Tag: Deaths
A sad Papuan human rights tale – the torture and death...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
West Papuans are facing the start of 2021 with sorrowful news about the death of Mispo Gwijangge, a victim of accusations...
Judge jails businessman 15 years for ‘cowardly attack’ on ex-Miss PNG
By Zedaiah Kanau in Port Moresby
A Papua New Guinean businessman who caused the death of his girlfriend by punching her, forcing her to jump...
‘Be vigilant’ pleads PNG police chief as woman dies from covid...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A woman has died of the covid-19 coronavirus in Papua New Guinea, becoming the sixth fatality from the deadly virus in...
Noumea-based NZ consul to French Pacific Bruce Shepherd dies
By RNZ Pacific
The New Zealand Consul-General to the French Pacific, Bruce Shepherd, has died.
According to Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes website, Shepherd died of a heart...
PNG reports fourth covid-19 death as total infections reach 361
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea has reported its fourth covid-19 death with infection cases now reaching 361, reports NBC News.
National Coordination Centre (NCC)...
Six new NZ coronavirus cases and one further death reported
By RNZ News
New Zealand has reported six new cases of covid-19 today - double the number yesterday - and one further death in the...
NZ lockdown – day 29: Three new cases, two further deaths...
By RNZ News
Three new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, with the Health Ministry also confirming...
NZ lockdown – day 20: Four more Covid-19 deaths, 17 new...
By RNZ News
Four more people have died from Covid-19 in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry has confirmed.
Nine people have...
NZ lockdown – day 17: Coronavirus death toll rises to four,...
By RNZ News
New Zealand has had two further deaths because of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, doubling the death toll to four, says Director of...
NZ lockdown – Day 16: Second death confirmed, cases rise on...
By RNZ News
A Christchurch woman in her 90s who was living in the Rosewood rest home is New Zealand's second death from Covid-19, the...
At least 139 die in Papuan refugee camps, claims relief group
By RNZ Pacific
A relief agency says at least 139 people have died in displacement camps in the Highlands of West Papua in the past...
PNG’s earthquake death toll in Highlands now tops 75
By Sylvester Gawi in Limu village, Hela, Papua New Guinea
Thousands of people have been displaced and are still waiting for relief assistance in disaster...
Four killed, eight wounded in bungled Indonesian military exercise
By Fadi In Batam, Ruiau Islands, Indonesia
A Chinese-made cannon has malfunctioned and fired off shots randomly during military exercises in Indonesia's Tanjung Datuk, Natuna,...