Tag: Piracy
Piracy a growing threat along PNG coasts, warns water police chief
PNG Post-Courier
Piracy is a growing threat in Papua New Guinea's coastal waters and riverine waterways, warns National Capital District (NCD) water police officer-in-charge Senior...
PNG’s death penalty law repealed in shake up over criminal justice
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's death penalty Act of 1984 has been repealed by the National Parliament and all prisoners on death row...
PNG Post-Courier: Time to consider piracy as a serious issue
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier
Ten years ago, a dinghy carrying 5 medical research institute scientists disappeared in Papua New Guinea's West New Britain waters.
The...
PNG fugitive Tommy Baker’s prison rescue bids fail – but another...
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
Two attempts by Papua New Guinea’s most wanted man, Tommy Baker, to rescue 11 members of his notorious gang...
Sir Julius praises ‘brave’ captain, crew of PNG navy ship in...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's New Ireland Governor Sir Julius Chan has met and thanked Captain Nathan Tai Tombe and crew of the...
Drama at sea – PNG Navy detains 8 alleged pirates, 1...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Papua Defence Force’s Navy has intercepted what news media have described as a suspected Chinese pirate vessel and have detained...
Twelve Nobel Prize winners, a Beatle, and the Pope can’t all...
On September 18, 2013, two Greenpeace International activists were arrested during a peaceful protest at a Gazprom oil platform in the Russian Arctic. A...
