Pacific
Papua New Guinea’s early settlers still live remote lives in the Highlands, yet the country was centre stage during one of the fiercest campaigns of World War II. The country’s past and present are full of paradoxes.
New Guinea was one of the first land masses to be populated by modern...
Jeffry Feeger’s paintings are far from the traditional images of Papua New Guinea of the Asaro mud men and the colourful sing songs of the Highlands. He says he is tackling the issues of “a society in transition”.
Just 27 years old, this half German and half Papua New Guinean,...
Papua New Guinea (PNG) could be described as a mini continent. It is a country of extraordinary diversity both on land and sea from its fauna and fauna to its economic potential: oil, gas, minerals, forests and fish.
Lying just south of the equator, 160km north of Australia, the country is...
Two massive Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) projects to commercialise the gas resources of PNG’s Southern Highlands and Western provinces have opened the floodgates for an unprecedented economic boom seen in the rash of new hotels, supermarkets and entertainment centres in the capital, Port...
Formerly a teacher, Australian- born Dame Carol Kidu is PNG’s Minister for Community Affairs and sole female Member of Parliament. She became a naturalised PNG citizen by her marriage to a Papua New Guinean, the late Sir Buri Kidu. She has been revered both at home and internationally for her...
Interview with Martin Dihm, EU Ambassador to the European Union in Papua New Guinea Newly-appointed Ambassador of the EU in PNG, German national, Martin Dihm, has previously held senior posts in the EU’s delegations in Barbados and Abuja, Nigeria. From 2001, he was on the trade desk and EPA...
The EU closely cooperates with France and the United Kingdom, the only two EU countries with separate aid programmes in PNG; with Australia – the biggest donor to PNG, New Zealand and with multi-lateral agencies. The remoteness of communities, big population growth and a lack of...
Bougainville was granted autonomy following a bitter civil war in the 1990s. It is now readying for a referendum on independence.
It is difficult to imagine that 20,000 people were killed during the conflict in this laid back province of 220,000 people just north of the Solomon Islands. Pre-...
The Non-Governmental Organisation, Tulele Peisa, is trying to resettle the estimated 1,000 strong population of the Carteret islands, a horseshoe-shaped cluster of islands to the north-east of Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Province of Bougainville. Climate-change induced sea level rises could...
Buses bound for Pedro Celso’s RD tuna canning factory in Madang are marked, ‘Tuna Country’. It’s a sign of the importance of the industry in the north coast of the Pacific island of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Filipino-born Managing Director of RD Canneries set up his...