New Guinea is one of the world’s largest islands, yet it remains divided between two very different countries. While the east became Papua New Guinea, the west was absorbed into Indonesia through a ...

Analysis - Papua New Guinea's hesitation over Bougainville is not simply political delay or bureaucratic caution, writes ...

A push by the Australian Labor government to strengthen its neo-colonial dominance in the South West Pacific received a setback this week, when the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) failed to ...

Nearly five days after the disaster hit a remote section of the country, officials have started evacuating residents. But the scale of the death toll remains uncertain. By Jin Yu Young Nearly five ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea's mass-casualty disaster because of water streams and bodies trapped ...