カテゴリー: Papua New Guinea
Australian PM to call for ‘a swift conclusion to negotiations’ to treaty and say both countries should ‘work as equals with our fellow Pacific states’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese will seek pr…
Uncollected dead stored in shed with no air conditioning despite tropical heat will have to be buried in mass graveFootage of nearly a dozen bodies left to decay outside one of Papua New Guinea’s major hospitals has highlighted the pressures on the cou…
PNG prime minister tells west ‘your enemy is not our enemy’ as he tries to steer clear of geopolitical struggle gripping the PacificGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister of Papua New Guinea has warn…
Two countries said their police chiefs were unable to attend video meeting chaired by Chinese and Solomon Islands ministersChina said it held a video meeting to discuss police cooperation with a group of Pacific island nations on Tuesday, however at le…
Lowy Institute’s Pacific Aid Map charts thousands of projects and activities from 67 donor entities, including Australia and the USChina is funnelling aid to Kiribati and Solomon Islands, while its overall spending in the Pacific region is in decline, …
Another 15 people are missing after tensions between two groups boiled over into violenceTribal warfare on Kiriwina Island in Papua New Guinea’s east has left 32 people dead and 15 others missing, with fighting continuing.The fighting erupted on Monday…
Villagers are pushing back against logging operations they say are encroaching on designated conservation areasIn mid-May, a bulldozer began clearing a logging road into an area of largely untouched rainforest near the village of Suburam, on Papua New …
Fighting since country’s election in July has continued in the highlands, with women and children most vulnerableAn estimated 90,000 people have been displaced by violence in the highlands of Papua New Guinea since May, with about 25,000 children unabl…
Ian Gowrie-Smith says he was frustrated the Australian government did not respond to urgent funding request for turtle conservationGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThe owner of 21 tropical islands off the coast of Papu…
Readers respond to Afua Hirsch’s article calling for Britain to confront the painful truth of its colonial pastAfua Hirsch’s article explicitly describes the everlasting damage created in the name of colonialism (This is a Britain that has lost its Que…
Community leaders are searching for people they fear may be buried under landslides triggered by a magnitude 7.6 quake on SundayThe death toll from a magnitude 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit Papua New Guinea on Sunday has risen to seven, and authori…
Notice in two major newspapers asks reporters to use ministerial emails instead of contacting James Marape The Papua New Guinean prime minister’s office has taken out a full page advertisement in the country’s two major newspapers urging journalists to…
Country’s foreign minister says China’s interest in the Pacific required a ‘strengthened’ PNG-Australia treatyPapua New Guinea hopes to sign a security deal with Australia, as well as possibly New Zealand and the US, by the end of the year, the country…
Prime minister says new appointment shows the government’s commitment to expanding key agriculture industriesThe Papua New Guinean prime minister has announced his cabinet, which contains not only some new faces, but some new positions as well, includi…
Just 15% of children in PNG have their birth registered. Without a birth certificate, trafficking and exploitation are far easierWhen 11-year-old Mary’s mother remarried after her husband’s death, Mary was left in the care of an aunt who exploited her….