The Latest Breaking News from PNG

U.S. President Joe Biden will briefly visit Papua New Guinea (PNG) on May 22, officials from the Pacific island nation said on Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter growing Chinese influence in the strategically important region.

On his way to Australia for the Quad meeting in Sydney next month, United States President Joe Biden could make a historic visit to Port Moresby as the US intensifies its diplomatic push across the Pacific.

As farmers in PNG recover from a long drought and rush to replant in Vanuatu after twin cyclones last month, a forecast El Niño weather pattern could hamper recovery efforts and threaten food supplies.

Australia’s immigration policies allow for indefinite locked detention, including for children and families. Detention is mandatory for people arriving without a valid visa – all those who arrived by boat between 2009 and 2013 were held in Immigration Detention Centres in Australia, or in Australian-contracted detention in Nauru or Papua…

Thousands of Papua New Guinean women will have access to cervical cancer screening under a program supported by an Australian philanthropist group.

Plane intercepted at airstrip in rural Queensland after police allege aircraft was flown under the radar with 52kg of meth on board

Five men are charged after allegedly trying to fly 52kg of methamphetamine from Papua New Guinea to Australia on a plane that couldn't be tracked on radars.

Authorities have arrested five men after a light plane on-route to NSW from Papua New Guinea was intercepted, allegedly loaded with methamphetamine.

A NEWCASTLE man is one of five people charged in relation to a 'black flight' from PNG to Australia that had 52 kilograms of methamphetamine onboard with a street value of $15 million.