus could rip through PNG’s fragile health syst…
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Australia ‘overreacting’ to Chinese development plans on northern border
Chinese-backed plans for fishing plant and city on Papua New Guinea island in Torres Strait designed to ‘ruffl…
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Fisheries plant on Australia’s border could be used as cover for drugs, weapons and people smuggling, experts say
A $200m Chinese-built fish processing plant, proposed for the Papua New Guinean island of Daru, in the Torres …