Papua New Guinea, the resource-rich, volatile Pacific nation to Australia's north, is entering a fourth day of political chaos today, with two men vying to run the police force, two men - each with his own cabinet - claiming to be the prime minister, and a governor- general dumped for...
began trading for copra in the New Guinea Islands. In 1884, Germany formally took possession of the northeast quarter of the island and put its administration in the hands of a chartered company. In 1899, the German imperial government assumed direct control of the territory...
Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal linked to limiting Chinese influence in the South Pacific.
Papua New Guinea has granted police emergency powers, including the use of lethal force, to contain the violence in Porgera between illegal settlers squatting near the gold mine and local landowners, newspapers Post-Courier and The National reported late on Sunday. B...
Synonyms for Papua in Free Thesaurus. Antonyms for Papua. 4 words related to Papua: region, part, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea. What are synonyms for Papua?
It shows West Papuan refugees returning to their village for the first time since it was burnt 3 weeks earlier by special operation “Sunset Merona” led by Papua New Guinea Police and Defence Force. Now 6 months later, these refugees are still unable to return to their village and remain ...
They also announced that a bilateral security deal struck a year ago had officially come into force. China has pursued its own bilateral security pact on policing with Papua New Guinea and with other South Pacific island nations which U.S. allies includin...
The police have been known to take the law into their own hands, as has the Papua New Guinea Defense Force. The nation's "law and order" problem is multifaceted, but the depredations of youthful gangs, outbreaks of rioting and looting, and the resurgence of tribal warfare are major ...
Yesterday was the first day of a two-week shutdown of Papua New Guinea, after the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in an expat worker at the Harmony Gold’s Hidden Valley gold mine, who has since been transferred to Australia and is described as ‘fit and well’. ...
Its author, August Kituai, who has an Australian PhD, is an academic historian at the University of Papua New Guinea. The book deals with the nature of the Papua New Guinean police force recruited by the Australian colonial regimes in Papua and New Guinea from 1920 to the 1960s. If ...