Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The highly infectious virus was found in two healthy, polio-vaccinated children who were screened ...

Papua New Guinea's government has finally passed the legislation required to establish a new upstream oil and gas regulator to replace the existing regulator which has for years been the subject ...

Papua New Guinea will enter the NRL in 2028 under a new $600 million deal with Australia unveiled on Thursday morning. In return, PNG has entered an agreement designed to stop China gaining a ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and PNG Prime Minister James Marape delivered the historic announcement at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Sydney on Thursday. “Rugby league ...

The Pacific island nation will officially enter the NRL in four years in a $600m deal that mixes rugby league with diplomacy. Australia will pay $600m to prop up the initial 10-year “rugby ...

US supermajor Chevron has made an unexpected move in Papua New Guinea by making an advance payment for liquefied natural gas supplies that enabled the country's national oil company to complete ...

Just before Pope Francis’ recent visit to Papua New Guinea, roadside stalls selling betel nut, a mild local intoxicant, were shut down. While this isn’t good for the many small stall holders ...

“We are coordinating with the Papua New Guinea government,” Walilo said. Bishop Yanuarius Teofilus Matopai You of Jayapura confirmed to UCA News on Aug. 21 that most of the people were from his ...

believed to belong to a Papua-Papua New Guinea (PNG) kingpin, during a raid in Jayapura District, Papua, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Local cops seized 394 packages of marijuana from the suspects, ...

Thousands of villagers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) may be evacuated over fears that a second landslide could take place following Friday’s deadly disaster in the Enga province. Serhan Aktoprak ...

By Jin Yu Young Nearly five days after a landslide devastated a remote section of Papua New Guinea, officials in the Pacific Island nation have begun evacuating residents, because the area remains ...

At least 49 combatants as well as an unconfirmed number of bystanders died in a tribal dispute in the restive and remote Highlands region of Papua New Guinea, Australian media reported.