The PNG PM who tried to crush the Bougainville rebellion with foreign mercenaries then became an unlikely ally for ...

Nestled in the Pacific, Bougainville is about to make history as the world’s newest country. This tiny island, a part of Papua New Guinea, is home to just 300,000 people and is a land of ...

Bougainville, nearly as big as Hawaii’s main island and just as stunning, is the most remote part of Papua New Guinea.

AS the country prepares to hand over New Ireland Governor and former Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan’s casket to the ...

The Papua New Guinea Government has been urged to grant autonomy to provinces as a means of honoring the legacy of the late ...

THE PORTILLO EXPEDITION: MYSTERY ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND examines the circumstances surrounding the death of Isoroku Yamamoto – the Japanese WWII Admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor surprise ...

A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including the autonomous Papua New Guinea region preparing for its ...

Skip to content viewer section. Opposition to mining development at the Panguna mine in Papua New Guinea's North Solomons Province led to the emergence of a secessionist movement on Bougainville in ...

This article shows that the Bougainville conflict origins involved far more complexity than natural resource revenue distribution grievances, and that the conflict itself then generated new sources of ...

The Panguna copper mine in Bougainville continues to generate toxic waste and may spark landslides that could kill people and cause lasting ecological damage. The miner has agreed with community ...