カテゴリー: Papua New Guinea
Month-long restrictions to come into force as officials warn virus could rip through PNG’s fragile health system ‘like a tornado’ Papua New Guinea will go into a month-long nationwide isolation in an effort to arrest a spiralling Covid-19 outbreak that…
Médecins Sans Frontières says Australia’s opposition of intellectual property waiver probably hindered Pacific nation’s battle with Covid Papua New Guinea could have received Covid-19 vaccines before its current crisis if Australia had not been part of…
‘Rocks under where the dam will be built is not safe … If there is a fault in the structure, the dam will give way,’ says West Sepik officialA proposed dam to hold billions of tonnes of mine waste near the head of Papua New Guinea’s longest river is a …
A new documentary shows that while the health impacts of the pandemic have – so far – been largely avoided, the effects of isolation on families, communities, and livelihoods has been profound Faith, family, and a little bit of farming.The Pacific’s re…
At Port Moresby’s general hospital, 40% of mothers admitted to the labour ward tested positive for Covid-19Papua New Guinea will not get its first Covid-19 vaccines until next month at the earliest, despite an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak spiralli…
Services are being forced to close because of lack of money and staff as coronavirus threatens to take holdRead all our coronavirus coveragePapua New Guinea is battling to control a surge in coronavirus cases across the archipelago, just as hospitals a…
Land dispute in which 21 people died is the latest brutal conflict exacerbated by high-powered weapons, weak governance and erosion of traditional moresAt the height of the killing, women and children hid in the dense forests nearby or took shelter in …
The majority of the Pacific nation’s population won’t be immunised for another two years, government planning documents showCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDespite a tourism-dependent economy devastated by coronavirus shutdo…
PNG’s Grand Chief led the country to independence in 1975 and served four terms as prime ministerThe man who led Papua New Guinea to independence, the country’s Grand Chief and longest-serving prime minister, Sir Michael Somare, has died in Port Moresb…
Chinese-backed plans for fishing plant and city on Papua New Guinea island in Torres Strait designed to ‘ruffle feathers’ in Australia, expert saysAustralia has dramatically overreacted to speculative announcements of possible Chinese-funded developmen…
A sustainable forestry project established to develop PNG’s Western Province has become mired in an international corruption scandal “There is always the stench of corruption around a deal that is too bad to be true or too good to be true,” a full-page…
A $200m Chinese-built fish processing plant, proposed for the Papua New Guinean island of Daru, in the Torres Strait, brings risk of transnational crimeSecurity experts have warned a $200m Chinese-built fisheries plant, proposed for a Papua New Guinean…
Government has not been presented with widely reported $39bn plan for Daru Island in Torres StraitA Chinese-built multibillion-dollar city proposed for the tiny island of Daru in the Torres Strait is not being formally considered by the Papua New Guine…
The New Zealand foreign minister’s moko has become international news, but beyond an identifier, our tatau are a link to ancestors, a vessel for our cultures’ stories, and a tribute to those who have gone beforeShortly before my interview with six Euro…