Tag: Mt Bosavi

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...

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Women's rights advocates in Papua New Guinea are calling for peace and...

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 Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent A woman who was part of a group kidnapped in Papua...

By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby In what is described as a "significant relief", seven Papua New Guinea teachers and their families were rescued from...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea police will be able to use lethal force to deal with crimes that come under "domestic...

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 Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby The three local female researchers who were kidnapped with Australia-based New Zealand professor Bryce Barker are being kept in...

NBC News Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has revealed that about K100,000 (about NZ$46,000) was paid to the kidnappers for the release of...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby The look on the faces of their families said it all, as they cried awaiting anxiously for their loved...

The National in Port Moresby Warlords and armed bandits pose a threat to Papua New Guinea's national security and must be destroyed, says Deputy Opposition...

PNG Post-Courier As day five dawned in Papua New Guinea's kidnapping drama, the family of one of the four hostages captives -- one of three...

PNG Post-Courier The Post-Courier has exclusively been advised of the release of one of the women held captive by armed men in the Bosavi mountains,...

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...