Papua New Guinea News

As China signed multi-million dollar development deals with Papua New Guinea this week, the darker side of bilateral relations was on display with allegations of Asian-driven crime and corruption.

After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday that a new global agreement now rode on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts at next month's conference in Copenhagen.

AUSTRALIAN wheelchair athlete Kurt Fearnley arrived in Papua New Guinea with a simple message ahead of his incredible crawl along the 96km Kokoda Track: Nothing worth doing is easy.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, during a recent visit to Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, reached comprehensive agreements with the three countries' leaders on further enhancing bilateral economic and trade relations, Vice Commerce Minister Yi Xiaozhun said Thursday.

The vice foreign minister on Thursday hailed Vice Premier Li Keqiang 's official visit to Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea as "very fruitful," calling it a major diplomatic activity of China with the South Pacific region.

China's second largest oil company, Sinopec Corp, yesterday signed its first purchase deal for liquefied natural gas with US oil major ExxonMobil, in a move to expand its share in the rapidly growing domestic gas market.

In a country in which crime and juvenile delinquency have reached extremely high percentages, and where the press makes reference to the situation as a 'social emergency,' the Church has decided to 'invest in the youth,' placing the majority of their pastoral efforts in working with the youth.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang is in Papua New Guinea continuing his three-nation tour.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang Tuesday arrived in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea for an official visit to Papua New Guinea at the invitation of the Pacific island nation's government.

The Pacific islands are the last frontier for mobile telecommunications but the arrival of Irish-owned Digicel Pacific in the past three years has brought about a revolution.

A company in which the Church of England has a A 29 million shareholding will face allegations of human rights abuses and widespread environmental destruction as campaigners publish an - alternative report' into its activities today.

WARRING tribes in Papua New Guinea are ending a 26-year-old battle that has claimed numerous lives and reportedly led tribeswomen to kill their newborn male babies in a desperate bid to stop the fighting.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang left here Thursday for an official visit to Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

A DEMON worshipper killed four members of his family before killing himself on remote Misima Island in Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay province, according to delayed reports reaching the capital Port Moresby.

Papua New Guinea Customs officials have seized an assortment of deadly weapons from a passenger arriving in the country on a flight from the Philippines.

Parents in a couple of Henderson neighborhoods are bracing for a fight over proposals to rezone their children to different schools next fall.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang will pay an official visit to Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea from Oct.

NSW Premier Nathan Rees today confirmed the success of the first breakfast on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Women in the Pacific face some of the highest rates of physical and sexual violence in the world, but regional organisations are working hard to improve the situation.