カテゴリー: Papua New Guinea
Six months after he was ousted as prime minister of PNG, Peter O’Neill sat down to breakfast to talk scandals and legacyFor a former prime minister with a warrant out for his arrest and allegations of official corruption hanging over his head, Peter O’…
All 111 members of parliament will get vehicles from the Apec fleet, but the fate of 40 Maseratis is not yet knownPapua New Guinea’s prime minister will receive one of the Bentley cars controversially purchased by the government at taxpayers’ expense f…
Charges allege O’Neill, who was replaced in May, took part in ‘official corruption’Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of the former prime minister of Papua New Guinea Peter O’Neill on corruption charges.The warrant was issued by the Waigani di…
Papua New Guinea out of pocket $157m from failed attempt at mining material from deep-sea vents as opponents point to environmental riskThe “total failure” of PNG’s controversial deep sea mining project Solwara 1 has spurred calls for a Pacific-wide mo…
Former PM Peter O’Neill says successor James Marape delivering only ‘attractive rhetoric’ after being banished from government benchesPapua New Guinea’s former prime minister Peter O’Neill has hit out at his successor, saying he was “taking PNG backwar…
Medecins Sans Frontieres accuses Nauru of breaching medical ethicsA 36-year-old Pakistani refugee has been hospitalised after he set himself alight on Nauru on Friday.This comes amid warnings the government’s attempts to repeal the medevac laws could h…
Aid organisations call out ‘dramatic underinvestment’ by Australia and other donors in tackling ‘endemic’ problemViolence against children in the Pacific region has reached “endemic” levels, with children subject to brutal physical discipline in the ho…
James Marape says Australia, with New Zealand and PNG, has a moral obligation to listen to the voices of smaller island nationsAustralia has a responsibility to protect the Pacific region from the impacts of climate change, PNG’s newly appointed prime …
James Marape says his country must move on from depending on overseas aid to become an economic powerhousePapua New Guinea will be free of its dependence on Australian aid within a decade, the new prime minister, James Marape, has said in Sydney.He sai…
The shocking killing of 18 people in a highlands village may have ‘changed everything’, warns police minister The pictures that came out of a remote highlands village in Papua New Guinea two weeks ago were not, at first glance, particularly graphic: bu…
Warring clans target women and children after tribe leader’s mother killed, police minister saysThe brutal deaths of about 30 women and children in Papua New Guinea’s highlands amount to the “worst payback killing” in the country’s history, the police …
Pregnant women among victims of killings in small village of Karida, in an area beset by internecine violenceAt least 15 women and children have been killed in a massacre in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province, in one of the worst outbreaks of tribal viol…