Tag: Hela
From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of...
Warning: This report discusses graphic details of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea.
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
The nauseating stench of...
Kidnapped Australian helicopter pilot, subcontractors set free in PNG
PNG Post-Courier
A kidnapped Australian pilot of a Hevilift helicopter and two Papua New Guinean subcontractors have been released without harm following a rapid deployment...
PNG opposition calls for emergency over Highlands naked body killings
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's opposition has called on Prime Minister James Marape to immediately recall Parliament to address the escalating killings in the upper...
PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea police have arrested three men and seized a stockpile of unlicensed firearms, ammunition, explosives and other illegal items in a...
PNG police report capture of alleged kidnapper of 17 girls in...
By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
Papua New Guinea's police commissioner David Manning says a man allegedly involved in the kidnapping of 17 girls...
PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them
By Majeleen Yanei in Port Moresby
Seventeen Papua New Guinean schoolgirls who were kidnapped, raped and held hostage by armed men in Bosavi, Hela, last...
Armed gunmen kidnap 17 girls from remote PNG village – freed...
RNZ Pacific
Reports from Papua New Guinea say that 17 girls from a remote village have been held captive by a large group of armed...
‘Sleepless nights’ admits PNG’s security minister over stretched police
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr says the Royal PNG Constabulary is "stretched" with only 5000...
Marape condemns killing of PNG policeman, says sorry to family
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has sent his condolences to the family of the policeman killed in...
Two more die in Hela fighting to take total to 9...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Fresh fighting among candidates’ supporters has left another two dead in Hela’s Margarima in Papua New Guinea's general election.
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Pangu Pati draws first blood in PNG election with 5 seats...
By Peter Korugl in Port Moresby
The ruling Pangu Pati has drawn first blood in the Papua New Guinea national general elections with its leader...
Marape first politician re-elected in PNG ballot with landslide win
By Miriam Zarriga and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Caretaker prime minister James Marape has retained his Tari-Pori seat as the first politician to be...
Six charged with money laundering over K1.3 million in suitcase as...
By Marjorie Finkeo and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Six suspects, including a woman, have been charged in connection with more than K1 million in...
Disgruntled PNG voters destroy ballot boxes, set fire to voting papers
PNG Post-Courier
Angry voters in East Sepik and Hela have destroyed ballot boxes and set fire to ballot papers after finding that their names were...
PNG leader Marape confirms son arrested over money in suitcase
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has confirmed reports his eldest son is one of two men arrested in relation to a...
PNG police stop seven trucks and seize ‘sensitive’ election materials
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean security forces have intercepted and stopped seven trucks carrying seven containers containing sensitive election material in...
PNG security forces on alert in Hela over ‘illegal army’ tip-off
PNG Post-Courier
An illegal army in full military gear and arms is being raised in Hela -- one of Papua New Guinea’s most troublesome provinces...
Post-Courier blasts Marape for Jakarta junket ‘while Tari burns’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The Post-Courier newspaper today compared Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape to the infamous emperor Nero who fiddled while Rome...
Scott Waide: Will PNG project reviews mean more benefits for landowners?
This year is a crucial year for Papua New Guinea's mining industry as important players - in Hela, Porgera and Madang - are being...
Komo Airfield landowners give PNG government ‘last warning’ over deal
Komo landowners spokesman John Pipija calls for "no more excuses". Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Komo International Airfield landowners in Hela have given the...
Uneasy calm in PNG’s Highlands as O’Neill sends in massive force
BRIEFING: By Keith Jackson
This week turned out to be one of those only too frequent turbulent periods in Papua New Guinea when you never...
Angore landowners set LNG machinery on fire in more PNG unrest
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
In a show of frustration over the nonpayment of a business development grant, Angore landowners in Hela province have set fire...