Tag: Hela

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. This...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

This year is a crucial year for Papua New Guinea's mining industry as important players - in Hela, Porgera and Madang - are being...

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...

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...

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...

By Johnny Blades of Radio NZ Pacific An ongoing security crisis in Papua New Guinea's Hela province is preventing many earthquake-affected communities receiving relief. February's magnitude...