Tag: Mining

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's Trade Minister Richard Maru has complained that his country's trade deal with Australia has been skewed in Canberra's favour for...

RNZ Pacific Community leaders around Panguna mine in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville want mining giant Rio Tinto to help out following...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has blamed the Indonesian military over the attack at a hospital in Kiwirok, near...

ANALYSIS: By Megan Darby A suicide bombing near Kabul airport on Thursday added another dimension to the chaos in Afghanistan as Western forces rush to...

By Harlyne Joku in Port Moresby A concerned Papua New Guinean woman leader and NGO activist, Matilda Koma, has called on the Central provincial government...

By RNZ Pacific A Solomon Islands province has agreed to lease a large island to a Chinese developer to develop into a special economic zone,...

By Glenn Banks and Martyn Namorong in Port Moresby Government revenues from Papua New Guinea’s mining, oil and gas sector have essentially dried up. With the...

By Febriana Firdaus in Jakarta As it seeks to diversify its sources of fuel, India is looking to get in on the ground floor of...

By Jean Bell in Auckland with additional reporting by Rahul Bhattarai Volunteer teachers are being maliciously labelled as "terrorists" by the Philippine government while paramilitary...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte exposes "illegal favours" to mining tycoon Eric Gutierrez, whose company SR Metals Inc has now won an exploration contract on...

By Yovinus Guntur in Banyuwangi, Indonesia An Indonesian court has convicted and sentenced an environmentalist to 10 months in prison on a charge of spreading...

By Aloysius Laukai in Buka The President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government, Chief Dr John Momis, has announced an indefinite moratorium on exploration and mining...

By Victor Mambor in Jayapura The Indonesian government's decision to allow one of the world's largest copper and gold mines to operate in Papua province...

Panguna women landowner protesters -- mothers from the mining affected areas and the women from Central Bougainville -- have demanded the Autonomous Bougainville Government...

Meredith Kuusa reports for TVWan News. Pacific Media Centre News Desk Papua New Guinea's Catholic Church cardinal has given a resounding "no" to deep sea mining...

By Ryan Dagur in Jakarta Indigenous people on a small Christian majority island in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province are claiming victory after the government revoked...

By Katharina R. Lestari in Jakarta A bishop in Papua has called for government aid for thousands of Papuans made jobless because of a bitter...

Protesters from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) and religious pupils from an Islamic boarding school (pesantren) have faced off against each other at the...

Local administrations in Papua will get shares from PT Freeport Indonesia when the company divests its 51 percent shares, as required by a new...

Raymond Masono has been appointed new Vice-President of Bougainville and has immediately faced criticism from the Bougainville Freedom Movement. Bougainville News reported Masono was from...

By Vincent Lingga in Jakarta "PT Freeport Indonesia reserves all its rights including the right to commence arbitration to enforce all provisions of...

Chappy Hakim has resigned as its president director, only three months after his appointment as the mining giant's top executive, PT Freeport Indonesia announced...