West Papua occupies the Indonesian half of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world after Greenland. Indonesia unilaterally annexed the former Dutch colony in 1969 with the United Nations ...

Thirty people are reported to have been killed on Kiriwina Island in Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay Province. Kiriwina-Goodenough MP Douglas Tomuriesa told PNG newspaper Post Courier on Tuesday 30 ...

SYDNEY (AP) — An island volcano in Papua New Guinea erupted again Sunday, sending plumes of steam and ash into the air. Thousands of people have been evacuated from islands surrounding Kadovar Island ...

SYDNEY, May 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will arrange another summit of Pacific island leaders this year after the disappointment caused by his cancellation of a visit to Papua New Guinea ...

The grotto and the 630-meter bamboo bridge on Bonyom Island in Central Fakfak district, West Papua province, were inaugurated ...

The chair of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano, has written to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet seeking support for the ...

ARAWA, Papua New Guinea, Dec. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Island Passage Exploration Limited (IPX or the "Company”) has made extensive progress during the last three quarters in its copper-gold ...