PORT MORESBY — Papua New Guinea has given the all clear for parliamentary fact-finding delegations from New Zealand and the Solomon Islands to visit Bougainville.
Pleased with the April visit by an Australian delegation,
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Controversial daily launched in PNGA controversial new daily newspaper, published by an associate company of the Malaysian logging corporation which dominates Papua New Guinea's timber industry, appeared on November 11 —
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PORT MORESBY — At the rate Pacific urban areas are growing, many are in danger of becoming unsustainable. Some, such as ghettoes like Ebeye and squatter settlements in Port Moresby and Papeete, already are. But a University
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PORT MORESBY — A manoeuvre by Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti has plunged the country into a constitutional crisis. The move follows growing unrest about Wingti's plans to abolish the nation's provincial government
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PORT MORESBY — Ever since Prime Minister Paias Wingti gained power last year, his government has had its sights on a second national daily newspaper. Although Papua New Guinea had long enjoyed the most vigorous press in
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PNG 'terrorism' law draws protestPORT MORESBY — Papua New Guinea's harsh new Internal Security Act has been attacked as the "most disturbing" law passed by the country's parliament since independence in 1975. Part
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AUCKLAND — A Maori tribe which has already laid claim to 80% of New Zealand's South Island has rocked the nation by winning a landmark ruling of the Waitangi Tribunal that the tribe be granted the lion's share of the national
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AUCKLAND — Prime minister Jim Bolger's government calls for an investigation into allegations of extortion from homeless Pacific islanders desperate for living quarters by staff of the state-owned Housing New Zealand
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Tribunal planned on Timor massacreAUCKLAND — Human rights advocates are planning a "people's tribunal" of international jurists to put Indonesia on trial over violations in East Timor. The hearing is expected to be
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AUCKLAND — Barely six months ago, maverick Maori politician Winston Peters was by far the government's most popular cabinet minister and was being tipped as a future prime minister. Today he is fighting for his political life.
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With Fijians facing their first post-coup general election — five years after the first successful military seizure of power in the region — and Papua New Guineans preparing for their election next month amid fresh rumours of a
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After years of dumping tonnes of waste into rivers supplying many indigenous communities around the world, several major mining companies have been accused of damaging fragile ecosystems and found "guilty" in a controversial