カテゴリー: Papua New Guinea
Greg Sheppard has been charged over the alleged defrauding of trust funds from the controversial Ok Tedi mineAn Australian lawyer, Greg Sheppard, has been arrested in Port Moresby over an alleged 268m kina (A$96m) fraud involving trust funds from the c…
Conservationist on a remote Papua New Guinean island finds message from American girl thrown overboard more than 2,500km awayThis bottle was different. Glass, with its lid sealed tight, it contained a handful of rice grains and a few seashells. And a n…
PNG prime minister James Marape faces serious challenge to his rule after chief justice rules in favour of opposition call for parliament to resumePapua New Guinea politics has descended into fresh chaos, with the supreme court throwing out the country…
St John Ambulance warns it may be forced to close down over Christmas or sell some of its fleetPapua New Guinea’s main ambulance service – St John Ambulance – has been allocated no money in the government’s budget for 2021.St John Ambulance runs a flee…
Fourteen eminent signatories urge Canberra to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050Pacific leaders have condemned Australia’s Paris climate target as “one of the weakest”, urging Canberra to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and abandon its Ky…
James Marape faces chaos amid bitter fighting over who can command a majority in a parliament now suspended until AprilThe bitter arm-wrestle for control of Papua New Guinea’s government has descended into chaos with a half-full parliament passing a bu…
Five alleged sorcery-related deaths – including the hanging of a 13-year-old boy – in a single week in one Papua New Guinea province, has revived a nationwide angst over the persistent crime of alleged witchcraft killings.In the highland villages and t…
Opposition takes control of parliament and prepares for no-confidence motion on 1 December to end Marape’s premiershipPapua New Guinea could be set to install a new government after dozens of government members – including nine ministers – abandoned pr…
Optimism abounds as leaders from Fiji to Papua New Guinea welcome the new US president-electJoe Biden’s presidential ascension had not even been settled when Fiji’s forthright prime minister was already urging greater US action on climate change from t…
New provincial commander says he is concerned by allegations of rape and sexual assault by officers in Alotau TownTwo policemen have been charged with rape allegedly committed inside a police station in Alotau Town, in Papua New Guinea’s south-east, bu…
Leaked document shows Niugini BioMed, established in August, will be funded by government to find a treatment from existing drugsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePapua New Guinea has approved nearly $US3m from its threadbare …
New fibre-optic cables to Pacific islands have been cautiously welcomed amid warnings over harassment and violence linked to online platformsFrom the narrow bay of Sydney’s Tamarama Beach, a cable twice as thick as garden hose, carrying optic fibre th…
Panguna mine is often cast as the economic key to Bougainville’s potential independence, but young MP Theonila Matbob says her people, and their land, must come firstFor all of Theonila Roka Matbob’s three decades, the scar on her land that was once th…
Government has struggled to control outbreaks in the capital while charter flights carrying foreign workers run risk of spreading virusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePapua New Guinea will fit everybody coming into the count…