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The independent blog PNG Mine Watch was originally established to track the progress of the Ramu nickel mine in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea,...

Bougainville's president and Meekamu landowner chiefs have condemned the Rio Tinto "mess" over Panguna mine and the traditional landowners have called for the company...

By Bastian Tebai in Yogyakarta Every year July 1 is commemorated by Papuans as West Papua proclamation day. The proclamation was read out at the...

By Haeril Halim in Jakarta and Margareth S. Aritonang in Oslo As a third round of executions nears, Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has commemorated...

National Broadcasting Corporation News of Papua New Guinea video report by Bradley Gregory on PNG Tonight. Two of the most renowned cultural centres in the...

By Fatu Tauafiafi in Pape'ete Leaders and officials of the Polynesian Leaders Group gathered today in Pape'ete, Tahiti, in a special conference to follow-up on...

Australian-supported Indonesian police special forces have shot dead a teenage Papuan high school student in central Nabire city, West Papua, reports West Papua Media. The...

Papua New Guinea's government has appointed retired judge Justice Warwick Andrew as Chair of the Commission of Inquiry established to investigate recent violence at...

By Bob Makin in Port Vila Vanuatu's Public Service Commission is forbidding government workers from accessing social media, Radio Vanuatu News reports today. This was decided...

By Yeremia Sukoyo in Jakarta Indonesia's Minister of Land and Spatial Planning Ferry Mursyidan Baldan has declared the government's recognition of communal rights of nine...

By Serah Aupong in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's long standing university student unrest is costing the country's higher education sector financially, and is also...

A group of men armed with bush knives attacked a student last night in the male dormitories at Papua New Guinea's University of Technology...

By Denise Yeo A two-week journalism stint in Fiji, dubbed “Bearing Witness”, has lent new perspectives on the effects of climate change on AUT journalism...

Members of Sydney’s Pacific Islander community and supporters are kayaking down Sydney Harbour to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s harbourside residence today to protest against...

When EMTV News arrived at the UPNG main campus yesterday, students were armed with bush knives, stones, sticks and metal bars as they chased...

The Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have condemned the "unresolved" human rights violations in West Papua by Indonesian security forces, saying they have continued in...

Black smoke was billowing from the University of Papua New Guinea Uniforce security base at Waigani today after cars were set ablaze. A UPNG staff...

By Charles Yapumi in Vanimo West Papuans who have been living in Papua New Guinea for many decades will be granted citizenship soon. The PNG Immigration...

Senior police officers have been given a week's refresher training in the use of firearms following an uproar over the force opening fire on...

By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby An urgent application filed by the Students Representative Council president Kenneth Rapa against the University of Papua New Guinea...

"Shoot me!" The voices of Sri Lankan refugees - a heartbreaking video. Indonesian authorities refuse to allow the 44 Sri Lankans  leave a boat...

After monitoring 20 months of the human rights situation in Papua and West Papua provinces under Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s administration, the Asian Human...