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.

Papua New Guinea hosts some 11,800 asylum seekers and refugees. Around 100 people were transferred there under PNG’s former regional processing arrangement with Australia, most from Indonesia. UNHCR ...

It’s wild, mysterious, haunting and flamboyant, but most Australians view it with fear and loathing. In Papua New Guinea, there are places you can’t reach by road; where planes don’t land ...

Catholic preacher Peter To Rot will become Papua New Guinea's first saint, after the pope approved his canonisation. Born on the island of East New Britain, Peter To Rot was held in a Japanese ...

Papua New Guinea are in control of their own destiny in Oceania World Cup qualifying after winning 2-1 in Tahiti. Tahiti moved into pole position in Group B of Oceania World Cup qualifying with a ...

This story appears in the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. She is lying in a cave, dying. Legs and arms but knobby sticks, Lidia Maiyu is curled up close to the campfire.

Asel Tui's childhood on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea was coloured with tales of a legendary Russian explorer and scientist who sailed up to his village 150 years ago. But no one ever ...