Posted
| UpdatedThe University of Technology in Lae has suspended its Student Representative Council because the university's board believes it should take responsibility for its part in the violence during last year's anti-government student protests.
Topics: university-and-further-education, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedA New Zealand company is still waiting to be paid by the Papua New Guinea Government for consultancy work it did three years ago, and a year after the courts ordered the government to settle its debt.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, pacific, papua-new-guinea, new-zealand
Posted
| UpdatedCould 2017 be a break out year for the undisputed queen of the track in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea's Toea Wisil?
Topics: athletics, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedA motion of no confidence could be voted on in Tongan parliament as early as tomorrow.
Topics: parliament, pacific, tonga
Posted
| UpdatedPNG's foreign exchange crisis has caused an unexpected boom for part of the country's struggling manufacturing sector - the production of saveloys.
Topics: food-and-beverage, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedNew research in American Samoa has uncovered potentially dangerous new about a debilitating disease which could be the next mosquito borne global epidemic.
Topics: ross-river-fever, pacific, american-samoa
Posted
| UpdatedThe first PNG footballer to sign a professional contract since the 1990s has made an impressive beginning, scoring twice in his first two starting appearances for Penang in the Malaysian Super League.
Topics: soccer, pacific, papua-new-guinea, malaysia
Posted
| UpdatedIt's semi-finals day at the OFC under 17 championship in Tahiti, with Solomon Islands taking on New Caledonia and New Zealand will be up against Papua New Guinea.
Topics: soccer, pacific, french-polynesia, solomon-islands, new-caledonia, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedLandowners in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain province say logging is still going on around their villages, long after the logging companies' leases were supposed to have been cancelled.
Topics: conservation, forests, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedThere's concern in Vanuatu about the impact of brothels servicing foreign workers on Tanna.
Topics: prostitution, pacific, vanuatu
Posted
| UpdatedThe Fijian lawyer acting for an Iranian refugee who fled from Papua New Guinea to Fiji only to be deported by immigration officers, says the fight to help his client is by no means over.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, refugees, pacific, papua-new-guinea, fiji
Posted
| UpdatedThe PNG Health Department says it will follow up the supply shortage at Port Moresby General Hospital where the head of emergency is under fire after making a public appeal for medical supplies on social media.
Topics: health, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedPort Moresby's Water Supplier Eda Ranu says its water supply to the city remains normal and has not been affected by closure of the Sirinumu dam valves.
Topics: water-supply, water-management, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedPossible disciplinary action against a senior doctor at Port Moresby General Hospital for making a public appeal for basic medical supplies has angered the head of the local Chamber of Commerce.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedThe high social cost of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea is well known but the economic impact, and in particular the cost to businesses, is less clear.
Topics: women, domestic-violence, business-economics-and-finance, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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