Tag: James Marape

RNZ Pacific A New Zealand professor and his two Papua New Guinean colleagues have been released from captivity, more than a week after being kidnapped...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape has urged armed captors to free the remaining four hostages which includes an Australian-based New...

By Felix Chaudhary in Suva Recognising Indonesia’s sovereignty is one thing. However, failing to allow West Papuans a seat at regional discussion tables like the Pacific...

PNG Post-Courier An Australian-based anthropology professor and three Papua New Guinean women researchers are being held captive inside the jungles of the Southern Highlands after...

PNG Post-Courier Puma Energy has shut down its operations nationwide in Papua New Guinea while Prime Minister James Marape leaves overseas again to Fiji as...

By Len Garae in Port Vila Former Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman says allowing Indonesia -- by former Prime Minister Sato Kilman -- into the...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby An angry tirade on Papua New Guinea and Indonesia border issues in the PNG Parliament yesterday is likely to...

RNZ Pacific The Governor of Oro province in Papua New Guinea, Gary Juffa, says Prime Minister James Marape encourages "honest debate" and discussion within his...

ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya "We are part of them and they are part of us," declared politician Augustine Rapa, founder and president of the PNG...

The Sunday Bulletin Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape says it is very disappointing that foreign-owned media in the country continue to run “fake...

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...

RNZ Pacific The Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) wants to delay the next meeting of the Joint Supervisory Body with the Papua New Guinea government, claiming...

By Andrew Anton Mako in Port Moresby “When we don’t have any of these copper and gold mines anymore, where are we headed?” This quote is...

By Miriam Zarriga and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Indonesia has lodged a diplomatic protest with Papua New Guinea after the alleged shooting of an...

PNG Post-Courier The Southern Highlands capital -- Mendi -- has turned into a battlefield in Papua New Guinea this week as supporters of different candidates...

PNG Post-Courier Two days after being elected as Prime Minister again in Papua New Guinea, James Marape took his first official trip as the country's...

By Gorethy Kenneth of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape says Papua New Guineans will be consulted on key constitutional questions...

By Gorethy Kenneth of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby In a historic first, the Papua New Guinea Parliament has installed Pangu Pati leader and...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua New Guinea's incumbent leader, James Marape, has been returned to the top job as the country's ninth prime minister, reports...

PNG Pacific A former Papua New Guinea military commander who drew up a plan 17 years ago to try to end gun violence says the...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby People’s National Congress party leader Peter O’Neill has blown the race for the Papua New Guinea prime minister’s job...

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...