Social clubs, a movie theater ... their weapons under several conditions in a deal reached with Papua New Guinea’s government ...

More than 181,000 people voted in the independence referendum in Bougainville, a group of islands that sit on one of the world’s largest copper mines, off the east coast of mainland Papua New ...

SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Papua New Guinea's government is paving the way for lifting a moratorium on mining in the semi-autonomous island of Bougainville, home to the Panguna copper mine.

A native Bougainvillian Clive wants to illustrate the beauty of his Island and the changes which have taken place since the war and the closure of Rio Tintos Panguna mine He show the little ...

Bougainville, a part of Papua New Guinea, is seeking to gain full independence by 2027, but still has significant challenges to face, and now, some are considering if US President Donald Trump can ...

ARAWA, Papua New Guinea — On a warm morning in November, a barrel-chested and battle-scarred man arrived to Capitol Hill for a meeting he hoped would help save his struggling homeland.

Germany, Australia, Japan, the U.S., and Papua New Guinea colonized and settled Bougainville Island because of its resources and placement in the Southwest Pacific. The island is named after Louis de ...

Many people would say that the relationship that they had to Papua New Guinea was not one of enmity or of like running away, it was more a question of there being a parent and Bougainville having ...

The possibility of an independent Bougainville—currently part of Papua New Guinea (PNG)—provides the U.S. an opportunity to be a proactive, rather than reactive, partner to both Bougainville ...

Tensions between Papua New Guinea’s national government and the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) remain as the goal of independence between 2025–27 nears and dialogues stall. The first Joint ...