カテゴリー: Papua New Guinea
Samoa and Tonga raise supply concerns with foreign partners as businesses and residents in Papua New Guinea grapple with higher fuel prices amid the Iran warThe leaders of some Pacific countries have appealed for help with oil supplies while others urg…
Weapons amnesty and buyback scheme will run until August as PM James Marape says illegal guns ‘destroying families and villages’ Papua New Guinea has asked residents to surrender illegal firearms in a bid to remove tens of thousands of weapons from the…
In mid-December PNG said the company did not have a licence to operate in the country and ordered it to halt operationsFrustration is growing in Papua New Guinea weeks after the government ordered Starlink to shut down operations in the country as busi…
Tourism operators in PNG’s highlands offer access to lush scenery, adventure and culture – in contrast with the region’s dangerous imageIn the lush hills of Papua New Guinea’s highlands, Ambua Lodge sits in picturesque but troubled surrounds. From this…
Papua New Guinea has one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in the Asia-Pacific region, with many unaware they have the virusAfter battling illness for years, Nancy Karipa tested positive for HIV in 1999. She had just given birth to her first child. …
James Marape skipped the meeting last year in protest but will attend Cop30 due to ‘encouraging signs’ on climate financePapua New Guinea’s prime minister, James Marape, has criticised Cop climate summits as “long on talk and short on action” but will …
Thousands celebrate across the country and in Rome after Pope Leo canonised Peter ToRot in what the prime minister called a ‘historic moment of pride, faith and inspiration’Papua New Guinea celebrated a historic moment of “national pride” as the countr…
Beijing’s comments come as leading military figures in PNG express concern over a potential defence treaty with Australia China has urged Papua New Guinea not to sign a treaty that could restrict or prevent it from cooperating with another country, day…
Celebrations and events have been held across the country to mark the milestonePNG independence: 50 years onPacific leaders have gathered in Port Moresby to celebrate Papua New Guinea’s 50th anniversary of independence from Australia, as prime minster …
Australia had governed PNG for decades and the transfer of power was an attempt to unify more than 800 language groups under one stateBuilding a nation: Papua New Guinea 50 years onFifty years ago, on the day Papua New Guinea gained independence from A…
Countries including Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Tonga have given Israel vital backing at the UNAfter almost two years of war in Gaza, tens of thousands of deaths and now the reality of famine, Israel has found itself increasingly isolated on the world s…
Across the country leaders and advocates work to tackle the root causes of an ‘epidemic’ that affects two-thirds of women in their lifetimeIn a country where violence is often shrouded in silence, Tahina Booth is trying to break the cycle with somethin…
Treaty will allow PNG nationals to gain Australian citizenship by serving in defence forces and comes as the country sits at the centre of a geopolitical battleAs Papua New Guinea prepares to mark 50 years as an independent nation next month, the count…
A time of opportunity seemed to lie ahead in 1975, but has PNG and its leaders lived up to that promise?In the early 1970s, Dame Meg Taylor remembers a sense of immense optimism as Papua New Guinea stood on the brink of independence. At that time she j…