Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto Near a village in Papua New Guinea, a “giant” creature with “baggy” skin perched on a branch, its “tan” eyes scanning the surrounding forest.

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is richly endowed with natural resources, but exploitation has been hampered by rugged terrain, land tenure issues, and the high cost of developing infrastructure.

and dogs from East Asia and New Guinea. New archaeological research by the University of Sydney has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian dingo ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea has left between 20 and 50 people dead, a United Nations official said Monday. The fighting started days ago and is ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea has left between 20 and 50 people dead, a United Nations official said Monday. The fighting started days ago and is ...

The only country on earth to allow it so far is Papua New Guinea. Videographer Edward Kiernan and special correspondent Willem Marx report on how difficult it is for the impoverished Pacific ...

The visit is being seen as a "blessing" for the country, according to Philip Gibbs, a New Zealand-born priest who arrived in Papua New Guinea as a missionary 50 years ago. "That's the way that it ...

PORT MORESBY: Pope Francis held an open-air mass for tens of thousands of Papua New Guinea's faithful on Sunday (Sep 8), imploring this nation "at the edge of the world" to draw closer to the ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea authorities and the International Monetary Fund team have reached a staff-level agreement for access of about $265 million to improve resilience to ...

Papua New Guinea has given police permission to use “lethal force” to restore order as shootouts between rival tribes have killed dozens of people. Between 20 and 50 people have been killed in ...

They return to Papua New Guinea and report on locals fighting to save a vanishing way of life. In our globally connected lives, the companies that make the technology we rely on every day can run ...

SYDNEY, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Barrick Gold (ABX.TO), opens new tab has suspended operations at its Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea until Thursday after tribal violence in the region killed at ...