Tag: Student protest

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says the confrontation could have been avoided in a statement to the nation on EM TV News tonight. By Luke Kama...

Shouts of "shut up" and "don't directly insult me" resounded in Papua New Guinea's national Parliament when Rabaul MP Dr Allan Marat asked who...

The shooting of students peacefully protesting in Port Moresby yesterday is a disgraceful attack on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression,...

The Media Council of Papua New Guinea has condemned a police assault on a woman journalist during yesterday's confrontation between University of Papua New...

Several students were wounded when police opened fire today with tear gas and with what they said were warning shots against a University of...

The founding father and Governor of East Sepik Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare has condemned the actions of police this morning at the University...

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill announced today that a Commission of Inquiry will be established as soon as possible to investigate this morning’s police shooting...

At least one University of Papua New Guinea student was allegedly shot in the back at the main Waigani campus in the capital of...

By Quintina Naime in Port Moresby Student leaders at the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences stand firm on their...

Ruth Rungala of EM TV News reports on the National Court granting students right to seek a judicial review of UPNG's eviction order last...

By Ruth Rungala in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's National Court has granted leave to the University of PNG Student Representative Council to apply further...

East New Britain Students Association members from the University of Papua New Guinea are calling on Prime Minster Peter O'Neill to step down and...

By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby Opposition Leader Don Polye has called on Papua New Guinea's police hierarchy to immediately release students detained in the...

Students from the University of Papua New Guinea - many already having left the campus after this week's eviction order from the administration -...

By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby A temporary stay against the eviction of University of Papua New Guinea students from both the Waigani and Taurama...

About 5000 students have been ordered to leave the Waigani campus of the University of Papua New Guinea - but a court ruling late...

NBC's PNG Tonight reporter Mark Kayok reports on UPNG council's decision to indefinitely suspend semester 1 and the hostile response with a threat by...

Administrations at both of Papua New Guinea's two major universities have contrasting approaches to dealing with the national student standoff against the prime minister. While...

By Cleopatra Kolta in Port Moresby The University of Papua New Guinea Council has announced the suspension of the rest of semester 1, which is...

By Carmella Gware in Lae A student leader at Papua New Guinea's University of Technology in Lae has responded to Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's letter...

This is the 10-page letter from Prime Minister Peter O’Neill sent yesterday to the University of Papua New Guinea and the PNG University of...

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has replied to the petitions from the student representative councils of both the University of PNG and...