Papua New Guinea hosts some 11,800 asylum seekers and refugees. Around 100 people were transferred there under PNG’s former regional processing arrangement with Australia, most from Indonesia. UNHCR ...

Papua New Guinea's prime minister promised Tuesday to return to UN climate summits after boycotting this year's talks, but called for safeguarding forests to be a bigger priority. The jungle-clad ...

About 670 people are estimated to be buried under a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, a UN official says. The head of the International Organization for Migration in the country, Serhan ...

West Papua borders the independent nation of Papua New Guinea. The island has some 245 ... and a brief period of UN administration, Indonesia took over the administration of West Papua in 1963.

Start your Independent Premium ... leave shops with looted goods amid a state of unrest in Port Moresby on 10 January 2024. Following the riots, Papua New Guinea revealed that China had proposed ...

Papua New Guinea's prime minister promised Tuesday to return to UN climate summits after boycotting this year's talks, but called for safeguarding forests to be a bigger priority. The jungle-clad ...

The previous protests stemmed from an incident where nationalist groups accused Papuan university ... of New Guinea. The eastern half of the island is comprised of the independent state of Papua ...

P ORT MORESBY: Papua New Guinea's prime minister declared a 14-day state of emergency in the capital Port Moresby on Thursday, after riots in two cities left 15 people dead as crowds looted and ...

On the eve of this year's State of Origin grand final ... and went on to become the beloved national sport of an independent Papua New Guinea. Loading... Joram Yalo, a 26-year-old player from ...