Story Archive
2025-01-20
Unofficial counting indicated most incumbent MPs have been reelected but with some high-profile departures.
2025-01-19
Violence in PNG continues unabated as the country prepares to mark its 50th anniversary of independence.
2025-01-14
A 17-month state of emergency fails to quell violence at one of PNG’s most important economic assets.
2025-01-13
A national election will go ahead this week despite a devastating earthquake in the capital Port Vila last month.
2025-01-10
Kim Jong Un’s claim the missile will “contain any rivals in the Pacific” has stoked fears over the U.S. military’s ability to defend Guam from attack.
2025-01-10
Vanuatu’s self-sabotaging political class has left the country struggling to deal with social and economic shocks of recent natural disasters.
2025-01-09
Tribal violence during the New Year highlights increasing lawlessness and lack of police resources.
2025-01-08
UXOs contaminate the Pacific but there's little clean-up funding despite hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on new defense infrastructure.
2025-01-02
Navigating the shared challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and decolonization plus a 50th birthday party.
2024-12-27
Riots and massacres, natural disasters, decolonization and militarization, human rights and media freedom, politics and political corruption and the legacy of past wars all caught your eye.
2024-12-26
While the West may not want PNG to add China to the family, the reality is it’s already happened.
2024-12-19
Several domestic lawsuits are also challenging unprecedented U.S. use of defense pact powers.
2024-12-18
At least 14 people have been killed and hundreds injured, but medical experts and the government say the figure is likely to rise.
2024-12-17
Witnesses have appealed for help, describing chaotic scenes, widespread damage and people trapped in the rubble.
2024-12-16
Fortification of the U.S. territory closest to China continues with billions in defense spending planned.
