Papua New Guinea News

INDONESIA HAS AGREED TO TEAM UP with neighbouring Papua New Guinea to explore potential oil and gas reserves in border areas as the former shifts its oil and gas exploration focus to the eastern part of the archipelago.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has threatened to sack everyone in his finance department over a $32 million scam involving top officials and lawyers, reports said Thursday.

"When the prison is under siege do you want the prisons commissioner have to read to them the Geneva Conventions?" The AG submitted a confidential report to the Court and Counsel Petitioner requested a copy to be issued to him.

Papua New Guinea LNG industry research work from OGAnalysis is a compulsory report for all analysts involved in the LNG sector.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Wednesday reiterated its concerns about the treatment of asylum-seekers arriving by sea to Australia.

As the idea of a modern-day battlefield becomes more open to interpretation amid the use of drones and surgical strikes, this Memorial Day its important to appreciate the fact that the locations of battles past are still even recognizable.

A controversial Papua New Guinean businessman denies he had been hiding in Australia to avoid charges of misappropriating millions of dollars.

While the Coordinating Committee of Sri Lanka's Trade Union Alliance maintained that their token strike against the electricity tariff hike was successful all round the country, the Sri Lankan government said that overall attendance in public sector institutions had, in fact, increased by 3.5 per cent yesterday.

The Cairns Regional Council will soon start helping a city in Papua New Guinea improve its infrastructure, waste management and environmental monitoring.

International Committee of the Red Cross Armed Force delegate Larry Maybee speaks to senior military, police, and corrections officers during the Law of Armed Conflict training at the RFMF Officer Training School in Vatuwaqa yesterday.

Papua New Guinea will soon decide on whether it will continue to be involved in PACER Plus trade negotiations which looks at a trading bloc with the Pacific and NZ and Australia.

DROITWICH Spa's private hospital has appointed a former nurse who spent several years working in Papua New Guinea as its new executive director.

BETWEEN 500 AND 800 FIJIANS will be recruited to work on Papua New Guinea's new economic corridor to be constructed between Lae and Madang.

The government of Papua New Guinea is looking to learn about the Israeli health system, Health Minister Yael German said on Monday.

THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING PARALLELS between the way the systems of government operate in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Over two hundred Southern Highlands and Illawarra residents have staged a protest in Bowral against the State Government's plan to allow amateur shooters into National Parks.

TOWNSVILLE'S number of confirmed dengue cases has climbed to 16 with fears a different mosquito-borne virus found in Papua New Guinea will soon reach North Queensland.

CAMPBELL NEWMAN, PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND, is an ex-Army officer known far and wide in his state as "Can-Do" Campbell.

U.N. estimates say between 70,000 and 100,000 people died in this tear-shaped island, as the ethno-political conflict came to a bloody end four years ago.

THE FAMILY SUPPORT CENTRE at the Angau Memorial General Hospital in Papua New Guinea reports that more than half the victims of sexual violence and abuse that they see are children.